Connected Magazine Analysis: State’s start-up campus plan looks like a monorailEamonn Carey urges caution over big box proposals to revolutionise the tech ecosystem
Tech Government scouts Dublin sites for new state start-up campusSimon Coveney said locations in Dublin city centre and on the outskirts of the capital are being looked at for the proposed hub
Interview Designer Cath Kidston: ‘I realised I was working at a corporation and not a corner shop anymore’The designer once known for her signature floral prints that topped £100 million in sales has just launched a new brand in the business of bodycare. She talks business highs and lows and how her love of gardening inspired her new line
Technology Station F… off? Will plans for a national tech incubator work in Ireland?News of a new hub modelled on a hugely successful French incubator is causing excitement but not everyone is convinced
Technology Big Read: Why mega deals like Cubic are becoming a pipe dream for Irish start-upsIrish start-ups are enduring a period where funding has dried up, making scaling and exits next to impossible. We ask the experts and those with skin in the game what is happening
Start-Ups Exclusive: Planning begins for state hub to back Irish start-upsEnterprise Ireland and Department of Enterprise holding consultations on plan modelled on a hugely successful French incubator
Companies Just three Irish firms on Financial Times fastest growing listItaly was the best country for fast-growing firms with 309 high-growth companies
Finance Irish SMEs are ‘over reliant’ on international finance - Irish Venture Capital AssociationThe body said Ireland had become hooked on ‘critical but transitory’ scaling finance from global backers
Making it Work Examfly looks to double its headcount as training business continues to growThe Dublin-based company offers online training for notoriously hard-to-pass professional services firms
Making it Work MCS Tech builds on foundations of the past as it looks to crack mega US marketThe company took learnings from the winding down of MC Support to inform its cloud-based medical software model in 2021, which the founders point to as an enormous international opportunity
Tech Euro area faces ‘competitive crisis’ in technology, senior ECB executive saysIsabel Schnabel said the ECB had undertaken an independent review of the recovery and resilience facility, which had allocated €914 million to Ireland
Making it Work Irish medtech star Pumpinheart to raise €5 million in seed funding Pumpinheart, which hopes to establish a primary base in Galway, is developing a device aimed at addressing diastolic heart failure
MedTech Galway medtech firm raises €6.4m for stroke prevention deviceNotable investors contributed to the Ceroflo medical device company
Connected Eamonn Carey: ‘We’re approaching the start-up equivalent of the German Mittlestand – an era of companies that endure’The days of raising huge sums and bleeding money for years before even considering revenues are over, writes Eamonn Carey
Funding €50m from Irish sovereign wealth fund for founder-led and family-owned firmsThe fund is to be managed by P Capital Partners, a Stockholm-based financier
Making it Work Seriously Sound Food Co in talks with Aldi to sell plant-based chicken nationwideThe Kerry company’s chicken alternative products are already on the shelves in Dunnes Stores, Tesco and SuperValu after a soft launch in January
Making it Work RugbySmarts aims to add soccer and hockey to GAA on its team sheetThe Irish tech start-up, which is backed by the IRFU, uses AI-based video analytics to prove the quality of players at amateur level to scouts and coaches
Investing New investor rules will create ‘damaging’ funding gaps for Irish firms in 2024, Elkstone warnsEU-mandated changes to EIIS scheme will make it harder to raise funds and hurt the Irish start-up ecosystem, major investment house claims
Connected The Connected start-up of the month: Meet Emotionise, the company bringing EI to AIThe company, part of the high potential start-up unit in Enterprise Ireland, is now raising a pre-seed round of €600,000
Start-Ups Cosmetics firm Sisu sitting pretty after securing deal with Harvey NicholsThe bricks-and-mortar treatments chain is to open clinics within department stores as it targets international expansion