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Full coverage: Venture capital

Teddy bear robots and space data centres: Finn Murphy on Nebular’s investing approach

Started as a one-man-band in a Manhattan shared office, the Dubliner's VC firm is betting on AI and emerging tech start-ups. This opens a series by Hannah McCarthy among Irish voices in American business and culture ahead of the US election.

Hannah McCarthy
17th Sep, 2024 - 7 min read

“My focus is definitely on moving more into Ireland”: London PE firm Lonsdale Capital on its Irish ambitions

The co-founder of the private equity house, Ross Finegan, discusses the "difficult situation" facing the UK and hails Ireland's rise as a place to do business.

Michael Cogley
17th Sep, 2024 - 9 min read

Revolut’s Irish staffers share in the spoils of its new $45bn price tag

Eligible staffers in Revolut's Dublin office will be able to take advantage of a share sale scheme that has dramatically increased the British fintech giant's valuation.

Michael Cogley
16th Aug, 2024 - 3 min read

“Scale-up businesses need a different mindset from the hot, frothy, venture capital times”

Dubliner Martin Scott spent a decade working with the European arm of a US private equity business, The Riverside Company. Now he chairs CreditLogic, an Irish fintech start-up that aims to transform the mortgage market.

Michael Cogley
7th Aug, 2024 - 9 min read

How Livingbridge is lining up more Irish deals: “There’s no top-end limit to what we would like to do in Ireland”

The London-based private equity firm has invested over €90 million in Ireland to date. Founding partner Mark Advani and associate director Gareth Molloy talk Brexit, high interest rates, and future plans.

Michael Cogley
25th Jun, 2024 - 9 min read

Irish-co-founded climate start-up Sustain.Life acquired for $100m

Sustain.Life, founded less than three years ago by Irish entrepreneur Mike Hanrahan and three other former Walmart executives, has been bought by the listed US software firm Workiva.

Michael Cogley
18th Jun, 2024 - 2 min read

Investors and start-ups take temperature of the sector at Dublin Tech Summit

The 7th edition of the gathering opened today with AI and the challenges in raising money in the current macroeconomic picture top of mind for attendees.

Jonathan Keane
29th May, 2024 - 3 min read

“We think Ireland at the moment is a little bit behind the curve but it’s definitely going to catch up”

The Limerick-based start-up, founded in October 2022, has raised the funds in a round backed by Dublin-based investor Act Venture Capital. CEO Paul Byrnes talks strategy, expansion, and sustainability.

Michael Cogley
7th May, 2024 - 3 min read

Scaleworks’s Paul Lynch: “We don’t buy businesses that are hockey sticking through the sky. We’re grinders”

Import.io was once raising at a $1 billion valuation, but then it ran out of cash. This is how it was turned around by Irish co-founded investor Scaleworks.

Tom Lyons
25th Mar, 2024 - 10 min read

“You can’t be the best European investor unless you’re a great US investor”

Frontline has just raised $200 million to invest in seed- and growth-stage companies, its largest fundraising since it was founded in 2012. Partner Will Prendergast explains what the VC firm wants to do next.

Tom Lyons
21st Mar, 2024 - 4 min read
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