Partner Content from Enterprise Ireland

Picking winners earlier

Enterprise Ireland’s Competitive Start Fund recently held its fourth round.

Improving education search

Learnpipe aims to put fun back into choosing right course or training

All about the games

Funding has Open Emotion Studios on track to move to next level

Ramping up production

Tribal City Interactive releasing three new games by end of year

E-commerce meets social media

VendingBox aids use of e-commerce systems, social media together

Starting a high-potential export business

Enterprise Ireland's High Potential Start-Up (HPSU) team provides hands-on support and advice to entrepreneurs and early stage companies that are considered by the agency to have an innovative product, service or technology, and have the potential to achieve export sales and create employment. If you are thinking of starting a new business with export potential or are currently raising investment for your start-up venture, then you may qualify for support and investment. This section sets out the criteria for becoming an Enterprise Ireland HPSU client and the supports available to you.

Do I qualify as a High Potential Start-Up?

Find out if your idea qualifies for High Potential Start-Up supports, what to expect when contacting Enterprise Ireland and contact details for its start-up team in your region.

Supports for High Potential Start-Ups

Learn about the supports Enterprise Ireland offers High Potential Start-Ups to confirm the viability of their idea, raise investment and implement their plans.

Information Store for Start-Ups

Click to access general information and links for start-ups including business plan templates, registration and employment information, as well as on incubation space and sources of private investment.

Start-Ups from outside Ireland

Learn why entrepreneurs from outside Ireland are establishing their innovative start-ups here and the supports available from Enterprise Ireland to help them do so.

Start-ups -- close up

HPSU - Triona Campbell of CR Entertainment

HPSU - Triona Campbell of CR Entertainment
CR Entertainment Ltd was set up in 2008 to explore the business opportunities generated by the new medias. Since then, the company has created and distributed content using a cross-platform strategy that features Internet Portals, Social Media, Online games as well as more traditional Media such as Books, DVDs and TV. CR Entertainment's list of clients and business partners include companies like Sony Pictures and Television, SVT, FIVE TV UK, ABC Australia, RTE, BBC NI, and also TOP internet portals: Bebo, Myspace and Google

HPSU - John Holt of Waratek Ltd

John Holt of Waratek Ltd
founded Sydney Australia in 2002, Waratek is a computer sciences company specialising in developing more efficient computing clusters.
Waratek, inventor of Redundant Array of Inexpensive Servers (RAIS) technology, will this year begin trialling the industry's first RAIS computing systems with early adopter customers in the UK and Ireland. In 2008, Waratek established its international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, after securing the backing of high profile venture capital group Mangrove Capital Partners of Luxembourg, and in 2011 will begin rolling out RAIS certified applications and systems to the global IT market.

HPSU - Ruth McAdam of Multihog

Ruth McAdam of Multihog
Multihog is a self propelled, diesel powered, hydrostatically driven utility vehicle designed for highway and grounds care maintenance applications. The Multihog differentiates itself from all other machines with its robust design and extreme versatility. Its quick release mechanism makes changing attachments an effortless two minute job. Its tilting driver station, wide wheel base and low centre of gravity makes the Multihog the only vehicle to choose for operating on steep inclines and rough terrain.