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\nThe fintech and financial services sector grew by 4.9%<\/p>\n
A report has found the number of jobs at companies supported by Enterprise Ireland showed a net increase of 2,938 last year, rising to 232,425.<\/p>\n
According to the State agency responsible for developing Irish business globally, 69% of the jobs created in 2025 in client companies were located outside the Dublin region – with all nine regions recording jobs growth.<\/p>\n
Announcing its 2025 results, Enterprise Ireland also said it directly invested almost \u20ac50 million in equity – leveraging a total of \u20ac440 million across the year.<\/p>\n
Individual investments ranged from \u20ac100,000 to \u20ac2 million, which the agency said reflects its new investment strategy.<\/p>\n
It said this approach moves beyond early-stage funding to multi-stage investing, enabling larger funding rounds and providing greater support for scaling companies.<\/p>\n
Each of Enterprise Ireland’s three main sectoral divisions recorded relatively small jobs growth last year, with food and sustainability now employing 69,295 people – up 0.6%.<\/p>\n
\nThe fintech and financial services sector grew by 4.9%<\/p>\n
The industrial and life sciences sector reached 101,747 jobs, up 2%, while technology and services now employ 61,383 people, up 0.8%.<\/p>\n
Other smaller Enterprise Ireland-supported sectors saw stronger jobs growth.<\/p>\n
Climate tech and renewable energy increased by 6.5%, housing saw employment increase by 4% and employment in the high-tech construction sector increased by 2.5%.<\/p>\n
The fintech and financial services sector grew by 4.9%.<\/p>\n
Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment Peter Burke said the results are “indicative of a resilient Ireland that, despite huge global challenges, remains an attractive base for businesses to start, grow and scale.<\/p>\n
“The increased level of funding by Enterprise Ireland demonstrates that long-term investment delivers sustainable growth and ultimately the creation of high value jobs across the country.<\/p>\n
“As geopolitical uncertainty continues to dominate global trade relations, it is vital that we put in place the solid foundations for a diversified economy, and the roll out the Government\u2019s five-year National Development Plan supports this critical agenda.”<\/p>\n
Commenting on the results, Enterprise Ireland Chief Executive Jenny Melia said they “demonstrate the strength and adaptability of Irish businesses in a challenging global environment”.<\/p>\n
“Enterprise Ireland will continue to support companies in achieving sustainable growth and creating high-quality jobs across all regions,” she said.<\/p>\n
Ms Melia added that “one of our key priorities for the next year and beyond is to support the ambition of Irish entrepreneurs to help them to scale globally”.<\/p>\n
She said: “The integration of AI as a growth engine for Irish exporters and start-ups will play a big part of this.<\/p>\n
“According to our recent client survey, nearly nine in ten, 87%, of our client base are already integrating or planning to integrate AI into their business operations, with two-thirds believing AI and digitalisation will be critical in winning future international business.”<\/p>\n
Enterprise Ireland’s results were published alongside an announcement of an expansion at Dublin-based IT services and consulting company Origina, which was supported by the State agency.<\/p>\n
Origina is creating 350 high-value roles, with Enterprise Ireland saying the expansion expects to deliver up to \u20ac28 million in annual direct economic contribution to the Irish economy.<\/p>\n
Origina specialises in independent software support and maintenance for enterprise software from vendors, including IBM, HCL, and VMware.<\/p>\n
Minister of State with responsibility for Small Business, Retail and Employment Alan Dillon said the Origina announcement is “a huge achievement for a home-grown Irish company, demonstrating that Enterprise Ireland supported companies are competing and succeeding internationally while continuing to invest at home”.<\/p>\n
Origina said it is also investing in a larger, technology-forward Dublin office based in Sandyford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A report has found the number of jobs at companies supported by Enterprise Ireland showed a net increase…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-264535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}