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Full coverage: Start-ups

Brian Caulfield on Budget 2025: No new schemes please. Just make sure that the ones we have work

The commitment to simplify the Keep scheme for share options has not yielded results. With Budget 2025 imminent, the government needs to make the schemes we have work rather than develop new ones.

Brian Caulfield
30th Sep, 2024 - 4 min read

Shaking the snow globe: How Budget 2025 can provide SMEs the support they desperately need

There is a wide range of measures the Government could introduce to help small business grappling with state-imposed costs. Simple but imaginative initiatives could make all the difference.

Stuart FitzGerald
18th Sep, 2024 - 4 min read

“My focus is definitely on moving more into Ireland”: London PE firm Lonsdale Capital on its Irish ambitions

The co-founder of the private equity house, Ross Finegan, discusses the "difficult situation" facing the UK and hails Ireland's rise as a place to do business.

Michael Cogley
17th Sep, 2024 - 9 min read

From tax relief to share options, Jack Chambers got his first taste of Irish tech’s bugbears

The budget is mere weeks away and the finance minister attended his first Scale Ireland pre-budget event “to listen, to engage and get feedback”. There was a lot to listen to.

Jonathan Keane
12th Sep, 2024 - 7 min read

“Zambia has opportunity, but it can be difficult”: Irish charity to distribute €22.7m to green start-ups

Dublin-headquartered Self Help Africa has received European funding to invest in circular economy enterprises across Zambia.

Michael Cogley
12th Sep, 2024 - 3 min read

HBAN fallout: Members to be asked to wind up key investment vehicle at EGM, as sole director moves to resign

Bloom Equity Nominee was used by angel investors to invest an estimated €100m in Irish start-ups through the Halo Business Angel Network. Members will vote on whether it should be discontinued. 

Tom Lyons
5th Sep, 2024 - 4 min read

Licovolt wants to change EV battery recycling: “We’re looking to work with a strategic partner”

Batteries play an ever-increasing role in all aspects of our lives but finding an efficient and profitable way of recycling them is elusive. Now a new start-up with strong Irish links believes it has found the answer.

Tom Lyons
19th Aug, 2024 - 6 min read

Revolut’s Irish staffers share in the spoils of its new $45bn price tag

Eligible staffers in Revolut's Dublin office will be able to take advantage of a share sale scheme that has dramatically increased the British fintech giant's valuation.

Michael Cogley
16th Aug, 2024 - 3 min read

“We’re back to bootstrapping, but we’re doing better than ever”

In 2016, Tom Cotter began toying with the idea of making clothes for water sports enthusiasts. After eight years of hard knocks, his company OceanR is now backed by some of Ireland’s savviest business people – and primed for more.

Thomas Hubert
16th Aug, 2024 - 18 min read

“We want to get to €100m by 2028 and be seen as a global leader in digital health”

Stephen Costello, the co-founder of digital health provider Spectrum.Life, explains how UK expansion became the driving force behind the company and why it plans to look farther east rather than west.

Michael Cogley
13th Aug, 2024 - 9 min read
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