I’ll be honest, hearing Heather Humphreys on the radio extolling the virtues of the government’s shiny new auto-enrolment policy was a bit much for me. It simultaneously ignored the whopping six per cent increase in employer’s costs of providing employment, and casually dismissed the fact that once again, there’s nothing in it for the vast swathes of self-employed and proprietary directors. That was, until I was reminded of a conversation I’d had with Sarah-Jane Larkin, director general of the Irish Venture Capital Association.  Being the founder of an early stage deep-tech start-up, I wouldn’t ordinarily be a VC sympathiser. Very…

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