Innovate - Chapter 4

Chapter 4 - How to finance innovation in your business

Innovation requires financing. Depending on your needs and the scale of your project, this financing can come in various forms, including grants, business loans and equity investments.

From starting to running to growing, below are over 50 funds and supports available for businesses in Ireland. 

While the list below is extensive, it is by no means definitive.

This list begins with funds and supports for start-ups and then gravitates towards funds and loans for companies that are already running and finally supports for companies that are growing.

1. Local Enterprise Office
2. Bank Finance
3. Start-up refunds for Entrepreneurs (SURE)
4. Short Terms Enterprise Allowance
5. Three Year Corporate Tax Exemption
6. The Employment and investment incentive Scheme
7. Start Your Own Business Scheme
8. OPTIMISE eCommerce Fund
9. Innovation Vouchers
10. Feasibility Study / Innovation Grant
11. Halo Business Angel Network (HBAN)
12. New Frontiers Entrepreneur Development Programme
13. Private Supports for Start-Ups – Incubators – The NDRC
14. The Rubicon Centre, Cork
15. DIT Hothouse
16. Enterprise Ireland funded campus incubation centres
17. Origin8 from NCAD
18. Nova UCD
19. Trinity Technology & Enterprise Campus
20. Ignite Incubator programme
21. Invest Centre DCU
22. The Ignite Technology Transfer Office 9 ignite TTO) Galway
23. Incubation Centre at Maynooth University
24. The New innovation Centre at limerick University
25. Food Academy Start Programme
26. Institute of Technology Incubation Centres
27. Propeller Venture Accelerator Programme
28. LunchBox
29. Startupbootcamp Ireland
30. Seedcamp
31. Dogpatch Labs
32. First Friday for Start-ups
33. Startpath
34. The Competitive Feasibility Fund for Female Entrepreneurs – Enterprise Ireland
35. The Competitive Start Fund – Enterprise Ireland
36. The High Potential Start Up Unit – Enterprise Ireland
37. Graduate Start Fund - Enterprise Ireland
38. Google Ventures
39. Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur
40. Microsoft’s Imagine Camp
41. Bank of Ireland National Start Up Awards
42. Google Adopt a Start Up
43. Crowd Funding and Peer to Peer Lending
44. Linked Finance
45. Fundit.ie
46. Kickstarter
47. SBCI
48. Microfinance
49. Credit Guarantee Scheme
50. R&D Tax Credit
51. Accelerated Capital Allowance
52. Venture Capital Funding
53. Job plus