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First Fridays for Startups

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What is First Fridays for Startups?

First Fridays for Startups is a platform for the tech startup ecosystem to come together on a regular basis, enabling them to learn, connect and grow.

Welcome Mentor Educate Inspire

Welcome

Giving you the inside track on who’s who and what’s happening across Ireland’s startup ecosystem.

Perfect if you’re new to the ecosystem, looking to get the bigger picture, or just trying to meet new people.

Mentor

We have access to over 2000+ experts with deep industry, investment, or entrepreneurial experience.

Our curated mentoring programme connects you to the people, knowledge and resources you need to accelerate your entrepreneurial journey.

Educate

We invite some of the best-in-class knowledge holders to our stage for deep dive workshops to help you upskill or reach your next milestone.

These 30 minute rapid seminars are followed by a 15-minute audience Q&A to help you plug in and switch on.

Inspire

Our keynote talks give you the chance to learn from seasoned startup founders that have “been there, done that”.

They share lessons of the successes and failures from their own entrepreneurial journey to give insight into what it takes to build a successful startup.

Next First Fridays June 4th

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Find out more about our next First Fridays

Welcome

An overview of the Irish ecosystem to help anyone and everyone navigate the ecosystem faster

Mentor

1-on-1 slots with curated mentors to help startups tackle specific queries in 25-mins

Educate

Themed seminars for sharing tactics and helping startups reach their next milestone

Inspire

Lessons from seasoned founders who’ve excelled on their own entrepreneurial journey

Networking

Meet like-minded people and share lessons learned by joining the community

Our Speakers

We’re honoured to have had some amazing speakers take to the stage at First Fridays

Aine Kerr

Kinzen

Bobby Healy

Manna

Jules Coleman

Resi

John Collins

Intercom

Alison Darcy

Woebot

Paul O'Hara

ChangeX

Nicola McClafferty

Draper Espirit

Devan Hughes

Buymie

Linda Kiely

VoxPro

Guistina Mizzoni

CoderDojo

Peter Coppinger

Teamwork

Dr. Nora Khaldi

Nuritas

Our Mentors

We’re honoured to have had some amazing mentors and speakers take part at First Fridays for Startups.

“Our partnership with Dogpatch Labs is helping to broaden the reach of Google’s existing startup community engagement. First Friday for Startups concentrates a day of activities to support startups.”

Paddy Flynn