In his latest blog on business in Ireland, our local
Managing Director waxes lyrical about the lure of Dublin to the
fast-rising tech companies of the world.
With nine of the top ten global software companies now present
in
Ireland, the country is experiencing a tech boom, particularly
in the Dublin, the capital city.
The first wave of "Born in the Internet" technology
companies arrived a number of years ago with giants like Google,
Facebook, Amazon, Twitter and LinkedIn setting up their European
headquarters in Dublin. More recently a second wave of companies
– Dropbox, Zynga, HubSpot - have followed in their
tracks.
Dublin is now the European hub for many exciting US headquartered
high growth tech companies such as Airbnb, Squarespace, Zendesk,
Nitro, New Relic and Udemy. Many of these are spreading from the
US west coast and, in particular, Silicon Valley, to set up in
Dublin's regenerated docklands area, nicknamed Silicon Docks.
And those companies are
