New Frontiers Entrepreneur Development Programme

New Frontiers Entrepreneur Development Programme is Ireland's leading grant and accelerator hybrid for startups, having supported over 500 founders since 2012. The program offers a 3-phase, 6-9 month development journey combining grant funding with structured mentorship to help entrepreneurs test, develop, and scale their businesses. Based in Ireland, New Frontiers is recognized as both a top grant provider and one of the country's best startup accelerators.

New Frontiers Entrepreneur Development Programme is one of Ireland’s top grants for startups. Since its inception in 2012, the program has helped over 500 founders build and scale their business.

Actually, New Frontiers is at the intersection of a standard grant funding program and a startup accelerator program. That’s why we also included in our top 5 picks of Ireland’s best startup accelerators.

New Frontiers runs a 3-phase program that lasts 6 to 9 months to test (phase 1), develop (phase 2) and implement (phase 3) an innovative business idea.

As part of the program, companies get access to mentors, perks and participate to workshops and events where they can find customers and potentially investors. Also, each business receive up to €25,000 in funding.