Jeff Donnelley and Colin Bracey are the co-founders of MegaFans, a mobile esports platform and community bridging web2 to web3 in a play-to-earn environment for gamers, collectors and developers.

This episode of MoneyNeverSleeps is sponsored by Philip Lee, one of Ireland’s fastest-growing corporate law firms and expert advisors at the heart of the Dublin and London start-up, fintech and crypto communities.

MegaFans are the sixth of ten founding teams forming the Launchpool Web3 Techstars Accelerator Class of 2022 that we’ve got on the show over the next two months.

In this episode, Pete Townsend talks to Jeff and Colin about:

How their paths first converged with the predecessor to MegaFans after doing the first legal ICO (initial coin offering) in Canada.

An inside look at the MegaFans platform

‘Mining’ the web2 market and building a web3 community

The longer-term vision for MegaFans and the esports market overall

How Jeff and Colin are approaching the big challenges in front of them right now

HIGHLIGHTS:

Jeff Donnelley on getting his first big break in gaming marketing that sent him down the path towards MegaFans:

“I was working with the agency Havas on user acquisition, retention and monetization programs for gaming companies, and we landed DraftKings back when they were just developing their brand.

“They approached us and said, ‘Look, can you show us the go-to-market strategy for this? How do we acquire new users? What’s the best way to do it cost-effectively and efficiently?’

“So, we went to work for them and helped them model out and build their user onboarding, retention and monetization programs for about five years.”

Colin Bracey on the earliest days of mobile gaming:

“In the early 2000s, I was the European lead developer for Motorola, and we came up with the first ever over-the-air mobile game, which was effectively a Nintendo Game Boy bolted onto the back of a Motorola mobile phone with wires sticking out all over the place. We made a call over the network, and we could see two Marios running on the screen at the same time – that was my intro into mobile gaming.”

Jeff Donnelley on his convergence with Colin Bracey:

“In 2016 I had my eye on the esports space, and that’s where my career had culminated to that point. I had already worked in iGaming, PC gaming, mobile gaming, fantasy sports gaming and I was in a really unique position. So, I went and started another ad agency and media company and started working with some other gaming companies while I started building my agency.

“That’s how I met Colin – I was doing a global go to market strategy for his company, which was another mobile e-sports company.”

Colin Bracey on his convergence with Jeff Donnelley:

“When I started my own company (RewardMob), we had a mobile game which was similar to MegaFans but based more around sweepstakes, and we did the first legal ICO in Canada.

“So, we had the Canadian government and the British Columbia Securities Commission on board, and then at the end when we’re ready to go with our big press releases, [the BCSC] said ‘You can’t tell anybody about this.’

“That was going to be our big press release, and that’s where Jeff came into it because he was doing the global go-to-market strategy – it affected him probably more than it did me!”

Jeff Donnelley on bringing things together with Colin into MegaFans:

“I had been working on the MegaFans idea and had a prototype built, and said to Colin ‘We’ve got you and me, we’ve got great developers and we’ve got a couple of other biz dev people – why don’t we just pull them all over to MegaFans and bring that to market instead?’”

Jeff Donnelley on the MegaFans product:

“We tested the product in market, and we were off-chain originally, but we always knew we were going to go [onchain]. MegaFans is an esports platform – it’s a software kit that can integrate into any mobile game and offer esports tournaments in those games to players around the world simultaneously.

“You can win prizes in t...

Ericsson has announced its plans to hire 250 people at its Irish Research and Development Centre in Athlone, to support the company’s ongoing development of innovative cloud-native products that orchestrate, automate and power its global 5G portfolio.

The highly-skilled roles, which include opportunities for software developers, data scientists, architects, cloud and mobile communication engineers at all career stages, will be added over the next three years. This project is supported by the Irish Government through IDA Ireland.

One of Ireland’s largest employers within software development, Ericsson has had a Research and Development (R&D) presence in Athlone since 1979. The Athlone facility, which is the global R&D headquarters of Ericsson Digital Services OSS (Operations Support Systems), currently employs 1200 people developing its OSS and Cloud RAN (Radio Access Network) portfolio. Ericsson employs an additional 200 at its Dublin base.

Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Employment, Leo Varadkar TD said: “This is really great news. Ericsson is expanding further, adding 250 new jobs to the 1400 the company already employs here. These new jobs are in new areas in cloud-native technologies, providing some really exciting opportunities for the Midlands.

It truly is a vote of confidence in Athlone and Ireland as a whole that such an internationally renowned company has chosen to make this investment. Thank you to Ericsson for their continuing commitment to our country and the Irish-based team who I know were crucial in the decision to bring this investment to Ireland.”

Minister of State with responsibility for Trade Promotion, Digital and Company Regulation, Robert Troy TD said: “I am delighted with Ericsson’s announcement to add 250 roles at its R&D Campus in Athlone. These highly skilled roles in software development, engineering and cloud technologies are a very welcome development for the region and this expansion reaffirms the Midlands as a centre of excellence in the ICT sector and cloud technology.

Ericsson is a well-established presence here in Athlone and its continued success and investment in its R&D Campus is a testament to the fact that Westmeath, and indeed the Midlands as a whole is a great place to do business. I want to wish the staff in Ericsson all the very best in this exciting new chapter.”

Denis Dullea, Head of Research and Development at Ericsson Athlone said: “This announcement underscores our global reputation as a world-class R&D software development centre. Our team here already play a critical role in the development of Ericsson products, services and solutions that enable Ericsson to deliver limitless connectivity that makes the unimaginable possible.

“We are hiring an additional 250 software developers, engineers and architects with cloud-native skills to enhance our capability to deliver the benefits of cloud-native technologies to our global customer base via our RAN, Management, Automation and Orchestration offerings.”

Mr Dullea added: “The investment is also good news for Athlone and the wider Midlands region, where Ericsson is one of the largest employers. With strong ongoing partnerships with the IDA, the Irish Government and the recently established Technological University of the Shannon (TUS), we are excited to continue attracting and nurturing the best and brightest Irish and international talent to the heart of Ireland.”

IDA Ireland CEO Martin Shanahan said: “Today’s significant announcement by Ericsson, a company that has had a presence here in Ireland since 1957 and an R&D facility in Athlone since 1979 is terrific news and demonstrates this global leader’s continued commitment to its operations here. The next generation of technology developed at the Athlone facility will set the standard for the industry. These jobs and the associated investment will have a substantial impact on both the local and regional economy. I wish Ericsson every success with this expansion, and ...

After two successful editions, Paris Blockchain Summit (PBS) returns on July 8, 2022, with its Mainstream edition.

Every year, PBS brings together the international ecosystem in an extraordinary place and this third edition will not fail to make a lasting impression: giant palm trees, waterfalls, fountains, outdoor terraces and a cinema room will bring together enthusiasts in this 2,000 m² space.

Combining nature and elegance, spread over 2 floors in several thematic platforms (NFTs, Metaverse and Blockchain), the Equinoxe Palmeraie Paris will welcome more than 1200 participants from more than 20 countries.

Considered by the World Economic Forum as the pillar of the fourth industrial revolution, this market, currently estimated at 5 billion dollars, will reach 67 billion in 2026, or 10% of the world GDP. More than ever, it is important to position yourself well and the PBS is there to help you.

Paris Blockchain Summit

With nearly 50 speakers from multinationals such as Nestlé and L’Oréal, sports, venture capital, the French and European parliaments, the metaverse, crypto trading and digital law, PBS is an event that will provide concrete answers to the challenges and trends of tomorrow:

The Metaverse: Why are large companies and institutions betting on the Metaverse? Is it just hype or a real revolution?

GameFi and Play-2-Earn: How are blockchain games a new economy in emerging countries? Can players be paid for their contribution to a virtual economy?

Regulation: What regime should apply to NFTs? Will the MICA regulation put an end to the development of the crypto assets market in Europe?

Sports: How Can Blockchain enable the evolution of the sports sponsorship market? With nearly 16% of the world’s population obese, are Move-2-Earns a viable solution to obesity?

Intellectual property: Do NFTs allow artists to better monetize their creations? How do manage the copyright and the right of exploitation of work with an NFT?

Music: Does the future of the music industry rely on NFTs? How do supervisory authorities such as SACEM react?

The economy: As inflation explodes, can Bitcoin be an effective hedge against inflation? How will central bank digital currencies and stable coins impact the economy? Are NFTs, a new asset class to diversify your wealth?

The experts will answer all these questions and much more. It is time to secure your seats to join the most qualitative and business-oriented event of summer 2022, while enjoying the Summer ticket opportunity until June 8, 2022, with an additional discount of 30% with the code “MEDIA30”.

If you want to present your project or share your experience on stage, don’t hesitate to register on the official website of the event and contact the PBS team.

In this week’s Business Showcase we focus on WEIcrypto

Describe the company – WEIcrypto the elevator pitch?

WEIcrypto – is an ecosystem of products created on the basis of blockchain technology, aimed at technological changes of world’s financial system.

Meet our products:

WEI is cryptocurrency has absorbed all the advantages of cash, from the speed of making a payment to the anonymity of the payer. WEI transaction takes no more than 1 second. WEI mining methods allow you to reduce the load on the environment

WEIpay – Payment system for sending and receiving WEI. Sending WEI by phone number or by attaching the device to an NFC tag as in the usual online banking applications. Free clearing service for organizations

WEIback – algorithm for popularizing WEI as a means of payment. User who accepted the WEI payment and the user who paid for the WII goods receive the same fixed remuneration for their contribution to the development of blockchain payments.

WEIpartner – the system of loans for the development and stimulation of business and turnover of cryptocurrency WEI. The decision to approve the loan is made by voting of the blockchain nodes. To repay the loan, you just need to add WEI as one of the payment forms

We came up with WEIpartner, a new startup financing system based on the principles of #decentralization and risk-sharing, which allows us to bypass all the omissions of modern credit systems

?? Join the Ecosystem:#decentralized #blockchain

WEIcrypto (@teamweicrypto) May 26, 2022

How are you different?

Currently there are none of any known analogues of WEIcrypto in the blockchain industry, whereas some of our products are unique for financial market generally.

WEI – the first in the world cryptocurrency that allows you to mine it simply by buying and selling goods and services. Yet WEI has all the advantages of cash: from speed of transaction to being anonymous as a customer if necessary.

WEIpay represents a completely different level of using cryptowallets. Service has familiar functions as bank apps for smartphones or online-banking for PC. You don’t need to figure out the way it works, it’s pretty simple, intuitive and convenient, you just use cryptocurrency for everyday transactions.

WEIpartner – the world’s first service for providing decentralized loans for startups, based on the principle of «risk sharing». A loan in WEIpartner is provided through the voting of blockchain nodes on a specialized platform. The principle of “risk sharing” means that in case of a commercial failure of the project, the user doesn’t need to return borrowed funds. The WEIcrypto ecosystem shares entrepreneurial risks.

Why will you do well?

There are two main reasons for this.

Firstly, it is the project team and its experience, that we are very proud of. The WEIcrypto project has united excellent specialists from economics, IT, marketing and jurisprudence who sincerely want to make the world a better place. We don’t seek to radically and quickly change the financial system, but we want to make the use of cryptocurrencies in the world system more mass and understandable for ordinary people.

The second reason is more technical. The pre-public version of the entire WEIcrypto ecosystem is ready and has passed internal testing.

And, of course, we keep in mind ecology and the conservation of natural resources, so we use the Proof-of-Service algorithm.

Where are you based?

Our organization – Non-commercial fund «WEI Foundation» is based in Georgia, the country which was one of the first to develop and implement government-supported, blockchain solutions.

When was the company launched?

Work on the project began in March 2021, during the period of active growth of the NFT and Metaverse market. WEIcrypto was prompted by the obvious understanding that the interest of the community has moved from payments to the new assets (NFT, Metaverse), although what blockchain technology was created for (decentralized payments) has not been achieved yet. We bel...

On this podcast, Diana Paiva is joined by the head of the foundation and sustainable business at Vodafone Ireland, Liz Roche. Liz talks about Vodafone Ireland’s new launch, Vodafone Foundation’s in-person digital skills training classes for over 65s across Digital Hubs. She talks about how Vodafone created HI digital and how helpful it can be for people. She also talks about Vodafone’s support for victims of domestic abuse and sustainability.

Sustainability with Liz Roche, Vodafone Ireland

About Liz Roche

Liz Roche is the head of Foundation and Sustainable Business at Vodafone Ireland, where her role is to lead on Vodafone’s sustainable business strategy and manage Foundation partnerships. Serving on the Board of Directors of Friends of the Elderly as well as the Board of Directors of Boardmatch Ireland

Specialist areas that Liz Roche works, include: – Sustainability, ESG strategy and reporting – Diversity and inclusion – Digital skills programmes – Corporate social responsibility – Community development projects – Organisational strategy and planning – Corporate philanthropy & partnerships – Development & delivery of large national campaigns – Donor cultivation and stewardship – Advocacy and campaigning via social media – National corporate partnerships & initiatives

About Diana Paiva

Diana is currently interning with Irish Tech News. She graduated from Birkbeck University, with a degree in modern languages and she is currently doing a master’s in Journalism at the University of Roehampton. She has an interest in technology, fashion, and the environment. Starting her master’s in journalism made her realise that she has a passion to report and write people’s stories. After graduation, her main priority is to find a job in communications or public relations. Diana Paiva is active on social media platforms, including Twitter, and LinkedIn.

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CWSI, one of Europe’s most experienced mobile and cloud security specialists, has announced it has signed a new multi-million three-year deal to provide and support a mobile security solution for Three UK. Suitable for businesses of all sizes, Three Mobile Protect is an affordable, accessible and easy-to-implement security solution for both iOS and Android devices.

CWSI’s partnership with Three UK builds on the success of Three Mobile Protect in Ireland, launched in 2020 and extends its well-established capability to the UK market. Powered by award-winning, proven mobile endpoint security software from Corrata, CWSI implemented and supports the Three Mobile Protect service. It was chosen for its in-depth expertise in mobile security and its track record of enabling mobile network operators to bring solutions to market quickly.

Three Mobile Protect safeguards businesses against rising mobile phone threats including scams, malware, and data loss by blocking access to phishing sites, malware download servers and unapproved content or services. It also helps organisations to control costs by monitoring the apps, data usage, and roaming permitted on business phones, while also ensuring compliance.

Furthermore, Three Mobile Protect operates discretely and locally on the device. There is no interruption to device performance and company data is not sent to the cloud for inspection, a major privacy advantage for businesses and their employees.

Commenting on the launch, Snehal Bhudia, Director of Business Propositions & Go To Market, Three UK, said: “This is an exciting partnership for Three Business. The Three Mobile Protect service gives our customers state of the art security protection that will help to protect them from dynamic cybercrime without intruding on employee privacy, helping our customers operate safely and securely, wherever business takes them”

Ronan Murphy, CEO, CWSI added: “CWSI is delighted to be working with Three UK to bring Three Mobile Protect to UK businesses, building on the proven model established with Corrata and Three Mobile Protect in Ireland. Given the scale of Three’s ambition in the UK business market this has the potential to be a multi-million-euro contract for CWSI. We look forward to working with Three UK, and the broader Hutchison Group, to make simple, effective and affordable mobile and cloud security solutions available to all business customers.”

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Ian MacRae talks to David Robson about his new book, The Expectation Effect: How your mindset can transform your life.

How can we understand our own emotions, and what strategies can we use to reduce the experience of stress and how we perceive it?

How can we use The Expectation right to set and accomplish goals. How do we balance positive and realistic expectations, without setting unrealistic expectations?

How do social expectations lead to social anxiety? How does this relate to managing stress and shifting expectations, especially alongside public health campaigns and a health crisis that have changed social behaviour and expectations?

How much do digital behaviour and culture shape our expectations about food, about exercise, about stress and about other people? What do we need to know about how the media we consume shapes our expectations?

The Expectation Effect: How your mindset can transform your life, David Robson

David Robson is an award-winning science writer based in London, UK, specialising in psychology and neuroscience. He has previously worked as a features editor at New Scientist and as a senior journalist at the BBC. Hs writing has also appeared in Guardian, Mens Health, the Atlantic, the Psychologist, and Aeon. He is @d_a_robson on Twitter.

More about the book ->

The Expectation Effect is a journey through the cutting-edge science of how our mindset shapes every facet of our lives, revealing how your brain holds the keys to unlocking a better you. It is published by Canongate in the UK (Jan 2022) and Henry Holt in the USA (Feb 2022). People who believe ageing brings wisdom live longer. Lucky charms really do improve an athlete’s performance. Reappraising stress as energising increases your creativity under pressure. Cultivating an indulgent attitude to food helps you lose weight. Taking a placebo, even when you know it is a placebo, can still improve your health.

Welcome to The Expectation Effect.

In this book David Robson takes us on a tour of the cutting-edge research that reveals the many profound ways that our expectations shape our experience. Bringing together fascinating case studies and evidence-based science, The Expectation Effect uncovers new techniques that we can all use to improve our fitness, productivity, intelligence, health and happiness.

Of course, you can’t just think yourself thinner, happier or fitter, but using this book you can reframe many different facets of your life, and in so doing start real psychological, physiological and behavioural change. These easy-to-use skills will help you on your way to becoming the person you want to be, living the life you want to live.

Ian MacRae is an award-winning author, psychologist and psychometrician, He has written six books about workplace psychology including High Potential: How to Spot, Manage and Develop Talented People at Work, and his latest book is Dark Social: Understanding the darker side of work, personality and social media. His books have been translated into ten different languages.

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Well this is very exciting! Last night Dark Social won a @BizBookAwardUK #BBA2022 in the People, Culture and Management category! Extra thanks to @BloomsburyBiz for doing a fantastic job and not letting a pandemic stop us!

Ian MacRae (@IanSMacRae) May 17, 2022

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eDesk, the e-commerce platform that reduces the complexity of customer support for businesses as they scale into new sales channels, has announced that it is creating 150 new jobs over the next 18 months. This growth will facilitate further expansion into the US and EMEA, bringing the total headcount to 250. The jobs will be based out of eDesk’s Dublin HQ, Derry, Skibbereen, and the east coast of the US.

The roles will be created across a number of functions; Product, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success and Customer Support. eDesk operates a hybrid workplace model, offering remote working as well as office space for the current 97 employees at its headquarters in Dublin and other offices in Derry and Skibbereen and the UK.

eDesk was founded as xSellco by Ray Nolan in 2012 and rebranded as eDesk in 2021. Customers include Superdry, Pitstop Auto, Right Deals UK and they count Amazon, eBay, and Shopify amongst key marketplace partners of the eDesk product. The product supports over 14 million conversations every month, resulting in billions of dollars of eCommerce transactions every year with 40% of these based in the US.

eDesk is a customer support solution built specifically for online retailers – regardless of where they sell online. Whether they sell via marketplaces like Amazon or eBay, via their own branded webstore, social channels or across all, eDesk consolidates all customer support interactions into a single unified inbox enabling agents to work remotely and seamlessly across all sales channels. Unlike other help desk solutions, eDesk is built specifically for eCommerce. With more than 300+ native integrations, eDesk is the only product on the market to give brands and sellers the ability to truly support their customers 1:1 across all their sales channels.

The board recently appointed Dermot O’Connor as CEO, Dermot previously co-founded personalization & customer data company, Boxever which was acquired in March 2021 by US customer experience provider Sitecore, as well as co-founded a rapidly growing resource compliance & training management solution in 2017, Skillko.

“I’m delighted to bring my experience from Boxever to eDesk. eCommerce is so hot right now and eDesk as a product has seen significant growth in recent years so we are delighted today to announce the growth of our team over the coming months with these new open roles. eDesk was created to ease the complexity of customer service so that companies can focus on growth. These new hires will continue to support our growth by creating new updates and top tier products to ensure that our customers truly support each individual customer across all of their sales channels, allowing them to more effectively grow their own businesses.”

eDesk continues to attract top talent to their rapidly-growing team. In recent months, eDesk has made a number of senior hires, including Ross Keating, VP of Sales, Courtney Graham, VP of Customer Success and Mats Forsgren, VP of Operations.

Leo Varadkar, Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment commented on the news to say: “eDesk’s creation of 150 new jobs over the next 18 months in Dublin, Derry, Skibbereen and the US is a testament to the company’s ongoing commitment to Ireland. The company’s incredible growth shows how Irish eCommerce and Business to Business firms like Flipdish, Intercom, and Wayflyer continue to take on global markets and grow from here in Ireland. I wish the company every success with this expansion.”

Ray Nolan, Founder of eDesk stated: “I’m so proud of our team for getting eDesk to the point where we can double our headcount, creating 150 new jobs. Dermot brings with him to eDesk over two decades of experience in founding, building, and scaling successful SaaS businesses out of Ireland. I have every faith that he, and the eDesk team will take the company to the next level of growth. I’m looking forward to the next chapter in eDesk’s journey, and can’t wait to see what we achieve under the...

We look at then new Infinix NOTE 12 G96, see more about the product on their website here.

Infinix NOTE 12 G96, reviewed

Our team enjoyed using and reviewing the previous iteration of this phone last October. See here for details of that review, and one of the team is still using it as their day to day phone, which is always a good indicator of it’s appeal, relevance, and longevity. Therefore when the NOTE12 came in, they were already interested, even excited to get it out of the box and road test it.

The battery life is decent, and the cameras appear to have been tweaked, images certainly seem no worse than the previous version, and may even be better. This is often something that you have more of a feel for after a prolonged period of usage. It is good that a case which gives some degree of protection comes with the device, and the previous version has held up well after nine months of daily usage, so we would be optimistic that this version offers similar ruggedness and durability.

The screen offers good visibility, though the phone won’t connect to 5G if that is a need for you, then this would be an issue. However for many users, with the price point that the phone is aimed at, the use case is more about good bang for your buck. Overall our testers felt that this version of the NOTE still delivers well and performs effectively. The current question for debate in the office is who gets to keep this version of the phone! A nice piece of kit for the price that it retails for.

Key features include:

The device has added low blue light eye comfort certification, accredited by TÜV Rheinland, allowing users to enjoy hours of use with less eye fatigue.

Powered by the MediaTek Helio G96 Ultra Gaming Processor, the Note 12 G96 incorporates two powerful Arm Cortex-A76 and six Arm Cortex A55 processors cores clocked up to 2.05GHz and Arm Mali G57 GPU that work in tandem to harness next-level intelligence for groundbreaking performance.

The processor is paired with fast 2133MHz LPDDR4X memory and turbo-charged UFS 2.2 storage that yields super-fast data bandwidth.

The Infinix Note 12 G96 boasts a Linear Motor Tactile System for more uniformed rhythm in reminder related scenarios and simulates shorter and crisper vibrations when playing games.

More details about the Infinix NOTE 12 Series

Infinix is at the forefront of developing the ideal smartphones for consumers by combining the best smartphone technology and upgrading its current NOTE smartphone lineup with the latest generation, the NOTE 12 Series. This new series incorporates durable and lightweight materials, while supporting the multi-tasking functions that users require from their devices.

Whether it is instant communication, productivity applications, long-lasting entertainment and more – the series can keep up with all daily tasks. From up to 5GB of extended random access memory (RAM) to a strong gaming processor, the NOTE 12 Series provides users with access to a high-performance device that can be an important part of their modern life.

The NOTE 12 Series offers consumers with optimal variants that can stay with them wherever they go thanks to its supersonic charging speeds that powers the battery in the blink of an eye. The lineup also achieves the unthinkable by using a stunning AMOLED display wrapped with ultra-thin body design to make the NOTE 12 Series lighter and thinner than competitor smartphones, while still maintaining significant durability. This series also includes the Infinix NOTE 12 G96, which offers users top gaming performance with an AMOLED display for under $200 on the market today.

MediaTek’s Helio G96 Chipset

MediaTek’s Helio G96 chipset enhances the NOTE 12 G96’s display and visual upgrades and enhances its gaming capabilities. The chipset is a 64-bit octa-core that incorporates two powerful Arm Cortex-A76 and six Arm Cortex-A55 processor cores clocked up to 2.05GHz and Arm Mali G57 GPU that work together to harness next-level intelligence for ground...

Founders Night Belfast will bring together founders, investors, thought leaders and businesses in one place, for a night of networking, learning, pitching and fun!

Founders Night Belfast is a new event that will be launching on June 9 in Ormeau Baths, Belfast. It is aimed at anyone who is launching or thinking about launching a startup, anyone looking for a co-founder, anyone wanting to learn more about startups or anyone looking to network and meet other founders.

Jenna Parker, Community Manager at Ormeau Baths said “We are very excited to support Founders Night Belfast here at Ormeau Baths/ Eagle Labs. It’s a wonderful idea to bring the start up of N.I together to collaborate, share thoughts and provide a safe space where entrepreneurs can support one another. Each month will host amazing speakers, booths for showcases and interviews- this is going to be excellent for the N.I startup community.”

The first event will include fireside chats with two NI founders, Dr Phil McElnay of MedAll and Caroline Wilson of Belfast Food Tour, networking opportunities, with refreshments provided by Barclays Eagle Labs, and a Startup in Focus session, where a local startup will pitch to the audience.

“When the right people come together under the same roof, it can be magic,” said Gerard Donnelly, event organiser and co-founder of Legitimate. “Especially when it’s founder to founder, there’s such a supportive and exciting dynamic that you don’t find anywhere else. It’s like, ‘I understand the journey that you’re on because I am on that same journey,’. Whether it’s an intimate event or a large one attracting many attendees, you never know what can come out of these connections.”

If you would like to learn more, review details and register here:

About Founders Night Belfast

Founders Night Belfast is the event that brings together a thriving community of founders, investors and startups. Through our events, we want to give passionate founders a stage to talk about their experiences, know-how and success as well as sharing mistakes and learning points. We are providing a space to facilitate professional networking and synergy between individuals involved in the NI startup scene.

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