Categories: Business

IEDR announce names of ten Irish companies who will share €100,000 e-commerce fund

The National Leprechaun Museum are one of ten lucky recipients of the €100,000 OPTIMISE fund

The IE Domain Registry (IEDR) has announced the names of ten Irish companies who will share its e-commerce website development fund of €100,000. The OPTIMISE fund will be shared equally among the ten recipients, each receiving €10,000 worth of technical and marketing expertise.

A recent IEDR Domain Name Industry Report suggests that just under 14% of Irish businesses have the functionality in place to sell goods and services online. The OPTIMISE fund aims to improve on this statistic by allowing ten Irish companies “to begin the process of transforming their existing online presence into a fully featured, transactional website custom-designed for their business’ needs”. Each company will be given the technical and marketing expertise needed to plan and implement a major store-front upgrade. It’s hoped that this fund will set a precedent for other Irish businesses to follow.

David Curtin, chief executive of the IEDR, stated that they’d received a “terrific response” with over 100 applications being made. David continued,

“Our panel of independent judges has identified ten recipients that IEDR can really help make the transition to e-commerce enabled businesses and we look forward to helping them take this important next step in their development.”

The ten successful applicants are,

Albizu Garcia

Albizu Garcia is the Co-Founder and CEO of Gain -- a marketing technology company that automates the social media and content publishing workflow for agencies and social media managers, their clients and anyone working in teams.

Recent Posts

AIM 2026 opens with Chris Schembra, Barbara Corcoran and Get Covered unpacking the apartment industry’s AI moment and more

Interest in the apartment industry is reaching fever pitch as author Chris Schembra, mogul Barbara…

2 days ago

Is LinkedIn Tracking Your Browser Activity? Here’s What’s Behind It

Let’s take a closer look at ‘Browsergate’: is LinkedIn really running the biggest corporate espionage…

4 days ago

Techstars Startup Weekend bets on Valencia as a next European startup launchpad

Valencia’s tech ecosystem is getting a big win this June 12-14 as Techstars Startup Weekend announces…

4 days ago

Why enterprises keep getting AI wrong – and what it actually takes to get it right 

In the upper floors of corporate America, budgets are larger than ever, board presentations are…

5 days ago

The EU wants to put a ‘tax on disinformation’: Fractured Reality report

If your content is deemed to be disinformation by the ministry of truth, your speech…

5 days ago

You created the song. Now what? How Neural Frames is giving independent musicians a visual voice (Brains Byte Back Podcast)

In the latest episode of Brains Byte Back, host Erick Espinosa sits down with Dr.…

6 days ago