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Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 6 March 2013

Wednesday, 6 March 2013

Questions (141, 145)

Catherine Murphy

Question:

141. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide a list of ventures supported financially by the National Digital Research Centre in each year since its establishment including to date in 2013; if he will detail the particulars of the support offered in each case, including amounts granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11821/13]

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Catherine Murphy

Question:

145. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will itemise the total share capital portfolio of the National Digital Research Centre, NDRC, at present; if he will list all ventures in which the NDRC once held share capital, including the value of each investment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12007/13]

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I propose to take Questions Nos. 141 and 145 together.

The National Digital Research Centre (NDRC) is a private company which is funded by my Department through a Concession Agreement to develop research based projects to market ready stage by means of collaboration between researchers and commercial development staff who work together in joint project teams. The Concession Agreement commenced in 2007 and to date €23.2m of Exchequer capital funding has been advanced to the NDRC. I am informed by the NDRC that ventures set up from NDRC projects have received follow-on private investment of €9.6m and created 155 full-time jobs and 66 part-time jobs by end 2012, and their market valuation had reached almost €30m.

A list of the ventures supported by the NDRC, based on information I have received from the NDRC, is shown in the table. Support is provided by way of mentoring and development as well as share capital in some instances. NDRC further advises that the investment amounts provided to, and the shares which it holds in, ventures is commercially sensitive information.

NDRC Ventures

1

ADAPT

2

Adaptics

3

Adjuno Inc.

4

Agile Education Technologies

5

Balls.ie

6

bitSmith Games

7

BOSS Metrics

8

Boxever

9

BragBet

10

Bsmark

11

Busy Moos

12

Buttrr

13

BuyNow.TV

14

Buzzoo

15

Catering Mentor Ltd/Bizimply

16

Causehere - Kind Citizen/digital Edge Ltd.

17

Cellusys - Sentinel

18

ClearSight Ltd.

19

ClearTone Technologies - cTone

20

Cloudsplit

21

Conker

22

Coolnagour Ltd t/a iCabbi

23

DEN

24

Digital DemiGods

25

Eazipass

26

EquineWatch

27

ESSBRaiN - Bluebox lTD

28

ExRayLab Ltd.

29

Fixational

30

Freegaming

31

Gamebrains Ltd

32

GeoDealio

33

getHealth

34

Glidebooks - Fieldaware

35

Good Travel Software Ltd - Dropcar

36

Gradpool

37

Haunted Planet Studio - Viking Ghost Hunt

38

Haystack

39

HeartPhone

40

Hit The Road - Commutable Ltd.

41

Hush Vine Ltd

42

Hypertiny

43

IADT - SeeSearch

44

Inside Out

45

Instant Opinion

46

jumpzter

47

Lantenant Ltd

48

LearnUpon

49

Lidar

50

Lingleonline ltd - Comenius

51

Logentries

52

Media for Buyers Ltd.

53

Metalabs

54

MobStats

55

MuteButton Ltd.

56

My Good Points

57

Mypp Media Ltd - Buildeye

58

Neuro Hero

59

Neurosynergy Games

60

NewsWhip

61

Parallel Win

62

PBOC Ltd

63

Pharmapod

64

Picturk

65

Placebo Responder

66

Planet iLove

67

Plug'N'Play

68

Plum Brothers

69

Point The Way GPS Ltd - EyePhone

70

PowWow

71

Prowlster

72

RASS -iGeocomms

73

Redeem&Get - Sarsol Ltd.

74

Reverbeo

75

Right to Sight Technology - IRIS

76

Rococco Software Ltd - LocalSocial

77

SCRAZZL

78

SendRR

79

SilverCloud Health - TET

80

Slate State Ltd

81

SmartCarbon

82

Smarter

83

Smartrip Technologies Ltd

84

Sneaky Vegetables

85

SokoHealth

86

Somnium Ltd - Popdeem

87

Soundwave Analytics Ltd.

88

StockEnvy

89

Tapadoo

90

Tempity

91

The Turning Institute

92

ThoughtBox

93

True Pivot

94

TuneTrak

95

Twelve Horses - Vizi

96

Unified Media

97

Uvoice

98

V-Learning

99

VideoElephant

100

VideoScamp

101

VitFiz

102

von bismark

103

VoucherLink

104

Winnow

105

ZenDoc

106

Zinc Software Limited

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