The number of employees employed by Enterprise Ireland (EI) backed firms rose by 11,911 last year, despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is the highest job gain recorded by clients of a state agency in a single year. 207,894 people now work for companies assisted by EI, whose mission is the development and […]
This piece was first written by Lane Patterson, Senior Vice President of Telecom and IoT, Enterprise Ireland In 2019, the telecommunications marketplace had to look outside the usual major Chinese vendors for telecommunications products and equipment. The problem for those using the equipment became two-fold. First, much of the equipment had to be replaced or […]
Irish technology firms raised almost €1bn in funding last year according to Irish Venture Capital Association’s (IVCA) VenturePulse survey for 2017. The €994m raised represents a 12% increase in contrast to 2016’s €888m. The IVCA VenturePulse survey finds that technology based SMEs raised €177m in the fourth quarter 2017. This compares to €154m in the […]