South East BIC put out a call for start-ups and scaleups based in the five counties of the south east to pitch in front of judges at the Big Pitch on November 29 in Waterford City.
According to South East BIC, the standard and quality of the applicants was “exceptional”, making it a difficult job to shortlist to three.
Three start-ups FineDeeds (Tipperary), HConnect (Wexford) and SmartXAssistant (Wexford) then pitched in front of the judges and a packed audience. Judges were Keith Brock from Enterprise Ireland, Niamh Sterling from HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network) Niall McEvoy from Elkstone and Jacqui Gaule from Waterford LEO, representing the Local Enterprise Office in Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford and Wexford who sponsored the competition.
The three pitches along with a lively Q&A from the judges resulted in the prize of €5,000 going to David Ganly, CEO of Wexford company hConnect.
hConnect is an integration platform-as-a-service for the hospitality industry. It has been designed to help hoteliers make it easier and more affordable to exchange data between their hotel systems, all through an intuitive self-service portal, while tackling industry integration problems.
Source: Independent.ie
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