Good article by Karlin Lillington in the Irish Times @klillington on venture investment in Europe, which grew strongly in 2014.

Interesting note, highlighting how far ahead the UK is, with digital ad spend accounting for 50% of media spend compared with the US at...

Marketplaces, fintech and IoT were the big investment themes of 2014. Following a number of years where investment was focussed on...

This is from Australia but contains a number of statements that are true on a global basis:

• Most exits over the next five years for...

Cybersecurity company Darktrace, with its first funding from Mike Lynch's Invoke Capital, has just raised its 2nd round of $18m....

A recent report by Piper Jaffray highlights the emergence of the sharing economy as a major investment theme, fuelled by changes in...

Interesting report from EY on the changing role of corporate development within an organisation. It highlights the fact that corporate...

Dyson first financial investment is a strategic investment in US battery start-up Sakti3 on the promise of denser energy storage that...

Cyber security is a hot sector, and it's interesting to see the corporates investing significant sums alongside financial investors.

News of an interesting addition to the m-commerce toolkit from Powa, one of the UK's "unicorns". As the article notes, this product is...

Lyft has teamed up with ecommerce giant Rakuten as the global taxi wars escalate further. This is a really interesting move for both...

Coming fast on the heals of the news that Paypal has acquired early stage Israeli cyber company, Cyactive, is the news that CISCO...

Yet another example that the balance between national security and personal and transaction data security is a difficult balance to get...

As someone brought up in the UK, it is difficult to imagine that we would voluntarily agree to handing unfettered access to our data to...

Some pretty bold claims have been made for Cyactive, and if the truth is as good as the claims then this is $60-80m well spent.

Over the past decade environmental due diligence has become a normal part of investment and acquisition due diligence. With cyber...

Amazon has made a breakthrough in the Chinese ecommerce market... however, only through the express consent of Alibaba.

Amazon now...

Hot on the heels of Transferwise and Shazam, which entered the "unicorn" club in January 2015, comes another European unicorn -...

Facebook contributed around half of the money spent on the top 10 tech acquisitions in 2014 in the US, paying $22bn for Whatsapp and...

The reputational damage to Lenovo over the Superfish scandal is totally out of proportion to the income Lenovo generated from this....

The stats revealed in this article are interesting. Perhaps the reason that we are not seeing so many exits in this market is that it...

There have been a number of great success stories from Ireland, including the "unicorn" Stripe which was valued at $3.5bn in its last...

The FT reports on a familiar story, based a report by the Association for Financial Markets in Europe, showing the EU lagging the...

Interesting report by Savills on the environment for start-ups shows Tel Aviv coming top in EMEA (in 3rd place globally) followed by...

I was at this event last week - very informative, lively and entertaining!

The big question was "were we in a bubble", and the...