Eagle-eyed new students and visitors will have noticed the Blackstone LaunchPad space in the foyer of the Berkeley Library. The purpose of the area is to support innovation and entrepreneurship in Trinity, and act as a focal point for all student start-ups at all stages from pre-idea to revenue.
And it’s having an effect. In the annual Pitchbook Universities Report, released last week, Trinity College Dublin has ranked as number 1 in Europe for producing VC-backed entrepreneurs from our undergraduate programmes – for the second year running.
They have noted 192 entrepreneurs in this year’s report, up from 114 last year. Company count was 180 (106 last year). $2,166M capital raised ($655M last year). Trinity is the only European University listed in the top 50 worldwide!