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2020
Meet Our New Startups
LaunchBox, Tangent's Student Accelerator Programme, now in its eighth year, welcomes ten new teams for the 2020 programme. Check them out below.
LaunchBox 2020 Teams
- FiltraCycle2020 Cohort FiltraCycle turns cigarette butts into high-quality plastic products. Cigarette butts are the most common item of litter on the planet. By collecting, cleaning and recycling cigarette butts, FiltraCycle provides them with a destination other than landfill and the ocean.
- CFlood While flood prediction models are improving rapidly, our communication of this critical information has not changed in over 70 years. The use of paper is both inefficient and allows for error. CFloodis a product that can be used by both engineers and members of the public -CFlood allows flooding data to be easily and accurately visualised by everyone.
- Divorshe Divorshe is a legal tech start up, building an online platform for people going through an amicable divorce, to make the process quicker, less costly and easier to understand. Divorshe aims to be a “one stop shop”, providing its customers with powerful tools and the knowledge to complete their divorce by themselves, without the need to hire an expensive family lawyer.
- EVE-The Electric Vehicle Ecosystem EVE -The Electric Vehicle Ecosystem-makes charging stations for electric vehicles as accessible as petrol stations by creating an ecosystem that drastically increases coverage of charging options for electric car owners. Through the user-friendly app, electric car drivers will always find an available and accessible charging station.
- Frosted Frosted is a revenue-generating media platform for modern-day Irish music and culture. Through engaging video content, articles, events and more, they promote upcoming creatives to enable the discovery of talent from across the country.
- Oak Digital Health Oak Digital Health is a digital platform for delivering group-based programmes to optimise the health of patients undergoing surgery. The platform is a tool for clinicians that allows the delivery of group care in a remote and cost-effective manner. This helps to reduce patient complications and save costs to the health system.
- ProMotion ProMotion is a platform that connects brands with bicycle owners. They provide the opportunity for advertisers to use private bicycles as a medium for advertising, whilst simultaneously associating their brand with positive health and wellbeing, and rewarding people for their eco-friendly, health-positive choices.
- Solar Flare The mission of Solar Flare is to produce natural gas, a commonly used fossil fuel, by using sunlight. Solar Flare mimicks natural photosynthesis to transform carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into completely clean, carbon-neutral and recycled fossil fuels.
- Rezero Rezero is an environmental initiative that replaces single use takeaway packaging with reusable solutions. This national deposit-return network and shared pool of resources prevents disposables from going to landfill. Place your order, pay a deposit on the container, enjoy and return to the network for a refill or deposit refund. Rezero won the Provost's Innovation Challenge @ Tangent in 2020.
- Volymi Volymi is a system that gives independence back to paralysed wheelchair users. The Volymi system measures the volume of the users' catheter bag and sends valuable information to the user such as hydration levels and the current capacity of the bag. This reduces the anxiety of the user and the level of external care they need.