Empowering Female Entrepreneurs: A Journey of Growth and Confidence

Emily Brick’s business, Athena Analytics, provides software to schools that use machine learning to identify each student’s potential. It shifts the focus away from those at the top of the class to whether each student is performing the best they can. If not, it alerts the student and teacher to see what is wrong and address it. Just four years after launch the software is used by half the secondary schools in Ireland, and the number is growing. However, Brick is on a learning journey too, figuring out how best to manage a growing business. It is why she joined Going for Growth, a development programme for female founders, which she completed this year. “We have grown quickly and I’ve no training in that,”