Promoting Irish Tech Start-ups & Scaling Companies

Scale Ireland is Ireland’s leading independent not-for-profit, representative organisation for Irish tech start-up and scaling companies. We are the biggest representative organisation for the Irish tech sector. Our mission is to support, promote and advocate on behalf of indigenous tech start-up and scaling companies of all stages, sizes and sectors and to create the most favourable conditions for them to succeed. Our vision is to make Ireland a leading global location for innovation and entrepreneurship.

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Annual Autumn Gathering 2025

Scale Ireland was delighted to host our 'Annual Autumn Gathering' with the Minister for Finance and President of the Eurogroup, Paschal Donohoe, and leading founders and investors on Thursday, the 4th of September.
A big thank you to our contributors who spoke so strongly about their experiences, their ambitions for the indigenous ecosystem as well as the challenges:

Eileen O’Mara, Chief Revenue Officer, Stripe

Colm Lyon, Founder and CEO, Fire

Lesley Tully, Founder and CEO, This is Penny and Penny FS Technologies

Will Prendergast, General Partner, Frontline Ventures

Debbie Rennick, General Partner, ACT VC

Donal Mac Nioclais, Principal in the Dublin office of Waterland

Scale Ireland's Annual Autumn Gathering 2025 Recap

The feedback as well as coverage of the event has been amazing. Scale Ireland is gratified with the support extended by the Start-up ecosystem. Scale Ireland is delighted to see the networking, discussions, contributions from the panel members and the impact this event can have on the upcoming Budget. Once again, thank you to each one of you who took out time to participate in our Annual Autumn Gathering.

Scale Ireland Welcomes Focus on Scaling Finance in New Government Plan

Ireland’s current skills supply will be insufficient to meet future demand predictions and ‘What got us here, will not get us where we need to be’ . That’s the overall conclusion of a new report commissioned by Scale Ireland and undertaken by labour market experts, David Collings, Professor of Sustainable Business, Trinity Business School, and Dr. Shirley Kavanagh, an executive adviser /consultant in talent management and workforce development. The report found that Ireland faces a considerable challenge to meet the future skills needs of its indigenous IT sector.

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Join Scale Ireland's vibrant membership community of over 800 members of founders and employees of start-up and scaling companies, along with students, and business supporters and individuals - all supporting our vision to make Ireland a leading location for innovation and entrepreneurship.
Our members enjoy exclusive access to over €500k in complementary supports, discounts, and offers from our partners. Members will have access to key sectoral research & submissions, as well as gain access to our Slack community of over 1000 founders, investors & operators and access to the largest survey of indigenous tech leaders every year.