LaunchPad announces 11 new participants

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16 September 2013

NDRC has announced the 11 successful entrants to the eighth round of its LaunchPad accelerator programme.

LaunchPad was recently given the title of Top IT University Business Incubator for 2013 by San Francisco-based UBI Index in the first ever global index for business incubators. The study – The Global Benchmark Report 2013 – examined 150 university business incubators in 22 countries. It measured participating incubators on a unique assessment framework with over 50 performance indicators.

The winning companies – which comes from areas as diverse as property and identity management – came from a pool of 100 entrants.

Previous successful graduates of the programme include music app Soundwave; trending news monitor Newswhip; and Propertygate, which brings together property managers, financiers owners and tenants.

NDRC LaunchPad director Gary Leyden said: "This is the first LaunchPad programme since we received the prestigious award and we are delighted with the final 11 participants which started this week.

LaunchPad provides up to €20,000 per start-up in pre-seed investment, and tt the end of the three months, the entrants will compete in the Lift Off competition for follow-on investment, sourced from venture capitalists and private investors.

Leyden said: "LaunchPad is the ideal platform for anyone with a clever idea and the ambition to bring it forward. Our track record is one of success and this next intake, which includes, ventures in the social entrepreneurial space, provides the next exciting step in our evolution."

This round’s successful entrants are: Digital Perception, Inforama, Recruitment/Cvisual, Twiddle, FoodCloud, Medxnote, CloudDock, Social Energy, Xpresso, Loylap, and Media Planner.

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