Full coverage: Start-ups

With eight months to go to Budget 2025, ministers were already flying kites before an audience of founders on Thursday.

New ventures in Ireland are facing a continuing challenge in raising funds, despite continued growth and job creation. Is the State’s investment strategy to blame?

Founded in 2016 in Galway, the bus technology company has just closed a new funding round. It plans to double its headcount to over 100 people as it grows in Britain and internationally.

Apple is opening up its app store weeks before the EU’s law to halt the emergence of online monopolies takes effect. Brussels argues it will level the playing field for start-ups, but will it stifle innovation at the world’s top tech firms?

It often feels like entrepreneurship is a constant cycle of building, preparing to build, and then building again. The momentum created by the current wave of rapid change will carry many businesses to greater heights. It will crush others.

The Dublin-based start-up, founded by two tech sales veterans, has built a platform to generate a razor-sharp view of sales operations – and Elkstone Ventures has backed it.

The athlete-cum-businesswoman discusses funding, wellness and the O’Gorman dynasty.

Vinny Breslin and his co-founders have sold their holiday property management company in a multi-million-dollar deal. But it took the Donegal man decades of hard work to get there. This is how it happened.

Investment in Irish start-ups plummeted by 48 per cent last year, but other metrics tell a different story of venture capital activity here and across Europe.

A new national savings scheme could kickstart a virtuous circle of compounding returns for Irish citizens, while at the same time providing vital funding for the Irish start-up scene.