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Gerry Maguire named as new chair of Irish Venture Capital Association
Dublin, Wednesday, 7th August, 2024: Gerry Maguire, general partner Atlantic Bridge, has been named as the new chairperson of the Irish Venture Capital Association. He replaces Denise Sidhu, partner of Cork headquartered Kernel Capital, who has completed her term of office.
Ireland has the potential to create a stable of unicorns – IVCA
Dublin, Wednesday, 17th July, 2024: Irish entrepreneurs have the talent and potential to create a stable of unicorns (privately owned start-ups valued at more than $1 billion) and global winners if the absence of scaling finance can be addressed.
This was stated by the Irish Venture Capital Association, when it welcomed the announcement1 by Peter Burke TD, Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Employment, that his department has established an implementation committee to immediately start work on recommendations to assist high potential start-ups access scaling finance.
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Venture capital funding into Irish SMEs falls by nearly half in first quarter
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Venture capital funding into Irish SMEs falls by nearly half in first quarter
Tax Planning for Future Success
The IVCA is delighted to extend our partnership with Enterprise Ireland on the Road to VC Investment Programme helping female founders prepare in their road to securing funding. This programme is aimed at demystifying and smoothing the path to investment for female founded companies, and a variety of resources including webinars, mentoring, masterclasses and in person networking is available to companies undertaking the programme.
37th IVCA Annual Dinner 2024
Thank you to all our members and guests who attended the 37th IVCA Annual Dinner at the InterContinental Hotel Dublin. Making this year’s dinner our largest to date. We would especially like to thank broadcaster Jonathan Healy for serving as our evening’s MC and to our guest speaker, Fergal Keane, a foreign correspondent for BBC News, who captivated the audience with his speech about humanity and hope. We are grateful to all our event partners and our sponsor Abbey International Finance who helped to make this evening a huge success. It was a pleasure to meet everyone again.
Road to VC Investment
The IVCA is delighted to extend our partnership with Enterprise Ireland on the Road to VC Investment Programme helping female founders prepare in their road to securing funding. This programme is aimed at demystifying and smoothing the path to investment for female founded companies, and a variety of resources including webinars, mentoring, masterclasses and in person networking is available to companies undertaking the programme.
Please be aware of phishing emails that have been in circulation impersonating senior members of the IVCA team
If you have received any emails from a domain “@s.larkins@irishvca.com” and adobesign@adobesign.com please delete it.
IVCA reports year of mixed fortunes in 2023 VenturePulse survey
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Just 26% of venture capital investment goes to SMEs outside Leinster
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