Full coverage: Start-ups

Each year, 24 emerging businesses spend 24 hours with seasoned entrepreneurs at the Entrepreneur Experience. As the deadline for applications nears, co-captain Jim Barry talks about this year's event, learning from others and the future of his own eponymous retail business.

Dublin-headquartered Carbon Collect has a prototype to suck carbon out of the atmosphere, partners in Arizona and is short-listed for US government funding. Its Irish co-founder Pól Ó Móráin is seeking backing to scale up in 2026.

Twice this year, the state-backed accelerator programme run out of Dogpatch Labs has had just one female founder in a mass of men. What's going on and what is the NDRC doing to change it?

Eamon FitzGerald quit his job two years ago to start online wine venture WineSpark. Its sales grew 30 per cent last year after raising money from boutique vineyards.

CircleRock has invested €25m in 14 start-ups so far in Europe from syndicates of angel investors and family offices. Founded by Barry O’Neill and Conor Sharpe, it is now making a new investment every three weeks.

Karl O’Brien and Thomas Gleeson are behind e-commerce analytics start-up firm StoreHero. The two entrepreneurs talk about the origins of the business, raising funds, and signing up marquee customers.

By tackling labour shortages, Recruitroo’s co-founders Shane Kiernan and Stephen MacCarthy have just closed their first funding round in a difficult environment they have experienced first-hand.

Hexafly has piloted a promising way of harnessing flies to convert waste into feed and fertiliser but, having failed to raise fresh funds, it is taking a new direction.

Zoom's acquisition of Workvivo looks to be one of the biggest-ever exits by an Irish startup. What does Zoom see in the company? And how much did it pay?

While SVB had a very limited presence here, the worry is not only the contagion across the banking sector but the trickle-down effect the withdrawal of tech’s biggest bank will have on wider investors, who were already jittery.