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Mentoring and investment

Mentors and Business Partners Network

UCD is a world leader in cutting edge research. Each year our ground-breaking research programmes deliver technology and innovations that will shape tomorrow.

To bring these technologies and innovations to market effectively we are calling on entrepreneurs, professionals and industry leaders to work with our research teams to form high quality new ventures that will attract investment and  scale internationally.

At NovaUCD we have a strong track record of launching successful start-ups across a range of sectors:

MedTech, Diagnostics and Therapeutics, AI, IoT, 5G, Cybersecurity, Data Analytics, FinTech, Blockchain, Energy and Environment, AgTech, DeepTech, and Quantum Computing.  

Join NovaUCD’s Mentors and Business Partners Network if:

  • You want to get a first look at the latest inventions emerging from UCD
  • You are looking to share your experience with Ireland’s next generation of entrepreneurs
  • You are looking for new investment opportunities
  • You are looking for a new challenging role

If you would like to mentor new early-stage UCD start-ups, invest in them or even take the lead as CEO:

NovaUCD Investor Day 2025

Investment Opportunities

We can be supporting 100+ high-tech and innovation-led start-ups, and more established companies, at any one time through our facilities (NovaUCD, NexusUCD, AgTechUCD, and elsewhere on campus) and the accelerator programmes we deliver.

Many of these companies are actively seeking early-stage seed capital as well as Series A funding. 

Each year we host the annual NovaUCD Investor Day which enables our start-up community to pitch to an invited audience of angel investors and VCs. 

Simon Factor

For further information contact

Simon Factor
Senior Manager, New Ventures

NovaUCD

Belfield Innovation Park, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
T: +353 1 716 3700 | E: innovation@ucd.ie