[12] Visitors have included The Duke & Duchess of Sussex and also The King & Queen of the Netherlands in recognition of Dogpatch's mission to accelerate the development of Ireland's entrepreneurial ecosystem.
[14] Alumni include Ireland's first unicorn[15] tech company Intercom[16] and provides the global headquarters for CoderDojo,[17] the volunteer-led movement of free computer programming clubs.
[24] In December 2020, It was announced that Dogpatch Labs, supported by its partner hubs in Cork, Kerry and Galway, had been awarded the €17m contract to manage the National Digital Research Centre service for the next five years.
As part of the NDRC contract, Dogpatch Labs Dublin and its regional partners (Portershed Galway, Republic of Work Cork and RDI Hub Kerry) would deliver "mentorship-driven accelerator and pre-accelerator programmes, and pre-seed funding to entrepreneurs across Ireland".
[27] Visitors have included The Duke & Duchess of Sussex[28] and also The King & Queen of the Netherlands in recognition of Dogpatch's mission to accelerate the development of Ireland's entrepreneurial ecosystem.
[35] Managed by Dogpatch Labs and delivered all across Ireland by the Irish Tech Hub Network, the programme includes: 1-to-1 curated mentoring, expert workshops, advisory panels and fireside chats, as well as free hotdesking for the day.
[41] Dogpatch Labs operates the National Digital Research Centre (NDRC), an accelerator programme for "globally ambitious" entrepreneurs, on behalf of the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications.
[43] Dogpatch Labs offers successful applicants to the NDRC Accelerator a €100,000 investment using SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity)[46] which was originally introduced by Y Combinator (YC) in late 2013.
[49] Scale Ireland is an independent non-profit organisation whose mission is to support, represent and advocate on behalf of Irish tech start-up and scale-up companies, to create the most advantageous conditions for them to succeed.
[9] Teams who have worked on start-ups in Patch include Wunder Engine, producing 3D prints of a customer's own Minecraft creations, and Cropsafe, which uses machine learning and satellite imaging to monitor crop health for farmers.
Stripe joined other key Patch supporters, including Pointy's Mark Cummins, Dogpatch Labs and the Naughton Foundation, along with entrepreneurs Bobby Healy and Ray Nolan, in funding the youth accelerator's future work.