Founders

"We were vetted. We knew we were compatible to build a business together. Founders was the leg up." Having paired up with his now CTO in week one, Talio co-founder and CEO Oran O'Flynn credits Founders for finding the right talent to inevitably build the AI-powered marketing research machine that is the startup Talio. Oran joins Adrian Weckler, tech editor at the Irish Independent, for the latest episode in his Big Tech Show podcast. Listen to full episode: https://lnkd.in/ejTDRVTT Learn more about Founders: https://joinfounders.co/

The Founders Talent Accelerator invests in people, not startups. The programme aims to bring together Ireland’s most exceptional individuals, of all disciplines and backgrounds, and offer a curated network for you to find your co-founder, creates an environment for you to build a startup, and pitch for €100k investment, culminating in an investor showcase of the newly created companies. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gtH57DCH Nocomed | Glitch | Cocurate | Shōden | Gemell | Talio | GamesGrid | inspeq ai | Biota Rosemary Durcan | Dónal Adams | Aisling Browne | Kingsley Kelly | Louisamay Hanrahan | Sam Hartshorn | Steve Rock | Rishabh Jain | Adam Hankin | Rathe Hollingum | Oran O'Flynn | Adam Hankin | Mariano Di Murro | Conor Deane | Apoorva Kumar | Ramanujam MV | Oliver Begley

The Hottest Startups in Dublin list by WIRED has been released. Proud to see three Dogpatch companies featured: Marker Video (scaling at Dogpatch), Barespace.io (NDRC H1 24), and inspeq ai (Founders Talent Accelerator '23). Congrats to founders Greta Dunne (Marker Video), Conor Moules and Glenn McGoldrick (Barespace), and Apoorva Kumar and Ramanujam MV (Inspeq AI). Read in full: https://lnkd.in/gstpVRw7 NDRC | Founders Talent Accelerator

Nocomed co-founder and CEO Rosemary Durcan (Founders Talent Accelerator portfolio company) connecting with Cherry Ventures investor Nadja Carina Reischel at this week's #Fierce investor event, powered by Dogpatch Labs and NDRC. Learn more about the Founders programme: https://lnkd.in/egMeEQDT

🏆 Delighted to announce that Talio has been selected as one of the top three companies to pitch in the Seedcorn finals in the Dublin Regional Early Stage Company category! 🏆 A huge thank you to Connor Sweeney, Drew O'Sullivan, Una McSorley (Communication Trainer)FCIPR, Mairéad Roche, Julie Taylor and InterTradeIreland for their invaluable support in preparing us for this opportunity. Looking forward to pitching our journey at the finals next week! #SeedcornFinals #DublinRegional #Innovation #MarketResearch

Amazing few days at the WVC:E Summit for Emerging managers and VCs at STATION F and Le Philanthro-Lab in Paris. So refreshing to see panel after panel stacked with powerful women, and such an atmosphere of collaboration and lifting each other up! So needed for those of us raising new funds. Well done to the organizers and can’t wait till next year! Looking forward to following up with amazing new connections and friends! Suzanne Mills | Mary Rodgers | Lorraine E. Curham

Less than one week after representing Ireland in the SF's Startup World Cup grand finale, the AI safety startup inspeq ai led by former product managers at Microsoft and Meta is named as WIRED Europe's Top 100 Hottest Startups. CEO Apoorva Kumar and CTO Ramanujam MV built a proof of concept at our Founders Talent Accelerator in late 2023, and have this week become the youngest company to make it to this prestigious list by WIRED with its evaluation platform for product teams creating AI applications. Congrats to the Inspeq AI team, and to the nine other Irish startups who made the list: Marker Video , Barespace.io, Tines, CaliberAI, Openvolt, Gazelle Wind Power Limited, Antler Bio, Noloco and EdgeTier Learn more of the Founders Talent Accelerator: https://lnkd.in/ex92X3-8 #Founders #TalentAccelerator

Exciting news for Founders Talent Accelerator portfolio company inspeq ai, and Dogpatch Labs startup members, which announced a strategic partnership with one of the largest IT consulting firms in the world - HCLTech. Raising $1.1M earlier this year to deploy LLMs safely, Inspeq built an advanced RAI Ops platform to help enterprises govern and safeguard Gen AI applications. Co-founders Apoorva Kumar and Ramanujam MV also compete as Ireland's representative in the Startup World Cup semi-finals today in Silicon Valley, going head-to-head with the world's top startups for $1M investment prize. Best of luck folks, from all the Dogpatch community. Learn more about Founders: https://lnkd.in/ewf8_9R7

*DEADLINE FOR FOUNDERS JANUARY'25 COHORT MIDNIGHT TONIGHT* Do you want to build a startup but don’t have a co-founder or idea yet? We put 40 very ambitious people in a room for 3 months to form teams and cycle through idea after idea. It’s intense but it can change your life. In the last cohort, we had engineers and commercial talent from Meta, Stripe, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Salesforce, Revolut, Wayflyer, and NASA. - We’ll give you €2k a month so you can focus on building your startup - We’ll help you meet your co-founder (50% of the cohort are engineers / 50% commercial) - You’ll get mentorship from 50 proven tech entrepreneurs in our ecosystem - We’ll write multiple €100k cheques - 75% of our startups have raised follow-on funding in under 6 months Apply today for the January '25 cohort: https://lnkd.in/eE4fMWS8 Dogpatch Labs | NDRC

Here’s how 20 minutes throwing in an application to Founders in the next 24 hours, could change the flight path of your whole life… Your 20 minute investment right now could see your career soar: 💸 €100k investment 👷♀️Build your own globally impactful start-up ❌ No Idea Required 👫 Help to find your co-founder Application close MONDAY MIDNIGHT for Founders Talent Accelerator - that’s right you’ve just 24 hours to make the best investment in Irish tech. A 20 minute application to Founders Application form in link below (so the algo doesn’t take this opportunity away from you) 👇 The only way to guarantee you won’t be successful is by not applying right now. Shiu Lun Tsang Jane Dillon Heather Morris Deirbhile Gorman Patrick Walsh Menno Axt