Irish Student Entrepreneurship Forum

After a long year and meticulous preparation, we are delighted to announce that the Irish Student Entrepreneurship Forum (ISEF) had its most successful year to date!

First, we would like to congratulate all our finalists for making it to the ISEF 2024 Grand Final, your ideas, ingenuity and hard work were on full display and it is an achievement you should all be proud of!

Next, congratulations to our winners:
🥇 MARC - Aaron Devitt
🥈 Frensei - Dr.Ali Rizvi
🥉 BrigaidNet - Abutalha Alam & Bastien Saidi

Special thanks to Jack Pierse for presenting the awards on the night!

🏆 Additionally, we would like to thank Goodbody for presenting the Goodbody sustainability award to Saor Water, Ryan Ormonde.

Thank you to all our judges, Paul Flynn, Lauren O’Reilly and Dominik Leisi, for giving up their time and bringing a wealth of experience to critique and test our startups!

🎤 We'd also like to offer a big thanks to our brilliant and insightful interview panel consisting of Tara Beattie, Fionan Dunne, Johann Issartel and Oran O'Flynn for their contributions to discussions on the impact of the current macroeconomic climate on entrepreneurship in Ireland

We’d like to thank AIB, our headline sponsors, for hosting us for the evening!

We also know that none of this could have happened without the support from all of our great sponsors - AIB, Goodbody, CFO Services Ireland, Brian Kingham, Andrew Murphy ( Capital), The Irish Strategic Investment Fund (National Treasury Management Agency), Enterprise Ireland, Scale Ireland and CML Financial Advisors.

Finally, thanks to the entire ISEF team for contributing so much of their time throughout the year and ultimately running such a successful event - Hugo Norris, Andreea-Gabriela Radu, Eoin Dunne, Adam Tunney, Ciara Dunne, Julia Patterson, Finn O'Donnell, Oisin Connellan, Daire O'Doherty, Luka Keyes, Mihaela Borta.

We hope that all the workshops, posts and insights have helped inspire some budding entrepreneurs out there and we look forward to seeing you all again next year!

The application deadline for ISEF 2024 is fast approaching!
With an opportunity to win a €10,000 prize fund to grow business venture, don't walk but RUN to the application link in our bio >>>.

We are excited to announce that we have opened our applications for ISEF 2024!

We want to empower young entrepreneurs to turn their innovative ideas into thriving businesses starting with YOU!

Through our various workshops, mentorships and insightful presentations, ISEF represents an exceptional platform to elevate your business and cultivate your product within its industry.

Share your creativity with us by applying via the link in our bio!

Get ready for another year of exciting workshops and competitions! Our applications for startups will be opening on the October 31st.

Be sure to spread the word to anyone you know who is in the midst of developing their own student-led start-up! Applicants will obtain the opportunity to grow and connect with a larger audience of experienced founders and prospective investors than ever before!

The link to our website is in our bio so check that out and be sure to follow our other social media channels!

We are delighted to announce that we are extending our partnership with Goodbody for ISEF 2024!

Goodbody is a leading financial services firm serving and growing client relationships for nearly 150 years. Goodbody's is a full-service, investment-led business offering wealth management, asset management and investment banking services and we are thrilled to be working alongside them this year to promote student entrepreneurship in Ireland!

We are delighted to announce Resolve Partners as one of ISEF’s 2023 partners.

“We work with entrepreneurs to help them hone their value proposition. We provide investors with an informed view of startup and scaleup businesses. We work with corporates who wish to maintain market position by having a view of the startup/scaleup landscape. At Resolve we source, invest in, and scale Irish companies who are delivering innovative solutions to the world’s biggest challenges. We are unparalleled community builders, with decades of experience creating programmes and pathways, matched with an understanding of supporting the needs of the individual entrepreneur. Having established Resolve as the leading enabler of mission-led, sustainability innovators, we are excited to grow our impact to enable new communities, new partnerships, and new solutions.” -Resolve Partners

🚨🚨 We're having our 5th workshop as a part of our mini-accelerator programme on Tuesday, March 14, 1pm in Nova UCD.

The workshop will be hosted by one of our sponsors - Resolve Partners. Join Resolve Partners Director, Alan Costello, for this informative workshop on how to find product-market fit. You will learn how to validate your business idea without wasting money, how to create a powerful group of early users and amplifiers, and how to assess what early feedback to heed, and what to cast aside.

"We work with entrepreneurs to help them hone their value proposition. We provide investors with an informed view of startup and scaleup businesses. We work with corporates who wish to maintain market position by having a view of the startup/scaleup landscape. At Resolve we source, invest in, and scale Irish companies who are delivering innovative solutions to the world's biggest challenges. We are unparalleled community builders, with decades of experience creating programmes and pathways, matched with an understanding of supporting the needs of the individual entrepreneur. Having established Resolve as the leading enabler of mission-led, sustainability innovators, we are excited to grow our impact to enable new communities, new partnerships, and new solutions." - Resolve Partners

Signup here: https://lnkd.in/ePdhmMCN

🚨🚨 Kicking off the year with a workshop for our startups and all others interested!

We are delighted to have Peter Cosgrove of Futurewise Ltd give this talk. Peter is an extremely experienced & knowledgeable expert on future trends, and will be speaking on the future of work, future proofing and innovation, & the role of AI. His talks are exceptionally fascinating & insightful, and we are hugely excited to be bringing the workshop to you.

Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/enSY3utc
Spaces are allocated on a first come first serve basis, so apply soon!

Extended Deadline 🚨

Quick reminder!

Applications close today for ISEF 2023. This includes access to workshops, industry-leading mentors, and cash prizes.

We are delighted to announce NoFrixion as one of ISEF’s 2023 partners.

NoFrixion was founded in 2020 by Aaron Clauson and Feargal Brady.

“We make the complexity of storing money, moving money and receiving payments simple - the way it should be. We enable business and entrepreneurs to create beautiful solutions to payment problems. We shoulder the burden, minimizing the friction inherent in legacy networks, while building the technology of tomorrow.”
— NoFrixion

Applications are closing soon!

Make sure to get your startup signed up before the 30th of December!