A community and fund for early-stage founders building breakout companies with breakthrough tech.

We believe that

Startups are a series of increasingly complex experiments.

There are no shortcuts, blueprints or playbooks, only iterations.

Breakthroughs happen when founders share in a community.


COMMUNITY + SPACE

COMMUNITY + SPACE

Baseline is a community and space for early-stage founders who are building breakout and break-through tech companies. It's a space where founders can experiment, build velocity, and be plugged into a global network of like-minded founders.

Learn More: About Baseline | Apply to Join | Community Guidelines

REBASE

REBASE

We run a weekend retreat twice a year, in April and October, called Rebase. It's 60 people max, half are Irish pre-seed / seed founders, the other half are founders of international Series A+ companies. The third edition of Rebase will be in April 2026.

Learn More: About Rebase

PRE-SEED FUND

PRE-SEED FUND

A €5m fund, we're Ireland's only dedicated and privately backed pre-seed VC, investing €100,000 as first cheque investors into pre-seed companies building AI native SaaS, with a bias towards intelligent automation, and infrastructure for execution-heavy or regulation-heavy environments.

Learn More: About the Fund


Upcoming Events at Baseline


26
MAY

The Fitzwilliam AI Circle

The Fitzwilliam AI Circle is a Dublin technical peer group — backed by the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) — built around two monthly sessions: a journal...

Time: 18:00 to 20:00 · Event Details »

27
MAY

GitButler x Baseline

An fun evening with Scott Chacon — former GitHub cofounder (4 to 450 employees, $7.5bn Microsoft acquisition) and now cofounder of GitButler, a next-generation version control c...

Time: 18:00 to 00:00 · Event Details »

28
MAY

AI Tinkerers - Deep dive on research agents

AI Tinkerers Dublin is a builder-focused evening of raw, five-minute work-in-progress demos from practitioners shipping with LLMs, generative AI, and agentic systems. Attendance...

Time: 18:30 to 21:00 · Event Details »

29
MAY

Fractional Fridays

A monthly morning meetup for fractional leaders to share and learn from each other.

Time: 08:30 to 10:00

30
MAY

Fitzwilliam Reading Group

The Fitzwilliam Reading Group is a monthly Dublin meetup for people who want to dig into interesting papers, essays, and books outside a university setting — an eclectic mix at ...

Time: 15:00 to 18:00 · Event Details »

02
JUN

Founder Filter #70

Founder Filter is a regular morning meetup in Dublin for startup founders, investors, and anyone involved in building a tech company. No presentations, no schedule — just people...

Time: 08:00 to 10:00 · Event Details »

06
JUN

Give(a)Go - OpenClaw: Getting it alive

OpenClaw: Getting it alive is a hands-on Give(a)Go build day where you stand up your own personal AI agent — running locally on a Mac Mini, Raspberry Pi or VPS — and wire it up ...

Time: 11:00 to 17:00 · Event Details »

08
JUN

Fitzwilliam Maths Circle

The Fitzwilliam Maths Circle is a monthly Dublin meetup where problem sets are distributed in advance, you attempt them on your own, then everyone gathers to work through the tr...

Time: 18:00 to 20:00 · Event Details »

09
JUN

Liffey Founders Club

Liffey Founders Club x Avalanche – Open Mic Pitches is an evening for Dublin's innovators, builders, and curious minds to take the mic, stress-test a new idea, share what t...

Time: 19:00 to 22:00 · Event Details »

20
JUN

Give(a)Go - OpenClaw: Making it useful

OpenClaw: Making it useful is the second day in the Give(a)Go OpenClaw series — for people whose agent is already alive and replying, but needs to start pulling its weight. The ...

Time: 11:00 to 17:00 · Event Details »

25
JUN

AI Tinkerers

AI Tinkerers Dublin returns for another builder-focused evening of raw, work-in-progress demos from practitioners shipping with LLMs, generative AI, and agentic systems. Speaker...

Time: 18:00 to 22:00 · Event Details »

27
JUN

Give(a)Go - OpenClaw: Applied usecases

OpenClaw: Applied usecases is the third day in the Give(a)Go OpenClaw series, focused on pointing your working agent at the workflows that actually matter — customer support tri...

Time: 11:00 to 17:00 · Event Details »

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From the Blog


We've raised a fund!

16th December 2025 · Let's go! 🚀

Today we're announcing the first close of Baseline Venture Fund I at €4M, with a target of €5M total. We'll be investing €100,000 first checks into 50 Irish and European startups over the next three years. The fund is backed only by private investors, all founders and high-net-worth individuals from Ireland, Europe, and the US. No government money. No institutional capital. Just people who believe in what we're building here.

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