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28/10/2026

The AMP x Founder Labs AMA: Meet Jared, Founder of Sportbnk

Sportbnk is an AI sales intelligence platform for brands and agencies in sport, connecting to existing CRMs and AI agents such as Claude and ChatGPT.

Since completing Founder Labs in April, Jared and the team have taken their product to market, secured 18 customers and begun working with major organisations, including Portugal Football. ⚽

Jared will be joining us at our The AMP x Founder Labs AMA to share his experience of the programme, the lessons he’s learned and how Founder Labs helped shape his ambition as a founder.

💬 In Jared’s own words:

“Founder Labs just raises your ambition, brings you down to earth and shows you that nothing just happens. You have to make it happen and that is what I loved so much.

It was really eye opening to see how big tech companies go about their business and made me hungrier as ever to chase this dream.”

Wondering if Founder Labs is right for you?

Come along to hear directly from founders who have been through the programme, find out everything you need to know about the opportunity, and pick their brains for practical tips and tricks to help with your application.

You don’t need to have it all figured out. Come along, ask questions and discover what your idea could become! 🚀

Register now: https://luma.com/hoo03hyi

21/10/2026

The AMP x Founder Labs AMA: Meet Finneen Bradley, Founder of WonderLeap

Finneen Bradley is the Founder of WonderLeap, an edtech platform that gives primary school children early exposure to the future world of work through gamified learning. Built in Derry, WonderLeap uses story-driven missions set inside a digital city to help children explore real careers, widen their aspirations and recognise their own skills before their horizons narrow.

Having taken part in the AMP Pre-Accelerator and Founder Labs programmes, Finneen will be joining us at our The AMP x Founder Labs AMA to share her experience, lessons learned and how the programmes helped her turn an idea into a platform in classrooms and onto an international stage.

“The pre-accelerator at the AMP was the perfect foundation. It got me ready for Founders Lab, which then immersed me in an environment where WonderLeap could really grow.

The mentors challenged my thinking and pushed me to be clearer about the problem I’m solving, and being surrounded by other founders building their own companies meant there was always someone to learn from, test ideas with and lean on.”

You don’t need to have it all figured out. Come along, ask questions and discover what your idea could become! 🚀

Link to register: https://luma.com/hoo03hyi?tk=l6aXGj

14/10/2026

The Amp x Founder Labs AMA: Ask Us Anything

Want £25k, trips to London, Dublin and the US, and access to founders who’ve raised millions?

Founder Labs is a startup accelerator at Ormeau Labs in Belfast, funded by Invest Northern Ireland. We help early-stage founders build, grow and get investment-ready.

Applications for Cohort 5 are open until 20th November.

Not sure yet? Join the team for an open, no-slides AMA. Ask us anything about the programme, applying, what we look for, how the cohort runs, or what building a startup is really like.

📍 The Amp Growth Incubator - 80/81 Ledwidge Avenue, Derry, Londonderry BT47 6HB.

🗓 Monday 2nd November at 10:30am -11:30 am

Register now: https://luma.com/hoo03hyi

06/10/2026

Founder Labs Applications are Now Open!✨

If you’re an early-stage founder in Northern Ireland with big ambitions, this is your moment.

Applications close: 20th November 2026
Apply here: https://lnkd.in/gWEec_P8

Huge thanks to Invest Northern Ireland for continuing to back NI founders. Let’s go! 🚀

18/09/2026

We honestly can’t believe Innofest was one week ago today!

Thank you all so much for the lovely feedback over the past week. Hearing how much you enjoyed the day has meant the world to us, and we’re so glad we got to celebrate another Innofest with such an incredible community.

We hope you all had the best time! 🧡

If you were there, let us know in the comments, what was your favourite part of Innofest? 👇

15/09/2026

INNOFEST 2026… What a day🎉

Innofest 2026 brought together founders, entrepreneurs and innovators from across the North West for an afternoon (and evening!) to remember at The AMP.

Every year we get so excited for this one, and every year it somehow manages to get even better and this year was no exception.

Huge thanks to our incredible speakers for sharing your stories with such honesty and heart:
🌱 Home Grown: Catherine King (Life Cells NI), Laura Bonner (The M**f Liquor Company), William McColgan (McColgans Quality Foods)

💪 Rooted in Resilience: Barry Carlin (HeadDial), Oonagh O’Reilly (Mel), Kathryn Laverty (Carson McDowell)

Thank you to Ryan Williams and Jennifer Neff for hosting our panels with such warmth and insight, and to Alastair Cameron from Techtides for joining us to share what’s coming up in October.

Big thank you to Paul Brown and Jamie Steele for capturing the day so perfectly.

Thank you to M**f Liquour, Northern Lights Events and to Lo & Slo for keeping everyone fed and “watered” 🥂🍔

To our entertainment for keeping the energy going all day and night: Sean Campbell on the decks, Jomiro Trio, and Music by Micaela.

And a huge thank you to our sponsors for making Innofest 2026 possible: EY, FsCom, GoSucceed, Techtides, and Carson McDowell.

Thank you to everyone who came along and made it such a special one. More photos to come! 📸

10/09/2026

Don’t worry, he’s only got one more day 👀🤭

Don’t forget to grab your ticket using the link in our bio🎟️

10/09/2026

🎤 Speaker Announcement: Kathryn Laverty 🎤

We’re delighted to announce Kathryn Laverty, Senior Associate, Carson McDowell, will be joining us at Innofest 2026! 🥂

Kathryn is a Senior Associate in the Corporate team at Carson McDowell with over 10 years’ experience in advising founders, start-ups, and high growth SMEs on all legal aspects of their corporate lifecycle from business structuring, shareholder arrangements, and corporate governance to incentivisation, equity funding and exits. Kathryn has a keen interest in the start-up sector in Northern Ireland and has been involved with Catalyst Inc. and several of its programmes during her career. She also sits on Carson McDowell’s Technology and Innovation sector team, a team designed to support entrepreneurs and management teams at every stage of their journey to navigate legal complexity and manage risk to maximise opportunity to build, grow and scale in a changing world.

Tickets available now: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/innofest-2026-tickets-1993338080859?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=wsa&aff=ebdsshwebmobile🎟️

08/09/2026

Innofest is just 3 days away so here are 3 types of people you’ll meet at Innofest 2026…

Have you grabbed your ticket yet? Make sure you get yours before it’s too late 👀🎟️

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