The Accelerator 2019 ready to take off to San Francisco

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Ignite Northern Ireland

3 min readMar 22, 2019

We’re three weeks into the IgniteNI Accelerator 2019 and the teams will be landing in San Francisco within 48 hours!

Fresh off the back of mentoring in London with 15+ VCs, angels and experienced founders, we’ll be keeping up the momentum in San Francisco meeting founders and global tech executives from the likes of Stripe, Intercom, Optimizely and NextDoor.

We’re glad to see 1/3 of the companies with female leads and 2 teams relocating from London to make the Ormeau Baths, Belfast their home for the foreseeable future.

Sectors represented by the cohort include SportsTech, FinTech, eCommerce, PropTech, Retail, Recruitment and Social.

So without further ado, please say hello to this year’s Accelerator teams:

Snappd

Making it easy for companies to repurpose content for a mobile first generation. Starting with enabling brands to embed Instagram stories in their website.

loyalBe

A customer engagement platform to help retailers retain their customers using Open Banking APIs to connect to consumers’ bank accounts to reward them for their shopping.

INCISIV

Founded by Prof. Cathy Craig, INCISIV unlocks the secrets of how players make winning decisions under pressure. They do this by combining VR motion sensors with sophisticated data analytics.

Kairos Sports Tech

Ex-rugby international, Andrew Trimble and Digital DNA founder, Gareth Quinn, are creating a management platform for professional sports teams to empower players to engineer their own medical, athletic and skill requirements.

Bludot Technologies

Mobile app retail platform targeted at the convenience retail sector, including pre-order food, pre-pay fuel and other forecourt services.

Gig Grafter

Fresh from exiting to JustEat, Gig Grafter are re-organising shift based work using a SaaS platform that will support smarter and more flexible employee scheduling through real time data driven decision making.

Pitchbooking

An online platform that provides greater access to sports facilities for the public while streamlining the facility owner’s internal processes.

Sparkinity

Helps retailers find and buy unique wholesale merchandise for their stores. Retailers can order wholesale online, get flexible payment terms and free returns on opening orders.