For the third time, The Sunday Business Post has done a great job in profiling another group of 100 startups led by determined and inspiring entrepreneurs. The chosen startups are working on a wide range of areas from AI to fashion. We are proud to see part of our Portfolio...
Flipdish, an Irish startup founded by brothers James and Conor McCarthy in 2015, has secured a seed investment form Growing Capital and Enterprise Ireland. The investment will help accelerate growth in the UK. Flipdish is an all in one white label app and website that helps individual restaurants, multi-store...
Glofox, one of the first companies in Growing Capital portfolio, raised 2M in Serie A funding, backed by top VCs firms in the SAAS industry: Notion Capital, Partech Ventures, Tribal VC and Enterprise Ireland. The business was founded in 2013 and has grown to a team of...
Today, March 08, 2017, Gianni Matera, Partner at Growing Capital, attended as a speaker at the Venture Capital & Angels Panel during the 16th annual InterTradeIreland Venture Capital conference. An informative sessions that touched topics of great interest around startup investments. Gianni brought on stage some important key points and lessons learned during...
Everybody knows that Amazon Cloud Computing platform is extremely powerful. But, this power comes with a lot of complexity to manage. Even if you want to set up a simple install of Wordpress in a EC2 instance, the process can easily become daunting for a beginner. This is the reason why,...
IT MAY SEEM like an unlikely upside, but one of the things that convinced Gianni Matera that he should stay in Ireland was the ease with which he could buy a house. “When I arrived in Ireland I bought a property from (bad bank) Nama; I just but...
We are very glad to announce that Growing Capital has become the first business angel to sign a deal with the European Investment Fund's European Angel Fund. EAF has committed €2.5M to Growing Capital co-investments over the next 5 years. The EAF has a total of...
TenderScout, the last startup to join our Growing family, won the Grand Prix award at 2016 eir Spider Awards on Wednesday Nov. 30th. TenderScout collates 15,000 new public sector leads every day and use data science and predictive analysis to help SMEs match with the best opportunities and...
StartUp Wake, where failed startups are laid to rest, has taken place yesterday, Wednesday 2nd of November, in Smock Alley Theatre. Everybody knows the stats around Venture Capital. Startups are volatile, fragile, with eight/nine out of ten failing within their first year. [caption id="attachment_16103" align="aligncenter" width="328"] Barry Redmond - Founder of...
Since its founding, Growing Capital has been actively involved in the Irish startup community. The last 15 months were very exciting for us. We have invested almost 1M in 6 Irish startups and had the opportunity to meet bright minded people on "both sides of the table",...