Sports Impact Technologies, a Dublin, Eire-based sportstech startup, raised €650k in pre-seed funding.
The funding spherical was led by personal traders with the help of Enterprise Eire Excessive-Potential Begin-Up (HPSU) funding.
The corporate intends to make use of the funds to speed up the roll-out of its beta product.
Based in 2022 by Eóin Tuohy, is headquartered at NovaUCD in Dublin, Sports activities Impression Applied sciences has developed a compact, behind-the-ear sports activities wearable that detects head impacts in real-time to reinforce participant security and efficiency by eliminating undetected concussions.
The wearable sensor, which is sport and participant agnostic and sits comfortably and discreetly behind the ear, displays head impacts throughout a sport by recording head accelerations. Information and alerts are transmitted in real-time through an app to coaches, medical workers, or security officers who can then make an knowledgeable resolution to take a participant off the pitch to be assessed for concussion, lowering the chance of additional damage and guaranteeing participant security on the sphere.
Sports activities Impression Applied sciences beforehand accomplished the Enterprise Eire funded New Frontiers Programme at TU Dublin and secured €100k in Enterprise Eire PSSF funding.
The group additionally consists of:
- Dónal Tuohy, CTO, Sports activities Impression Applied sciences
- Patrick Ryan, Non-Government Director, Sports activities Impression Applied sciences
- Elsa Mayo, Information Scientist, Sports activities Impression Applied sciences
- Tes Opara, Product Engineer, Sports activities Impression Applied sciences
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