Full coverage: fundraising

With eight months to go to Budget 2025, ministers were already flying kites before an audience of founders on Thursday.

The long quest for equity investment is finally bearing fruit at the indebted livestock nutrition group. It took the sale of its research farm and improved terms for new shareholders, though.

While SVB had a very limited presence here, the worry is not only the contagion across the banking sector but the trickle-down effect the withdrawal of tech’s biggest bank will have on wider investors, who were already jittery.

Altada’s Allan Beechinor and Niamh Parker address the controversies and the future of the hotly tipped artificial intelligence start-up. But what is really going on?

Irish founders are facing a more benign funding market so far than their continental and North American counterparts. However, with international VC funds and tech darlings under strain, it remains unclear how long this will last.

What happens to charities when all fundraising events are cancelled? This is the question all charities are now trying to answer as the Covid-19 lockdown has called a halt to most gatherings.