Top 50 Education Startup Investors in Ireland (October 2026)
For AI agents: Short investor table (Markdown), Detailed investor list (Markdown)
| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Enterprise Ireland
VC Fund
|
19 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $16k–$8.3M |
|
Sure Valley Ventures
VC Fund
|
3 | United Kingdom, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $889k–$57M |
|
Ciaran Lee
Angel
|
3 | Ireland, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | EdTech, Education, Sustainability | $808k–$2M |
|
Des Traynor
Angel
|
3 | United States, United Kingdom, Ireland | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $2M–$57M |
|
Huawei
VC Fund
|
3 | United States, China, United Kingdom | Angel, Series B | Software, Education, Electronics | $480k–$12M |
|
Kernel Capital
VC Fund
|
3 | Ireland, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $531k–$12M |
|
HBAN
VC Fund
|
3 | Ireland, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Health Care, Software, Medical Device | $375k–$7.3M |
|
CDP Venture Capital
VC Fund
|
2 | Italy, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $483k–$23M |
|
Venturewave Capital
VC Fund
|
2 | Ireland, Egypt, Hong Kong | Series A, Seed | Big Data, Health Care, Apps | $3.2M–$9.3M |
|
Angel Invest
VC Fund
|
2 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $530k–$21M |
|
Business Growth Fund
VC Fund
|
2 | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States | Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Series A | Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $3.4M–$22M |
|
Davy EIIS Fund
VC Fund
|
2 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Training, Education, E-Learning | $2M–$7.4M |
|
NDRC
VC Fund
|
2 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | |
|
Jesper Brok
Angel
|
1 | Denmark, Ireland | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Software, E-Learning, Recruiting | $400k–$425k |
|
BIC Angels
VC Fund
|
1 | Turkey, United States, Germany | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Internet, Apps, Education | $13k–$1.9M |
|
Stephane Gantchev
Angel
|
1 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, EdTech, Internet | $1.8M–$2.7M |
|
TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
|
1 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Software, Mobile, Information Technology | $1.9M–$20M |
|
Infinity Capital
VC Fund
|
1 | United States, Ireland, Canada | Series B, Series D, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Semiconductor | $4M–$50M |
|
Falak Startups
VC Fund
|
1 | Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Canada | Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | E-Commerce, Health Care, Mobile Apps | $6k–$2.4M |
|
Brian O'Driscoll
Angel
|
1 | Ireland | Seed | EdTech, Software, Employment | $592k–$3.5M |
|
Zanichelli Venture
VC Fund
|
1 | United States, Italy, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Education, E-Learning, EdTech | $695k–$10M |
|
Bossa Invest
VC Fund
|
1 | United States, Brazil, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Financial Services | $49k–$36M |
|
Delta Partners
VC Fund
|
1 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $812k–$6.6M |
|
Sean Tai
Angel
|
1 | Ireland, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Retail, Education, E-Commerce | |
|
Sean Cunningham
Angel
|
1 | Ireland | Seed | EdTech, Secondary Education | |
|
Stephen Langan
Angel
|
1 | Ireland | Seed | EdTech, Secondary Education | |
|
KCK
VC Fund
|
1 | United States, Ireland, India | Series C, Venture - Series Unknown, Series D | Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology | $15M–$100M |
|
Blackstone
VC Fund
|
1 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity, Debt Financing | Software, Financial Services, Information Technology | $50M–$5.3B |
|
Furthr
VC Fund
|
1 | Ireland, United States, Luxembourg | Series A, Seed | Software, Web Development, Mobile | $658k–$14M |
|
OneRagtime
VC Fund
|
1 | France, United States, Spain | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | $848k–$351M |
|
Workday
VC Fund
|
1 | United States, Ireland | Series D, Seed, Series F | Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS | $70M–$100M |
|
Seod Ventures
VC Fund
|
1 | Ireland | Pre-Seed | EdTech, Internet, Education | |
|
Jordan Larmour
Angel
|
1 | Ireland | Seed | EdTech, Secondary Education | |
|
Irelandia Aviation
VC Fund
|
1 | Ireland, Colombia, Spain | Seed, Series A | Travel, Aerospace, Hotel | $850k–$8.7M |
|
Brian Caulfield
Angel
|
1 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Mobile, Apps | $110k–$7.2M |
|
Mehmet Onarcan
Angel
|
1 | Turkey, Germany, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Social Media, Apps, Mobile | |
|
Peter Csillag
Angel
|
1 | Hungary, Ireland, United States | Pre-Seed, Angel | Apps, EdTech, Software | $138k–$505k |
|
B Heroes
VC Fund
|
1 | Italy, Spain, Germany | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $263k–$5.1M |
|
Walter Walsh
Angel
|
1 | Ireland | Seed | EdTech, Sports, Software | $1.1M–$3.5M |
|
Egypt Ventures
VC Fund
|
1 | Egypt, United States, The Netherlands | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $28k–$120M |
|
Shane Glynn
Angel
|
1 | Ireland | Seed | EdTech, Secondary Education | |
|
LEAF Investments
VC Fund
|
1 | United Kingdom, Ireland | Seed | Education, Software, E-Learning | $636k–$1.3M |
|
Unpopular Ventures
VC Fund
|
1 | United States, Mexico, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $500k–$30M |
|
Caelan Doris
Angel
|
1 | Ireland | Seed | EdTech, Secondary Education | |
|
Plus Venture Capital
VC Fund
|
1 | United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $550k–$5.6M |
|
Intel
VC Fund
|
1 | United States, United Kingdom, China | Series B, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $1.3M–$84M |
|
Act Venture Capital
VC Fund
|
1 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1M–$13M |
|
Ridge Road Partners
VC Fund
|
1 | Ireland | Series A, Series B | Finance, Education, Financial Services | |
|
European regional development fund (ERDF)
VC Fund
|
1 | United Kingdom, Germany, France | Grant, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $44k–$9.2M |
|
Frontline Ventures
VC Fund
|
1 | United States, United Kingdom, Ireland | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $405k–$17M |
| Access all 115 investors in Ireland Education startups. | |||||
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!Investor list
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant
- Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 890
- Round size: Seed $399k–$3.2M; Grant $16k–$5.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $560k–$8.3M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.2M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Foodcloud — We connect businesses that have surplus food with Charities and Community Groups that need it.
- Amethyst Care — Amethyst Care is a startup that creates an AI-powered voice assistant for those with mobility difficulties.
- Full Health Medical — Full Health Medical patient empowerment tools that improve prevention healthcare are part of the healthcare ecosystem. FHM provides reliable digital innovation, designed by healthcare professionals that are keen to help patients live a healthy life, in response to a national scarcity of healthcare providers, the development of chronic disease, anda lack of transparency at the patient level. People provide lifetime access to preventive care healthcare across screening, diagnostics, education, treatment, and a record of their journey driven technology provides lifetime access to preventative healthcare custom designed at every step screening, diagnostics, education, and action plans that motivate individuals to address risks before they develop health problems.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Round size: Seed $889k–$5.9M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$4.1M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$57M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $32M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Souk — Coco is an AI partnerships manager: she finds partners, activates them, and handles agreements, attribution and payouts.
- Xylo — Xylo offers higher quality processes with full officer oversight, reducing planning uncertainty and boosting UK housing delivery.
- BeCertain — BeCertain revolutionizes dental diagnostics with AI-powered tools for X-ray analysis, improving precision and reducing diagnostic errors.
Ciaran Lee - Co-Founder @ Intercom
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: EdTech, Education, Sustainability
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Pre-Seed $808k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Solidroad — Better customer support starts with better training. Realistic AI-powered simulations that make every agent, and every interaction, better.
- SimpleStudy — Learn smarter with revision notes, past papers, quizzes, and expert tools for major Irish academic exams. Join SimpleStudy Ireland and boost your grades today.
- Ulysses Ecosystem Engineering — autonomous systems Ecosystem Engineering by @jamedderburn
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $2M–$8.3M; Series A $6M–$20M; Series B $25M–$57M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cargofy — Cargofy it's a mobile assistant, kind of a "Siri" but for truck drivers. We help truckers access to high paying loads through our app, and receive discounts on fuel, maintenance, and truck parts.
- Slashwork — Slashwork is the next-generation tool for companies that value high quality communication, preserving knowledge, and getting the most out of your amazing team.
- Seapoint — Business accounts, treasury and expense automation - built to scale with you. Join our beta programme and get your unfair financial advantage.
Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Education, Electronics
- Stage:Angel, Series B
- Geography: United States, China, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Angel $480k–$1.5M; Series B $8M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- nyxbyte — Made with Softr, the easiest way to turn your data into internal tools and client portals. No coding required.
- 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.
- Kiri Innovation — KIRI Innovation develops affordable and innovative 3D scanners. Phiz 3D Scanner is a low cost, high precision laser 3D scanner that works with smartphones. Using today's phone camera and powerful CPU, a laser 3D scanner has never been so affordable and smart.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 96
- Round size: Seed $531k–$2M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $40M in 2013
Portfolio highlights
- Cirdan — Cirdan provides highly reliable, innovative LIS & imaging solutions for the acceleration & enhancement of diagnosis, optimized for pathology & clinical lab.
- preico — Preico Network empowers Web2 and Web3 developers to create, own, and monetize crypto-native AI models on a decentralized platform
- 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.
HBAN is dedicated to raising the profile of business angel investment as an asset class on the island of Ireland and to promote the creation of business angel syndicates.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Health Care, Software, Medical Device
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $623k–$3.6M; Venture - Series Unknown $375k–$7.3M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $11M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Movetru — Movetru a wearable device that aims to reduce injury and enhance rehabilitation.
- Glitch Ads — GlitchAds intends to democratize advertising by "leveraging" adverts and artificial intelligence.
- Change by Degrees — Change by degrees supports individuals and organizations in developing sustainable competencies and gaining self-assurance to achieve sustainability goals, expand their businesses, and adhere to legal requirements.
CDP Venture Capital Sgr - National Innovation Fund aims to make venture capital a cornerstone of the country's economic development and innovation, creating the conditions for an overall and sustainable growth of the venture capital ecosystem.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Italy, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 301
- Round size: Seed $483k–$8.1M; Series A $3.3M–$23M; Venture - Series Unknown $652k–$16M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $212M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Evja — Evja supports growers in optimizing the management and monitoring of irrigation, nutrition and protection of their crops through the use of OPI, the most advanced system for precision agriculture .
- Aptadir Therapeutics — Reprogramming DNA methylation in disease conditions by RNA therapeutics APTADIR Contact us NEWS Press Release Reprogramming DNA methylation by RNA therapeutics A novel therapeutic approach for untreatable cancers and rare diseases Aberrant methylation by DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) of certain genes may cause abnormal cell development and lead to disease. Current therapies targeted to inhibit
- Tretau — E-mobility is powered by its core - the electric motor. We at Tau are at the very core of the core: the copper winding wire, the magnetic core, the electrical steel.We just make it bet.
VentureWave Capital is an actively managed private equity group that invests in and builds great companies.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Big Data, Health Care, Apps
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Ireland, Egypt, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $3.2M–$4.5M; Series A $7.3M–$9.3M
- Lead/follow: 93% lead, 7% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $76M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- AIREV — AIREV platform allows users to build their own AI applications.
- XOCEAN — Using unmanned surface vessels (USVs), XOCEAN offers turnkey data collection services to Surveyors, Companies and Agencies.
- viAct — viAct optimises construction safety, productivity and environmental compliance. Ensuring higher ESG preposition with AI. Offering services for construction industry of Asia & Europe & operational in China, Singapore, Japan, Australia, Vietnam, Indonesia and Hong Kong.
Angel Invest is one of Europe's most active angel funds
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 168
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$6.8M; Pre-Seed $530k–$3.2M; Series A $5M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Modeinspect — acreom is the integrated markdown knowledge base with tasks. Your personal daily driver for your dev workflow.
- Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
- Aisel Health — Aisel Health provides AI that imitates psychiatrists for psychiatric clinics and hospitals to ensure efficient patient access to care.
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!BGF is the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, providing long-term, minority investment to growing companies.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 605
- Round size: Series A $4.1M–$21M; Private Equity $6.4M–$22M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.4M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 86% lead, 14% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $97M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Citrus-Lime — Support notifications from the CitrusLime team. Please note that we don't see tweets sent to this account
- Boost Juice Bars UK — Boost Juice Bars UK offer a range of smoothies and freshly squeezed juice products.
- Thames Card Technology —
Davy EIIS Fund is managed by BES Management DAC, a joint venture between BDO and Davy.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Training, Education, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $2M–$7.4M
- Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sons — Show male hair loss who's boss. Clinically-proven and affordable hair loss treatment plans delivered discreetly to your door. Take our consultation today at Sons.
- Ride Today — Ride Today is a firm committed on making micromobility solutions available to everyone, fostering a sustainable future. They are pioneers in MobiTech, developing products and services that use new technologies to improve and innovate the mobility landscape.
- Climeaction — Experts and Engineers who cut costs, increase profitability and reduce carbon for Global Manufacturers.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 110
- Lead/follow: no public data
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
Jesper Brok is the Founder of Tjommi and Legalfinder.com.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, E-Learning, Recruiting
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Denmark, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Pre-Seed $400k–$425k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Internet, Apps, Education
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $13k–$1.9M; Angel $100k–$250k
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CEOtudent — Founded in May 2015, CEOtudent.com is a content-based website that focuses on providing a rich vision and lifestyle to university and young professionals with content focused on success.On our internet site, we offer numerous contents from personal development to marketing, from career to events, from entrepreneurship to current news.AtCEOtudent.com, we share every piece of information we think that we can provide benefits and inspiration, and we are constantly trying to learn something new.
- Fithletic — Fithletic is an application designed to enhance the way individuals engage with sports and fitness. The platform offers a streamlined and user-friendly experience, allowing users to explore, evaluate, and select gyms or physical activities that best align with their preferences and schedules.
- Evde Mimar — Evde Mimar is focused home painting. The company has biggest web site traffic in this industy in Turkey. Evde Mimar provide home service for become beautiful home.
Stephane Gantchev based out of Sofia, Sofia City and is the Partner of LAUNCHub. Stephane previously worked at Imbrica as a VP Business Development. Stephane Gantchev attended the Technical University.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, EdTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$2.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
TLCOM finds and funds exceptional founders building technology companies across Africa. Seed to Series C. Lagos, Nairobi, London.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Mobile, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.5M; Series A $3.8M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
- Myka.Insure — Myka is a insurance sales platform that enables individuals to sell insurance policies to their family, friends, colleagues, and community while earning income . It operates as a micro-entrepreneurship program where anyone (students, gadget sellers, car dealers, parents, retirees) can start their own insurance business with zero investment,flexible hours, and free training . The company is licensed by the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria and provides instant payouts to its partners .
- LittleFish — Full stack enterprise platform that extends your infrastructure, instead of replacing it.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Semiconductor
- Stage:Series B, Series D, Series A
- Geography: United States, Ireland, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Series A $5.4M–$24M; Series B $9M–$50M; Series D $4M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.4M in 2015
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.
Falak Startups is a start-up accelerator designed to support and empower the next generation of Egyptian entrepreneurs and contribute to the development of the start-up ecosystem in Egypt.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 75
- Round size: Seed $31k–$2.4M; Pre-Seed $6k–$360k
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- InCurA — Why InCurA ProductsWe Innovate Medical Devices for Today, Tomorrow and What's Needed NextInCurA is developing a pipeline of products based on its unique
- Tafatifi — Tafatifi is an online music platform that provides information regarding music events in Egypt. It is also a music based social media.
- Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
Brian O'Driscoll
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: EdTech, Software, Employment
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $592k–$3.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Grinds 360 — Unlimited Leaving Cert Grinds in all your subjects with our team of expert teachers. Follow for daily Leaving Cert Advice and Tutorials
- Time Warden — 1time is a web-based time and expense tracking application that allows you to keep track of real time project costs.1time will reduce non billable time in your company. Each employee gets their own login and reminders so you don't have to micro manage recording timesheets. It is ideally suited to project based service companies or anycompany with a requirement to record employee time.
- Zipp Mobility — Zipp Mobility is a dockless scooter sharing company. Zipp Mobility reduce congestion and greenhouse gas emissions by providing affordable micromobility alternatives that enhance the quality of life of communities.
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Education, E-Learning, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Italy, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $695k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $704k–$2.7M; Series A $3.3M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Gyver — Recruiting platform for skilled blue collars
- Gamindo — Create interactive training experiences in minutes with AI and gamification. Increase engagement, completion rates and learning outcomes.
- Ubimaster — Ubimaster delivers customized employee benefits and additional product services that support parents and students. They demonstrably improve the acquisition and retention of customers and employees.
Aprenda a Investir em Startups
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Brazil, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2094
- Round size: Seed $166k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $49k–$2M; Venture - Series Unknown $632k–$36M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- FFID — FFID develops AI chatbot platform automating customer communication, lead generation, and marketing workflows.
- Sandwiche — Sandwiche creates customizable link in bio pages enabling social media monetization and affiliate marketing management.
- Ambar Technologies — Ambar is a construction tech company that is focused on addressing the Affordable Housing Challenge. Ambar is a leading construction technology company in Latin America. Tech Company focused on addressing the Affordable Housing Challenge. Ambar integrates the Housing Journey into 4 steps, Design, Supply, Assembly, and Living.
Early stage VC investments and funding for start-ups / founders in Ireland.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 116
- Round size: Seed $812k–$3M; Series A $1.6M–$6.6M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $76M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- CleverCards — The Platform for Contactless Cards. The CleverGift real-time payment platform offers gift cards, expenses, employee incentives, and travel foreign exchange.
- Bloomberg PolarLake — Streamline the acquisition, management and distribution of instrument, pricing, index, legal and ratings data from multiple delivery channels.
- WhatClinic.com — WhatClinic.com helps patients find, compare and book the right clinics for them, in more than 135 countries. They provide detailed listings for over 120,000 clinics on their site. These include doctors, dentists, beauty and cosmetic surgery, physiotherapy, fertility, holistics and a lot more. They believe that every patient is an empoweredconsumer.
Sean Tai is the Exited fintech CEO founder, Board member & Investor at Debtdomain . Sean Tai attended University of Sydney.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Retail, Education, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OnBuy — OnBuy is an online marketplace that offers multi-category products. Its marketplace offers competitive fees for its sellers and helps to list all the products in its portal that enable users to purchase products without hassle. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Poole, Dorset.
- TeachKloud — TeachKloud is the first platform that allows preschool providers to assess their compliance levels in their country.
Sean Cunningham
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: EdTech, Secondary Education
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Grinds 360 — Unlimited Leaving Cert Grinds in all your subjects with our team of expert teachers. Follow for daily Leaving Cert Advice and Tutorials
Stephen Langan
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: EdTech, Secondary Education
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Grinds 360 — Unlimited Leaving Cert Grinds in all your subjects with our team of expert teachers. Follow for daily Leaving Cert Advice and Tutorials
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series C, Venture - Series Unknown, Series D
- Geography: United States, Ireland, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Series C $50M–$100M; Series D $31M–$100M; Venture - Series Unknown $15M–$74M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wunder Mobility — Launch, manage & scale your vehicle sharing service. Get started with the industry-leading mobility solution.
- Chain Reaction — Chain Reaction is engineering the future of disruptive blockchain and privacy technologies by accelerating compute and mining hardware performance.
- Dubizzle Group — The Emerging Markets Property Group (EMPG) owns and operates bespoke property verticals in emerging markets, primarily in the Middle East and South Asia. The group’s flagship ventures are Bayut.com in the UAE, Zameen.com in Pakistan and Bproperty.com in Bangladesh.They disrupt traditional processes in emerging markets by introducing solutionsthat make property searching faster, easier, and simpler. Their competitive advantage comes from the tremendous value they add to the businesses that work with their portals, and the significant ease we provide to end users.At EMPG, they are not interested in maintaining the status quo. Their property verticals in emerging markets completely redefine the way the property business is done there, and they are especially tuned into the unique requirements of these markets because they are borne of one.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity, Debt Financing
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 311
- Round size: Debt Financing $134M–$5.3B; Private Equity $50M–$1.5B; Post-IPO Equity $69M–$1.5B
- Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $13B in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Dexus — Explore your future space with Dexus across office, industrial, retail and health
- Nuziveedu Seeds — Nuziveedu Seeds is an agricultural production and biotechnology company.
- Mtar Technologies — We are a leading national player in precision engineering industry engaged in the manufacture of mission critical precision components with close tolerances (5-10 microns),and in critical
Delivering game changing impacts for start-up founders since 1988
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Web Development, Mobile
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Ireland, United States, Luxembourg
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $658k–$1M; Series A $6.3M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $70M in 2007
Portfolio highlights
- NewsWhip — NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.
- CroíValve — CroíValve is a developed a safe, effective, easy to use, percutaneous solution for treating all patients with severe Tricuspid Regurgitation
- VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.
OneRagtime is a venture capital platform that finances and scales early-stage startups. Join our investor community and discover unique opportunities.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: France, United States, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $848k–$7.7M; Series A $3.5M–$14M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$351M
- Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Elefantia — Elefantia is a digital platform that assists users in writing and preserving their personal life stories through AI-supported interviews and storytelling. It enables users to record their memories by answering personalized questions via phone or online, which are then transformed into an authentic, engaging narrative. The service offers variouspackages, including options to create e-books, printed books, and personalized biographer-guided storytelling sessions. It also provides support for seniors or digitally less experienced users through personal assistants called "Elefantos." Elefantia focuses on capturing and safeguarding memories to create meaningful legacies across generations. The company operates out of Saint-Malo, France, and uses AI to simplify and enrich the memoir writing process.
- PoliCloud — PoliCloud is a cost-effective, sustainable, and independent cloud solution designed for people that desire complete control over their data.
- Antimatter — Antimatter builds AI infrastructure designed for real-world limits: energy, geography, and deployment time. Faster to deploy and lower cost than hyperscale models.
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!Experience a new way to work with Sana and agentic AI from Workday.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
- Stage:Series D, Seed, Series F
- Geography: United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Series D $70M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
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.
Seod Ventures is a venture capital firm.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: EdTech, Internet, Education
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Educatly — Educatly is a Life Direction Intelligence Platform helping people discover their passions, explore careers, and design the learning paths that shape their future.
Jordan Larmour
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: EdTech, Secondary Education
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Grinds 360 — Unlimited Leaving Cert Grinds in all your subjects with our team of expert teachers. Follow for daily Leaving Cert Advice and Tutorials
Irelandia Aviation initiate, develop and deliver successful low cost carriers (LCCs) in partnership with airline management and investors.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Travel, Aerospace, Hotel
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, Colombia, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Series A $850k–$8.7M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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.
- Alma Air — Alma Air provides passenger air travel services, connecting destinations in Colombia and the Caribbean.
- Skyports — Skyports Infrastructure develops and operates vertiports and heliports around the world.
Brian Caulfield is based out of Dublin, Dublin and is the Venture Partner at Molten Ventures and also serves as the Chairman at Barespace. Brian previously worked at Graphcore as Board Oberver. Brian Caulfield attended Trinity College Dublin. Brian has received the Irish Software Association's "Technology Person of the Year" award.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Mobile, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $110k–$7.2M; Angel $1.1M–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Coroflo — The world's first accurate breastfeeding monitor
- Cicero Networks — Reviews of ten online casinos with their bonus terms, wagering requirements, payment methods, withdrawal timelines and US state licensing explained in plain English.
- Clavis Insight — Grow faster, smarter, and more efficiently with Flywheel's suite of digital commerce solutions, purpose-built for the world's leading brands.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Social Media, Apps, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, Germany, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Letz — Letz is a mobile app that lets you find available people for all activities to hang out with.
- Missafir — Missafir creates value both for homeowners and short/mid term house rental guests. Missafir’s comprehensive services including profile management on more than 15 platforms, dynamic pricing and tech-enabled operational support services enable homeowners to rent their homes through a fast, reliable, high-profit and stress-free model. On theother side, 24/7 service support, concierge and cleaning services, provide 5-star hotel quality experience to the guests.
- Influanza — Influanza is an influencer marketing platform for startups. Influanza is a marketplace that connects video creators with marketers who want to sponsor their content.
Peter is the founder of Starchema.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Apps, EdTech, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Hungary, Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Angel $142k–$250k; Pre-Seed $138k–$505k
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Medalyst — Elevate team performance with Medalyst! The ultimate sports management app for streamlined player stats, match schedules, and real-time analytics. Try now!
- Voovo — Empower your learning today! Instantly generate flashcards from anatomy diagrams, textbooks, and notes using AI, text recognition algorithms and Voovo's unique features.
- MEROVA Health — Our vision is to create a global diabetes care system that enables the provision of accurance for high -risk patients.
B Heroes is a VC firm investing in Italian Founders around the globe at the pre-seed and seed stages with a sector-agnostic approach. We leverage a community of 30+ successful founders and platform initiatives to source, screen and support founders
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Italy, Spain, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $263k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $384k–$5.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cato AI — Search, analyze and bid on Italian public tenders with AI, automating the manual work for bid offices and sales teams.
- Soource — Soource is a B2B Saas product that uses AI applications to help purchasing managers to discover the best market solutions through extensive global research and automated email negotiations with thousands of suppliers worldwide.
- Qura — Qura ti aiuta a prevenire oggi quello che potresti curare domani. Check-up completo, medico dedicato e protocollo personalizzato.
Walter Walsh
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: EdTech, Sports, Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$3.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Grinds 360 — Unlimited Leaving Cert Grinds in all your subjects with our team of expert teachers. Follow for daily Leaving Cert Advice and Tutorials
- myClub — myClub is a Dublin-based sports club management app that offers sporting clubs and organisations with free software.
Egypt Ventures is an investment firm that empowers the entrepreneurial ecosystem by investing in accelerators. The firm was founded in 2017 and is based in Columbia.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Egypt, United States, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $100k–$3M; Pre-Seed $28k–$2M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.2M–$120M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Flend — Egypt’s first tech enabled, data driven financing solutions platform dedicated to small businesses.
- D OCC Hub — Smart Incident Management Solutions
- InfiniLink — Empowering Hyperscale Datacenters Building Energy-Efficient Ultra-High-Speed Connectivity Solutions
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!Shane Glynn
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: EdTech, Secondary Education
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Grinds 360 — Unlimited Leaving Cert Grinds in all your subjects with our team of expert teachers. Follow for daily Leaving Cert Advice and Tutorials
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Education, Software, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $636k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zzish — Zzish are EdTech's most passionate pioneers; on a mission to transform the use of apps in the classroom through a data driven technology platform that solves key pain points for developers and teachers. Their platform helps developers create, distribute and monetise and helps teachers discover, use and buy, curriculum mapped education appsthat have a real impact on student learning. At the heart of their platform are their real-time teacher dashboards, a "virtual teaching assistant" that gives teachers instant insight into student strengths and weaknesses using any app.More than 500,000 teachers (70% in the USA) from over 170 different countries have signed up to use Zzish already. With their first paying schools in the UK, US, Holland and Israel and Ministries of Education around the world starting to recommend their products, Zzish is now scaling up to become a global technology leader providing the key data and intelligence layer underpinning the new generation of education applications.Zzish has won numerous awards over the last few years. EdSurge ranked Quizalize as the "No.1 new app for schools" in 2015 and Zzish was selected as one of the "Future 30" at the Bett Show (Europe's leading EdTech trade show) and one of the "EdTech 20" at EdTechXEurope (Europe's leading EdTech investor summit). Moreover the Zzish Teacher Dashboards was the runner up for Teach Secondary's "Technology Innovation of the Year" and a finalist for selection in the Education Resource Awards.
- BlikBook — BlikBook is an easy to use platform helping lecturers become more organised and manage contact with their students. The platform helps students find answers and get academic support from peers and their lecturers. It can be accessed directly from laptops, tablets and mobiles or through a Virtual Learning Environment.BlikBook lets you, andstudents easily add questions, answers, articles and updates for your class. It is easy to use, simple by design and works across all devices.BlikBook encourages students to help one another, meaning you are not answering all questions, a repository of answers is created, and duplicate questions are removed. We help improve the way discussion is organised and in the process help you manage your workload.BlikBook easily integrates into your existing Virtual Learning Environment or can be used as a stand alone website. This means no need for multiple logging in for yourself and for your students as well as access on any device.
- Learning with experts — Learning with Experts empowers organisations to deliver custom learning at scale while helping individuals learn from industry experts through online courses in gardening, cookery, wellbeing, photography, floristry and more, with personalised feedback and collaborative learning experiences.
The best companies, off the beaten path.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Mexico, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 439
- Round size: Seed $500k–$8M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.3M; Series A $8.5M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DRUO — DRUO provides online payment gateway for businesses.
- Sourcepulse — Sourcepulse is the internal status page for software delivery, alerting teams before costly delays. We collect anonymous feedback from project members to identify exactly what to fix, just like how Sentry captures system details for production errors.
- NORDA Dynamics — NORDA Dynamics is an autonomous UAV piloting system for carrying out missions in areas with limited connectivity.
Caelan Doris
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: EdTech, Secondary Education
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Grinds 360 — Unlimited Leaving Cert Grinds in all your subjects with our team of expert teachers. Follow for daily Leaving Cert Advice and Tutorials
At Plus VC, we leverage over a decade of experience and 200+ transactions to empower MENA startups for sustainable growth. We offer fair...
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $550k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
Portfolio highlights
- estaie — With increasing global mobility, extended stays are rapidly emerging as one of the fastest-growing segments in hospitality and real estate. estaie is building the first global OTA uniquely focused on extended stays ranging from 15 - 365 nights.Incubated at in5 Dubai, estaie bridges the gap between travellers seeking short-term accommodation andlonger-term commitments by offering negotiated rates, on average, 32% lower than the market. Using an AI-driven dynamic pricing model and machine learning (ML) to personalise choices, estaie provides a seamless booking solution tailored to digital nomads, expats, and corporate travellers. By partnering with hotels, serviced apartments, and short-term rentals, estaie helps optimise inventory and revenue.Disruptive and scalable, estaie is positioned to resolve key challenges of inconsistent pricing and inventory inefficiencies, making it a game-changer for both guests and property partners withthe potential to transform the extended stay market.
- Lola Do — Lola, Cake for every occasion, Customized your cake selections and Lola will bake it with love!
- Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 92
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$10M; Series B $5.6M–$84M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fab 34 JV — Fab 34 is a key semiconductor manufacturing facility in Leixlip, Ireland, central to Intel’s foundry and AI chip strategy.
- Ayar Labs — Ayar Labs develops a monolithic in-package optical I/O (MIPO) solution for applications that require high bandwidth, low latency, and power-efficient short-reach interconnects.The company disrupts the traditional performance, cost, and efficiency curves of the semiconductor and computing industries by driving improvement in interconnectbandwidth density at lower power. Its patented approach uses industry-standard cost-effective silicon processing techniques to develop high speed, high density, low power optical-based interconnect “chiplets” and lasers to replace traditional electrical-based I/O. Ayar’s flagship product is a chip called TeraPhy that implements its optical technology on compact silicon die. The chip can be integrated directly into a central processing unit, graphics card, or another processor to give it optical data transmission capabilities.The Emeryville, California-headquartered company was established in 2015 by Alex Wright-Gladstein, Vladimir Stojanovic, Chen Sun, and Mark Wade.
- Higgsfield — The ultimate AI-powered camera control for creators by creators
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 165
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $2.3M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $146M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Ubotica — AI-powered maritime surveillance and intelligence that predicts risk, tasks satellites and delivers verified insights to protect critical infrastructure and detect dark vessels.
- Entity — Entity's purpose is shape the future of web gaming by leveraging emerging technologies and maximizing the browser's capabilities. Our next-generation gaming hub, scheduled to arrive in 2027, will be a global place for players to discover, connect, and play together.
- Fresco — Fresco powers connected cooking experiences for appliance brands, enabling faster launches, lower R&D costs, and continuous innovation.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Finance, Education, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1M in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- Future Finance — Manage your email subscription preferences for Future Finance newsletter and updates from Decentralized Masters. Unsubscribe or customize anytime.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Grant, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Grant $44k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $44k–$1.2M; Venture - Series Unknown $261k–$9.2M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Losanje — Losanje has a brand and an upcycling workshop that gives second-hand and unsold completed apparel and textiles a second life. Its goal is to create an innovative manufacturing chain that will allow for the first time the industrialization of upcycling, as well as to implement the most credible solution, both ecologically and economically.
- PulmoBiomed — PulmoBioMed Ltd develops innovative breath-based sampling, enabling rapid, non-invasive detection of respiratory diseases for improved global healthcare.
- noc™ — 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.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 210
- Round size: Seed $796k–$5.7M; Pre-Seed $405k–$2.6M; Series A $3.7M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $82M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
- Stanhope AI — Stanhope AI is a deep-tech startup based in London with a strong background in neuroscience, robotics and fintech. We are bringing Active Inference to market as a novel framework for autonomous decision-making. To contend with the challenges of contemporary AIs, our distinct approach aims to offer
- HelmGuard AI — HelmGuard develops an AI-driven trust infrastructure platform for security, compliance, and third-party risk management. The company provides an operational risk infrastructure layer that centralizes fragmented security, compliance, and vendor data into a structured repository. Its platform coordinates autonomous, domain-specific AI agents thatperform continuous data indexing, compliance mapping, automated vendor assessments, and real-time security tracking. HelmGuard includes a risk operating system, a zero-knowledge verification engine for selective disclosure and cryptographic-style proofs, and persona-specific risk intelligence reporting. These capabilities support first-party, third-party, and customer-facing workflows across sectors such as financial services, SaaS, and healthcare. The platform is used by security, risk, and compliance teams to maintain continuous oversight of internal controls, vendor posture, and regulatory obligations while generating tailored, natural-language reports for business stakeholders.
Education Investor funding in Ireland at a glance
Stats across 137 deals from 115 investors.
Access all 115 investors in Ireland Education startups.
Open ListFAQ
Is Shizune data fresh/accurate?
Shizune has monitored hundreds of funding sources since 2020.
Our investor database is updated every day, so investor data is always fresh.
All metrics are calculated from confirmed public rounds, so the data is accurate.
Can I download investor list?
To download the Education Investors in Ireland investor list, create a Shizune account. This investor list will be added to your saved investors and available for download in the export section.
You can also enrich the investor list with investor emails, phones, LinkedIns, and other contact data.
Can I access investor database?
To access all 115 investors investing in Ireland Education startups and 48,091+ more investors, create a Shizune account.
Shizune has a database of 48,091 investors. Our investor database is fresh and updated daily.
The Shizune investor database has information on investor investment focus, investor contact data, and full investor portfolio since 2020.
You can enrich with email and download the data.
Does Shizune have investor emails and contacts?
Shizune enriches investors with contact data that includes: email, phones, LinkedIn, socials, website, and others.
To guarantee the highest discovery rate, we search across 20+ contact search tools.
To maximize delivery rate and reduce bounce rate, we validate emails.
You can enrich your investor list with Shizune. Download it too.
What is Shizune?
Shizune is a 48,091 investor database updated daily.
With Shizune you can:
- browse the database
- use smart matching
- enrich with emails
- download
All you need to find investors for your startup.
Who is Shizune for?
Shizune is built for startup founders by startup founders.
If you are looking for funding for your startup, try the Shizune database — we have investors for every stage, industry, and country.
Is Shizune free?
Shizune is free forever. You can search and browse investors for free.
Email search and export are paid features.
For full info, visit our pricing.
Who built Shizune?
Shizune is built by founders with the goal of helping all founders raise funding no matter where they are.
Contact 100 investors today
Find who invests in your industry, stage, and country. Download investor list with emails in 5 minutes.
Find investors — It's Free!