Tagged: Venture Capital
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Dublin cloud firm Skynet Labs raises €750,000 in first seed round News
08.01.2013 Cloud software company Skynet Labs – which focuses on the global oil and gas exploration sector – has secured €750,000 in its first seed round. The investment includes some...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Investments, Funding, Financial, Energy, Digital Business -
US solar start-up Stion raises US$25m to expand production facility News
19.12.2012 Stion, a California-based maker of low-cost thin-film solar panels, has raised US$25m in financing, which the company is set to use to expand its existing production facility in... -
HBAN publishes Entrepreneur Guide for early stage companies raising equity News
13.12.2012 All-island umbrella group for angel investors HBAN is today publishing a step-by-step Entrepreneur Guide aimed at demystifying the process of raising business angel investment. -
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 -
Beyond Borders: Global Biotechnology Report 2011 Reports
12.07.2011 Sustaining innovation: the global perspective. -
Entrepreneurs Speak Out: A Call to Action for G20 Governments Reports
19.12.2011 The Nice Côte d’Azur 2011 Entrepreneurship Barometer. -
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...