I re-read my piece for The Currency from this time last year recently to see if we have made progress over the past year.  It’s probably fair to say that the challenges facing start-up and scale-up companies remain the same. Scale Ireland’s annual State of Start-ups survey shows that access to finance is still the biggest challenge for almost 80 per cent of founders and CEOs. According to TechIreland data, Q1 of 2024 was the worst quarter for investment in over 3 years, albeit followed by a strong Q2, which meant that H1 was relatively flat year-on-year. However, the longer-term…

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