Today NDRC celebrates three years of helping build a thriving startup ecosystem in Ireland. Highlights 🌟 €56m raised by NDRC startups ​​🌟 €180m raised by entire portfolio 🌟 650+ new jobs created 🌟 30% women-led / co-led investments Read full report https://t.co/L8m6ICH9GA

Always very cool to see up & coming Irish tech startups pitching in @dogpatchlabs, an innovation hub in a premises that in the 2000's was a homeware store, itself located in an old 1800's tobacco, tea and spirits dockland warehouse @chqdublin. The sort of evolution Ireland needs!

@joinpatch_ @julianlewo @ConKirby6 @F1 Startups with international customers, exclusive beta launches, and thousands of engaged audiences 💥

Young builders (@joinpatch_ alumn) pitch to the Showcase audience. @julianlewo on democratising global travel with https://t.co/OTgEn4gkOx @ConKirby6 who’s changing AI identity with ICØN, like Spotify changed music.

€15M Series C raise for @FrescoCooks (now exceeding €50M total investment) to scale KitchenOS and its AI cooking companion. The platform links appliances across brands and gives manufacturers a ready-to-ship personalised cooking system. @businessposthq→ https://t.co/Vq2rOQxYnP

i built https://t.co/zU77H0Pku8 - a flexible flight searching tool using semantic searches to find flights that ACTUALLY match your preferences, flexible dates, and destinations. 12 hours to demo day @NDRC_hq @dogpatchlabs

The final NDRC Pre-Accelerator Showcase is here. 15 early-stage pitches. 2 hours. Lots of investors in the room writing cheques. Not in the room? Check out the winter batch: https://t.co/VJj3B7SLdY

One of Europe’s strongest software degrees, @ImmersiveSE at @UL, closed out 2025 NDRC Startup Sprint series with 50+ first-year builders. Most Innovative: MatchFlow Most Progress: GymGo Next Sprint: 07 Feb, Engine Limerick led by @RDIhubIreland. Apply → https://t.co/rNmM0qu845

Hacking, building, and pitching with young builders @ImmersiveSE for the final NDRC Startup Sprint of 2025. Regional PMs from all over Ireland joined the entrepreneurs-in-the-making at @UL to mentor and help shape killer pitches. Next Sprint? Feb 2026: https://t.co/ciC77KTEbz

20 early-stage startups. 80 seats. One final Showcase of 2025. Why attend: → Early visibility before the market sees them → Useful for investors who track pre-seed activity and want to meet teams → Valuable for operators considering a future startup https://t.co/8p4BJN0Wgk

Gemell is building a world-first digital-twin engine for textiles, letting mills create fabric once in data instead of in repeated physical samples. Up to 70% less waste. Weeks of approvals reduced to minutes. Formed in NDRC-backed Founders accelerator. https://t.co/GriT7LsJky

Three weeks into the NDRC Pre-Accelerator: →Customer discovery with Aaron Devitt →Narrative & pitch work @1250 →Product sessions w/ Staq AI & Anothertrip →GTM sessions from @happystackhq & @elevenlabsio →Midpoint pitch coaching Get Showcase tickets: https://t.co/8p4BJN0Wgk

Stuart Connolly spent a decade in top-tier law before walking away. His read is simple: AI will replace most of the work junior lawyers do today. Open Forest started as an AI law firm but quickly evolved into a compliance engine for micro companies, helping with the thorny

Look who’s here! It’s the NDRC Pre-Accelerator winter cohort ‘25. Pitching to a room of startups, sharing wins and challenges IRL @dogpatchlabs, and learning from comms expert Louise Keenan Clarke. Countdown is on for Showcase, 10 Dec. Register: https://t.co/8p4BJN1u5S

20 startups join the Winter NDRC Pre-Accelerator. Founders include an exited builder, a @joinpatch_ alumn, two sisters who shipped during the Leaving Cert & exhibited @StripeYSTE, and creators turning hands-on renovation work into product. Full Cohort: https://t.co/VJj3B7SLdY

Founders alum @glitch_ads raises €2M to simplify digital advertising for lean B2B teams. Automates setup, targeting & optimisation. Delivers 5x higher conversions for customers like @ProtexAI & @WebSummit Backed by @Elkstone_, @GaingelsVC & @HBANIreland https://t.co/IiKhJ21Pt6

Paygentic raises $2M (€1.72M) led by @middlegamevc to tackle the limits of traditional human-first payment systems. Backed by NDRC Accelerator with previously co-founded startup Sulu, Susan O'Neill & Sam Alarco are scaling, fast. @businessposthq: https://t.co/4orwaWjPCm

Investor Demo Day 2025: 21 startups | 90 mins of no-frills pitching | 350 attendees The room was packed. 50+ VCs & 45+ Angels watching as our founders absolutely #nailedit on stage 🙌 We’re proud to back such early-stage, high-calibre talent: founders with 20+ years in tech

@KinnevikAB @Accel @EarlybirdVC @ycombinator @RDIhubIreland @republicofwork @portershed @dogpatchlabs @pwlsh @MalaikaJudd @LorraineCurham @FierceTech_ @KowrooTRM @SbradyInt Stuart Connolly’s done the full NDRC circuit — from mentoring at Office Hours, hacking at Startup Sprint, building at Pre-Accelerator @dogpatchlabs, to pitching startup Open Forest in the Accelerator today. With co-founder Pourya Saber, Open Forest is on track to hit €1M ARR.

@KinnevikAB @Accel @EarlybirdVC @ycombinator @RDIhubIreland @republicofwork @portershed @dogpatchlabs @pwlsh @MalaikaJudd @LorraineCurham @FierceTech_ @KowrooTRM @SbradyInt Connor & Jake of Jarvio met their co-founder @dogpatchlabs, where they pooled their ecommerce experience to build an AI agent for Amazon brands. Traction so far? Closed €$1.8M, scaling fast, and now have over 100 brands in pilot. Full NDRC Accelerator cohort:

@KinnevikAB @Accel @EarlybirdVC @ycombinator @RDIhubIreland @republicofwork @portershed @dogpatchlabs @pwlsh @MalaikaJudd @LorraineCurham One of @FierceTech_ startups: @KowrooTRM. Founder Sheelagh Brady spun her travel tech out of DCU, has five live pilots with Fortune 500 companies, and is currently closing a round. Investors - time to get in before it's too late.