Pathfinder II: Ireland NW to Boston GoToMarket Lab

What is Pathfinder II?

Pathfinder II: Ireland NW to Boston GoToMarket Lab is the follow up programme to the 2023 initiative. Designed to coincide with Golden Bridges 2024 it is a collaborative partnership between Donegal County Council and Derry City and Strabane District Council, Alpha Innovation and the Local Enterprise Office in Donegal.

The USA Pathfinder II Trade Mission brings together pioneering businesses from Ireland’s North West City Region with the aim of exploring market opportunities, enhancing growth potential, and building lasting connections with U.S. industry leaders. Organized in collaboration with Donegal County Council, Derry City and Strabane District Council, Donegal Local Enterprise Office, Alpha Innovation, and U.S. partners CIP, Pathfinder II builds upon last year’s success by providing expert-led guidance, investor-readiness training, and market entry strategies.

Pathfinder II Participants

ChallengeCurve

ChallengeCurve supports businesses where technology is critical to success, such as banks, fintechs, travel companies, and disruptors, who face challenges when launching expensive new applications or making changes to existing ones—especially since 70% of IT projects run late or go over budget. By ensuring that systems are fit for purpose, performant, resilient, and compliant with regulations, ChallengeCurve helps these businesses avoid costly fines and regulatory issues, like those recently faced by UK banks over Anti-Money Laundering processes. As a result, businesses can launch new propositions or maintain existing operations on time and within budget, gaining confidence and efficiency in their IT systems. Leading FinTechs and Challenger Banks rely on ChallengeCurve to deliver Software Testing and Quality Assurance frameworks that reduce risk and ensure performance, compliance and scalability

chris.k.bean@challengecurve.com | paul.nelis@challengecurve.com | www.challengecurve.com

Teambase

Teambase is an Insurance Technology provider specializing in digital transformation. Their mission is to eliminate heavy manual administration processes in Insurance for Brokers & Independent Agents Globally! The platform Quick Quote Hub is an end-to-end RFP and Carrier Comparison platform for Insurance Brokers. It helps Brokers to create and send RFPs, streamline communication between carriers and clients, accurately compare and analyse various insurer quotes, doing all this by reducing the massive amount of time Insurance players spend on creating proposals and speeding up the sales process with their customers.

Why Quick Quote Hub!
• Reduced Errors & Omissions/ Impact to Manual Expense and Efforts
• Enhanced time to market & Increased Client Retention
• Real-Time Reporting & Analytics. Open API’s – Powerful seamless integrations/ Easy to compare analysis visualizations

pboyle@teambase.com | www.teambase.com

Kippie.Org

Kippie.org is a pioneering organisation in the Educational Technology sector, dedicated to empowering young
women, non-traditional learners and excluded minorities to pursue careers in computer game development.
Through our initiatives we provide a pipeline of students fully equipped with the skills and confidence needed
to thrive in the industry, creating a more diverse and reflective work force.

katherine@kippie.org.uk | www.kippie.org.uk

Digi Food NPD

Digi Food NPD is a Food Innovation company dedicated to accelerating New Product Development (NPD) for food manufacturers and retailers, particularly in the private label sector. With a comprehensive, cloud based platform, Digi Food NPD streamlines the entire NPD process, from initial brief to market launch. The platform provides tools for recipe management, ingredient traceability, nutritional analysis and food Eco-labelling, ensuring full regulatory compliance and simplifying product development management and team collaboration. Designed to enhance efficiency and collaboration, Digi Food NPD supports real-time team communication, automates food labeling and specifications, and provides end-to-end tracking in areas such as recipe development, product formulation, and food traceability & provenance. Digi Food NPD empowers food producers and retailers to bring new products to market faster and with greater confidence, addressing the innovation & product development challenges faced by food manufacturers and retailers in today’s competitive Food industry landscape.

Sean@foodnpd.com | www.foodNPD.com

Forward Emphasis International (FEI)

Forward Emphasis International (FEI) is a leading provider of customer experience management (CXM) and business process outsourcing (BPO) solutions, authorised in its own right by both the FCA and Central Bank of Ireland, and specialising in serving complex end-to-end customer support from customer service to claims management across the regulated industries such as banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI), and other sectors where compliance, accuracy, and security are paramount.

paula.kennedygarcia@forwardemphasis.ie | www.forwardemphasis.ie

eleetLX

eleetLX is an AI-driven learning solution that empowers organisations to train faster and more accurately, delivering adaptive, compliance-ready content tailored for regulated industries.