Top 50 Biotech Startup Investors in Ireland

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.

Kernel Capital is the independent manager of The Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Venture Funds, one of the largest and most active sources of equity finance on the island of Ireland. Kernel leverage their extensive network to enable their portfolio companies recruit the highest caliber people, to break into new international markets and to generaterevenues of scale. It is the only investment firm with venture capital Funds dedicated to both jurisdictions on the Island. Kernel have raised over €210M from investors which including their strategic partner Bank of Ireland, Invest NI, Enterprise Ireland, Galway University Foundation, The University of Limerick Foundation, The New York State Common Retirement Fund and undisclosed Family Offices. Consistently delivering strong financial returns for their investors Kernel have led more than 20 substantial trade sales to NASDAQ, NYSE, and LSE listed corporations.

Fountain Healthcare Partners is an Irish based life science venture capital fund. Fountain is exclusively focused on the life science sector. Specific areas of interest to them are: specialty pharma, medical devices, biotechnology and diagnostics. They will deploy the majority of their capital in Europe with a strong focus on Ireland.

Supporting communities to grow, investing in businesses to scale and planning for the future of the western region.

The AIB Seed Capital Fund was established in 2007 to provide venture capital for companies at the seed and early stages of development across a range of sectors throughout the Republic of Ireland. The Fund was established under the Enterprise Ireland Seed and Venture Capital Programme 2007-2012.The Fund has a total of €30m under managementwith AIB and Enterprise Ireland both committing €15m. It is managed by experienced managers with extensive expertise in making seed and early stage investments, adding value and facilitating business success.The Fund managers are empowered to make seed investments of up to approximately €500,000. Furthermore, the Fund has the capacity to make investments in later rounds to support the continued growth of investee companies.The Fund will be managed by Enterprise Equity Venture Capital and the Dublin Business Innovation Centre. This unique partnership brings together extensive regional and investment expertise.Enterprise Equity will evaluate and manage all investments outside the city and county of Dublin, as well as investments that require in excess of €250,000 from the fund within the city and county of Dublin.Dublin Business Innovation Centre (DBIC) will evaluate and manage all investments within the city and county of Dublin when the initial investment amount required from the Fund does not exceed €250,000.

Seroba is a leading European life sciences venture capital firm focused on value creation through backing winning biotech innovations.

European Investment Bank (EIB) provides lending, borrowing, and treasury services primarily in the European Union.The company offers project loans for the public and private sectors; loans to banks and other intermediaries; structured finance products; guarantees and securitization instruments for senior and subordinated debts; project bonds;equity and fund investment products such as infrastructure equity and debt funds, and environmental funds; and venture capital funds and security packages for funds.The company also offers microfinance; risk sharing finance for research, development, and innovation projects; finance and technical expertise for sustainable energy projects; infrastructure project advisory services; support for urban development projects; guarantees for transport infrastructure; and funding for public-private partnerships and small- and medium-sized enterprises.EIB serves the transportation, global loans, energy, industry, health, education, water, sewerage, infrastructure, services, telecommunications, agriculture, and fisheries sectors.European Investment Bank was founded in 1958 and is based in Luxembourg.

We invest in entrepreneurs with the ambition to create world-class companies of scale.

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.

Atlantic Bridge is a growth equity technology Fund with offices in Dublin, London, Palo Alto, Beijing, and Hong Kong. They focus on Middle Market Technology investments across Europe, with a strong emphasis on a transatlantic business building and investment exit model. We focus on making domain-specific investments in growth-stage companies,specifically in sectors such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics, Computer Visioning, IoT, Big Data, etc.Atlantic Bridge brings together a unique team of technology entrepreneurs, experienced managers, finance professionals, and investment experts. The team contains a wealth of international business experience across Europe, the US, and Asia. They have worked together in various capacities for the last 30 years, bringing a true partnership approach to their firm and their investments. Its investors include the founders, leading institutional investors, and private investors with a track record of investment in successful technology companies.Atlantic Bridge has developed a unique and differentiated strategy that focuses on specific technology themes and the implementation of the “Atlantic Bridge Model” for scaling companies internationally. The “Bridge Model” accelerates the scale-up of technology companies in the US and Chinese markets. This approach is highly differentiated and has delivered strong performance results to date.

Irrus Investments is the leading Irish business angel network with international connections. Fueling Irish innovation in medical devices, software, hardware, digital healthcare and life sciences.

Lightstone Ventures was founded in 2012 by the General Partners and other key members of the life science teams of Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV) and Morgenthaler. The firm was formed to capture the upside of investing in breakthrough life science companies during a time of unique opportunity in the space.

We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the agtech and foodtech industries.

HealthCap is a family of multi stage venture capital funds, investing globally in life sciences, with the Odlander Fredrikson Group as their exclusive investments advisor. With committed capital exceeding € 800 million, HealthCap is one of the largest specialized provider of venture capital within life sciences Europe.

Infinity Capital are hypothesis-driven investors - constantly calibrating ideas through a Silicon Valley/technology network that they've been building for over two decades. Their extensive technology and operating backgrounds, combined with over a dozen years each of successful startup investing, have been essential in buildingcredibility and a reputation that resonates with entrepreneurs.

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

We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the agtech and foodtech industries.

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MML Capital Partners is an independent investment firm, with over twenty years of history, focused on providing capital to businesses for expansion/acquisitions, management-led equity deals, recapitalisations and buy-outs.

Kreos Capital provides innovative and flexible debt solutions to equity-backed, pan-European and Israeli high-growth companies in the technology and healthcare sectors.

Silicon Valley Bank works with technology, life science, cleantech, venture capital, private equity, and premium wine businesses. SVB provides industry knowledge and connections, financing, treasury management, corporate investment, and international banking services to its clients worldwide through 27 U.S. offices and seven internationaloperations. Banking innovative companies and exclusive wineries, Silicon Valley Bank’s diverse financial services, knowledge, global network, and world-class service increase its clients’ probability of success. Forbes Magazine ranks SVB among America’s Best Banks and Fortune Magazine named SVB one of the Best Companies to Work For in 2012.

Third Swedish National Pension Fund employs different investment strategies in the interest of spreading risk and protecting pensions for current and future pensioners. The firm was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

Cedas Foundation

Medtech Syndicate Nominee

Our primary focus is on the development of novel therapeutics and platforms. We balance the therapeutic focus with investments in medical devices, diagnostics or drug delivery systems. In our investments we look for unmet need and clinical impact, novel proprietary science and understanding of mechanism, management and board experience and capitalefficiency in the program.We prefer to have our initial investment at the early stage to build the company and follow with additional investment in pace with the company:tm:s progress. We continue our approach of larger focused investments and anticipate total investments up to USD 30 to 50 mio per company over its life, but it can be as little as 100'000 USD to get started. We will increase our activities to lead or co-lead deals further and remain open to participate in larger syndicates. SectorsNew therapeutics & platformsMedical devices/implantsDiagnostics/biomarkersDrug delivery/biopolymersGeographyUSA/CanadaEuropeSwitzerlandAsia/Pacific

Covidien plc engages in the development, manufacture, and sale of healthcare products for use in clinical and home settings. Segments The company operates its businesses through four segments: Medical Devices includes the development, manufacture and sale of endomechanical instruments, soft tissue repair products, energy devices, oximetry andmonitoring products, airway and ventilation products, vascular devices, SharpSafety products, clinical care products and other medical device products; Imaging Solutions includes the development, manufacture and marketing of radiopharmaceuticals and contrast products; Pharmaceutical Products includes the development, manufacture and distribution of dosage pharmaceuticals and active pharmaceutical ingredients; and Medical Supplies includes the development, manufacture and sale of nursing care products, medical surgical products and original equipment manufacturer products (OEM). The Medical Device segment develops, manufactures and sells an array of products which the company categorizes in the following product groups: - Endomechanical Instrumentsâ includes its laparoscopic instruments and surgical staplers. - Soft Tissue Repair Productsâ includes its sutures, mesh and biosurgery products. - Energy Devicesâ includes its vessel sealing, electrosurgical and ablation products and related capital equipment. Oximetry and Monitoring Productsâ includes its sensors, monitors and temperature management products. Airway and Ventilation Products—includes its airway, ventilator, breathing systems, sleep and inhalation therapy products. Vascular Devicesâ ”includes its compression and vascular therapy products. SharpSafety Productsâ includes its needles, syringes and sharps disposable products. Clinical Care Productsâ includes its urology, enteral feeding and other advanced woundcare products.

Ascent Capital is a leading India-focused independent private equity firm. They are one of the most experienced teams on ground with over 150+ years of collective experience in Indian capital markets. Over the past 15 years they have helped over 55 entrepreneurial teams build leading businesses across diverse sectors such as Technology, Ecommerce,Healthcare, Financial Services, Consumer Brands, Infrastructure, etc.

Claret Capital provides specialty debt financing to European growth businesses, predominantly in the technology, life sciences and environmental sectors. Typical loan sizes range from €1M-€40M with the flexibility to do larger transactions opportunistically.They look for investment opportunities in high growth business with proven managementteams in need of capital to fuel organic growth, acquisitions, equipment purchases, bridge loans and various forms of recapitalization.

Tekla Capital Management LLC is a registered investment adviser based in Boston, Massachusetts, and is currently the investment adviser for two closed-end equity funds, H&Q Healthcare Investors and H&Q Life Sciences Investors. The Funds invest in growth equities, both public and private, in the healthcare and life sciences industries.

Carragh Holdings

John Purdy

Feeding the world one investment at a time

The Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity fund is a joint fund built with contributions from the Bank of Ireland, the University of Limerick Foundation, and government-backed The seed fund will invest in export-oriented high potential firms that operate in the technology, food and financial services sectors, inaddition to supporting patent and patent pending projects within Irish universities, targeting investments between EUR 100K-500K. The new fund comprises of a €17 million investment by Bank of Ireland, along with funding of €8 million from Enterprise Ireland and € 1million by the University of Limerick Foundation. It will be managed by

The Foundry, LLC is the premier medical device company incubator. We work with inventors to rapidly transform their concepts into companies by providing an incomparable combination of leadership, an experienced, multi-disciplinary team, a state-of-the-art facility and an extensive funding network. The Foundry Team is comprised of veteran medicaldevice entrepreneurs and investors with real world experience—and success—in developing world class medical device companies.

Blue Wire Capital (BWC) supports innovation by backing visionaries who want to change how the world works, primarily at pre-seed and seed. BWC provides exceptional founders and outstanding managers with fast & flexible access to capital, assistance, and a comprehensive network.

ETV is one of Europe's leading providers of debt financing solutions for venture capital backed technology and healthcare businesses. Founded in 1999, ETV has a long and successful track record of investing in technology or intellectual property based companies across Europe and Israel, diversified by industry and development stage. Theyseek to set their selves apart from other venture lenders by being supportive, flexible and responsive to the needs of their customers, and a testament to their approach is the number of serial entrepreneurs, business angels and senior management that have come back to ETV both through the lifecycle of a company’s growth and for their subsequent ventures.

HBM-MedFocus

Declan Magee

Eoghan Quigley

Woodford Investment Management is a privately owned investment firm manages equity mutual funds. At Woodford, they don’t want to be just another fund management company. They want to create something different and better for their investors and they feel strongly that existing and potential clients are entitled to understand what they are doingwith their money.As investors, they are active, engaged, long-term, disciplined, diligent and focused. That’s a lot of things to say about their selves but each word is important in helping you to understand how they manage money – they will explain in more detail as they move along.Their investment approach and process are focused on value discovery, not price discovery. They believe that financial markets are inherently inefficient and that, through disciplined and diligent analysis, they can identify investment opportunities where market prices do not reflect long-term fundamental value. By exploiting this pervasive market characteristic, they believe they can create real long-term value for their investors.

VisVires New Protein is a pioneering investor focused on solving the persistent challenges of our food and feed system.

Founded in 1997, Earlybird invests in all development and growth phases of technology companies. Among the most experienced venture investors in Europe, Earlybird offers its portfolio companies not only financial resources but also strategic support plus access to an international network and capital markets. With EUR 2 billion under management,eight IPOs and 30 trade sales, Earlybird is one of the most established and active venture capital firms in Europe.

Street Capital Financial Corporation is a Canadian wholesale lending company. As a wholesale lender, Street Capital doesn’t have an expensive branch network and as such can pass those savings to the consumer. Street Capital prides itself on offering consumers competitive products and interest rates with an exceptional level of service.Havingapproved lender status with Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) Street Capital is able to offer a broad spectrum of residential mortgage financing products to the consumer. Also, since we’re primarily focused on the mortgage broker origination channel, you’re assured that your mortgage will fit your needs comfortably.By continually working to develop innovative lending solutions and working in partnership with your local mortgage brokers, Street Capital is proud to help more Canadians realize their dreams of home ownership and enhancement.

Moffett Investment Holdings is an investment firm

Accelerate innovation in aquaculture feed and technology.

Bpifrance provides financial solutions for companies that are booting up the listing on the stock exchange and credit equity. It includes OSEO, CDC Entreprises, FSI, and FSI Regions to offer in your area of financial solutions at every stage of the life of your business.Bpifrance was founded in 2012 and is based in Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France,France.

Xenium Capital

Mayo Clinic Ventures is dedicated to quickly bringing answers to the people who need them most: the patients living with diseases and conditions that threaten to limit or even end their lives. Our team works closely with Mayo physicians and scientists to mine inventions, ideas and discoveries that will truly transform health care. Their dedicatedefforts bring significant financial support to Mayo's patient care, education and research efforts.

HBAN Medtech Syndicate

LSP (Life Sciences Partners) is a leading independent European investment firm, providing financing to private and public life-science companies. Since the late 1980s, LSP's management has invested in a large number of highly innovative enterprises, many of which have grown to become leaders of the global life-science industry. For example,LSP was a founding investor in Crucell, DNage, Qiagen, Rhein Biotech and Pharming. With over EUR 500 million under management and offices in Amsterdam, Munich and Boston, LSP is one of Europe's largest and most experienced specialist life-science investors.