Full coverage: VC

CircleRock Capital is stepping up its US ambitions, and bringing in Paul Calatayud — a five-time CSO with deep roots in the cybersecurity world — as its newest partner to help open the right doors.

From a seaside village in Co Louth to the heart of San Francisco’s tech scene, Patrick Murphy has turned a childhood fascination with computers into Tapestry VC, a lean, four-person firm that has experienced significant success. Murphy explains the strategy.

Unveiled in Salesforce Tower Dublin, Act’s new alumni initiative is bringing together founders, backers and business leaders. Act managing partner John Flynn says the goal is to create a ‘mesh network’ of collaboration — one that helps Irish start-ups go further, faster, and stay independent longer.

Noel Ruane and Trevor Parsons have helped build some of Ireland’s biggest tech successes. Now, they’ve teamed up to launch Bronto, a start-up determined to modernise how the world handles log data at scale. It is a multibillion-dollar opportunity.

Slush in Helsinki has become a must-attend event in Europe's start-up calendar. Increasingly, Irish founders and investors are making the jaunt to the freezing cold city to find customers and funding.

Floating the VC is not a crazy way of thinking. Public market investors get access to private companies, the VC investors in those private companies get to sell their shares, and that money then gets recycled back into more investing.

Investment banker. Venture capitalist. Restaurateur. Gymnast. Politician. West Global chair Joanna Rees outlines how her many lives thread together and details the importance of building a brand.

Jake Browne started the new venture with British influencer and entrepreneur Grace Beverley and ex-Peblo engineer Gary Meehan to help content creators manage their own brand deals.

There are obvious reasons why you should not ask a founder for investment advice. There are, though, some more subtly terrible reasons why you should not ask me for investment advice and these are more interesting to discuss. 

The VC's managing partner Barry Downes talks to The Currency about his firm’s recent metaverse exit and its approach to investing in the red-hot AI space.