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Praise for Limerick brothers as firm becomes most valuable in Silicon Valley Reporter: );  ); A HIGH-TECH firm founded by two Limerick brothers has become the most valuable private company the Silicon Valley has ever produced. On top of this, Stripe, which provides online payments, is to create 1,000 new jobs in Dublin over the next five years. The company was founded by John and Patrick Collison, who grew up in Monaleen and were educated at Castletroy College. Investors have struck a deal w...

On the heels of reports that Stripe was raising yet more money, the payments giant has now confirmed the details. The company has closed in on another $600 million, at a valuation of $95 billion. Stripe said it will use the funding to expand its business in Europe, with a focus on its European HQ, […]

Sports trading card platform Alt launches with $31 million in funding and plenty of market hype The alternative asset market showed promise pre-pandemic but amid a broader rally among traditional asset classes, the number of investors searching for and promoting value in the space has exploded. That has, in turn, promoted a pretty major influx of VC dollars into startups building platforms that wrangle these buyers into specific communities. Enter, Alt. The young startup has received more than ...

Olumuyiwa Olowogboyega Share this article The Nigerian fintech startup, Flutterwave made a splash today after it became Africa’s newest unicorn. Olumuyiwa Olowogboyega & Alexander Onukwue explore what tech startups need to know about the race to $1 billion. A startup is a company designed to grow fast. One key metric for determining growth is what a company is worth; this is why unicorns are a fascinating topic.  A unicorn is any private startup company started after 2003 that is valued a...

Western Union is one of a number of major companies to seize digital opportunities in the underbanked Middle East and Africa regions.

Interview: Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO of Stripe Share In addition to being a friend and a Noahpinion subscriber, Patrick Collison is one of the world’s most successful founder-CEOs. Along with his co-founder and brother John, he built online payments company Stripe into a $36 billion behemoth in a decade. (Patrick and John hail from Ireland, continuing the hallowed tradition of Irish immigrants making it big in America.) But in addition to being an ace businessperson, Patrick is o...

Student Tom McCarthy was inspired by attempting to build a nuclear fusion reactor in his parents’ shed as a young teenager to help other young people with big ideas.

Yimby movement aims to solve housing woes in London Updated / Sunday, 28 Feb 2021 16:46 London Correspondent What connects John and Patrick Collison, the billionaire brothers formerly of Dromineer, Co Tipperary, with Aria Babu, a 23-year-old living in a damp basement flat in Camden in north London, and California state Senator Scott Wiener? The answer is housing. And in particular the movement known as Yimby. It stands for Yes, In My Back Yard - and is the direct opposite of Nimby - Not In...

Sequoia's Michael Moritz and Kleiner's John Doerr are co-leading an investment for the first time since Google in 1999.

University of Limerick has collaborated with a number of major technology companies to design an Immersive Software Engineering programme, which will redefine computer science education. There is a huge demand for software engineers and computer scientists, but "the way students learn computer science needs to change" according to Professor Stephen Kinsella, co-director of the programme. The new integrated undergraduate and Masters degree was designed in partnership with over a dozen leading t...