In today’s Seaspray Private Financial Data Insight, we examine the rapid growth of venture capital investment in Ireland’s artificial intelligence sector. Irish AI companies have secured €947.3m across 182 deals since the beginning of 2025, placing Ireland second in Europe on a per-capita basis for AI venture capital deal activity.
In this week’s Seaspray Private Financial Data Insight, we analyse the changing nature of equity markets globally over the past decade and a half. In this, we find that the US has become more dominant than ever, China and India are the standout stories and that Japan and the UK have lagged. This data set
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In today’s Seaspray Private financial data insight, we examine how global merchandise trade has evolved between 2000 and 2025. Combined global imports and exports increased from $12.8 trillion to $51.4 trillion over the period, representing a more than fourfold increase.
Global Trade from 2000 to 2025: Growth, Technology and Transformation Read More »
In today’s Seaspray Private financial data insight we examine the remarkable scale of the US economy by comparing individual US states with some of the world’s largest national economies. We explore how industries such as artificial intelligence, semiconductor, manufacturing and data centres are contributing to growth across individual states.
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In today’s Seaspray Private Financial Data Insight, we examine the rapid acceleration of artificial intelligence adoption and the infrastructure required to support its continued growth. AI-model usage has risen significantly, driving greater demand for computing capacity, semiconductors, memory chips, electricity, cooling systems and data-centre infrastructure. We explore how companies such as NVIDIA, ASML, TSMC, SK
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In our latest Seaspray Private financial data insight, we highlight NVIDIA’s latest earnings report which provides one of the clearest indicators yet that global investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure continues to accelerate. The semiconductor giant delivered another strong quarter, exceeding market expectations and reinforcing confidence in the long-term growth outlook for AI-related technologies. Strong demand
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In today’s Seaspray Private financial data insight, we examine the latest clean energy investment data from the US, using the Clean Investment Monitor. Investment in clean technologies rose to a Q2 record, with $75bn worth of investment. This was spread across the sectors of retail, energy & industry and manufacturing. We analyse these sector individually, whilst framing
In this week’s Seaspray Private financial insight, we analyse the price dynamics of the critical minerals sector. As the world economy becomes more reliant on these minerals for the development of industries such as AI and clean energy, many of these minerals have seen significant price increases over the past year, for various reasons including
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In this week’s Seaspray Private financial insight, we continue to analyse US corporate earnings. Chief amongst these earnings was SpaceX, whose recent IPO was the largest in history. This would be the space exploration and AI developers first earnings call since becoming a publicly traded company. Along with SpaceX, Advanced Micro Devices, one of the
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In today’s Seaspray Private Financial Data Insight, we examine the latest earnings results from some of the world’s largest companies, including Microsoft, Meta, Visa, Coca-Cola, Seagate and Starbucks. This week’s earnings reports highlight a growing divide in how investors view artificial intelligence investment, rewarding companies that can demonstrate clear revenue generation from AI spending while
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In today’s Seaspray Private financial data insight we examine how Ireland’s energy mix is evolving to meet the rapidly growing electricity demands created by artificial intelligence and expanding data centre infrastructure. We explore the remarkable growth of renewable energy over the past decade, highlighting the increasing contribution of wind and the rapid emergence of solar
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In today’s Seaspray Private financial data insight we focus on Ireland’s equity market and examine the recent performance, composition and key drivers of the ISEQ Overall Index. Despite underperforming major US and European indices in 2026, the Irish market has delivered impressive long-term returns, outperforming both the Euro Stoxx 50 and FTSE 100 over the
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