Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 June 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Access to Finance for SMEs: Discussion with Dublin Business and Innovation Centre.

11:40 am

Mr. Richard Watson:

The Dublin BIC office is on Pearse Street, but the Guinness enterprise centre is down off Thomas Street. It is just beside the Guinness Storehouse. The seed fund and the Halo Business Enterprise Partnership are based in the Guinness Enterprise Centre and our office is on Pearse Street. We divide our time between both locations. Quite a number of our portfolio companies on the seed fund side are based in the Guinness Enterprise Centre and it is there we meet initially with companies looking for seed funding.