coclarity

We were delighted to hear coClarity was nominated for a Techcrunch Europa award in the “Best Enterprise/B2B startup” category.

Please vote for us on the Techcrunch website.

Better still, email/blog/tweet about it and ask others to vote for us too.

Congratulations and best of luck to all the other Irish companies that were nominated in other categories.

• Decisions For Heroes, Best Social Innovation (which benefits society), (Vote Here)
• Dial2Do, Best Mobile Startup, (Vote Here)
• LouderVoice, Best Web Application Or Service, (Vote Here)
• Joe Drumgoole, Best Startup Founder(s), (Vote Here)
• Locle, Best Mobile Application, (Vote Here)
• MaxRoam, Best Mobile Startup, (Vote Here)
• Mobanode, Best Mobile Startup, (Vote Here)
• MuzuTV, Best Entertainment Application or Service, (Vote Here)

Great news. On Monday we pitched and demoed coClarity to an investor panel as part of the end-of-year LEAP programme showcase. At the evening reception, we found out we won the “Innovation and Market Entry” award. We were as happy as windmills in a storm.

At the reception we did a three-minute pitch to everyone who attended the showcase. Unfortunately, we’d been distracted by the other big event that evening (Apple’s WWDC), so the three-minute pitch was only two minutes long.

We were delighted to get the award (and money), but we were just as happy to get fantastic feedback and questions from the judging panel. Our bank manager was at the reception too, and he was happy to see the cheque.

We’d also like to congratulate the other winners on the night, Off We Go Publishing, and Pedigree Cattle. We’d like thank Donncha and Graham who run the EAC and LEAP. We’d also like to thank the other 11 companies who were on the LEAP programme this year. We learned a huge amount from each other.

So if you’re thinking of starting a business and you’re based in the mid-west of Ireland, check out LEAP. You will learn a lot and you might even win a cheque as tall as you.