MoneyNeverSleeps

MoneyNeverSleeps

By Eoin Fitzgerald | Pete TownsendBusinessEntrepreneurship
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MoneyNeverSleeps episodes

  • 016: Work From Home | Vanessa Tierney and Abodoo

    Vanessa Tierney, co-founder of Abodoo, joins us this week to talk about building communities and educating the masses about the idea of smart working!

    Abodoo was created (like most well-meaning ideas are) to solve a problem. How to fix the issues around sourcing great talent without being restricted by sq footage or commuting. Through smart working we believe that companies can grow and communities can thrive by allowing professionals the freedom to work and live where they choose. Technology now allows that choice and through Abodoo we aim to offer real life changing opportunities and true work-life harmony.


    Abodoo has recently teamed up with Vodafone to promote and support remote working for Irish businesses. The two companies will work together to educate employers on the benefits of smart working, including attracting and retaining talent, promoting diversity and inclusion, and a healthy work-life balance.

    The Wexford-based tech firm has been recently granted €100,000 in funding from Enterprise Ireland following its recent expansion into the UK market. Enterprise Ireland has designated Abodoo as a 'High Potential Start-Up' (HPSU). The company has now secured over €400,000 in investments to date.

    Voxpro founder Dan Kiely - who sold his company last year for an estimated €150m - invested €200,000 in the budding site at the start of the year. Tom O’Neill, New Work Junction and e-learning company Laragh Courseware also invested in the tech startup.

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    36 min
  • 015: Angels | Chris Adelsbach and Techstars

    Chris Adelsbach, MD of Techstars, joins us to talk about his journey from entrepreneur to angel investor, and supporting founders as an investor, mentor and occasional agony aunt!

    This week we are joined by Chris Adelsbach (@ChrisAdelsbach). Chris is a London-based entrepreneur, fintech investor, advisor, and mentor. He is a Managing Director at Techstars, the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed.

    He had an 11 year career at GE Capital before co-founding a specialty finance company in 2006 that became one of the UK's fastest-growing privately held companies. In 2014, Chris and his co-founders sold their business to a NASDAQ listed entity and large U.S. Private Equity group.


    Subsequent to the sale, Chris has been an active private investor, focusing primarily on disruptive fintech companies.

    He is an angel investor in over 50 companies including Atom Bank, Smart Pension, Atlas Money, Post Quantum, Everledger, Cuvva, Simudyne, Railsbank and Shieldpay to name a few. Fintech Global recently named Chris as the the most active Fintech angel globally over the past three years.

    At Techstars, he spends time meeting founders, mentors, partners, and funders to help accelerate the growth and success of early stage FinTech companies. He mentors FinTech founders in London, New York, Tel Aviv, Dubai and Cape Town.

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    35 min
  • 012: Paper Trail | Enda Leahy and Courtsdesk

    Enda Leahy, founder and CEO of Courtsdesk, joins us to talk about his journey from journalist to entrepreneur and all the lessons learned on the way!

    By centralising data and providing tools for easy search and analytics, Courtsdesk supports users in their research, monitoring, KYC, and AML functions.

    Our users benefit from access to data from the UK and Irish Upper Courts, Lower Courts, Company Registers, Government Gazettes and more.

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    41 min
  • 011: Power To The People | Niall Dennehy and AID:Tech

    Big thanks to Niall Dennehy from AidTech for joining us this week to talk about bringing Blockchain to the masses...and his career as a busker singing U2 songs!

    AID:Tech develops identity-focused solutions that enable people to own, control and manage their own data, you can learn more about what they do on their website.

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    31 min

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A weekly podcast that looks inside the minds of entrepreneurs and at the crossover of startups, enterprise, finance, technology and life as we know it. Co-hosts Pete Townsend and Eoin Fitzgerald.…