It takes a village
to start a new venture.

We empower entrepreneurs by providing the tools, resources, software, training and access they need — including our networks of manufacturers, mentors, lenders and investors — and we guide ventures from the initial concept through to selling the product or service.

We are a high-performance team committed to delivering high-quality results by providing efficient and ethical business services that bring true value to business owners. We believe in integrity, and we perform ethical transactions to make true win-win relationships.

The Dara knot takes its name from the Irish doire — oak. What the design draws is not the tree but the root system: interlaced, redundant, impossible to unpick into a single strand.

It stands for wisdom, synergy, power and leadership, and for roots of strength and resilience during challenging times. For a company whose whole argument is that a venture should not depend on one discipline, one supplier or one person, no other mark would have been honest.

It is also why the emblem on this site draws itself on rather than simply appearing. The knot is a structure that gets built.

If your organisation supports underserved entrepreneurs — a community lender, an accelerator, a chamber, a university programme — the foundry's capabilities can sit behind your cohort rather than competing with it.

Talk to us about what your founders get stuck on. Usually it is sourcing, software or capital readiness, and usually it is the same three things every cohort.

Talk about a partnership