More and more Irish companies and startups are securing capital investment but the value of those investments is decreasing, that's according to the annual Irish Venture Capital Association VenturePulse survey.
Carve Cases, the wooden iPhone case manufacturer, has just secured its second round of investment which will see the company expand to 12 employees by 2014 and export to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
Last month we covered a good-news story about an investment competition with a difference. Emerging startups were invited to pitch their ideas on Twitter using the hashtag #20000yoyos and two winners would be chosen just weeks later, each receiving €10,000 to help get their idea off the ground.