U2′s former studio in Dublin’s Docklands is to be the setting for a new generation of tech start ups from Ireland, Europe and America, which will include Iain MacDonald, the founder of Skillpages.com, who previously sold Perlico, a telecoms company; Elaine Coughlan, a partner in Atlantic Bridge and Conor Stanley, a founder of Clearscape and investor in Bloom Equity.
It is proposed the new programme will help domestic and international start-ups bring their first products to market.
The new venture called Startupbootcamp will be launched in Dublin this week.
The location for the Start-ups will be in The Factory, on Dublin’s Barrow Street, near Facebook and Google’s European headquarters, in a building previously used as a rehearsal space for U2.
Eoghan Jennings, the former chief financial officer of online business networking company XING, has also invested in the project, as well as co-founding Startupbootcamp, which is already up and running in Amsterdam and Copenhagen.
“What we’re doing is entirely privately funded,” Mr Jennings said, “and it will help develop innovative start-ups, from places like Brazil, Lithuania, Poland, the UK and even California in the United States, here in Dublin.”
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