Tagged: Venture Capital & News
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EI supports €67m VC investment in 2006 News
23.07.2007 Funds supported by Enterprise Ireland contributed €67m towards venture capital for Irish firms in 2006, the State body’s Seed and Venture Capital Report for 2006 has revealed. -
IBM project could lead to Irish acquisitions News
12.07.2007 Work conducted at IBM’s new Innovation Centre will not only have important implications for product development by Irish software companies but may also lead to potential...Tags: IBM, Venture Capital -
€30m AIB Seed Capital Fund to be located at NovaUCD News
11.07.2007 The recently announced €30m AIB Seed Capital Fund is to be located at NovaUCD, the Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre at University College Dublin (UCD).Categories: R&D -
Tech venture capital investments in decline News
09.07.2007 Irish tech firms raised €62.6m in the first half of 2007, down €21m from the €83.7m raised in the same period last year, according to the Irish Venture Capital Association...Categories: BusinessTags: Funding, Venture Capital, -
Balderton invests in online ads marketplace News
02.07.2007 The venture capital company in which ex-Digifone chief executive Barry Maloney is a partner, Balderton Capital, has taken a multimillion dollar investment in Europe’s first...Categories:Tags: Venture Capital, web services -
EI and AIB in €30m seed fund joint venture News
02.07.2007 The long-standing problem of insufficient seed capital available for promising start-up companies is finally being addressed through a €30m seed fund that will be jointly... -
Balderton leads US$8.3m investment in US firm News
25.06.2007 One of Europe’s largest venture capitalist firms Balderton Capital has led a US$8.3m investment into US company Daylife, a news platform that helps publishers add content and...Categories: New MediaTags: Venture Capital, Bebo -
Maloney’s VC firm buys European games company News
15.06.2007 Irish venture capitalist Barry Maloney’s Balderton Capital has acquired the remaining stake in Codemasters, the largest independent video game maker in Europe.Categories: BusinessTags: Venture Capital -
Challenging VC market big test for Irish firms News
04.05.2007 Irish companies will have to work twice as hard as their European counterparts to secure venture capital funding due to the changing nature of the global investment market, a...Tags: Venture Capital -
Veteran media man advises tech start-ups on BES News
30.04.2007 Seasoned technology industry public relations adviser Ronnie Simpson is to advise early-stage technology companies on raising their public image in advance of securing Business... -
RedMere attracts US$5m investment News
20.04.2007 A Dublin-based electronics firm engaged in designing and creating its own-branded chips for the next-generation of consumer electronics devices like flatscreen TVs has raised an...Categories: BusinessTags: Venture Capital -
Tech firms account for most of Irish VC investment News
23.03.2007 Technology companies accounted for 84pc of all Irish venture capital (VC) investment in 2005, the highest technology weighting in Europe where the average is 17pc, a study...Categories: BusinessTags: Venture Capital -
VC investment in Irish tech sector 'at all-time low' News
01.02.2007 International venture capital funding in Irish technology companies is now at an all-time low, an Irish venture capital firm has warned.Tags: Venture Capital -
DBIC firms raise €7.3m and triple employment News
22.01.2007 Five technology companies based in the Guinness Enterprise Centre (GEC) in Dublin have between them raised €7.3m in funding and tripled employment to 66 in 2006. -
Irish VCs 'will face uphill struggle to raise funds' News
22.11.2006 Irish venture capitalists (VCs) will fight a tough battle to raise fresh new venture capital funds over the coming year, competing against the stock markets and the growing...Categories: BusinessTags: Venture Capital -
Irish venture capital investment falls sharply News
13.11.2006 The total amount of venture capital invested in the Irish market in the first three quarters of 2006 was €51.9m, down a substantial €45.3m from the amount of €96.2m raised by...Categories: BusinessTags: Venture Capital -
Irish e-payments firm to create 55 jobs in Dublin News
31.10.2006 An Irish firm whose technology enables consumers to buy online without the need of debit or credit cards has raised €20m from a consortium of European investors. -
Software industry wants BES expanded News
31.10.2006 The indigenous Irish software industry has appealed to the Minister for Finance Brian Cowen TD to extend the Business Expansion and Seed Capital Schemes to 2014 as well as...Categories: BusinessTags: Venture Capital -
VC deal sees chip firm land US$8.2m News
16.10.2006 RedMere Technology has closed first-round venture capital funding to the tune of US$8.2m (€6.5m).Categories: BusinessTags: Venture Capital -
Venture capital investments in Q3 up on last year News
13.10.2006 Venture capital investment in Irish technology companies in the third quarter of 2006 more than doubled the level of a year earlier with €53.9m pumped into 15 different companies.Categories: BusinessTags: Venture Capital