LaunchBox Alumni
Each startup journey is unique and different, but every one of our LaunchBox teams has faced and overcome challenges, has learned from both successes and failures. We are proud of all of the startups that have grown out of LaunchBox. Read below to hear a selection of stories of some of our LaunchBox Alumni from the past few years.
- Aquahomes2019 Cohort Aquahomes is a rapid housing solution that aims to address Dublin’s homeless crisis. Aquahomes upcycles decommissioned rescue boats sourced from oil rigs into sustainable housing for those in need. Aquahomes is a social enterprise.
- Bounce Insights2019 Cohort For companies struggling to understand their customer, Bounce Insights takes the guesswork out of marketing. We provide a smartphone solution to market research, allowing companies to reach the mobile generation. Unlike competitors, Bounce offers clients the ability to hyper-target their audience, allowing them to reach anyone, anywhere at any time.
- Bélú2019 Cohort Bélú is a waste analytics product that aims to reduce avoidable food waste in the hospitality and food sector. By giving users information on the type, amount, and source of the waste, Bélú users can make informed decisions about their menu and shopping patterns to reduce waste and save money.
- KeepAppy2019 Cohort KeepAppy is the app that puts wellness into peoples pockets everywhere. With a combination of 8 different features, KeepAppy empowers users to engage in their full wellbeing potential. KeepAppy is a social enterprise, with a mission to destigmatise mental illness and reduce the number of lives lost to suicide each year.
- LadyBird Dynamics2019 Cohort For residents who want to save money and time, LadyBird Dynamics provides technology enabled smart saving services on your energy bills. LadyBird Dynamics services include a sensor and a Jolt app which enable you to monitor your utility spending, among other features.
- Two White Socks2019 Cohort Traditional equestrian wear can be stiff, austere and lack colour. Not anymore! Two White Socks brings fun patterns and bright colours to the outfits of horse-riders, helping to brighten up their outfits (and lives). Designed for riders by riders, this game-changing equestrian apparel brand seeks to shake up rider wear for good.
- Change Donations2018 Cohort Change Donations is a free app that is bringing charities into the digital age by creating a platform that allows users to donate in an efficient, convenient, and pain free way. Change Donations gives users the ability to round all credit/debit card transactions to the nearest Euro and donate those roundups to one or several charities of their choosing. Change’s platform tracks and categorizes each users donations so users can easily see their impact.
- Trustfy2018 Cohort The construction industry is notorious for late payments and freelancers and smaller companies often struggle with the burden of paperwork. To combat these issues, Trustfy will offer a comprehensive toolbox for small business owners and freelancers that combines work management tools and a unique escrow payment solution.
- SeaPunk2018 Cohort SeaPunk hand harvests wild Irish seaweed off the coast of Sligo for use in their innovative food and beauty products. They are one of only a handful of Irish companies to be awarded a farming license for aquaculture and are currently seeking investment to build a ground breaking ocean farm.
- BOP2018 Cohort Biological Optical Prevention, or BOP, is a company aimed at identifying, preventing and treating healthcare associated infections. Their product is a solution that, upon making contact with a surface, changes colour depending on the pathogens present on the surface and eliminates them, completely disinfecting the area.
- Applaud Events2018 Cohort Applaud Events is an online booking platform for performers that aims to revolutionise the live music industry. They offer performers a free online portfolio, access to discounted production services and more bookings via their website.
- EnableArm2018 Cohort EnableArm is an innovative assistive facial care device which restores independence to people with limited manual dexterity. The EnableArm team is currently focused on developing an independent shaving device. With an ambitious team behind the project, they are planning to branch out their creative design into makeup and facial cream application among other markets in future.
- Greener Globe2018 Cohort Greener Globe produces and sells a revolutionary LED timed shower-head. It is a student-run, international award-winning, environmentally friendly business. The showerhead "Aquacica", is designed to save the consumer water and money in a efficient and user-friendly manner. Greener Globe hope to expand to other water-saving devices in the near future.
- Luminary Hub2018 Cohort Luminary Hub is a platform that allots SMEs to outsource work at affordable prices. They have built a network of the best students providing them with flexible, well payed employment in the fields they are studying in. LuminaryHub currently creates websites, graphics and multi media, going forward they will further branch into STEM, Law and Business and languages.
- Equine MediRecord2017 Cohort Equine MediRecord develops, sells and maintains a mobile application and website to allow proper recording of medicines administered to racehorses and other bloodstock. This is the first application of its type. We aim to provide this digital service throughout Ireland before expanding into Europe and worldwide.
- Syze2017 Cohort Syze is an in-store and online service provider allowing clothing brands to accurately measure customers sizes. Through photo recognition and machine learning, Syze aims to reduce consumer anxiety and costly returns, whilst creating a more personalised shopping experience.
- Marsh Sisters2017 Cohort Marsh Sisters creates high end, hand crafted luxury marshmallows, set up by Christine & Bridget Butler. “We love all things sweet and have grown up baking together. After years of making marshmallows as gifts we decided to package them up and go to market so we could share them and others could enjoy them too. Our marshmallows are gluten and dairy free. They come in a variety of flavours that we are constantly updating. They are free from all artificial sweeteners and colours.”
- FRANC2017 Cohort FRANC was founded in 2015 to provide a view of fashion that is both intelligent and accessible. Briony Somers, having worked both as a model and in the design studios with designers such as Simone Rocha and Vivienne Westwood, felt her perspective of fashion underserved. FRANC’s first issue received immediate success selling out in two weeks and received industry support prompting a redesign and expansion for the second issue.
- Nu.2016 Cohort Nu. is an innovative ethical fashion community aiming to reinvent the way we shop. We believe in looking great without the environmental and social costs. Nu. runs creative and innovative events in Dublin with a focus on raising awareness of the harms of fast fashion, whilst providing a fun, stylish and affordable alternative. Our objective is to make ethical and sustainable fashion the norm.
- BetterExaminations2016 Cohort BetterExaminations came into LaunchBox 2016 as a really easy, clean and customer-friendly way to get past examination papers for Irish Government examinations, but has since moved into a number of new products and directions. Since finishing LaunchBox, they have been granted HPSU status by Enterprise Ireland.
- MatchDay2016 Cohort MatchDay is a free to play real time sports game that allows users to make in game predictions during live sports events in order to win prizes. They aim to add a competitive and social edge to watching live sports. What makes MatchDay different is that they collaborate with brands in order to provide prizes for their users. They believe their platform is a unique and engaging way for brands to connect with consumers.
- Neurobranch2016 Cohort Neurobranch is a cross-platform, cloud-based bio-research study platform designed for the small to medium sized bio/pharma institutions and academic use. The platform allows researchers unparalleled flexibility in data acquisition, qualification, and quantification retrieved from research candidates, as well as increasing retention rates of study candidates.
- SiteSpy2015 Cohort Developing a hardware device which relays information to telecom engineers. Sitespy seeks to procure efficiency in antenna repair through autonomous maintenance.
- UniTuition2015 Cohort Unituition is an open-network site where students can contact specified tutors based off their interests, availability and location.
- TouchTech Payments2014 Cohort TouchTech is a e-commerce payment processor for mobile shopping, that enables merchants to make Card Present transactions online.
- LapCup2014 Cohort LabCup is a chemical inventory management system for academic labs, with the goal of making research labs a more efficient and safer working environment.
- FoodCloud2013 Cohort Foodcloud brings businesses and charities together in order to reduce both food waste and food poverty.
- Artomatix2013 Cohort Artomatix is an early-stage company. Our mission is to develop the next generation of art tools.