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The corporate gifting services provider counts Airbnb, Spotify and Peleton among its clients 20th May, 2021 Jonathan Legge, Ciara Flood and Mark Legge, co-founders of &Open which is set for expansion. Picture: Linda Brownlee/East Photographic. &Open, the Dublin-based corporate gifting start-up, said it would double its employee headcount to more than 60 after raising €5.9 million in seed funding. The funding round was led by First Round Capital and Local Globe, the venture capital firms. Angel investors include Des Traynor, a founder of Irish unicorn start-up Intercom, Liam ...

Vaccine breakthrough; airline rows; steps to stay clear of ransomware Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk about 3 hours ago   Pfizer has chosen Ireland as the site for the first manufacturer of the active ingredient of its Covid vaccine outside the US. Dublin’s Grange Castle plant will become an integral part of the company’s Covid vaccine network from the end of the year in what Taoiseach Micheál Martin called “historic announcement”. Not such good news for EML, the Australian fintech that acquired Ireland’s Prepaid Financial Se...

Irish tech entrepreneurs line up to back &Open in $7.2m investment First Round Capital, which led early investment in Uber, leads super-seed round about 11 hours ago Gifting platform &Open founders Jonathan Legge, Ciara Flood and Mark Legge. Your Web Browser may be out of date. If you are using Internet Explorer 9, 10 or 11 our Audio player will not work properly.   Irish gifting platform &Open has raised $7.2 million (€5.9 million) in investment from backers including some of the biggest names in Irish tech. First Round Capital, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that previousl...

Irish tech entrepeneurs line up to back &Open in $7.2m investment First Round Capital, which led early investment in Uber, leads super-seed round about 3 hours ago Gifting platform &Open founders Jonathan Legge, Ciara Flood and Mark Legge. Your Web Browser may be out of date. If you are using Internet Explorer 9, 10 or 11 our Audio player will not work properly.   Irish gifting platform &Open has raised $7.2 million (€5.9 million) in investment from backers including some of the biggest names in Irish tech. First Round Capital, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that previously p...

&Open raises $7.2M from First Round Capital and LocalGlobe to send gifts at scale We live in a world where companies have to send out ‘gifts’ to individuals. Chocolate bars. Bottles of wine. You name it. Companies are gifting it. But right now, that operation is buried in a marketing department on a spreadsheet, as is mostly pretty disorganized. A handful of startups realized it could be done better and at scale, among them Sendoso (which has raised $52.7M) and ReachDesk ($6M). Joining this clan is a startup with the tortuous name of “&Open” (yes, ‘ampersand open’, pronounced ‘A...