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Paddy Cosgrave

Web Summit

Web Summit: Zelenska’s powerful address lends bright spot to lacklustre conference

Ukraine’s first lady received a standing ovation in Lisbon, although the technology conference seemed like a bit of a slog this year, and event co-founder Paddy Cosgrave’s dig at the government didn’t gain much traction
  • Charlie Taylor
  • November 5, 2022
Tech

Web Summit at ‘maximum capacity’ in Lisbon, Cosgrave warns

More than 70,000 attendees are at Web Summit in the Portuguese capital this week
  • Charlie Taylor
  • November 3, 2022
Tech

Web Summit apologises ‘for the hurt’ as it pulls invitation to far-left news site

The tech conference said it had reconsidered the presence of Grayzone after listening to other attendees
  • Paul O'Donoghue
  • October 26, 2022
Tech

Tinder co-founder among backers of new $40m Web Summit funds

Some founders of Twitter, N26 and Checkout.com have also invested in Paddy Cosgrave’s venture capital operation which will be split into two separate arms
  • Catherine Sanzand
  • Charlie Taylor
  • September 24, 2022
Remote Work

Campaign targeting diaspora in bid to attract remote workers to Donegal

County has grown in prominence as a viable location for remote working over the last two years thanks to its coastal beauty and its increasing connectivity
  • Donal MacNamee
  • September 15, 2022
Interview

What’s eating Paddy Cosgrave? Three days with the ‘anti-establishment’ entrepreneur

The Web Summit founder has developed a reputation as an online activist who has been successful in using Twitter to make his views known. But is it ego or ethics that drives him to continuously needle those in power? The Business Post followed him to Collision to find out
  • Catherine Sanz
  • July 8, 2022
Tech

Collision course: Tech downturn casts shadow over web summit

The mood was subdued at Collision, the Web Summit’s sister event, with tech giants’ valuations plunging and concerns rising over climate change
  • Charlie Taylor
  • June 24, 2022
Companies

Cosgrave’s Web Summit back in black as sales double post-Covid

Revenues at technology company hit €31m in 2021 but are still lagging behind pre-pandemic levels
  • Donal MacNamee
  • June 15, 2022
Legal

Cosgrave’s Web Summit launches new venture capital fund

It is understood the company is a management vehicle for the Web Summit Ventures Fund, which will be an American-based venture capital fund
  • Catherine Sanz
  • June 11, 2022
Legal

$50m VC fund rebrands to avoid name row with Web Summit

The Semble Fund II is now known as Tapestry following a dispute with Paddy Cosgrave over rights to the name
  • Catherine Sanzand
  • Charlie Taylor
  • May 21, 2022

Former Web Summit employee says Paddy Cosgrave defamed him in ‘reprehensible’ tweets

The Web Summit founder is involved in a number of lawsuits in this country and the United States involving former colleagues, suing or being sued
  • Catherine Sanz
  • April 17, 2022

Paddy Cosgrave denies former Web Summit directors were co-founders and says they were given the ‘vanity’ titles as a ‘soother’

The Web Summit chief executive is embroiled in a legal dispute over alleged minority shareholder oppression and profit-share agreements
  • Catherine Sanz
  • February 3, 2022

US judge rules Paddy Cosgrave must enter arbitration over fund dispute

California judge rejects arguments made by Web Summit co-founder’s lawyers in a case he has taken against former business partners
  • Catherine Sanz
  • January 22, 2022

Web Summit made ‘baseless and irrelevant’ arguments, say lawyers for Cosgrave’s former partners

A US court will decide this week whether chief executive Paddy Cosgrave will be compelled to enter arbitration in the lawsuit he filed against former business partners
  • Catherine Sanz
  • January 17, 2022

Cosgrave claims he is being ‘improperly’ compelled to enter arbitration

The issue relates to a lawsuit being taken in California by Manders Terrace, the operator of Web Summit, against David Kelly, a Web Summit co-founder, and Patrick Murphy, a fund manager
  • Catherine Sanz
  • January 10, 2022

Web Summit co-founder files second High Court case against Cosgrave

Daire Hickey, who still holds a 7 per cent share in the company, is already suing its founder for minority shareholder oppression
  • Catherine Sanz
  • January 9, 2022

The clash of the Web Summit founders: the story behind the legal battle and what it means

How did the small group behind the big-ticket tech conference fall out so badly in a tangle of allegations, lawsuits and countersuits?
  • Catherine Sanz
  • November 28, 2021

Second Web Summit co-founder sues Paddy Cosgrave over alleged minority shareholder oppression

Daire Hickey claims that a concerted strategy led by Cosgrave forced him out of the company
  • Catherine Sanz
  • November 23, 2021

Cosgrave could be compelled to enter arbitration by US court

The Web Summit co-founder is embroiled in a legal dispute with his former business partners David Kelly and Patrick Murphy
  • Catherine Sanz
  • November 21, 2021

Paddy Cosgrave to ‘vigorously defend’ oppression claims, High Court hears

David Kelly, a co-founder of Web Summit, has made a string of allegations against his former colleague including that he displayed ‘menacing’ behaviour to staff
  • Catherine Sanz
  • November 8, 2021

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