Full coverage: Social enterprise

In 1920s America, a psychiatrist and educator had designed a way of identifying group dynamics and harmful behaviour patterns among schoolchildren. One century later, a former Irish teacher has harnessed modern technology to make it work.

Four friends wanted to create something that would help grow the number of female-founded start-ups in Ireland. When the pandemic came, they launched AwakenHub, and the social enterprise is now planning an investment fund to back female entrepreneurs.

Foodcloud is an unusual non-profit: it has merged, invested and scaled itself to the point where it's a significant European player. This is its story.