Fergus Grimes – Score Beo
Fergus Grimes is the founder and creator of Score Beo a GAA live scoring app that has proven to be a winner with fans and investors.
The app was launched in 2020 coinciding with the closure of grounds and the inability of fans to get to games. The desire to know what was going on in games not televised is catered for to a degree on Twitter and mainstream media with live update pages but he felt there was a big enough gap to create a business.
The App provides Live Scores, covering Inter-County Gaelic Football, Hurling, Camogie and Ladies Football, also providing team news and League Tables.
Score Beo topped Irish sports charts in the Apple Store after just a few weeks of being released. It has also been shortlisted for New App of the Year in the Digital DNA Awards.
He is a graduate in Business and Entrepreneurship from Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology and set up the business after failing to land a job upon graduation.
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This annual list identifies those under the age of 30 who are making a mark in the business of sport in 2022. It is compiled with the ongoing support of PwC, ‘where potential becomes success’.
The criteria for nomination is that they should either be working in a role that sees them playing a significant part in sports administration, sports marketing or the commercial world of sport; or that they are a graduate of an Irish third-level institution and making their mark on the international stage, and that they were born in or after 1992.
