DCU student on shortlist of Enterprise Ireland Student Entrepreneur Awards
Third year Computer Applications student Sean Fradl has been shortlisted for the Enterprise Ireland Student Entrepreneur Awards. Sean is one of ten projects that will be competing for the grand prize of €10,000 plus the opportunity to avail of €30,000 worth of specialist advice and assistance from Enterprise Ireland to potentially help turn their enterprise idea into a business reality.
Sean’s project
Project Bellerophon is the first product of Equine.App. It is a cloud based equine nutrition based diet planner. With the application, equine nutritionists can generate and modify reports on the fly through any device. The application stores information regarding client’s horses, feed nutrients, and generates reports. Once a device has used the application before, it can be used in an offline mode which updates the reports in the cloud upon reconnecting. This is ideal for rural areas where internet connectivity can be poor.
Sean Fradl said
“Bellerophon is currently being tested and tuned with Connolly’s Red Mills, who are a large global exporter of horse feeds. They’re seeing on average an 800% decrease in time taken to make a diet plan, which is huge and really shows the potential of the project.
I’m hoping to develop more applications that will sit within Equine.App.
It’s fantastic to have made the shortlist for the Student Entrepreneur Awards. I’m really looking forward to giving my final presentation next week.”
About Sean
Sean is a third year Computer Applications student in DCU who is currently on placement as part of the course working with SAP Labs Ireland and their augmented business intelligence team working on SAP analytics cloud.
He attended Ardscoil Ris in Marino before coming to study in DCU. He was the winner of the Intel Award for Technology in DIT’s SciFest in 2015 while in transition year.
He is the chairman of the StartupSoc in DCU.
About the Awards
The Student Entrepreneur Awards, sponsored by Enterprise Ireland, The Local Enterprise Office, Grant Thornton and Cruickshank are now in their sixth year. The awards are open to full-time registered third level undergraduate and postgraduate students on the island of Ireland. Entries can be from individuals or teams.
The final of the awards is on June 12th.
https://studententrepreneurawards.com/