{"id":142531,"date":"2025-09-08T21:33:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T21:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/142531\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T21:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T21:33:13","slug":"venture-capital-to-irish-start-ups-slumps-by-77pc-in-second-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/142531\/","title":{"rendered":"Venture capital to Irish start-ups slumps by 77pc in second quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The sharp fall in funding comes after a record-breaking first quarter in cash for start-ups\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Caroline Gaynor, chairperson, Irish Venture Capital Association\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1c2a5e64-1195-486e-a977-b1237c106ea5.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Caroline Gaynor, chairperson, Irish Venture Capital Association<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Venture capital funding to Irish tech and life science firms slumped by 78pc in the second quarter of 2025 after a record first quarter, according to the latest figures from the Irish Venture Capital Association (IVCA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The fall from \u20ac494m in the second quarter of 2024 to \u20ac113m in the same three-month period in 2025 is the worst recorded figure in a decade and means that funding in the first half of the year is down by 14pc \u2013 to \u20ac646m \u2013 compared to the same time last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sharp fall in funding comes after a record-breaking first quarter in cash for start-ups Caroline Gaynor, chairperson,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[71138,28,158],"class_list":{"0":"post-142531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-adrian-weckler","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-entrepreneurship"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}