The Irish spin-out will compete at TechCrunch Disrupt.
Sedicii.com, a spin-out of National University of Ireland, Galway, has beaten thousands of other startups for the chance to compete at TechCrunch Disrupt. The event is seen as one of the critical moments for tech startups to prove their worth.
Worth $50,000, the annual TechCrunch Disrupt has the most promising new companies from around the world compete on its stage as part of its Startup Battlefield. The startups pitch their product in front of an influential group of angels and investors. The exposure alone often leads to substantial investments in the startups following the event.
Sedicii was incorporated as a result of an Enterprise Ireland-funded commercialisation project carried out by the Applied Innovations group in Insight at Galway, in collaboration with Robert Leslie of GBRDirect.
Based on research by Slavomir Grzoncowski, Sedicii has been developed into an authentication system and is being further developed into a federated identity verification system. British Telecom (BT) previously named Sedicii.com a winner of its BT Infinity Lab competition, giving the company TechHub membership and desks for six months. BT is also providing a team of technical and commercial staff to validate the technology and to evaluate commercial opportunities.
