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Siren raises $10m to help company develop and expand

The latest funding round was led by Atlantic Bridge and follows a $4m round last year

Evervault locks in €3m in funding for secure data processing

Stripe backer Sequoia leading investment in Irish company founded by teenager

Sweepr raises €8.2m for North America and Europe expansion

Irish tech firm’s voice-activated platform helps customers with their connected home

Intercom co-founder among those to invest €4.2m in Irish start-up Modulz

Modulz has designed visual editor to build products that does not require writing code

Irish company wants to use drones to deliver takeaway meals

Start-up expects to get approval to start delivering food by drones in Ireland shortly

Shay Garvey appointed as non-executive director to Irish Times board

Founding partner of Frontline ventures is a prominent early-stage tech investor

Legal tech company Brightflag raises €7m in new funding round

Company uses artificial intelligence to analyse legal invoices and generate savings

Boxever spreads its wings beyond airlines as it agrees deal with AIB

Data analytics company secures first banking customer as it looks beyond travel sector

Irish merger and acquisitions up, along with value of deals

Figures from Mergermarket show the value of transactions jumped 370% in 2018

AQMetrics raises €3m as it eyes European expansion

Maynooth-based firm sees central Europe as next growth centre

Advisable.com raises $1m to help grow its team

Irish-founded firm uses technology developed in-house to match companies with freelance marketing specialists

Getting SaaSy: software-as-a-service conference SaaStock returns to Dublin

Some 3,000 attendees, 400 investors and 100 speakers to enjoy new events at SaaStock

Irish travel tech firm raises €8m and plans to double staff numbers

Roomex has 70% of its business in the UK and wants to move into other European markets

Pointy raises $12m in funding in drive to speed-up growth

Irish retail tech firm gives small retailers a new way to make their stock visible online

Norwegian billionaire invests in data centre that will connect to Ireland

John Fredriksen owns Irish fish farm business Marine Harvest

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Though tempting to start-ups, process has its downsides and also poses risks for investors

Retail tech firm Pointy set to double workforce to 50

Firm gives small retailers a way to make their stock visible online

Datahug co-founder enjoying new role as accelerator ‘grandparent’ to start-ups

Connor Murphy now heads up the Berlin chapter of Techstars, the prestigious global accelerator programme that has backed close to 1,300 companies globally

Co Mayo-based fintech startup Payslip has secured €1m in investment

Former Taxback chief executive Fidelma McGuirk gets funding for latest venture

Travel firm Boxever reports 65% rise in revenues

Dublin-based company’s accumulated losses hit €14m as it expands into other sectors

Brothers secure €1.4m backing for video start-up

Spirable creates video content for use primarily on social media channels

AQMetrics looks to double headcount and raise funds as it expands

Maynooth-based regtech firm to open office in mainland Europe after series of deal wins

Linked Finance eyes profitability as revenue and lending levels jump

Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform looking to become biggest Irish non-bank lender

Frontline Ventures among those backing Understand.AI in $2.8m round

LEA Partners led seed round for Karlsruhe-headquartered Understand.AI

Funding rises for Irish start-ups in emerging technologies

New figures show product-driven tech firms raised a combined €580.2m last year

Irish kitchen tech start-up Drop raises €8m to fund expansion

Investors include Ross Lewis of Chapter One and Domini Kemp of Itsa Bagel

Irish AI analytics start-up Brightflag raises $1.5m in funding

Firm has raised $2.6m in last 18 months, with backers including Frontline Ventures

Irish P2P lender Linked Finance raises €2m as it looks to expand

Company intends to establish P2P lending as a mainstay of the SME lending landscape

Cawley to chair peer-to-peer lender Linked Finance

Former Ryanair deputy chief executive joins as lender embarks on ‘next phase of growth’

Irish tech firm Boxever looks to raise €6m in funding

Dublin-based big data and personalisation platform seeks follow-on investment

Little surprise in north Mayo over Shell sale of Corrib share

Rossport Five member Willie Corduff says it is ‘16 years too late’

Super angel investor to up investment in Irish start-ups to €4m

Gianni Matera’s Growing Capital looking to grow seed investment value by 300%

Seen & Heard: official files and Anglo; tussle for Gresham heats up

DCC may be preparing to increase CEO Tommy Breen’s bonus

UK tech startup Signal raises $1.8m in funding

Firm is backed by Dublin’s Frontline Ventures as it takes on media monitoring market

Irish start-up Buildingeye in partnership with city of Palo Alto

Company’s data visualisation tool allows residents to monitor planning news

Ryanair strikes deal with travel software firm Boxever

Airline said Boxever’s software would help it tailor offers to better suit customers’ requirements

Irish mobile sales firm signs up world’s top 10 pharma firms

Qstream now has 100,000 people using its products and has raised $4.25 million to date

Knowledge box rules to lead to innovation, says PCH chief

Tax incentive a ‘long- term play’, says supply-chain firm founder

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