Malaika Judd

At African Originals we want to use the awesome produce in Africa to create authentic food and beverage products that embody Africas restlessly independent spirit. We want to do what big companies cant do; be agile, nimble, get innovations to market quickly. Based in Kenya, in 2018 African Originals launched its first brand, Nairobi Nibbles, in the snacking category. We will be launching a variety of product ranges in the spirits, cider and beverages across 2019. All made in Africa for Africans.

We are a group of founders, entrepreneurs, professionals, and tech-enthusiasts that support and invest in technology-enabled startups. Our goal is to be entrepreneur-first investors, doing everything we can to be supportive, responsive and respectful. Weve been in your shoes and we get it.

Dogpatch Labs is a startup and innovation hub located in the historic chq Building and in the heart of Dublin’s Digital Docklands. We foster entrepreneurship for startups, facilitate technology innovation for companies of all sizes and nurture transformative social enterprises. Our mission is to accelerate the development of Ireland’s startup and innovation ecosystem, with space, community, events, and programmes to help entrepreneurial talent succeed. Listed as Crunchbase ‘top 10 incubators around the world you need to know’, we’re home to over 85 startups and over 400 members from 30 countries. Our alumni include many of Ireland’s fastest growing tech companies including tech unicorn Intercom. We run Ireland’s national startup accelerator programme NDRC in collaboration with regional hubs Republic of Work, RDI Hub and Portershed. This includes an equity based accelerator (€100k investment), pre-accelerators and ecosystem building activities. Dogpatch Labs has a corporate innovation arm that helps large organisations with ‘work with’ or ‘work like’ startups. Partners include Irelands national energy body (ESB), a leading European bank (RBS / Ulster Bank), a global FMCG (Unilever), global agricultural company (Alltech) and the 3rd largest re-insurance company in the world (Hannover Re). We manage Ireland’s largest monthly startup ecosystem event, First Fridays, delivered across the island by our partner hubs in the Irish Tech Hub Network in partnership with Google, Salesforce, Microsoft, Hubspot and Logitech. As part of our focus to create a better policy environment for startups Dogpatch created and spun-out ‘ScaleIreland’ as an independent voice for startups. Acknowledged as a world-class entrepreneurial hub catalysing the ecosystem in Ireland, Dogpatch Labs was awarded the Google for Entrepreneurs Global Citizenship Award in September 2017.

At African Originals we want to use the awesome produce in Africa to create authentic food and beverage products that embody Africas restlessly independent spirit. We want to do what big companies cant do; be agile, nimble, get innovations to market quickly. Based in Kenya, in 2018 African Originals launched its first brand, Nairobi Nibbles, in the snacking category. We will be launching a variety of product ranges in the spirits, cider and beverages across 2019. All made in Africa for Africans.

Sendy is an end-to-end fulfillment platform connecting manufacturers, distributors, and e-commerce businesses directly to warehousing, order processing & delivery.

We are a group of founders, entrepreneurs, professionals, and tech-enthusiasts that support and invest in technology-enabled startups. Our goal is to be entrepreneur-first investors, doing everything we can to be supportive, responsive and respectful. Weve been in your shoes and we get it.