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Precision Engineered from Trinity College Dublin and Platform Planet from Queen's University Belfast emerged victorious at the 2013 upStart entrepreneurship awards organised by banking giant Citi.

Precision Engineered is a real-time synchronisation engine initially aimed at the hotel industry and Platform Planet is a games platform that allows users to create and share their own game levels aimed at the 7-12-year-old age group.

upStart is an entrepreneurship programme in partnership with the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin and the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Queen's University Belfast.

The upStart programme is a cross-border partnership between Citi Belfast and the Citi Innovation Lab Dublin. The programme was run over two semesters in the current academic year at Queen's University Belfast and Trinity College Dublin. There were 34 students on the programme from the two universities.

John Kennedy

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