Start-up companies supported by the Guinness Enterprise Centre (GEC), including graduate and current resident companies, have generated \u20ac2.5 billion in revenues over the last 25 years.<\/p>\n
In 2025, GEC-based start-ups made \u20ac140m in revenues.<\/p>\n
The GEC is Ireland’s largest start-up hub and has launched an economic impact study to mark 25 years since it was built on the site of an old warehouse attached to the Guinness brewery.<\/p>\n
The research shows that the GEC has supported more than 1,500 start-ups by providing space, mentoring programmes and funding pathways.<\/p>\n
According to the study, previous and current resident start-ups are now supporting 13,225 jobs per year.<\/p>\n
Carried out by KHSK Economic Consultants and commissioned by the GEC, the report found that the 160 businesses based at the GEC returned \u20ac31 million to the exchequer in 2025.<\/p>\n
They produced \u20ac73 million in exports and anticipate average revenue growth of close to 70% in 2026, highlighting their market opportunity across key sectors including sustainability, healthcare and AI.<\/p>\n
The resident companies employed 743 people in 2025, of which 86% are recent college graduates.<\/p>\n
“Our Economic Impact Report showcases the standards the GEC has set for success, with notable graduates including Havoc \u2013 sold to Intel for $110 million in 2007 \u2013 and Adaptive Media, acquired by Enea for $45 million,” Niamh Collins, Centre Director, Guinness Enterprise Centre said.<\/p>\n
“We are helping to build international success stories from Ireland and will continue this momentum well into the future,” she added.<\/p>\n
The founding partners of the GEC are Diageo, Dublin City Council, Dublin City Local Enterprise Office, Enterprise Ireland and Furthr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Start-up companies supported by the Guinness Enterprise Centre (GEC), including graduate and current resident companies, have generated \u20ac2.5…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-420901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420901","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=420901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}