Dublin’s case to become Europe’s answer to Silicon Valley is ‘come for the money and stay for the supports and networking’ – and it’s working, writes GORDON SMITH
WAS IT JUST a coincidence that the winners of two Irish technology start-up competitions in 2011 both originated from outside Ireland? Maybe, but in the same year that a €10 million fund was launched to attract international entrepreneurs to these shores, it starts to look like part of a bigger plan.
In December Adjuno, whose principals are from Canada and Bulgaria, won the National Digital Research Centre’s LaunchPad LiftOff award. May’s winner, B-Smark, was founded by Italians. Profitero, winner of the IBM SmartCamp competition in London last month, is headquartered in Dublin and was started by a team hailing from Belarus.
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