As U.S. businesses emerge to a post-Pandemic work environment, the increased need for versatility and resilience is being met by innovations from Irish talent tech businesses. Enterprises seeking new ways to recruit, deploy and manage workers in fully remote, hybrid or on-premise work environments are capitalizing on Irish talent tech solutions to create connections, apply best practices across the enterprises, and optimize workflows. The engagement typically starts with Irish firms working with regional arms of U.S. multinational businesses, proving themselves to the multinational, and then establishing North America operations to support headquarters. This progression is often facilitated and supported by Enterprise Ireland, the Irish government agency for the international advancement of Irish business and the world’s number one venture capitalist by deal count.
“Talent is innate and cannot be taught but instead identified, nurtured and promoted.” Jessica Baker, Vice President Digital Technologies, Enterprise Ireland said today. “You can build systems to recruit the best talent and create environments in which talent and commerce will thrive. Ireland is uniquely positioned to support the development of talent tech — we have a phenomenon of returning executives who have proven themselves in international business but have chosen to reside here and work remotely. We have an education system that advances innovation and promotes entrepreneurship. And we have programs from Enterprise Ireland to capitalize new ventures and support international development. The net result is a robust and prodigious talent tech ecosystem that performs exceptionally on the world stage.”
Irish talent tech successes include Workhuman that pioneers the human workplace with advanced social recognition and continuous performance development solutions and has a 6-million person user-base worldwide; Starcircle, a specialist technology provider that supports recruitment at scale and counts Marvel, Facebook, Amazon, Epic Games, Sonos, Dropbox, Doordash and Paypal among its clients; Capella Workplace Solutions, which builds tools and hot-desking software to help U.S. businesses bring employees back to the office safely and seamlessly; Rezoomo, a company that enables clients to post roles they expect to fill to build up talent pools that support scale and growth; vsource, who applies artificial intelligence, search algorithms and skilled human insights to find and engage with candidates for global tech company clients like Amazon, Cisco, Google, McAfee and Pandora; Techfynder, a company that empowers employers and IT contractors to find and connect with one another quickly and directly, saving time and money; Our Tandem, a performance management technology that provides a digital employee experience and engagement solution to advance the development and maintenance of healthy corporate culture; and PulseLearning, a learning company founded in 1999 that also operates in the culture realm and has partnered with clinical experts to develop an employee mental health and wellbeing program that facilitates cultural change.
“Labor, training and productivity are huge issues for businesses across a wide array of industries in North America right now,” Baker continued. “Irish firms can help those businesses scale and then apply technology to the challenge of becoming stronger and more effective. In doing so, we strengthen American business and we prove that Ireland and Irish business are exceptional partners for our U.S. counterparts.”
Enterprise Ireland is the country’s innovation agency and the venture capital arm of the Irish government. It is one of the world’s largest seed-stage VCs by deal flow and is dedicated to supporting Irish start-ups in their global ambitions. Through a network of more than 40 international offices, Enterprise Ireland supports a portfolio of 1,300 startups, including 60 cyber companies, with over $260M in annual revenue.
About Enterprise Ireland: Enterprise Ireland is the Irish State agency that works with Irish enterprises to help them start, grow, innovate and win export sales in global markets. Enterprise Ireland partners with entrepreneurs, Irish businesses, and the research and investment communities to develop Ireland's international trade, innovation, leadership, and competitiveness.
