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The Cork-based AI start-up has admitted to funding difficulties leading to staff lay-offs in recent weeks. But it is only revealing now that the investor who rescued the company from insolvency resigned as director three months ago.

Nick Cotter has been in business with his brother Jack since he was 10. Having grown local firewood and organic lamb enterprises, they are now commercialising a new livestock health technology with worldwide potential – while still in college.

Since launching in 2021, Kwayga's subscription service that matches buyers and sellers in the food sector has listed 50,000 suppliers on its platform and reached 50 countries. Co-founder Mike McGrath talks about the business model, supply chain disruption and the future.

Despite much-awaited share buybacks, Dermot Smurfit’s online gambling technology firm still has a lot to do to achieve profitability – and is raising debt in the meantime.

The value negotiated by the Irish founders of gym software firm Glofox for its acquisition by US-based ABC Fitness is a remarkable achievement for a company forced to retrench by Covid-19 just two years ago. Yet it is only a step on the journey now sketched out for the business.

Years of restructuring at the cybersecurity multinational NortonLifeLock have left it with just two subsidiaries in north Dublin: one booking sales around the world, and one managing the group’s cash and intercompany debt. Meanwhile, Google reports exponential growth in card payments processed in Ireland.

Dublin-born billionaire engineer David McMurtry is working with the next generation – including an Irishwoman – on the future of all these things. In exclusive interviews, he and the executives leading Renishaw's latest projects talk past, present and future.

The Malahide-based cloud provider Ekco has bought a second leading Irish cybersecurity firm. It now employs 420 people in Europe, and has bigger growth plans.

Pharmapod’s assets were sold last year through a pre-pack receivership for around €1.5m. Now, creditors of the Irish software company are poised to wind up the remnants of the company.

Aislinn McBride is one of the most senior technology leaders at Kainos. As the Belfast software group’s international expansion pushes revenues past £300m, she openly discusses its next challenges: finding and keeping staff, fending off cyber attacks and exploring the ethics of AI.