With Irish tech funding falling sharply, is AI investment leaving traditional startups behind?

TensorX CEO Tim Grant and Further Venture Capital’s Richard Watson examine Ireland’s growing funding gap, the rush into AI, and the lack of domestic capital to help promising businesses scale. They debate whether an AI bubble is inevitable and what it will take to keep ambitious Irish companies growing at home.

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Irish Independent Tech Editor Adrian Weckler hosts this award-winning business podcast which dives deep into the biggest industry advances and tracks the key movers and shakers behind the innovation. From interviewing Big Tech CEOs to investigations into how tech affects our working lives, the show has become Ireland’s most listened-to technology podcast.

Every week we analyse the big tech issues, interv…