Author Archives: seanmulvany

Venture Backing Of Female Founders

Posted on March 3, 2026 by seanmulvany

New publicly accessible dashboard from PitchBook on data since 2008 for venture backed female founders. Granular data with filtering by time, stage, industry and location. Data up to end February 2026. Looking at Ireland, a broad trend towards increasing capital … Continue reading →

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The Importance of Agriculture

Posted on February 23, 2026 by seanmulvany

I’m not sure today’s Eurostat figures on the value add of agriculture to the Irish economy do justice to the importance of the sector to the rural economy, normalised as they are to GDP. I think a more illustrative measure, … Continue reading →

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c.25 Years Of Science Foundation Ireland Funding

Posted on February 22, 2026 by seanmulvany

Now that Science Foundation Ireland has become Research Ireland, I came across their updated open data at https://data.gov.ie/ on all the awards they made – over 7200 of them from 2001 to 2025. There are insights here into the evolution … Continue reading →

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AgTech Webinar With IFC (June 7th)

Posted on June 1, 2022 by seanmulvany

What’s AgTech?The AgTech sector is aimed at goals that have existed throughout recorded history – yield and efficiency maximisation, enhancement of desirable traits, dealing with pests and, more recently, minimising externalities such as biodiversity loss, climate change and environmental degradation. … Continue reading →

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Increasing Spin Out Numbers From Universities

Posted on December 1, 2021 by seanmulvany

Enterprise Ireland (EI) is in the planning stages for a new initiative aimed at catalysing more spinouts from the third level in Ireland. The proposed approach to this is via a ‘Needs-Led Innovation Programme’. The core insight here is that … Continue reading →

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Not Another Bloody Podcast! Or Why I’m Profiling DCU’s Research Centres

Posted on November 24, 2021 by seanmulvany

I know the last thing the world is in desperate need of right now is yet another podcast series. That said and after a fair bit of thought, I felt I’d compromise with a very limited set of them. This … Continue reading →

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Q32021 Irish Venture Investment Data

Posted on November 22, 2021 by seanmulvany

The Irish Venture Capital Association released their most recent quarterly overview of venture investments made in Irish companies. This quarter there is publicly available data on some 51 investments compared with the 38 for which there was published further information last quarter. … Continue reading →

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