Paddy Cosgrave | Business Post

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

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

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

$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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

Varadkar says he hasn’t sued Village due to legal advice

The Tánaiste had previously described the magazine’s 2020 article about his leaking of a confidential GP contract as ‘inaccurate and grossly defamatory’

Web Summit co-founder describes ‘toxic’ relationship with Cosgrave

David Kelly has alleged that his former business partner made financial decisions without consultation of shareholders and used company money to fund ‘personal’ projects

Paddy Cosgrave accused of ‘oppressing’ Web Summit co-founder

The High Court case, filed while the Web Summit conference is underway in Portugal, marks an intensification of the legal battle between the two co-founders of the event

Web Summit founder Cosgrave says his tweets help to attract staff

The tech figure regularly criticises the government and state bodies on Twitter, and critiques aspects of Ireland’s economic policies, which he claims benefit ‘cronies’

Hopin valued at $5.6bn after securing $400m investment

Online events company backed by Web Summit’s Amaranthine Fund more than doubles its valuation in five months

Grandpal banks funding from $250m Uber investor

Irish start-up gets a funding boost from series of high-profile investors as it develops marketplace for services used by elderly