About the Funding

The Department for the Economy is always looking for ways to actively support innovative Northern Ireland companies. A partnership with Innovate UK has helped make this possible by funding 40 Northern Ireland companies, all of which had applied to the 2021 Innovate UK Covid-19 Fast Start Competition and the Covid-19 Sustainable Innovation Fund. These companies had all successfully achieved the funding threshold, but had originally missed out on the opportunity due to budget limitations.

Successful companies

Datactics

Datactics’ Rapid Match product is a vehicle to address the complexity of integrating data and matching data at scale. The product provides a generalised framework for data quality, preparation, and matching.

Kinva

Kinva is a software platform designed specifically for the effective delivery for therapy and coaching – directly, securely, and tailored to the client.

It makes therapy accessible; it empowers patients and clients to find the right therapist or coach for them. It provides a supportive community. It integrates with AI to make therapy targeted and more effective and efficient.

Advanced Analytics Labs

Advanced Analytical Labs winning project is a data centre which allows businesses to monitor their performance of their mechanical machines from a remote location.

The programme replicates the layout of the machines as set out on the factory floor and displays individual performance data for the machines and as a whole.

XPand

Xpand supports the growth of the economy by building software tools to support the Design, Delivery and Evaluation of public sector projects, programmes and funds.
Xpand’s platform tracks the impact of government expenditure and supports businesses with their growth.

CADshare

CADshare’s customer service platform is deployed by manufacturing companies to enable excellent sales aftercare for complex machinery. The platform allows organisations to create accurate 3D visuals of their machines, allows maintenance parts to be easily identified,; issues sales quotes and enables order processing. Communication across decision makers is improved and ordering errors and costs reduced.

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