Two entrepreneurs have launched a business innovation hub in Cork City which they hope will help support the creation of up to 100 jobs over the next 18 months.

The Irish financial technology sector needs more regional venture capital firms and a greater number of investments of up to €2m to realise its full potential, a leading expert has claimed.

With the announcement this week of Nohovation, the new super-angel investment fund backed by Pat Phelan and Illan Power, it cements the move of the Irish startup scene into adolescence. So what’s next, asks Kehlan Kirwan    

Trustev founder Pat Phelan and distiller Illann Power have launched a new €25m investment fund to help Irish companies scale globally.

New firms and startups create more jobs than any other business enterprise. 

Startups will be looking ahead to the challenges ahead. There are several key issues facing small businesses.

Cork needs to become a city where ideas can be tested and nurtured and less of a city of start-up office space, according to a leading tech entrepreneur.

In this week’s article, Kehlan Kirwan looks at Start-up Weekend Limerick, which has become more than simply a 54-hour start-up event for developing new business ideas and is becoming part of an entrepreneurial movement    

Yesterday the Opinion Line on Cork’s 96FM began an auction of five of the most sought after toys for this Christmas, Frozen’s Snow Glow Elsa doll.

All proceeds from the auction will go to the Cork Simon Community.

The head of an Irish online anti-fraud firm, which has the potential to become a multi-billion euro business, has been named MSL Cork business person of the year.

The quality of start-up companies being founded in Ireland is improving every year according to influential investor Richard Moran.

Some of the country’s most successful entrepreneurs will address students and the wider community at Innov8 Week at UCC.

This year Cork is set to take part in one of the world’s top technology conferences, the annual Dublin Web Summit by running a start-up train from Cork to the event.

A number of successful Cork-based companies are proving that “geography is history,” and that you can run global operations from anywhere in the world.

Despite being the hottest European start-up, Trustev founder Chris Kennedy is still living on the breadline working to ensure that the company survives to fulfil its billion-euro potential.

Trustev will be a multi-billion dollar company — the CEO of the start-up,Pat Phelan told UCC students.