April 27, 2026

By the OnlineLegalServices.ie editorial team Investor due diligence in an Irish startup financing round runs 2-4 weeks for a Series Seed, 4-8 weeks for a Series A. The pace is almost always set not by the investor’s counsel but by the company itself — by how quickly the founders can produce documents that should already

By the OnlineLegalServices.ie editorial team The cap table is the operating financial document for any Irish company with more than one shareholder. It is also the single most-checked artefact in every fundraising due diligence process. And yet — across hundreds of Irish startups — the cap-table mistakes we see at OnlineLegalServices.ie are remarkably similar. This

By the OnlineLegalServices.ie editorial team Most Irish startup financings before a priced Series Seed round are now closing on SAFEs (Simple Agreements for Future Equity) rather than convertible notes. The shift happened gradually between 2018 and 2024 and is now the market default for Irish angel and pre-seed rounds. But the choice between SAFE and

By the OnlineLegalServices.ie editorial team If you incorporated an Irish company with a co-founder and you have not implemented founder vesting, you are running unprotected. The single most-common cap-table problem we clean up at OnlineLegalServices.ie is a co-founder who left after six or twelve months of work, kept their full equity stake, and is now

By the OnlineLegalServices.ie editorial team The Key Employee Engagement Programme — KEEP — is the most-undervalued tool in the Irish startup tax toolkit. Of the founders I speak to in any given week, fewer than one in five are using KEEP for option grants — and almost all of them have heard of it. The