Innovation America Innovation America Accelerating the growth of the GLOBAL entrepreneurial innovation economy
Founded by Rich Bendis

On the up: There has never been more seed and early stage funding available for Irish start-ups.Photograph: iStockphoto

There is plenty of early stage funding available for Irish start-ups but securing it isn’t easy

IT’S A PECULIAR irony of the current credit environment. On the one hand, established businesses looking to access funds to develop and grow – or just stay in business – are struggling to do so. On the other, start-ups – companies as yet unproven and untested – are finding that seed capital funding may never have been more plentiful than it is now.