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Irish Times
06-06-2025
- Business
- Irish Times
Co-founder of Swedish internet security company named EY World Entrepreneur of the Year
Stina Ehrensvärd, co-founder of Swedish internet security company Yubico, has been named EY World Entrepreneur of the Year 2025 at an award ceremony in Monaco's Salle des Etoiles. Ms Ehrensvärd was selected from almost 5,000 participants that included 52 winners across 43 countries and jurisdictions competing for the global title. She is the fourth woman to hold the title and first winner from Sweden in the award's 25-year history. EY Ireland Entrepreneurs of the Year 2024 Sharon Cunningham and Orlaith Ryan of Shorla Oncology represented Ireland at the event. READ MORE EY said Ms Ehrensvärd built an 'industry-leading and highly profitable company that has set new standards for internet security'. She further created 'exponential growth for her company and a lasting impact on Sweden and its people'. Yubico was cofounded by Ms Ehrensvärd in 2007. Within a year, the company had launched its first physical security key for multi-factor authentication. Over the following five years, it secured work with three of the biggest technology companies in Silicon Valley. Since then, Ms Ehrensvärd has scaled Yubico to where it now protects 19 of the world's 20 largest internet companies. Its compound annual growth rate has been 40 per cent since 2020. EY chief executive Janet Truncale said Ms Ehrensvärd's 'defining philosophy that a secure digital identity is a basic human right is exactly the type of purpose-driven leadership we look to celebrate'. Ms Ehrensvärd said she was 'committed to saving the internet for democracy, for free speech, for education, for all the beautiful things we can do with it'. 'This recognition isn't the finish line,' she said. 'It's fuel. We are building a safer digital world, and I won't stop until that mission is fulfilled.' The winner was chosen by an independent panel of judges against four criteria: entrepreneurial spirit, purpose, growth and impact.
Irish Times
01-05-2025
- Business
- Irish Times
Losses widen at Shorla Oncology
The head of Shorla Oncology said the business expects to increase revenues significantly in 2025, even as losses widened in 2023. Chief executive Sharon Cunningham was commenting on new accounts for the Clonmel headquartered Shorla Pharma Ltd which show that the group recorded a pre-tax lopretax8.07m in 2023 as the business continued in its development phase. The pretax loss followed a €6.2 million loss in 2022. Last year, Sharon Cunningham and Orlaith Ryan from Shorla Oncology were named 2024 EY Entrepreneurs Of The Year. READ MORE Ms Cunningham said: 'Our business is very capital intensive in the product development phase. It takes several years to develop and commercialise pharmaceutical drugs to start generating revenue and realise a return'' The company is currently conducting another round of fundraising after having already raised $45 million, she added. The accounts show that the company recorded its first revenues in 2023 at €2.49 million and Ms Cunningham said: 'There was a significant increase in revenues in 2024 and we expect another significant increase in revenues this year.' Research and development spending increased from €2.12 million to €3.26 million in 2023. 'We are very pleased with the progress of our business and we are exactly where we planned to be and want to be from a revenue and pipeline progression perspective,' Ms Cunningham said. The company has currently four FDA approved medicines for the US market and launched the fourth of those this week in the US. It also has a US office at Cambridge, Massachusetts where Ms Cunningham is based. The Waterford native said that numbers employed now total 45 and said that she expects employee numbers to increase further this year. The accounts show a capital injection of €28.45 million in 2023 resulted in the company having shareholder funds of €17.12 million at the end of 2023. Asked on the impact of winning the EY Entrepreneur of the Year for 2024, Ms Cunningham said that it has been ' phenomen'l'. 'It's extremely beneficial to have access to such a dynamic group of successful entrepreneurs and winning the competition overall has provided validation and further credibility of our business'' The company will be representing Ireland in the world EY Entrepreneur of the year competition in Monaco in June.
Irish Examiner
01-05-2025
- Business
- Irish Examiner
Clonmel-based Shorla Oncology to increase revenues significantly
The CEO of Shorla Oncology said on Thursday that the business expects to increase revenues significantly in 2025. Ms Sharon Cunningham was commenting on new accounts for the Clonmel-headquartered Shorla Pharma Ltd which show that the group recorded a pre-tax loss of €8.07m in 2023 as the business continued in its development phase. The pre-tax loss of €8.07m followed a pre-tax loss of €6.2m in 2022. Last year, Sharon Cunningham and Orlaith Ryan, from Shorla Oncology, were named 2024 EY Entrepreneurs Of The Year. At the time, Ms Cunningham said: 'Our business is very capital intensive in the product development phase. It takes several years to develop and commercialise pharmaceutical drugs to start generating revenue and realise a return Ms Cunningham said that the company is currently conducting another round of fundraising after having already raised $45m. The accounts show that the company recorded its first revenues in 2023 at €2.49m, and Ms Cunningham said: 'There was a significant increase in revenues in 2024, and we expect another significant increase in revenues this year.' The company's research and development spend increased from €2.12m to €3.26m in 2023. Ms Cunningham said: 'We are very pleased with the progress of our business, and we are exactly where we planned to be and want to be from a revenue and pipeline progression perspective." US market Ms Cunningham said that the company has currently four FDA approved medicines for the US market and launched the fourth of those this week in the US. The firm also has a US office at Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Ms Cunningham is based, and she said that the medicines include treatments for breast and ovarian cancer and leukaemia. The Waterford native said that numbers employed now total 45, adding that she expects employee numbers to increase further this year. In accounts signed off on March 13, they show that a capital injection of €28.45m in 2023 resulted in the company having shareholder funds of €17.12m at the end of 2023. Cash funds increased from €4.73m to €14.49m. A note attached to the accounts states that the company meets its day-to-day working capital requirements through existing cash resources and from future funding. A separate note states that 'the projections indicate that additional funding will be required in 2026, and assume that the company will successfully obtain such funding'. Asked on the impact of winning the EY Entrepreneur of the Year for 2024, Ms Cunningham said that it has been "phenomenal". She said: 'It's extremely beneficial to have access to such a dynamic group of successful entrepreneurs and winning the competition overall has provided validation and further credibility of our business." Ms Cunningham said that the company will be representing Ireland in the world EY Entrepreneur of the year competition in Monaco in June. Read More Smurfit Westrock posts 'strong' first quarter after merger
