Connected Magazine

Big Apple beckons for Irish tech start-ups

An event held recently in Manhattan is intended to help start-ups prosper in the US. Connected editor Charlie Taylor reports from NYC

Attendees at Irish Start-Up Week NYC, where well-known Irish business leaders spoke. Picture: Katja Sherlock

Irish tech start-ups looking to scale overseas often look to North America as a marketplace with plenty of potential. But making it big over there is no easy matter.

A new event held in New York City recently highlighted both the opportunities and pitfalls for entrepreneurs seeking to make it stateside.

Well-known business leaders such as Sean O’Sullivan of SOSV, Oisin Hanrahan, formerly of Angi, and Alice Delahunt, the founder of Syky, were among those ...