Irish AI start-up Jarvio opts for Mexico City as development hub after €1.5m raise

Irish AI start-up Jarvio opts for Mexico City as development hub after €1.5m raise

Irish AI start-up Jarvio opts for Mexico City as development hub after €1.5m raise


Co-founders Jake Ryan and JD O’Hea, both 26, have just started a hiring spree in Mexico City for their start-up Jarvio after securing €1.5 million in pre-seed funding over the summer. Speaking to The Currency on the 11th floor of WeWork in Mexico city’s Juarez neighbourhood, Ryan says the Jarvio team once worked with a timer on their Slack that counted down the days until the company bank account would run out of money if they didn’t secure funding. The clock would “start at 60 days and go all the way down to seven days,” says Ryan, who serves as Jarvio’s CEO. “Now we’ve got a few…