Cork, Ireland based financial services startup Global Shares has received €4.5m in Venture Funding led by technology guru Pearse Mee. Global shares mainly develops software used by companies to manage their employee's equity plans.
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Global Shares raised €4.5m Venture Funding
Global Shares was founded in 2005. The founder and former ceo of IFG, Richard Hayes, later led an investment group that took a significant interest in the Cork firm. He is now chairman of Global Shares, whose ceo is Tim Houstoun. It works with more than 150 firms, and its clients include well-known public and private companies such as UniCredit, Living Social, the world's biggest private company - US-based Cargill, and Brazilian brewing giant Ambev. It has also worked with vulture funds Oaktree and Apollo.
