Irish Deep Tech Is Internationalising Earlier. IPAs That Wait for the Company to Be Ready Are Arriving Too Late.
Irish startups raised €992m in 2025. The fastest cohort is entering international markets at Series A. The gapbetween first funding and first location decision has narrowed to months. Irish startups raised €992 million across 319 companies in 2025, with a first quarter that was the strongest opening quarter for Irish startup funding in a decade. […]
Saudi Fintech Is Scaling Fast. The Outbound Window Opens Before 2030.
The first cohort of Saudi fintech companies to scale domestically will look outward next. The location decisions are two to four years away. The preparation starts now. Saudi Arabia’s fintech sector is undergoing a transformation that most investment promotion agencies havecategorised as a destination story. It is becoming a source market story, and the window […]
Singapore Is Not a Source Market. It Is a Decision Hub. Most IPAs Have the Strategy Backwards.
Behind Singapore’s $1.65 trillion outward investment stock are principals from India, China, the Gulf, andSoutheast Asia. The pitch needs to reach them, not the holding company. Most investment promotion agencies classify Singapore as a source market and approach it accordingly — attending trade missions, meeting government-linked companies, and pitching through the standard institutional channels. The […]
UK Fintech Has Outgrown Its Home Market. The Next Geography Is the Deciding Question.
Growth from $21bn to $44bn by 2031 cannot come from the domestic market alone. The expansion isalready underway. The UK fintech market is projected to reach $21.44 billion in 2026. By 2031, consensus estimates put it at $43.92 billion. The arithmetic is straightforward: that growth cannot come from the domestic market alone. Much of it […]
Singapore’s Manufacturing Boom Has an Outbound Dimension. Few IPAs Are Tracking It.
The fastest-scaling sectors are hitting a capacity ceiling. The next unit of output has to go somewhere. Singapore’s manufacturing sector entered 2026 with momentum that caught many analysts off guard. Output grew 15% in the fourth quarter of 2025, driven by biomedical manufacturing and AI-linked electronics demand. The manufacturing PMI reached 50.3 in December 2025, […]
Gulf Capital Has Moved On from Real Estate. The IPA Pitch Deck Has Not.
GCC family offices manage $270bn and are deploying into operating assets, direct deals, and Asia. Mostinvestment promotion agencies are still leading with property incentives The default assumption about Gulf capital – particularly among investment promotion agencies in Europe and Asia – is that it flows into real estate. For a long time, that was broadly […]
PLI Has Built India’s Export Manufacturing Base. The Next Move Is International.
₹2.4 lakh crore in commitments. A cohort of mid-market manufacturers is now evaluating overseas locations. India’s Production Linked Incentive scheme has attracted over ₹2.4 lakh crore in investment commitments through March 2026 across 14 sectors. PLI-covered industries recorded average annual export growth of approximately 10.6% between FY21 and FY25. Electronics production has risen from ₹1.9 […]
UK Manufacturers Are Rerouting. Investment Follows Trade.
Tariffs and supply chain pressure are forcing British manufacturers to recalibrate their global footprint. TheIPAs that understand this get the deal. The ones that don’t get the announcement. UK manufacturers are being forced to rethink how and where they trade. Research from Make UK and DHLExpress published in May 2026 documents the pressure directly: tariffs, […]
Saudi Arabia’s Private Sector Is Ready to Move. IPAs Are Not in the Room.
Vision 2030’s third phase is producing outbound investors. They do not attend investment promotion events.They do not wait for a pitch deck. 2026 marks the start of Vision 2030’s third phase – a deliberate shift from launching economic reforms to extracting returns from them at scale. For investment promotion agencies, this transition carries a specific […]
India’s Outbound Investment Is at a Record High — and a New Cohort Is Leading It
$47bn in FY26. The firms moving capital internationally have changed. So has the opportunity India’s outbound FDI reached a record $47 billion in FY26, up from $41.6 billion the previous year. The headline number is receiving attention across investment promotion circles globally. The composition beneath it is not – and that is precisely where outreach […]