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This week, we’re excited to share something new: our new Global Irish Job Board!

It’s a space designed to connect Irish talent with Irish-founded and Irish-headquartered companies hiring around the world, from Dublin to Sydney to San Francisco. We built it because we kept hearing two things:

• Irish founders abroad are reaching out regularly, looking for great Irish talent.

• Irish professionals everywhere - from new grads to seasoned executives - want to know which Irish startups are hiring globally.

Now, both sides can find each other in one place. You can search for roles, set up job alerts, or post open positions if you’re hiring for an Irish-associated company.

The board already features roles from companies like Wayflyer, Intercom, AMCS, and Fenergo, with dozens more being added weekly. We’ll also share some of the best new listings with you here in the newsletter.

Have a look, and tell us what you think, or even better, share it with someone you know who will find it useful. We’d also love your feedback before we roll out new features and improvements.

⏳ Today’s edition is a 3 minute read. ⏩ In a rush? Here's the TL;DR:

• Oracle founder Larry Ellison backs Irish-founded Wild Bioscience.

• Irish unicorn Intercom teams up with ChatGPT to power smarter customer conversations.

• San-fran based Paygentic, co-founded by Susan O’Neill raises $2 million to power AI-native billing infrastructure.

• Freespace Operations lands a multi-million defence deal after cracking cooperative drone lift tech.

• Homegrown Fundraising Wins: Lette AI, Bronto, Xtremepush and Sobi Analytics riase a whopping €27 million.

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News From Abroad ✈️

🇬🇧 Larry Ellison has entered the chat: Wild Bioscience , co-founded by Irish scientists Prof. Steven Kelly and Dr. Ross Hendron - just landed a €51.4 million round led by Oracle founder and second richest man on the planet, Larry Ellison. Their mission? Use AI and genetics to “supercharge” photosynthesis and grow higher-yield crops that can feed a hotter, hungrier planet.

🇺🇸 Intercom x ChatGPT: Intercom has teamed up with OpenAI’s ChatGPT to make customer insight smarter than ever. The integration lets ChatGPT pull real context from Intercom conversations, tickets, and user data helping product teams spot bugs faster, marketers fine-tune messaging, and sales teams prep sharper business reviews. A global AI milestone with Irish fingerprints all over it.

🇺🇸 AI meets payments: Paygentic, co-founded by Irish fintech whiz Susan O’Neill and ex-Google engineer Samuel Alarco Cantos - has emerged from stealth with a $2 million pre-seed led by MiddleGame Ventures. Based in San Francisco, Paygentic helps AI-native startups price and monetise their products through flexible billing infrastructure built for the agentic era. As O’Neill puts it, “traditional billing breaks the moment things get complex.”

🇦🇺 Industrial flying robots take off: Irish engineer Ken King and Leonard Hall of Freespace Operations have cracked a drone industry holy grail by enabling multiple autonomous aircraft to cooperatively lift and balance a 100kg payload. Their Callisto 50 drones now tackle missions once needing helicopters, securing a multi-million-dollar defence deal in the Asia–Pacific. “This is the start of the industrial flying robot age,” says King.

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• Dublin proptech Lette AI raises $1.4M pre-seed funding led by Pitchdrive with Baseline Venture and Lugus Capital to scale its AI-powered leasing automation platform. Founded by Mohan Sai and Jakub Rajek (ex-Nory), it’s already managing 5,000+ properties and targeting 25,000 by 2026.

• Bronto secures €12M seed funding led by Cercano Management with Heavybit and Conviction Capital to reinvent enterprise log data for the AI era. Founded by Voysis’ Noel Ruane and LogEntries’ Trevor Parsons, the company plans to expand its engineering and go-to-market teams.

• Xtremepush lands €12M in growth financing from AshGrove Capital to accelerate its acquisition strategy. The CRM and gamification leader will use the funds to deepen its footprint across financial services, e-commerce, and publishing.

• Sobi Analytics closes €1.7m funding led by US angels with SFC Capital and Enterprise Ireland to scale its AI-driven finance insights platform. Founded by accountant-turned-founder Brenda Jordan, Sobi helps finance teams move from reporting to strategic advisory and plans 15 new hires over the next year.

🧠 BRAIN FOOD
AI browsers, bold Irish builders and getting feedback?

💬 Quote: “You don’t choose if disruption happens. You choose whether to drive it - or be driven over by it.” Those were the words of the startup guru DC Cahalane at the Business Post’s AI Summit.

💼 Job: Are you based in San Francisco? One of Ireland’s greatest companies, Intercom, is looking to hire for a Manager, Account Executives. And guess what? You can find it on our new job board.

☘ Tool: Shopbox AI is an Irish startup using Contextual AI to personalise online stores in real time. From just a few clicks, it tailors your homepage and product pages to every individual shopper.

🎧 Pod: Economist David McWilliams dives into the Australian economy this week – a story close to the hearts of many of our readers Down Under. He unpacks how Australia’s growth since the 1980s has been fuelled by the luck of geography and the grit of immigration.

 🤔 That’s Interesting: OpenAI just launched Atlas, a brand-new web browser. Could this be the beginning of the end for Google? Early signs say: maybe not yet, but the big lads in Mountain View won’t be sleeping soundly. 👉 Read more

😂 Meme: One tech founders will appreciate, and we at Irish Insights do too, especially with our new Job Board live this week 👀

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