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Venture capital funding for Irish firms up 41% despite Covid crisis
- Technology
- November 17, 2020, 09:30
Venture capital funding into Irish companies for the first nine months of the year is just €34 million below the total raised for the whole of 2019, n(...)

Start-ups face wipeout as funding declines in first three months
- Technology
- May 4, 2020, 15:00
New figures show that venture-capital funding for start-ups sharply declined even before the Covid-19 pandemic took hold locally. The Irish Venture C(...)

How start-ups can combat the Covid-19 investment crisis
- Technology
- April 23, 2020, 06:00
In a perfect world this would be a time of celebration for the Irish tech sector. With a number of high-profile deals for indigenous companies since t(...)

VC funding for Irish companies down sharply in third quarter
- Technology
- December 5, 2019, 06:45
Venture capital funding into Irish companies fell sharply in the third quarter, but is up by 3.7 per cent to €566 million for the first nine months of(...)

Tech entrepreneur praises measures for start-ups in Budget 2020
- Technology
- October 9, 2019, 13:07
Budget 2020 is “possibly the most positive budget from a start-up/scale-up perspective in a generation”, according to tech veteran Brian Caulfield, wh(...)

VC funding for Irish tech companies falls by a quarter
- Technology
- February 21, 2019, 05:00
The amount of money raised by Irish technology companies fell by a quarter last year, dropping from €994 million to €740 million, new figures show. A(...)

Concern as venture capital funding falls significantly in third quarter
- Technology
- December 6, 2018, 03:15
Venture capital funding fell significantly in the third quarter of the year, decreasing by 47 per cent to €170 million, according to the latest report(...)

Irish tech firms see VC funding fall for first time since 2011
- Technology
- September 20, 2018, 05:55
Venture capital funding into Irish tech firms fell by 9 per cent in the first half of 2018, the first time that the funding has fallen since 2011. Th(...)

Software and life-sciences in focus as Irish tech VC activity jumps
- Technology
- May 9, 2018, 09:00
The amount of money raised by Irish tech firms rose by a third in the first three months of the year, but a significant chunk of the funding went to j(...)

Clinishift founder Aimée Madden wins Bolton Trust / PwC innovation award
- Health & Pharma
- April 19, 2018, 12:45
The entrepreneur behind hospital communications software that allocates overtime shifts has been named the winner of the 2018 Bolton Trust / PwC Innov(...)