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| Feb 12, 2026 | Nocomed raises seed funding to address healthcareʼs biggest emissions blind spot | Nocomed, a Dublin-based sustainability software company, has raised €650,000 in seed funding to support the continued development and expansion of its platform, which focuses on supply chain-related emissions in the healthcare sector. The i... |
| Oct 13, 2025 | Digital Accessibility Innovator DevAlly Secures €2M for Global Expansion | Dublin-based DevAlly secured €2 million in pre-seed funding. This investment accelerates its AI-powered platform for digital accessibility compliance. The European Accessibility Act (EAA) creates urgent market demand. DevAlly empowers busin... |
| Oct 13, 2025 | Dublin’s Meta-Flux raises €1.8M to decode biology with AI | Meta-Flux, a Dublin-based biotech startup, has raised €1.8M in Seed funding to expand its decision-support platform for preclinical drug development, bridging the gap between preclinical research and clinical application.
Acting as an “AI b... |
| Oct 9, 2025 | Dublin-based DevAlly raises €2 million to help companies comply with Europe’s new accessibility law | Dublin-based DevAlly, a startup helping companies comply with Europe’s new accessibility regulations, has raised €2 million in pre-seed funding led by Belgian fund Miles Ahead Capital, with participation from NDRC, Enterprise Ireland, and s... |
| Oct 6, 2025 | Dubai Chambers Wraps Up Ireland Mission to Boost Trade Ties Dubai Chambers explored joint trade and investment opportunities in Ireland, aiming to strengthen economic ties and unlock growth across key sectors. | Dubai Chambers has successfully concluded a high-level trade mission to Dublin, held as part of its 'Growth Corridors' initiative aimed at strengthening trade and investment ties between Dubai and high-potential global markets.
Th... |
| Sep 18, 2025 | Barespace nets €2.9M to expand its data-driven beauty OS worldwide | Barespace, a software company focused on the beauty industry, has raised €2.9 million in seed funding, bringing its total external investment to €4.68 million.
The round was led by Elkstone Ventures, with participation from Dogpatch Labs, E... |
| Sep 17, 2025 | Three start-ups join ESA BIC Ireland at NovaUCD | Three start-ups have joined the ESA BIC Ireland initiative at NovaUCD.
The two-year business incubation programme supports innovative early-stage Irish businesses with a connection to space that are developing either upstream or downstream ... |
| Jul 22, 2025 | $1.4M Pre-Seed fuels Source, the AI startup led by 18-year-old Liam Fuller | Irish-founded retailtech startup Source has secured $1.4 million in Pre-Seed funding.
Source, headquartered in Dublin, Ireland and registered as QuickFind AI, Inc., a Delaware C-Corp, has developed a platform that automates stock purchasing... |
| Feb 27, 2025 | Five Irish start-up hubs make FT list of Europe's best | Five start-ups hubs on the island of Ireland have been named among Europe's leading start-up hubs by the Financial Times and data research company Statistia.
The FT published the Europe's Leading Start-Up Hubs 2025 league table on... |
| May 9, 2024 | AI firm raises $1.1m to help companies create more trustworthy AI apps | Artificial IntelligenceNews
Elyssa Lopez · 2d ago · 2 min readAI firm raises $1.1m to help companies create more trustworthy AI apps
(From left) Inspeq AI co-founder Ramanujam Macharla Vijayakumar, and founder and CEO Apporva Kumar / Photo ... |
| Apr 5, 2024 | The Irish Tech Challenge 2024 is accepting applications from South African startups | Irish Tech Challenge South Africa, an initiative aimed at promoting collaborations between Irish and South African startups, has extended an invitation to South African startups to apply.
Together with implementing partners Wits University’... |
| Mar 23, 2024 | Irish Tech Challenge 2024 invites applications from SA startups | Irish Tech Challenge South Africa, which aims to promote collaborations between Irish and South African startups, has extended an invitation to apply to South African startups.
Together with implementing partners Wits University’s Tshimolog... |
| Feb 28, 2024 | Dogpatch Labs and NDRC to host Ireland's first sustainability hackathon | Dogpatch Labs and NDRC will host the first 2050 Sustainability Hackathon at the Greentech HQ sustainability innovation hub in Co Wexford next Saturday (9 Match).
Around 80 entrepreneurs are due to compete in the one-day hackathon, which wil... |
| Dec 4, 2023 | Huawei Partners with Global Peter Drucker Forum to Empower European SMEs | VIENNA, Dec. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Huawei took part in the 15th annual Global Peter Drucker Forum, ended on Dec 1, where the company held for the first time a side workshop for European startups. The training bootcamp came as part of Huaw... |
| May 11, 2023 | Dogpatch Labs and Ormeau Baths awarded HBAN 2.0 contract | Innovations hubs Dogpatch Labs and Ormeau Baths have been awarded the contract to run HBAN 2.0, Enterprise Ireland and InterTradeIreland's all-island angel investment network, following a competitive tender process.
HBAN has for the pa... |
| Apr 28, 2023 | Dogpatch Labs has launched a new accelerator programme picking individuals over ideas | Dogpatch Labs, in the fair city of Dublin, are looking for 40 skilled individuals to join its matchmaking programme 'Founders' to create the next cohort of Irish co-founders – ‘focussing on people first and ideas second’. The grou... |
| Mar 30, 2023 | Ireland has a new sustainability accelerator programme and everyone's invited | Dublin-based start-up and innovation hub Dogpatch Labs has announced it has partnered with the Irish government and industry partners to create a new sustainability programme 2050 with a view to make Ireland a leading global platform in sus... |
| Oct 24, 2022 | Huawei and Dogpatch Labs select 10 companies for scale-up bootcamp | Ten companies from sectors including SaaS, MedTech and FinTech have been selected by Huawei and Dogpatch Labs to participate in a three-week scale-up bootcamp designed to help them grow internationally.
The programme, which will be run by D... |
| Apr 6, 2022 | Get to know Google ads in founder webinar series | Google is organising a series of virtual training courses through webinars in April and May aimed at startup founders and their teams.
The company says that interactive sessions will cover a wide range of areas and will feature Google tools... |
| Feb 12, 2019 | The founding story of Patreon | It’s May 7, 2013 and Jack Conte is, in his own words, “totally exhausted, slash, totally wired, in that really weird in-between zone.” He has spent 18 hours per day for the last 50 days building a replica of the Millennium Falcon set from “... |
| Dec 19, 2018 | Alltech’s Pearse Lyons Accelerator Offers Route to Market for Scaling Startups – apply now! | Alltech, the global animal feed and crop nutrition company, is looking for startups to apply to the third iteration of ‘The Pearse Lyons Accelerator’ program. The deadline to apply is December 31, 2018.
The program will be hosted at one of ... |
| Dec 17, 2018 | Dogpatch Labs To Expand In CHQ | Startup hub Dogpatch Labs is to add 100 extra membership places at the CHQ building in Dublin by covering over its garden area and installing desk spaces.
The expansion has the support of Dogpatch lender Ulster Bank, and the bank said it wi... |
| Jul 9, 2018 | Mapping TV Traction With Social Media | Younger viewers now tend to watch TV either on their smart devices or while simultaneously interacting on social media. As a result, the traditional method of gauging TV engagement by using a set-top box to record channel-hopping activities... |
| Nov 17, 2017 | Ag Industry Brief: Barilla Launches Venture Fund, Inventory Robots Are Coming to Walmart, Whole Foods Gets New Boss, more | Barilla Launches Venture Fund and Innovation Hub
Barilla, the family-owned company best known for its signature blue pasta box, has announced a new food-focused venture fund and accelerator, Blu1877. Part investment fund and part innovation... |
| Oct 23, 2017 | A Mini-Guide to Ireland’s AgriFood Tech Startup Ecosystem | Agrifood technology stands to make a big impact to food systems and populations globally and food security is near the top of the list of worthy causes technology could positively impact.
Global hunger is unfortunately on the rise, accordin... |
| Jul 13, 2017 | Unilever Partnership To Support FMCG Startups | Unilever is partnering up with Dogpatch Labs in a bid to find and support promising Irish startups in the FMCG space.
The partnership will see the firm’s startup collaboration platform, Unilever Foundry, collaborate with Dogpatch Labs, a st... |
| Apr 25, 2017 | 3 IoT Startup Trends Happening in Dublin | When you think about the Irish startup scene, fintech might come to mind. But Ireland is much more than payments and blockchain, in fact, IoT is starting to gain more ground.
Ireland is the home to Intel, Google, Accenture’s AI Lab, several... |
| Feb 21, 2017 | Why Alltech is Putting Startup Growth Before Equity in Agritech Accelerator | This week Alltech, the animal nutrition and health company, launched the first cohort of its new accelerator program. The Pearse Lyons Accelerator is named after Alltech’s founder and president, who has taken the business from a startup in ... |
| Dec 13, 2016 | Ten Fintech Firms Ready For Launch | Ten new financial technology companies are ready to roll today, after completing a three month development programme at Dogpatch Labs in the IFSC in Dublin, which included masterclasses by experts from the Fintech and Payments Association o... |
| Oct 30, 2016 | Alltech and Dogpatch Labs launching new agritech accelerator in Dublin | Irish animal feed producer Alltech is launching a new accelerator programme in Dublin for agritech startups.
The Pearse Lyons Accelerator, which is being launched in partnership with Dublin-based Dogpatch Labs, is a three-month programme fo... |
| Nov 19, 2015 | New Startup Space Launched In CHQ | Such is the paucity of working space for Dublin startups that a new facility launch risks being crushed by the weight of occasion. Luckily, there were no complications for Dogpatch Labs, which opened 8,000 sq. ft. of sturdy new event and st... |
| Aug 27, 2015 | Google doubles down on Dublin with Dogpatch Labs partnership, now employs 5,000+ staff in the city | It's safe to say Dublin has always been a very important location for online search and advertising giant Google. To wit, its EMEA HQ is located in the heart of the historic docklands district (AKA Silicon Docks) of the Irish capital, ... |
| Sep 30, 2013 | LogEntries Secures $10M Led By Polaris Ventures To Scale Log Management For SMEs | Last year LogEntries secured a $1.1M seed round led by Polaris Venture Partners. Similar to Splunk, which has IPO’d, LogEntries collects and analyzes huge quantities of machine-generated log data, helping companies track their application l... |
| Feb 27, 2013 | Bombfell Closes $730K in Seed Funding | Bombfell, a NYC-based monthly subscription service for men’s clothing, closed a $730k in seed funding.
Backers included:
– Great Oaks VC
– Jeff Fluhr
– 500 Startups (where it was accelerated in 2012)
– SOS Ventures
– Romulus Capital
– David... |
| Jan 11, 2013 | Polaris Closing Dogpatch Labs Locations In New York And Palo Alto, Says No Change In Investment Strategy | Polaris Venture Partners plans to close two of its Dogpatch Labs incubator spaces — specifically the ones in Palo Alto and New York — while refining the approach in its two remaining locations.
The news was first reported in a story on Xcon... |
| Nov 16, 2012 | BarkBox, The Birchbox For Dog Lovers, Launches Companion Mobile App | BarkBox, the subscription-based service that sends pet owners a box of goodies on a monthly basis, has launched a companion mobile application. The app isn’t merely a mini version of the online service, but is meant to complement Barbox.com... |
| Sep 20, 2012 | BlockAvenue Uses Big Data To Assign A Letter Grade To Your Neighborhood | BlockAvenue, which is launching today, has acquired and aggregated about 50 million data points from across the U.S. to assign a letter grade to virtually every neighborhood and city block in the country. According to the company’s founder ... |
| Jul 26, 2012 | YouTube Sensation BalconyTV Secures Funds From Polaris, Lerer And Greycroft | With Apple rumoured to be developing a full-blown TV and connected TVs gradually taking off, it looks like video channels independent of the TV and cable industry could have a bright future, while niche content with global audiences could b... |
| Jun 18, 2012 | Gary Sharma’s Highlights from F.ounders NY 2012, the Michael Jordan of Tech Events | Ringing the closing bell at NASDAQ at the F.ounders NY 2012
This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), Founder & CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last c... |
| Apr 17, 2012 | Dog Patch Labs Says It’s Kicking It From Dublin. Can Incubators Solve Europe’s issues? | Dogpatch Labs, the incubator backed by Polaris Ventures, is perhaps most famous for helping out startups like Instagram, TurntableFM, Mixel, FancyHands and Formspring in their early days, out of offices in the Bay Area, NYC or Cambridge. It... |
| Apr 11, 2012 | An alternative to incubators: the co-working space | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
If you’re a startup, you’ve probably considered j... |
| Jan 30, 2012 | Paying To Serve: Microsoft Offers Accelerator-Backed Startups $60,000* In Azure Cloud Usage | The perks of getting into a top startup accelerator just got a little better. Microsoft is now offering startups in its new BizSpark Plus program $60,000 worth of costs for using its Azure cloud computing program. This includes any company ... |
| Dec 21, 2011 | Open Home Pro Helps Realtors Sell Homes Via Their iPads | Open Home Pro has been quietly building a business that uses the iPad to solve a serious problem for a real-world industry. “My girlfriend would come back upset after showing people houses,” founder Andrew Machado tells me, “because people ... |
| Dec 4, 2011 | Exploring The “Labs” Trend in Consumer Startups | Editor’s note: TechCrunch contributor Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Internet, and social networks. Shah is based in Palo Alto and you can follow him on twitter @semil
For those of us who studied (or suf... |
| Nov 3, 2011 | Reflecting on Dogpatch Labs, Two Years In: 350+ Companies, $140m in Funding. | Redeem now
As we build out Dogpatch Labs Palo Alto and meet with potential residents, we have had the opportunity to reflect on Dogpatch Labs… which is now a little more than years old. Credit for this exercise should be given to Dave Barre... |
| Oct 2, 2011 | Polaris Venture Partners Launches Dublin-based Dogpatch Labs Europe | Adding to similar facilities already existing in the US, on September 29, Polaris Venture Partners launched Dogpatch Labs Europe, a technology company accelerator, which will be based in Dublin, Ireland.
Dogpatch Labs, which also has locati... |
| Sep 29, 2011 | Dogpatch Labs SF Moves From Pier 38 To Palo Alto, Opens New Accelerator In Dublin | As you may have heard, the San Francisco Port Authority recently shut down the tech hub located at Pier 38, which was home to companies like Automattic, True Ventures, 99Designs, and others. One of the tenants, Polaris Venture Partners‘ Dog... |
| Sep 16, 2011 | A Day in the Life of the San Francisco Tech Community | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
My job is pretty cool. I get to spend time picking the brains of some of the planet’s smartest and most successful entrepreneurs—and invariably, I’m asking them to talk about ... |
| Sep 7, 2011 | Dogpatch Labs: Pier 38, A Look Back & A Look Ahead. | Redeem now
I am saddened to share the news that Pier 38, our west coast hub for the last 2.5+ years, will no longer be the home to Dogpatch Labs San Francisco. The Port Authority of San Francisco notified all Pier 38 tenants today that they... |
| May 6, 2011 | Dogpatch Labs: We’re Slammed With Applicants! | Dogpatch Labs has interest from 250 to 275 companies for about eight to 10 desks, liaison Matt Meeker told Betabeat, after a steady increase gave way to a rush. “It’s been building over the past couple months, but the past couple weeks have... |
| Mar 27, 2011 | Join Offline Labs: Exciting Company, Exceptional Team. | Redeem now
At Dogpatch Labs, there is a coincidental tradition of hosting companies with “Labs” in the name: Thing Labs, Formative Labs, Schematic Labs, Lumber Labs, etc. The most recent is Offline Labs, a company that we are excited to now... |
| Mar 19, 2011 | Dogpatch Labs San Francisco Additions & Updates | Redeem now
For South by Southwest 2011, we constructed a two-day long Dogpatch Labs SXSW and, over that period, hosted 100s of entrepreneurs. It was a lot of fun and a big success (TheStreet, Inc, NY Observer, etc).
The weekend also reminde... |
| Mar 1, 2011 | How smart is your startup incubator? Check in on PeerSquare and find out | How influential are the people who check in to your startup space? Physical tech incubators and startup spaces like Dog Patch Labs or Kicks Labs, and counterparts like TechHub and WhiteBearYard in London or Innovation Works in Beijing often... |
| Mar 1, 2011 | How Smart Is Your Startup Incubator? Check On PeerSquare | How influential are the people who check in to your startup space? Physical tech incubators and startup spaces like Dog Patch Labs or Kicks Labs, and counterparts like TechHub and WhiteBearYard in London or Innovation Works in Beijing often... |
| Feb 22, 2011 | A visitor's guide to Silicon Valley | Behind-the-scenes tour spotlights region's entrepreneurial spirit
If you’re a visiting dignitary whose country has a Gross National Product equal to or greater than the State of California, your visit to Silicon Valley consists of a lu... |
| Feb 10, 2011 | Bay Area Coworking Spaces: The Xconomy Guide | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Building a company is hard enough—there’s no need to do it in lonely isolation.
That’s the realization hitting a growing number of tech entrepreneurs seeking desks at the cowo... |
| Feb 8, 2011 | Watch Out Austin! Dogpatch Labs Is Opening A Makeshift SXSW Office | If the above is what your SXSW workspace usually looks like, you’re in luck: For the first time, Polaris Venture Partners will be opening up a temporary Dogpatch Labs office in Austin during this year’ SXSW so entrepreneurs who need a place... |
| Feb 2, 2011 | Mobile Health Startup Massive Health Gains $2.25 Million | Massive Health, a Dogpatch Labs startup co-founded by former Firefox Creative lead Aza Raskin and Sutha Kamal, just announced $2.25 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Charles River Ventures, Felicis VC, Greylock Discovery Fund and... |
| Jan 27, 2011 | Venture Café Finds Permanent Space Amid Comings and Goings in Kendall Square | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
‘Tis the season for moving in and moving out for the startup community in Kendall Square. This morning, we heard some news from Tim Rowe, the CEO and co-founder of the Cambrid... |
| Jan 24, 2011 | Co-working space General Assembly gives NYC startups a home | New York City’s tech ecosystem has been flourishing recently, with both rookies and alumni from local successes like Foursquare, Etsy and Gilt Groupe starting companies. Co-working space General Assembly (GA) is looking to become the centra... |
| Jan 20, 2011 | Neverware Means Never Buying a New Computer Again | There is something odd about the computer Jonathan Hefter keeps at his desk in the Dogpatch Labs tech incubator just off of Union Square. The space is filled with employees from some of New York’s most promising startups, most of whom are c... |
| Jan 14, 2011 | Dogpatch Labs Cambridge Moving to New Kennel—But Will Still Be in Kendall Square | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Dogpatch Labs Cambridge, the tech startup incubator run by Polaris Venture Partners, is moving out of its space in the American Twine Building on Third Street, Xconomy has lea... |
| Jan 12, 2011 | Microsoft’s Gus Weber Leaves to Become Entrepreneur In Residence at Dogpatch Labs | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
From one Kendall Square institution to another—that’s my take on this news, which is reverberating throughout the local startup community. Gus Weber, the business development ... |
| Sep 20, 2010 | Distilled From Burbn, Instagram Makes Quick Beautiful Photos Social (Preview) | For about the past six months or so, I’ve been using an app called Burbn. Despite being in stealth mode, the app attracted quite a bit of buzz as it was in the location space and built entirely in HTML5. Oh, and the $500,000 investment from... |
| Sep 9, 2010 | WiseStamp Puts a More Personal Signature on E-mail | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
In ancient times, before the dawn of e-mail, there were people who would grab any old blank sheet of paper to write or type on, and there were people who would only use fancy ... |
| Sep 2, 2010 | Coworking Spaces | I've never been much of a fan of incubators. Some have made the model work. My favorite of the bunch is Betaworks, based here in NYC. Betaworks is more than an incubator, but they have shown that they can make the incubation model work... |
| Aug 31, 2010 | WiseStamp Signs Your Emails With Tweets, Stumbles And Plans | People are always trying to spruce up their email signatures with funny witticisms, famous quotes, and professional information. WiseStamp is trying to innovate on the traditional email signature by allowing you to customize your message wi... |
| Aug 23, 2010 | More On AngelPad, The New Incubator Where The Google Blood Runs Thick | Last night, we first unveiled AngelPad, the stealthy new startup incubator run by seven ex-Googlers. Today, we’ve managed to get quite a bit more information about it. How? One of those ex-Googlers, Thomas Korte, stopped by our office to ta... |
| Jul 27, 2010 | Dogpatch Labs incubates 10 new startups | Dogpatch Labs, the startup space run by Polaris Ventures, is welcoming a new group of companies to its San Francisco office on August 1.
Dogpatch describes itself as a “frathouse for geeks” and is basically a cross between an incubator and ... |
| Jun 29, 2010 | Fear Not, Boston Entrepreneurs: Betahouse Is Expanding, Founder Says Local Techies Need More Confidence | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Jon Pierce is an unassuming young man who just might hold the keys to the kingdom. The Boston tech startup kingdom, that is.
OK, that’s the kind of bluster he probably hates t... |
| May 14, 2010 | Dogpatch Labs welcomes new Cambridge startups | Dogpatch Labs, the “frathouse for geeks” run by Polaris Ventures, is welcoming a new batch of companies to its Cambridge, Mass. office.
There’s not an official start date for the group, since companies have been moving in for the past coupl... |
| May 1, 2010 | Dogpatch Labs Unveils New Brood | Dogpatch Labs, the self-described “frathouse for geeks” has revealed the new class of start-ups that will inhabit its San Francisco location for the next six months. Starting this Saturday, the residents will have access to free office spac... |
| Apr 5, 2010 | Polaris Ventures Doubling Capacity at Dogpatch Labs in Cambridge | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Polaris Venture Partners of Waltham, MA, opened its first Dogpatch Labs startup incubator space in San Francisco in late 2007. A Cambridge, MA, version opened last September, ... |
| Feb 5, 2010 | Remotely Check-In At The Super Bowl And Trash Talk With Friends With FanPulse | The concept of “checking-in” has become popular in the location space. But as the concept gains popularity through the likes of Foursquare and Gowalla there’s no reason it can’t be extended beyond location. A new iPhone sports app, FanPulse... |
| Dec 18, 2009 | Future of Funding: An event about the brave new VC world (tickets here) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The venture capital industry we’ve known for the ... |
| Dec 18, 2009 | Future of Funding: An event about the brave new VC world (tickets here) | The venture capital industry we’ve known for the past decade is fading away, and a bunch of question marks hover over its future.
I’m pleased to announce that VentureBeat is partnering with the Founder Institute to kick off an event called ... |
| Dec 10, 2009 | Polaris Opening Dogpatch Labs 'Frat House For Geeks' In New York | Redeem now
Polaris Ventures, based outside Boston, is opening a new startup space in New York, offering free office space, Web access, coffee, and snacks for select early-stage startups and entrepreneurs.
This is the firm's third "... |
| Sep 10, 2009 | Polaris Ventures Opens A Second "Frat House For Geeks," Dog Patch Labs Cambridge | In San Francisco, there’s a nice big space right on the water where startups can go to enjoy a place to work, Dog Patch Labs. Polaris Venture Partners refers to it as their “frat house for geeks,” as it’s a place for entrepreneurs to come a... |
