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Top 30 EdTech VC Funds in Ireland

A list of 30 VC 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 30 EdTech VC Funds in Ireland

Investor EdTech Ireland investments
Enterprise Ireland 8
Kernel Capital 3
Sure Valley Ventures 3
Davy EIIS Fund 2
NDRC 2
KCK 1
Irelandia Aviation 1
Huawei Technologies 1
Act Venture Capital 1
Local Enterprise Office 1
OneRagtime 1
Bossanova Investimentos 1
Venturewave Capital 1
Furthr 1
BIC Angels 1
Blackstone Group 1
European regional development fund (ERDF) 1
Delta Partners 1
Atlantic Bridge University Fund 1
Intel 1
Workday 1
Ridge Road Partners 1
Zanichelli Venture 1
Investec 1
LeanSquare 1
LEAF Investments 1
Frontline Ventures 1
Business Growth Fund 1
Infinity Capital 1
AIB Seed Capital Fund 1
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Enterprise Ireland VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 19 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Giyst — Giyst's revolutionary summarization engine seamlessly connects with video platforms, generating automated video summaries. Giyst also generates data to improve search results and make useful content recommendations.
  • Assiduous — The AI-enabled platform to do the heavy-lifting for business owners seeking finance for their aspiring growth company.
  • Tao Climate — Carbon removal services. We use hemp, sustainable housing, and nextgen MRV to deliver fast, measurable impacts on climate and society.
Kernel Capital VC Fund · Cork, Cork, Ireland
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Ireland, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Causeway Sensors — The Affinity, is a compact, bench-top Biosensor providing accurate real-time analysis at an accessible price. The Affinity biosensor and accompanying Access Chip incorporate the latest advancements in Nanotechnology, providing the biochemistry researcher the perfect platform to explore the complex world of biomolecular interactions.
Sure Valley Ventures VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Ireland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Ittybit — Ittybit is a API that enables users to handle rich media in applications. It provides developers with basic techniques for uploading, storing, transforming, and extracting data from video, music, and image files.
  • inspeq ai — Empower your Gen AI projects with Inspeq AI. Our platform enables financial institutions to responsibly deploy and manage generative AI applications.
  • Vortex IQ — Vortex IQ employs proprietary AI algorithms to detect and analyze data for merchants. It removes the guesswork from data analysis by delivering actionable recommendations and safely implementing it on a staging site, allowing businesses to test before going live.
Davy EIIS Fund VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Davy EIIS Fund is managed by BES Management DAC, a joint venture between BDO and Davy.
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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.
  • Climeaction — Your Source for Sustainable Solutions. Join us on a transformative journey towards a cleaner planet. Let's build a better, sustainable world.
  • Digital Learning Institute — Become a certified digital learning professional with globally recognized, industry-approved instructional design courses at Digital Learning Institute.
NDRC VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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
KCK VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
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.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
  • Funding Round, Series C, Series D
  • United States, Ireland, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Aerin Medical — Aerin Medical offers VivAer for nasal airway obstruction treatment and RhinAer for chronic runny nose treatment. Lasting relief when other solutions fall short.
  • RefleXion Medical — RefleXion is developing the first biology-guided radiotherapy system, a significant change in strategy from single tumor therapy to the ability to one day treat multiple tumors in the same treatment session in cancers that have metastasized. Currently, the RefleXion X1 machine is cleared for the delivery of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT),stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT). The company is also developing BgRT, which incorporates positron-emission tomography (PET) imaging data to enable tumors to continuously signal their location. The BgRT technology will synchronize these data with the linear accelerator to direct radiotherapy to tumors with subsecond latency.
  • Chain Reaction — Chain Reaction is engineering the future of disruptive blockchain and privacy technologies by accelerating compute and mining hardware performance.
Irelandia Aviation VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Irelandia Aviation initiate, develop and deliver successful low cost carriers (LCCs) in partnership with airline management and investors.
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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.
Huawei Technologies VC Fund · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices.
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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 — Rev Up Your Sales & Marketing with our 100% Human Verified Custom Databases. Drive Results with Hyper-Targeted, Precision Marketing and Accelerate Your Business Growth.
  • 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.
Act Venture Capital VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • GridBeyond — Endeco's Energy ManagementSystem (EMS) provides wirelessenergy management and controlsystems for retail, commercial andindustrial users. Applications includebuilding control, refrigeration control,demand management, priceresponse, energy efficiency, anddemand response. Our automatedwireless systems seamlesslyintegrate intoyour existingoperations and/or BuildingManagement System (BMS) withoutany training of retail staff required.
  • CitySwift — CitySwift is a data-driven scheduling and planning technology for urban bus networks. It uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to predict journey times and passenger demand, making routes more efficient. Schedulers can create optimized timetables that take into account traffic, events, and hundreds of other external factors, ensuringon-time performance and increased passenger satisfaction.CitySwift was established in 2016 and is operating in Galway, Ireland.
  • Mavarick AI — Explore Mavarick AI's Carbon Accounting Software Platform. Get accurate carbon emissions accounting data and generate auditable reports with ease.
Local Enterprise Office VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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.
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Investment focus
  • EdTech, Internet, Education
  • Pre-Seed, Grant
  • Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • SimpleStudy — SimpleStudy is an exam prep platform for Junior Cycle & Leaving Cert students. With exam papers, revision notes, quizzes, questions by topic and essays, SimpleStudy is the study platform for Students in Ireland.
  • Promotion Rewards — Promotion Rewards is a consumer rewards app.
OneRagtime VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in the past 12 months
We are a venture capital platform that sources, finances and scales early-stage European start-ups. Our fully digitised investment process offers our exclusive community the freedom and flexibility to choose how they invest, on a deal-by-deal basis or via our funds. Are you looking to be funded? Are you looking to invest in exclusive start-ups?
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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.
  • MoSo — Zoom in on identity, zoom out on potential.
Bossanova Investimentos VC Fund · São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil · 7 investments in the past 12 months
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Brazil, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • SenseUp — SenseUp provides IoT, big data, machine learning, and computer vision for the real-time needs of the financial market. It improves the way organizations interact with data by using microintegrations to orchestrate different data sources, consumers, and data flows in support of processes and decision-making.
  • HubLocal — HubLocal is a platform that attracts more customers to companies, making them automatically found on all Internet maps.
  • Hiperbanco — O Hiperbanco é uma Fintech que oferece diversos serviços financeiros, com destaque para o produto “Banco Digital Whitelabel”. Seu público-alvo abrange empresas de diversos setores, que buscam soluções financeiras flexíveis e personalizadas com sua marca, como Conta, PIX, TED, Boleto, Recargas, Cartão, Emprestimos, dentre outros. Os principaisdiferenciais do Hiperbanco incluem sua abordagem centralizada no cliente, desenhando juntos um produto financeiro único e atuando com tecnologias de ponta.
Venturewave Capital VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in the past 12 months
VentureWave Capital is an actively managed private equity group that invests in and builds great companies.
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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.
Furthr VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Furthr provides long-term support to startups and SME businesses in Ireland. We support Irish entrepreneurs who excel in innovation and international trading.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Web Development, Analytics
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Ireland, United States, Luxembourg
Portfolio highlights
  • NewsWhip — The only real-time media monitoring platform that predicts the stories and topics that will matter in the hours ahead.
  • 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.
BIC Angels VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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.
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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.
Blackstone Group VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 15 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Software, Information Technology
  • Private Equity, Series B, Series C
  • United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Idrx — IDRx is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming cancer care with intelligently designed precision combination therapies.
  • Symphony — Symphony must be playing a crucial role in accelerating Australia's transition to renewable energy.
  • Oruka Therapeutics — Oruka Therapeutics is advancing innovative biologics to redefine patient care standards in chronic skin diseases.
European regional development fund (ERDF) VC Fund · Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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 has developed a best-in-class exhaled breath condensate device, capable of capturing Covid-19 particles in as little as 5 seconds. Pulmobiomed a biotechnology company is working with industry leaders in integrating their diagnostic capabilities into our PBM-Hale device. Pulmobiomed techn
  • 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.
Delta Partners VC Fund · Leopardstown, Dublin, Ireland · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Early stage VC investments and funding for start-ups / founders in Ireland.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • inspeq ai — Empower your Gen AI projects with Inspeq AI. Our platform enables financial institutions to responsibly deploy and manage generative AI applications.
  • ZeroMission — ZeroMission is a technology focused provider of integrated data for intelligent fleet electrification planning, operations and reporting.
  • MarketSizer — MarketSizer offers subscription-based competitive intelligence and market insights for SaaS vendors who want to strategically grow their business.
Atlantic Bridge University Fund VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
We invest in entrepreneurs with the ambition to create world-class companies of scale.
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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 — ProVerum Medical is an early stage medical device startup for the treatment of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH).
  • Tympany Medical — Tympany Medical is a Needs-driven, Innovative MedTech StartUp based in the West of Ireland
Intel VC Fund · Santa Clara, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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.
Workday VC Fund · Pleasanton, California, United States
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.
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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.
Ridge Road Partners VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
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.
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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.
Zanichelli Venture VC Fund · Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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.
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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.
Investec VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, Energy
  • Funding Round, Debt Financing, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • Voltera — Voltera’s customers are companies that have a pressing need to power EVs at scale. They are challenged by the fact that charging infrastructure does not exist in the right place, at the right time, or of the right type necessary to support planned EV deployments. They're also challenged by the complexity of siting, building, owning, andoperating EV charging infrastructure without disrupting operations or investing significant time and upfront capital.
  • Recurrent Energy — As a leading provider of distributed solar power, Recurrent Energy is overcoming the barriers to widespread solar adoption, making renewable energy a practical choice for today's large scale energy users. They are a developer and owner of locally-sited solar power systems, selling clean electricity to their customers worldwide at competitiverates via a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) or Feed-in Tariffs (FiT). In return, their utility, commercial, and government customers achieve energy independence, predictable pricing, and enhanced sustainability.
  • Onyx Renewable Partners — Onyx guides your every step toward a cleaner future. Established in 2014, Onyx offers clean energy, solar, and decarbonization solutions throughout the United States.
LeanSquare VC Fund · Liège, Liege, Belgium · 2 investments in the past 12 months
New Economy Startups Investor & Accelerator
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Investment focus
  • Software, Music, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Belgium, France, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Raw Stadia — Raw Stadia is a sports technology company that specializes in surface player interactions.
  • CityLegends — A home for urban sports & culture partners of CityLegends. Making the lines.
  • Streamforge — Streamforge helps companies find the most relevant creators for their games and products using the most sophisticated platform and technology on the market.
LEAF Investments VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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.
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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 — Learningwithexperts.com provides a structured virtual learning environment delivering vocational and hobby courses to passionate professionals and amateurs in subjects such as gardening and photography.
Frontline Ventures VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 6 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
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  • StrongDM — Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy.
  • DUDE CHEM — DUDE CHEM is a leading company in green chemical manufacturing based in Berlin.
  • JustParent — Parental leave insurance for businesses
Business Growth Fund VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 25 investments in the past 12 months
BGF is the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, providing long-term, minority investment to growing companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
  • United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
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  • NanoSyrinx — NanoSyrinx is an award-winning, discovery stage biotechnology company based in the UK. We are using synthetic biology approaches to develop protein nanosyringes as a completely novel modality for intracellular delivery of protein and peptide biologic drugs.
  • Twenty7Tec — We partner with businesses of all size who share our ambition to simplify, streamline and digitise financial services.
  • Puraffinity — Puraffinity develops targeted materials for water treatment, focused on forever chemicals called PFAS. Our strategic intent is to provide 1 billion people with PFAS safe water by 2030
Infinity Capital VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States
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.
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  • Semiconductor, E-Commerce, Electronics
  • Series B, Funding Round, Series D
  • United States, Ireland, Canada
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  • 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.
AIB Seed Capital Fund VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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 €30m under managementwith AIB and Enterprise Ireland both committing €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 €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 €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 €250,000.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Medical
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Ireland, United States, Jersey
Portfolio highlights
  • NewsWhip — The only real-time media monitoring platform that predicts the stories and topics that will matter in the hours ahead.
  • 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.
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