In what is a major coup for the city’s burgeoning start-up community, the Tech Hub Network increases the amount of start-up resources available from Google in terms of mentors, access to new technologies and access to co-working space in other cities that are part of the Tech Hub Network.
Dogpatch Labs’ members will now also have access to Google Tech Hub co-working space in more than 20 locations around the world, including London, San Francisco and Tel Aviv.
Specifically, the Tech Hub will see more and more Google start-up events moved to take place at Dogpatch Labs, which is expanding the 200-year-old vaults beneath the chq Building at the IFSC into an 8,000 sq ft start-up space in partnership with Ulster Bank.
It will also make access to Google start-up programmes more easily accessible as well as mentorship from Dublin Googlers more possible.
Dogpatch Labs’ companies will also be eligible for Google product offers relevant to start-ups.
Start-ups will also have access to the Google for Entrepreneurs Global Passport where entrepreneurs from each hub can work for free at spaces designated at any other hub in the global network.
The move comes almost a week after Google announced a new €150m data centre for Dublin that will generate 400 new jobs in the construction phase.
Google already employs up to 5,000 people in Dublin – 2,500 directly and 2,500 indirectly.
