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Belfast start-up MedAll has raised $3.4m in seed funding to develop its training platform for healthcare workers and expand its global reach. The funding round was led by Connect Ventures and included existing investors Seedcamp, Ascension, Techstart and Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar, who is originally from Northern Ireland, along with specialist health-tech fund Nina Capital. …

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Swedish e-scooter start-up Voi Technology has raised $115m in its Series D round, bringing its total funding raised this year to $160m. The company, which already operates in more than 70 different cities across 11 countries, is one of the many micromobility players looking to expand into the Irish market once the Government formally legalises …

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Global specialists in economic transformation partner with Amsterdam’s regional leaders to study European-based female technology leaders and women working in tech in an effort to foster broader entrepreneurship. Women in the European Tech Ecosystem Startup Genome and We Rise have partnered to study female leaders and women working in the European technology startup ecosystem. They …

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LiveFlow, a start-up co-founded by former Web Summit software engineer Evan O’Brien, has just raised $3.5m in seed funding to build an automated finance platform for companies. The seed funding comes less than year after the London-based company was started by Irishman O’Brien along with Revolut alumni Anita Koimur and Lasse Kalkar. The round was …

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San Francisco software start-up Retool has successfully closed its Series C funding round, bringing its total value to $1.85bn. It was aided by Stripe founders and Irish entrepreneurs, John and Patrick Collison. Founded in 2017, the company focuses on building tools for software companies to develop their own internal software faster. Announcing its funding news, …

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The services will begin next April and May respectively, with the carrier trying to lure passengers with cut-price, one-way fares from €139. Normally, they’ll start at €169 each way, but most travellers will struggle to snap up a limited number of tickets at those rock-bottom prices. With Dublin already offering plenty of direct flights to …

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Altratech has raised €5m for “cutting-edge health research” that could enable anyone to perform rapid genetic tests from different samples. The funding round was led by the Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Growth Fund and Infinity Capital, which both invested €1.5m. Enterprise Ireland also invested €500,000 while Claret Capital provided €1.5m in a venture debt …

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ConX, an Irish-founded construction tech start-up that helps contractors make quote estimations, has been acquired by Palo Alto-based home renovation and design platform Houzz. Founded by Dublin native Annie Slattery along with her husband Keith Moore and CTO Jonathan Clarke, Sydney-based ConX started off as a tech platform with a digital toolbox that would help …

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