Initiative Ireland, headquartered at NovaUCD, has announced that Ireland’s first syndicated property finance platform, which it is scheduling to launch in September, aims to finance €60 million in construction loans to build approximately 250 new family homes over next 18 months.

Two UCD researchers and the CEO of OncoMark, a UCD spin-ou company, have been presented with achievement awards in recognition of their success and outstanding leadership in their respective H2020 programme areas.

O’Kale Krisps, an early-stage food venture, which has developed and is selling, low-calorie, highly nutritious and air-dried kale crisps as a healthy snack alternative, has won the 2017 UCD Start-up Stars Programme.

Tony McEnroe, CEO of SiriusXT, a University College Dublin spin-out company, has won Enterprise Ireland’s inaugural High Potential Start-up Founder of the Year Award which is supported by Grant Thornton.