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Bambooth was set up in 2019 by Niamh McGill and Joe Finnegan. Picture: Barry Cronin
An Irish sustainable toothbrush company is seeking to disrupt the dental industry with a conservation-led approach to oral hygiene.
Bambooth was set up in 2019 by Niamh McGill and Joe Finnegan and is headquartered in Ashbourne, Co Meath. It aims to deliver a more sustainable product than the ubiquitous plastic toothbrush with “no sacrifice on performance or style”.
Last June, it won funding from Enterprise Ireland through the Competitive Start Fund and is the only company selling bamboo toothbrushes with the approval of the Oral Health Foundation in Britain.
Enterprise Ireland opens up €1m Competitive Start Fund
Jenny Melia, divisional manager of high-potential start-ups, Enterprise Ireland. Image: Enterprise Ireland
The programme will award up to €50,000 in equity to successful applicants developing new innovative products and services.
Enterprise Ireland has opened up applications for the latest round of its €1m Competitive Start Fund for early-stage founders and start-ups.
The State agency will award up to €50,000 in equity to 20 young companies that are in the early stages of developing a product or service that has the potential to be scaled internationally. Applications close on 25 May.
The programme aims to find the next innovative technologies coming out of Ireland and potentially add to the agency’s pipeline of high-potential start-ups.