Dublin start-up Dubsof has raised $6.5 million to expand its business software platform and double its workforce over the next 12 months. The company, founded by three 22-year-olds, will recruit engineers, designers, and commercial staff to support its growth.
The platform is designed to connect businesses and create bespoke software based on how individual companies operate.
Dubsof’s Platform and Goals
Dubsof’s platform brings information from various sources, such as inboxes, accounts, and group chats, into a live record of a company’s operations. The company then builds applications on top of this system, managing areas like hosting, security, and ongoing improvements. According to co-founder and chief executive Aidan McNeill, “Dubsof exists to build a better economy, to solve coordination between people and companies.”
McNeill, along with co-founders George O’Leary and Bastien Saidi, met through the Irish summer accelerator Patch. They founded Dubsof in Dublin in 2025, after organizing a hacker house in San Francisco. The company has attracted a group of angel investors, including former Stripe CTO David Singleton and founder of Demonware Dylan Collins.
Dubsof plans to use the investment to expand its Dublin operation, recruiting core software engineers, product designers, and TechOps engineers. The company is also growing its sales and customer delivery teams, with all roles based full-time at its Merrion Square office in Dublin.
Expansion and Recruitment
Co-founder and chief commercial officer George O’Leary said early demand is coming from companies operating in sectors like civil engineering, industrial automation, and haulage. “The businesses we work with keep the country running, from civil engineering to industrial automation and haulage, and none of them have ever had software built around how they actually work,” O’Leary said. The funding will allow Dubsof to bring its platform to more businesses, as it is currently at the limit of what it can take on.
McNeill said, “We came home because the engineering talent in Ireland is as good as anywhere in the world, and a lot of it is untapped.”
The company‘s approach to generating complete software that businesses can use in their day-to-day operations focuses on creating foundations where systems can catch mistakes by design. This approach is essential for building reliable AI-generated software, according to co-founder and chief technology officer Bastien Saidi.
The funding round was led by BlueYard, Backed, Cocoa, and Project Europe, which is backed by over 200 European founders. Additionally, the company has attracted a group of angel investors, including Matt Fitzpatrick, chief executive of Invisible Technologies, and Jack Cantillon, Mark Maxwell, and Chris Mairs.
The company has outlined its engineering approach in an essay titled Vibe Coding Is an XY Problem, published on its engineering blog.
