# irish insights

> Get the latest on the people and trends shaping Irish business, startups and tech worldwide.

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## Posts
- [💡The Irish AI 50, 2026: the top 20 (20 to 11)](https://www.irish-insights.com/p/irish-ai-50-2026-20-to-11): A €425m exit, a TIME100 AI researcher, and the woman taking brain theory to market.
- [💡Tyrone man buIids empire from one pallet of Tayto](https://www.irish-insights.com/p/tyrone-man-buiids-empire-from-one-pallet-of-tayto): PLUS: Zuck buys 196-year-old Irish castle, Stripe's $7bn purchase and that time Dolly Parton visited Páidí Ó Sé's
- [💡The Irish AI 50, 2026: numbers 30 to 21](https://www.irish-insights.com/p/irish-ai-50-2026-30-to-21): The explainable AI pioneer, the feature store inventor, and a $180m AI security exit.
- [💡The Irish AI 50, 2026: numbers 40 to 31](https://www.irish-insights.com/p/irish-ai-50-2026-40-to-31): The professors arrive, a Shutterstock AI chief, and the ML answer to running restaurants.
- [💡The Irish AI 50, 2026: the countdown begins](https://www.irish-insights.com/p/irish-ai-50-2026-50-to-41): Fifty Irish minds shaping AI worldwide, ranked. We start at the bottom and climb.
- [💡Uncle Sam came second](https://www.irish-insights.com/p/uncle-sam-came-second): PLUS: 9fin staff cash out, a 256-qubit machine lands in Dublin & Wayflyer's $1.5bn
- [💡Coming soon: The Irish AI 50](https://www.irish-insights.com/p/coming-soon-the-irish-ai-50): Mapping the Irish minds building the AI frontier, counting down ten a week from next week.
- [💡The $53bn PayPal Question](https://www.irish-insights.com/p/the-53bn-paypal-question-da86): PLUS: Mulcahy brothers join Attio, EI is Europe's busiest venture investor & Ocuco raises €6m for its eyecare SaaS.
- [💡"Notions": Learnosity's one billion assessments](https://www.irish-insights.com/p/notions-by-learnosity): PLUS: Kenny Jacobs joins Manna's US push, Druid and Viatel go shopping abroad, and WrxFlo banks €3m for Limerick.
- [💡Record-Breaking Heat & Record-Breaking Deals](https://www.irish-insights.com/p/record-breaking-heat-record-breaking-deals): PLUS: £16m for a London fintech founded by an Irishman, two Irish start-ups land in Y Combinator's summer batch & a Dundalk grass whisperer signs with FIFA.
- [💡The exit Ireland was waiting for ](https://www.irish-insights.com/p/the-exit-ireland-was-waiting-for): PLUS: AMCS hits a $2bn valuation, KKR's €6.6bn move on DCC, CameraMatics raises €49m, and two new founders on the map.
- [💡€7m ARR in three months](https://www.irish-insights.com/p/7m-arr-in-three-months): PLUS: Wordsmith AI's $70m raise, a €404m Limerick exit, StormHarvester's global run, and Sony backs Dublin's piracy fighter.
- [💡Stephen got hitched (and what we missed)](https://www.irish-insights.com/p/stephen-got-hitched-and-what-we-missed): PLUS: A French wedding, three weeks off, and a serious backlog of Irish tech wins to work through.
- [💡A West Cork co-op just bought a US giant](https://www.irish-insights.com/p/a-west-cork-co-op-just-bought-a-us-giant): PLUS: Version 1 crosses €500M, Orreco joins MLS Innovation Lab, Ignite Partners scales AI across hemispheres, and GridBeyond opens new global HQ.
- [💡 100k subs. Two Irish lads. No VC.](https://www.irish-insights.com/p/100k-subs-two-irish-lads-no-vc): PLUS: healthStay goes global, Kota hits #6 in Europe, $72M in Belfast, Vodafone's €360M Irish bet, and the startup job spec that hurts because it's true.
- [💡Stevie's Stag](https://www.irish-insights.com/p/stevie-s-stag): PLUS: $70 million in funding, Amazon’s subsea cable to Cork & the quirkiest tech startups perks.
- [💡Galway Y Combinator](https://www.irish-insights.com/p/galway-y-combinator): PLUS: A Kerry man builds AI risk in Washington DC, Vertigenius lands in 20 US clinics and Ireland registers 7,263 new startups in Q1.
- [💡Mullingar Airport](https://www.irish-insights.com/p/mullingar-airport): PLUS: New Irish unicorn, Manna raises $50m and the AI paradox every leader needs to read.
- [Artificial Organizations](https://www.irish-insights.com/p/artificial-organizations)
- [💡 Meet Rachel, the AI agent that called 3,000 pubs](https://www.irish-insights.com/p/meet-rachel-the-ai-agent-that-called-3-000-pubs): PLUS: Stripe's former CTO sells AI startup to Meta, Spectrum.Life lands in Australia, Horizon Quantum lists on Nasdaq & fresh funding rounds.
- [💡 St Patrick's Day Special ☘️](https://www.irish-insights.com/p/st-patrick-s-day-special): We reveal the results of our inaugural Founders Sentiment Survey
- [To finish of our St Patrick's Day series, we head to Sydney to meet Shaun Henry](https://www.irish-insights.com/p/to-finish-of-our-st-patrick-s-day-series-we-head-to-sydney-to-meet-shaun-henry): The Tyrone native went on a trip to Australia to visit his sisters and fell in love with the place
- [The Swede Life of Jim Dowling 🇸🇪](https://www.irish-insights.com/p/the-swede-life-of-jim-dowling): The Irish building his enterprise software empire from Stockholm
- [💡 What I learned from 100+ tech sales meetings...](https://www.irish-insights.com/p/what-i-learned-from-100-tech-sales-meetings): PLUS: Tines Boston expansion, Women-led startups raised €131m last year & Startup Ireland ambitious plans.
- [Sitting down with Jack and Charrlie](https://www.irish-insights.com/p/sitting-down-with-jack-and-charrlie): Jack Stenson tells us all about the product he always wished he had
- [Son of a Glitch...](https://www.irish-insights.com/p/son-of-a-glitch): Aisling Browne gives us her updates from Glitch ahead of St Patrick's Day
- [A short trip to Hong Kong to meet Niall Dorr](https://www.irish-insights.com/p/a-short-trip-to-hong-kong-to-meet-niall-dorr): Niall left Ireland when he was 44 and never looked back
- [Getting our teeth into Linda AI](https://www.irish-insights.com/p/getting-our-teeth-into-linda-ai): CEO of Linda AI, India Healy O'Connor, joins the St Patrick's Day festivities