Funding for tech start-ups falls by 35 per cent
Decline mainly seen in later stage deals with transactions above €5 million down 40 per cent versus 2022
Source: businesspost.ie
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Decline mainly seen in later stage deals with transactions above €5 million down 40 per cent versus 2022
Access to finance remains the biggest hurdle to Irish tech start-up founders, according to a new survey from one of the sector’s largest representative bodies in Ireland.
Scale Ireland found in its latest State of Start-ups Survey 2024 that 50.3pc of respondents considered funding to be the biggest challenge.
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