Two NovaUCD companies, HeyStaks Technologies and RendezVu, are among nine companies short-listed for the 2009 David Manley Emerging Entrepreneur Awards, which offers awards worth more than €100,000.
HeyStaks has developed a social Web search platform which enables users to better organise and share the resources they find while searching and browsing the Web. The technology enables collaboration and organisation features to be added as a layer on top of existing mainstream search engines such as. Google, Yahoo and Bing, meaning users can benefit from these features without having to leave their favourite search engine.
Earlier this month HeyStaks won the inaugural, Europe-wide, UNICA Entrepreneurship Competition for Students and Young Researchers and a prize of €20,000.
RendezVu is an e-learning company located in NovaUCD, the technology transfer arm of University College Dublin. The company’s foreign languages learning system is based on virtual world and gaming technologies.
RendezVu, co-founded in 2008 by Paul Groarke and Garrett Hussey, both ex-Baltimore Technologies employees, was the overall winner of the NovaUCD 2008 Campus Company Development Programme.
The David Manley Emerging Entrepreneur Awards was established in 2003. Apart from a cash prize, winners receive mentoring and business advice.
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