Vickly Twomey Lee is one of Ireland’s most committed grassroots community builders in the technology space. After stumbling into organising a Python meetup around 2004/05, she ran it for 11 years b…

The report shows that women in Ireland, raising funds, have outshined their European peers. TechIreland, the all-island portal that showcases start-ups and the Irish innovation landscape, has released the Female Founder Funding Review 2026, which tracks investment into women-founded startups throughout 2025.  The report shows that last year, 82 Irish start-ups being led by women raised a total of €131m, which was recorded as the highest number of women-led start-ups funded in any given year.

The report shows that women in Ireland, raising funds, have outshined their European peers. TechIreland, the all-island portal that showcases start-ups and the Irish innovation landscape, has released the Female Founder Funding Review 2026, which tracks investment into women-founded startups throughout 2025.  The report shows that last year, 82 Irish start-ups being led by women raised a total of €131m, which was recorded as the highest number of women-led start-ups funded in any given year.

TechIreland has launched the National AI Challenge 2026 and confirmed that the fourth annual TechIreland National AI Meet will take place at The Galmont Hotel, Galway, on Thursday, 24 September 2026. Now in its third year, the free National AI Challenge will bring together more than 300 developers,.

The National AI Challenge will bring together more than 300 developers, founders, students, technologists and AI enthusiasts from across the island of Ireland. Read more: TechIreland launches Galway-bound National AI Challenge 2026

TechIreland has released its Irish Startup Funding Review 2026 Edition, a report of startup fundraising activity in 2025. The report shows that 319 Irish startups raised a total of €992 million last year. Since the highs of 2021, annual fundraising now appears to have settled at around the €900m–€1.

TechIreland has released its Female Founder Funding Review 2026 that tracks investment into women-founded startups in 2025. The report shows that last year, 82 Irish women-founded startups fundraised a total of €131m, the highest number of woman-founded startups funded in any year. Female founder...

Registrations, set to close on 10 August, has already amassed around 250 participants. Early this month, TechIreland launched the 2025 National AI Challenge – a hackathon-style competition where contests build artificial intelligence solutions for real-world problems. In the few short...

TechIreland has launched the National AI Challenge 2026, bringing 300 participants together to build AI solutions ahead of the National AI Meet.

Irish startups raised €992m in 2025, but a scaling gap persists beyond early stage, with Series A funding lagging and capital concentrated in a few large deals.

Female founder funding in Ireland fell in 2025 despite record deal activity, with early-stage rounds rising and regional funding gaps widening across the ecosystem.

A total of 48 Irish women tech founders raised €145m in funding in 2024, according to new figures from TechIreland, a sharp drop from the 77 who raised in 2023.

TechIreland has announced dates for the 2026 National AI Challenge, which will take place remotely in the early stages and in Galway later on.

Irish nonprofit organisation TechIreland has appointed Niall Norton as its new chief executive, replacing interim CEO John O’Dea.

This year, women-led start-ups raised 46pc funds, with the average size of funding more than doubling due to a few big deals.