Liltoda Ltd, the first academic spin out to emanate from the INFANT Research Centre at University College Cork, has been awarded a GatewayUCC Sprint Award by Professor John O’Halloran, President of UCC.
Launched in August 2021, Liltoda aims to develop and market novel technology-based solutions to the cognitive assessment of young children.
Its first product, the CogniTOT application, offers touch-screen based cognitive assessment for children aged 18-30 months.
It was developed through six years of research in the INFANT Centre, funded by both the Health Research Board and Science Foundation Ireland. The CogniTOT app is non-verbal and so suitable to use in children with speech delay or for whom English is not their first language.
Now in its sixth year, GatewayUCC Sprint Awards recognises the UCC researchers and entrepreneurs who establish spin-out start-up companies.
The Sprint Programme has been developed to help spin-out start-up companies overcome challenges they may encounter when starting their businesses.
As part of the programme, pre and early-stage start-ups work with successful business mentors who help to bring businesses from the idea stage through to the eventual commercialisation of the product or service.
