👋 Céad míle fáilte! We started our St. Patrick’s Day campaign this week, and I’m feeling more energized than Father Noel Furlong when he was Irish dancing in that very small caravan!

Over 10 days, we are sharing interviews with 10 amazing Irish founders before releasing our Founder Sentiment Survey on March 17th.

So far, we’ve talked to Gary Fox, Niamh Donnelly, and Jack O’Keeffe. We have covered a range of fields from robotics to media, spanning across Dublin, LA, and Copenhagen time zones. Make sure you keep an eye out for the rest on our LinkedIn page, they will not disappoint.

Today’s edition is a 2 minute 10 second read. ⏩ In a rush? Here's the super quick version:

✈️ Abroad: Intercom’s $400m masterclass, Hertility joins NVIDIA Inception Programme, Nory’s American Dream & Kreoh Lands Down Under

🏠 Home: Over $50 million raised by startups across the island, including TrinityBio, Evervault and Optik. PLUS: Can you find the Irish firms that made the Financial Times fastest-growing list?

👨‍💼 Founder: Jarlath O'Carroll (Founder of Jobspeaker) is using AI to enhance education access for better outcomes for all students and jobseekers

🔥 Hot Job: Business Development Manager at Swoop. London. Drive revenue by building and scaling B2B partnerships

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LATEST UPDATES
News from abroad ✈️

Eoghan McCabe - CEO and co-founder of Intercom

🇺🇸 Intercom’s $400m Masterclass: CEO Eoghan McCabe has pulled off one of the most aggressive pivots in SaaS history. Intercom just surpassed $400m in ARR, with their AI agent Fin already on track to hit $100m. McCabe’s secret? "Creative destruction." To win in the age of agents, they intentionally cannibalized their own legacy workflow revenue, sacrificed $60m in ARR to launch outcome-based pricing, and shifted 80% of R&D to AI. The message to the industry is clear: destroy your past before someone else does it for you.

🇬🇧 Scaling FemTech with NVIDIA: London-based reproductive health company Hertility has been accepted into the NVIDIA Inception Programme, a major signal that they are evolving into a foundational AI platform. Founded to close the gap in women's clinical research, they’ve already built a massive global dataset of 835,000 reproductive variables. By plugging into NVIDIA's elite tech stack and investor network, they are turning that data into the engine for the next generation of hormonal and fertility diagnostics.

🇺🇸 Nory’s American Dream: Having conquered the UK and Ireland, Conor Sheridan is officially moving to New York to lead Nory’s US expansion. Fresh off a $37m Series B, Nory is positioning itself as the "AI-native operating system" for restaurants. In a market crippled by labor inflation, Nory is promising 50% reductions in food waste and saving managers 100+ hours of back-office admin every month. With new customers already live, Nory is ready to take a massive bite out of US hospitality.

🇦🇺 Kreoh Lands Down Under: Irish-founded Kreoh is officially live on consultant desktops in Australia, bringing its AI-powered R&D tax engine to the Southern Hemisphere. After scaling across the UK’s Top 10 accountancy firms, they’ve localized the platform for the Aussie regulatory environment to automate project screening and narrative drafting. Founders Ben O'Sullivan & Garry Tiscovschi and the team are heading to Melbourne and Sydney in early March to meet the industry and show off their product.

At home 🏠

  • The Holy Trinity: Wicklow based Trinity BioTech has secured up to $25m in funding for its diagnostics business and CGM+ rollout.

  • 14 Irish companies have been included in the Financial Times Europe’s fastest-growing companies list.

  • Ever-tight: Evervault, the Dublin-based data security company has raised $25m in Series B funding to expand its team.

  • Northern raises: Optik in Derry, farmdrive in Antrim and Foresight in Belfast, have received over £1.8m in equity investment from Techstart Ventures.

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💼 FOUNDERS DIRECTORY
Jarlath O’Carroll - Job Speaker

- Role: Founder
- Base: San Francisco
- Focus: Using AI to enhance education access for better outcomes for all students and jobseekers
- Founded: 2015

Jarlath O'Carroll is the Founder of Jobspeaker, a platform dedicated to closing the skills gap through AI. A technology entrepreneur with over 20 years of international leadership experience, Jarlath has spent his career at the intersection of business and people across the Recruiting, Digital Media, and Banking sectors.

Today, Jarlath is focused on leveraging technology to improve access to education for all students and jobseekers. His work with Jobspeaker enables community colleges and employers to collaborate on better regional outcomes for education and employment. An alumnus of Technology University Dublin, Jarlath’s previous experience ranges from managing US operations for UK-based companies to launching innovative products in the digital media space.

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