Tagged: ireland

June 18, 2014 @ 6:23 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

While the Irish government continues to have no plans to regulate the funding method option at this time, the country’s financial services regulator Central Bank of Ireland has issued a consumer notice about crowdfunding and peer-to-peer lending options. The Central Bank stated that since crowdfunding regulations… Read More

June 17, 2014 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

PCH Delivers Online Marketplace to Create A New Retail Experience for Tech Products. PCH, the product development and supply chain management company behind some of the world’s best hardware products,  has launched TheBlueprint.com, an online marketplace for well-designed technology and the stories behind it. The Blueprint will sell… Read More

March 30, 2014 @ 5:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

Sian’s Plan, a meal-planning website that wants to change the way Brits buy and consume groceries has hit their crowdfunding target of raising £100,000 for 12.5% ownership in the small business. Having launched in Ireland, the business looked equity through the UK’s active crowdfunding community…. Read More

February 20, 2014 @ 7:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Dublin, Ireland based flat share company Roomsby is looking to raise £25,000 through BloomVC.com, a reward-based crowdfunding platform. Roomsby is an online-based marketplace for renters, created to make flat-sharing simple. The Irish entrepreneurs behind Roomsby are crowdfunding to develop a mobile app. Thomas McKeown, one… Read More

February 11, 2014 @ 8:08 am By Fiona Swan  |  

Editor’s Note:  Sian’s Plan is raising £100,000 on Seedrs representing 12.5% equity in the startup.  Fiona Swan is the COO of the company.  The Belfast based company supports healthy eating for busy families with their online tools.  Sian has already completed a first round of… Read More

January 21, 2014 @ 11:48 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Zopa is the UK’s largest peer-to-peer lending service, and one of the company’s co-founders has made a pretty amazing prediction about the size of the peer-to-business lending market in Ireland. In an interview with The Irish Times, Simon Deane-Johns predicted that peer-to-business lending throughput in… Read More

January 6, 2014 @ 9:24 am By Charles Luzar  |  

One strategy to protect yourself against inflation in the future is to put your money in places where its future value is linked to inflation. It is in this context that renewable energy investments offer an attractive proposition. In the UK, renewable energy projects receive… Read More

January 2, 2014 @ 12:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

The below presentation was created by the Entrepreneurship Forum in Ireland, an organization that is determined to strengthen the startup community in their country.  They believe that while boosting the startup culture is facilitated by the government the initiative must be led by private business… Read More

October 13, 2013 @ 7:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

After 6 months of operation, peer to peer lending platform LinkedFinance has breached the £1 Million mark in providing loans.  The Dublin based operation also expects to grow staff from 5 employees to 30 as the new company quickly grows. As reported in the Independent,… Read More

September 25, 2013 @ 11:11 am By JD Alois  |  

Plans Further Growth into Australia, Belgium, France and The Netherlands. Independent journalism crowdfunding portal, Vourno has announced their expansion into a new market having launched in Ireland.  Having only launched this past May, the company had previously expanded their US based operation into Canada and… Read More

September 15, 2013 @ 10:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Ciara Ryan was chatting with an old school friend who had been abroad for about 5 years living in Central America.  Missing her old friend she thought it would be “great if all her friends could each donate a little towards her flight.  A little… Read More

April 21, 2013 @ 5:12 am By Independent.ie  |  

HE was the man who launched Dublin’s Laughter Lounge comedy club, but Peter O’Mahony is finding nothing funny about Irish banks’ refusal to lend money. So the entrepreneur is about to introduce Crowdfunding to Ireland following its success in the US and Britain. “Basically, it’s… Read More

March 7, 2013 @ 8:13 am By BusinessAndLeadership  |  

An online crowd funding initiative called Linked Finance has been launched in Dublin with the backing of Irish entrepreneurs and international investors. The new Linked Finance technology facilitates person to person lending, or ‘crowd funding’ for Irish business. Business borrowers, vetted as part of the… Read More