Top 10 Education Angel Investors in Ireland in October 2024
A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Education startups based in Ireland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Education companies from Ireland. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Education Angel Investors in Ireland in October 2024
Investor | Education Ireland investments |
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Ciaran Lee | 1 |
Sean Tai | 1 |
Stephen Langan | 1 |
Shane Glynn | 1 |
Des Traynor | 1 |
Walter Walsh | 1 |
Stephane Gantchev | 1 |
Jesper Brok | 1 |
Brian Caulfield | 1 |
Mehmet Onarcan | 1 |
Ciaran Lee - Co-Founder @ Intercom
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Investment focus
- EdTech, Education, Secondary Education
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Solidroad — AI-powered training and assessment platform for customer facing teams. Empower reps with realistic simulations and feedback to perform their best.
- 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.
Sean Tai is the Exited fintech CEO founder, Board member & Investor at Debtdomain . Sean Tai attended University of Sydney.
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Investment focus
- Education, Cloud Management
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- TeachKloud — TeachKloud is the first platform that allows preschool providers to assess their compliance levels in their country.
Stephen Langan
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Investment focus
- EdTech, Secondary Education
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Grinds 360 — Grinds 360 operates as a hybrid learning platform. Grinds 360 uses a proven hybrid learning approach which elevates traditional classroom grinds using the latest cutting edge technology.
Shane Glynn
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Investment focus
- EdTech, Secondary Education
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Grinds 360 — Grinds 360 operates as a hybrid learning platform. Grinds 360 uses a proven hybrid learning approach which elevates traditional classroom grinds using the latest cutting edge technology.
Des is the Co-Founder of Intercom, the platform for all customer interaction needs from marketing to support to product development. Previously he worked as User Experience Lead at web app development agency Contrast, and he was a Co-Founder of popular social networking search engine Bigulo.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- ZeKju — ZeKju provides Messenger Communication for Supply Chains. Leading shippers and logistics service providers rely on ZeKju for efficient transport execution, yard communication and fleet management. With ZeKju, drivers use their favorite messenger (e.g. WhatsApp or Telegram) for everyday tasks while benefiting from features such as auto-translation.
- Siro — Siro is a sales coaching platform that specializes in sales managers. Siro assists sales managers in providing precise feedback to field sales staff on live client conversations while also saving time in reporting.
- 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.
Walter Walsh
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Investment focus
- Sports, Software
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Grinds 360 — Grinds 360 operates as a hybrid learning platform. Grinds 360 uses a proven hybrid learning approach which elevates traditional classroom grinds using the latest cutting edge technology.
- myClub — Unlock your businesses potential with MyClub360. Boost brand visibility, drive targeted traffic, and maximize ROI with our innovative advertising platform.
Stephane is partner at LAUNCHub Ventures, one of the leading Seed Stage funds in Central/Eastern Europe. LAUNCHub invests in the best entrepreneurs and startups in the digital space from the region, as well as founders originating from the region, but now based in the biggest startup hubs (Valley, London, etc. LAUNCHub Ventures has beeninvesting actively in Blockchain since 2014.Stephane is also Co-organizer of DigitalK, a leading European Digital/Tech/Startup conference, happening every year around end of May in Sofia, Bulgaria. Prior to joing the VC space Stephane's background includes 15 years in IT and Telecom with positions held at IT service providers, mobile operators (Orange), vendors, startups.
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Investment focus
- Software, EdTech, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Calliper — Data analytics platform for fast-growing startups. Connect all SaaS tools in minutes. Insights to build data-driven teams. Zero coding required.
- zick learn — zick learn makes learning simple, fast and efficient again. Create and deliver beautiful text message based courses reaching the learners on the main chat apps, where they already are.
- Orbiit — With Orbiit's AI-powered tool, you can effortlessly connect community members for 1:1 and small group conversations based on common interests and challenges.
Jesper Brok is the Founder of Tjommi and Legalfinder.com.
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Investment focus
- E-Learning, Recruiting, Communities
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Denmark, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Healper — An online matching platform where you get matched with the mental health tools and psychologist who fits your personality, demography, and personal factors, giving you the best chance for effective therapy. The platform includes an online survey, psychologist profiles, booking and payment systems, reminders, sessions, and feedback systems. Webelieve better mental health starts with having a therapist in whom you trust, have chemistry with, and have relevant expertise. Healper will make a better match between you and the therapist based on professional and personal factors through a safe and smooth user journey. We believe a better match means better therapy, empowering you to get more out of your life.
- Yard — The community for organisers rebuilding their local tech community
Brian Caulfield is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and angel investor. He is a General Partner at DFJ Esprit (http://www.dfjesprit.com/).Brian currently sits on the boards of Datahug, Movidius, MTT, Clavis Technology and the Irish Times, Ireland's leading daily newspaper. He is also a personal investor in a number ofearly stage technology companies including Cicero Networks, GridStore and Teamer.From 2002 to 2007 Brian was a partner at Trinity Venture Capital. At TVC Brian sat on the boards of or led investments in AePONA (sold to Intel - Nasdaq: INTC), ChangingWorlds (Amdocs - NYSE: DOX), CR2, SteelTrace (Compuware - NASDAQ: CPWR) and APT (CSR LSE:CSR.L). Previously, in 1992 Brian co-founded Exceptis Technologies. Exceptis provided dispute management software for the electronic/card payments sector and was sold to Trintech Group (NASDAQ: TTPA) in November 2000. In 2001 Brian co-founded Similarity Systems, a business focused data quality management software company that was acquired by Informatica (NASDAQ: INFA) in January 2006. Brian was also a founder director and shareholder of Prediction Dynamics, which failed in 2004.Brian is a Computer Engineering graduate of Trinity College Dublin. Brian was the 2007 recipient of the Irish Software Association's "Technology Person of the Year" award. In 2010 he also received the Halo Business Angel Network's Business Angel of the Year award.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Examfly — Examfly make online learning tools for professional tax exams. Our solutions are exam focused and use proven techniques from Ed Tech and Education Psychology.
- Inclusio — The inclusio diversity and inclusion platform is designed to measure and positively shift the culture of your organisation. Contact us for more information.
- Moby Bikes — Moby Bikes is an innovative start-up company focused on developing and bringing to market a range of electric mobility solutions for cities and individuals.
Mehmet Onarcan is the Founder of Mentors Network Turkey. He previously worked at Project House as an Advisory Board Member - Digital Transformation. Mehmet Onarcan attended Yildiz Technical University.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Internet, Social Network
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Missafir — Missafir is a PropTech start-up in Istanbul. We are the first short/mid term home rental management company in Turkey!We deliver for our customers through a combination of thoughtful interior design and attentive hotel-style services that deliver superior earnings from short/mid term rental management through our strength in data-drivendynamic pricing solutions.
- Doktorderki — Doktorderki is an online system that allows people to directly talk to doctors about their questions and problems regarding health. It aims to establish a scalable B2C growth model along with the investment it is taking and to do B2B work with pharmacists and mainly dermocosmetics companies.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered inIstanbul, Turkey.
- Local Guddy, Inc. — A marketplace connecting travelers and locals through unique guddy tours from locals all around the world. Taste local foods, drinks; see must see places, night life, views etc.
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