FEATURE ARTICLE
100 Hot Start-Ups
Sunday Business Post
 
Sunday Business Post: Read about the the best and brightest of Ireland's start-ups led by entrepreneurs who are determined to succeed.
SME Advice: Transform your global sales with appliance of science
 
Sunday Independent: For a company to successfully scale to the next level, good ideas need to be matched with rigorous commercial discipline.
INDUSTRY NEWS
Minister Halligan leads Enterprise Ireland Trade Visit to ESTEC in the Netherlands
 
Eleven Irish companies are participating in the Trade Mission with a view to maximising their participation in European Space programmes and the Satellite Communications market in particular.
Brexit study ordered on Irish trade flows with UK and EU
Irish Independent
 
A major study providing a detailed profile of the trading relationships between Ireland and other EU member states with the UK is being commissioned by the Government to feed into its Brexit preparations.
Minister leads Enterprise Ireland trade visit to Belgium
Business World
 
The aim of the trade visit was to promote Ireland’s extensive experience and capability within the high-tech construction and engineering sectors.
Irish fintech start-up Rubicoin raises a further €1.4m
Irish Times
 
Irish fintech start-up Rubicoin has successfully secured a further €1.4 million in a new funding round to take its total amount raised to date to more than €5 million.
Taking the toil out of data input for book-keeping
Irish Examiner
 
Dublin fintech firm OCREX is seeking €3m in funding to go global with intelligent automated data management software designed to take the drudgery out of book-keeping and accounting.
Investor MML buys €12m stake in Fastway Couriers
Irish Times
 
Irish and multinational-backed investor MML has bought a minority stake in Fastway Couriers for a figure said to be about €12 million.
Irish Company TAPSTAK launches a ‘remote control for life’
Irish Tech News
 

TAPSTAK is intent on transforming the way we interact with the world around us having created one smartphone App that can interact with everything.


Start-up of the week: Plynk
Silicon Republic
 
Founded in 2015 by Charles Dowd and Clive Foley, Plynk offers a money-messaging app that lets phone users chat one-to-one and in groups, and send and receive money instantly from within the chats.
Ostoform Tops At AIB Startup Academy
Irish Times
 
Ostoform, winner of the "One to Watch Award" at Enterprise Ireland's Big Ideas 2016, has won the 2017 AIB Startup Academy competition ahead of 13 other contenders.
€782,000 awarded to commercialise eight NUIG research projects
Silicon Republic
 
Eight research projects underway at NUI Galway have been awarded funding to commercialise their ideas, ranging from renewable energy to treatment of Parkinson’s disease.
Green Alley Award
 

The Green Alley Award 2017 is searching for the next green business idea to help avoid, reduce, reuse, recycle or transform waste. Apply from April 25th to win a prize of up to €30,000.


#PrepareforBrexit SME Scorecard
 

The Enterprise Ireland Brexit SME Scorecard is a free planning tool for Irish exporters to the UK designed to help you assess your business readiness across six areas.


Competitive Start Fund for Female Entrepeneurs

The Competitive Start Fund (CSF) for Female Entrepreneurs opens for applications soon - previous CSF winners Glissed and Mobility Mojo give tips on how to make a strong application from past experience.

€750k Competitive Start Fund for Female Entrepreneurs


UPCOMING EVENTS
25 April 2017: Fuelling Ambition Roadshow, Portlaoise, Co. Laois
26 April 2017: Fuelling Ambition Roadshow, Castlebar, Co. Mayo
3 May 2017: Prepare for Brexit Roadshow, Co. Cork
9 May 2017: Industry event 'Building a Business on Ideas', Dublin.
18th May 2017: Enterprise Start workshop, Wicklow