University College Cork and Enterprise Ireland-backed Gateway UCC sets up a new accelerator and welcomes the first cohort.
Gateway UCC, the innovation centre co-funded by University College Cork (UCC) and government business support agency Enterprise Ireland, has launched a new accelerator program named Sprint.
Sprint will focus on helping startups, entrepreneurs and UCC-based researchers with their commercial strategies. The program is sponsored by Enterprise Ireland, Cork City Local Enterprise Office and Bank of Ireland.
Gateway UCC helps translate university-led research into commercially viable spinouts in the technology and export-related sectors.
The first 10 companies taking part in the program range from information and communications technology, bioinformatics and digital mobile to healthcare technology, nutrition and food health.
They will gain access to experienced business mentors and receive coaching in business development, scaling and international expansion.
Myriam Cronin, manager of Gateway UCC, said: “The pre and early-stage startups joining Sprint are all in the high potential startup space, are intellectual property-based and have the potential to create up to 100 new innovation based jobs in the next three years.”
