Support

To provide practical support to founders and start-ups in relation to key policy areas, supports and grants.

Represent

To constructively represent the interests of Irish tech start-up and scale-up companies.

Advocate

To engage with key stakeholders on behalf of the sector to create the best conditions for start-ups.

Letter to the Tánaiste

Following the recent job losses in the wider tech sector, Scale Ireland believes there is an opportunity to help these highly skilled workers to continue to make a valuable contribution to Ireland's economic success.

Read the Letter

Become a Member

Scale Ireland has a membership offering which brings start-up founders, employees, students, business & individual supporters together to ensure the sector has a significant representative voice.

We are also offering members up to €750k in exclusive complementary supports, discounts & offers, which have been provided by our partners & supporters.

Members will have access to key sectoral research & policy submissions, as well as gain access to our Slack community of over 900 founders, investors & operators.

Join our Membership

Who We Represent

MIT innovation graph describing start-ups in comparison to SMEs

The Sector

The indigenous tech start-up and scale-up sector provides high calibre jobs, a focus on exports, graduate employment opportunities and investment in innovation.

54,906 people employed
2,218 Start-up and Scale-up companies
939 companies are based outside of Dublin
5x jobs created for every one start-up job

The Sector by Industry

Indigenous tech start-up and scale-up companies operate in a wide range of sectors . Almost half of the 2,218 companies are involved in enterprise solutions, medtech and fintech. Other prominent sectors include entertainment, industrial technologies, ecommerce, cleantech, travel, agritech, edtech, telecommunications, adtech and security.