Specifically, the accelerator is searching for AI start-ups which are actively elevating and aiming to shut their funding rounds in 2026.
Begin-up hub NovaUCD and CeADAR, Eire’s Centre for AI, are searching for AI start-ups in Eire to take part of their upcoming AI accelerator programme.
Now in its third 12 months, the AI Ecosystem Accelerator programme will happen at College School Dublin (UCD), delivered as a part of CeADAR’s European Digital Innovation Hub programme which helps Irish start-ups and SMEs innovating with AI.
This six-month accelerator is designed to help promising “AI-first” start-ups from the nation to speed up their industrial traction for international markets, and change into investment-ready and scalable.
The programme is especially taken with start-ups actively elevating and aiming to shut their funding rounds in 2026, an announcement from the organisers learn.
The accelerator commences this April and concludes with an investor showcase occasion, connecting founders with traders and strategic companions.
The AI Ecosystem Accelerator provides industrial, fundraising and technical helps, together with steering from CeADAR’s consultants round information technique, mannequin analysis and AI deployment readiness.
Individuals may even obtain help from skilled industrial mentors and sensible workshops to enhance their enterprise’ worth proposition refinement, scaling and investor readiness.
20 start-ups – together with NestiFi, TrojanTrack, UniDoodle and UnitMode – have accomplished the programme up to now two years.
“This 12 months’s programme is designed as a conversion engine, supporting bold, AI-first start-ups that have already got market validation or reside pilots underway and are actually targeted on accelerating traction and shutting a funding spherical in 2026,” stated Michelle Doyle, the senior supervisor of strategic innovation partnerships at NovaUCD.
“We encourage founders who’re constructing globally scalable AI merchandise throughout a spread of sectors together with, healthcare, cybersecurity, schooling, sustainability, finance, content material creation, provide chain and customer support, to use and change into a part of our rising ecosystem of high-potential entrepreneurs.”
Stephen O’Dwyer, the founding father of TrojanTrack, who gained the One to Watch Award on the tail finish of the 2025 programme, stated: “I might extremely advocate the AI Ecosystem Accelerator programme to entrepreneurs who want to advance their AI-first start-ups by the programme’s glorious and devoted technical and industrial helps.
“We discovered our participation on final 12 months’s programme to be good, we discovered an enormous quantity from the NovaUCD and CeADAR groups, programme facilitators, mentors and fellow start-up members.
“We got here away from the programme with sharper considering, actual connections and nice momentum for TrojanTrack as we start to shut our €1.3m seed spherical.”
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