Released departmental documents show that officials are more focused on finding someone to manage the current investment portfolio in over 250 companies than ensuring Ireland has a tech start-up accelerator come 2026.
At the end of an extraordinary week, Ireland’s largest and longest-established angel syndicate has voted to dissolve itself. What this means for the Irish start-up ecosystem, and HBAN, remains unclear.
The big-four firm conducted an extensive review of the HBAN network, a process that took several months. But EI won't say what it concluded.
Twice this year, the state-backed accelerator programme run out of Dogpatch Labs has had just one female founder in a mass of men. What's going on and what is the NDRC doing to change it?
The lack of gender diversity in the NDRC's latest batch is striking, with just one female co-founder amongst across all of the start-up teams. So who are the seven start-ups, what are their ideas and what are their chances of success?
Ian Browne, the entrepreneur and investor, is leading a fresh cohort of start-ups in the state-backed NDRC accelerator. He talks about steering founders through a stormy market and the need to for an all-Ireland ecosystem.
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