FEATURE ARTICLE
Travel Tech Award For Meetings Booker
 

Business Plus: Dun Laoghaire-based Meetings Booker won the Best Product award at Enterprise Ireland's Pioneer Travel Tech Awards, which showcase and recognise high-performing Irish travel tech start-ups.


Agritech exporters look to South Africa
 

Sunday Independent: South Africa offers vast opportunities for suppliers of agri-machinery and technology, as well as companies that offer livestock supplements and feed.


Prepare for Brexit - supports available

The full list of Brexit supports is now included in our Brexit brochure available to download here:

 


INDUSTRY NEWS
Data analytics firm Boxever and Ryanair sign multimillion contract
Irish Times
 

Irish data analytics company Boxever has signed a five-year contract with Ryanair, thought to be worth a multimillion figure to the technology company.


Digital pathology start-up Deciphex raises €2.3m in funding
Irish Times
 

Deciphex, an Irish tech company which is using artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate the delivery of pathology services, has raised €2.3 million in a new funding round.


Close to 145,000 entrepreneurs backed by Local Enterprise Offices
Irish Times
 

Local Enterprise Offices have supported the creation of more than 18,600 jobs nationwide since they were established in 2014.


Vivid Edge offers large firms opportunity to tap into energy savings
Irish Times
 

Vivid Edge’s business model is energy optimisation as a service and it helps organisations upgrade their energy infrastructure without using their own capital


Stripe acquires Irish payments start-up Touchtech
Irish Times
 
Stripe, the Silicon Valley company founded by Limerick-born brothers Patrick and John Collison, has acquired Irish start-up Touchtech Payments.

Online drive to help boost Bean and Goose chocolate sales
Irish Examiner
 

Bean and Goose has now raised €200,000 for expansion and is planning to find a larger facility and launch a more-improved version of its website in the autumn.


ApisProtect employs deep tech to help save the Earth’s bees
Silicon Republic
 

‘Our mission at ApisProtect, is to save the bees, because if we don’t take action now, we’ll lose our most important insect ally’ – Dr Fiona Edwards Murphy


CeADAR research centre named as one of 30 EU AI innovation hubs
Silicon Republic
 

Ireland is to have a seat at the table when it comes to European AI research with CeADAR to join a new network of 30 innovation hubs.


Enterprise Ireland hosted its annual Travel Tech Summit: ‘The Future of Travel’ in Cork
Irish Tech News
 

With over 100 travel tech companies in Ireland, employing over 3,500 people, Ireland has emerged as a leading travel tech hub producing global industry leaders such as CarTrawler and OpenJaw.


UPCOMING EVENTS
30 April 2019: Closing date for applications for Go Global 4 Growth Programme
30 April 2019: Design for Business Advantage Networking Morning, Dublin
01 May 2019: Agile Innovation Event, Portlaoise
02 May 2019: Exporter Development Workshop, Monaghan
22 May 2019: Enterprise Excellence Ireland, Dublin
30 May 2019: Business Planning Alumni Event, Kildare
30 May 2019: Agile Innovation Event, Sligo
IRISH ADVANTAGE
MagGrow out to win the war on waste one spray at a time
 

Six years ago, Gary and his co-founder David Moore set up MagGrow in NovaUCD, the Irish incubation centre in University College Dublin, to solve the problem that more than 70% of pesticide spray sprayed around the world doesn’t reach its target.


Get your business promoted internationally #IrishAdvantage

Enterprise Ireland client companies can increase their exposure to overseas businesses and can avail of several marketing opportunities through the #IrishAdvantage campaign. Find out how you can register your business here.

 


GLOBAL AMBITION
Data is the road to digital health
 

Connected devices, wearables and the Internet of Things, together with cloud computing and pooled data is putting patients at the centre of their healthcare journey.


Enterprise Ireland's Market Discovery Fund #GlobalAmbition

The Market Discovery Fund is designed to help companies meet the key challenges of market research, helping businesses take their first steps into new markets.