'Plenty to keep tech heads and investors busy’

The second day of the Web Summit may not have had an announcement to rival that of the first when Irish entrepreneur Oisín Hanrahan’s start-up, Handy landed a $50m investment but it had plenty to keep tech heads and investors busy nonetheless.

The day opened on the main stage with Stripe’s John Collison predicting not only significant growth for his own company but great success for European start-ups, both born and yet to be conceived.

“It’s hard to see a world in which everything stays the same,” Mr Collison told the Summit in reassurance that the best was yet to come in terms of technology start-ups.