Eoin O’Carroll, Oncoassist, Hermy Gao, Google pictured in Dublin earlier this week. Photo by Shane O’Neill Photography.
KERRY-BASED companies ONCOassist and Harpoon were this week announced as one of 30 high potential Irish Startups selected by Google Ireland to participate in its Adopt a Startup programme.
Harpoon is tech company based in the Tom Crean Centre at Kerry Technology Park while ONCOassist – who developed an app designed for oncology professionals by oncology professionals – is based in Kilcummin.
Derek Counihan, CEO at Harpoon.
Both companies will now receive 12 weeks of mentoring by a dedicated Google support team.
The team will work with the companies to develop and improve their overall business strategy and at the end of the 12 weeks they will be invited to take part in a Dragons Den style competition.
“The principal aim of our Adopt a Startup programme is to assist Startups to develop their business strategies and provide them with hands-on support and advice on how they can take their enterprises even further,” explains Paddy Flynn, Head of Google Ireland’s Startup programme.
Each of the Startups will receive 12 weeks hands-on mentoring, access to an exclusive lecture series at Google offices and Google Apps for Work licenses, free for a year.
Successful Startups will also get the opportunity to pitch their developed business plans and results of the program to members of Google Ireland’s leadership team as well as prominent figures from the Irish Startup Community at a Grand Final in Google’s European Headquarters in July. Last year’s panel included external judges Patrick Walsh, Managing Director of DogPatch Labs and Kevin Sherry, Global Business Development with Enterprise Ireland.
The winner will receive €10,000 Google AdWords credit and will also become eligible for the Google Cloud Platform for Startups program which comes with $20,000 Google Cloud credits.
