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Dublin-based Fonoa has raised $25m to fund further development of its global tax automation platform and help it expand internationally. Fonoa helps companies with cross-border transactions to automate their tax payments and create invoices that are locally compliant. Some of its major clients include Lime, Uber, Teachable, GoStudent and Zoom, and it said it helps …

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Material Evolution has secured a total of $3.4m, comprising $1.7m in seed investment and $1.7m in grant funding, to help make the cement industry more sustainable. The company was founded in 2017 by Queen’s University Belfast graduate Dr Elizabeth Gilligan. It is now based in Teesside in the UK, where its team works on developing …

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Medtech firm Gasgon Medical has been named the overall winner of the 2021 InterTradeIreland Seedcorn competition, receiving a €100,000 cash prize. The Seedcorn programme supports new and early-stage businesses from any sector and any part of the island of Ireland. As well as a cash prize for finalists, all participants in the competition benefit from …

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NovaUCD today announced the eight new ventures which are set to pitch their business plans at the final of University College Dublin’s (UCD) annual accelerator programme with the overall winner receiving the 2021 UCD Start-Up of the Year Award. Between them, the participating early-stage ventures are seeking to raise seed investment of several million euros. …

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Cryptocurrency payments start-up MoonPay has raised $555m in its first financing round bringing its valuation to $3.4bn. The three-year-old US operator is the latest crypto company to make a splash in an already crowded market. Its CEO Ivan Soto-Wright has said its business model is “similar to PayPal, but for crypto.” MoonPay operates as a …

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Galway medtech start-up Tympany Medical has secured seed investment of €3.5m led by European technology growth firm Atlantic Bridge. The funding round also included significant investment from Galway-headquartered start-up support ecosystem Ascentifi, as well as Xenium Capital, Mayo Clinic Ventures, the Western Development Commission, Enterprise Ireland and a number of angel investors. The company’s founders …

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Legitify is bringing digital transformation to legal services, starting with remote online notarisation. Founded in 2020, this start-up’s flagship product incorporates AI and audio-video technology so that users can access notary services from anywhere. Documents can be notarised online, cutting back on the travel, time and perhaps even inconvenience of going the more traditional route. …

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