What is the Irish Student Entrepreneurship Forum?
The Irish Student Entrepreneurship Forum (ISEF) is the country’s leading platform for the promotion and growth of student entrepreneurship in Ireland. Run as a non-profit by university students, our main aim is to facilitate business development for student entrepreneurs who have innovative ideas. We achieve this by hosting an annual, multi-stage competition in which our finalists get a chance to showcase their businesses to a panel of renowned judges and potential investors. As well as this, to further help our applicants develop and hone in on their skills, we organise a series of workshops with companies such as Web Summit, Broadlake and Dublin BIC in the lead up to the event.
ISEF 2024 Grand Final Review
On April 11th, we will celebrated our Grand Final for ISEF 2024 hosted in our headline sponsors, AIB, impressive headquarters on Molesworth Street, Dublin 2!
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 (@Merleview 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!
ISEF Panel Discussion
ISEF Judging Panel
🥇 MARC - Aaron Devitt
🏆 Goodbody Sustainability Award -
🥈 Frensei - Dr.Ali Rizvi
