Background To This Playbook

Diversity in Startup Hubs

This playbook is designed as a practical guide to help anyone leading or working in startup hubs to foster a diverse and inclusive startup community.

Startup hubs are at the epicentre of their innovation ecosystem. We’re in a unique position to work closely with corporate partners and other peer organisations to support a flourishing ecosystem.

We house up-and-coming entrepreneurs who aim to change the world through innovation. We know how important Diversity and Inclusion are for innovation, but we often don’t know where to start.

There’s no one approach that fits everyone given that each hub has its own unique nuances and contexts which informs how they operate. But there is one mindset that benefits everyone.

This playbook is us sharing what we’ve learned along our D&I journey, and some generic frameworks which we evolved from those learning, which we hope will help hubs in any part of the world achieve their D&I goals.

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Google for Startups Global Diversity & Inclusion Award

Google for Startups partners with best-in-class startup organisations around the world to help accelerate their impact. Dogpatch Labs is proud to be the Irish member within this global partner network.

Launched in 2018, the Google For Startups “Diversity & Inclusion Award” award honors the partner whose D&I initiative has made “significant impact to advance and support underrepresented founders” which be scaled across the global network. Dogpatch Labs was selected for this award in recognition for “Diversity in Tech Week 2018”

As part of this award we received sponsorship to develop this playbook, as a centralised resource of key learnings about D&I best-practices to be circulated to startup hubs across the GFS network.

This Playbook would never have been possible without the contributions from..

The Following Individuals

And The Following Organisations

Thanks also to…

Google Cloud Platform for supporting our cloud credit set up