Pitch, which is the largest start-up competition in Europe, is being held in Dublin as part of Web Summit. The competition is sponsored by Coca-Cola. With over 200 entries from over 36 countries the last two days have seen a lot of activity and heated competition between the start-ups who made the original list. So […]
PCH founder and CEO Liam Casey is having a busy week in Dublin. He’s attending Web Summit, of course – he says that Silicon Valley was full of talk about that event last week. But before the Summit, PCH was involved with running the three-day Design and Hardware Hackathon at DCU Innovation Campus over the weekend. That’s where he spoke to Technology.ie. […]
Justin Mares will headline the sixth and final Growth Hackers Dublin event on November 3 at the Abbey Theatre. He’s the co-author of Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers, which he co-wrote with Gabriel Weinberg, the founder of search engine DuckDuckGo. Justin is the former Director of Revenue at Exceptional, a software company that Rackspace acquired for 8 figures in 2013. […]
Dairymaster CEO Edmond Harty, Conall Ó Móráin of the Sunday Business Show, Paul Hayes of Beach-Hut PR and investor Ian Lucey will be among the speakers at Wild Atlantic Startups: WASup Kerry, being held at IT Tralee on Friday October 17. We’ve featured WASup before on Technology.ie: you can hear a podcast we did with organiser […]
A University of Limerick engineering graduate has won €20,000 after being named Limerick’s Best Young Entrepreneur at a function hosted in the Castletroy Park Hotel. Founded by Dr. Paddy Finn, Electricity Exchange provides systems and expertise for Demand Side Units, used by large electricity users to manage their own generation of some of their own power. […]
Disruptors was the title of a conference held last Friday in Dublin’s Marker hotel. Technology.ie was there and we spoke to many of the contributors, beginning with David Smith and Clyde Hutchinson who had just participated in a panel discussion on Disruptive Ecosystems. Technology.ie is brought to you by Blacknight, Ireland’s leading provider of hosting and domains. Related articles Be the Disruptor, […]
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These days it’s a household name, but DoneDeal.ie started life as an idea in the minds of Fred and Geraldine Karlsson when they moved back to Ireland from Sweden in 2005. Having used a similar site to sell their stuff in Sweden, they wanted to do the same to furnish their home in Ireland, and they […]
Forget wine bars and breakfast meetups; Dublin’s startup community is taking to the open air for recreation and – yes – networking. It started with a tweet from Andreea Wade, who was soon joined by Aisling Hannon and Tracy Keogh. I want to go hiking. Do you also want to go hiking? Because I really want to go […]
Today’s podcast (18:32; 11MB; MP3) features Jules Coleman, co-founder of Hassle.com, which launched in Dublin yesterday. Hassle.com is an online marketplace that allows busy people to book and pay for someone to come and clean their house. Traditionally, this has been a difficult task, heavily dependent on word-of-mouth recommendations and trust, both on the part of the client […]
Hot on the heels of the announcement by Intercom that it raised €23m in Series B financing, Stripe, the online payments company founded by Patrick and John Collison, have announced a Series C round of $80m dollars which values the business at €1.75bn dollars. Both companies are founded by Irish people and both are growing […]
