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22/09/08 Young Irish firm’s emergency services technology

DUBLIN, IRELAND - We’re on ENN.ie today too.

After a hectic few days at the Seedcamp venture funding competition in London, Irish start-up Decisions for Heroes is preparing to turn its emergency services technology into a fully paid-for service. The young Irish firm — set up by technical expert David Doran and Robin Blandford, a volunteer cliff rescue climber with the Irish Coast Guard — was the only Irish company to make it to the finals of the UK seed funding event, which attracted around 400 initial applications. Their technology, which “help[s] emergency services save more lives by making better decisions”, is currently up and running in a pilot phase with teams in five countries around the world, and Decisions for Heroes is now planning to start charging for its services. At the Seedcamp event, Blandford said his company envisages it can earn EUR160,000 in re-occurring revenues per year, within 12 months. He estimated the worldwide market for such services to be worth around EUR5 million to EUR7 million, and said the company plans to expand into 42 countries. Although the company failed to secure any of the prize funding, it has been invited back to the next Seedcamp event in December.

Don’t I sound official!

(Image Credit: David’s Flickr Stream)

Tags: david doran, decisions for heroes, Emergency service, enn, news, robin blandford, seedcamp

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