Dave Patterson SOPHIA Search , Liam Nellis ITIand Alastair Kerr Sophia Search Overall High Growth Winner
 

Ronan Skehill Cauwill Technologies Liam Nellis ITI and Ian Rice Cauwill Technologies Overall Emerging winner

SOPHIA Search Ltd, which was crowned Best High Growth Company, was founded in 2007 by Drs David Patterson and Vladimir Dobrynin.  Based at the NI Science Park in Belfast and in St. Petersburg, Russia, they have developed ground breaking semantic search technology which enables companies and organisations to intelligently search their ever increasing volumes of documents and unstructured information, whether it resides internally or external to the organisation.

Chief Executive, Dr David Patterson, said: “Winning the competition is a tremendous boost for our business.  Being selected as overall High Growth winner will bring excellent validation and credibility to our business plan and put us on a new platform with investors.”

title for Best Emerging Company and prize fund of €100,000 were presented to Cauwill Technologies.

Cauwill Technologies has developed PinPoints – an application that helps users locate their hotel using their mobile phone.  Since the launch of the product in July 2009, the company has secured subscribers in more than 66 countries worldwide.

Co Managing Director, Dr Ronan Skehill, said: “Being recognised as overall Emerging Winner will help us gain more international recognition of our product and new access to the investment community.”

The event was attended by An Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Employment Mary Coughlan TD, who said:  “SOPHIA Search Ltd and Cauwill Technologies are to be congratulated on their tremendous achievement here tonight.

For Further information and to contact the winners please contact Rachael Downing of InterTradeIreland on 07920 186796.

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