Dublin AI Week: Opening Night

Welcome to the Liffey Founders Club! Join us on September 8th, 2026, at Baseline (3rd Floor, 61 Thomas St.) for our next event of the year! Hosted by Quinn Bonta and Karl Timmins, this evening brings together the innovators, builders, and curious minds defining Dublin’s startup scene. We are proud to continue our partnership with Avalanche, whose incredible support helps power our community. We are also have a new partner to welcome to the fold: ClearIP, an invaluable local resource dedicated to helping Dublin startups navigate and file patents effectively. Finally, we have finally setup a whatsapp community, for our founders to stay connected before, during, and after events. So please join us - Liffey Founders Whatsapp Community Let’s keep the momentum of 2026 going and set the stage for an even bigger year ahead. As always, we hope to see you there!

A monthly, off-the-record conversation about the reality of running a startup, the stuff you don't see on LinkedIn. What broke, what almost broke, what might still break. Every month we pick a theme: burn rate anxiety, the hire you're not sure about, the board meeting you're dreading, fundraising when the market is cold, the competitor who just raised a bag of cash. A space for founders to talk openly. You don't need to have answers, you don't even need to speak. But if you've been performing for investors, your board, and your team all week, this is the room to finally get a break. This month: Fundraising Sean Mullaney, CEO and founder of Seapoint, has raised £10m across his pre-seed and seed rounds — all of it pre-revenue and before launching the product out of beta. This month he sits down for an honest conversation about how it actually went. We'll get into the challenges along the way, what went well and what didn't, and what he'd do differently next time. Expect real learnings, how the game changes from pre-seed to seed, and one every founder runs into: how to manage all the conflicting advice you get while raising. Plus the practical stuff: how to run a raise like a system instead of a casual process, what a VC's silence actually means, how to keep going through a run of no's, and how one term sheet can flip the whole thing. Come with whatever you're sitting with - a raise you're dreading, a round that's stalled, a number that's keeping you up. Ask as much or as little as you want. Nothing leaves the room. About Seapoint We're building the Financial OS for Startups. Connect your existing banks and automate payroll, invoices, treasury, and bookkeeping from one AI-native account — up and running in 10 minutes. Get started for free. About Baseline Baseline is a founder community and pre-seed fund, investing in breakout founders from Ireland and across Europe. 💡 This series is most suitable to founders who have raised or are planning to raise Venture Capital, an