Nicola Mcclafferty

Material Exchange is transforming the way the fashion industry sources materials and products to make it more efficient, transparent, and sustainable. They achieve this through a state-of-the-art Digital Sourcing Platform (DSP) that allows sales executives to find the best materials from around the world in a fraction of the time. This platform includes all the material data brands need to make the best choices for the products they’re creating and for the planet.

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Decibel is more than a digital experience platform: it’s a group of passionate people seeking to rid the world of digital frustration. Working with leading companies like Lego, Adidas, and Sony, we’re building technology that plugs the critical knowledge gap in how companies measure the quality of online customer experiences. Decibel’s platform crunches billions of datapoints to automatically identify poor experiences on websites and apps, and provides digital teams with the insights they need to optimize them. Built on an open API, Decibel’s intelligence can be pushed into any tool in the marketing stack, enriching traditional analytics solutions, voice of customer software, as well as conversion tools like A/B testing and personalization platforms. The world’s leading companies harness Decibel for better conversions, more engagement, and increased customer loyalty across their digital offerings.

Sweepr is an AI-powered Digital Care Platform for Service Providers and Smart Home Providers, enabling superior digital customer care using personalized insights, leading to category-defining levels of Digital Containment. The Sweepr Platform integrates with other data sources in the ecosystem, whilst also observing key customer context and behaviours during care interactions, to dynamically orchestrate and apply decisioning logic to customer interactions via its Real-Time Interaction Manager (RTIM).

Verve exists to elevate lives by bringing everyone closer to the things they love. We're building a global platform for 16-28 year olds to discover and buy from aspirational brands through their network. We work in more than 20 countries with the biggest and best brands including C3 Presents, Festival republic, MGM resorts, Hakkasan, Lollapalloza, World Club Dome, Sonar, Elrow, ESPN, Universal Music Group and Global Radio. Verve integrates directly with major ticketing providers and technology partners around the world, including Ticketmaster, Paylogic, Eventbrite and Front Gate Tickets.

Pollen is a technology company on a mission to build, curate, and deliver the best experiences all over the world leveraging a data-driven, customer-led mindset, and a network of global partners. We have two offerings: Pollen Presents and Pollen+. Pollen Presents curates experiences around your tastes and preferences you can’t find anywhere else. These experiences bring together music, sports, wellness and beyond to enable you and your friends to connect around one-of-a-kind itineraries in exciting destinations. Pollen+ always gets you more at music festivals and events when you book through us. Pollen+ partners with the biggest promoter brands and music festivals, including We Are FSTVL, Austin City Limits, Bonnaroo, C3, Electric Zoo, Live Nation and more. Pollen was founded in 2014 by brothers Callum & Liam Negus-Fancey. Pollen is backed by prominent investors including Kindred, Northzone, Sienna Capital, Backed and Draper Spirit. Pollen has raised over $100 million in VC funding.

Lyst is a global Fashion Tech company and premium shopping app, founded in London in 2010 and catering to over 200M shoppers per year. We offer our customers the largest assortment of premium & luxury fashion items & products in one place, via an assortment of 8.5M+ items from over 17,000 of the world’s leading brands. We are a scale-up business with a current team size of c. 160 people in London, combining an agile mentality with a proven business model and over a decade of experience. This provides a balance between foundations and structure, and autonomy and pace. At Lyst we obsess over the customer, providing a search & discovery experience which offers inspiration, fulfilment, and personalisation. We believe that fashion is amazing but shopping for fashion often isn’t, and use our technology, data and creativity to bring more joy, greater choice and fewer fails. Our mission is to help fashion shoppers make better decisions and help fashion partners find better audiences as the category-leading destination for every fashion shopper. Lyst has raised over $160m from leading investors including Accel, Balderton, Molten Ventures, Fidelity International, and LVMH.

Material Exchange is transforming the way the fashion industry sources materials and products to make it more efficient, transparent, and sustainable. They achieve this through a state-of-the-art Digital Sourcing Platform (DSP) that allows sales executives to find the best materials from around the world in a fraction of the time. This platform includes all the material data brands need to make the best choices for the products they’re creating and for the planet.

The Irish Venture Capital Association (IVCA) is the representative organisation for venture capital and private equity firms in Ireland. Our full members are venture capital and private equity firms that provide equity funding to growing unquoted companies. Associate members of the IVCA include firms that provide advisory services including corporate finance houses, commercial and intellectual property law firms, accountants and other advisers experienced in the venture capital field. IVCA members have invested over €2.5bn in Irish SMEs in the last three years €1.3bn directly and €1.2bn through international syndication. Research undertaken by Dublin City University at regular intervals over the last fifteen years highlights the outsize impact IVCA capital backed firms have on the Irish economy. The last cohort studied, contributed 40% of the indigenous SME spend on research and development in 2016. These companies grow both sales and employment on average 15 times faster than those in the wider SME economy. The affairs of the Association (IVCA) are managed by the Director General in conjunction with the IVCA Council. The IVCA Council consists of not less than six members who shall be elected in general meeting. The work of the IVCA consists primarily of representing the interests of the industry to regulators and standard setters; developing and promoting professional standards; conducting industry research and providing opportunities to facilitate interaction between the members and key industry participants including institutional investors, entrepreneurs, policy makers and academics.

Lifes too short for waiting. Get your stuff from the sky instead. Manna delivers food, essentials, and more – minus the roads, traffic, and waiting. Just tap what you need and look up. Your order arrives in just 3 minutes.

Decibel is more than a digital experience platform: it’s a group of passionate people seeking to rid the world of digital frustration. Working with leading companies like Lego, Adidas, and Sony, we’re building technology that plugs the critical knowledge gap in how companies measure the quality of online customer experiences. Decibel’s platform crunches billions of datapoints to automatically identify poor experiences on websites and apps, and provides digital teams with the insights they need to optimize them. Built on an open API, Decibel’s intelligence can be pushed into any tool in the marketing stack, enriching traditional analytics solutions, voice of customer software, as well as conversion tools like A/B testing and personalization platforms. The world’s leading companies harness Decibel for better conversions, more engagement, and increased customer loyalty across their digital offerings.

Sweepr is an AI-powered Digital Care Platform for Service Providers and Smart Home Providers, enabling superior digital customer care using personalized insights, leading to category-defining levels of Digital Containment. The Sweepr Platform integrates with other data sources in the ecosystem, whilst also observing key customer context and behaviours during care interactions, to dynamically orchestrate and apply decisioning logic to customer interactions via its Real-Time Interaction Manager (RTIM).