It offers a "mentorship-driven" approach, with €100,000 "founder-friendly" funding, and early stage supports including non-equity pre-accelerator programmes available to entrepreneurs across Ireland.
[1] It also runs a Masterclass Series for companies working in the start-up space, teaching them how to support young digital venture teams with significant scale potential.
The National Digital Research Centre was established in 2007 by a group of educational institutions operating under an agreement with the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment.
[3] In November 2020, the existing management team confirmed that they had lost the tender to run the NDRC, and that the organisation would be wound up.
[4] New operators, Dogpatch Labs and its regional partners, were appointed on a contract worth up to 17 million euro.