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A Cork-based start-up is using recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the early detection of abnormal brain activity in babies at birth. Founded in 2021, CergenX aims to improve brain health monitoring in newborns by developing algorithms for screening all babies at birth for abnormal brain activity. The technology will enable early intervention by …

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Emerging HR start-up Strive has won €5,000 after being named the overall winner of this year’s NovaUCD Student Enterprise Competition. The annual competition, based at the University College Dublin (UCD) centre for new ventures, is an intensive four-week mentoring programme aimed at student entrepreneurs. For its eight year, 10 early-stage student ventures competed with business …

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Dublin-based &Open has raised $26m in a new round of funding to invest in its corporate gifting platform for companies. Announced today (22 June) at the Collision tech conference in Toronto, this Series A round was led by Molten Ventures. Other backers include First Round Capital, LocalGlobe, Tribal VC and Middlegame Ventures. This brings the …

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Dublin-based &Open has raised $26m in a new round of funding to invest in its corporate gifting platform for companies. Announced today (22 June) at the Collision tech conference in Toronto, this Series A round was led by Molten Ventures. Other backers include First Round Capital, LocalGlobe, Tribal VC and Middlegame Ventures. This brings the …

Irish start-up &Open bags $26m to make corporate gifting more accessible Read More »

Dublin-based &Open has raised $26m in a new round of funding to invest in its corporate gifting platform for companies. Announced today (22 June) at the Collision tech conference in Toronto, this Series A round was led by Molten Ventures. Other backers include First Round Capital, LocalGlobe, Tribal VC and Middlegame Ventures. This brings the …

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Sonantic, an Irish-founded AI start-up that brought Val Kilmer’s voice to life in the latest Top Gun film, has been snapped up by Spotify “to create high-quality experiences” for users. Based in London, Sonantic was founded in 2018 by Irishman John Flynn and Zeena Qureshi. The two met at the Entrepreneur First founders’ programme, and …

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A new report on start-up ecosystems around the world has found that a record 540 companies achieved unicorn status last year. This was up from only 150 in 2020, with 113 ecosystems producing at least one company valued at more than $1bn. The Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2022 launched at London Tech Week provides a …

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Qualcomm snaps up mobile network automation startup Cellwize for $350m Israeli firm’s cloud-native, multi-vendor RAN platform is designed to accelerate deployment of 5G networks Image: Dennis 14 June 2022 Qualcomm has announced the acquisition of mobile network automation and management start-up Cellwize Wireless Technologies for $350 million. Israeli firm Cellwize provides a cloud-native, multi-vendor Radio …

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Dublin-based tech start-up Webio has secured $4m in a Series A funding round to scale its AI-powered customer engagement business. Webio has developed a ‘conversational’ AI platform that helps companies in the credit, collections and payments space communicate with their customers. Pitched as a platform that makes ‘difficult’ customer conversations easy and personalised, Webio aims …

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UK tech start-ups have raised $15.6bn in investment so far in 2022, ahead of both China and India for the first time, according to data from Dealroom. Dealroom published a new report today (13 June) for the UK’s Digital Economy Council, which found that UK companies raised more VC funding in the first five months …

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