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.

International Women’s Day 2026

Scale Ireland hosted our special International Women’s Day event on Tuesday, the 3rd March, 2026 at the St. Stephen’s Green Club in Dublin 2.
The event was full house with a great panel discussion chaired by our Chair, Brian Caulfield and CEO, Martina Fitzgerald.The event was supported by Stripe, Deloitte and Enterprise Ireland and the theme this year was ‘Promoting our innovative female leaders’. The panel included:
- Jenny Melia, CEO, Enterprise Ireland
-Andrea Reynolds, Founder and CEO, Swoop
-Lucy O’Keeffe, Founder and CEO, Croí
-Valve Eileen Finnegan, Co-Founder and Chief Financial Officer, LVLogics
-Dorothy Creaven, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Jentic
-Ita Langton, Head of Transformation and Technology business, Deloitte Ireland.
-Celine Keegan, Head of Enterprise Sales in Ireland, Stripe



Scale Ireland’s State of Start-ups Survey 2026

Scale Ireland’s State of Start-Ups Survey 2026, representing insights from 209 Founders and CEOs, gives a significant outlook to Ireland's Start-up landscape. It is supported by Google, Enterprise Ireland, Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, Research Ireland, Atlantic Bridge, Net Feasa, Skillnet Ireland and Republic of Work. Access to funding remains the biggest concern.

Scale Ireland’s Regional Start-up Summit 2026

Scale Ireland would like to thank the Taoiseach Micheál Martin for launching our 5th Regional Start-up Summit. We are also delighted to have EU Commissioner Michael McGrath close our event.

Thank you to our supporters - Google, Enterprise Ireland, National Treasury Management Agency Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, Research Ireland, Atlantic Bridge, Net Feasa, Skillnet Ireland. Also thank you to our Cork partners - Republic of Work, Tyndall National Institute, AxisBIC, Tech Industry Alliance for the local support as well University College Cork and Munster Technological University.

Join our Community

Scale Ireland is the biggest representative group for the Irish start-up sector with over 800 members and continues to grow every year.

We support, promote and advocate for our members:
- host high level events with networking opportunities
- conduct research on the key issues facing founders
- advocate for change to benefit start-ups
- provide a huge range of perks and discounts

If you want to be part of our community, you can join us here:
2,099
Irish start-ups & scale-ups
45,652
People employed
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Employed outside of Dublin
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Jobs created per start-up hire

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