First mover advantage for Cork start-up Firemole
A faulty fuse that could have caused a fire at his parents’ home proved the inspiration for Seán Ó Tuama’s Cork-based start-up Firemole.
An electrician by trade, Ó Tuama established the company in September 2016 to develop a temperature sensing alarm for homes and businesses. Attached to devices like chargers, baby monitors, routers and TV boxes, the patent-pending device monitors surface temperature, sounding an alarm if it tops 54C.
“While I was working ...