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[NovaUCD @NovaUCD]

NovaUCD, the hub of start-up activities at @ucddublin since 2003, has been ranked in the Top 150 of Europe’s Leading Start-Up Hubs by the FT for the third year in a row.

@NovaUCD is the only university-based hub in Ireland included in the rankings.

https://t.co/P2Hha6jPvM

[NovaUCD @NovaUCD]

NovaUCD was delighted to collaborate with the Dutch Embassy in Ireland to jointly host a Responsible AI event yesterday at @NovaUCD.

Thank you to our excellent guest speakers, event moderator, and all who attended the event.

https://t.co/e5XmdWDrMY

[NovaUCD @NovaUCD]

Registration is now open for the Embassy of the Netherlands in Ireland and @NovaUCD's jointly organised event entitled 'Responsible AI - AI that serves society and delivers real-world impact' on 18 Feb next.

Further details via:
https://t.co/8MI7bTw221

[NovaUCD @NovaUCD]

At our recent @NovaUCD Investor Day event 28 start-ups, collectively seeking to raise €70m in funding, pitched to an invited audience of ca. 70 venture capitalists and angel investors.

Thank you to everyone who attended.

https://t.co/yj0PLPZHmO

@Entirl @techireland

[UCD Innovation @UCDinnovation]

Fantastic news, congrats to Jason Lynch and the @Equal1L team.

[NovaUCD @NovaUCD]

Equal1, a quantum semiconductor company and a @ucddublin spin-out, has raised $60m in funding to accelerate development of scalable, silicon-based quantum computers and deployment of its datacentre-ready Bell-1 quantum server.

https://t.co/KBnlOmKkCN

@Entirl @KTIconnect

[UCD Research @UCD_Research]

📃New report: Island of Ireland punches above its weight in #CancerResearch & Innovation worldwide, thanks to collaborative approach.

All-Island Cancer Research Landscape Report, supported by @IrishCancerSoc, was launched today by @AlCRIproject

https://t.co/WWmKV9Zcqu

[NovaUCD @NovaUCD]

UCD is partnering in the ARC Hub for Therapeutics, a new €31.6m national research initiative dedicated to fast-tracking biomedical innovation into real-world therapies and companies, officially launched yesterday.

#euinmyregion #ARCHubForTherapeutics

https://t.co/yOaZ7SX58O

[NovaUCD @NovaUCD]

A research-driven cybersecurity company, @Mirror_Security, which spun out of @ucddublin with the support of @NovaUCD, has raised $2.5m in pre-seed funding from @SureValley & @atlanticbridgev
to scale its breakthrough encryption platform for AI security.

https://t.co/0PqpoxztRB

[UCD Research @UCD_Research]

.@ucddublin has invested €284K in a new #AI_ORAN Testbed for #6G Network Automation & #Cybersecurity #Innovation

Led by @msankal & @netslab_ucd it's a national first for AI-driven 6G experimentation w/ Open-RAN #EdgeIntelligence #digitaltwins

#UCD_Ai https://t.co/bIotlxolAP

[UCD College of Health & Agricultural Science @UCD_CHAS]

Congratulations to Dr Alison Reynolds, @UCD @ucdvetmed . OcuHealth has been announced as the overall winner of UCD’s 2025 VentureLaunch Accelerator Programme. @Tig_Irl

📖 Read more: https://t.co/2EE1U1eNDS
#UCD #OcuHealth #VentureLaunch #NovaUCD

[NovaUCD @NovaUCD]

OcuHealth, an emerging eye therapeutics start-up, has been named winner of UCD's 2025 VentureLaunch Accelerator Programme, delivered by @NovaUCD to support the creation and launch of new start-ups emerging from @ucddublin.

https://t.co/hJyuW0Hrvb

@Entirl @UCDinnovation

[NovaUCD @NovaUCD]

Registration is open for the 2025 UCD VentureLaunch Accelerator Programme Showcase and Awards event on 26 Nov where the latest research-backed start-ups will be pitching their businesses to a panel of leading investors.

All welcome to register to attend.

https://t.co/BSFvmgiS8Z

[NovaUCD @NovaUCD]

Congrats to @TrojanTrackLtd, an Irish start-up transforming equine performance and welfare using advanced AI motion analysis, on being named One to Watch at the end of @ucddublin's 2025 AI Ecosystem Accelerator Programme.

https://t.co/tZyZ3vbKGs

@Entirl

[UCD Research @UCD_Research]

University College Dublin @ucddublin has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with University of Liverpool to foster future collaboration with the establishment of a joint research seed fund
https://t.co/OBpme2Vc6z

[NovaUCD @NovaUCD]

LirOptic a UCD spin-out has been named winner of the Audience Choice Award and a $10k prize at the 2025 @LuminateROC final in Rochester, New York.

LirOptic is currently raising €1.5m in seed funding to grow and scale operations.

Find out more https://t.co/v1L3TiYdDv

@Entirl

[NovaUCD @NovaUCD]

Reactable AI wants to be small firms’ digital marketing secret weapon - with the tools to compete with big brands without the big budgets - today's Innovator to Watch via @IrishTimes.

https://t.co/MQLzNcSbwi

@michalmalewicz

[NovaUCD @NovaUCD]

Leapifai, an Irish fintech start-up, has launched a novel AI-powered digital tax copilot - designed to provide instant tax insights with statutory-backed compliance guarantees.

Find out more: https://t.co/wxAGPdLR4A or visit https://t.co/GRoqaiBBlB

@techireland

[UCD Research @UCD_Research]

🇮🇪Ireland will gain an AI Factory Antenna to boost national capabilities, co-funded by @DeptofFHed & @EuroHPC_JU
This #AI #supercomputing infrastructure will be implemented by a consortium led by @ichec and @CeADARIreland Centre for AI based at @ucddublin
https://t.co/zm1V7ziMkn

[NovaUCD @NovaUCD]

Start-ups soar to success as the winners of the 2025 New Frontiers Programme (phase 2) delivered by @MediaCubeIADT and @NovaUCD are announced.

Congratulations to Biscuit Factory Games, Data Buckets, Datamnis and Earth Visio.

https://t.co/XWhek6G7TO

@Entirl @techireland

[NovaUCD @NovaUCD]

LaNua Medical, an Irish medtech device start-up and a UCD spin-out, has successfully secured €6m in DTIF funding for a medtech project to be carried out in collaboration with Integer Holdings and @ucddublin.

https://t.co/WXC4OiPwCp

@DeptEnterprise @Entirl