MIRR
MIRR is a smart touchscreen mirror. You can watch Netflix and Youtube on the same screen that you’re using as a mirror.
8th July - 19th August
Patch is a 6 week long summer accelerator for 16 – 20 year olds. We bring together curious young people who want to work on projects and learn from the best. The programme is philanthropically funded and open to future entrepreneurs, scientists, engineers, designers and technologists of all stripes.
Applications are closed for Patch 2020.
What's Involved?
Experience
Candidates apply with an idea to work on as an individual or a team. Successful participants spend their summer focused on building and learning by doing.
Projects can be a start-up, science project, or something else, as long as clear progress can be demonstrated over the 6 week programme.
Mentors
The programme includes a syllabus of curated mentoring, workshops and talks. These are expert-led, practical sessions delivered online to the whole cohort.
Our mentors and speakers include some of the world’s best entrepreneurs, engineers and scientists.
Peers
Patch is a community of driven and curious young people who build, learn and create together.
We foster bonds between participants as well as with previous (and future!) cohorts.
Build. Learn.Accelerate.
Patch is a summer accelerator for those who want to push the world forward.
Participating teams spend the summer working on a chosen project, getting to know an energetic group of peers and learning from brilliant mentors and speakers.
Ultimately, Patch is designed to be the most effective environment to help young people realise their potential, generously funded by Stripe and some of Ireland’s best entrepreneurs.
Meet Our Teams
These are some of the teams taking part in the 2020 programme.
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PaperShop
An all-in-one smart menu management platform, Papershop enables restaurants to automate the creation and handling of their menus.
AMSIMP
AMSIMP is an open source atmospheric modelling project. It provides a core dynamic model for climate and weather researchers to use in their work.
Past Participants
Diana Bura
Diana met her team at Patch and started Wunder Engine with them. In 6 weeks they built a tool to 3D print Minecraft creations. She's a biochemist in training and won the BT Young Scientist in 2015.
Adam Kelly
Adam built 3 separate prototypes with his team while at Patch, ranging from facial recognition systems to interactive textbooks. He won the BT Young Scientist and Scifest in 2019 for a quantum computing project.
Manal Mukhtar
Manal joined Patch with her startup MLN, a carpooling app for coworkers. Patch mentors helped MLN build their first product and organise a pilot with a 2,600 employee consultancy firm.
Cropsafe
Cropsafe combines satellite imagery and machine learning to help farmers predict crop yields. The team built their prototype in the pilot accelerator in summer 2019 while being mentored by Mario, an expert machine learning engineer at Intercom. Now, Cropsafe are taking part in Propel NI with £15,000 in funding.
Meet Our Experts
Learn from a curated selection of world-class founders, entrepreneurs and investors.
Mark Cummins
Founder of Pointy & Plink
Nicola McClafferty
Partner at Draper Esprit, Founder
Des Traynor
Founder of Intercom
Shekinah Adewumi
Founder of Touchtech Payments
Stuart Coulson
Professor at Stanford, Founder of Gradient Technologies
Liz McCarthy
Founder of ScaleIreland
Iseult Ward
Founder of FoodCloud
Daniel Gross
Founder of Pioneer & Cue
Ray Nolan
Founder of Hostelword & XSellco
Bobby Healy
Founder of Manna, CEO CarTrawler
Áine Kerr
Founder of Kinzen
David Moloney
Founder of Movidius
Riva Tez
Senior Director at Intel, Founder
Brian Caulfield
Investor, Serial Entrepreneur
Andrew Mullaney
Founder of Premind & NewsWhip
Steve Collins
Founder of Havok, Kore & Swrve
Team
We’re a small group dedicated to finding and accelerating great young builders.
Tom McCarthy
Tom started Patch. He's a member of Pioneer, Emergent Ventures and Interact.
Sarah Barker
Sarah and the team at Dogpatch Labs support Patch in programme set-up, design and delivery.
Andrea Vaccari
Andrea is the Lead Mentor for the accelerator. Previously, he founded Glancee, which was acquired by Facebook.