VENTURE PROGRAMME:THREE ENTREPRENEURS will compete for €10,000 in funding at this year's Docklands Innovation Park Enterprise Awards.

Kevin Egan of Team Traders, Kieran Murphy of TradersNow and Cathal Brady of Ultan Technologies – all graduates of the DIT Hothouse Venture Programme – will have their business plans questioned by an experienced panel of judges.

Last year’s winner, Foxframe, featured as one of the top 60 technology companies to watch in 2012 by the Wall Street Journal.

Since 2001, the Hothouse programme in the Docklands Innovation Park has supported 250 early-stage entrepreneurs.