{"id":653291,"date":"2026-10-13T09:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T09:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/653291\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T09:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T09:16:09","slug":"dublin-ai-start-up-dubsof-raises-more-than-e5m-in-round-led-by-blueyard-capital-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/653291\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin AI start-up Dubsof raises more than \u20ac5m in round led by BlueYard Capital \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Irish <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/artificial-intelligence\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/artificial-intelligence\/\">AI<\/a> start-up Dubsof has raised $6.5 million (\u20ac5.8 million) from a group of European and US technology investors, including Berlin venture firm BlueYard Capital and a fund linked to Irish entrepreneur Dylan Collins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Dublin-based company, cofounded by Aidan McNeill, George O\u2019Leary and Bastien Saidi, is helping companies to develop bespoke software infrastructure to help artificial intelligence tools into their existing workflows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">New filings by Dubsof Limited shown the company raised almost \u20ac5.4 million in funding from a number of large venture capital investors. McNeill told The Irish Times the total size of the round was $6.5 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dubsof, with a staff of 25 based on Merrion Square in Dublin, was set up last year. It has already tested its platform in beta and live with a number of customers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A statement from the company said it has plans to use the funding to double its headcount over the next 12 months by hiring further software engineering and machine learning experts. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cDubsof exists to build a better economy, to solve co-ordination between people and companies. Most working time goes on admin and co-ordination, and we want people to spend it on the work only they do best,\u201d McNeill said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The largest contributor to the round was BlueYard Capital, the venture capital fund cofounded by Germany-based Dubliner Ciaran O\u2019Leary in 2016, which provided \u20ac2.6 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Other notable backers to the seed round were Backed VC, which has invested \u20ac1.85 million, Project Europe and Cocoa Ventures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2026\/10\/12\/the-cost-of-social-awkwardness-and-irelands-ai-funding-boom\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The cost of social awkwardness and Ireland\u2019s AI funding boomOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Project Europe, which contributed \u20ac400,000, is a fund backed by more than 200 tech executives and founders in Europe, including entrepreneurs behind Klarna, Shopify and GitHub. Early-stage backer Cocoa Ventures, a fund founded by Carmen Alfonso Rico and Anthony Danon, invested \u20ac350,000. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A newly incorporated UK company controlled jointly by technology investors Collins and Maximilian Regner-Bleyleben called 10xHumans Limited also invested \u20ac30,000, the documents show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The company said Collins, best known for selling gaming software start-ups Demonware and Jolt Online Gaming, and Stripe\u2019s former chief technology officer David Singleton, who now works for Meta\u2019s AI unit, were early angel investors prior to this deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Another early angel investors was Matt Fitzpatrick, the chief executive of US AI firm Invisible Technologies and former head of QuantumBlack Labs, McKinsey\u2019s AI software unit. Fitzpatrick has invested a further \u20ac10,000 as part of the latest round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish AI start-up Dubsof has raised $6.5 million (\u20ac5.8 million) from a group of European and US technology&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,615,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-653291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-dublin","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653291","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=653291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}