For two days this week in Dublin, droves of startup companies and a few already-established businesses, did their best to vie for funding from investors who were in attendance at the Web Summit. Likewise, it was a fantastic event for networking, idea generation and competition monitoring, as any good summit should be.

The Web Summit in Dublin finished today following two days of pitching to potential investors from companies of all shapes and sizes.

The best and brightest of both Irish and global tech firms were at the event to meet investors and announce their latest news, with start-ups on the hunt for backers and partners.

The day started off with the announcement of the top four companies vying for a €100,000 prize fund in the Spark of Genius start-up competition.

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