Colm Lyon
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ChangeX urges people to join €1m community action plan
- Technology
- April 8, 2020, 14:36
Social entreneurship platform ChangeX is calling on people to join a €1 million community action plan to help fight issues caused by the coronavirus o(...)

ChangeX seeks to raise $3m in drive to fund community projects
- Technology
- January 4, 2020, 06:34
Irish-headquartered social entrepreneurship platform ChangeX is seeking to raise $3 million (€2.7 million) as it plans to invest in bringing more idea(...)

Irish fintech Fire.com authorised as an emoney institution in UK
- Technology
- July 10, 2019, 11:10
Fire. com, the fintech founded by Irish entrepreneur Colm Lyon after the sale of his previous company Realex Payments, has been authorised as an emone(...)

Fintech entrepreneur Colm Lyon puts further €3m into Fire
- Technology
- January 26, 2019, 02:15
Irish entrepreneur Colm Lyon has invested a further €3 million in Fire, the financial technology start-up he has led since the sale of his previous co(...)

Irish fintech Fire.com receives open banking authorisation
- Financial Services
- July 3, 2018, 16:50
Fintech company Fire. com, which was established by Realex founder Colm Lyon, has become the first Irish-based payments firm to be authorised to provi(...)

Likewhere looks to raise funds on back of Aer Lingus, Hilton deals
- Technology
- April 5, 2018, 03:15
Irish travel tech start-up Likewhere, whose backers include Realex Payments founder Colm Lyon, is looking to raise €800,000 as it seeks to capitalise (...)

Fintech firm Realex records €1.7m profit as it looks to scale business
- Technology
- September 29, 2017, 10:37
Realex, the online payments service provider founded by Irish entrepreneur Colm Lyon, reported a €1.7 million pretax profit for the seven months endin(...)

Social entrepreneurship platform ChangeX raises €550,000
- Technology
- June 28, 2017, 15:00
ChangeX, the Irish-headquartered social entrepreneurship platform which is backed by a number of high-profile investors, has raised €550,000 out of a (...)

The big business events happening this week
- Companies
- November 21, 2016, 05:00
MONDAY Meetings: Internet of Things World (Convention Centre, Dublin 1); Image magazine businesswoman of the year awards (DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel,(...)

Brian Caulfield takes issue with John and Patrick Collison
- Technology
- June 20, 2016, 06:45
Recently, The Irish Times published an excellent profile of Patrick and John Collison, the founders of Stripe and Ireland’s representatives at the EY (...)