# Top 50 Community Startup Investors in Ireland in June 2026 ## Enterprise Ireland - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology 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. ## Elkstone Capital Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology Elkstone is an investment firm, focusing on entrepreneurs, senior executives, institutional LPs, the venture community, and the Irish diaspora.The objective of the organization is to boost the economic value and overall well-being of the island of Ireland by expanding a network, facilitating deserving investments, and delivering excellentinvestment performance. ## NDRC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce NDRC builds high-impact new ventures. By providing the people, time, space and investment needed at the earliest stages of dedicated commercialisation work, NDRC is creating companies worthy of commercial investment and with the ability to scale. The NDRC team has the breadth of knowledge and expertise in technology and markets. NDRC worksside-by-side with researchers, entrepreneurs and venture teams to turn great ideas into successful new ventures.By the end of 2014, NDRC’s portfolio of startup ventures had secured a cumulative €88m in follow-on investment from commercial investors, with a combined market capitalisation of approx. €220m. ## SOSV - Type: VC Fund - Location: Princeton, New Jersey, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment. ## Frontline Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Frontline is the venture firm for globally ambitious B2B companies on both sides of the Atlantic. Frontline Seed speeds up ideas at inception across Europe. Frontline X is a growth-stage fund, for fast and frictionless US-Europe expansion. ## Northzone - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology Northzone is a multi-stage venture capital firm operating across Europe and the US. Since 1996, it has backed more than 250 companies, including Spotify, Klarna, Spring Health, and Black Forest Labs. ## EQT Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology EQT Ventures is a European VC fund with just over €2.3 billion in total capital raised. EQT Ventures I launched in May 2016, with commitments totaling €566 million and a simple mission - to be the kind of VC the team would have liked to have had on their own startup journeys. Recognizing that building and growing a company takes more than justcapital, the EQT Ventures team provides founders with support and advice throughout different stages of growth. EQT Ventures doesn't focus on particular markets or industries, but on bold and ambitious founders who have the grit and determination to build global success stories. EQT Ventures II launched in November 2019, with commitments totaling €660 million. EQT Ventures III launched in 2022, with commitments totaling €1.1 billion, making it the biggest European Venture Capital fund committed to early-stage tech startups. The EQT Ventures team is based across six offices in London, Stockholm, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Paris, and San Francisco, taking a locals-with-locals approach and supporting founders on the ground. Motherbrain, EQT Ventures' in-house-developed artificial intelligence (AI) platform, ensures the team has a data-driven approach and has driven more than $100 million in portfolio company investments. ## Salica - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Secondary Market - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology Founded as an investment firm focusing on the most promising startups, we have evolved into a unique set of private market funds investing globally in equity and debt across complementary sectors and stages. We fuse traditional values with a contemporary approach and balance exacting processes with the agility to capture commercial opportunity andcompelling investment returns. Our continuous search for new opportunities has led us to create a balanced collection of complementary funds and relationships. ## David Clarke - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS David Clarke is the Board member of Payslip. David Clarke is the Venture Partner at Frontline Ventures. He attended Trinity College Dublin during 1989-1993. ## Oleg Tikhturov - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce 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. ## Atlantic Bridge University Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Medical Device, Health Care, Big Data We invest in entrepreneurs with the ambition to create world-class companies of scale. ## Nestle - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Grant, Private Equity - Focus: Food and Beverage, Health Care, Food Processing Nestle manufactures and sells food and beverages for several countries. It has generated more than CHF 90 billion in annual revenue. Its diverse product portfolio includes brands such as Nestle, Nescafe, Perrier, Pure Life, and Purina. Nestle also owns just over 23% of French cosmetics firm L'Oréal. It has a vast portfolio of global products,with 34 brands each achieving more than CHF 1 billion in sales annually and a geographic presence that spans 189 countries. ## EIT Health - Type: VC Fund - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical EIT Health is a network of best-in-class health innovators backed by the EU. We deliver solutions to enable European citizens to live longer, healthier lives. ## Astia Angels - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology Astia Angels is a global network of both female and male angel investors that invest in high-growth companies. The angel investor network is actively engaged in the Astia community and screening process (Astia Expert Sift TM) and founded by experienced angel investors. All members are highly involved throughout the investment process and makeindependent investment decisions. ## Stacks - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin Blockstack is a decentralized computing network that puts users in control of their data and login. It’s the easiest way to build decentralized apps that can scale. Blockstack enables engineers to build secure, privacy-focused applications: users are in control of their data instead of storing it with large tech companies.Over 120 independentdeveloper teams have built apps on Blockstack. ## PULSAR - Type: VC Fund - Location: Kazan, Tatarstan, Russian Federation - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology Pulsar Venture Capital, a business acceleration program, offers financing and mentorship to clean tech, robotics, and electronics startups. ## EISMEA - Type: VC Fund - Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Grant, Seed - Focus: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care Executive Agency for SMEs ## Brian Caulfield - Type: Angel - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, Mobile, Apps Brian Caulfield is based out of Dublin, Dublin and is the Venture Partner at Molten Ventures and also serves as the Chairman at Barespace. Brian previously worked at Graphcore as Board Oberver. Brian Caulfield attended Trinity College Dublin. Brian has received the Irish Software Association's "Technology Person of the Year" award. ## Blaine Cook - Type: Angel - Location: Nelson, British Columbia, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Audio, Video, Events Blaine Cook is the former Architect at Twitter. Before his departure he focused on building and maintaining Twitter’s Jabber-based real-time backend infrastructure that tracks and distributes millions of updates every day to users on the Web, instant messaging, and SMS. ## Jesper Brok - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: E-Learning, Recruiting, Communities Jesper Brok is the Founder of Tjommi and Legalfinder.com. ## Scott Chacon - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care Scott Chacon is based out of Berlin, Germany, and is the Founder and CEO of GitButler. Scott previously worked at Chatterbug as a CEO. Scott Chacon attended UC San Diego. ## Harper Reed - Type: Angel - Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Communities, Social Media, Online Portals Harper Reed is the CEO of General Galactic Corporation. He previously worked at Braintree as the Head of Commerce. He attended Cornell College. ## Cem Sertoglu - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series D - Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, CRM Cem Sertoglu is an internet and technology venture capitalist and entrepreneur. He is currently a Managing Partner at Bek Ventures, a European venture investment firm focusing on technology and health technology companies.He is also a managing partner at Young Turk Ventures, an internet-focused investment firm. From 2008 to 2009, Sertoglu was apartner at iLab Ventures, the venture capital arm of AccessTurkey Capital Group that is focused on early-stage through late-stage growth equity investments, primarily in on-line consumer services companies and technology-driven business services companies in Turkey.Prior to these, Sertoglu founded SelectMinds, a provider of cloud-based, social talent sourcing apps that allow companies to use social networks such as Facebook to recruit employees. He served as its CEO from 1999 to 2005. The company was bought by Oracle in 2012.Sertoglu's investment highlights include: GittiGidiyor, the first major Turkish internet exit to eBay in 2011; YemekSepeti, the leading online meal delivery marketplace in Turkey; Grupanya, Turkey’s leading daily deal business; and Wikimart.ru, a leading Russian e-commerce platform. Other investments include: HipWay, CivicSolar, Lofty, Lime&Tonic, Gezlong and Vivense Home & Living.Sertoglu attended the University of Texas at Austin and received his bachelor's degree in Economics in 1993. He also attended Robert College from 1982 to 1989. He publishes a blog on Venture Capital and technology, titled SortiPreneur. ## Matt Haughey - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Audio, Video, Events Matt Haughey - Founder @ MetaFilter ## Matt Biddulph - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Audio, Video, Events Matt Biddulph is the Software Engineer at Apple in 2019. He attended University of Oxford. ## Tim Cederman-Haysom - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: News, SaaS, Audio Tim Cederman-Haysom is Product leader at Pyn. ## PROfounders Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Apps We are PROfounders. We are the proactive European early-stage venture fund. ## Victor Parker - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Private Equity, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Education Victor Parker - Managing Director @ Spectrum Equity ## Esther Dyson - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Software, Medical Esther Dyson - Founder @ Way to Wellville ## Tom Preston-Werner - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools Steve Jang is an individual investor. ## Permanent TSB - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing - Focus: Fashion, Lifestyle, E-Commerce Permanent TSB is a Retail shareholders company. PTSB offered the stock to retail shareholders at the same price as it had to the group private investors last month. ## Ray Nolan - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, News, Software Ray Nolan - Non-Exec Chair @ XSellco ## Ahmed Hindawi - Type: Angel - Location: Windsor, Windsor and Maidenhead, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Events, Software, Publishing Ahmed Hindawi is the founder and CEO at Nagwa Limited. He previously worked at Hindawi as a Co-Founder and Chairman. ## Outsized Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology At Outsized Ventures we partner with founders pushing the boundaries of science and technology to solve the world’s greatest challenges. Some call it deep tech, others frontier tech, tough tech, hard tech or high tech - for us, it is simply the future. ## Norwest - Type: VC Fund - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care Norwest backs high-potential founders with capital, guidance, and operational support from early-stage to IPO across sectors like SaaS, biotech, consumer, and more. ## Nagwa Abdel-Mottaleb - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Events, Software, Publishing Nagwa Abdel-Mottaleb is the CEO at Arab Foundation for Education and Culture. ## Mark Cummins - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, B2B, CRM Mark Cummins ## Business Growth Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Private Equity - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care BGF is the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, providing long-term, minority investment to growing companies. ## Foreword Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology Foreword Ventures is an early-stage micro fund backing startups throughout their initial chapters. Foreword commits to adding value far beyond the small checks they write by devoting time, reputation, and capital to clients' success. Foreword typically invests in the pre-seed and seed stages, but can also invest in Series A and beyond whenthere is an existing relationship with the founder or co-investor. ## Christer Holloman - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Health Care, Software, Financial Services Founder of Divido, the world’s largest white-label saas platform for Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL). Prior to starting Divido, he launched Glassdoor.com in EMEA which subsequently got acquired for $1.2bn USD. Hold an MBA from the University of Oxford and is an active early-stage advisor, investor and NED. ## Graham Stirling - Type: Angel - Location: Gibraltar, Gibraltar, Gibraltar - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Art, RFID, Mobile Graham Stirling is the Manager - Investments at Veddis. ## QVentures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce QVentures sources, screens, and invests in top-tier start-ups from Seed to Series B. Our investors consist of Family Offices, Institutional Investors, UHNWIs, and Cashed-out Entrepreneurs. We look for disruptive companies with a proven product-market fit, set to scale from Seed to Series B. We focus on Enterprise SaaS, Marketplaces, Consumer Tech,FinTech, AdTech, EdTech, InsurTech and HealthTech and more. We look for quality management teams, large addressable markets, proven traction, sustainable business models, route to scale and quality investors.To apply for investment, please fill out this short form to be reviewed: https://qventures.typeform.com/to/zZPOWf ## Veddis - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Mobile, Software, Consumer Electronics Veddis is an investment advisory firm that seeks to create value through sourcing tailored investment decisions that meet the right criteria of asset class, risk profile, and geography. They currently manage a portfolio of carefully selected companies which specialise in technology, health & wellbeing and retail. Their sophisticated planningprocess provides their clients access to global investment vehicles free from bias, and has culminated in a longstanding record of superior returns. As a truly independent company, every decision they make is solely with the investors’ interests in mind. ## Nomad Capital Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: Apps, Software, EdTech Nomad Capital Partners is a provider of growth capital to seed and early stage startup enterprises. We are focused on working with innovative entrepreneurs and companies that have the potential to create moats in technology, product and branding. We understand the challenges of growing companies and ## Romain Huet - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Apps Romain Huet currently runs Stripe's global developer relations team. He previously served as a Senior Developer Advocate at Twitter. He was the first member of the Developer Relations team outside of the US, and joined joined Twitter in 2013 to tell the story of the platform and inspire developers to connect to the pulse of the planet withTwitter APIs. In October 2014, he helped launch Fabric, Twitter's new mobile platform, and Digits. Since then, he has been traveling the world to meet developers in more than 20 cities and working with amazing entrepreneurs and companies to build the best mobile apps for iOS & Android.Previously, he was the Co-Founder & CTO of Jolicloud. Romain Huet designed and launched Joli OS, the first cloud operating system based on Linux and Chromium. Huet created its user interface and exposed system APIs with cutting-edge JavaScript and HTML5, and built the platform connecting all major cloud services entirely in Node.During his engineering course, he worked at Netvibes where he pioneered the Facebook API development with the most popular widget of the personalized start page and helped create UWA, the open source JavaScript engine to make Netvibes apps run everywhere. ## BIC Angels - Type: VC Fund - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Seed - Focus: Internet, SaaS, Software BIC Angels is an investment firm that provides venture capital for startups engaged in the internet sector. It is primarily focused on companies engaged in SaaS, location-based services, and mobile applications. The Company's early-stage investment ranges from $25,000 to $1,000,000. BIC Angels is based in Istanbul, Turkey. ## Bill McKiernan - Type: Angel - Location: Los Gatos, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, SaaS, Bitcoin William S. McKiernan, Bill founded CyberSource Corp. in 1994 and served as its Chief Executive Officer from December 1997 to January 1, 2010. Mr. McKiernan served as Chief Executive Officer of Beyond.com corp., from 1994 to March 1998. From 1992 to 1994, he was employed by Network Associates (formerly known as McAfee Associates, Inc.) a developerof computer security software, where he served as President and Chief Operating Officer during its initial public offering since October 1992. Prior to joining McAfee Associates in 1992, Mr. McKiernan served as Vice President of Princeton Venture Research, Inc., an investment banking and venture consulting firm from 1990 to 1992. He also held management positions with IBM/ROLM, a telecommunications company, and Price Waterhouse. He is the Founder of CyberSource Limited and serves as its Executive Chairman. He served as Chairman of the Board of Cybersource Corp. since December 1997. He Founded Beyond.com, an online reseller of computer software, in 1994 and served as its Chairman of the Board since March 1998. He serves as a Director of Vertical Software, Inc. He served as a Director of Cybersource Corp. since December 1997. Mr. McKiernan holds a B.S. from Boston College and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School. ## Portman Wills - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking Portman Wills - Co-Founder & CTO @ Wagestream ## Cocoa - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology WE ARE COCOA #LETSDOTHIS ## Plug & Play - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech We're a UX Design Agency in London that specialises in UX design, UI design and frontend development. We transform digital products.