A brace of new “unicorns” helped Ireland to a record €1.3bn haul in tech funding over the last year, new figures show. Funding for Let’s Get Checked (€123m), medical devices firm Mainstay Medical (€89m), fintech [...]
Dublin-based telecoms service operator Viatel Group has today announced a deal for digital transformation services provider ActionPoint for an undisclosed sum. The Limerick headquartered company provides cutting-edge software development and managed IT services to over [...]
The Guinness Enterprise Centre, a startup hub nestled in the old stables of Dublin’s landmark brewery, has just gotten a €10m makeover. Thanks to money from State agencies including Enterprise Ireland, a loan from the [...]
Startups across the island of Ireland are now raising more money than they were pre-pandemic. Angel investors injected €8.38m into 37 startups in the first half of 2021, 13.5pc up on the same period in [...]
Technology entrepreneur Colm Lyon has pumped a further €2.5 million into his digital payments company, Fire Financial Services. The cash injection brings to about €19 million the total of equity invested in the business, the [...]
Irish company ID-Pal has won Best Customer Facing Experience at the Emerging Payments Awards in London. ID Pal enables businesses to verify the identity of customers in real-time simply, securely and conveniently. The solution is [...]
The results of the latest SME Credit Demand Survey shows that 20% of small and medium sized businesses applied for bank credit between October 2020 and March 2021. 72% of SMEs reported that sufficient internal [...]
One of these eight start-ups will be Ireland’s entry for the KPMG Global Tech Innovator finals at Web Summit in Lisbon this November. KPMG Ireland has announced the eight Irish companies shortlisted for the inaugural Ireland [...]
Stripe, the digital payments company founded by Limerick brothers Patrick and John Collison and which was last valued at nearly $100bn, is in early discussions with investment banks about going public as soon as next [...]
A large windfall of corporation taxes from the tech sector has helped push overall Exchequer receipts more than €2bn ahead of target for the year so far. Corporation tax of more than €1bn was collected [...]