Liam Harte

Founder of Rephobia National Entrepreneur of the Year 2025

Liam Harte

Founder of Rephobia, immersive-technology builder and startup mentor.

I build carefully governed immersive products and help accelerators turn early ideas into clear, fundable and credible ventures.

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Liam Harte receiving a national entrepreneurship award
Building Rephobia and helping early-stage founders turn ambitious ideas into practical next steps.

Selected work and recognition

Rephobia Unity for Humanity Peter Jones Foundation Queen's University Belfast Enterprise Ireland

About

Technology that stays accountable to people

Liam Harte is the founder of Rephobia and an immersive-technology builder. Rephobia is a clinician-controlled virtual reality platform being developed to support exposure therapy. Liam also works with accelerators, universities and innovation programmes to help early-stage founders improve pitches, funding applications and pilot plans.

His work spans digital health, XR and responsible human-centred innovation. The connecting idea is simple: ambitious technology should remain understandable, governable and useful to the people responsible for it.

More about Liam Harte

For accelerators and programmes

You bring the cohort. I bring delivery tied to the deadline.

I support accelerators, incubators and university programmes with practical workshops and office hours that fit the curriculum founders already have.

01

Funding readiness

Turn a promising idea into a focused funding story with clear evidence, milestones and use of funds.

02

Pitch and demo-day preparation

Sharpen the narrative, pressure-test the deck and prepare founders for the questions judges will actually ask.

03

XR and digital-health clinics

Help technical founders communicate evidence, ethics, delivery risk and real-world value without flattening the complexity.

£50,000+Non-dilutive funding secured
30+Awards, competitions and grants
3Continents worked across
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Independent evidence

Selected recognition and coverage

Official sources that distinguish Liam's founder and immersive-technology work.

Peter Jones Foundation

National Entrepreneur of the Year 2025

Recognition for Rephobia and Liam's work building a clinically guided virtual reality platform.

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Unity for Humanity 2025

Unity's feature on how Rephobia uses therapist-led VR to support people facing phobias.

Read the Unity feature Queen's University Belfast

Liam's entrepreneurial journey

An official QUB case study on Rephobia, lived experience and building an evidence-led venture.

Read the QUB profile Enterprise Ireland

High Achieving Merit Award 2026

Recognition for Rephobia at the 2026 Student Entrepreneur Awards.

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Liam Harte presenting to an audience at Barclays Eagle Labs
“He combines outstanding technical skill with entrepreneurial drive and an unwavering commitment to making engineering serve real human needs.”
Dr Paul Best Director of TIME, Queen's University Belfast

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