Full coverage: Start-ups

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.

Six years on from founding CitySwift, Brian O’Rourke and Alan Farrelly explain how they developed AI to optimise bus fleets, sold it to the UK’s major operators and are now going international – having raised funds from A-list investors including Ryanair’s founding family along the way.

On the back of its success backing companies like LetsGetChecked and Flipdish, Alan Merriman's Elkstone has convinced the authorities of applying EIIS tax advantages to a multi-company investment fund targeting early-stage companies in Ireland.

John Ryan's life has taken some turns. He left corporate finance to join the army; now he's the founder and CEO of Gigable, a marketplace that connects independent workers with businesses. He talks about his journey, international expansion and the future of the gig economy.

Adele Cooper could have stayed at the top of Silicon Valley. Instead, she explains why she decided to join the fast-growing gifting platform &Open and shares key advice to drive B2B sales.

The co-founders of Sisu believe the aesthetic clinic group will become a multi-billion dollar public company. Pat Phelan and Brian and James Cotter talk about US expansion, why it has reignited plans to enter the UK, and the economics of "face-as-a-service".

The Irish-owned single parent online community Frolo has raised seed capital in London and Pinergy saw revenue and gross profit grow, reducing pre-tax losses – but among other businesses filing this week, Bono's sustainable fashion brand and the former PolarLake had less positive news.

HealthBeacon helps patients self-administer medications. Now investors must weigh-up its tenfold growth predications, as it seeks to raise €25 million from a stock market flotation.