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Alan Carson and the art of changing course
A missing software tool sent Alan Carson and Lee Skillen down a different road. The Cloudsmith co-founder has been revising the plan ever since, with Belfast firmly on the map.
Sam Anderson Bet on the Quietest Part of the Machine
From Ballymena to Arizona, with a factory in west Belfast and a design centre in Tokyo, the IceMOS founder has spent four decades making small pieces of silicon carry very large ambitions.
AwakenHub wants women on both sides of the cheque
The all-island founder community has built a route from first business questions to investor introductions. Its next challenge is turning those connections into customers, capital and companies that can travel.
STATSports put a number on the hard yards. Sony bought in.
The Newry company turned a GPS vest into a business serving professional teams and weekend players. Its next test is making all those numbers worth a coach’s time.
PlotBox knows where the records are buried
A cemetery map is also an inventory, a family history and a promise. PlotBox connects it to the paperwork - and has built a software business around keeping those promises straight.
Glenn Weinstein
Glenn Weinstein is the CEO of Cloudsmith, the cloud-native software supply chain platform headquartered in Belfast, Northern Ireland. A U.S. Naval Academy graduate and former naval flight officer who learned to code on a Commodore 64, he co-founded the cloud consultancy Appirio (sold to Wipro for $500M) and spent four years as Chief Customer Officer at Twilio before relocating from New York to Belfast in 2023 to lead Cloudsmith. Under his leadership Cloudsmith raised a $72M Series C in April 2026, positioning the company to secure software supply chains in the age of AI coding agents.