In his fourth annual survey, Scale Ireland discovered that financing remains the number one concern between the founders and the CEO, while 88pc deploy AI.
Now in its fourth year, the 2025 Start Survey of Scale Ireland found that for the fourth year the financing remains, with much, the largest group for the founders and CEO, with more than 80pc or respondents that say that it is “diffal” or “defilal”
The absorption of state support remained low with only 1 percent of the founders who use the Keep Share options scheme to help recruit and retain staff, while almost 58pc are not taking advantage of the R&D tax credit, an improvement in 64pc in 2023.
“Financing is undoubtedly the number one problem for the new creation,” said the CEO of Scale Ireland, Martina Fitzgerald. “It is vital that we mobilize private capital to ensure that Irish companies can climb worldwide and stay here in Ireland. We do not want to see some of our best technological companies that leave Ireland.”
It was a feeling echoed by the president of Scale Ireland, Brian Caulfield, who pointed out that possible changes in changes in policies need, if new companies attract private capital. “We need to significantly support higher levels of Angel and VC investment, income growth and OPI,” he said.
“We also need to unlock the savings of funds from the guest house in indigenous companies. Only a small change would have a significant impact.”
The survey reflects the contributions of 235 founders and CEO of technology companies and scale companies.
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The talent arose as an important problem also with more than half or the founders surveyed saying that the staff was as widespread as the previous year, while almost 17PC found it more diffuse. A third lost the staff in the last 12 months. However, almost 75pc did not fire any staff or was not a problem for them. Almost two thirds of the initial leaders feel that Ireland is not doing enough to help indigenous technology companies to attract and retain talent, and there was frustration around the difficulty of accessing many state support and tax incentives.
Almost 87pc of respondents recognized the “significant” or “very significant” contribution of immigrant workers, and almost 50pc say they used workers from outside the EU. Some 58PC of surveyed had a founder in their leadership team, which is a significant increase with respect to 51PC last year.
Perhaps, as expected, the survey found that almost 88pc or new companies are implementing or preparing to display artificial intelligence (AI). However, when it was AI’s law, only 59pc knew it, and almost 44pc said they don’t know what impact it will have on their business.
“It is a group that many new companies are not clear about the impact of the new EU IA regulations on their business,” said Fitzgerald.
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