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Belfast-based Amply raises £1.4m for AI drug discovery platform

Vish Gain — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:43:51 +0000

The start-up previously raised £900,000 in equity and grant funding to help tackle infectious diseases.

ePower opens Dublin base to meet soaring EV charging demand

Vish Gain — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 11:53:40 +0000

The Cork-based company has also appointed Brendan Crowley as its director of public charging.

What’s the secret to standing out as an AI start-up?

Jenny Darmody — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 11:30:00 +0000

NovaUCD’s Michelle Doyle and Enterprise Ireland’s Marina Donohoe discuss Ireland’s new AI accelerator and what start-ups need to know.

Navro secures $14m after getting EMI licence in Ireland

Leigh Mc Gowran — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 10:54:57 +0000

The fintech is aiming for rapid expansion after securing two e-money licences, raising fresh funds and rebranding its business.

Lua Health: An AI platform to make work a little less stressful

Vish Gain — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 07:00:34 +0000

Founded by experts in psychology, artificial intelligence and data analytics, Lua Health is leading a ‘proactive revolution’ in improving wellbeing at the workplace.

Stockholm AI start-up Xensam raises $40m for US expansion

Vish Gain — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 12:08:37 +0000

Founded in 2016 by brothers Oskar and Gustav Fösker, Xensam has its eyes on US and European expansion.

France gains a new unicorn as Pennylane raises €40m

Jenny Darmody — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 08:51:00 +0000

The accounting software start-up will use the funds to accelerate development of its modules and invest massively in AI.

Health innovation programmes looking for Irish entrepreneurs

Vish Gain — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 13:52:46 +0000

Two health innovation ecosystems on each side of the island have launched programmes to create the next generation of leaders in healthcare and medtech.

Examfly scores €1.5m seed funding and expands to the UK

Vish Gain — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 12:43:17 +0000

Clients of the start-up founded by Deirdre Lyons include big names in professional services from Deloitte and EY to Grant Thornton and, most recently, PwC.

Screendragon secures €25m for workflow automation platform

Vish Gain — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 11:52:08 +0000

The company will significantly expand its Irish operations as it also eyes growth in the US market.

Ceroflo raises €6.4m to advance medtech treatment for stroke

Jenny Darmody — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 08:49:39 +0000

The Irish medical device company will use the fresh funds for its first human clinical trial.

Humanloop: Providing picks and shovels for the AI gold rush

Vish Gain — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 07:05:23 +0000

After studying pure maths at Trinity, machine learning expert Peter Hayes decided that it was time to move to London to dive ‘deeper’ into AI and start a company.

DataSnipper raises $100m to become Europe’s latest unicorn

Vish Gain — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 13:58:11 +0000

The funding will help the start-up to expand across sectors that require data reconciliation, as well as new markets in Asia-Pacific and Latin America.

Galway’s CitySwift secures €7m funding to double its team

Blathnaid O’Dea — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 06:30:44 +0000

Co-founder and CEO of CitySwift Brian O'Rourke said the investment was 'a massive vote of confidence' in the team and its tech.

Silicon Valley’s Codeium raises $65m to combine AI with coding

Vish Gain — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 12:42:37 +0000

Now reportedly valued at $500m, the California-headquartered start-up founded in 2021 says it is building ‘the future of software development’.

Private investment into quantum tech plummeted last year

Leigh Mc Gowran — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 15:46:55 +0000

A new report claims private investment fell by roughly 80pc in the US, but that quantum technology is still on a positive trajectory thanks to government contracts and commitments.

Blockchain blast-off: Ubloquity joins prestigious aerospace accelerator

Blathnaid O’Dea — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 17:22:04 +0000

Ubloquity focuses on blockchain for supply chains, but backers say its tech can also be used in the aerospace and aviation sectors.

GlitchAds: A platform to set up ads as easily as Stripe sets up billing

Vish Gain — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 07:12:45 +0000

With a focus on small B2B businesses, GlitchAds is one of the most promising start-ups to be born out of the Founders accelerator programme at Dogpatch Labs.

Bord na Móna selects eight firms for its 2024 green accelerator

Leigh Mc Gowran — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 13:15:05 +0000

The eight businesses are focused on green innovations for various industries, from renewable energy and sustainable agritech to EV charging and food fermentation.

24 tech start-ups to watch in 2024

Vish Gain — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 16:27:23 +0000

From big names in AI such as ElevenLabs and Mistral to budding start-ups on both sides of the Atlantic, here are the companies likely to shake things up this year.