Regional hubs join multinationals to support growing start-ups

First Fridays for start-ups will deliver workshops and advisory panels with globally successful start-ups founders countrywide

From left: Mary Rodgers, chief executive of the Irish Tech Hub Network; DC Cahalane, director of First Fridays for start-ups at Dogpatch Labs; Andreea Wade, head of talent cloud AI iCIMS; and Paddy Flynn, VP of geo data operations at Google.

Multinational companies are partnering with a number of regional innovation hubs to help start-ups across the island of Ireland scale as part of an expanded initiative.

Dogpatch Labs, a start-up incubator, and Tech Hub Network are joining forces with Google, HubSpot, Microsoft and Salesforce for a reinvented programme called First Fridays for start-ups, which will deliver workshops and advisory panels with globally successful start-ups founders countrywide.