Tagged: Venture Capital
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Belfast and Silicon Valley start-up WorldDesk raises US$1.25m News
12.06.2013 Desktop virtualisation start-up WorldDesk, which has offices in Belfast as well as Menlo Park in Silicon Valley, has raised US$1.25m in a follow-on investment involving a...Categories: Virtualisation, Software & Web Development, Software, Investments, Internet, Digital Business, Data Management, CIO -
11 start-ups at Wayra in Dublin pitch to investors News
11.06.2013 Eleven Irish start-ups that have been incubating their businesses at Wayra Dublin, part of Telefónica’s global start-up accelerator, are today pitching their wares to potential... -
Interview: Cubic’s plan to connect every smart device in the world News
05.06.2013 The tech sector might appear to be in rude health, thanks to the global population’s growing dependence on smartphones, social networks and the increased permeation of the... -
Bill Gates takes part in US$35m investment in open science network ResearchGate News
05.06.2013 Bill Gates along with Tenaya Capital have invested US$35m in a C funding round in open science era network ResearchGate. The network aims to remove archaic silos of science and...Categories: Digital Media, Intellectual Property, Internet, Investments, R&D, Research, Science, Search, Search Engines, Social Media -
VCs say up to €800m could be leveraged for Irish SMEs from Govt investment News
04.06.2013 It is expected that the venture capital industry with the support of private investors and syndicated funds from overseas should be able to leverage the Irish Government’s €175m...Categories: Economy, Financial, Funding, Government, Investments, Private Irish Business, Recruitment -
Irish Govt reveals new €175m Seed and Venture Scheme for local firms News
31.05.2013 Ireland’s Jobs and Enterprise Minister Richard Bruton, TD, has unveiled a €175m Seed and Venture Scheme that could catalyse up to €700m in total investment in Irish indigenous... -
Investors and influencers from digital health space to gather in Dublin News
29.05.2013 Dublin-based health-tech accelerator HealthXL is tomorrow set to host an event to connect influencers from the digital health arena with venture capitalists, as well as giving...Categories: Software Development, Software & Web Development, Science, Investments, Digital Business -
Irish tech firms raise €52m in first quarter – IVCA survey News
29.05.2013 Irish technology companies raised €52m in funding in the first quarter of 2013, new figures released today by the Irish Venture Capital Association (IVCA) suggest. It warned,... -
Trino Therapeutics raises €9m in Series A financing News
28.05.2013 Dublin drug discovery and early drug development company Trino Therapeutics has raised more than €9m in Series A financing from new investors Fountain Healthcare and founding... -
#OI2Dublin - Innovation about execution, not just invention, says EIT’s Alexander von Gabain News
20.05.2013 As the innovation elite began to converge on Dublin for the Open Innovation 2.0 conference today and tomorrow, Ann O’Dea caught up with one of the visitors, Alexander Von...Tags: Start-ups, Biotechnology, US, Europe, OECD, Open Innovation 2.0, Entrepreneurship, KPMG, Venture Capital -
Facebook investor Thiel leads US$6m investment in TransferWise News
14.05.2013 A venture fund established by Peter Thiel, the first investor in Facebook and one of the leading investors in the Collison brothers’ Stripe, is leading a US$6m investment in... -
Seedcorn contest for start-ups launches with €280k fund News
29.04.2013 InterTradeIreland has launched this year’s all-island Seedcorn competition for start-ups and early stage ventures. In all, a prize fund worth €280,000 will be divided up amongst... -
Google Ventures teams up with Andreessen Horowitz and KPCB to fund Glass projects News
11.04.2013 Vice-president of Google Ventures Bill Maris has announced that Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) will join the venture capital investment arm of...Categories: Investments, Development -
Solar financing platform Clean Power Finance raises US$37m News
09.04.2013 US solar software and financing company Clean Power Finance, which provides an online platform to connect the residential solar industry with the capital markets, has raised...Tags: Venture Capital, Solar Energy -
Dublin multi-touch firm RAPT Touch raises €4m to disrupt the display industry News
08.04.2013 A Dublin-based technology company called RAPT has raised €4m in an investment round that will enable it to rollout affordable multi-touch technologies to global original...Categories: R&D, Intellectual Property, Hardware, Digital Media, Development, Design, Consumer Tech, Computers -
New guide gives helicopter view of Ireland’s tech start-up scene News
08.04.2013 For anyone wishing to get more insight into Ireland’s technology start-up ecosystem, Dublin-based venture capital (VC) firm Frontline Ventures has come up with a new guide that...Categories: Web, Software Development, Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Online Business, Networking, Mobile, Media, Marketing, Leadership & Management, Investments, Internet, Engineering, Economy, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Business, Apps, Application Design and Development -
Irish Times Digital Challenge winner GetBulb heads to London to seek VC investment News
25.03.2013 Startupbootcamp alumnus and winner of The Irish Times Digital Challenge GetBulb will be in London today to pitch to venture capitalists and seek investment in the latest version... -
Folens backs new venture fund for e-learning start-ups News
20.03.2013 Educational publisher Folens is backing a new boutique investment fund called the Leaf Fund that aims to invest between €250,000 and €1m in early stage learning technology... -
Internet entrepreneur profits on Middle Eastern promise News
19.03.2013 Basic business lessons learned in a 70-plus year-old family business in Galway City have helped play a pivotal role in the success of a young Irishman who can claim credit for...