Thanks to low corporation tax and government incentives, Dublin has hosted the European Headquarters of many large US technology companies—Google, Meta, LinkedIn and Microsoft all have offices in the city’s Silicon Docks.
“The big US companies operated independently of the startup world for many years,” explains Will Prendergast, partner at Frontline Ventures. “But in the last five years, US technology companies have been building product and engineering functions here, and that talent is starting to spill out, driving startup creation.”
Government support via Enterprise Ireland’s Pre-Seed Start Fund, designed to accelerate early stage startups, and hubs such as Dogpatch Labs are supporting this wave of new talent. “Ireland does have a
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