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Beats Medical loses €120,000

Ciara Clancy’s Beats Medical made a loss of €120,880 in 2017, down from a loss of €218,953 in 2016, bringing its accumulated losses to €401,591.

Clancy - a chartered physiotherapist and former dancer - founded the company in 2012, aged 22, and it has developed an app that offers tailored treatments to people with Parkinson’s disease.

The company has raised funds from the likes of tech investor Sean Melly, ...