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Top 50 EdTech Startup Investors in Ireland in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds 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 50 EdTech Startup Investors in Ireland in January 2026

Investor	EdTech Ireland investments
Enterprise Ireland	11
Sure Valley Ventures	3
NDRC	2
HBAN	2
Kernel Capital	2
Davy EIIS Fund	2
Sean Tai	1
Unpopular Ventures	1
Furthr	1
Bossa Invest	1
Irelandia Aviation	1
Walter Walsh	1
Frontline Ventures	1
Plus Venture Capital	1
Huawei	1
LEAF Investments	1
Business Growth Fund	1
Ridge Road Partners	1
AIB Seed Capital Fund	1
Intel	1
Zanichelli Venture	1
Peter Csillag	1
Venturewave Capital	1
Delta Partners	1
Infinity Capital	1
Jesper Brok	1
Blackstone Group	1
Atlantic Bridge University Fund	1
TLcom Capital Partners	1
BIC Angels	1
Mehmet Onarcan	1
Shane Glynn	1
LeanSquare	1
Caelan Doris	1
Jordan Larmour	1
CDP Venture Capital	1
Egypt Ventures	1
European regional development fund (ERDF)	1
Stephane Gantchev	1
Seod Ventures	1
KCK	1
Act Venture Capital	1
Stephen Langan	1
Workday	1
Brian Caulfield	1
OneRagtime	1
Ciaran Lee	1
Falak Startups	1
Brian O'Driscoll	1
Local Enterprise Office	1

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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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Orreco — Orreco Their mission is to deliver a cutting edge biomarker program to optimise player performance, recovery and welfare. A tailored biomarker program can optimise player health and welfare and use sports science resources to target key or “at risk” players which will lead to increased player availability. Tailoring of recovery and playermanagement strategies to individuals’ own biomarker profiles backs up decision making processes with data giving your team an informed recovery strategy.
Scurri — Scurri is next generation delivery management software that puts retailers back in control. Explore our delivery management software today.
Leapifai — Boost productivity and minimise compliance risks with Leapifai tax assistant. Try it today!

Sure Valley Ventures is an entrepreneur-led Venture Capital Fund that invests in early-stage software companies. Working in partnership with Shard Capital, a specialist broker and asset manager based in the City of London, Sure Valley Ventures specializes in investing in Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), Financial Technology(FinTech), and the Internet of Things (IoT) Sectors.

Investment focus

Software, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Ireland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ambisense — Since 2014 Ambisense has been driving innovation within the environmental space. Their technology platform optimizes the delivery of environmental risk assessment on some of the world’s largest infrastructure projects across industrial, O&G and waste verticals. Ambilytics encompasses both IoT and ML solutions, combining information fromremotely deployed field devices with contextual data sources such as weather, satellite, geophysical and operational data to build machine learning models. These models identify the relationships, patterns, and drivers hidden within the data and allow our customers to forecast and predict the behaviour of targeted environmental pollutants.
RETìníZE — RETìníZE is an AR, VR, multi-screen installations, and software development.
Mirror Security — Mirror Security is at the forefront of GenAI security, AI Data Security, Secure Vector Databases, Zero Trust LLM, Automated Red Teaming & AI Agent Security

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Nory AI — Revolutionise your restaurant with Nory's restaurant management software. Streamline operations, boost profits, and enhance decision-making in one platform.
Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.
Ceartas DMCA — Ceartas is the leader in piracy protection for creators, brands & enterprise. Powered by AI, we have the highest removal rate in the industry

HBAN is dedicated to raising the profile of business angel investment as an asset class on the island of Ireland and to promote the creation of business angel syndicates.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Medical Device
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Ireland, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ovagen — Ovagen is a biotechnology company that has developed the process of producing germ free (GF) chicken eggs and GF birds in commercial quantities for use primarily in the pharmaceutical industry. Ovagen can also provide a Contract Research Service and has extensive expertise in SPF poultry & rodent housing & husbandry, in specific poultry& rodent research technologies to GMP standards and in avian transgenics.
Movetru — Movetru a wearable device that aims to reduce injury and enhance rehabilitation.
Change by Degrees — Change by degrees supports individuals and organizations in developing sustainable competencies and gaining self-assurance to achieve sustainability goals, expand their businesses, and adhere to legal requirements.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Ireland, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Cirdan — Cirdan provides highly reliable, innovative LIS & imaging solutions for the acceleration & enhancement of diagnosis, optimized for pathology & clinical lab.
Pretto — Pretto is the only truly transparent online real estate price comparator.Pretto accompanies you until the signing of your loan, free of charge and without commitment.
Pilot Photonics — Welcome to Pilot Photonics, a laser product development company in Dublin, Ireland. We provide optical frequency combs and tunable lasers.

Davy EIIS Fund is managed by BES Management DAC, a joint venture between BDO and Davy.

Investment focus

Education, Health Care, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Sons — Show male hair loss who's boss. Clinically-proven and affordable hair loss treatment plans delivered discreetly to your door. Take our consultation today at Sons.
Ride Today — Ride Today is a firm committed on making micromobility solutions available to everyone, fostering a sustainable future. They are pioneers in MobiTech, developing products and services that use new technologies to improve and innovate the mobility landscape.
Climeaction — Your Source for Sustainable Solutions. Join us on a transformative journey towards a cleaner planet. Lets build a better, sustainable world.

Sean Tai is the Exited fintech CEO founder, Board member & Investor at Debtdomain . Sean Tai attended University of Sydney.

Investment focus

Retail, Education, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A
Ireland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

OnBuy — OnBuy is an online marketplace that offers multi-category products. Its marketplace offers competitive fees for its sellers and helps to list all the products in its portal that enable users to purchase products without hassle. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Poole, Dorset.
TeachKloud — TeachKloud is the first platform that allows preschool providers to assess their compliance levels in their country.

The best companies, off the beaten path.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Foodology — Foodology creates and operates digital restaurant brands made for delivery.The company aims to be a delivery-focused restaurant group in Latam. With its portfolio of virtual brands operated through cloud kitchens, Foodology strives to create a best in class delivery experience for its customers.The company was founded in 2019 by HarvardBusiness School classmates Daniela Izquierdo and Juan Guillermo Azuero.
Kyte — Kyte delivers rental cars straight to your door. We deliver and pick up the vehicle. No lines, no paperwork, freedom to explore. Fully flexible. Book today!
Omnic.AI — The way to be a professional in esports. Omnic Data uses computer vision and a deep learning network to provide virtual coaching for the aspiring esports gamer.

Dublin Business Innovation Centre (DBIC) was established in 1988 with private, public, educational and EU support.

Investment focus

Software, Web Development, Analytics
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Ireland, United States, Luxembourg

Portfolio highlights

NewsWhip — NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.
CroíValve — CroíValve is a developed a safe, effective, easy to use, percutaneous solution for treating all patients with severe Tricuspid Regurgitation
VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.

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Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Brazil, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Comunitive — Peepi is a solution for scaling and changing customer and employee engagement into brand defenders improving retention, empowering sharing experiences, and attracting new customers. The company allows users to know who likes a brand and get closer to these people and increase engagement. Users can encourage people to share and advertise a brand insocial networks and more.Peepi was founded on 2017 and is headquartered Curitiba, Brazil.
Guapeco — Guapeco provides customized pet insurance services that helps pet parents take care of well-being of their pets through a health plan
Just Travel — Just Travel serves as a reference in the distribution of tourism products and customer service. The company offers cutting-edge technology that focuses on virtual presence, and provides growth, profitability, and brand strengthening on the internet.

Irelandia Aviation initiate, develop and deliver successful low cost carriers (LCCs) in partnership with airline management and investors.

Investment focus

Travel, Aerospace, Hotel
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Ireland, Spain, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Ayenda Hotels — Ayenda is the fastest-growing hotel chain in Latin America, with a presence in Mexico, Colombia, and Peru. Ayenda franchises independent hotels in main cities to ensure quality on the basics needs for travelers.Ayenda is a tech-based company that enables run the chain by proprietary software in all areas, from hotel software, pricing algorithms,and user-facing experience.
AERDRON — AERDRON is an innovative aerospace company that specializes in the development, and manufacturing of unmanned aerial vehicles. It specializes in designing prototypes, turnkey solutions, and finished commercial products to their clients requirements. They work with their clients through all stages of product development, and offer training and postsales support.AERDRON focuses on developing aerospace technology innovations for the unmanned aerial vehicle industry. They collaborate with both private, and public entities to further our R&D projects to the commercial market. AERDRON can also help other companies outsource development, and prototype manufacturing.
Skyports — Connecting the world through our skies by owning and operating infrastructure for urban aviation and managing end to end drone deliveries.

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Investment focus

Sports, Software
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.
myClub — Join the thousands of community members who are embracing their new digital communities

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Ireland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bird.i — Discover Zonda's complete homebuilding data solutions: Enterprise, Research & Advisory consulting services. Unlock the data trusted by leading builders.
Cellbyte — AI Agents for Pricing and Market Access Teams in the Pharmaceutical Industry.
WiseBee Hive — WiseBee is building the future of autonomous cybersecurity. Powered by AI agents, WiseBee helps companies monitor their attack surface, assess third-party risk, and fix vulnerabilities - automatically. Designed for mid-market and fintech organizations, WiseBee replaces fragmented tools with a unified, intelligent security platform that saves teamstime, reduces costs, and improves security outcomes.

At Plus VC, we leverage over a decade of experience and 200+ transactions to empower MENA startups for sustainable growth. We offer fair...

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Flend — Egypt’s first tech enabled, data driven financing solutions platform dedicated to small businesses.
Suplyd — Suplyd is a comprehensive digital solution that bridges the gap between restaurant operators and their suppliers in order to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end.
Ovasave — Understnd your fertility & hormonal health with Ovasave. Affordable & science-backed care to protect your future fertility. Egg freezing packages. Subscribe now!

Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Angel, Series B
United States, China, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bagoai — Bagoai is an operator of smart shared coffee and tea rooms.
nyxbyte — Made with Softr, the easiest way to turn your data into portals and internal tools.
CRITOART — Critoart is a cutting-edge marketplace that has taken the burgeoning world of crypto_currencies and the Web 3.0 ecosystem by storm. Focused on the ever-evolving realm of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), Critoart provides a seamless platform for creators and collectors alike to exhibit, sell, and purchase digital assets in a secure and decentralizedenvironment. With a commitment to fostering innovation and artistic expression, Critoart has quickly emerged as a go-to hub for the growing NFT community.

Leaf Investments is an early stage investor in learning technology businesses. Founded on the principle that emerging technologies present opportunities to create new learning solutions, they are looking to support entrepreneurs across the learning spectrum, both domestically and internationally.

Investment focus

Education, Software, E-Learning
Seed
United Kingdom, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Zzish — Zzish are EdTech's most passionate pioneers; on a mission to transform the use of apps in the classroom through a data driven technology platform that solves key pain points for developers and teachers. Their platform helps developers create, distribute and monetise and helps teachers discover, use and buy, curriculum mapped education appsthat have a real impact on student learning. At the heart of their platform are their real-time teacher dashboards, a "virtual teaching assistant" that gives teachers instant insight into student strengths and weaknesses using any app.More than 500,000 teachers (70% in the USA) from over 170 different countries have signed up to use Zzish already. With their first paying schools in the UK, US, Holland and Israel and Ministries of Education around the world starting to recommend their products, Zzish is now scaling up to become a global technology leader providing the key data and intelligence layer underpinning the new generation of education applications.Zzish has won numerous awards over the last few years. EdSurge ranked Quizalize as the "No.1 new app for schools" in 2015 and Zzish was selected as one of the "Future 30" at the Bett Show (Europe's leading EdTech trade show) and one of the "EdTech 20" at EdTechXEurope (Europe's leading EdTech investor summit). Moreover the Zzish Teacher Dashboards was the runner up for Teach Secondary's "Technology Innovation of the Year" and a finalist for selection in the Education Resource Awards.
BlikBook — BlikBook is an easy to use platform helping lecturers become more organised and manage contact with their students. The platform helps students find answers and get academic support from peers and their lecturers. It can be accessed directly from laptops, tablets and mobiles or through a Virtual Learning Environment.BlikBook lets you, andstudents easily add questions, answers, articles and updates for your class. It is easy to use, simple by design and works across all devices.BlikBook encourages students to help one another, meaning you are not answering all questions, a repository of answers is created, and duplicate questions are removed. We help improve the way discussion is organised and in the process help you manage your workload.BlikBook easily integrates into your existing Virtual Learning Environment or can be used as a stand alone website. This means no need for multiple logging in for yourself and for your students as well as access on any device.
Learning with experts — Learning with Experts offers online courses in gardening, cookery, floristry, art & design, photography, antiques, jewellery and wellbeing, taught by industry experts. Benefit from personalised feedback, collaborative online classrooms, and lifetime access to course materials. Start learning at your own pace.

BGF is the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, providing long-term, minority investment to growing companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
United Kingdom, Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Sulmara — Innovation for a sustainable energy future | Sulmara
Besseges — ValvesTubesFittings.com launched in 2015 as the online arm of Besseges VTF and has become one of the leading online pipeline suppliers.
Miracle Design & Play — Miracle Design & Play specializes in designing and installing playgrounds for children.

Ridge Road is different sort of investment firm. We focus on creating long-term value, with a capital base that is flexible and long-term.We buy good businesses, or businesses that we can help transform into good businesses – with a view to holding them indefinitely. We combine investment excellence with operational acumen to uncover, unlock andcreate value.We also make opportunistic investments in public markets, during periods of dislocation or when we uncover significantly mispriced inflection points in great businesses.We are not a middle-market private equity firm or a hedge fund focused on asset gathering. We are owner-operators with deep experience investing in private companies and public markets.

Investment focus

Finance, Education, Financial Services
Series A, Series B
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Future Finance — Future Finance is a non-government lender that offers student loans.Its mission is to provide loans for students that are simple, straightforward, and based on where they're heading, not where they've been. Future Finance helps students focus on what matters. Therefore, it aims to ensure everyone has the freedom to focus on theirstudies or kickstart their career whatever their financial background may be. It was founded in 2014 by Brian Norton and Vishal Garg and is headquartered in Dublin.

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 â‚¬30m under managementwith AIB and Enterprise Ireland both committing â‚¬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 â‚¬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 â‚¬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 â‚¬250,000.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Ireland, United States, Jersey

Portfolio highlights

NewsWhip — NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.
Offr — Offr is the new way to buy and sell property, quickly and transparently.
Metabolomic Diagnostics — Metabolomic Diagnostics is a deep-tech company specialized in the development of novel biomarker based diagnostic solutions for complex diseases. The company has developed an effective pipeline to firstly identify diagnostic biomarker panels and then translate these panels into clinical assays ready for application in the clinical laboratory.Thispipeline combines the biomarker multiplexing capabilities of Mass Spectrometry, a powerful analytical technology, with the company’s own informatics and statistics solutions to deliver diagnostic innovation. This is reflected in Metabolomic Diagnostics’ strong and versatile IP portfolio of technical innovations and biomarkers.Our VisionMetabolomic Diagnostics’ primary vision is to develop a portfolio of diagnostic solutions which can determine, early in a woman’s pregnancy,her risk of developing major complications much later in her pregnancy and thus enabling personalized care, adapted to each woman’s individual needs. Pregnancy complications like preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, preterm birth, and in-uterine growth restriction, all have the potential to severely impact on the well-being of mother and child.The company’s innovative diagnostic solutions will assist clinicians in re-imagining how these conditions are managed: our novel risk assessment tools are specifically developed in conjunction with prenatal care providers to ensure they make a difference that really matters. This in turn will enable clinicians to improve pregnancy outcomes globally.Our solutions will empower pregnant women: accurate pregnancy risk information will allow a pregnant woman, in partnership with her care provider, to determine what prenatal care is best for her pregnancy.

Intel is building on its unrivaled history of innovation to power the future of computing and communications. Intel's ambitions? A world that runs on Intel. Intel is doing this by helping its customers find the technologies and solutions that allow them to transform their businesses and gain market advantage.And it all starts with data.Intel is on a journey from a PC-centric company to a data-centric company. Intel's unmatched depth of experience and scope of vision allows it to dream big, to create a world where Intel powers the future of computing and communications—including powerful processors and accelerators that unlock the full potential of data. Intel continuously delivers advances in performance, power, and connectivity across a diversity of data-centric workloads, so its customers can harness the raw power of data.Intel's innovations span architecture, memory, software, and security to help develop transformative products and experiences for its customers. Collectively, Intel's 107,000 employees worldwide are enabling amazing experiences in 5G, artificial intelligence, driverless cars, and much more.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, China

Portfolio highlights

Aleph Alpha — Aleph Alpha develops AI systems for modern security challenges.
Hugging Face — Hugging Face is an open-source & platform provider of machine learning technologies. Hugging Face was launched in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.
Vanguard Semiconductor — Vanguard Semiconductor is a Developer of semiconductors designed to be used in electrical power devices.

Zanichelli Venture is looking for nascent companies who are tilling daring ideas about education and technology and searching for pre-seed or seed funding to grow these ideas into products to empower anyone – from children and parents to adult, professional lifelong learners and their mentors and coaches – to learn and teach better.We willsupport and finance ideas with the potential to have a positive impact on our future through education at every stage of our life. We will respectfully, discreetly stand by the entrepreneurs believing in these ideas, from the beginnings and at least since that impact leaves its first dent.We care about each startup in our portfolio getting the full value a hundred years old education company like Zanichelli can offer, wherever our expertise can be a lodestar because of our history, our mission, our network, our resources; and we believe in getting out of the founders’ way otherwise, if we don’t add value.We care about financial returns and self-sustainability and about bringing collaboration opportunities, insights, innovative thinking and entrepreneurial energy back to our company digital products designers, editorial staff and IT, searching for mutual advantages. Only in the long term, as we and the founders build trust through intense collaboration and shared stakes, and after a startup fully spreads out its potential as a maturing company, we believe in searching together for possible paths to a deeper partnership. We co-invest globally, following trusted, local lead investors.

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, EdTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Italy

Portfolio highlights

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.
Data Masters — I migliori corsi online di intelligenza artificiale, machine learning e data science. Formazione pratica, docenti esperti, lezioni on-demand e live. Entra ora!
Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences — Build the skills, competencies, and mindset needed in the 21st-century with our fully-remote and flexible bachelor's and master's degrees.

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.

VentureWave Capital is an actively managed private equity group that invests in and builds great companies.

Investment focus

Health Care, Education, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Ireland, Egypt, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

XOCEAN — Using unmanned surface vessels (USVs), XOCEAN offers turnkey data collection services to Surveyors, Companies and Agencies.
Funderbeam — Funderbeam is a funding and trading platform that connects companies and investors to buy and sell equity stakes. The platform allows the founders to gain exposure, legal support, a funding manager, or an investor network. It also allows the investors to take control of their investments and trade anytime they want.The company was founded in 2013as a global data platform for startup companies.
iSchool — iSchool is teaching kids from 6 to 18 years old coding and artificial intelligence using STEM-based curriculums.

Early stage VC investments and funding for start-ups / founders in Ireland.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Imvizar — Transform your buildings, office spaces, visitor attractions, and parks with an immersive and visual storytelling experience using augmented reality. Discover unique ways to tell your story at Imvizar.
ZeroMission — ZeroMission is an electromobility and lead innovator in software development, and power-energy infrastructure.ZeroMission offers fleet management software to businesses that own and operate fleets of commercial electric vehicles (EVs).
MarketSizer — MarketSizer offers subscription-based competitive intelligence and market insights for SaaS vendors who want to strategically grow their business.

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.

Investment focus

Semiconductor, E-Commerce, Electronics
Series B, Funding Round, Series D
United States, Ireland, Canada

Portfolio highlights

AltraTech — Next Generation Molecular Detection Discover Altratech Next Generation Molecular Detection Discover Altratech At Altratech, our mission is to enable next generation molecular detection.
BioSapien — BioSapien is a pre-clinical biotech company developing novel biodegradable implantable products that deliver active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for oncology indications with reduced systemic side effects. The applications for this technology are currently under investigation for pancreatic cancer and lung cancer. The intended pipeline ofindications is expected to expand into other cancers such as colorectal, breast, and stomach cancers. BioSapien's 3D-printed MediChip delivers FDA-approved toxic high-dose systemic therapies in a localized slow-release biodegradable mesh which is able to target tissues while improving patients' quality of care and life.
Core Starters — Core Starters services startups and investors through blockchain-based decentralized services to solve real problems.

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

Blackstone Group is a private equity firm that invests in private equity, real estate, public debt, equity, non-investment grade credit, real assets, and secondary funds.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Entrata — Entrata property management software connects all of your property data and processes, allowing you to create better experiences for everyone. Better property management software.
Rive Technology — Upgrade resid by using coke selective, metals tolerant, catalyst technologies including vanadium, nickel and iron metal traps. Effective catalyst design from Grace with the right ratio of mesoporosity and macroporosity and an effective matrix for bottoms cracking and coke selectivity allows for processing cost effective challenging heavy crudes.
LifeScience Logistics — LSL is the leading healthcare supply chain solution for government and commercial healthcare warehousing and distribution needs.

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

Investment focus

Medical Device, Health Care, Big Data
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

CroíValve — CroíValve is a developed a safe, effective, easy to use, percutaneous solution for treating all patients with severe Tricuspid Regurgitation
ProVerum Medical — The ProVee stent from Proverum Medical uses 3-D geometry which mirrors and engages with the anatomy of the prostate. The system alleviates Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) by opening the prostatic urethra, applying radial force to the prostatic lobes.
Tympany Medical — Tympany Medical is a Needs-driven, Innovative MedTech StartUp based in the West of Ireland

TLcom Capital, is an Africa focused tech VC, with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London. TLcom had been investing since 1999 in Tech, Media, Mobil and Internet companies across Europe, US and Africa, which is the exclusive focus of its most recent TLcom TIDE Africa funds. TLcom manages total commitments of approximately 300 million USD in thesesectors via a series of dedicated investment vehicles. Our investment strategy is to identify, back and assist world class entrepreneurs and management teams with disruptive technologies and business models, compelling intellectual property and deep market knowledge. We primarily target companies focused on Africa as a prime market, in the following investment themes: Access to Data Service; Financial Services; eCommerce; B2C applications (including but not limited to: health, education, energy, media and entertainment); and Software solutions to corporates and SMEs.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Information Technology
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hub2.Io — Welcome to HUB2, the leading FINTECH startup in interoperability and payment infrastructure in Francophone Africa. We are proud to work with all financial industry players in Africa who need stable and high-performing infrastructure, and contribute to their success.
Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
littlefishapp — Littlefish is a comprehensive commerce platform that empowers banks to serve small business with tools to streamline operations, drive growth, and enhance customer engagement.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, SaaS, Software
Angel, Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

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.
Kolay Randevu — Kolay Randevu is an online beauty booking marketplace and salon management software for salons.
EvdekiBakıcım — EvdekiBakıcım empowers young generation so they can reach their full potential. EvdekiBakıcım aims to lead innovation in care, tutoring and activity categories.

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.

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.

New Economy Startups Investor & Accelerator

Investment focus

Software, Music, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Belgium, France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Un:Hurd Music — Welcome to the one stop music marketing shop. We help you understand your audience before creating award winning release strategies.
ClimateCamp — Looking for a sustainable way to collaborate with your suppliers on emissions reduction projects? Look no further than our platform - Book a demo for free!
Base for music — Base for Music is the marketing solution specialized in fan acquisition, enabling you to achieve your growth goals and providing you with transparent da...

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.

Jordan Larmour

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.

CDP Venture Capital Sgr - National Innovation Fund aims to make venture capital a cornerstone of the country's economic development and innovation, creating the conditions for an overall and sustainable growth of the venture capital ecosystem.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cubbit — Cubbit is secure encrypted cloud storage with a difference. A distributed cloud that is 100% private and green. Join the Swarm.
Titan4 — Titan4 provides products and services based on research combining different satellite data and sources for applications. They also provide development and integration, InSAR data analysis and data mining, geological analysis, and deep learning analytic services.
Dog Heroes — Dog Heroes delivers home recipes of fresh food, perfectly portioned to every dog's need. Only high-quality local ingredients are used in tailor-made portions that are ready to serve. Customers will find 55% meat of exclusively Italian origin in the company's recipes, balanced with vegetables, vitamins, and mineral salts. Dog Heroes doesnot use any chemical additives or preservatives.

Egypt Ventures is an investment firm that empowers the entrepreneurial ecosystem by investing in accelerators. The firm was founded in 2017 and is based in Columbia.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Egypt, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Educatly — We help you get into the University of your dreams. We are the only platform with all the information you need to Study Abroad
InfiniLink — Empowering Hyperscale Datacenters Building Energy-Efficient Ultra-High-Speed Connectivity Solutions
Synapse Analytics — We build data science and AI solutions for streamlined operations and data driven decisions. Synapse Analytics, enabling a smarter world.

The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) aims to improve the European Union's economic, social, and territorial cohesion by resolving imbalances across its various regions. ERDF funds initiatives for which the European Commission and national and regional governments in member countries share responsibility. Each member state'sgovernment decides which initiatives to support and is responsible for their continued supervision.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Grant, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

Losanje — Losanje has a brand and an upcycling workshop that gives second-hand and unsold completed apparel and textiles a second life. Its goal is to create an innovative manufacturing chain that will allow for the first time the industrialization of upcycling, as well as to implement the most credible solution, both ecologically and economically.
PulmoBiomed — PulmoBioMed Ltd develops innovative breath-based sampling, enabling rapid, non-invasive detection of respiratory diseases for improved global healthcare.
Knock Technology — The world's simplest video chat app: Improves mental health and boosts innovation. It's a secure, cost effective and peer-to-peer telecoms solution for everyone.

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.

Seod Ventures is a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

EdTech, Internet, Education
Pre-Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Educatly — We help you get into the University of your dreams. We are the only platform with all the information you need to Study Abroad

KCK is a family investment fund that invests in a diverse set of industries, including medical technologies. KCK interests in Life Sciences - Biopharm/ Biotech & MedTech, Energy, Science-rich companies and Industrial Technologies. KCK invest at all stages of a startup's from early stage to growth rounds and also invest in publiccompanies. KCK is the private equity arm of a family office which seeks to partner with experienced management teams, focused on niche markets, deploying long-term flexible capital to generate high risk-adjusted returns.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Series C, Series D
United States, Ireland, India

Portfolio highlights

Wunder Mobility — Launch, manage & scale your vehicle sharing service. Get started with the industry-leading mobility solution.
Chain Reaction — Chain Reaction is engineering the future of disruptive blockchain and privacy technologies by accelerating compute and mining hardware performance.
Dubizzle Group — The Emerging Markets Property Group (EMPG) owns and operates bespoke property verticals in emerging markets, primarily in the Middle East and South Asia. The group’s flagship ventures are Bayut.com in the UAE, Zameen.com in Pakistan and Bproperty.com in Bangladesh.They disrupt traditional processes in emerging markets by introducing solutionsthat make property searching faster, easier, and simpler. Their competitive advantage comes from the tremendous value they add to the businesses that work with their portals, and the significant ease we provide to end users.At EMPG, they are not interested in maintaining the status quo. Their property verticals in emerging markets completely redefine the way the property business is done there, and they are especially tuned into the unique requirements of these markets because they are borne of one.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Scurri — Scurri is next generation delivery management software that puts retailers back in control. Explore our delivery management software today.
Momntum — Momntum is a fintech company that provides embedded point-of-sale consumer financing.
Advise — Advise Freemium is a ground-breaking automated data analytics for CPG solution. Discover how Advise can assist your Revenue Growth Management.

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.

Workday is the leader in SaaS-based enterprise solutions for human resources, payroll and financial management, providing new levels of business agility for a fraction of the cost of buying, deploying and maintaining legacy on-premise systems. More than 130 customers, spanning mid-sized organizations to global Fortune 500 businesses, haveselected Workday.Workday Human Capital Management and Workday Financial Management use modern, standards-based technologies to provide an unparalleled level of agility, ease-of-use, and integration capability.

Investment focus

Enterprise Software, Software, SaaS
Seed, Series D, Series F
United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Duo Security — Protect your workforce with powerful, user-focused security: two-factor authentication, endpoint security, remote access and zero-trust solutions and more.
Northstar — Trusted by top employers, Northstar financial wellness helps employees better utilize their employer benefits and make financial decisions based on their individual goals.
Technological University Dublin — Technological University Dublin is a Technological University.

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

OneRagtime is a venture capital platform that finances and scales early-stage startups. Join our investor community and discover unique opportunities.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Groover — Groover is the best way to promote your music to blogs, radios, record labels, & Spotify playlisters. Get listened to, receive coverage & guaranteed feedback!
Hive — Hive is a decentralized cloud platform based on the peer-to-peer exchange of the available capacities of users' computers.
PoliCloud — PoliCloud is a cost-effective, sustainable, and independent cloud solution designed for people that desire complete control over their data.

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.

Falak Startups is a start-up accelerator designed to support and empower the next generation of Egyptian entrepreneurs and contribute to the development of the start-up ecosystem in Egypt.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Mobile Apps
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Canada

Portfolio highlights

InCurA — Why InCurA ProductsWe Innovate Medical Devices for Today, Tomorrow and What's Needed NextInCurA is developing a pipeline of products based on its unique
Tafatifi — Tafatifi is an online music platform that provides information regarding music events in Egypt. It is also a music based social media.
Fincart — Fincart.io - Your trusted partner for seamless shipping & working capital access to grow your online brand.

Brian O'Driscoll

Investment focus

Software, Employment, Web Development
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.
Time Warden — 1time is a user friendly, feature packed time tracking software that helps businesses increase productivity & profitablity.
Zipp Mobility — Zipp Mobility is a dockless scooter sharing company. Zipp Mobility reduce congestion and greenhouse gas emissions by providing affordable micromobility alternatives that enhance the quality of life of communities.

The Local Enterprise Office is the First Stop Shop for anyone seeking information and support on starting or growing a business in Ireland.The Local Enterprise Office provides advice, information and support to you in starting up or growing your business.With 31 dedicated teams across the Local Authority network in Ireland, Local EnterpriseOffices offer you a wide range of experience, skills and services.The Local Enterprise Office is for people interested in starting up a new business or already in business including; entrepreneurs, early stage promoters, start-ups and small business looking to expand.

Investment focus

EdTech, Internet, Education
Pre-Seed, Grant
Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

GoPlugable — GoPlugable's innovative approach to EV charger sharing makes it easier for businesses & individuals to access and share charging infrastructure.
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.
Promotion Rewards — Promotion Rewards is a consumer rewards app.

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