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WeBuild Eligibility Criteria

WeBuild Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible for support for the WeBuild programme, businesses must:

  • Be a women-led or women-founded business
  • Be based on the island of Ireland
  • Have fewer than 250 employees and less than £40m (or euro equivalent) in annual turnover
  • Be a registered business (pre-revenue applicants are eligible)
  • Be at an early or growth stage, demonstrating a clear opportunity for a technology-enabled solution or innovation
  • Demonstrate early-stage business planning, market research, user validation, and/or a technical proof of concept showing potential traction
  • Demonstrate ambition for significant growth, with potential to grow the business to at least £250K turnover (including 25% external sales) within three years, seek investment, and/or secure investment

Sole Traders and Social Enterprises that satisfy the eligibility criteria are welcome to apply.

Where demand exceeds available resources, InterTradeIreland reserves the right to apply additional assessment criteria to the WeBuild Programme. Management decisions are final in these matters.

Sector eligibility

Support is primarily available to businesses developing innovative products, services, systems or processes with clear commercial potential.

Businesses whose core activity is in the following sectors are not normally eligible for support: Wholesale, retail, distribution, tourism, hospitality, primary agriculture, personal services, and professional business services.

However, businesses from these sectors may be eligible where they are developing and seeking to commercialise a new product, service, technology, system or process that goes beyond their core business activity.

Examples (for illustrative purposes only):

  • A hairdressing salon is not eligible for support for its core services; however, a salon developing and selling its own branded haircare products may be eligible.
  • A hotel is not eligible for support for accommodation services; however, a hotel commercialising booking or management software may be eligible.
  • A farm is not eligible for support for primary agricultural activity; however, a farm manufacturing and selling agricultural machinery may be eligible.
  • A solicitor’s practice is not eligible for support for legal services; however, a practice commercialising a productivity or legal-tech solution may be eligible.

Businesses involved in activities associated with gambling, significant health risks, immoral activity, or any activity that could negatively impact the reputation of InterTradeIreland will not be supported.