Roisin Burke on Business

123.ie’s Andrew Collins has an alarming new venture

Andrew Collins and Luisa Zissman

His past two successes are reported to have sold for more than €100 million combined, and now Andrew Collins’s latest fledgling enterprise is scaling up. HomeSecure, where Collins is a director and has put in €100,000 of his own cash, has raised €1.5 million in fresh funding as part of ambitious expansion plans.

The monitored alarm service is a rival to Eircom’s Phonewatch. This new finance will be used to help boost its ...