Declan Dagger and Michael Veale are waiting to meet in the Art of Coffee, a coffee shop in the base of the Alto Vetro tower, a slim 16-storey building overlooking the Grand Canal Dock in Dublin 2. Dagger and Veale are the founder and chief executive respectively of ETU, a learning simulation platform that has just been sold to Mission Spring Ventures, an investment vehicle led by American tech executive Katie Laidlaw, and Pacific Lake Partners, a fund that works with entrepreneurs like Laidlaw to acquire companies that it believes are on the cusp of taking off. ETU certainly fits…

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