Change donations is an exciting donation platform that digitally connects charities and not for profits with spare change from donors.  Irish based donors link debit and credit cards to the platform, which rounds up their transaction to the next euro and donates the digital spare change to the causes they care about. Donors have complete control and can customise their giving plan by setting weekly or monthly round up limits, choosing to round up only on select purchases, and splitting roundups across multiple charities. Its free to use and 100% of the donation is passed through to the charity.

VeriFLY, the mobile health passport from Irish biometric identity assurance specialist Daon, helps international passengers understand and verify their travel requirements and confirm their destination’s Covid-19 requirements. Passengers download VeriFLY from the iOS App or Google Play stores, enter their destination and upload required documentation, now including proof of a negative Covid-19 test. VeriFLY verifies that the customer’s data matches a country’s requirements and displays a simple pass or fail message, streamlining the check-in and documentation verification process before departure. The app also provides travellers with reminders when their travel window is expiring and if their credential has expired.

Pharmapod’s Clinical Service app helps vaccinators manage mass bookings and connect with patients digitally to support faster uptake of shots in arms and broader community protection for the global vaccine rollout. The app allows administrators to set-up vaccination locations, input the available stations and time slots in each location. This online booking system reduces the incidence of patients accidentally missing appointments and helps predict vaccine inventory levels. The system allows administrators to modify eligibility criteria to coordinate the prioritisation of high-risk groups first and then assign specific users different levels of access within the app based on their eligibility criteria.

To mark St. Patrick’s Day and the positive impact that Irish businesses are delivering across the world, Enterprise Ireland, the Irish Government’s trade and innovation agency, recently named the world's most active Venture Capital firm, today launched a new green innovation focused international campaign ‘Ready for a Green Future’. The campaign focuses on the climate agenda, and as the world emerges from Covid-19 there is a need to build back better, prioritising sustainability and tackling the many environmental challenges that we face to deliver a green recovery.Read more here: https://bit.ly/3bRd07l

Irish company Digisoft TV is using virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) to create immersive training environments for the new normal. The company recreates an organisation’s day-to-day working environment and/or production lines into a digital version with people able to interact on any type of device, so they can train remotely in social distancing times or to prevent contamination in environments which need to be kept very clean. It also improves the standard of training because the sensory experience of photorealistic immersive training results is 6-7 times the level of knowledge retention in trainees when compared with traditional presentations.

Izzy Wheels is a Dublin based brand founded by two Irish sisters that creates colourful wheel covers for wheelchairs, allowing users to express their unique personality, and personalise their source of independence. The colorful wheels can open up a positive conversation about wheelchairs and act as a conversation starter, bridging the gap between disability and fashion.Izzy Wheels became the first disability fashion brand to collaborate with some of the world's most famous brands including Barbie and Hello Kitty.