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Top 50 Angel Investors in Ireland in October 2024

Last updated: Oct 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in startups based in Ireland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Ireland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Angel Investors in Ireland in October 2024

Investor	Ireland investments
Brian Caulfield	9
Ray Nolan	6
Liam Casey	6
Gareth Lambe	5
Tom Kennedy	5
Pa Nolan	4
Anne Herarty	4
Dan Kiely	4
Shane Naughton	4
Des Traynor	4
Michael Dwyer	3
Linda Kiely	3
Brian O'Driscoll	3
Conor Stanley	3
Bradley Horowitz	3
David Shackleton	3
David Clarke	3
John Purdy	3
Eamonn Quinn	3
Howard Roberts	3
Andrej Henkler	3
Kevin Hartz	3
Barry Lunn	3
Declan Kelly	3
Bobby Healy	3
Paschal Naylor	2
Peter Crowley	2
Peter O'Grady Walshe	2
Jared Messenger	2
Chip Hance	2
Tony Smurfit	2
Danny Hughes	2
Frank Dolphin	2
Oleg Tikhturov	2
Mark Cummins	2
Hal Philipp	2
Sean Mitchell	2
JP Sisk	2
Brian Patterson	2
Paddy Flynn	2
Nigel Byrne	2
Chris Huskilson	2
Sean Mullaney	2
Ian Madigan	2
Colm Menton	2
Chris Adelsbach	2
Mike McGearty	2
Eamon Leonard	2
Constantin Pellissier	2
Walter Walsh	2

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Brian Caulfield is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and angel investor. He is a General Partner at DFJ Esprit (http://www.dfjesprit.com/).Brian currently sits on the boards of Datahug, Movidius, MTT, Clavis Technology and the Irish Times, Ireland's leading daily newspaper. He is also a personal investor in a number ofearly stage technology companies including Cicero Networks, GridStore and Teamer.From 2002 to 2007 Brian was a partner at Trinity Venture Capital. At TVC Brian sat on the boards of or led investments in AePONA (sold to Intel - Nasdaq: INTC), ChangingWorlds (Amdocs - NYSE: DOX), CR2, SteelTrace (Compuware - NASDAQ: CPWR) and APT (CSR LSE:CSR.L). Previously, in 1992 Brian co-founded Exceptis Technologies. Exceptis provided dispute management software for the electronic/card payments sector and was sold to Trintech Group (NASDAQ: TTPA) in November 2000. In 2001 Brian co-founded Similarity Systems, a business focused data quality management software company that was acquired by Informatica (NASDAQ: INFA) in January 2006. Brian was also a founder director and shareholder of Prediction Dynamics, which failed in 2004.Brian is a Computer Engineering graduate of Trinity College Dublin. Brian was the 2007 recipient of the Irish Software Association's "Technology Person of the Year" award. In 2010 he also received the Halo Business Angel Network's Business Angel of the Year award.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Apps
Seed, Angel, Series A
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Examfly — Examfly make online learning tools for professional tax exams. Our solutions are exam focused and use proven techniques from Ed Tech and Education Psychology.
Inclusio — The inclusio diversity and inclusion platform is designed to measure and positively shift the culture of your organisation. Contact us for more information.
Moby Bikes — Moby Bikes is an innovative start-up company focused on developing and bringing to market a range of electric mobility solutions for cities and individuals.

Ray Nolan - Non-Exec Chair @ XSellco

Investment focus

Apps, News, Software
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Kinzen — Kinzen's blend of human skill and scalable technology enables trust and safety professionals and policy makers to get ahead of emerging threats, detect policy violations faster and take the proportionate and appropriate action.
Cohort — Cohort helps its users find the people they need through the people they already know through social media. Cohort is an Ireland-based company that was founded in 2015 by Eamon Leonard.
REFLEX Gaming —

Liam is the founder and CEO of PCH.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Ireland, United Kingdom, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Pandas — B2B e-commerce platform connecting Asia with the +10 million of Latin America small merchants
Tracworx — The future of packaging is returnable and reusable. We're building the digital infrastructure to enable it.
&Open — For businesses that gift to give back, share joy, or show they care. All you need is an email.

Gareth Lambe is the Chief Executive Officer of Medihive. He previously worked at Meta as a Board Of Directors. Gareth Lambe attended the University College Dublin.

Investment focus

Tourism, Payments, Software
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Imvizar — Imvizar focuses on life-size, location-based experiences that allow users to feel as if they've gone back in time, meeting renowned individuals and witnessing historical events all from the comfort of their own phone. Imvizar was founded by Michael Guerin and is located in Dublin, Ireland.
CleverCards — The Platform for Contactless Cards. The CleverGift real-time payment platform offers gift cards, expenses, employee incentives, and travel foreign exchange.
Bounce Insights — Bounce Insights is a digital consumer research platform. It provides a direct link between brands and any consumer they needed to speak to by maintaining a community of active, engaged respondents on their mobile app.

Tom has a proven track record as an entrepreneur and in building a global e-commerce business from Dublin as a co-founder of www.hostelworld.com (Web Reservations International). Tom achieved a successful exit from Hostelworld.com in 1999, generating $500m in shareholder value. He previously owned Avalon House hostel in Dublin. When he’s notworking, Tom enjoys the gastronomic delights of life and the views of the Wicklow mountains from the saddle of his bicycle.

Investment focus

Travel, Video, Retail
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Gigable — Join the fastest growing delivery network. Signup as a business to access freelancers or signup as a freelancer to earn additional income.
Coindrum — Coindrum provides coin machines to spend your coin jars. No more manual counting, sorting or bagging!
VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.

Pa Nolan

Investment focus

Medical, Delivery, Shipping
Seed, Funding Round
Ireland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SiSaf — SiSaf delivers on the promise of RNA therapeutics with Bio-Courier technology.
Scurri — Scurri is next generation delivery management software that puts retailers back in control. Explore our delivery management software today.

Anne Heraty is the CEO and Co-Founder at Cpl Solutions. Anne Heraty attended University College Dublin.

Investment focus

SaaS, Human Resources, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Solidroad — AI-powered training and assessment platform for customer facing teams. Empower reps with realistic simulations and feedback to perform their best.
Nolea Health — As a clinician with Nolea you can set your own schedule, work with as many healthcare companies as you want, hold all of your credentials in one single sharable wallet, access new educational resources, and receive community feedback.
Vivid Edge — Vivid Edge are the leading commercial energy consultants in Ireland. Energy efficiency upgrades for businesses that fit into your journey to get to Net Zero!

Dan Kiely is CEO and Co-Founder of Voxpro, a premium provider of high end outsourcing services exclusively to the disruptive technology market. Dan thrives in the entrepreneurial realm. He dreams big & encourages innovation in all aspects of his company. Dan is a man of passion and creativity. Find the limit and he will smash it. Voxpro’svision has always been driven by Dan’s desire to create something unique, something unforgettable. With its 2,000+ strong work force across multiple locations in Ireland, the U.S., Romania and shortly, the Philippines, Voxpro touches the lives of hundreds of thousands of people every year, all over the world. Voxpro has a rapidly expanding geographic footprint and well considered location roll-out plan. A growing partner list includes some of the most powerful technology companies in the world. Voxpro’s partners are of great inspiration to Dan. He resonates with their entrepreneurial spirit and they, with his. Dan’s tenure at the helm continues to steer Voxpro on an exciting and successful journey. Audacious and relentless, his dreams for the company know no bounds.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Analytics
Seed, Series A
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Talivest — Talivest optimises an intelligent ecosystem for hi-tech, high-growth companies by gathering insights throughout the employee lifecycle. Talivest’s solution uses machine learning and predictive analytics to help companies measure, build and maintain high performance.
Solidroad — AI-powered training and assessment platform for customer facing teams. Empower reps with realistic simulations and feedback to perform their best.
SISU Aesthetic Clinic — SISU is a collection of doctor-led, patient-centric aesthetic medical clinics.

Shane Naughton - Founding Partner and Board of Directors @ On The Stage

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Apps
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Trustev — Trustev offers a totally modern approach ecommerce fraud prevention through real-time online identity verification. It focuses on validating the individual making the transaction, not just the payment method they're using. The platform delivers individual, real time decisions for every one of your customers using multiple dynamic data sources(behavioral, transactional and social) instead of restrictive rules based decisioning and profiling.  Trustev’s easy to integrate platform works by verifying consumer’s identities in real-time, using thousands of dynamic data points from sources such as deep location, email verification, device ID, social fingerprinting, proxy/VPN piercing, site velocity & behavior, browser ID and mobile location. It uses proprietary algorithms to combine all this data and compile it into a single, simple score of 1-100. This score is then used to provide a recommendation or allow, deny of flag the transaction.The Trustev platform enables rapid identity decisions in real time with an easy to integrate (very light touch), completely data driven and cost effective solution that works in the background, to ensure no disruption to the customer’s online experience. This results in a significant reduction in false positives leading to substantially increased revenues and increased sales opportunities while maintaining a customer centric experience at all times. Trustev's solution is focused on dramatically reducing the cost burden of fraud on your business, the cost of policing fraud and also maximizing revenues opportunities.
NewsWhip — The only real-time media monitoring platform that predicts the stories and topics that will matter in the hours ahead.
Spring Moves — Spring Moves’ mission is to make working out as interesting, enjoyable, and addictive as humanly possible. They harness the power of music and rhythm to turn casual runners into athletes and newbies into pros. It was founded in 2012 and is based in New York.

Des is the Co-Founder of Intercom, the platform for all customer interaction needs from marketing to support to product development. Previously he worked as User Experience Lead at web app development agency Contrast, and he was a Co-Founder of popular social networking search engine Bigulo.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

ZeKju — ZeKju provides Messenger Communication for Supply Chains. Leading shippers and logistics service providers rely on ZeKju for efficient transport execution, yard communication and fleet management. With ZeKju, drivers use their favorite messenger (e.g. WhatsApp or Telegram) for everyday tasks while benefiting from features such as auto-translation.
Siro — Siro is a sales coaching platform that specializes in sales managers. Siro assists sales managers in providing precise feedback to field sales staff on live client conversations while also saving time in reporting.
SimpleStudy — SimpleStudy is an exam prep platform for Junior Cycle & Leaving Cert students. With exam papers, revision notes, quizzes, questions by topic and essays, SimpleStudy is the study platform for Students in Ireland.

Michael Dwyer is a founder of Pigsback.com.

Investment focus

Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
Seed, Angel
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Imvizar — Imvizar focuses on life-size, location-based experiences that allow users to feel as if they've gone back in time, meeting renowned individuals and witnessing historical events all from the comfort of their own phone. Imvizar was founded by Michael Guerin and is located in Dublin, Ireland.
Bounce Insights — Bounce Insights is a digital consumer research platform. It provides a direct link between brands and any consumer they needed to speak to by maintaining a community of active, engaged respondents on their mobile app.

Linda Kiely is an Entrepreneur at Linda Green-Kiely Enterprises.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Analytics
Seed, Series A
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Talivest — Talivest optimises an intelligent ecosystem for hi-tech, high-growth companies by gathering insights throughout the employee lifecycle. Talivest’s solution uses machine learning and predictive analytics to help companies measure, build and maintain high performance.
SISU Aesthetic Clinic — SISU is a collection of doctor-led, patient-centric aesthetic medical clinics.

Brian O'Driscoll

Investment focus

Software, Employment, Web Development
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Grinds 360 — Grinds 360 operates as a hybrid learning platform. Grinds 360 uses a proven hybrid learning approach which elevates traditional classroom grinds using the latest cutting edge technology.
Time Warden — 1time is a user friendly, feature packed time tracking software that helps businesses increase productivity & profitablity.
Zipp Mobility — Zipp Mobility is a dockless scooter sharing company. Zipp Mobility reduce congestion and greenhouse gas emissions by providing affordable micromobility alternatives that enhance the quality of life of communities.

Founder / Partner at Tribal.vc. We are a venture firm that empowers entrepreneurs on their own unique path to success. We invest early and with conviction, using our experience and networks to help guide founders and their teams as needed.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Analytics
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Boxever — Learn about how a CDP can increase conversion rates and improve customer loyalty.
Intercom — Build lasting customer relationships with Intercom, the Engagement OS.
MicksGarage — MicksGarage.com is the largest online retailer with over 10 million of car parts and car accessories listed for any car make or model. From braking parts to car care, service parts, roof racks, to...

Bradley Horowitz is an Advisor and Vice President of Product Management at Google. Most recently he helped create Area 120, Google's incubator for internally-sourced innovation. He's led a large number of products, programs and initiatives at Google - including Google for Startups, Google Photos, Gmail, Google Voice, blogger, and GoogleNews.Before joining Google in February 2008, Horowitz was Yahoo's vice president of Advanced Development where he drove the acquisitions of Flickr and MyBlogLog, launched the Brickhouse incubator and developed new products like Yahoo! Pipes. Additionally, he was responsible for the company's initiative to open up its platform which included overseeing the Yahoo Developer Network (YDN).Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical direction of the company from its founding through its IPO and eventual acquisition by Autonomy.Horowitz was a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab. While at the Media Lab, he worked on a number of topics related to computer vision, graphics and image processing, which resulted in a patented new technique for the recovery of structure, motion and camera parameters from video sequences.Horowitz holds an MS in Media Science from MIT and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Mill — Meet the cleanest, easiest way to prevent food waste at home. Mill recycles your peels, bones, stalks, and forgotten leftovers.
Parcha AI — Parcha is an AI-powered enterprise software that enables businesses to automate their scale compliance and operations.
Overture Life — We are making In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) more accessible than ever before while improving success rates. An embryology lab in a box.

David Shackleton is the Product Head at OpenBack Integration of Twitter. Took up The Role and Responsibilities of Company Directors at Institute of Directors in Ireland.

Investment focus

Internet, App Marketing, Consumer Research
Seed, Angel
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

OpenBack — OpenBack was the only mobile engagement platform with dynamic push notifications and device-side decisions by using mobile edge computing. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.
Overcast HQ — Overcast is a leading cloud video management solution that simplifies video management, compliance and collaboration for all, securely. Effortlessly organise assets with quick searches, AI tagging, and categorization, ensuring swift access and utilisation across images, videos, documents, and more.
Bounce Insights — Bounce Insights is a digital consumer research platform. It provides a direct link between brands and any consumer they needed to speak to by maintaining a community of active, engaged respondents on their mobile app.

David Clarke is the Venture Partner at Frontline Ventures. He attended Trinity College Dublin during 1989-1993.

Investment focus

SaaS, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Italy, Denmark, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Glaut — Glaut is an AI-native customer survey platform that conducts in-depth, AI-moderated interviews with customers at scale.
Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
Kota — Instant access to leading insurance and retirement providers globally, with flexible contributions, automated accounting and a delightfully simple employee app.

John Purdy

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Medical
Seed, Funding Round
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

dimply — The experience & engagement platform for financial enterprises.
Beyondbmi — Beyondbmi is an expert led medical approach to weight loss. We provide a convenient and scientific telehealth program designed to help your reach your health goals.
FlowForma — Unlock competitive advantage with FlowForma, the #1 no code digital process automation software & business process management tool. Get a free trial now!

Eamonn Quinn

Investment focus

Grocery, E-Commerce, Food Delivery
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Buymie — Buymie is a same-day grocery delivery company focused on reducing the environmental impact of grocery shopping.

Howard Roberts

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Hospital
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Kalibr8 — Optimize Your Business
PacSana — PacSana provides critical insight and understanding of user’s movement and health status. It uses a combination of sensors and expert systems to monitor critical user data and predict possible health events.
STRATxAI — Create an investment portfolio for free online. Automated algorithmic trading and long term investment strategies.

Entrepreneurial investments High-Tech, Internet and Media companies in US and Europe.Portfolio companies include among others Palantir Technologies, Taulia, Socotra, Context Logic (Wish), Evernote, CapLinked, Spectrum Investments, Open Door, Zipline, Properly, Simscale, Osaro, Polyspectra, Aether Bio, Ashby, Asyncy, Eligible, WayUp, Xage,Lampenwelt, Robin Hood, Klara, Qualia Labs, Aizon, Luna, Shogun (Hearth), Mosaic Finance, Cantourage, Seed Legals, Sava, Gordian, Form Logic, Vector, Bryte, Gartenhaus, Free Form, Fero Labs, Airly, Octane.ai, SmithRX, Contract Book, Quantum Systems, Energy Robotics, Airly, Memberstack, Orchest.ai, Inflammatix, Finway, Roadsurfer, Hive Logistics, AnyMove, Lucid Chart, Fursure, Arrows.to, Halo Industries, Almanac, Velocity Labs, Lumeo, Carbon Health, Almanac, Passion.io, US Bitcoin Corp, OQmented, Maev, LegalOS, Block Green, trypenny, remberg, Kaladin, Marvel Fusion, Arda Therapeutics, The Every Company, CryptoCities, Lenco, SaveIN, GetSona, Noibu, how.fm, Adyton, Hydra Host, Anchor Zero, Gen1e Lifesciences, Pasteur Labs, Windmill.dev, ISEE, ThreeDOT, Workpatterns, Pylon, Cylib,...

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Test and Measurement
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

CPTx — At CPTx, we develop new treatment paradigms across outsized medical challenges, with an initial focus on infectious diseases. The flexibility and precision of CPTx's platform supports multivalent drug development, which is crucial for addressing complex disease states involving multiple binding sites, such as viruses, cancer, and autoimmune diseases.
Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.
Ceartas DMCA — Ceartas is the leader in piracy protection for creators, brands & enterprise. Powered by AI, we have the highest removal rate in the industry

Kevin is the Co-Founder and GP of A* Capital & The Co-Founder & Chairman of Eventbrite (NYSE: EB)Prior A* Capital, Kevin was at Founders Fund. Previously Co-Founder and CEO of Eventbrite (NYSE: EB). Kevin was previously Co-Founder and CEO of Xoom Corporation, an international money transfer company servicing more than 30 countriesworldwide. Xoom went public in 2012 and was acquired by PayPal in 2015. Kevin has served as an early-stage investor and advisor to successful start-ups including Airbnb, Lookout, PayPal, Pinterest, Skybox Imaging, Trulia, Uber, and Yammer.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Ireland, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Icon — Icon helps brands partner with creators, turn 1 video into 20 videos with AI, and A/B test messaging to find winning ads. We’re backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, as well as founders & executives of OpenAI, Ramp, Flexport, Pika, & Cognition (Devin).
Hedra — Video creation for everyone.
Reflect Orbital — Reflect sells sunlight from space.

Barry Lunn, the founder and CEO of Provizio (previously founder and CEO of Arralis) takes a design led approach to tech entrepreneurship. Barry’s approach to solving difficult technology problems is as much artistic as it is actual physics.

Investment focus

Sensor, Software, Aerospace
Seed, Angel
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Arralis — Arralis is a rapidly scaling technology company, providing world leading expertise in RF, micro, and millimetre-wave technology. It excels in Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMICs), packaged component modules, proprietary antenna technology, and integrated Radar and Communications front-end platforms. Its products, which are theultimate in precision and innovation, are used in both global and space environments where accuracy and reliability are critical. its also creates partnerships with other leading technology providers to build bespoke high performance, cutting-edge solutions. Arralis provides added value through advanced, research, and innovation aligning its solutions with its client’s strategic objectives.
Cohort — Cohort helps its users find the people they need through the people they already know through social media. Cohort is an Ireland-based company that was founded in 2015 by Eamon Leonard.
Provizio — Imagine an affordable system that gives every driver 360-degree insights in all weather conditions and paves a true path to autonomy.

Founder of Foreword.vc, an early-stage micro fund backing startups throughout their initial chapters. Also advisor at Web Summit and EiR at Seedcamp. Previously covering Europe for Techstars Ventures and founding member of Web Summits venture fund, Amaranthine.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Werk — Werk is building a construction labor marketplace, that matches workers internationally to any country, all while automating the paperwork and HR. Our community provides trade union benefits, globally. Think of it as a mix of Deel & LinkedIn, but for construction that disrupts the European gray economy. Werk is building a digital identity forthe workers building our homes and offices.
Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.
Gradient Labs — An autonomous customer operations agent that simulates human agents, only faster and better.

Bobby Healy is an experienced inventor and technology entrepreneur specialising in booking engine software. He joined CarTrawler in 2005 having begun his career building computer games for Nintendo at 16 years of age. Prior to joining CarTrawler, Bobby founded Eland Technologies which he later sold to airline technology giant SITA and remained asCTO until 2005. His booking solutions are now in use by 80% of the world's top 20 airlines. Bobby continues to be an avid computer programmer and is a frequent speaker on the international circuit on subjects related to technology in the airline industry, ancillary revenue and online distribution.

Investment focus

Travel, Local, Guides
Angel, Series A, Funding Round
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Roomex — Want to make business travel easier? Search, book, manage, and pay for all your business hotel bookings in one place.
Coindrum — Coindrum provides coin machines to spend your coin jars. No more manual counting, sorting or bagging!
LikeWhere — LikeWhere's service helps travel brands identify the individual interests of their customers, so they can personalise their digital engagement, generating more revenues. LikeWhere utilises ‘affinity-marketing’ techniques deployed by brands including Amazon, Spotify & Netflix (‘others like you also liked this’), enabling travel brands tooptimise their retail strategy.

Before becoming CEO of Arkphire, Paschal Naylor held senior management positions in a number of Irish technology companies, including EDS Ireland where he was a director and Memorex Telex where he was finance manager. Prior to joining Memorex, Paschal worked in Mostek Ireland, General Foods and Bailey Gibson Ireland. He is a certified accountant(FCCA) and a graduate member of the Marketing Institute of Ireland (MMII).

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Kalibr8 — Optimize Your Business
STRATxAI — Create an investment portfolio for free online. Automated algorithmic trading and long term investment strategies.

Peter Crowley - Founder & Director @ FL Partners

Investment focus

Privacy, Software, Cyber Security
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.

Peter O'Grady Walshe - Chairman @ VideoElephant

Investment focus

Video, Publishing, Social Media
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.

Jared Messenger is a technology entrepreneur and angel investor. He is currently an iOS computer vision and machine learning researcher. He also advises early-stage startups on building and shipping their iOS app.

Investment focus

Product Design, Developer Tools, Developer Platform
Seed, Pre-Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Modulz — The visual code editor for producing production-ready design systems without writing code
Ten Dozen —

Chip Hance

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Medical Device
Series A, Funding Round
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Signum Surgical — Founded in 2014 by Eoin Bambury and Moshe Zilversmit, Signum Surgical is a medtech platform striving to develop technology that could cure perianal fistula. Bambury and Zilversmit, who met on the BioInnovate Ireland programme at NUI Galway, recognised a lack of innovation surrounding the treatment of perianal fistulas (small tunnels that developbetween the end of the bowel and the skin near the anus). The device developed by Signum Surgical is implanted post-surgery to prevent reinfection and to allow a faster healing process.

Tony Smurfit is the Founder & CEO of Smurfit Kappa.

Investment focus

Video, Privacy, Software
Seed, Series A
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.
VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.

Danny Hughes is the Group Chief Executive Officer of Fastway Ireland. Danny attended UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School.

Investment focus

Software, Wellness, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Kollect — Kollects business model is similar to Hailo, the on-demand taxi platform, but instead of moving people, we move waste. We have a national network of trusted independent waste contractors for Junk removal, Bin Collection and Skip Hire. We offer jobs out to the network via our platform as we receive them from our customers. Jobs are accepted by thenearest and best suited waste provider with spare capacity. Our platform connects us with our Service Partners as they undertake the jobs, so we can closely monitor and track how the job is progressing, and keep customers updated.
Fettle — Fettle connects qualified therapists to those seeking professional counseling for issues such as anxiety, grief, and trauma.

Dr. Frank Dolphin is Chairman of RelateCare and founder of RigneyDolphin, a leading Irish contact center organization and parent company of RelateCare. Frank is a Chartered Psychologist by profession and has worked as a clinical and consulting psychologist at the Children’s Hospital, Temple St. and St. Joseph’s Clonmel. He has lectured at TrinityCollege Dublin and Waterford Institute of Technology in Psychology and Consumer Behavior and is a former Chairman of the Irish National Health Service Executive (HSE). Frank received Ph.D. in Psychology from University College Dublin.

Investment focus

Hospital, Health Care
Seed, Angel
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

PacSana — PacSana provides critical insight and understanding of user’s movement and health status. It uses a combination of sensors and expert systems to monitor critical user data and predict possible health events.
seamlessCARE — seamlessCARE is a Digital Health Start-up. It can help people with communication difficulties due to autism, stroke, dementia, intellectual disability, and a wide range of other conditions

I am an active Angel Investor in pre-seed and seed startups, having invested in 80+ startups. I invest in ambitious founders building scalable products for large markets and support founders with advice, strategic network of investors. Currently Founding Partner at TrueSight Ventures, Venture Capital firm investing in European early-stage startups.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Norway, Germany

Portfolio highlights

MEplace — MEplace creates a new approach to children’s wellbeing and preschool education. MEplace was founded in 2019 and was headquartered in England, UK.
Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.
Kota — Instant access to leading insurance and retirement providers globally, with flexible contributions, automated accounting and a delightfully simple employee app.

Mark Cummins

Investment focus

Software, B2B, CRM
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Inscribe — Inscribe helps financial institutions manage risk by empowering teams with fraudulent document detection, intelligent automation, and the ability to better understand customer creditworthiness.
&Open — For businesses that gift to give back, share joy, or show they care. All you need is an email.
Kota — Instant access to leading insurance and retirement providers globally, with flexible contributions, automated accounting and a delightfully simple employee app.

Hal Philipp - Principal Partner @ Meridian Growth Capital

Investment focus

News, SaaS, Big Data
Seed, Angel
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

NewsWhip — The only real-time media monitoring platform that predicts the stories and topics that will matter in the hours ahead.

Sean Mitchell is the Chairman and Chief Commercial Officer at Ubotica Technologies.

Investment focus

Toys, Internet, Analytics
Seed, Series A
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

HoloToyz — HoloToyz is a line of animated children's products that use augmented reality to inspire creativity and imagination. Our products will amaze and amaze people of all ages with never-before-seen animations.
Glimpse — Glimpse empowers 'bricks-and-mortar' retailers with the same level of shopper data as their online counterparts, driving revenues with data.

JP Sisk

Investment focus

Health Care
Series A, Funding Round
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

MedoSync — Efficient, adaptable billing solutions that flex to meet insurers' and providers' needs. Our suite of user-friendly solutions bring clarity to the healthcare claims process for providers, consultants and insurers.

Brian Patterson

Investment focus

Delivery, Shipping, Software
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Scurri — Scurri is next generation delivery management software that puts retailers back in control. Explore our delivery management software today.

Paddy Flynn - VP, Geo Data Operations @ Google

Investment focus

SaaS, Machine Learning, Video
Angel, Funding Round
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Talivest — Talivest optimises an intelligent ecosystem for hi-tech, high-growth companies by gathering insights throughout the employee lifecycle. Talivest’s solution uses machine learning and predictive analytics to help companies measure, build and maintain high performance.
Overcast HQ — Overcast is a leading cloud video management solution that simplifies video management, compliance and collaboration for all, securely. Effortlessly organise assets with quick searches, AI tagging, and categorization, ensuring swift access and utilisation across images, videos, documents, and more.

Nigel Byrne is an angel Investor and a former group CTO of Ooredoo.

Investment focus

Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Imvizar — Imvizar focuses on life-size, location-based experiences that allow users to feel as if they've gone back in time, meeting renowned individuals and witnessing historical events all from the comfort of their own phone. Imvizar was founded by Michael Guerin and is located in Dublin, Ireland.

Mr. Chris Huskilson began his career with Nova Scotia Power in 1980. He was made chief operating officer of Emera and Nova Scotia Power in July 2003 and president and chief executive officer of Emera in 2004.Mr. Huskilson is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Nova Scotia. He is chair of the Canadian ElectricityAssociation, and serves on many for-profit and non-profit boards of directors. He is past-chair of the Greater Halifax Partnership and past-chair of the Energy Council of Canada.Mr. Husklison holds a bachelor of science in engineering and a master of science in engineering from the University of New Brunswick.

Investment focus

Delivery, Internet, Analytics
Seed, Angel, Series A
Canada, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Mysa — Control your electric heating and cooling with Mysa Smart Thermostats. Use the mobile app to control remotely - Save energy and money with smart home features.
Xocean — Using unmanned surface vessels (USVs), XOCEAN offers turnkey data collection services to Surveyors, Companies and Agencies.

Sean Mullaney is a Chief Technology of Algolia.

Investment focus

Software, Cloud Security, Computer Vision
Seed, Pre-Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Kerno — Instantly identify the root cause of any critical issue in your Cloud apps and get back to business in minutes, not hours.
Zerve — Securely Unlock Gen AI & LLMs in Your Enterprise

Ian Madigan is a professional Rugby player at Ulster Rugby.

Investment focus

Privacy, Software, Cyber Security
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.

Europcar Ireland, CEO, Colm Menton

Investment focus

Apps, Parking, Automotive
Seed, Corporate Round
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Parkpnp — Parkpnp is the parking app that lets people and businesses find or rent underutilized parking spaces in seconds. Their car park technology helps all property owners increase revenue & automation of their parking assets.Parkpnp is modernising the €30bn European parking industry, where change has been slow due to fragmented ownership of parkingspace owners. Their solution connects all types of car park owners seamlessly with drivers looking to park faster, easier and more conveniently. Parkpnp allows people to list, advertise and then generate income from their unused or under utilized parking spaces. Through Parkpnp users can rent these listed spaces at an average saving of 50%.
Zeus Scooters — ZEUS is an Irish company deploying the World’s FIRST 3-wheeled electric scooter for the urban mobility sharing market. Our unique scooters with state-of-the-art technology and reliability that will ensure our users always enjoy the safest, smoothest and most stable ride.

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
Renew Risk — Renew Risk is a software development firm that offers B2B SaaS solutions based on deep science for optimizing the financial lifetime of major renewable energy assets.
Camion — Empowering real estate to lead the energy transition with data and insights.

CEO at CarTrawler

Investment focus

SaaS, Big Data, Transportation
Seed, Series A
Ireland

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.

Eamon is a veteran of 20 years developing and building products, leading teams, and creating communities.Over the years he has: built and sold a company, built and failed to sell a company, made angel investments, hosted numerous conferences, organised hundreds of meetups, and brought thousands of people together to collaborate and do goodthings.As of June 2019, he's working on Boundless: making it easy for businesses to employ people in other countries and be compliant with tax and employment law.

Investment focus

Messaging, Software, Apps
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

XMTP — 2M+ web3 identities trust XMTP for secure & private messaging
Cohort — Cohort helps its users find the people they need through the people they already know through social media. Cohort is an Ireland-based company that was founded in 2015 by Eamon Leonard.
PicStash — They offer a valuable but inexpensive PR tool, ensuring the maximum exposure of your Brand with minimum costs to your business. They make it easier for journalists to view your latest products and press releases, and share them with the rest of Ireland and beyond.

Constantin was the CEO of Gravitation, the private investment holding of Charles Beigbeder (founder of Selftrade and Poweo).He also worked as a Director of Strategy & Development at Bouygues Group.In 2000 Constantin co-founded E-Win (a marketing automation startup).He is a BCG and Arthur Andersen alumni.Constantin graduated fromESCP Business School.Constantin joined Otium in January 2015.

Investment focus

Internet, Domain Registrar, Internet of Things
Series A
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

StartingDot — StartingDot launched in October 2011. They are the registry for 3 new generic top-level domain names (TLDs) dedicated to major sectors: .archi, .bio and .ski. Their TLDs help people and businesses clearly express themselves and reach deeper into their audiences. They are a leading European TLD Registry with offices in Dublin (Ireland), Paris(France) and New York City (USA). Their strategy is to focus on TLDs in SME categories where the correlation between trade and domain name is critical. The company was acquired by Afilias plc in August 2016.

Walter Walsh

Investment focus

Sports, Software
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Grinds 360 — Grinds 360 operates as a hybrid learning platform. Grinds 360 uses a proven hybrid learning approach which elevates traditional classroom grinds using the latest cutting edge technology.
myClub — Unlock your businesses potential with MyClub360. Boost brand visibility, drive targeted traffic, and maximize ROI with our innovative advertising platform.

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