Connected Newsletter Connected newsletter: Tines takes on further investment as Stripe rolls out new features
As if the Tines news wasn't enough, Irish co-founded biotech firm Ochre Bio, which uses machine learning to analyse data from diseased and healthy livers, revealed it had signed a $1.3 billion deal with a German drugmaker. Here’s an interview we did with chief executive Jack O’Meara last year. If proof were needed that Irish techies are held in high regard both here and abroad comes news that Dave O’Flanagan, who co-founded and led Boxever, has been appointed as chief executive of Sitecore, the company that bought the Irish start-up in a $156m deal two years ago.
In related news, Digital Realty, the data centre operator, has partnered with energy management company Enel X to allow its facilities in Ireland to feed energy back to the electricity grid during periods of high demand. One of our biggest stories from the weekend was that plans for a new tech accelerator for women entrepreneurs are under discussion with Microsoft Ireland and KPMG among the backers.