Start-Ups
Former rugby player raises €600k for racehorse scheme
Johne Murphy has plans to launch Stride, his race horse fractional investment business, in the US
Johne Murphy, a former Leicester and Munster rugby player, has raised €600,000 for Stride, the company he set up to enable people to make fractional investments in race horses.
Murphy, who won a European Champions Cup and Celtic League during his rugby career, aims to raise a further €1.2 million early next year to help the business, which currently has five staff, enter the US market.
“People can come on our platform and understand the ...