The most recent Global Cities Report - produced by management consulting company Kearney - ranked Dublin highly in its Outlook Index, jumping 24 places to ninth, behind cities such as London, Singapore, San Francisco, Paris [...]
Almost 23,000 business startups were formed in Ireland last year, according to a report from company intelligence firm CRIF Vision-net. This is up 1.2pc on 2018, and is the highest number of startups over a [...]
Business 'angels' invested €16.8m in 66 Irish startups last year, according to a report from the State-supported body for promoting such investment. The Halo Business Angel Network (HBAN) has, since 2007, been building regional syndicates [...]
Latest numbers from the Irish Venture Capital Association (IVCA) showed that while there has been quarterly jumps up and down, funding overall in the first nine months of 2019 has grown from €546 million to [...]
Irish private-equity buyouts are on track to reach one of the highest annual figures on record, while tech deals continue to account for the lion’s share of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals locally, according to [...]
More than half of Ireland's small business owners lack strong financial literacy skills and leave analysis of company performance to their accountants, according to a new nationwide survey. The Small Firms Association (SFA) finds in [...]
What’s happening? The European Union (Anti-Money Laundering: Beneficial Ownership of Corporate Entities) Regulations 2019 came into force on 22 March 2019. As a result, Irish companies are required to register their beneficial owners on [...]