Top 25 EdTech VC Funds in Ireland
A list of 25 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 25 EdTech VC Funds in Ireland
Investor | EdTech Ireland investments |
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Enterprise Ireland | 9 |
Kernel Capital | 3 |
Sure Valley Ventures | 3 |
NDRC | 2 |
Venturewave Capital | 1 |
Huawei Technologies | 1 |
Infinity Capital | 1 |
Ridge Road Partners | 1 |
Act Venture Capital | 1 |
Blackstone Group | 1 |
KCK | 1 |
Delta Partners | 1 |
Business Growth Fund | 1 |
Investec | 1 |
Atlantic Bridge University Fund | 1 |
Seod Ventures | 1 |
Irelandia Aviation | 1 |
Frontline Ventures | 1 |
LEAF Investments | 1 |
OneRagtime | 1 |
Davy EIIS Fund | 1 |
AIB Seed Capital Fund | 1 |
Bossanova Investimentos | 1 |
Zanichelli Venture | 1 |
Intel | 1 |
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, IT
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Imvizar — Imvizar focuses on life-size, location-based experiences that allow users to feel as if they've gone back in time, meeting renowned individuals and witnessing historical events all from the comfort of their own phone. Imvizar was founded by Michael Guerin and is located in Dublin, Ireland.
- Teleatherapy — Teleatherapy delivers speech therapy from home for parkinson's disease.
- Proveye — We are pioneering the potential of digital imagery for more predictable and profitable decision-making for agriculture and the environment.
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, Hardware, Science/Engineering
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Ireland, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Pilot Photonics — Pilot Photonics develops and licenses comb source laser technology. The technology has been implemented as a Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) and the company offers prototypes, reference designs, technology licenses, and product for a variety of module and subsystem implementations.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Hardware, IT
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Ireland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Jaid — Jaid is an artificial intelligence-powered platform that identifies and extracts critical data from various 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!
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, IT, Data and Analytics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.
- 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.
VentureWave Capital is an actively managed private equity group that invests in and builds great companies.
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Investment focus
- Transportation, Apps, Gaming
- Funding Round, Series A
- Ireland
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- Medihive — Our software and clinical solutions remove friction from patient pathways across healthcare, insurance, medtech and many more industries. Book a call today!
- Xocean — Using unmanned surface vessels (USVs), XOCEAN offers turnkey data collection services to Surveyors, Companies and Agencies.
- Webdoctor — Webdoctor.ie is an online repeat prescription service delivering affordable prescriptions discreetly to your door.Co-founded by Dr Sylvester Mooney, Webdoctor.ie is built on over 25 years of medical experience in Irish healthcare. It is Dr Mooney and his team's mission to provide each and every patient with the highest quality of medicalcare. Webdoctor.ie's team of doctors live and work in Ireland and are all registered with Irish Medical Council.
Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices.
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Investment focus
- Hardware, Software, IT
- Funding Round, Series B, Angel
- 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.
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Investment focus
- Hardware, Software, Science/Engineering
- 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.
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
- Education, Financial, Lending and Investments
- 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.
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, Hardware, Science/Engineering
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
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- Everyangle — Everyangle facilitates business in computer vision applications based on cisco meraki MV smart cameras across retail and industrial firms.
- 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.
- ID-Pal — ID-Pal is the easiest way to verify identities in real-time simply, securely and conveniently. Simple to use, easy to integrate, instantly customisable to the specific needs of any business, eliminating the complexity, cost, timelines and risk associated with regulatory compliance.
Blackstone invests for the long term because building successful, resilient businesses can lead to better returns, stronger communities and economic growth.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial, IT
- Private Equity, Series B, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, India
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- Wiz — Organizations of all sizes and industries use Wiz to rapidly identify and remove the most critical risks in AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes so they can build faster and more securely.
- Resolution Life — Resolution Life offers life insurance products and services that focus on the acquisition and management of portfolios. Prior Resolution vehicles have acquired the proud history of 160 life insurers.Since 2003, various Resolution entities have committed over US$15 billion of equity in the acquisition, reinsurance, consolidation, and management of28 life insurance companies.
- Dealpath — Manage acquisitions, dispositions, development, and financing across teams with a single deal management platform, providing real-time visibility.
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, Science/Engineering, Biotechnology
- Funding Round, Series C, Series D
- United States, Ireland, India
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- Chain Reaction — Chain Reaction is engineering the future of disruptive blockchain and privacy technologies. We accelerate compute performance, enabling companies to adopt and scale solutions to the world’s most complex problems. Partnering with cloud and data centers, we transform compute infrastructure with custom ASICs and systems that optimize for energyefficient, high-performance compute. Our 3PU™ (Privacy Preserving Processing Unit) dramatically accelerates real-time operations of Privacy Enhancing Technologies on encrypted data, transforming the cloud into a trusted environment, enabling verticals that rely on confidential big data to use the cloud (including financial institutions, healthcare & big pharma, defense & government, and oil & gas). Purpose-built and custom-designed, our solutions power the next generation of secure, scalable, green computing to help protect people, privacy, and the planet.
- 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.
Early stage VC investments and funding for start-ups / founders in Ireland.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, IT
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
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- Eppione — Eppione was created to help employers and employees substantially leverage technology in the day to day management of HR, Employee Benefits and Business Insurance.The founders of the company account for 100+ years of experience and innovation in these areas.Eppione Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority in the UnitedKingdom.
- Promotion Rewards — Promotion Rewards is a consumer rewards app.
- NoFrixion — We take the complexity of payments & banking networks and deliver them as a simple service with just one API, one technology partner.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, IT, Science/Engineering
- Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
- United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
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- Maxion Therapeutics — Maxion Therapeutics helps in learning transformative therapies. It uses this technology to deliver long-acting, safe, and effective medications against previously inaccessible targets.
- Tribepad — Recruitment Software Specialists. Products include Applicant Tracking System (ATS), Onboarding, Video Interviewing and Contractor Management
- Blue-i Event Technology — Blue-i Event Technology specialising in the supply of Audio Visual Services to the events industry.
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Investment focus
- Software, Hardware, Financial
- Funding Round, Series A, Debt Financing
- 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.
- Omnisient | Collaborative Consumer Intelligence — Omnisient is a privacy-preserving data collaboration platform that allows businesses to collaborate on data insights on consumer behaviour and preferences without sharing consumers' identities or contact information.
- CRDB Bank — CRDB Bank is a platform that specializes in offering a complete range of financial services and products to its diverse clientele.
We invest in entrepreneurs with the ambition to create world-class companies of scale.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Science/Engineering
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Ireland, United States
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- 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
Seod Ventures is a venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
- Software, Education, Internet
- 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
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/Tourism, Hardware, Science/Engineering
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Ireland, Spain, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Skyports — Connecting the world through our skies by owning and operating infrastructure for urban aviation and managing end to end drone deliveries.
- 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.
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, IT, Data and Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
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- 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.
- Solvo.ai — Solvo.ai provides a human-influenced automated decision-making platform that can help logistics firms.
- Koyo — Personal loan rates with fair repayments. Koyo Loans is a leading loan supplier, offering competitive personal loan rates with zero hidden fees.
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
- Software, Education, Apps
- Seed
- United Kingdom
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.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, IT, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Pickme — Pickme do magic by turning neighbors into local and social pickup point, for a seamless, efficient and sustainable post-purchase experience
- Benefiz — Maximisez la valeur des avantages sociaux. Pour vos collaborateurs, vos finances et votre croissance.
- Captain Cause — Captain Cause provides financial solutions and offer pre-financed donations to your customers, partners and employees.
Davy EIIS Fund is managed by BES Management DAC, a joint venture between BDO and Davy.
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Investment focus
- Education
- Seed
- Ireland
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- The Corporate Governance Institute — Diploma Certification for Board Directors. University accredited Courses for existing and aspiring Directors. Qualify as a Director.
- Bleeper — Bleeper is a transport solution that uses smartphone and GPS technology to enable people to hire a Bleeper bike from anywhere. Bleeper launched Ireland’s first dockless bike sharing system in 2017.
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, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Ireland, United States, Jersey
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- 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.
- NewsWhip — The only real-time media monitoring platform that predicts the stories and topics that will matter in the hours ahead.
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.
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- Software, IT, Financial
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
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- Kiddle Pass — Kiddle Pass integrates children into cultural, physical, educational, and leisure activities to provide a universe of possibilities, where they can improve skills, discover talents and identify new passions.
- Talent Academy — Talent Academy is a culture development platform that specializes in digital solutions for people management.
- Transfeera — Transfeera is a platform that generates savings with each transfer between banks and also allows its customers to reduce errors and operational efforts that generate even more expenses.Designed in March 2016, Transfeera was created with the purpose of reducing the costs of TEDs and DOCs to its users. It is founded by 3 ex-employees of ContaAzul:Guilherme Verdasca, Rafael Negherbon, and Fernando Nunes.
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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- Software, Education, Science/Engineering
- Seed
- Finland
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- 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.
- EvidenceB — EvidenceB is develops educational resources which combine didactics, cognitive sciences and AI.
- Kide Science — Kide Science supports young children's scientific thinking through play-based learning, which predicts better learning outcomes in school.
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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- Software, Hardware, Internet
- Funding Round, Series B, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, China
Portfolio highlights
- Vanguard Semiconductor — Vanguard Semiconductor is a Developer of semiconductors designed to be used in electrical power devices.
- ZVISION — Zvision provides automotive-grade solid-state LiDAR solution for autonomous driving applications. The company's first-generation laser radar products use MEMS technology, and plan to achieve scale-up in the L3-class autonomous driving and unmanned logistics fields in the next five years, and layout the next generation optical-based phasedarray (OPA) through its integrated chip research and development capabilities. The technical laser radar is aimed at the L4/L5 level autopilot market after 5-10 years.
- Truyo — Truyo offers customers true consent and data privacy rights management automation.
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