Application Form 2016
Enterprise Ireland Business Partners Programme
Explanatory Background: The objective of the EI Business Partners Programme is to identify, qualify and
introduce commercially experienced entrepreneurs/individuals to early stage spin-out opportunities within the
third level system in Ireland. The goal is to identify individuals with intent and commitment around founding
and leading a new spin out company; to achieve that end goal the business partner will be required to use his/her
existing commercial skills, experience, contacts network and domain expertise to do e.g. customer discovery
and customer development work, advance the minimum viable product towards product/market fit, validate
the market opportunity, establish the true product/service value proposition, optimise the business model and
seek and secure external equity investment as appropriate. In terms of founding team formation, the
expectation is that the business partner will be the major catalyst in bringing a committed founding team
together around the spin out opportunity and will lead the team as the founding CEO, with other founders taking
up other complementary founding roles as required.
When complete, please send this form, along with a brief CV, to: BusinessPartners@enterprise-ireland.com
Individual Details:
Name:
Postal Address:
Mobile phone number:
Email address:
LinkedIn profile:
Date of application:
If applying via an higher education institution
founders programme, please identify which
institute:
Who is your key contact in that institute?
Commercial Experience
What commercial experience and domain expertise
do you bring to validating and exploiting a business
opportunity based on your professional experience to
date? Please describe.
Intent
Please outline your primary intent in getting
involved in the programme. Why is the programme
a good personal fit with you and why now?
If you find a suitable project/spin out opportunity
what kind of flexibility do you have in terms of your
time commitment? What other calls are there on
your time at present – and can they vary if you find
the right opportunity through this programme?
Investment and Finance
Can you give an example where you were centrally
involved in a team that raised external equity
finance in a start-up company? Or where you were
key to pitching and winning budget/funds for a new
product development or new product introduction
within a corporate environment? Please describe.
Do you have contacts in the investor community? If
so, can you give examples of national/international
investor contacts you have that could be leveraged
to raise early stage seed funding?
Leadership skills
Can you give specific examples of where you were
involved in leading a start-up or corporate team and
bringing them together around a common business
objective – describe what companies/start-ups you
worked with and the challenges you faced and how
the team overcame those challenges?
Please supply details of two referees:
Reference 1:
Name:
Current position/role:
Mobile phone number:
Email address:
LinkedIn profile:
Reference 2:
Name:
Current position/role
Mobile phone number:
Email address:
LinkedIn profile:
Enterprise will not contact these references without contacting you first to seek your advance permission.
Declaration by applicant:
I confirm that:
 I have a current tax clearance certificate
 I have not been convicted of an offence (other than road traffic offences) in the last 10
years.
 I have not had a court/debt judgment made against me, which judgment remains
unsatisfied.
Yes
No
When complete, please send this form, along with a brief CV, to: BusinessPartners@enterprise-ireland.com
Note: Any personal information which you provide to Enterprise Ireland will be obtained and processed in compliance with the
Data Protection Acts 1988 & 2003. The information will be used by Enterprise Ireland in the processing of your application and
for ongoing administrative purposes between you and Enterprise Ireland.