“I’m not moving to Dublin, I’ve got an ag-tech company, there’s no reason for me to be in the biggest city available”
When Fiona Edwards Murphy applied her knowledge of the internet of things to the problems facing beekeepers in her PhD, demand for her technology emerged before she even had a business. Four years on, she has raised €3 million for her company ApisProtect, launched the product in the US and is getting it ready for the European market. Thomas Hubert meets Edwards Murphy after Forbes featured her in the coveted 30 under 30 list to discuss the transition from academia to entrepreneurship, transatlantic business in a pandemic world and why she never wants to leave Cork.
