When Eoin Hinchy and Thomas Kinsella founded Tines in 2018, they had a simple premise: businesses were drowning in repetitive digital tasks, and someone needed to build a smarter way through.
Eight years later, that premise has made Tines a billion-dollar company, backed by some of the biggest names in global venture capital, and trusted by brands including SAP, Mars, Reddit, and Canva. And this week, it announced 100 new jobs in Dublin over the next two years — a move that signals not just growth, but a deliberate decision to anchor its future firmly in Ireland.
The Announcement
Tines confirmed plans to create 100 new roles at its Dublin base, with more than half of the positions targeted at entry-level and early-career candidates — graduates and those taking their first steps in the technology sector. The roles will span product development, engineering, sales, marketing, and customer success.
The timing is significant. The Dublin announcement comes just months after Tines unveiled 100 new positions in the United States in March 2026 — a move that represented a 42% increase on the 237 US staff the company already employed, and accompanied the opening of a new Boston hub. The new Dublin hires will be housed in a new Irish headquarters facility set to open later in 2026.
Co-founder and CEO Eoin Hinchy put it simply: “It's an exciting time for Tines as we build and grow an AI company from Dublin.”
A Company That Has Earned Its Unicorn Status
Tines reached unicorn status — a valuation of $1 billion or more — in February 2025, following a $125 million Series C funding round. The company has now raised a total of $272 million from an investor roster that reads like a who's who of global venture capital: Goldman Sachs, SoftBank, Felicis, Addition, Accel, Blossom Capital, and Lux Capital.
That kind of investor confidence doesn't happen without substance behind it. The company's most recent financial accounts — covering the year to January 2025 — showed revenue of $39.6 million, almost exactly double the $19.1 million generated the year before. North America is the engine of that growth, generating $29.4 million in sales, with Ireland contributing $8.6 million and an expanding presence in Australia, Asia, and Africa adding further momentum.
The company averaged 220 employees during that accounting period and has since grown to more than 400 people across Ireland and the US. The 100 Dublin roles being announced now will push that headcount meaningfully higher.
What Tines Actually Does — and Why It Matters
Tines operates in the automation and workflow space, helping businesses connect their software tools, eliminate manual digital tasks, and manage operational risk more effectively. In plain terms: it builds the plumbing that lets enterprise technology actually talk to each other and act without human intervention at every step.
That might sound dry, but the demand for exactly this capability is enormous. As businesses layer more and more software tools on top of each other — security platforms, CRM systems, HR tools, compliance dashboards — the gap between those tools grows into a serious operational problem. Tines fills that gap.
Its newest product, Tines 3B, moves the company squarely into the AI era. It allows employees to build and run AI-powered software agents in a secure enterprise environment — without needing a technical background to do it. The new Dublin hires will be central to developing and scaling this product, which is already in use at companies including Fin (formerly Intercom) and Headspace.
Ireland's Moment in Global AI
The political response to the announcement was swift and pointed. Peter Burke TD, Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment, said: “Tines is one of a new generation of rapidly scaling Irish technology companies competing successfully on the global stage.”
Jenny Melia, CEO of Enterprise Ireland, added: “Tines is a standout example of an Irish company building and scaling a global AI company from Ireland.”
Those statements carry weight beyond the usual press release language. Ireland has spent decades positioning itself as a European base for American technology giants — home to the EMEA headquarters of Google, Meta, Apple, and dozens more. That strategy has delivered enormous economic benefit, but it has also left Ireland somewhat dependent on decisions made in California boardrooms.
What Tines represents is a different model: a homegrown Irish company that has not sold out, relocated, or been absorbed into a larger American parent. It is building its global ambitions from Dublin — co-headquartered with Boston, yes, but with its roots, its leadership, and increasingly its workforce planted in Ireland.
For a country that has sometimes struggled to retain the companies it produces, Tines is a meaningful counterpoint.
The announcement also sits within a broader pattern. Enterprise Ireland-backed companies raised record levels of venture capital through 2025 and into 2026, and a growing share of that money is flowing to Irish-founded firms selling into global markets rather than servicing the domestic economy alone. Tines is the clearest proof point of that shift: a company conceived in Dublin, funded by the world's most demanding investors, and selling to some of the world's best-known brands — without ever needing to leave home to do it.
What 100 Jobs Actually Means
One hundred jobs is a headline number. But the detail behind this particular announcement matters more than the figure itself.
More than half of the roles are entry-level. That means Tines is not simply transplanting experienced hires from other companies — it is investing in building a talent pipeline. It is recruiting graduates and early-career candidates, training them in cutting-edge AI and automation technology, and giving them a career path inside an Irish company with genuine global reach.
That is how a technology ecosystem deepens. Not just by attracting foreign direct investment, but by growing companies that then grow people who go on to build more companies. Tines has already demonstrated that trajectory — both Hinchy and Kinsella came through the Irish tech sector before founding their own firm.
The new Dublin headquarters facility, opening later this year, will give that ambition a physical home. It signals a long-term commitment to Ireland that goes beyond a satellite office or a tax-efficient holding structure.
It also lands at a moment when Ireland's technology sector is under genuine scrutiny. Multinational employment remains the backbone of the Irish economy, but the past two years have shown how quickly global headcount decisions can ripple through Dublin, Cork and Limerick. A scaling indigenous company hiring at this pace — and hiring young — is exactly the counterweight policymakers have been hoping to see.
The Bottom Line
Tines is one of the most important Irish technology companies of its generation — not because of its valuation, but because of what it represents: proof that world-class AI infrastructure can be built from Dublin, scaled globally, and kept here. The 100 new jobs announced this week are not just a jobs story. They are a statement about where this company sees its future, and an argument that Ireland's ambition in AI goes well beyond hosting the data centres of American giants. Tines is building the thing itself — and it's doing it at home.