Tangent innovation platform to address world problems
Tangent, Trinity College Dublin’s Ideas Workspace, has unveiled Open Incubator, an innovation platform to address real world challenges. The free-to-use platform links up like-minded innovators to...
View ArticleContent Llama secures €2.5m in funding round
Content Llama, Ireland’s leading content configuration technology (CCT) platform, has secured €2.5 million in fundraising to further expand its presence globally and broaden its reach to potential...
View ArticleIrish start-up KelTech IoT wins at Free Electrons 2021
KelTech IoT has been named the winner of this year’s Free Electrons programme. The Irish start-up was crowned the world’s best energy start-up of 2021 at the fifth Free Electrons programme. The first...
View ArticleAI start-ups invited to apply for Trinity-based AI accelerator
Early-stage artificial intelligence start-up firms are invited to apply for the 2022 Alsessor AI Accelerator programme, which will award €250,000 to a company considered to have the most commercial and...
View ArticleHBAN business angels have invested median of €200k each in start-ups
A survey of business angel investors by Halo Business Angel Network (HBAN) has found that its business angels have invested a median of €200,000 each in start-ups on the island of Ireland. The survey...
View ArticleApplications for Huckletree’s Alpha Accelerator now open
Applications for Huckletree’s pre-seed Alpha Accelerator programme are now open. Start-ups with at least one founder from an underrepresented background that are based in the UK and Ireland have been...
View ArticleCatalyst’s 2022 Invent competition opens for applications
Catalyst’s 2022 Invent competition officially opens for applications, with £25,000 first prize up for grabs for the overall winner. Organised by science and technology hub Catalyst with headline...
View ArticleItag joins elite network of European ICT clusters
The West of Ireland’s AtlanTec Gateway tech cluster has received official recognition at European level, which will create additional opportunities for the growth and development of the sector. The...
View ArticleFunding into female founded start-ups jumped 120% in 2021
Irish female founders raised more than €230 million in 2021, this is more than twice the record €105 million raised the previous year. The publication of these findings, which come from a new...
View ArticleIADT Media Cube, NovaUCD launch €1.6m programme for early stage start-ups
The Institute of Art, Design and Technology Dun Laoghaire (IADT) and NovaUCD have welcomed the first cohort of entrepreneurs to the New Frontiers programme. Enterprise Ireland will provide €1.6 million...
View ArticleKernel Capital invests €1.8m in Pilot Photonics
Kernel Capital, through The Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Growth Fund II, has invested €1.8 million investment in Dublin City University (DCU) spin-out Pilot Photonics. The science of light, photonics...
View ArticleEmpiric Logic partners with aCGT Vector on precision medicine therapies
Empiric Logic has signed a partnership agreement to help point-of-care cellular therapy company aCGT Vector bring its precision medicine therapies to market faster and more efficiently. The...
View ArticleEnterprise Ireland invested €28m in Irish start-ups last year
Enterprise Ireland invested more than €28 million in Irish start-ups and supported over 125 start-up companies last year. The figure was released to mark the annual Enterprise Ireland Start-Up Showcase...
View ArticleStart-ups, early-stage companies invited to enter €300,000 InterTradeIreland...
Start-up and early-stage companies across the island of Ireland have been invited to enter the InterTradeIreland Seedcorn Investor Readiness competition. Seedcorn boasts an overall prize fund of...
View ArticleTechIreland’s John O’Dea on start-ups
This week we look at the continued trend of tech companies closing their Russian operations, Elon Musk buys into Twittter, deep fakery on LinkedIn, and Tech Ireland’s John O’Dea outlines the nation’s...
View ArticleMedical device, digital health start-ups pitch for place on Medtech Innovator...
Leading medical device and digital health start-ups will today pitch for a place on Medtech Innovator’s Showcase and Accelerator Programme, which supports the development of the most promising...
View ArticleIBM, Enterprise Ireland collaborate for start- and scale-ups
Enterprise Ireland and IBM’s new collaboration will provide Irish high potential start-up and scale-up companies with resources, tools, and technology to help them expand internationally reducing the...
View ArticleBuymie raises €7m in latest funding round
Grocery delivery platform buymie has completion of a €7 million funding round, following on from the €8 million financing the company raised in 2020. With total funding to date now standing at €18.2...
View ArticleNovaUCD student entrepreneur programme kicks off
The 2022 NovaUCD Student Enterprise Competition, an intensive four-week mentoring programme for student entrepreneurs, has kicked-off witha cohort of 10 early-stage ventures and a total of 23...
View ArticleCatagen receives funding awards to propel green hydrogen and e-fuels
Catagen has received two new funding awards from the UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Funded through the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio, as part of the Red Diesel...
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