Apple is opening up its app store weeks before the EU’s law to halt the emergence of online monopolies takes effect. Brussels argues it will level the playing field for start-ups, but will it stifle innovation at the world’s top tech firms?
It often feels like entrepreneurship is a constant cycle of building, preparing to build, and then building again. The momentum created by the current wave of rapid change will carry many businesses to greater heights. It will crush others.
The Dublin-based start-up, founded by two tech sales veterans, has built a platform to generate a razor-sharp view of sales operations – and Elkstone Ventures has backed it.
The athlete-cum-businesswoman discusses funding, wellness and the O’Gorman dynasty.
Vinny Breslin and his co-founders have sold their holiday property management company in a multi-million-dollar deal. But it took the Donegal man decades of hard work to get there. This is how it happened.
Investment in Irish start-ups plummeted by 48 per cent last year, but other metrics tell a different story of venture capital activity here and across Europe.
A new national savings scheme could kickstart a virtuous circle of compounding returns for Irish citizens, while at the same time providing vital funding for the Irish start-up scene.
Oisin Hanrahan built and sold Handy and ran the Nasdaq-listed Angi. Now he’s back in start-up mode with Keychain and is trying to solve the outsourcing woes of brands and manufacturers.
DC EV is turning the leap of going electric into a no-strings-attached monthly subscription, while GoPlugable lets neighbours share their home chargers for money. Both are ready to launch.
Will Kennedy and Adrian Gilbane have backgrounds in brand, science and business. They have just raised €6.75m in debt and equity from some well-known names, and they’ve big plans.
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