It’s not uncommon to find Irish professionals uprooting and moving elsewhere, due to a number of reasons, such as the financial crisis for example RendesVous353 makes it easy for these expats to stay in touch with their Irish friends and other people with Irish roots from all over the world (Update – December 2022: The startup seems to be no longer in business and we therefore deactivated the link).
Last week the network celebrated its UK-launch in London. The 353 in the name of this site is the international dialing code for the Republic of Ireland. RendesVous353 was founded by Terry McLoughlin and Richard O’Donnell just this year, showing that this young startup is already on track to fast expansion.
By the way: You can find out about other interesting startups from Ireland in this list.