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Enterprise Ireland in recruitment crisis with 99 staff vacancies

Concerns raised over state agency’s ability to boost exports as it struggles to recruit at home and abroad

Positive Carbon puts laser focus on pricey problem of food waste

The Irish start-up uses food-waste sensors to identify and log every item of food that is put in the bin in hotels and catering companies

RedSky planning to raise up to €15m to develop tax services platform

RedSky Europe, which was set up as a localised fulfilment centre for e-commerce businesses to store and dispatch inventory, is planning to expand its new Vat management platform called Taxmatic across Europe

Capella announces 30 new roles

The Irish hybrid working provider will more than double its workforce in the next 18 months

Simon Coveney tells Irish firms to ‘resist temptation’ to sell, as he prepares scheme to grow more multinationals

The White Paper on Enterprise set a target of growing ‘large Irish exporting companies’ by 50 per cent by 2030

Web Summit: State warned cold war with Paddy Cosgrave could hurt Irish firms

IDA and Enterprise Ireland weren’t very visible at the Web Summit conference in Rio and one businessman said ‘we should have been flying the flag more’

Moderation in tech firm valuations ‘timely’ – Enterprise Ireland chief

Leo Clancy remains ‘concerned’ at effect of slowdown on willingness of venture capital firms to continue to invest

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Enterprise Ireland reports record exports of €32 billion in 2022

Enterprise Ireland boss hails ‘incredible innovation’ of Irish firms as exports to the Eurozone increase by 28 per cent to €7.9 billion

Enterprise Ireland invests €27m in over 160 start-ups

New figures have been released to coincide with the state agency’s ‘Start-up Showcase’ event

Dogpatch Labs wins state angel investing contract

Start-up hub secures contract to run the Halo Business Angel Network (HBAN)

Global business leaders to attend major economic conference in Ireland next month

The key themes of the inaugural New Economy Gateway Europe conference include the near-shoring of supply chains, energy security, financial stability and the challenges facing the semiconductor industry

Enterprise Ireland invests nearly €500m into venture capital funds

State agency said return on investments to the end of 2022 amounted to €304 million

Altada liquidator alleges private investors urged company to ‘burn’ creditors owed €10m

The directors of the Cork-based tech firm were allegedly told to set up a new phoenix-type entity called ‘Altada 2’ and ‘shake-off’ unsecured creditors owed millions

Enterprise Ireland records near €200 million return on investment in four years

The state agency also wrote off €43.9 million in investments over the same period, which was between 2018 and 2021

Enterprise Ireland writes off €47m in investments over last five years

State agency has written off investments in nearly 260 companies since 2018

Sure Valley confirms first close of €50m tech fund for Irish start-ups

Company has secured an initial €30m from backers that include Enterprise Ireland

Enterprise Ireland launches two programmes worth a combined €63m

The Innovators Initiative and KT Boost have combined funding of over €63 million and are aimed at promoting innovation and research.

Altada liquidator has ‘significant concerns’ around €500k loan

John Healy’s affidavit claims a secret ‘board meeting’ was held at the AI company to discuss a €500k emergency loan, which shareholders weren’t told about for two months

Altada directors alleged to have ‘perpetrated fraud’ over €500k loan

In an affidavit lodged with the High Court, liquidator John Healy of Kirby Healy outlines “significant concerns” around the emergency loan and charge against the assets of the troubled tech company last September