Funding a start-up in a downturn: “Investors are still interested at the stage we’re in”
Shane Kiernan and Stephen MacCarthy are co-founders of Recruitroo, a company tackling labour shortages with an automated online platform to recruit overseas workers. While they acknowledge it is difficult to raise money at the moment, they tell Thomas Hubert that investors still remember the value created by start-ups founded in the previous economic slowdown over a decade ago.
