The Digital Hub

The hub consists of almost 75 companies located in eight buildings, collectively employing 700 people.

[2] The Irish Government founded The Digital Hub in 2003 to cater for companies involved in information technology, with Media Lab Europe—a business venture by MIT, as its anchor.

[3] By 2017, more than 200 companies have (or still are) located there, including Amazon, Etsy, Havok, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Lonely Planet, Eventbrite, Slack, and Stripe.

[1][4] In 2016 Fiach Mac Conghail, former Director of the Abbey Theatre, was appointed CEO of the Digital Hub Development Agency, the state agency which operates and promotes The Digital Hub.

[6] The LDA announced in 2023 it would turn th e site into a €180 million development called Pear Tree Crossing.