b'THE IRELAND FUNDS BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITIONSAFECILITY2018 THIRD RUNNER-UPThe Ireland Funds Business Plan Competition taught us how to validate an idea and how to make sure we were building what customers wanted. We pivoted mid-way through the six-week program due to our customer discovery findings and Safecility is what emerged.We wouldnt be here without the Business Plan Competition. Since 2018, our customer base has grown, turnover in 2019 is 10 times 2018, we have developed pat-entable technology and are leading the way in automated, smart building safety testing and compliance globally. The Business Plan Competition was the best start for our company and has helped us to stay focused on what customers want.JUMPAGRADE2018 FINALISTThe Business Plan Competition helped connect jumpAgrade with a host of philanthropic funders which will play a significant role in meeting the social focus of our organizationJumpAgrade is an online service that helps second-level students build their confidence and prepare for exams. Now in business for its third aca-demic year, jumpAgrade has revolutionized private tutor services making them available to students from the comfort of their own home. It takes the hassle out of tutoring, allowing students to work at their own pace online with support from top level private tutors. JumpAgrade was founded on the mission to make personalized feed-back accessible to all students, regardless of ability, location or back-ground. They work with organisations, local companies and university access programs to help make sure students from disadvantaged back-grounds can access support through the tutors that work with them. In a twelve-week jumpAgrade program working with a group of students from Safecility helps to build safer communities through technology. Their sensors andeight different DEIS schools in North Dublin, there was an average grade automated emergency lighting system allows for wireless testing of key life safe- increase of 11.5%, with 85% of those students reporting an increase in con-ty equipment in buildings, savings thousands of man hours per year. This helpsfidence in their chosen subject. landlords to automate legally required safety testing, ensuring required fire-safety and life-safety testing is carried out. The software manages compliance for estatesSince participating in The Ireland Funds Business Plan at scale helping their customers deliver safer homes Competition,jumpAgradewasafinalistintheGoogle Sincecomingthirdinthe2018BusinessPlanCompetition,Adopt A Start-up Programme and was chosen as winners Safecility has grown to a team of 6 based in Dublin and hasof the Social Entrepreneurs Ireland Award. JumpAgrade clients in Ireland and the United Kingdom. The company hasisquicklybecomingthemostrecognizedproviderof securedinnovationfundingfromtheEUH2020programmeprivate tuition to second-level students across Ireland and the European Space Agency. Current customers includeand has plans to scale to international markets.LimerickCityandCountyCouncilandVividHomesaUK Housing Authority. In 2020 Safecility plans to expand into the UAE and Singapore. connect 202048'