Tagged: Venture Capital & News
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Ireland's €175m venture capital fund could be worth €1bn in its lifetime News
06.12.2012 The €175m venture capital fund being established by the Irish Government through Enterprise Ireland could have a real value of €1bn as venture capital firms could leverage the... -
#Budget13 – Ireland to create €175m 10-year venture capital fund News
05.12.2012 In a bid to boost job creation by indigenous companies, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin, TD, said he has endorsed the creation of a 10-year €175m... -
ESB’s clean-tech fund Novusmodus rebrands as Greencoat Capital News
05.12.2012 The €200m clean-tech and renewable energy fund Novusmodus, which was set up in 2009 by ESB, has rebranded as Greencoat Capital as it aims to broaden its investment activities. -
Cork electronics firm Powervation raises US$7m in venture investment News
05.12.2012 Powervation, a Cork-based pioneer in digital power IC solutions, has just raised US$7m in Series C funding to fuel its business growth and accelerate market adoption of its...Categories: Wireless Communications, Servers, R&D, Investments, Intellectual Property, Hardware, Energy, Development, Design, Communications -
Weekend news round-up: Facebook's Photo Sync data grab; battle for the future of the web News
03.12.2012 In our trawl through some of the tech stories from the weekend, we look at coverage of Facebook's roll out of its new Photo Synch feature that puts every pic you take onto its... -
First 20 judges for Europas revealed News
27.11.2012 The first 20 judges for the European start-up awards – The Europas – have been named. More than 1,000 people will attend the awards in Berlin in January, the event’s organisers... -
NDRC seeks start-up ideas for next LaunchPad programme News
26.11.2012 With start-ups that have passed through programmes at the National Digital Research Centre (NDRC) to date having managed to secure €10m in follow-on investment, the centre is... -
Electric bus maker Proterra raises US$23m to further deploy EcoRide bus News
22.11.2012 Proterra, a US company that specialises in battery-electric buses, has raised US$23m in a Series B funding round from investors to focus on delivering its EcoRide bus to new... -
Trinity computer science spin-out ETU closes €500k funding round News
22.11.2012 Software as a service (SaaS) player EmpowerTheUser (ETU) has just secured €500,000 in funding from Leaf Investments along with Enterprise Ireland and private investors.Categories: Leadership & Management, Investments, Internet, Funding, Financial, Engineering, Digital Business -
Smart funding is the future as Enterprise Ireland gathers 100 investors in London News
21.11.2012 Smart funding, where specialist investors with contacts, expertise and insight into niche areas like software, cloud computing, clean tech and life sciences can bring more to...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, R&D, Life Sciences, Investments, Green Tech, Funding, Digital Business -
SurgaColl – a good idea takes shape for bone repair News
19.11.2012 Based on research into tissue regeneration that has been happening at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) over the past 10 years, a new medical device spin-out... -
As CoderDojo founders are honoured, Irish software industry stresses importance of scale News
10.11.2012 Ireland’s software industry needs to scale and scale fast, the chairman of the Irish Software Association Karl Flannery stressed last night, warning indigenous companies face a... -
OPINION - Creating breakout tech companies of scale from Ireland News
10.11.2012 Joe Hogan, the founder and CTO of Openet, an Irish-headquartered tech company employing 1,000 people, provides an insight into the steps necessary to turn Ireland’s domestic... -
US clean-tech start-up LightSail Energy raises US$37.3m from investors, including Bill Gates News
06.11.2012 Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel are two of the investors who have contributed to a US$37.3m funding injection into LightSail Energy, a US... -
Mobile tech start-up 10n2 Technologies drives a US$1m investment News
05.11.2012 A Dublin start-up called 10n2 Technologies that has created a unique ‘anti-distracted driver’ technology has raised US$1m in investment in a round led by Cranberry Capital which...Categories: Wireless Communications, Software & Web Development, Software, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Development, Design -
HAXLR8R is back and is searching for the next big thing in hardware News
26.10.2012 HAXLR8R, the international accelerator programme that searches for 10 start-ups on the verge of producing the next must-have consumer products, mentors them and brings their...Categories: R&D, Investments, Hardware, Green Tech, Funding, Engineering, Development, Design, Consumer Tech -
Business networking start-up Datahug secures US$3.2m in Series A funding News
25.10.2012 Dublin software start-up Datahug has secured US$3.2m in Series A financing from the venture capital firm DFJ Esprit, with the business networking automation company set to focus...Tags: Venture Capital, Dublin Web Summit -
Software industry attracts highest level of venture capital funding in Q3 News
22.10.2012 Out of the US$12.5bn invested in 1,046 funding deals during the third quarter, the software industry attracted the highest amount (26pc), with US$3.3bn invested during the quarter. -
Interview: Talkbits’ Olga Steidl on her plans to bring ‘walkie-talkie’ to the social web (video) News
18.10.2012 Talkbits, a Zurich-headquartered company headed by a young entrepreneur from St Petersburg named Olga Steidl has just raised US$2m in early stage funding to bring... -
Interview: Skype co-founder and head of Atomico Niklas Zennström explains his passion for entrepreneurship (video) News
18.10.2012 Niklas Zennström, the co-founder of Skype who last year sold his company to Microsoft for US$8.5bn, made no secret of the fact he yearned to be an entrepreneur. Like most...Categories: Networking & Telecoms, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Investments, Internet, Funding, Digital Media, Digital Business, Consumer Tech