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Belfast tech company raises €4.6m in new funding as it plans expansion

B-Secur has developed tech that can securely identify an individual from their heartbeat

B-Secur gets £3.5m funding for identity security technology

Belfast-based firm has developed patented biometrics using human heartbeats

NY comptroller in Ireland to hear progress on SME growth fund

The New York State Common Retirement Fund invested $7m in NI fund last year

Viral test firm Altratech raises €5.2m

Kernel Capital and Infinity Capital invest in Clare company aiming to tackle infectious diseases

Meningitis test firm raises €6.7m to fund expansion

Diagnostics group Hibergene plans to bring new tests to market and break into US

UCD spinout OncoMark raises €2.1m in funding

Company seeking to commercialise new test OncoMasTR for early-stage breast cancer

Queen's University spin-off secures £500,000 investment

Belfast-based Causeway Sensors makes nano-sized chips used to detect diseases

Galway-based NeoSurgical exits Kernel Capital

Kernel has six funds with about 80 portfolio companies

One More Thing: Harbison puts some financial zest into his latest tech venture

Cantillon: No Christmas cheer for redundant Intune workers

Seventy staff will receive neither week’s wages nor statutory redundancy

£35m fund for small and medium firms in Northern Ireland

New fund aims to make first investment by the end of the year

Dublin start-up Tapastreet secures €500,000 in funding

The investment comprises €250,000 by Kernel Capital through the Bank of Ireland Seed and early Stage Equity fund, and the remainder from Enterprise Ireland

Jobs boost as companies announce 265 jobs

FeedHenry to create 100 jobs in two years after €7m funding round is closed