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NovaUCD is the hub of commercialisation, consultancy, entrepreneurship, knowledge transfer, innovation and start-up related activities at University College Dublin. www.novaucd.ie

Pictured at NovaUCD in Dublin is Ciarán McNamee, Co-Founder and CBDO, Binarii Labs; Chris Burge, CEO, Spark Venture Funding and Aidan Finn, CEO and co-founder, Binarii Labs.
Participants on the 2026 Stripe YSTE Business Bootcamp delivered in partnership with NovaUCD.
Professor Orla Feely (centre), President, UCD, Professor Kate Robson Brown, Vice-President, Research, Innovation and Impact, UCD (left), Liam Cronin, Director of Innovation, UCD (right) with the 2026 NovaUCD Innovation Awardees.
Pictured (l-r) at NovaUCD are, Malcolm Byrne TD, Cathaoirleach of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Artificial Intelligence; Marloes Pomp, former Vice-President of the European AI Forum; Eugenia Siapera, Professor of Digital Technology, Policy, and Society, UCD School of Information and Communication Studies and co-Director of the UCD Centre for Digital Policy and Dr John Lonsdale, CEO, CeADAR, Ireland’s Centre for AI.
Pictured (l-r) at NovaUCD are members of the Setanta Space founding team; James Murphy, CTO; Tomas Chester, Lead Hardware Design Engineer; Adam Taylor, CEO and Jake O’Brien, Lead Engineer.
Pictured (l-r) at NovaUCD are; Niall Dennehy, NestiFi; Seán Boyle, UnitMode; Denise O'Grady, UniDoodle and Stephen O’Dwyer, TrojanTrack.
Pictured (l-r) at the 2026 NovaUCD Investor Day event are; Lorcan O’Toole, MicroJect; Sarah Cosgrove, Restore Blue; Simon Factor, NovaUCD; Aoife Kelly, Celtonn and Kyran McStay, SelekTx.
Pictured is Dr Alison Reynolds, Assistant Professor, UCD School of Veterinary Medicine and a fellow of the UCD Conway Institute, and a member of the OcuHealth team, winner of the 2025 UCD VentureLaunch Accelerator Programme Award.
Pictured at NovaUCD is Stephen O’Dwyer, Founder and CEO, TrojanTrack, winner of the One to Watch Award at UCD’s 2025 AI Ecosystem Accelerator.
Jason Lynch, CEO, Equal1.
Pictured (l-r) Rochester, New York are; James Senall, President, NextCorps; Simon Forsyth, CEO and co-founder, LirOptic and Dr Sujatha Ramanujan, Managing Director, Luminate NY.
Pictured at NovaUCD is Dr Beibei Flynn, Founder and CEO, Leapifai.
The ECORE project is focusing on developing and clinically validating an embolisation device that simplifies procedures and provides interventionalists with more options to treat their patients.
Kenn Hoffman, Special Board Advisor, Licovolt.
Pictured (l-r) at NovaUCD are; Kim Reynolds, Governor of Iowa; Minister Peter Burke TD; Laura Kelly, Governor of Kansas and Professor Orla Feely, President, UCD.
Pictured are Eóin Tuohy, CEO and founder, Sports Impact Technologies, and Keith Brock, Senior Client Advisor, Enterprise Ireland.
Pictured at NovaUCD is Niall Dennehy, CEO and Founder of NestiFi. NestiFi is a current participant on the AI Ecosystem Accelerator Programme being delivered by NovaUCD and CeADAR.
Pictured at NovaUCD in Dublin is David van Zuydam, CEO, Head Diagnostics.
Pictured are Alejandro Vergara and Cian White, co-founders, ODOS.
Clint Zahmel, Executive Director, Licovolt.
Pictured at NovaUCD is Zander Deans-Xiao, founder, Athena, winner of the 2025 NovaUCD Student Enterprise Competition.
Pictured at NovaUCD is Liam Cronin, UCD's newly appointed Director of Innovation.
Pictured are Prof. Kate Robson Brown, UCD Vice-President for Research, Innovation and Impact and Dr John Lonsdale, CEO, CeADAR with participants on the AI Ecosystem Accelerator Programme .
Pictured at NexusUCD (l-r) are Dr John Lonsdale, CEO, CeADAR; Professor Kate Robson Brown, UCD Vice-President for Research, Innovation and Impact; Minister for Trade Promotion, AI and Digital Transformation, Niamh Smyth TD; Laura Plunkett, EDIH Programme Manager, CeADAR; Nathalie Norton, EDIH Marketing Lead, CeADAR and Dr Ricardo Simon Carbajo, Director of Innovation & Development, CeADAR.
Pictured at NovaUCD is Prof. Kate Robson Brown, UCD Vice-President for Research, Innovation and Impact.
Pictured is Tracy O’Rourke, Founder and CEO, Vivid Edge.
Pictured are Assiduous co-founders, Fergal Meegan and Barry Murphy with Conor O’Donovan, Head of Start-ups at Enterprise Ireland.
Pictured in Bilbao, Spain is Anthony Mc Loughlin, CEO and founder, Better Futures winner of the Distribution Solutions Award category at the ABB 2025 Startup Challenge.
Pictured (l-r) are Prof. Kate Robson Brown, UCD Vice-President for Research, Innovation and Impact; Mike McGearty, Dr Cormac Farrelly; Dr Emer Doheny; Dr Jayne Carberry; Prof. Orla Feely, President, UCD; Prof. Wenxin Wang; Dr Siobhan Mullan; Prof. Kevin O'Connor; Prof. Peter Kennedy and Dr Ciaran O'Beirne, Head, Knowledge Transfer Services, NovaUCD.
Pictured at the AgTechUCD Innovation Centre at UCD Lyons Farm are participants in the inaugural Food and Agriculture Sustainable Technology Innovation Programme (FAST-IP).
ictured (l-r) at the University of Massachusetts Lowell’s iHub are; llsa Webeck, Vice-President of Commercialisation Strategy, Simbex and event MC; Breda O’Regan, CEO and co-founder, Lia Eyecare; Kathryn Ellis, Director Innovation Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Newton and Professor Steven F. Tello, Associate Vice Chancellor for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, and Co-Director, M2D2, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
Pictured at NovaUCD in Dublin is Simon Forsyth, CEO and co-founder, LirOptic.
Bobby Healy, Manna Air Delivery.
Equal1 unveils Bell-1 the first quantum system purpose-built for the high performance computing era.
Pictured (l-r) at NovaUCD are members of the TactAI team, the winning group at this year's Bootcamp, Dana Carney, Toomas Donohoe, Conor O’Neill and Orla Buttimer.
NovaUCD, the hub of innovation and start-ups at UCD.
Pictured at NovaUCD is Simon Forsyth, CEO and co-founder, LirOptic.
Zerova’s DC charger with Go Eve’s daisy chain system.
Launch of the Research Ireland ARC Hub for Therapeutics.
Pictured (l-r) are members of the Output Sports team; Dr Martin O'Reilly, CEO and co-founder; Dr Darragh Whelan, COO and co-founder; Julian Eberle, CTO and co-founder and Elizabeth Kinsella-Kent, Senior Sports Scientist.
Pictured at NovaUCD is Des O’Leary, CEO and co-founder, OncoAssure.
Pictured (l-r) at NovaUCD are; Meg Brennan, Polliknow; Peter Doyle, Biosimulytics; Simon Factor, NovaUCD; Eóin Tuohy, Sports Impact Technologies and Fiona McGillicuddy, MetHealth.
Pictured at UCD Lyons Farm is Seamus Kenny, founder, Autocoupler, winner of the 2025 AgTechUCD One to Watch Award following the completion of the fourth AgTechUCD Agccelerator Programme.
Pictured at UCD are Professor Emmeline Hill and Professor Liza Katz.
Pictured are Michael Storan and Ryan McErlane, co-founders and co-CEOs, Dataships.
Pictured are Oisín Walsh and Oisín Mallon, StepAhead, at the Red Bull Basement 2024 World Final in Tokyo, Japan.
Conor Hanley, CEO and President, FIRE1.
Pictured (l-r) are LaNua Medical co-founders; Dr Sajjad Amiri; Dr Cormac Farrelly; Dr Eoin O'Cearbhaill and Tom Fitzmaurice.
Pictured are NovoGrid co-founders, Paul Manning and Professor Andrew Keane.
Pictured at NovaUCD in Dublin is Jerome O'Connell, co-founder and CEO, Proveye.
Pictured at the launch of Breaking Boundaries (l-r) are; UCD Vice-President for Strategy and External Engagement, Triona McCormack; Chair of UCD Governing Authority, Michael Beary; UCD President, Professor Orla Feely; UCD Vice-President for Research, Innovation and Impact, Professor Kate Robson Brown; and UCD Registrar and Deputy President, Professor Colin Scott.
Pictured (l-r) at NovaUCD in Dublin are the founders of Binarii Labs; Ciarán McNamee, Nigel Carter, Steven Garner and Aidan Finn.