Top 20 Consumer Angel Investors in Ireland in July 2025
A list of 20 angel investors that invest in Consumer startups based in Ireland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Consumer companies from Ireland. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Consumer Angel Investors in Ireland in July 2025
Investor | Consumer Ireland investments |
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Brian Caulfield | 2 |
Marc McCabe | 2 |
Patrick Collison | 1 |
Pádraig Canavan | 1 |
Bob Young | 1 |
John Collison | 1 |
Marc Murphy | 1 |
Jim Mountjoy | 1 |
John Herlihy | 1 |
John Purdy | 1 |
Shalena O'Connell | 1 |
Mark Whittaker | 1 |
Eric Yuan | 1 |
Sean Mitchell | 1 |
Sara Davies | 1 |
Meg Lustman | 1 |
Colm Heffernan | 1 |
Tej Lalvani | 1 |
Touker Suleyman | 1 |
Garry Lyons | 1 |
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.
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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. e-bike rentals: Dublin, London, Amsterdam, Utrecht. Bike sharing, Delivery rider rental, corporate and hotel e-bike fleets
Marc McCabe is a Scout at Sequoia Capital and General Partner at Nomad Capital. Prior to this role, Marc was a Business Development Lead and before that, a Team Member of Business and Corporate Development.
Previously, Marc was a Partner at SV Angel and an Online Media Associate at Google.
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Investment focus
- Software, Big Data, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Noloco — Noloco is a no-code platform for teams to instantly create apps powered by their business data. Easily turn Airtable bases and spreadsheets into customer portals or internal tools without code.
- Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
- Practice — Sell your expertise online, and manage your business, all in one place.
Patrick Collison is the Co-Founder, CEO and Content Strategist of Stripe. He previously worked at Auctomatic as a Co-Founder. Patrick Collison attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- NewLimit — NewLimit is extending human healthspan by unlocking regenerative potential.
- Cortex — Cortex makes it easy for engineering organizations to gain visibility into their services and deliver high quality software.
- Pacific Fusion — Pacific Fusion was founded in 2023 with the mission to power the world with abundant, affordable, clean energy.
Bob Young is the founder and CEO of Lulu.com, a premiere international marketplace for new digital content on the Internet, with more than 300,000 recently published titles and more than 15,000 new creators from 80 different countries joining each week.Lulu.com, founded in 2002, is Young's most recent endeavour. The success of this companyhas earned Young notable recognition; he was named one of the "Top 50 Agenda-Setters in the Technology Industry in 2006" and was ranked as the fourth "Top Entrepreneur for 2006," both by Silicon.com.In 1993, Young co-founded Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the open-source software company that gives hardware and software vendors a standard platform on which to certify their technology. Red Hat is a Fortune 500 company and chief rival to Microsoft. His success at Red Hat won him industry accolades, including nomination as one of Business Week's "Top Entrepreneurs" in 1999.Before founding Red Hat, Young spent 20 years at the helm of two computer-leasing companies that he founded. His experiences as a high tech entrepreneur combined with his innate marketing savvy led to Red Hat's success. His book, "Under the Radar", chronicles how Red Hat's open source strategy successfully won wide industry acceptance in a market previously dominated by proprietary binary-only systems. Young has also imparted the lessons learned from his entrepreneurial experiences through his contributions to the books to "You've GOT to Read This Book!" and "Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur's Soul."In 2000, Young co-founded the Center for Public Domain, a non-profit foundation created to bolster healthy conversation of intellectual property, patent and copyright law, and the management of the public domain for the common good. Grant recipients included the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Creative Commons, the Free Software Foundation, and the Future of Music Coalition.Young graduated from the University of Toronto in 1976 prior to beginning his career in the computer finance arena.In 2003, Young purchased the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League and currently serves as the league's vice chairman.In addition to enjoying fly fishing, Young collects calculators and antique typewriters, a nod to his beginnings as a typewriter salesman and can usually be found sporting a pair of red socks. However, instead of red on his head, Young now tips his orange hat.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Brazil, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- AppFlowy — AppFlowy is the AI collaborative workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data
- Liquid AI — Liquid AI is an MIT spin-off with a presence in Boston, MA, and Palo Alto, CA. Our mission is to build state-of-the-art, general-purpose AI systems from first principles and deploy capable, efficient, highly aligned, and trustworthy AI for all.
- Rocket.Chat — Explore Rocket.Chat, where we put data privacy into every conversation and enable teams to collaborate seamlessly.
John Collison is a President and Co-founder at Stripe. He attended Harvard University.John and his brother Patrick Collison started Stripe in 2010 while John was studying physics at Harvard. Their goal was to make accepting payments online simpler and more inclusive, after learning firsthand how difficult it was. Today, the 100+ person (andgrowing) Stripe team powers online businesses around the world.Before Stripe, John co-founded Auctomatic, which was acquired by Live Current Media in March 2008. Originally from Limerick, Ireland, John lives in San Francisco, California, where Stripe is based.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- NewLimit — NewLimit is extending human healthspan by unlocking regenerative potential.
- Cortex — Cortex makes it easy for engineering organizations to gain visibility into their services and deliver high quality software.
- Rivan Industries — Rivan Industries designs and builds modular, vertically integrated, synthetic fuel plants.
Founder and CEO, Marc is responsible for Fenergo’s business operational strategy and corporate direction. With 18 years’ experience developing, selling and delivering enterprise financial technology to global banks, Marc has developed a proven track record of building successful business-winning and leadership teams. In 2015, he led an $85m fundinground with Insight Venture Partners and Aquiline Capital Partners, marking the second fundraising effort for the company. In 2013, Fenergo secured €4m funding from Investec Ventures Ireland Limited. The latest fundraising enables Fenergo to create a platform for global growth that will see it capitalize on the growing demand being created by an ever-evolving financial regulations market. Marc was recently named a Fintech 100 Most Influential Leader in recognition of the impact that Fenergo’s technology is having on the way financial institutions manage their compliance obligations and operational requirements. Marc is a software engineering and MBA graduate of Dublin City University
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Investment focus
- Legal, FinTech, Computer
- Series A, Funding Round
- Ireland, United Kingdom
Dr. Jim Mountjoy is the Board Director of Corvil.He is also a Deputy Chairman of Science Foundation Ireland.Dr. Mountjoy founded Euristix, an innovative supplier of advanced network management software solutions for the telecommunications industry. Euristix became a market leader and was sold to Fore Systems for US $80 million in February1999, a value that increased to US$175 million in two months when Fore Systems was acquired by Marconi.Dr. Mountjoy is currently involved as an investor and in a non-executive capacity with a number of technology companies and is a Board member of the,Abbey Theatre,Barnardos, the childrens’ charity.
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Investment focus
- Software, Analytics, E-Commerce
- Series A
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Clavis Insight — Grow faster, smarter, and more efficiently with Flywheel's suite of digital commerce solutions, purpose-built for the world's leading brands.
John Herlihy is an Assistant Manager.
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Investment focus
- Toys
- Seed
- 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.
John Purdy
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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!
Shalena O'Connell is a VP of Operations - helping fast-growing tech companies scale of MongoDB.
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Investment focus
- Toys
- Seed
- 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.
Mark Whittaker joined Parkwalk Advisors as Corporate Advisor in 2012.
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Investment focus
- B2B, B2C, Software
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Aphix Software — Aphix offers a fully integrated eCommerce & Mobile Ordering Platform for B2B, Wholesalers, Distributors, and Online Retailers in the UK & Ireland.
Eric Yuan founded Zoom in 2011 to deliver happiness and bring teams together in a frictionless video environment. Zoom’s video-first unified communications platform continues to dramatically transform the way leading global enterprises communicate. Under Eric’s leadership, Zoom was one of the highest-performing tech IPOs of 2019.Prior to foundingZoom, Eric was corporate vice president of engineering at Cisco, where he was responsible for Cisco's collaboration software development. Eric was one of the founding engineers and vice president of engineering at Webex. Between 1997 and 2011, he grew his team from 10 engineers to more than 800 worldwide and contributed to revenue growth from $0 to more than $800M.Eric has been named one of the Most Powerful People in Enterprise Tech by Business Insider. In 2018, he was named the #1 CEO of a large US company by Glassdoor and EY Entrepreneur of the Year in Northern California (software category). In 2019, he was added to the Bloomberg 50 as a leader who changed the game in global business. Eric is a named inventor on 11 issued and 20 pending patents in real-time collaboration.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Trendsi — Trendsi is an online fashion B2B marketplace reimagined, that makes it easy for sellers to build their businesses by providing inventory, offering dropshipping and open-pack wholesale with fast shipping, quality products, back-end infrastructure and a great profit margin for boutique owners.
- HireEZ — Streamline hiring with an all-in-one recruitment platform featuring AI sourcing, automated resume screening, analytics, and more powered by agentic AI.
- WeBox — Saltalk is a virtual kitchen platform that focuses on Asian Authentic Food optimized for delivery services.
Sean Mitchell is the Chairman and Chief Commercial Officer at Ubotica Technologies.
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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.
Sara Davies
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- Design, Sports, Health Care
- Angel
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Peachy Lean — Peachylean, is an Irish based athleisure business providing stylish, high quality, supportive, high waisted gym leggings. We want to support strong women who like to look good while working out in the gym.
Meg Lustman is the former chief executive of Hobbs London.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Fashion, Fitness
- Angel
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Peachy Lean — Peachylean, is an Irish based athleisure business providing stylish, high quality, supportive, high waisted gym leggings. We want to support strong women who like to look good while working out in the gym.
Colm Heffernan
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Investment focus
- Computer, Software, Clinical Trials
- Funding Round
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- FlowForma — Unlock competitive advantage with FlowForma, the #1 no code digital process automation software & business process management tool. Get a free trial now!
Tej Lalvani is the CEO of Vitabiotics.
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Investment focus
- Fashion, Advertising, Beauty
- Angel, Seed
- India, Ireland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- POPxo — POPxo is India's online community for women that deals everything from fashion, beauty, lifestyle, work, and etc.Reaching 9 million users every month with over 102 million monthly engaged content views. POPxo provides text and video content in an accessible manner, and reach them where they live their lives: on social media and on mobile.It focuses on reaching a highly targeted audience - the millions of young urban women in India who are growing in confidence, in independence and in spending power, it monetises by working across formats (native ads, social posts, events) with brands who want to reach this important and influential consumer base.I was launch in March 2014 it's become the go-to lifestyle resource for the female (18-34) demographic.
- Gener8 — We believe that the advertising industry needs more transparency and that people should be able to control their own data. Our technology gives people the control that is currently missing. And if people choose to share their data with advertisers, we reward them for it. Consequently, people trust us and 83% of them share their data with us.Meaning that we have an incredible understanding about these people and their online behaviour. We work with companies (and their media agencies) in the capacity of a media owner to do three things: 1. Provide premium media for you to reach this highly defined audience.2. Use our proprietary first party data to unveil actionable insights about your customers, eg. their purchase habits.3. To promote your brand and drive an action from your audience.
- Peachy Lean — Peachylean, is an Irish based athleisure business providing stylish, high quality, supportive, high waisted gym leggings. We want to support strong women who like to look good while working out in the gym.
Touker Suleyman is a multi-millionaire Turkish Cypriot fashion retail entrepreneur and investor. In 2001, his company Low Profile Group purchased UK shirt maker Hawes & Curtis, and in 2008 he purchased UK fashion label Ghost. More recently, he has invested in a number of start-up companies including Bikesoup and Huxley & Cox.
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Investment focus
- CRM, Digital Media, Advertising Platforms
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Gener8 — We believe that the advertising industry needs more transparency and that people should be able to control their own data. Our technology gives people the control that is currently missing. And if people choose to share their data with advertisers, we reward them for it. Consequently, people trust us and 83% of them share their data with us.Meaning that we have an incredible understanding about these people and their online behaviour. We work with companies (and their media agencies) in the capacity of a media owner to do three things: 1. Provide premium media for you to reach this highly defined audience.2. Use our proprietary first party data to unveil actionable insights about your customers, eg. their purchase habits.3. To promote your brand and drive an action from your audience.
- Peachy Lean — Peachylean, is an Irish based athleisure business providing stylish, high quality, supportive, high waisted gym leggings. We want to support strong women who like to look good while working out in the gym.
- Tiny Explorers — Discover Tiny Explorers' eco-friendly baby equipment rental across the UK Convenient, sustainable & hassle-free solutions for busy families!
Garry Lyons is a chief executive of Shipyard Technologies.
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Investment focus
- Toys
- Seed
- 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.
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