Four companies in the West announce 400 jobs in the tech and medical sectors 

Nostra co-founder & CEO Kevin O'Loughlin.

More than 400 new jobs across four separate Galway-based companies have been announced in the tech and health sectors.

Cloud services provider Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced the largest number of jobs with 150 new technical roles to be created at its Global Centre of Excellence for the HPE GreenLake platform.

HPE GreenLake provides data services to 27,000 customers globally and is used on more than 3.4 million connected devices.

Elsewhere, IT services provider Nostra opened its new office in Galway where it plans to hire around 100 staff.

A cybersecurity vendor, TitanHQ, announced it will create 67 new jobs in the West. Most of these are expected to be based in Galway, while other staff could be placed in its smaller operation in Donegal. The company currently employs 200 people across both locations.

Meanwhile, Freudenberg Medical, a design and manufacturing firm for minimally invasive medical devices, announced the creation of 100 new jobs, as the officially opened its newly expanded facility in Galway.

Outside of the West, US-based data analytics and digital operations provider EXL announced it will open a headquarters for its international business in Dublin.

The company is expected to hire up to 200 staff at its new base in, including artificial and data engineers, over the next three years.

“We will look to train AI experts in Ireland to unlock the transformative power of generative AI, revolutionise industries, and drive new business opportunities,” said EXL vice chairman and CEO Rohit Kapoor.

Earlier this month, ChatGPT creator OpenAI said it has made plans to open an office in Dublin. These announcements signal better days for tech workers following a slowdown that hit the sector and resulted in mass layoffs, although Ireland escaped the worst of the redundancies.