Top 15 EdTech Angel Investors in Ireland in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Edtech startups based in Ireland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Edtech companies from Ireland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 15 EdTech Angel Investors in Ireland in January 2026

Investor	EdTech Ireland investments
Brian Caulfield	1
Stephen Langan	1
Stephane Gantchev	1
Ciaran Lee	1
Caelan Doris	1
Mehmet Onarcan	1
Jesper Brok	1
Peter Csillag	1
Shane Glynn	1
Des Traynor	1
Jordan Larmour	1
Sean Tai	1
Brian O'Driscoll	1
Walter Walsh	1
Sean Cunningham	1

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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. e-bike rentals: Dublin, London, Amsterdam, Utrecht. Bike sharing, Delivery rider rental, corporate and hotel e-bike fleets

Stephen Langan

Investment focus

EdTech, Secondary Education
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.

Stephane is partner at LAUNCHub Ventures, one of the leading Seed Stage funds in Central/Eastern Europe. LAUNCHub invests in the best entrepreneurs and startups in the digital space from the region, as well as founders originating from the region, but now based in the biggest startup hubs (Valley, London, etc. LAUNCHub Ventures has beeninvesting actively in Blockchain since 2014.Stephane is also Co-organizer of DigitalK, a leading European Digital/Tech/Startup conference, happening every year around end of May in Sofia, Bulgaria. Prior to joing the VC space Stephane's background includes 15 years in IT and Telecom with positions held at IT service providers, mobile operators (Orange), vendors, startups.

Investment focus

Software, EdTech, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Calliper — Data analytics platform for fast-growing startups. Connect all SaaS tools in minutes. Insights to build data-driven teams. Zero coding required.
zick learn — zick learn makes learning simple, fast and efficient again. Create and deliver beautiful text message based courses reaching the learners on the main chat apps, where they already are.
Orbiit — With Orbiit's AI-powered tool, you can effortlessly connect community members for 1:1 and small group conversations based on common interests and challenges.

Ciaran Lee - Co-Founder @ Intercom

Investment focus

EdTech, Education, Sustainability
Pre-Seed, Seed
Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Solidroad — The Automated Quality Management platform that optimizes human and AI agents to make every customer interaction better, faster, and more consistent.
SimpleStudy — Learn smarter with revision notes, past papers, quizzes, and expert tools for major Irish academic exams. Join SimpleStudy Ireland and boost your grades today.
Ulysses Ecosystem Engineering — Ulysses rewild the ocean and remove gigatons of carbon, contributing to global efforts to combat climate change and restore marine ecosystems.

Caelan Doris

Investment focus

EdTech, Secondary Education
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.

Mehmet Onarcan is the Founder of Mentors Network Turkey. He previously worked at Project House as an Advisory Board Member - Digital Transformation. Mehmet Onarcan attended Yildiz Technical University.

Investment focus

Apps, Internet, Social Network
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey, Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Missafir — Missafir is a PropTech start-up in Istanbul. We are the first short/mid term home rental management company in Turkey!We deliver for our customers through a combination of thoughtful interior design and attentive hotel-style services that deliver superior earnings from short/mid term rental management through our strength in data-drivendynamic pricing solutions.
Doktorderki — Doktorderki is an online system that allows people to directly talk to doctors about their questions and problems regarding health. It aims to establish a scalable B2C growth model along with the investment it is taking and to do B2B work with pharmacists and mainly dermocosmetics companies.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered inIstanbul, Turkey.
Local Guddy, Inc. — A marketplace connecting travelers and locals through unique guddy tours from locals all around the world. Taste local foods, drinks; see must see places, night life, views etc.

Jesper Brok is the Founder of Tjommi and Legalfinder.com.

Investment focus

E-Learning, Recruiting, Communities
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Denmark, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Healper — An online matching platform where you get matched with the mental health tools and psychologist who fits your personality, demography, and personal factors, giving you the best chance for effective therapy. The platform includes an online survey, psychologist profiles, booking and payment systems, reminders, sessions, and feedback systems. Webelieve better mental health starts with having a therapist in whom you trust, have chemistry with, and have relevant expertise. Healper will make a better match between you and the therapist based on professional and personal factors through a safe and smooth user journey. We believe a better match means better therapy, empowering you to get more out of your life.
Yard — The community for organisers rebuilding their local tech community

Peter is the founder of Starchema.

Investment focus

Apps, EdTech, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Angel
Hungary, Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Medalyst — Elevate team performance with Medalyst! The ultimate sports management app for streamlined player stats, match schedules, and real-time analytics. Try now!
Voovo — Empower your learning today! Instantly generate flashcards from anatomy diagrams, textbooks, and notes using AI, text recognition algorithms and Voovo's unique features.
MEROVA Health — Our vision is to create a global diabetes care system that enables the provision of accurance for high -risk patients.

Shane Glynn

Investment focus

EdTech, Secondary Education
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.

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.