The annual 22nd InterTradeIreland All-Island Venture Capital Conference is now open for registration.

Following two years of taking place online, this year’s conference will be hosted in-person at Croke Park, Dublin on Thursday 9th March 2023. The annual conference will be the first InterTradeIreland event to take place in the 25th anniversary year of the Good Friday Agreement, a turning point towards greater prosperity on the island.

The theme of the 2023 conference ‘Resilience and Creativity’, will weave throughout the programme of keynote addresses, panel discussions and breakout sessions, with networking opportunities providing an environment for collaborative innovation and building connections. The conference will showcase the current sources of equity funding and navigate the fundamentals of raising venture capital. 

The Minister for Enterprise, Simon Coveney TD, has congratulated Keohane’s Seafood on their cross-border collaboration with Ulster University, to create a new product line, resulting in Exemplar Status recognition from InterTradeIreland.

The Cork-based firm, which supplies chilled and frozen fish to retailers across Ireland and the UK, took part in InterTradeIreland’s Innovation Boost programme, an initiative that matches companies with third level institutions and graduates to deliver new, innovative products, such as Keohane’s new range of fish with reduced salt.

Hear from InterTradeIreland at the upcoming Newry and Dundalk Chambers' Annual Cross-Border Conference on 8th March in the Carrickdale Hotel.

Joined by Oliver Mangan, Chief Economist at AIB and a host of other expert speakers, we highlight the opportunities and areas of growing importance for cross-border trade and support available through InterTradeIreland to businesses post-Brexit and post-Covid.

In the latest issue of Ulster Business, we hear from Atlas Smart Technologies’ Jack Fullerton following their ‘Best New Start’ win at InterTradeIreland’s Seedcorn 2022 competition.

Read how lockdown inspired the gym-loving, co-founders to create the ‘Stronger’ app (which already boasts an impressive 40,000 users), how their product and brand have evolved based on user feedback, and how they hope that the app will become ‘a social platform with a large community of users’ across the UK and Europe in the coming years.

Jack discusses the particular challenges they faced as first-time founders in manufacturing and patenting and how InterTradeIreland’s Seedcorn competition helped enhance their ‘pitch and business plan with feedback from real-world investors’.

As we look forward to 2023, fortunately the majority of businesses remain in a stable position, but while businesses are still expanding, the pace of growth is starting to flatten.

With a great deal of uncertainty in the wider economy, it will be important for businesses to have a solid strategy in place for 2023 and beyond. Read on to explore the four things your business should consider to help you remain agile and effectively handle economic challenges that may arise.