Additional funding sources were EU Framework Programs, Enterprise Ireland, IRCSET, and industry.

In addition projects from the European Commission and Enterprise Ireland extended the research program.

[citation needed] In 2010, the Science Foundation Ireland consisted of 55% of awards by value; the remainder was composed of the European Commission (40%); and businesses (5%).

[citation needed] DERI was based at the Dangan Business Park in Galway, Ireland.

It is still part of the National University of Ireland, Galway and is organised around a number of research units and application domains.

[5] Spin-off companies included music-tech start-up MDG Web,[6] data intelligence and analytics company Siren.io (previously Sindicetech, developed out of the Sindice),[5] and financial analytics start-up Peracton (building MAARS),[7][8][9] DERI was a W3C member organization[10] and a founding member of the Web Science Trust Network.