Dogpatch Labs

Dogpatch Labs is one of Europe's leading tech community hubs fostering entrepreneurship for startups, facilitating technology innovation for all sizes of companies and nurturing transformative social enterprises. Located in the historic CHQ building in the heart of the Dublin Docklands, it is home to over 80 startups and over 350 members from 30 countries. It supports the startup community by providing a unique space to grow and hosting regular events to share knowledge, form connections and spark collaborative innovation. At the foundation of Dogpatch Labs is a partnership with Neville Isdell & Mervyn Greene of the CHQ Building. Neville Isdell's unique and forward thinking patronage has enabled the mission-driven nature of the entrepreneurial hub and as Chairman of Dogpatch Labs, Mervyn Greene has closely overseen, contributed and guided its rapid evolution over the past four years. Acknowledged as a world-class entrepreneurial hub catalysing the ecosystem in Ireland, Dogpatch Labs was awarded the Google for Entrepreneurs Global Citizenship Award in September 2017. Alumni include many of Ireland's fastest growing tech companies including Irish tech unicorn 'Intercom' and provides the global headquarters for CoderDojo, the volunteer-led movement of free computer programming clubs. Dogpatch actively supports social technology initiatives such as like CoderDojo, ChangeX, HackAccess, PyLadies, Social Innovation Fund and others. Patrick Walsh is the youngest member of Ireland's National Competitiveness Council and was awarded the 2017 Guaranteed Irish Tech Hero Award. Dogpatch Labs is supported by a range of corporate partners including Ulster Bank, Google, ESB, Pivotal, Unilever and Alltech.