Funding UCD start up BeyondBMI raises €1m to tackle obesity crisisAngel investors line up to back medically-led digital obesity clinic led by Dr Harriet Treacy
Tech Former Flutter chairman Gary McCann joins fintech fund MiddleGame as venture partnerMcGann is a former chief executive of Smurfit Kappa and Aer Lingus, and stepped down as chairman of Paddy Power-parent Flutter three months ago
Funding Belfast-based software company Cloudsmith raises $11m in fundingBackers include Dublin-based Frontline Ventures, Techstart and Sarah Friar, the Northern Irish-born leader of Nextdoor
Tech Dublin-listed Molten acquires Forward Partners in £41.4m dealTech-focused VC firm, which is a big backer of Irish start-ups such as Manna and Vaultree, to raise £50m in a new equity raise
funding Proptech company Offr raises €2.1m from backersBarclays co-led funding round for company which is seeking to scale outside of Ireland
Funding Sweepr raises additional $4m from investorsCompany founded by Alan Coleman has now secured a total of $13m in Series A funding from its investors
Funding Irish entrepreneur Oisin Hanrahan raises $18m for new ventureFormer CEO of Nasdaq-listed Angi is back with Keychain, a company building an AI-powered supply chain platform for the CPG sector
Funding Positive Carbon gets €2.3m in funding to help stamp out food wasteCompany founded by Aisling and Mark Kirwan intends to use financing for research and development, bolstering marketing efforts, and scaling operations
Funding IP monitoring start-up GreyScout raises €3.5mThe company, whose clients include Nestle, Mayborn and Bayer, was founded in 2020 by John Killian and Chris McCauley
Funding X-Bolt Orthopaedics secures $3.5m from backers BVP leads fundraising round with Ascentifi, Amalfi, medtech Hban, and some of Ireland’s leading orthopaedic surgeons also participating
Funding Kota raises €5m from backers for its benefits platformCompany follows pre-seed raise last year with new fianncing led by EQT Ventures
funding Ctrl Alt raises £2.2m with Enterprise Ireland among the investorsStart-up is London and Dundalk-based business-to-business provider for alternative assets
Funding SkillsTrust raises €1m in pre-seed fundingEmployment assessment company uses generative AI technology backed up by industry expertise to build authentic job-task simulations for employers
Funding Construction tech firm ProjectMark raises $3mSan Francisco-based start-up has developed an AI-powered customer relationship management (CRM) platform for the commercial construction industry
Funding VC funding rebound not on the cards as market sentiment sinksTotal fundraising for venture capital in Europe in the first half of 2023 was €7 billion, the lowest since the first half of 2018
Exclusive: Manna secures $4m in debt financing from HSBC Innovation BankingDrone delivery company gets backing from the former British arm of Silicon Valley Bank ahead of planned multimillion dollar raise
Funding Shorla Oncology raises $35m to accelerate growthFounded in 2018 by Sharon Cunningham and Orlaith Ryan, Shorla has an advanced pipeline of innovative oncology drugs for rare, orphan and paediatric cancers
funding Supermarket supplier platform Kwayga secures €1m in fundingCompany provide a sourcing engine for supermarket buyers to match them with product suppliers in European markets
Companies Fenergo weighs IPO again as turnover to climb higherFinancial software firm forecasting revenues of €150 million as it eyes expansion and future acquisitions
Funding Bright Spark plans to double headcount after raising €1mThe software delivery company advises firms on what they can do with their data to improve efficiencies
