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Start Up Funding In Ireland – 2025 Edition
The Irish start up data aggregator, TechIreland, has just published the 2025 start up funding tally. The macro story is one of funding stabilization by cash and number of start ups after falls from the 2021 peak. Digging into the … Continue reading
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There Are Returns To Be Had From AgTech
I’ve had a new PitchBook analyst note that reviews some 10 years of AgTech investment data for over a week but not had a chance to say too much about it other than a brief LinkedIn post until now. Using … Continue reading
2025 AgTech and FoodTech Global Investment Roundup – AgFunder Data
It’s that time of year when the figures are in and various august sources publish the investment data for the year just gone. AgFunder, most especially AgFunder News, have built a good reputation over the years as a source of … Continue reading
Venture Backing Of Female Founders
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
The Importance of Agriculture
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
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
AgTech Webinar With IFC (June 7th)
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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Sean Mulvany 