Top 10 Android Startup Investors in Ireland

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 10 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Android startups based in Ireland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Android companies from Ireland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Android Startup Investors in Ireland

Investor	Android Ireland investments
Act Venture Capital	3
SparkLabs Global Ventures	2
Enterprise Ireland	1
Enterprise Equity	1
Matthew Le Merle	1
Colin Wiel	1
Per Brilioth	1
Lough Shore Investments	1
LC Ventures	1
REDangels	1

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Technology-focused, investing capital and expertise to fuel growth in the most promising ideas and companies. Raised c.€600m across multiple funds and invest from seed to growth.We look for companies with potentially cutting-edge, category-defining businesses in markets including application software, IT infrastructure, communications, Internetand mobile. We help founders create and scale businesses globally. We work as a small team with diverse strengths accessing a community of over 200 founders. The teams and companies we back scale their investor base as they scale their business execution and ambition. We work closely with them in this process. Over the past 25 years have built a broad network of US and European investors and founders that share our vision and approach.Act is based in Dublin, Ireland.Our most recent funds are supported by the European Investment Fund.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Analytics
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CitySwift — CitySwift is a data-driven scheduling and planning technology for urban bus networks. It uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to predict journey times and passenger demand, making routes more efficient. Schedulers can create optimized timetables that take into account traffic, events, and hundreds of other external factors, ensuringon-time performance and increased passenger satisfaction.CitySwift was established in 2016 and is operating in Galway, Ireland.
GREYSCOUT — Safeguard your reputation and increase revenue with GreyScout, the scalable, always-on platform for fighting IP infringement and grey market sellers.
Spotted Zebra — Spotted Zebra's skills cloud powers skills-based organisations. Our platform ensures skills are the centre of every decision made about people. Whether talent acquisition, talent development or internal mobility, Spotted Zebra focuses people on skills.

SparkLabs Global Ventures is a venture capital firm that offers seed-stage investment services to firms in the SaaS, healthcare, education, IoT, fintech, mobile, commerce, HR, gaming, security, and VR industries. It was founded in Dec 2013 and is based in California.Exceptional entrepreneurs, that are building strong, category defining companiesat highly advantageous valuations – can be found anywhere. The company has a team that is highly experienced in finding such talent and helping our entrepreneurs to develop, grow, network, and scale into other markets throughout the world.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, South Korea, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Splab — Manage communities and events and enjoy them like never before. Umoh is a super-connector for participants and provides a powerful dashboard full of insights for event and community managers.
Nitra — Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products.
Tella — Service

Enterprise Ireland is the government agency responsible for the development and funding of the indigenous business sector. Their mission is to accelerate the development of companies to achieve strong positions in global markets resulting in increased national and regional prosperity. It was founded in 1998 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lative — Lative automates capacity planning, maximizing profitable sales growth & revenue efficiency for high-performance revenue teams.
Cytidel — Cytidel helps security teams reduce breaches, save time, and stay secure. Vulnerability Management and Cyber Risk Management, and Threat Intelligence Specialists
Positive Carbon — Positive Carbon provides an innovative solution for businesses to track, manage, and reduce food waste. With real-time analytics, CO2 calculation, and a comprehensive learning platform, we help you save costs and achieve sustainability goals. Request a demo today to start making a positive environmental impact.

Enterprise Equity (or EEVC) is an excellent for providing capital to early stage and expanding business throughout Ireland.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Medical Device
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Phorest — Join 8000+ spas, barbers, hair, beauty and nail salon owners using the #1 management, scheduling, POS and appointment booking system. Try Phorest now!
SurgaColl — SurgaColl Technologies is a medical device company developing novel tissue regeneration products for the surgical treatment of diseases of the bone, cartilage and other human tissue. Based on technology developed at the Tissue Engineering Research Group (TERG) of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), headed by Professor Fergal O’Brien,the company aims to become a leader in the field of regenerative medical devices.
Metabolomic Diagnostics — Metabolomic Diagnostics is a deep-tech company specialized in the development of novel biomarker based diagnostic solutions for complex diseases. The company has developed an effective pipeline to firstly identify diagnostic biomarker panels and then translate these panels into clinical assays ready for application in the clinical laboratory.Thispipeline combines the biomarker multiplexing capabilities of Mass Spectrometry, a powerful analytical technology, with the company’s own informatics and statistics solutions to deliver diagnostic innovation. This is reflected in Metabolomic Diagnostics’ strong and versatile IP portfolio of technical innovations and biomarkers.Our VisionMetabolomic Diagnostics’ primary vision is to develop a portfolio of diagnostic solutions which can determine, early in a woman’s pregnancy,her risk of developing major complications much later in her pregnancy and thus enabling personalized care, adapted to each woman’s individual needs. Pregnancy complications like preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, preterm birth, and in-uterine growth restriction, all have the potential to severely impact on the well-being of mother and child.The company’s innovative diagnostic solutions will assist clinicians in re-imagining how these conditions are managed: our novel risk assessment tools are specifically developed in conjunction with prenatal care providers to ensure they make a difference that really matters. This in turn will enable clinicians to improve pregnancy outcomes globally.Our solutions will empower pregnant women: accurate pregnancy risk information will allow a pregnant woman, in partnership with her care provider, to determine what prenatal care is best for her pregnancy.

Matthew Le Merle is a Managing Partner of Keiretsu Capital and Fifth Era (www.fifthera.com). Matthew was formerly the Co-President of Keiretsu Forum in San Francisco and is an expert on digitization having advised leading technology companies including eBay, Google, HP, Microsoft and PayPal on how to drive and benefit from emerging digital valuepropositions.

Investment focus

iOS, Apps, Local
Seed, Series A
Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Soundwave — The Global Premium Domain SoundWave.com + @SoundWave Twitter (X) Handle is currently available for acquisition.
Concept Art House — Concept Art House powers Web3 projects for the biggest brands and IP in the World.

Colin Wiel is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Mynd. He attended the University of California, Berkeley.

Investment focus

iOS, Communities, Location Based Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Ireland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Quilt — Quilt is a feminine-forward audio social network
Arro — Discover the shared daily operating system that helps you get more from life and work. Get to Day Zero together.
PlushCare — PlushCare provides online doctor care for primary, urgent care, mental health and therapy. Affordable, convenient teleheath visits and same day online doctor appointments available now.

Per Brilioth - CEO @ VNV Global

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Transportation
Funding Round, Series B, Seed
Sweden, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

memmo.me — memmo.me provides a webpage for offering and distributing personalized video messages from actors, athletes, musicians, and other talent.
Arro — Discover the shared daily operating system that helps you get more from life and work. Get to Day Zero together.
Surfboard — Surfboard; Simpler, smarter and fairer scheduling software for customer support teams at scale. Click to learn more about our WFM solution.

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Investment focus

Apps, Mobile, Android
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Converser — Founded in 2011 in Dublin, Ireland, Converser is a mobile app CRM that offers in-app marketing & analytics to help you communicate with your users, transform them into loyal customers, drive revenue and increase the success of your mobile app marketing. With Converser, you can view detailed app user insights, create beautiful, personalisedin-app marketing and customer service messages that work on both iOS and Android devices, segment audiences and use behavioural targeting to help you send the right message to the right user at the right time. Converser also helps you put customer feedback at the heart of your app's development with in-app feedback messaging. Interested in learning more about Converser? Visit: www.converser.io

We’re an early stage European venture capital firm partnering with globally minded founders.We’re supportive, founder focused, and aim to work together with you as a close and collaborative team of independent thinkers. Along with the support of our entire network, each member of our team brings their own personal experience to the table. Thefirst ticket is up to 200K€ and the total investment in a given startup can be up to 1M€.We decide investments quickly, allowing the founders to get back focusing on growing the business. Our team and network of international mentors help young startups to scale quickly and to prepare for the next rounds.Our partners have been investing in tech-based startups since 2000 and have a portfolio of more than 100 companies in the USA, Brazil, The Netherlands, Spain and Portugal.