STEMblem Transition Year Competition Winners Announced
On the 21st of November, on a rare snowy day in Galway, the PorterShed hosted the final of our STEMblem Transition Year competition. Despite the weather, six innovative teams braved the conditions to present their projects to an enthusiastic audience and a panel of esteemed judges. Thank you to all the participants! We would […]
STEMblem Product Design Competition
Mint-Tek Launches Product Design Competition(STEMblem) to Inspire Creativity and Innovation amongst Transition Year Students The competition invites TY students from secondary schools across Galway to conceptualise and design a product – a St. Patrick’s Day themed emblem. Prize: €2500 worth of the winning team’s product, finalised, tested, and manufactured. Important Dates! 4th October – Closing […]
Alumni in profile – Georgina Kearney
A firm advocate of pursuing new directions and following a systems-based approach, Georgina Kearney founded Mint Tek – an online marketplace to enable hardware developers source printed circuit boards for their prototypes – along with her MBA classmate Siobhán Ní Chofaigh in 2014. The start-up, which is currently raising seed funding, recently signed a deal […]
Galway Start-up signs deal worth €500K
Galway-based start-up Mint Tek Circuits has signed a €500,000 deal with electronic, electrical and industrial components manufacturer RS Components. Mint Tek Circuits, which was founded by Georgina Kearney and Siobhán Ní Chofaigh, helps design engineers connect with manufacturers. The firm will get access to 28,000 engineers worldwide and potential 300 orders per month, through the […]
Startup City
Mint-Tek Circuits co-founded by Siobhán ni Chofaigh and Georgina Kearney is a great win for the community. Mint Tek make it easier, faster, and cheaper for device developers to make hardware prototypes – do you see the link? Exactly what ExerWise and other great startups need right now. But more than that. Siobhán’s company is […]
Hardie Kids
Over the past couple of months we have been asked about our workshop and what it has to do with printed circuit boards (PCB) well we’re here to tell you. Both In the UK and Ireland we have attended events and ran workshops where people can manufacture a small PCB badge with our help. These […]
Friday Showcase: Irish Tech News
Describe the company. How are you different? Every electronic device starts it’s professional life as a hardware prototype. But not every prototype is built in a lab or an R&D department, many are built on kitchen tables and even the original Apple Mac Prototype was, legend has it, built in a garage in Palo Alto. […]
Startup of the week: Silicon Republic
Our start-up of the week Mint Tek Circuits makes it easier, faster and cheaper for hardware developers to make prototypes, transforming the supply chain into an on-demand service. “Our target market is hardware start-ups, universities and research centres,” explains Siobhán ní Chofaigh, co-founder and CEO of Mint Tek. “These companies have the least resources and […]
