DevAlly selected for 500 Global Startup Program

DevAlly has been selected to join the Global Launch Silicon Valley programme, run by 500 Global (opens in a new tab) in partnership with Enterprise Ireland. We are one of eight high-growth Irish companies chosen for the programme, which was not open to general application, by invitation only.

500 Global is one of the most active venture capital firms in the world, with over $2.3 billion in assets under management and a portfolio that includes Intercom, Stripe, Canva, and Reddit, as well as 35 unicorns across 80 countries.

The programme has two phases. The first is a four-week virtual sprint focused on go-to-market strategy and investor readiness. The second brings founders to Palo Alto in May for two weeks of market validation, pitch preparation, and a showcase event on May 14, with investor meetings and partner events at Intercom and Carta to follow.

"Being selected by 500 Global is a signal that the accessibility problem we're solving is bigger than Ireland, bigger than Europe. We're going to San Francisco to build the relationships and visibility that will define DevAlly's next chapter."

Cormac Chisholm, CEO, DevAlly

For DevAlly, the timing is deliberate. The US is the most active market in the world for digital accessibility compliance right now. Federal procurement requires Section 508 conformance. ADA enforcement is accelerating. And most SaaS companies still have no infrastructure in place to meet it. That is the problem DevAlly is built to solve.

The programme is designed, in 500 Global's words, to stress-test commercial scalability against Silicon Valley expectations and validate US market signals. That is exactly what we are heading there to do.

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