More Than 230 New Jobs To Be Created In Dublin

More than 230 jobs are being created in Dublin.

The 231 roles will be spread across eight companies from Europe and the US who operate in the technology and business service sectors.

The investments are being supported by the Irish Government through IDA Ireland.

Minister Heather Humphreys TD said: "Ireland has indeed been the beneficiary of significant FDI from some of the biggest companies in the world.  We intend to be just as successful in securing investment from companies in new and emerging sectors.

"All of the companies here today, who are at the forefront of their technologies, have been identified as having high growth potential. It is terrific news that they have decided to locate in Ireland. I look forward to their future expansion here and wish them all the best."

Martin Shanahan, Chief Executive Officer of IDA ireland, said: "IDA Ireland's high growth businesses represent an increasingly important part of Ireland's high tech business ecosystem. Ireland remains a compelling location for early stage start-up companies to service a growing customer base in Europe."

Details of the new jobs are as follows;

• 50 at Affirma Consulting – the global technology consultancy has announced the opening of its Dublin office and will create 50 new roles at its Dublin office by 2020.

• 50 at SentryOne - a technology company that provides software solutions to monitor, diagnose and optimize server performance across physical, virtual and cloud environments on the Microsoft data platform. The company is opening SentryOne EMEA, its first international office, with plans for 50 employees in sales, engineering, R&D, product management and customer support by the end of 2021.

• 36 at Sojern - global demand engine to expand its European headquarters in Dublin for its RevDirectTM offering, with plans to more than double in size by 2020 growing to a team of 56 with the creation of 36 new jobs

• 20 at Advendio - the cloud based advertising sales and booking software solution is establishing its Sales and Marketing hub in Dublin, creating 20 jobs across sales, marketing and professional services over the course of three years

• 20 at Enfusion – a provider of innovative, cloud-based investment management software, outsourced fund services and a data warehouse, the company is adding 20 more professionals to its Dublin team by 2020

• 20 at Krypt Inc – The leading SAP consulting partner for Global Trade and Supply Chain solutions is establishing its European headquarters in Dublin and will hire 20 people for operations, sales, and marketing roles as well as SAP technical and functional consultants to support its EMEA business

• 20 at Lifesize – the global innovator of video conferencing technology has announced a new centralised business development and customer acquisition base in Dublin. It expects to employ up to 20 people over three years with jobs focusing on multilingual (German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Swedish and Portuguese) sales operations, business development and customer success positions.

• 15 at Vivino - the world's most downloaded wine app and largest wine marketplace will add 15 jobs in 2018.

(LM)