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  Airline software player Rainmaker raises €1.5m

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  Axonista set to revolutionise future of social TV

  22.01.2012 Dublin-based start-up is developing cloud-based TV scheduling middleware

  

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  Betapond raises €1.15m in venture capital

  20.01.2012 Irish start-up Betapond to double its staff to 25, expand to new markets

  

Latest News

• CPA calls for 'National Entrepreneurship Strategy' 13.02.2012

  In light of the Action Plan for Jobs 2012 revealed today by the Irish Government, the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Ireland (CPA) is calling for what it's terming an 'integrated entrepreneurship strategy' to support the jobs drive, especially taking Ireland's young population into account, and to help get Ireland back on the right economic trajectory.

• Dublin Web Summit searches for Ireland's hottest start-up 13.02.2012

  The Dublin Web Summit is searching for Ireland hottest start-up and almost 40 start-ups are competing for the title that will be awarded at the Dublin Web Summit Start Summit this Wednesday.

• Patient Journey Record taps into global health-tech demand 12.02.2012

  Our Tech Start-Up of the Week is Patient Journey Record (PaJR), a new Irish health-tech venture that's developing a cloud-based hospital re-admissions platform, with the aim of revolutionising the care management marketplace globally. PaJR is currently over in Chicago, one of 10 start-ups participating in the first ever Healthbox accelerator.

• Collison brothers' start-up Stripe valued at US$100m 10.02.2012

  Limerick brothers John and Patrick Collison's Stripe venture has raised US$18m in venture capital from Sequoia Capital and other investors on top of a previous investment that included Peter Thiel and Elon Musk. This latest investment values their rival to PayPal at US$100m.

• Profitero pinpoints errors in Tesco online pricing 09.02.2012

  Pricing intelligence company Profitero, which just last week won the IBM Global Entrepreneur of the Year, claims it has found flaws in Tesco's online pricing.

• 20 Irish tech start-ups to pitch at ITLG event in Silicon Valley 09.02.2012

  Twenty young Irish technology companies traversing the worlds of social media, clean tech and hardware will vie for the top place at the fifth annual ITLG/Irish Times Innovation Awards in Silicon Valley in March.

• 'Instagram for mobile video' site Viddy raises US$6m 08.02.2012

  A US social mobile video app with more than 1m users called Viddy has raised US$6m in Series A financing. Viddy describes itself as 'Instagram for mobile video.'

• Cloud start-up creates video tool targeted at SMEs 08.02.2012

  NovaUCD has been in the spotlight this week, as it is expecting 300 jobs to be created from start-ups based at the centre over the next two years. VideoCrisp is the latest early-stage venture at the incubation centre to reveal tech innovations it is pioneering. The one-year-old start-up is developing a video-creation and editing tool targeted at SMEs.

• Twitter plans to get busy with Irish developer community 06.02.2012

  Twitter is to host its first Tea Time event in Dublin later this month, in what could be a great opportunity for local developers and start-ups to create products for the Twitter ecosystem.

• Business angels say they have €85m available for start-ups 06.02.2012

  Some €85m in business angel funding is available to start-up companies across the island of Ireland, InterTrade Ireland said today. Last week, Irish venture capitalists warned of a sharp fall off in venture capital funding in 2012.

• Start-up saves apps from getting lost in translation 05.02.2012

  Our Tech Start-up of the Week is Tethras, a start-up based at NovaUCD in Dublin that has tapped into the fast-paced growth of the mobile app industry by creating a mobile app localisation platform that's starting to make waves in global markets. And the company is setting its sights on gaining traction in the Asia marketplace this year.

• New NI start-up spins out of NISP Springboard programme 03.02.2012

  Northern Ireland start-up Thermblow, a spin-out of the Polymer Research Cluster at Queen's University Belfast (QUB), has become the latest graduate from the NISP CONNECT Springboard Programme. The new venture is an environmental consultancy that will focus on the plastic packaging manufacturing marketplace.

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