After taking a financial hit during the last crash, mortgage broker Karl Deeter reinvented himself as a fintech founder. Five years later, he’s sold his company in a multimillion-euro deal.
The Kilkenny native was employee number one at the wildly popular running app Runna. He speaks about its acquisition by Strava, its plans to break into new markets, and his penchant for grabbing opportunities.
London has long been dominant in fintech. Politicians, regulators, founders, and stakeholders have been plotting The City's plans to retain its leadership position.
The British fintech bank, last valued at €5.3bn, is in the process of building out an Irish arm in order to operate in the European market. It has already made a series of high-profile hires and invested millions into its Dublin entity.
Generating EU demand for the products of the bloc’s start-ups may be a good place to start, but a lot more is needed to make the European ecosystem less dependent on US venture capital.
The company, which was founded in Northern Ireland by Caoimhe and Gerard Donnelly, is set to close its Belfast entity and instead operate through its US business.
International law firm Hogan Lovells set up in Ireland in the wake of Brexit. Partner Eimear O'Brien speaks of the continued stream of firms choosing Ireland for European access.
Venture capital syndicate CircleRock is now five years old. It has backed start-ups like Yonder, Nory and Platform Golf but has ambitions to do a lot more.
Ireland’s start-up and scaling ecosystem has never been more vibrant but for founders, choosing the correct funding at the optimum time can often prove difficult. There are many options out there.
Even as head of sales at Stripe, Ed Moore couldn’t sign up customers to use a single payment system covering all countries. His new employer Payrails aims to fix that.
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