South and mid-west beating nationwide common for ladies founders, finds AxisBIC

The report recognized a rise within the variety of ladies entrepreneurs elevating investments to broaden their companies.

Forward of Worldwide Ladies’s Day on Sunday (8 March), AxisBIC, a non-profit based mostly in Eire’s south and mid-west area that helps progressive start-ups, has launched knowledge highlighting the progress being made amongst ladies founders. 

AxisBIC’s figures for 2025 present that 35pc of Excessive Potential Begin-Up approvals on this area have been organisations both based or co-founded by ladies, whereas 57pc of Pre-Seed Begin Fund approvals got to corporations being led by ladies. 

The platform’s analysis exhibits that over the course of the final 5 years at AxisBIC’s flagship occasion, the Entrepreneur Expertise, greater than 50pc of the taking part companies have been based or co-founded by ladies – outpacing the nationwide common of 25pc to 30pc. Figures additionally present that these women-led companies raised a complete funding of €42m.

AxisBIC works with entrepreneurs to develop their enterprise plans, increase funding, handle enterprise propositions and prepare agreements between shareholders and traders. The organisation additionally supplies entry to a community that features companions, native authorities, universities, traders, enterprise our bodies and seasoned entrepreneurs throughout Eire and internationally.

Among the women-led start-ups which have labored with AxisBIC embrace Rosanne Longmore’s femtech Coroflo – which lately made historical past at CES 2026 – Peigín Crowley’s well being and wellness model Floor Wellbeing, and Rena Maycock’s cell phone baby safety firm Chirp. 

The CEO of AxisBIC Larry O’Donoghue mentioned: “At AxisBIC, our dedication of supporting and advancing women-led start-ups is underpinned by a powerful ‘Give to Acquire’ ethos. The organisation attracts on an in depth community of skilled entrepreneurs, traders and companions who mentor, coach and advise rising founders.

“As well as, AxisBIC, along with the 4 Irish Enterprise Innovation Centres, has lately organised and supported Enterprise Eire’s newly established accelerator programme, NextWave. NextWave is the brand new nationwide ladies’s founder accelerator designed to empower ladies founders to validate, construct and scale with confidence.”

According to Worldwide Ladies’s Day, AxisBIC will co-host a webinar referred to as ‘Forging Collaboration and Sharing Entrepreneurial Success Tales to Steadiness the Scales’ with companion incubators within the EU and the Caribbean. 

The dialogue will happen 10 March and can embrace ladies entrepreneurs from Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Eire and Slovenia. Anybody can register to attend on the AxisBIC web site.

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