O’Brien backs analytics start-up

HeyStaks Technologies founders Maurice Coyle, Barry Smyth and Peter Briggs; their firm caught the Digicel owner’s eye

Company: Heystaks

Done deal:€1.5 million Digicel investment

The clincher:“The new funding will help us build the team to support our growing list of global customers within the massive, growing market of mobile data analytics.” – Maurice Coyle, co-founder and chief executive, Heystaks

Behaviour technology that analyses people’s mobile phone habits has earned Dublin start-up HeyStaks Technologies €1.5 million in funding led by Denis O’Brien’s recently floated Caribbean telco Digicel.

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