Billionaire Irish tech entrepreneurs pledge funding for Covid-19 research

Patrick and John Collison, co-founders of Strype, a financial payments technology company, have pledged funding to researchers working on Covid-19 studies.
The brothers are donors to the Fast grants research fund. File picture.
The brothers are donors to the Fast grants research fund. File picture.
Wed, 08 Apr, 2020 - 19:04
Ciarán Sunderland

Patrick and John Collison, brothers and billionaire Irish tech entrepreneurs have pledged to fund researchers working on Covid-19 studies.

The co-founders of Stripe, a financial payments technology company, are part of the research funding trust fastgrants.org.

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