Full coverage: Start-ups

Once upon a time, salary and status were what attracted young people to a company. Now, a new matrix of criteria has formed, pushing the boundaries of how companies can recruit.

The Cork-based AI start-up has admitted to funding difficulties leading to staff lay-offs in recent weeks. But it is only revealing now that the investor who rescued the company from insolvency resigned as director three months ago.

Nick Cotter has been in business with his brother Jack since he was 10. Having grown local firewood and organic lamb enterprises, they are now commercialising a new livestock health technology with worldwide potential – while still in college.

Since launching in 2021, Kwayga's subscription service that matches buyers and sellers in the food sector has listed 50,000 suppliers on its platform and reached 50 countries. Co-founder Mike McGrath talks about the business model, supply chain disruption and the future.

To exit a 2019 examinership, cash-strapped Altada agreed to replace its co-founder Allan Beechinor with new shareholders and directors three years ago. Within months, he returned - here is how it happened.

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?

The AI data firm has had to furlough employees after failing to raise a series A round earlier this year. It is now working on an alternative funding plan.

The value negotiated by the Irish founders of gym software firm Glofox for its acquisition by US-based ABC Fitness is a remarkable achievement for a company forced to retrench by Covid-19 just two years ago. Yet it is only a step on the journey now sketched out for the business.

Most of Europe is not creating the right people who can build things. Meanwhile, the European government funding ecosystem is broken and following the wrong strategy. So, let’s not continue to kid ourselves that everything is okay.

The Carlow-based university spin-out harnessing bacteria to clean up polluted soils has just changed its name to Talam Biotech. Behind the scenes, the company has undergone a lot more than rebranding.