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A young woman standing beside a large screen speaking to three young people sitting in front of her — New Ventures Wall

Showcasing the companies that have emerged from UCC Innovation over the years, illustrating a diverse range of technologies across a wide variety of areas.

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Futuristic tunnel — Available Technologies

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Spin-out Company: Exceedence

“UCC Innovation have continued to engage with us throughout our journey and have been open to hearing and learning from our lived experience as a University spinout. These learnings have often been taken on board by the UCC Innovation team, and we have continued to participate in their commercialisation support initiatives such as the SPRINT Accelerator program and the Digital Badge in IP and Innovation."

- Dr Ray Alcorn, CEO and Founder - Exceedence

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Spin-out Company: CergenX

“The licence negotiated with UCC Innovation gives us access to the world’s largest database of fully anonymised neonatal EEG recordings. This data bank is key to our algorithm development programme. We are using AI to identify infants that are most at risk of brain injury to allow hospitals refer these infants for further testing and treatment.”

- Jason Mowles, CEO - CergenX

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Spin-out Company: Neurobell

“UCC has supported us through every step of the journey, from early stage accelerators as a PhD student through to navigating the VC landscape.”

- Dr Mark O' Sullivan, CEO & Co-Founder - Neurobell

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Start-up Company: Telea

“There was quite a structure in IGNITE, that we learned how to develop our roadmaps and set ourselves small targets along the way, to hold ourselves accountable. I think that whole process of development and creating milestones definitely helped.”

- Clare Meskill, Founder & CEO - Telea

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UCC Consulting: CTCHC Reports

“Having UCC Consulting on-board on these projects was very valuable as they undertook the contract negotiations with the client and streamlined the processes. This allowed me to focus more on the consultancy itself, ensuring that my MPlan students were availing of a rich learning experience while building strong relationships with the project stakeholders.”

- Jeanette Fitzsimons, Lecturer - UCC’s Centre for Planning Education & Research Centre

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UCC leading Irish university in research income derived from industry

University College Cork (UCC) is the leading Irish university in research income derived from industry, according to Knowledge Transfer Ireland’s (KTI) 2024 Annual Knowledge Transfer Survey. UCC also ranked number one for invention/software disclosures (IDFs) received, as well as the total number of Licences, Options and Assignments (LOAs) executed in 2024.

(L-R): The Anestronic Team from Tyndall National Institute and FemmeBiome Team from APC Microbiome Ireland receiving their first and second runners up trophies at the IDEATE Ireland entrepreneurship competition 2025

UCC teams finish in top three positions at IDEATE Ireland entrepreneurship competition

Two teams from University College Cork (UCC) have been announced as first and second runners-up in the IDEATE Ireland entrepreneurship competition, held last week in Dublin.

UCC awards celebrate excellence in research and innovation

A researcher using virtual reality and other cutting-edge technology to improve men's health, a spin-out company revolutionising how seizures are detected in newborns, and a palaeontologist who uncovered a fossil forgery were among the awardees honoured for their contributions to research and innovation at the 2024 University College Cork (UCC) Research and Innovation Awards, held at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery on Thursday, May 29th.

Georgie Brown, Senior Startup Consultant with AxisBIC and Marco Faggiani, winner of the undergraduate category of the UCC Student Entrepreneur Competition 2025

Winners of UCC’s Student Entrepreneur of the Year competition announced

A final year computer science student working on an AI-powered speech practice app, and the CEO and founder of a trauma-informed education platform, were named UCC’s Student Entrepreneurs of the Year at an event held at UCC on Friday.

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UCC Innovation is co-funded by the Government of Ireland and the European Union through the ERDF Southern, Eastern & Midland Regional Programme 2021-27

Our technology transfer process is ISO9001:2015 certified

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