Over 400 entrepreneurs, investors and stakeholders gathered at Dublin Castle last Thursday for Enterprise Ireland's Start-Up Showcase. Last year, Enterprise Ireland invested €32 million in Irish start-ups and supported 229 start-up companies.
Ash Maurya, author of the international bestseller “Running Lean” and the creator of the one-page business modelling tool, “Lean Canvas”, was the featured key-note speaker at Enterprise Ireland's Start-up Showcase 2017.
Sunday Independent: Last week, the Taoiseach visited Warsaw, where he was a keynote speaker at the first ever Irish Polish Innovation Forum. He used the opportunity to urge the promotion of trade between Ireland and Poland.
Enterprise Ireland invested €32 million in 229 start-ups last year. Over a quarter of the firms backed were female-led businesses, with more than half the companies situated outside of Dublin.
HBAN is a joint venture between Enterprise Ireland and Intertrade Ireland. The organisation acts as an introduction service between start-ups and investors, but does not get involved in the investments or take commissions or fees from completed investments.
An Irish produced inflatable on-wing engine hanger ‘designed to withstand the toughest environments’ certainly lived up to its reputation last week. Described as a ‘godsend’, the shelter was used by a Swiss airline in an emergency landing in northeast Canada.
Worth €4.5m, the Dublin arm of engineering company Curtiss-Wright has landed the largest ever contract related to European Space Agency (ESA) activities.
When Ciara Donlon set up Theya Healthcare in 2014 to produce specialist post-breast surgery underwear for women, she needed two things: someone to turn her ideas into finished designs, and someone to make her a set of samples.
TSSG chairman and FeedHenry founder Barry Downes is to lead a new €20m venture capital fund Suir Valley Ventures to focus on IoT, fintech and augmented reality.
A survey of the 28 companies comprising the Geoscience Ireland (GI) business cluster has shown that 179 new jobs were created by GI companies in 2016. This matches the 178 new jobs created in 2015.
Enterprise Ireland's Graduates 4 International Growth initiative connects internationally trading companies with capable graduates. Closing date for applications is 3pm, 24th February 2017.
