Full coverage: Start-ups

Having raised another €1.6m for his second start-up Kinzen, Mark Little talks about combining machine and human brainpower to tackle online misinformation, becoming a leader at Twitter and his thoughts on public service journalism.

Wayflyer is growing quickly by financing small to mid-sized e-commerce companies. Last month, QED Investors, which has backed 13 unicorns to date, invested in the Irish company. Is Wayflyer a $1 billion business of the future?

Shareholders, including Ireland’s sovereign wealth fund, are set to be massively diluted in Swrve, unless they invest more. The company is in talks with a new investor and is confident it will survive. So, just what happened and what happens next?

Eoghan McCabe has just moved back to Dublin from San Francisco. Having transitioned from CEO to chairman of Intercom, the entrepreneur talks about winning customers like Amazon, Trump’s America, wealth, investing and the future.

Fidelma McGuirk had enough of Dublin corporate life and decided to head with her family to the west of Ireland. There, she founded and built her business from the ground up. Payslip is now used by employers all around the world.

Michael O’Dwyer got the idea for his business as a young engineer ridding Dublin’s sewers of grease and fat. He now leads an exciting startup that has just closed a new fundraising round with big-name backers.

VideoDoc was billed as the next big thing, raising millions from investors and even appointing a former health minister as chair. Now, its assets have been sold for crumbs with liquidators poised to wind up the business. Just what went wrong?

Irish entrepreneurs have attracted attention – and capital – in the rush to revolutionise agriculture with technology. Here are some of those who are converting ideas into solid investment, and why their backers decided to take the plunge.

Nicola McClafferty previously sold her online fashion retailer Covetique to Asos. Now, as investment director of quoted tech investor Draper Esprit, she is on the other side of the investment table. She talks to Francesca Comyn about risk, reward and the ingredients of success.

Serial entrepreneur Maeve Kneafsey has founded a string of digital marketing companies. Now, she has teamed up with Brenda Jordan to create SaaS business CloudKPI. A string of deals are in the pipeline, and the firm is set to close a €1m funding round.