Raise supports startup founders and entrepreneurs to nurture an early stage idea or tech solution into a commercially viable, investable, scalable business and bring it to market. Raise connects entrepreneurs with angel investors and VCs in their industries.
Raise Pitch Nights give a platform to startups - both early stage startups and established scaleups - to showcase their business and connect with angel investors and VC funds to raise capital. Our Raise the Roof Summer Pitch Night saw 8 rising startups from the creative, hospitality and tourism, big...
Now that the dust has settled after Digital DNA, we'd love to share our best bits! 📈 We were delighted to sponsor the Upstart Zone that featured 16 rising startups from across the island. It was an honour to be part of your showcase of tech products solving real-world...
Where can you find talent? It's not easy to navigate the numerous, dispersed ways of finding potential employees out there. So we've done the hard work for you and pulled together information on talent sources from local universities, colleges, programmes, and agencies. You can filter the...
It's that time of the year again where we're rolling into the warmer months and looking forward to Northern Ireland's flagship tech conference Digital DNA! Taking place on 7th June at St George's Market Belfast, it should be a key date in...
A blog by Kris Jones The recent visit to Belfast by President Biden and US Special Envoy Joe Kennedy helped highlight the dynamic nature of the Northern Irish economy and particularly the tech and startup scene. They followed in the footsteps of Raise Ventures by holding their keynote event at...
We were delighted to sit down as a startup community and discuss the phenomenon of ChatGPT with speakers Dave Graham of Dell Technologies, Mike Ma of Human Intelligence AI and Jase Bell of Synthetica Data. If you didn't already know, OpenAI, funded originally by Elon Musk, Amazon Web...
On Wednesday 29th March, we showcased 5 exciting startups emerging from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland at our Sunset Pitch Night. It was just wonderful to see a full room of investors, advisors and mentors showing up to support local founders and get a flavour of the talent...
The launch of the Northern Ireland Software Alliance represents an important moment for the software and startup sector in NI.
The Accelerator programme is designed to help build investable, scalable tech startups. If you are a startup founder or entrepreneur solving a real problem and are ready to commercialise your validated idea, launch it in the market and raise investment - we want to hear from you! Applications for the...