Category Archives: News

AirPOS Completes Series A Funding Round

AirPOS was one of the original StartVI and are the company around which we built the programme. As we;re now looking for great companies to work with in 2011, it’s incredibly uplifting to see our friends in AirPOS achieve this so quickly! —-PRESS RELEASE— AirPOS Ltd, a Belfast-based software company making integrated ePOS and eCommerce [...]

Things are moving on…

We’ve all worked hard over the last few months and I think that recognition is due. Every company that has entered StartVI has worked on something, invested in something, put their heart into something and as we approach the last few days of the programme, we are very encouraged to hear that some of the [...]

Vote for StartVI in The Europas!

StartVI is very proud to be included in the 2010 Europas: The Europas, the TechCrunch Europe Awards 2010 for European tech companies, will be held on November 19 in London (tickets available here). Entrants have been informed by Crunchbase, our database of startups, and will be voted on by the industry. These results will influence [...]

Eirepreneur is invigorated!

James Corbett is “Eirepreneur”. He runs several very readable blogs regarding entrepreneurship and co-working and I’ve always found reading them to be an absolute pleasure. It’s therefore doubly nice to see something about us in the pages. Apparently, we Smell Like Startup Spirit: There’s such a strong sense of community around the VI project in [...]

The VI Paint Party

We met at 10 am and we finished up pretty much eleven hours later. A heap of strangers brought together to change things, to make something new and exciting in Northern Ireland. Thanks to Tim Brundle, Andrea Clements, David Crozier, Jonathan Cusick, Richard Dale, Nick Fitzsimons, Leo Galway, Martin Gilchrist, Scott Kennedy from CFR, Patrick [...]

VI on the Interwebs

Marty and Matt have put up thoughtful posts about VI: NoMoreArt blog: VI for Victory You Want To Start Something: A Room with a VI You can also check out more by searching Twitter for “startvi” (or click here and be directed to Twitterfall to see what’s being said. We’d love to see some more [...]

Follow us on Twitter

Follow the VI virtual incubator on Twitter. Why? Well, we’ll tweet when we have new content, new sponsors and new mentors. Twitter is the preferred communications medium for the types of people we’re talking to. You’ll also see who we’re following – people intimately involved in the startup community in Northern Ireland – whether that’s [...]

And…we’re off…

Today we told the Landlord that we’ll take on the lease and begin the journey of “VI” the Virtual Incubator. We’ve a lot to do, a lot of content to create, contacts to make and promises and pledges to collect. Wish us luck!