‘Based at the Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics in Dublin City University (DCU), Dr Sheelagh Brady’s start-up Kowroo is developing travel safety tech.

A former police officer and UN security analyst, Brady and her co-founder spotted a need for better quality, timely data to keep people safe when travelling for work.

Kowroo offers real-time risk, individualised assessments and personalised safety insights, and has been supported by an Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Fund.

The company recently participated in the Awaken Hub and Awaken Angels trade mission – which is dedicated to supporting women-led companies – to the US to showcase the platform to potential investors and sectoral experts.

“Companies tend to concentrate on incidents that have the potential for significant impact, whereas employees are far more concerned with incidents that directly impact them, such as sexual assault, theft, medical issues etc,” Brady said.’

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