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Dubliner Paul Lynch has stepped down as chief executive of Chargify.
Chargify’s Dublin CEO Paul Lynch steps down from post

The Irish head of tech company Chargify has stepped down as the company combines with SaaS Optics following April’s $150 million investment in the two(...)

Teamwork founders Daniel Mackey and Peter Coppinger Photograph: The Irish Times/ Tom Honan
Cork software company Teamwork raises $70m

Irish software company Teamwork has secured $70 million (€59.1 million) in investment form Bregal Milestone to fund further growth. This marks the fi(...)

Founder and chief executive Colum Lyons, chief marketing officer Shelley McKinney, chief business officer James O’Toole, director of operations Simon Montgomery and chief technology officer and Rob O’Farrell of ID-Pal. Photograph: Conor Healy / Picture It Photography
Dublin-based ID-Pal raises €1m in funding as it looks to expand

Irish online verification company ID-Pal has raised €1 million in funding to fuel expansion. The company, which was founded by Colum Lyons in 2016, i(...)

The shock from WeWork’s failed IPO last month has been echoing back through the private markets. Photograph: Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty
The golden age of tech growth may be coming to an end

What price growth? In a period when many companies have looked to juice their earnings by cutting costs rather than investing in the future, tech has(...)

Patrick Collison, chief executive of Stripe, Hideo Shimada, chairman of Sumitomo Mitsui Card Company, and Daniel Heffernan, head of Stripe’s Japanese operations
Stripe officially launches in Japan as new investor comes on board

Stripe, the payments firm established by Limerick brothers Patrick and John Collison in 2009, has officially opened for business in Japan and said the(...)

Mark Hurd, one of two chief executives at Oracle (with Safra Catz), was bullish about the future to the press, saying: “Our revenue rate is increasing as we get bigger.” Photograph: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
Oracle tech business looks set to remain overwhelmingly dominant

‘Is there anything left?” A question posed by a journalist to an Oracle executive this week during a briefing at Oracle’s annual OpenWorld conference (...)

SXSW festival in Austin, Texas recently. Photograph: Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images for AXE
Austin-Dublin link up for tech start-ups

A new Austin-Dublin pipeline for start-ups moved a step closer with the signing of a memorandum of understanding at the recent South by Southwest (SXS(...)

Stanford mathematics graduates and Robinhood founders Vlad Tenev and Baiju Bhatt
Robinhood is out of the forest with star investors and capital

Up to half a million people have already signed up for Robinhood’s zero-fee stock trading service, it has raised $16 million (€12.8m) in venture capit(...)

Larry Ellison, chairman of Oracle Corp., speaks during the Oracle OpenWorld 2014 conference in San Francisco, California. Photograph: Reuters
Oracle founder Ellison demos new services at OpenWorld

KARLIN LILLINGTON in San FranciscoIn his second keynote at Oracle’s annual OpenWorld user conference here, company founder and chair Larry Ellison put(...)