Irish Startup Week 2024 begins next week – October 1st to 3rd – and is the annual flagship event from Digital Irish. ISW2024 connects 30 specially selected startups from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland with investors, and tech leaders from both Ireland and the US, during multiple conference sessions, showcase events, and office hours programming.
“During this week attendees will get to see the incredible contribution Irish people make to the global innovation economy.” said Gavin McMahon, co-founder of Digital Irish. “It demonstrates the strength and support of our community and the Irish diaspora who are willing to give back. So many have reached out to lend a hand, make introductions or support in several ways.”
Irish Startup Week 2024 highlights include:
- Each day of the conference is punctuated with office hours from leading Irish business professionals in New York City including Caroline Wharton (Corraun Advisors), Marty Loughlin (Digital Irish Venture Fund), Orlaith Farrell (150 Bond), Alex Owens (Teladoc Health) and Zoe McElligott (Pernod Ricard).
- Speaker sessions with Mike Hanrahan (investor and repeat founder), Jenny Fielding (Everywhere Ventures), Ian Sigalow (Greycroft), Jacinta Tobin (CRO at LeoLabs) and Nigel Eccles (CEO at BetHog).
- Tuesday evening community event will feature Barry O’Brien, Head of Global Passport Banking at JPMorgan, at J.P. Morgan’s offices in Brooklyn.
- Wednesday evening, is the inaugural Irish US investors dinner hosted by Enterprise Ireland. The evening will include our keynote speakers Jamie Heaslip, Strategic Growth Lead at Stripe and Aidan Kehoe, Founder at Nadia Partners, in conversation with Charlie Taylor of the Business Post.
- At the dinner our guests will have the opportunity to meet the 2024 Irish Startup Week tech startups as well as the team from Enterprise Ireland including Tom Early, Head of Early Funding & Scaling Solutions, as they have recently announced €250M Seed & Venture Fund to which they are exploring potential LP opportunities here in the US.
- Thursday morning, attendee’s will have the opportunity to publicly pitch to the New York Business diaspora at the newly launched Ireland House.
Irish Startup Week 2024 is made possible thanks to support from:
- Our lead sponsor, Enterprise Ireland
- Our media partner, Business Post
- And our support sponsors:
The full list of startups comprising our 2024 cohort includes:
- Antigenesis Biologics
- Biologit
- BlokBio
- Bounce Insights
- Capella
- Clann
- Cytidel
- Foresight
- Gemell Technology Ltd
- Glitch
- Imvizar
- Liquid
- Loquerion Security
- MEG
- Movetru
- NOAN
- Numra
- On-Set
- Opinly
- OXygean
- Precision Sports Technology
- SOBI Analytics
- Sprint Beauty
- Strikepay
- Sulu
- Talio
- Trade Harmonizer
- Vesta Insights
- VisionR
- Zerve AI
