Full coverage: Start-ups

After years of cheap credit and relatively easy funding, we are now on the cusp of a new reality and start-ups will have to learn how to deal with it.

Five-year-old Iamus enlisted artificial intelligence to assist farmers in their search for efficiency and was backed by a leading family in Ireland’s chicken industry, but this has proved insufficient to bring its product to market.

Ronan Doherty was among the founders of ElectroRoute, the energy trading company fully acquired by Mitsubishi last year. He explains where his business sits in the increasingly interconnected electricity grid required to power Europe without fossil fuels.

In 2020, auditor KPMG said there was a “material uncertainty” over Irish biotech firm Nuritas. Now, having raised $45m from backers, there are no such concerns, even if its retained losses widened last year.

The buyer of loans owed by the Cork artificial intelligence start-up in receivership has a long history with the company. The move comes as bidders express interest in acquiring the business.

Instead of raising more funds, Content Llama is set to close down by the end of this year. The technology provider to outdoor retailers failed to "turn the ship", its co-founder and chief executive Karina Kelly told investors.

Can monitoring your glucose levels help you lose weight without the misery, or is it just another metric for biodata wonks to track? Rurik Bradbury, chief executive of Limbo, explains the science behind Silicon Valley's next big wearable bet.

In their American home, the big tech firms present here are used to skilled staff working and investing in early-stage companies throughout their career. This hasn’t happened much in Ireland yet, but there are “super early signs” that change may be coming.

As recently as May, it all seemed to be going to plan for Content LIama, an e-commerce software company backed by high profile investors. But the summer months appear to have changed the company's course and its future is now being tested.

Do I think Neumann is sleazy and destroys value at any given opportunity? Yup. Do I think Flow is potentially a great deal for Andreessen Horowitz? Also, yes. The discrepancy between my feelings for both of these questions boils down to the changing nature of venture capital dynamics.