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.

Featured Event

'Indigenous Tech Start-ups are vital to our Economic Future' with a keynote address from the Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe.

The Minister was joined by a panel of start-up representatives at different stages in their journey, including Eileen O’Mara, Go-To-Market Lead of EMEA at Stripe, John Purdy, Co-Founder and Non-Executive Chairman of Ergo, & Sohini De, Founder & CEO of Empeal.

The Minister was also joined by leading investors who gave us their insights on the funding landscape and sector. This included Elaine Coughlan, Managing Partner & Founder of Atlantic Bridge & Alan Merriman, Founder and Executive Chairman at Elkstone. The event was streamed from Dogpatch Labs.

The Launch of our New Membership

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

We are also offering members 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 800 people.

Join our Membership

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.

47,000 people employed
2,000 Start-up and Scale-up companies
900 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 2,000 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.