GetHealth

With Get Health, Ryan, who graduated from TCD in 2011 with an engineering degree, is now CEO and head of product. Chris Rooney, who is chief financial officer and head of business development, is as well studying business and law for his penultimate year at University College Dublin.Ryan and Rooney have as well taken on Martin Reilly as lead designer at getHealth. Reilly is currently a final-year graphic design student at Waterford Institute of Research. Just in case, the team has as well managed to glean Michael Flanagan, former chief research officer at Webtogether.ie, as their CTO.

“The NDRC’s slogan is ‘ideas to income’. We went into the programme with an idea, however it took the support of NDRC to build out our business strategy.”He says that the best thing about being on an accelerator programme like the NDRC one is that you are in an environment with like-minded individuals.“I don’t think the lights went off in the office for the duration of the programme. There was always someone working,” says Ryan.

Ryan says that the service is primarily targeting smartphone users as the application encourages real-time check-in to the healthy tasks people achieve each day. But, he says people can nevertheless use it in their desktop browser.

And one of the main focus points for getHealth right now is the corporate space. “We’re using online research to help inject fun into corporate wellness programs. By offering an online and mobile solution, we are helping employees achieve their health goals through interaction and gameplay with their co-workers.

So where has getHealth got its funding to date? “In September we received funding from NDRC when we took our place on their Launchpad programme. We have as well received funding from Enterprise Ireland to help us develop our business strategy and build out our platform,” explains Ryan.

”From this we want to continue to refine our product offering and begin generating revenue. The achievement of these milestones we hope will help us in securing our seed round of investment.”