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The first 12-week Prep4Seed Programme of 2025 culminated last week at the Investor Pitch Day where seven start-ups pitched to an audience of Angel Investors and VCs.

Platform94, the west of Ireland’s centre of excellence for scaling businesses, has this week published its first-ever Annual Report, capturing a landmark year of progress, purpose and possibility across the region’s innovation ecosystem.

The second 12-week Prep4Seed Programme of 2024 culminated at the Investor Pitch Day when 11 startups pitched for €8.8million in investment as part of Prep4Seed Programme, at the Enterprise Ireland headquarters.

IdeasLab, the entrepreneurial and innovation hub at University of Galway launched in December 2022, is now actively recruiting at the University of Galway. The programme aims to further develop female-focused initiatives with a focus on creativity as a central tenet. To ensure that the initiative is coherent, fit for purpose and student centric IdeasLab has through a consultative process designed a programme that will be reviewed by an expert advisory group.

Galway Technology Centre (GTC) has announced the appointment of Ollie Daniels as new CEO and Director of Entrepreneurship & Innovation.

Anne Downey, a long serving Board Member and Director of WestBIC, has now taken up the helm as Chair of WestBIC, the Business Innovation Centre for the West/North West region. She takes over as WestBIC Chair, following the untimely passing of its previous Chair, Dr Chris Coughlan, who championed WestBIC’s role in supporting entrepreneurs to convert and scale their innovative concepts into high potential start-ups.

Running from Saturday September 22 to Saturday September 29, Mayo Ideas Week has a programme with something to suit businesses of all sizes and at all stages. The theme for the week is Empowering People and a strong element of enterprise and entrepreneurship is promised.

Tributes were being paid last evening to industrial and cultural visionary Dr Chris Coughlan, who died suddenly this week. Through his involvement with a variety of commercial and cultural organisations in the city, Dr Coughlan made an immense contribution to the development of Galway, spearheading most of the current plans for future-proofing the city.

The Local Enterprise Office in Galway, in conjunction with WestBIC, are delighted to announce the roll out of a new programme to help ambitious business owners grow their enterprises. The iFactory West Programme is an ideal opportunity for eligible micro and small businesses to receive professional analysis, coaching and access to experts that will work with them to deliver their growth plans.

"The Innovation eco-system in the Western Region keeps getting better and better" according to Dr. Chris Coughlan, WestBIC Chair. ‘Timely access to capital, and particularly smart capital, is now more crucial than ever before to anchor our innovative client start-ups here in our own region and allow them to flourish and create higher value jobs,’ he added.