At the beginning of this year, I was told by administrators of an early-stage tech start-up fund which was made up, in the main, by a giant pot of money from Enterprise Ireland, that our start-up developing child-protection software for smartphones was not eligible for funding because they were ‘only investing in revenue-generating’ companies. This particular fund was to invest in primarily ‘software and medtech’ in seven key areas including ‘cybersecurity and ICT’ and was to ‘address the chronic lack of funding options for early-stage entrepreneurs’. Just in case I have not laboured my point enough – we are an…

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