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Top 30 EdTech VC Funds in Ireland

Last updated: Nov 2023 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
Sure Valley Ventures	3
Kernel Capital	3
NDRC	2
AIB Seed Capital Fund	1
Seod Ventures	1
Business Growth Fund	1
Dublin Business Innovation Centre	1
Bossanova Investimentos	1
LeanSquare	1
Delta Partners	1
European regional development fund (ERDF)	1
Workday	1
LEAF Investments	1
Ridge Road Partners	1
Huawei Technologies	1
Infinity Capital	1
Irelandia Aviation	1
Blackstone Group	1
Investec	1
Atlantic Bridge University Fund	1
OneRagtime	1
Zanichelli Venture	1
Act Venture Capital	1
Intel	1
Davy EIIS Fund	1
KCK	1
Frontline Ventures	1
Venturewave Capital	1
BIC Angels	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
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CergenX — CergenX produces cutting-edge technology for the analysis of baby brain waves that can be used to identify brain injuries early in the newborn period.
Tailr — Redefining production for the clothing industry.
Smile Genius Limited — Smile Genius Dental is a cloud-native dental treatment management platform for dental care professionals and business owners interested in maximizing clinical efficiency and revenues. Smile Genius Dental's comprehensive features streamline patient intake, treatment planning and charting, access to global labs for faster patient turnaround andaffordable treatment through a one-time set up.With a suite of hybrid practice & treatment management features, dentists can focus on effectively treating their patients and growing their practice.Smile Genius Dental integrates multiple dental practice management features in a simple to use web interface securely accessible from the IOS and android apps: - Automated email and SMS reminders for billing and appointment setting means more revenue per chair -An easy to use HIPPA compliant patient intake portal -Intuitive charting with one-click translation to presentable treatment plans - Patient Imaging with continuous cloud backups - Employee timekeeping and efficiency reports - Multi-Practice support including cross practice patient lookup - Integrated patient communications in platform - Accessible via any internet connected device on the cloud (no more server buying, expensive upgrades, IT fees, just a computer, phone, or tablet with an internet connection) - You maintain full ownership of your data if you decide to leave - Industry-leading HIPPA compliance with tiered user permissions, and activity history -Single platform removing sourcing for multiple platforms and subscriptions, thereby reducing operating costs -Full patient journey data in one place for better treatment success and upselling opportunities

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 specialises in investing in Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), Financial Technology (FinTech), and the Internet ofThings (IoT) Sectors.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Jaid — Jaid is an AI-powered platform that extracts critical data from diverse company and customer communications.
Everyangle — Everyangle facilitates business in computer vision applications based on cisco meraki MV smart cameras across retail and industrial firms.
Virtex Stadium — Take over the stadium with your friends and view the game live in 3D. You have never been closer to the game before! Join Virtex Stadium now and never miss the live show!

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

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.

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

Hiiker — Find 1000s of the best backpacking and hiking adventures, with reviews, photos, and great places to stay.
Legitify — Legitify is an AI powered solution using audio-video authentication that allows customers to notarize documents online remotely from anywhere, without the hassle of visiting a notary public in person.
Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.

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 — 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 — https://metabolomicdiagnostics.com/ A deep-tech company specialized in the development of biomarker-based diagnostic solutions

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

BGF invests in hundreds of businesses from an evergreen balance sheet. But we offer more than just growth capital. Find out what makes us different.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Troy — Built on foundations of strong working relationships Troy is a vibrant and varied network of 212 distributors with 324 locations across the UK & Ireland.
Archus — The healthcare infrastructure specialist. Bringing people together to deliver positive change and shape the future of healthcare.
CHAIN Biotechnology — CHAIN Biotechnology is a microbiome therapeutics company with a novel drug development platform targeting chronic gut-related diseases. CHAIN is developing several therapeutic compounds targeted to the gut microbiome in the large intestine that can be delivered by our CADD technology.

Furthr provides long-term support to startups and SME businesses in Ireland. We support Irish entrepreneurs who excel in innovation and international trading.

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.

BossaNova is the number one Brazilian Micro Venture Capital. We are the most active investor in the pre-seed stage in Latin America with more than 1200 investments in over 1000 Startups. We also invest in global companies, directly or through co-investment syndicates on AngelList.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Tarvos — Tarvos is an automated insect monitoring platform with real-time insights from smart traps.
Ping. — SaaS
Doutor Ao Vivo — Doutor ao Vivo is a digital health platform for telemedicine. Doutor Ao Vivo is a health tech software company.

New Economy Startups Investor & Accelerator

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Zapfloor — Zapfloor is the number one workspace management software for coworking spaces, serviced offices and corporate workspaces in Europe.
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!
Streamforge — Streamforge is the technology-first, turnkey solution for all of your influencer marketing needs.

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

Kayna — Kayna is an insurance distribution company that collaborates with vertical SaaS platforms and utilises data to offer insurance services.
Tailr — Redefining production for the clothing industry.
Recruitroo — Recruitroo is a international recruitment agency that uses technologies to streamline and improve the international recruitment process for both companies and candidates.

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.
Crespect — Achieve harmony in legal practice
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.

Workday Enterprise Management Cloud gives organizations of all sizes the power to adapt through finance, HR, planning, spend management, and analytics applications. Move beyond ERP and deliver extraordinary results in a changing world. Learn more.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Enterprise Software
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.

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 — 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.

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Education
Funding Round, Angel, Series B
China, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Bagoai — Bagoai is an operator of smart shared coffee and tea rooms.
Bloomberg — Bloomberg is the leader in global business and financial information. They give influential decision makers the data, analytics, news and insight to give them a critical edge. Bloomberg connects influential decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. Their strength - quickly and accurately delivering data, news andanalytics through innovative technology - is at the core of everything they do. With over 15,500 employees in 192 locations, Bloomberg deliver business and financial information, news and insight around the world. Bloomberg was founded in 1982 and within 10 years had over 10,000 customers for the Bloomberg Professional service, a ground breaking private network with data, analytics and other financial information. In the same decade, Bloomberg launched Bloomberg News and opened offices around the world. Subscriptions to the Bloomberg Professional service skyrocketed in the next decade and the company launched Bloomberg Tradebook and Bloomberg.com. This past decade saw the development of technological advances in key products and services such as email and instant messaging that have made the Bloomberg Professional service the leading choice of more than 320,000 business and financial professionals globally.Today, Bloomberg is applying its extensive data, news and technology to offer new tools in the fields of government, law, energy and sports. The company's hallmark, innovation and a passion for getting things right, remains strong and is the inspiration behind Bloomberg's award-winning products and solutions.
Beijing Weilan New Energy Technology — Beijing Weilan New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. is a high-tech enterprise focusing on the development and production of next-generation all-solid-state batteries. One of the battery companies with patents and technologies for all solid-state battery cores. With the core concept of “Huijuwei Blue, Leading Solid State”, the company has a leadingdomestic and international leading technology and development team.

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.

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.

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

Financial Services, Software, Information Technology
Private Equity, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Stampli — Stampli's AI-powered Accounts Payable automation solution brings all AP-related communication, documentation, & workflows into one place.
EA Elektro-Automatik — EA Elektro-Automatik is Germany's leading manufacturer of laboratory power supplies, high-performance power supplies & electronic loads.
American Electric Power — American Electric Power is an investment firm that invests in companies that focuses on clean energy and electricity distribution. American Electric Power has a strong tradition of leadership, service, and contributions to the communities. Its mission is to bring comfort to our customers, supporting business and commerce, and building strongcommunities.

Welcome to Investec. Find out more about us, our businesses, sponsorships and career opportunities.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Energy
Funding Round, Debt Financing, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Adumo — We are your expert partner in payments, enabling you to seamlessly and securely accept payments in-store and online with our true omni-channel experience. Never miss a sale with South Africa's largest independent payments processor.
Hecate Energy — Hecate Energy is a developer of solar, wind, and energy storage projects.
Pulse Clean Energy — Pulse Clean Energy builds and operates power stations. We deliver power into the UK’s network when it is most needed.

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 — 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

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?

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Benefiz — Maximisez la valeur des avantages sociaux. Pour vos collaborateurs, vos finances et votre croissance.
Stokelp — Stokelp is the first overstock recovery marketplace dedicated to food manufacturers.
Pickme — Pickme do magic by turning neighbors into local and social pickup point, for a seamless, efficient and sustainable post-purchase experience

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 — Datamasters designs and develops Machine Learning solutions. They provide artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science skills. They acquire skills in machine learning, deep learning, and reinforcement learning
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.

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, Analytics
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Oblivious — Oblivious builds tools to allow you to use your sensitive data with internal and external partners while keeping it private and secure.
Spectrum Life — Spectrum.Life's comprehensive solution enables organisations to provide a workplace wellbeing programme that can have a substantially positive impact on their health and wellness, as well as on the culture and performance of the company.
Spotted Zebra — Spotted Zebra's skills cloud powers skills-based organisations. Our platform ensures skills are the centre of every decision made about people. Whether talent acquisition, talent development or internal mobility, Spotted Zebra focuses people on skills.

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.

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

Investment focus

Education, Transportation
Seed, Funding Round
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Bleeper — Bleeper provides public bike hire, long-term bike rentals, ebike & cargobike sales & servicing in Dublin. Our public hire bikes can be found across Dublin, while our city centre workshop offers a range of services including the sale of e-bikes and cargo bikes.
Salaso Health Solutions — Salaso provides software as a service that allows physiotherapists and other healthcare professionals deliver high quality exercise videos to patients through smartphone, tablet or personal computer along with an e-learning tool to engage patients with the content and ensure adherence to the home exercise program.
The Corporate Governance Institute — Diploma Certification for Board Directors. University accredited Courses for existing and aspiring Directors. Qualify as a Director.

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

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.

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

Portfolio highlights

Docbot Labs — Scattered and unfindable information is a productivity nightmare. dot puts an end to the chaos and helps you find, organise, and share resources with your team seamlessly.
Nolea Health — As a clinician with Nolea you can set your own schedule, work with as many healthcare companies as you want, hold all of your credentials in one single sharable wallet, access new educational resources, and receive community feedback.
ClimateAligned — ClimateAligned is a fintech company developing innovative artificial intelligence for climate investing. It is creating the world's first AI platform that integrates end-to-end sustainability.

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

Investment focus

Health Care, Apps, Education
Funding Round, Series A
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Xocean — Using unmanned surface vessels (USVs), XOCEAN offers turnkey data collection services to Surveyors, Companies and Agencies.
Medihive — Our software and clinical solutions remove friction from patient pathways across healthcare, insurance, medtech and many more industries. Book a call today!
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.

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.

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Artificial intelligence

Media (entertainment)