At one o’clock this morning, Aaron Hannon got the bus from Galway to Dublin to board a 5.00 am flight to Lisbon and to the Web Summit. Yet, despite the early start, the 23-year-old co-founder of Luminate Medical is showing no signs of fatigue when we meet in the Intercontinental Hotel in Lisbon this afternoon. I had landed only a few hours earlier after boarding a full 6.30 am flight from Dublin that had been packed with start-up founders, venture capitalists, tech executives and state financiers such as Conor O’Kelly, the chief executive of the NTMA. Hannon had reached out…
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