Full coverage: Start-ups

KPMG is looking for a tech company to represent Ireland at the Global Tech Innovator final in Lisbon later this year. And that company will come from a shortlist of eight announced today.

Having raised €5m to date, the Dublin-based environmental data analytics start-up is about to add flood defence monitoring to its existing products monitoring the presence of contaminants in a range of situations. Its founder Stephen McNulty is on this week’s podcast.

Engineer Catherine Sheridan joined Cork entrepreneur Pearse Flynn's new company EI H2 six months ago to hunt for energy players willing to explore hydrogen as a replacement green fuel. The technology is there, but her job is just as much about hearts and minds.

The teaching feedback platform Nurture is closing a round of funding that has attracted big names in education and tech. Its co-founder David Neville explains how predictive grades helped take its business mainstream and why he thinks its software can also help teachers in the classroom.

As the founder of a global remote working platform, Dee Coakley is perfectly positioned to understand where Ireland is letting down its tech workers and founders.

As the internet enters a new era of privately enforced regulation, Michael Storan and his Dataships co-founder Ryan McErlane are on a voyage to solve data privacy compliance and give people true ownership of their personal data.

When you look at the headline reports, global investments in the food and ag-tech sector tell a very positive story but the experience for many Irish start-ups in this space reflects a very different narrative.

Jack Pierse and Aidan Corbett have just closed a $150m funding round that values their e-commerce financier at $1.6bn. They open up about their strategy for the business, how they negotiated the funding deal, and their plans for the future.

Bobby Healy has been thinking a great deal about the future: What it looks like, how we get there and how it is made. In an interview with Stephen Kinsella, the Manna founder outlines his views and talks about innovation, funding and the issues facing indigenous business.

It took twenty years for Ireland to get its first unicorn. In the four years since, three others joined the list. And in the last two weeks, Ireland got two more. There are other signs our technology industry is powering up.