Ireland’s start-up scene has been burgeoning steadily in recent years with an entrepreneurial fervour matched by pretty sizeable funding rounds and some incredible exits.
New PitchBook data has now named the most active investors in the Irish tech landscape in terms of deal counts. The count fails, however, to mention Enterprise Ireland – ranked by PitchBook in 2015 as Europe’s third largest seed investor – and focuses on private venture capital (VC) fund owner/managers.
According to the PitchBook Platform, there were nearly 200 VC deals in Ireland in 2018 worth around €553m, up from the previous year but down from 2016’s peak of more than €632m
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