Tag Archives: Venture Capital

There Are Returns To Be Had From AgTech

Posted on May 3, 2026 by seanmulvany

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 →

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2025 AgTech and FoodTech Global Investment Roundup – AgFunder Data

Posted on March 21, 2026 by seanmulvany

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 →

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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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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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Comparing Research Commercialisation Across Irish Universities

Posted on September 9, 2021 by seanmulvany

Last night Knowledge Transfer Ireland published their Annual Knowledge Transfer Survey. The survey provides an overview of Irish third level Research Performing Organisation (RPO) funding, industry collaboration levels and commercialisation activities related to research through spin outs or licensing of … Continue reading →

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Q2 2021 Investment Data

Posted on August 30, 2021 by seanmulvany

Yesterday, the Irish Venture Capital Association released their most recent quarterly overview of venture investments made in Irish companies. Of the 58 investments worth €392M for which they have data, details are shown here for 38 for which they’ve published … Continue reading →

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Improving Judgment and Decision Making

Posted on June 16, 2021 by seanmulvany

Almost a decade ago, Daniel Kahneman published ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ about a lifetime of research, with colleague Amos Tversky, into biases and shortcuts people take in making judgements. It was the topic of conversation for months afterwards with investors … Continue reading →

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