Jemma Redmond

A serial entrepreneur, Redmond created a company manufacturing vending machines in 2008, before co-founding Ourobotics in January 2015, with Alanna Kelly from Galway, Ireland, and backing from SOSV.^[6] Kelly resigned as director in July 2015. Tony Herbert, entrepreneur and owner of technical optics company Irish Precision Optics, from Cork became a director of Ourobotics in August 2015 and the company moved to the optics company premises in Cork City. Redmond designed and marketed two bio-printers including, in 2016, a printer capable of printing human tissue,^[6] and at a much lower cost than previous bio-printers.^[2] Redmond's first device printed an extended finger, described by Pádraig Belton as "a gentle reply to those who had called printing organs of such complexity impossible."^[2]

In January 2016, the company won first prize in a prestigious international competition, Silicon Valley Open Doors Europe.^[7][8][9] The company was also selected as part of a start-up adoption program by Google.^[10]

Redmond died unexpectedly in August 2016.^[1][2][11] Her mother described it as a "tragic accident".^[12] She was described as a polymath,^[1] an inspiration and great friend.^[7][13][14]