10 start-ups to participate in new Huawei international scale-up programme
11 Nov 2022: Ten Irish start-ups have been selected by Huawei and Dogpatch Labs to participate in a three-week scale-up bootcamp designed to help them grow and scale their businesses internationally. The programme, run by Dogpatch Labs, is the result of a new partnership between the start-up and innovation hub and the global telecoms leader.
The companies involved are Empeal, Tracworx, Little Red Edu, Helgen, Graphite Note LTD, Halosos, Energy Elephant, Xpanse AI, Sensipass, and Defactor and come from a variety of sectors including SaaS, MedTech, Fintech and more.
Launching the programme, Minister for Trade Promotion, Digital, and Company Regulation, Dara Calleary TD, said, “We all know the importance of our multinational sector, but start-ups are the dynamos of our economy and are also pivotal to job creation. The entrepreneurial spirit is ingrained in the DNA of Irish business and so it is imperative we continue to support startups by providing every support possible. And so, I welcome this latest programme from Dogpatch Labs and Huawei, which will give the companies taking part access to mentorship, insight, and guidance to scale their business effectively. I wish them every success on the programme.”
The new programme will allow the start-ups to draw on Huawei’s expertise and wider network from around Europe and Asia. This includes:
● Expertise: Expert speakers from around the ecosystem and Huawei including Jacqueline Shi, Vice President of Huawei Cloud Computing, and Tony Yangxu, CEO of Huawei Ireland.
● Market access: Start-ups will gain access to Huawei’s digital network, with a footprint across 170 countries and deep network access to Asian market, along with international business exposure via its global network and partners.
● Tech support: Start-ups will also receive technical support from Huawei Ireland and West Europe in the form of cloud credits, as well as access to Huawei R&D.
● Funding Opportunities: Huawei’s venture arm, Hubble, will be present at the Showcase along with VCs from the Dogpatch Labs network.
Huawei Ireland CEO Tony Yangxu said: “Huawei is committed to supporting Ireland’s fast-developing start-up ecosystem, which is critically important to long-term national economic development and innovation. This partnership with Dogpatch Labs is focused on helping these participating companies to scale up and achieve their ambitions through an impactful scale-up acceleration programme.
“Globally, through Huawei Cloud infrastructure, we are helping start-ups to grow, develop new products, and expand into new markets and we will bring this global expertise to Irish start-ups. We will enable Irish start-ups to scale by giving them access to cloud-native, AI, big data, and other technologies. In addition, we will give start-ups taking part in the programme the opportunity to meet experts and investors from across the business in Huawei.”
Huawei is a company that began as a start-up – it is passionate about supporting Ireland’s start-up community to grow, innovate and succeed on the global stage like it has. This programme will provide a launchpad to deploy the business, to access new markets and customers. It will also allow the companies to interact with thought leaders from Huawei and to learn from other Irish founders who had successfully scaled and launched internationally. Expert mentoring from industry experts will be provided by participation in interactive workshops.
The programme will kick off at the end of this month (October), and will run for three weeks, with one intensive day of workshops each week. It will be held between Galway (Portershed) and Dublin (Dogpatch Labs). Dogpatch Labs will provide the start-ups with entrepreneurial mentorship, workshops on international sales and funding, and industry networking opportunities. The programme will culminate in a final Showcase Day in Dublin, where the 10 start-ups will showcase their businesses to key stakeholders and influencers including senior leadership from Huawei.
Dave Power, Director of Innovation at Dogpatch Labs added: “Dogpatch Labs has demonstrated, over the last few years, how a vibrant tech community can powerfully accelerate the growth of start-ups. The quality of ideas for this programme, from regions all over Ireland, has been outstanding, and I'm looking forward to collaborating closely with Huawei to bring real value to these 10 start-ups.
“Ireland should be a launching point for start-ups with global expansion being the ultimate goal. This programme can give access to critical markets both West and East for founders to scale to new heights.”
Ireland has a developing start-up ecosystem with an increasing number of innovative indigenous companies, particularly in the software space, making their mark on the global stage. Participation in this programme will allow the 10 participants to engage with Ireland’s largest tech community where they can meet and learn from a diverse mix of entrepreneurs, founders and freelancers as part of accelerating their growth.
Want to know more about the programme, please visit the homepage.
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About Huawei
Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. With integrated solutions across four key domains – telecom networks, IT, smart devices, and cloud services – Huawei is committed to bringing digital to every person, home, and organisation for a fully connected, intelligent world. Huawei employs over 194,000 people in 170 countries across the globe.
Huawei has been in Ireland since 2004, with its business now serving over three million people and supporting over 860 direct and indirect jobs. Huawei’s business activities in Ireland continue to thrive. Intelligent connectivity with fibre and 5G technologies has begun and will empower the market of mobile networks and broadband networks with AI and IOT technologies. Huawei Ireland is working very closely with local operators and partners and is focused on nurturing future talent and highly skilled professionals in these areas across the country.
About Dogpatch Labs, Dublin
Dogpatch Labs’ mission is to accelerate the development of Ireland's entrepreneurial ecosystem, by providing a platform for entrepreneurship and innovation. Located in the historic CHQ building in the heart of the Dublin Docklands, it is home to over 120 start-ups and over 500 members from 30 countries.
Dogpatch Labs runs the NDRC, Ireland's national start-up accelerator programme, in partnership with regional hubs Portershed, Republic of Work, and RDI Hub. The company is a proud member of the Google for Startups (GfS), a global community of start-up hubs. As winner of Google’s Global Citizenship Award in 2017, Dogpatch Labs was recognised as one of the leading hubs in this global network.
Dogpatch Labs delivers corporate innovation programmes to a range of industry partners including Ulster Bank, Google, ESB, Pivotal, Unilever and Alltech. One of its notable programmes is Alltech’s Pearse Lyons Accelerator, considered one of the top ag-tech programmes globally with start-ups applying from 52 countries. Listed as one of Crunchbase’s top 15 global start-up incubators, Dogpatch Labs events, membership and programmes have supported over 250+ start-ups & alumni over the last decade, who have raised a combined €490M+ and created over 2,000 jobs. These include Intercom, an Irish ‘unicorn’ valued at over €1 billion which has established over 280 high-value jobs in Ireland.
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