'Building strong
children'
10.02.22
'Building strong
children’, is the ethos which drives Mosaic Digital
Solutions.
BACK in 2019, Avril McMonagle fulfilled a lifelong
ambition; she became her own boss, setting up her own
business, Mosaic Digital Solutions, near her home in
Stroove, Greencastle.
Avril dedicated 25 years of her working life to a
passion for early childhood care and education, and with
an innovative idea on how to revolutionise the space in
her back pocket, it was a no brainer to become her own
boss. |
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Avril McMonagle, CEO of
Mosaic, working from her home in Stroove. |
Since Mosaic’s inception
in 2019, the company has grown from
strength-to-strength. Nominated as a finalist in the
Irish Education Awards 2020, Mosaic employed its first
full-time employee in late 2020.Now employing 4 people,
Mosaic’s digital solutions have capitalised on the
increasing movement of services online, as the result of
the pandemic.
“The pandemic really exposed outdated ways of working as
less efficient and inflexible when change was required.
This has escalated the need for sustainable, digital
solutions for record keeping and communication in early
education and our apps have stepped in to fill that gap”
explains Avril.
The business launched with two key products back in
2019, Mosaic Educator and Mosaic Family apps. The mobile
apps launch brought Mosaic into a competitive and
emerging EdTech sector, worth over $250bn globally and
expected to grow to over $600bn by 2027.
Both apps are designed to complement each other. The
Educator apps objective is to transform the way
children’s individual ‘portfolios’ are collated. All
early childhood services must compile these portfolios
on a child’s learning and make them accessible to
parents for legal and quality assurance reasons. A
cumbersome and time-consuming task, Mosaic developed the
apps to offer a green, secure, alternative to huge paper
files, that could be communicated directly to parents in
real-time.
“The Mosaic Educator App is specifically designed to
dovetail with quality standards in early education and
offer a cloud based, electronic storybook of each child
when they join an early childhood service,” says Avril. |
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Mosaic Family App |
Located on the idyllic
Inishowen peninsula, the company has wasted no time
engaging with the thriving eco-system of support
networks. A relationship has been struck up with the
Inishowen Innovation Digital hub which is expected to be
completed later this year.
Avril also outlines how she enjoys a perfect work-life
balance in the county: “The sea, scenery and fresh
breeze is all a part of my working environment. For
digital technology businesses, the potential that
Donegal has, to achieve the perfect work-life balance
are endless. I get my energy and headspace from plugging
into and recharging from this environment.”
Having established the apps across Ireland and gaining a
significant market share, Avril see’s the future of the
company expanding into new international markets
“We feel that Ireland has been an excellent testing
ground for the product. The next step is to bring Mosaic
to countries with a larger demographic and a municipal
education system to accelerate and grow our sales going
forward, right here from our base in Donegal. Regardless
of where the future takes us, Donegal will always be our
base.”
You can find out more on the range of services Avril and
the Mosaic team offers by visiting their website:
www.mosaicearlyed.com . |
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