# Top 25 Consumer Angel Investors in Ireland in June 2026

## Brian Caulfield
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Marc McCabe
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Big Data

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.

## Pádraig Canavan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Computer, Software, Clinical Trials

Pádraig Canavan is a Managing Director at Singularity.

## Jim Mountjoy
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Software, Analytics, E-Commerce

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.

## John Herlihy
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Toys

John Herlihy is an Assistant Manager.

## Meg Lustman
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Retail, Fashion, Fitness

Meg Lustman is the former chief executive of Hobbs London.

## Colm Heffernan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Computer, Software, Clinical Trials

Colm Heffernan

## Eric Yuan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

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.

## Dan Ryan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Retail, Fashion, Fitness

Dan Ryan is the Chief Operating Officer of Kokoro Zenwear and Commercial Director at Peachylean.

## Tej Lalvani
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Fashion, Advertising, Beauty

Tej Lalvani is the CEO of Vitabiotics.

## Garry Lyons
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Toys

Garry Lyons is a chief executive of Shipyard Technologies.

## Chris Murphy
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Chris Murphy is a Venture Partner at MS&AD Ventures. He previously cofounded SaaStock and was an early Web Summit employee.

## Rick Kelley
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Beauty

Currently Rick overseas Facebook's Global Ad sales and Operations for the Gaming industry with teams in North America, EMEA and APAC. The Gaming business, vital for Facebook's revenue and growth, includes Mobile and Cross Platform Developers, Console Publishers, and Real Money Gaming. Rick joined Facebook in June of 2009, to build andlead Facebook's EMEA Mid Market Sales Team based in Dublin, Ireland. He held the position of Director of EMEA Sales, and was responsible for Facebook's expanding advertising efforts into emerging brands, ad agencies and large direct response advertisers. Previously, Rick spent seven years starting and leading similar teams for Yahoo! in both Boston and Barcelona, Spain. A native of Boston, he currently lives in Dublin, Ireland with his wife Kim and sons Ben and Zach. Rick is also active in the start up community and is an active investor, board member and advisor for numerous start ups and charities.

## Tom Kennedy
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Travel, Software, Video

Tom Kennedy is the Founder of Hostelworld. Tom Kennedy attended Technological University Dublin.

## Patrick Walsh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Beauty, FinTech

Former Product Manager at ezetop where he led the development and deployment of a white label mobile phone online top up system for Digicel across its 31 markets. 

KPMG exam qualified Chartered Accountant having worked across telecoms, music & software industries.

## John Purdy
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Medical

John Purdy

## Sara Davies
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Toys, Gaming, Rental

Sara Davies

## Marc Murphy
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Legal, FinTech, Computer

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

## John Collison
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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.

## Patrick Collison
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series C
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Patrick Collison is a CEO of Stripe.

## Sean Mitchell
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Toys, Internet, Analytics

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

## Bob Young
- Type: Angel
- Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Marketplace

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.

## Mark Whittaker
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2B, B2C, Software

Mark Whittaker joined Parkwalk Advisors as Corporate Advisor in 2012.

## Shalena O'Connell
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Toys

Shalena O'Connell is a VP of Operations - helping fast-growing tech companies scale of MongoDB.

## Touker Suleyman
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Fitness, Advertising, CRM

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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