Top 50 Education Startup Investors in Ireland (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Enterprise Ireland
VC Fund
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13 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $494k–$12M |
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HBAN
VC Fund
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3 | Ireland, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Software, Medical Device | $625k–$8.8M |
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Sure Valley Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $823k–$6.2M |
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Des Traynor
Angel
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Ireland | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Internet | $2M–$57M |
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NDRC
VC Fund
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2 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | |
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Kernel Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Ireland, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $531k–$9M |
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Ciaran Lee
Angel
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2 | Ireland, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | EdTech, Education, Sustainability | $823k–$2M |
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Davy EIIS Fund
VC Fund
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2 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed | Education, Health Care, SaaS | $2M–$7.5M |
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Investec
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, South Africa | Debt Financing, Series A | Software, Financial Services, Energy | $1.1M–$335M |
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Huawei
VC Fund
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1 | United States, China, United Kingdom | Angel, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Mobile | $425k–$12M |
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Stephane Gantchev
Angel
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1 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, EdTech, Internet | $1.8M–$2.7M |
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Walter Walsh
Angel
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1 | Ireland | Seed | Sports, Software | $1.1M–$3.5M |
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LeanSquare
VC Fund
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1 | Belgium, France, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Music, Information Technology | $200k–$12M |
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Ridge Road Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Ireland | Series A, Series B | Finance, Education, Financial Services | |
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Plus Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $550k–$5.6M |
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Delta Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $795k–$6.6M |
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Frontline Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Ireland, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $110k–$16M |
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Brian O'Driscoll
Angel
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1 | Ireland | Seed | Software, Employment, Web Development | $549k–$3.5M |
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Blackstone Group
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity, Series B | Software, Financial Services, Information Technology | $15M–$1.5B |
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Furthr
VC Fund
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1 | Ireland, United States, Luxembourg | Series A, Seed | Software, Web Development, Mobile | $658k–$14M |
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Local Enterprise Office
VC Fund
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1 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Grant, Pre-Seed | SaaS, EdTech, Internet | $7k–$55k |
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Jesper Brok
Angel
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1 | Denmark, Ireland | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | E-Learning, Recruiting, Communities | $58k–$400k |
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Irelandia Aviation
VC Fund
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1 | Ireland, Colombia, Spain | Seed, Series A | Travel, Aerospace, Hotel | $851k–$8.7M |
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CDP Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $494k–$17M |
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Zanichelli Venture
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Italy, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Education, E-Learning, EdTech | $713k–$10M |
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Sean Tai
Angel
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1 | Ireland, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Retail, Education, E-Commerce | |
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Bossa Invest
VC Fund
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1 | Brazil, United States, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Financial Services | $50k–$5M |
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Sean Cunningham
Angel
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1 | Ireland | Seed | EdTech, Secondary Education | |
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Stephen Langan
Angel
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1 | Ireland | Seed | EdTech, Secondary Education | |
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Business Growth Fund
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States | Series A, Private Equity | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | |
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Infinity Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Ireland, Canada | Series B, Series D | Semiconductor, E-Commerce, Electronics | |
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Workday
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Ireland | Seed, Series D, Series F | SaaS, Software, Enterprise Software | |
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Seod Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Ireland | Pre-Seed | EdTech, Internet, Education | |
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Intel
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, China | Series B, Series C | Software, Internet, Information Technology | |
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Jordan Larmour
Angel
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1 | Ireland | Seed | EdTech, Secondary Education | |
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Software, Mobile, Information Technology | $1.9M–$13M |
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Mehmet Onarcan
Angel
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1 | Turkey, Ireland, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Apps, Internet, Social Media | |
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European regional development fund (ERDF)
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, Germany, France | Grant, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology | $27k–$2.2M |
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Unpopular Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $500k–$69M |
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LEAF Investments
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, Ireland | Seed | Education, Software, E-Learning | $589k–$1.3M |
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Caelan Doris
Angel
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1 | Ireland | Seed | EdTech, Secondary Education | |
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Peter Csillag
Angel
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1 | Hungary, Ireland, United States | Pre-Seed, Angel | Apps, EdTech, Software | $120k–$250k |
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AIB Seed Capital Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Ireland, United States, Jersey | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Medical | $549k–$8.1M |
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BIC Angels
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey, United States, Ireland | Angel, Seed | Internet, SaaS, Software | $20k–$250k |
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OneRagtime
VC Fund
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1 | France, United States, Spain | Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps | $878k–$14M |
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KCK
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Ireland, India | Series C, Series D | Health Care, Medical Device, Medical | $31M–$100M |
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Falak Startups
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Canada | Pre-Seed, Seed | E-Commerce, Health Care, Mobile Apps | $6k–$1.2M |
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Shane Glynn
Angel
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1 | Ireland | Seed | EdTech, Secondary Education | |
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Brian Caulfield
Angel
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1 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Mobile, Apps | $110k–$6.8M |
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Atlantic Bridge University Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Ireland, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Medical Device, Health Care, Big Data | $823k–$80M |
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Enterprise Ireland is the government agency responsible for the development and funding of the indigenous business sector. Their mission is to accelerate the development of companies to achieve strong positions in global markets resulting in increased national and regional prosperity. It was founded in 1998 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 506
- Round size: Seed $494k–$3.3M; Series A $2.2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Tirlan — Tirlan is an agricultural company that supplies agri-food and farm input materials to the framing sector.
- Pulsate — Pulsate enables direct communication with customers based on their location, context, interests and behaviours. Pulsate allows you to design and push rich media content directly to customers devices. Deepen the relationship by establishing a customer dialogue. Allow users to reply to your campaigns, provide feedback and keep complaints outside ofsocial media. Maximize foot traffic by targeting street level or competitor locations. Combine with segmentation for optimal results. iBeacons:tm: enable you to understand indoor customer location and context with incredible accuracy. Easily manage deployment and configuration of iBeacons:tm: with the Pulsate cloud platform. Gain a deeper understanding of your mobile customers and a comprehensive view of each mobile campaign.
- Lakeland Dairies — Lakeland Dairies, a major dairy processing co-operative, operates within a fifteen county catchment area across the northern half of the island of Ireland. The Group processes about one billion litres of quality milk annually into a range of value added dairy foodservice products and functional dairy food ingredients.
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.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Medical Device
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $625k–$3.5M; Series A $1.2M–$8.8M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Glitch Ads — Launch AI Powered Google Ad Campaigns in Minutes. Think of us like an agency in a box. Built for speed. Priced for scaling companies. Powered by AI.
- SeeMeHired — SeeMeHired is a cloud-based platform to automate much of the recruitment process, including engaging, selecting, and hiring job candidates.
- Mountain Technologies — Mountain Technologies is an innovative Northern Ireland-based startup that transforms mountain resort operational management.
Sure Valley Ventures is an entrepreneur-led Venture Capital Fund that invests in early-stage software companies. Working in partnership with Shard Capital, a specialist broker and asset manager based in the City of London, Sure Valley Ventures specializes in investing in Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), Financial Technology(FinTech), and the Internet of Things (IoT) Sectors.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $823k–$5.9M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$6.2M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $35M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Ambisense — Since 2014 Ambisense has been driving innovation within the environmental space. Their technology platform optimizes the delivery of environmental risk assessment on some of the world’s largest infrastructure projects across industrial, O&G and waste verticals. Ambilytics encompasses both IoT and ML solutions, combining information fromremotely deployed field devices with contextual data sources such as weather, satellite, geophysical and operational data to build machine learning models. These models identify the relationships, patterns, and drivers hidden within the data and allow our customers to forecast and predict the behaviour of targeted environmental pollutants.
- Vortex IQ — Vortex IQ employs proprietary AI algorithms to detect and analyze data for merchants. It removes the guesswork from data analysis by delivering actionable recommendations and safely implementing it on a staging site, allowing businesses to test before going live.
- CameraMatics — Digitize fleet management to optimize performance. Onboard sensors, smart cameras, & apps to mitigate risk, manage safety & achieve sustainability goals.
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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 44
- Round size: Seed $2M–$8.3M; Series A $6.7M–$20M; Series B $25M–$57M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Anything — Anything is your AI agent for turning ideas into apps. Build sites, apps, tools, products and more just by describing what you want
- Seapoint — Business accounts, treasury and expense automation - built to scale with you. Join our beta programme and get your unfair financial advantage.
- 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.
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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- 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
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 91
- Round size: Seed $531k–$4.4M; Series A $1.4M–$9M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $34M in 2013
Portfolio highlights
- Cirdan — Cirdan provides highly reliable, innovative LIS & imaging solutions for the acceleration & enhancement of diagnosis, optimized for pathology & clinical lab.
- Pretto — Pretto is the only truly transparent online real estate price comparator.Pretto accompanies you until the signing of your loan, free of charge and without commitment.
- Pilot Photonics — Welcome to Pilot Photonics, a laser product development company in Dublin, Ireland. We provide optical frequency combs and tunable lasers.
Ciaran Lee - Co-Founder @ Intercom
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- Industry: EdTech, Education, Sustainability
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Pre-Seed $823k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Solidroad — The Automated Quality Management platform that optimizes human and AI agents to make every customer interaction better, faster, and more consistent.
- 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 — Ulysses rewild the ocean and remove gigatons of carbon, contributing to global efforts to combat climate change and restore marine ecosystems.
Davy EIIS Fund is managed by BES Management DAC, a joint venture between BDO and Davy.
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- Industry: Education, Health Care, SaaS
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $2M–$7.5M
- Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% 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 — Your Source for Sustainable Solutions. Join us on a transformative journey towards a cleaner planet. Lets build a better, sustainable world.
Welcome to Investec. Find out more about us, our businesses, sponsorships and career opportunities.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 86
- Round size: Series A $1.1M–$17M; Debt Financing $72M–$335M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Splend — Change the way you own your rideshare vehicle for good with Splend. All-Inclusive vehicle packages for your Uber journey, in one easy weekly payment.
- Openpay — Openpay is a cutting-edge in-store, in-home and online payments solution that features a buy now and pay later service, interest-free. Openpay allows customers to make in-store and online purchases, and effectively split the payment for these purchases into multiple repayments over time. The company generates revenue from fees charged to merchantsand customers in exchange for the use of its payments platform.Openpay is available across Australia and New Zealand in many industries including retail, medical, automotive, home improvement, and more.
- Master Plastics — Discover innovative, sustainable packaging solutions for protecting and preserving agricultural and food products from farm to table with Master Plastics.
Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Mobile
- Stage:Angel, Series B
- Geography: United States, China, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Angel $425k–$1.4M; Series B $8M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bagoai — Bagoai is an operator of smart shared coffee and tea rooms.
- 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.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- 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.
Walter Walsh
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- Industry: 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 — 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 — myClub is a Dublin-based sports club management app that offers sporting clubs and organisations with free software.
New Economy Startups Investor & Accelerator
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- Industry: Software, Music, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Belgium, France, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $200k–$2.5M; Series A $247k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- neuroClues — An easy-to-use eye-tracking environment to help practitioners instantaneously quantify their clinical exam
- CityLegends — A home for urban sports & culture partners of CityLegends. Making the lines.
- ClimateCamp — Looking for a sustainable way to collaborate with your suppliers on emissions reduction projects? Look no further than our platform - Book a demo for free!
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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- Industry: Finance, Education, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
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At Plus VC, we leverage over a decade of experience and 200+ transactions to empower MENA startups for sustainable growth. We offer fair...
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $550k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Qureos — Level up with the best mentors and apprenticeships from businesses.
- Lola Do — Lola, Cake for every occasion, Customized your cake selections and Lola will bake it with love!
- Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
Early stage VC investments and funding for start-ups / founders in Ireland.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 110
- Round size: Seed $795k–$2.7M; Series A $1.6M–$6.6M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $82M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Kayna — Enhance your SaaS platform's value by integrating Kayna's insurance solutions. Drive additional revenue and offer more to your users with every policy sold.
- 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.
- Digit Game Studios — Founded in 2012, DIGIT is a cross-platform game developer based in Dublin, Ireland. We are the largest game developer in the country with an international team of experienced, passionate game-makers. Our first game, Kings of the Realm, was launched in September 2014 and is available on browser, iOS, Android and Windows.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Ireland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 186
- Round size: Seed $796k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $110k–$3M; Series A $3.3M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $82M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Linked Finance — LinkedFinance offers a new and painless way for Irish businesses to borrow money from a large group of real people, including their own customers. Crowd Funding is the new way for companies to borrow, bankers get bypassed, the wheels of business keep turning and everyone wins!Person to Person (P2P) lending or Crowd Funding is simple. Peoplewith money to lend can lend it directly to people who need it. With LinkedFinance lenders can lend directly to small businesses looking for funding. Crowd Funding provides complete transparency to both the lender and borrower and it brings lending back to basics where a lender simply deposits funds and when there are enough funds available loans can be made to credit worthy borrowers.How it Works - Businesses looking for a loan can apply at Linkedfinance.com for funding. The loan required and full details of the business are posted in their market. Potential Lenders can participate in an auction process where they bid on how much of the loan they are prepared to fund and the interest rate they require. The lowest rate bids are accepted so the borrower secures the best interest rate possible.
- Nostos Genomics — Our genetic variant interpretation platform enables genetic testing labs to give more people with genetic diseases a clear and fast diagnosis.
- Overwatch Research — Generate accurate in vivo study data as a part of your efficient, connected R&D.
Brian O'Driscoll
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- Industry: Software, Employment, Web Development
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $549k–$3.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- Time Warden — 1time is a user friendly, feature packed time tracking software that helps businesses increase productivity & profitablity.
- 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.
Blackstone Group is a private equity firm that invests in private equity, real estate, public debt, equity, non-investment grade credit, real assets, and secondary funds.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 232
- Round size: Series B $15M–$225M; Private Equity $100M–$1.4B; Post-IPO Equity $64M–$1.5B
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $5.2B in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Clari — Clari is a connected revenue operations platform that uses automation and AI to unlock all the activity data captured in key business systems such as marketing automation, CRM, email, calendar, phone, content management, conversations, and more.Clari automatically aligns that data to accounts and opportunities, to deliver visibility, forecasting,and apply predictive insights, which results in more insight, less guesswork, and more predictable revenue. Clari helps companies by changing their revenue operations to be more connected, efficient, and predictable. Clari's platform is used by hundreds of sales, marketing, and customer success teams at B2B companies such as Qualtrics, Lenovo, Adobe, Dropbox, and Okta to control pipeline, audit deals and accounts, forecast the business, and reduce churn.Clari was founded by Venkat Rangan and Andy Byrne in 2013 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
- Pentera — The Pentera Platform executes AI-driven adversarial testing in production to validate exploitability, prioritize remediation, and reduce exposure.
- DESOTEC — Desotec has pioneered the market for the purification of liquids and gases through mobile activated carbon filters. Desotec provides a filtration technology that enables its customers to comply with increased environmental regulations and sustainability requirements and to serve mission-critical filtration needs offering a flexible rental solution.
Dublin Business Innovation Centre (DBIC) was established in 1988 with private, public, educational and EU support.
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- 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 $62M 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.
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Browse database — It's Free!The Local Enterprise Office is the First Stop Shop for anyone seeking information and support on starting or growing a business in Ireland.The Local Enterprise Office provides advice, information and support to you in starting up or growing your business.With 31 dedicated teams across the Local Authority network in Ireland, Local EnterpriseOffices offer you a wide range of experience, skills and services.The Local Enterprise Office is for people interested in starting up a new business or already in business including; entrepreneurs, early stage promoters, start-ups and small business looking to expand.
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- Industry: SaaS, EdTech, Internet
- Stage:Grant, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Grant $7k–$44k; Pre-Seed $44k–$55k
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GoPlugable — GoPlugable's innovative approach to EV charger sharing makes it easier for businesses & individuals to access and share charging infrastructure.
- Home Chocolat — Home Chocolat specializes in providing tools and experiences for making chocolate at home with clean, customizable ingredients, catering to a variety of dietary preferences and offering educational workshops for chocolate lovers.
- Promotion Rewards — Promotion Rewards is a consumer rewards app.
Jesper Brok is the Founder of Tjommi and Legalfinder.com.
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- Industry: E-Learning, Recruiting, Communities
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Denmark, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Pre-Seed $58k–$400k
- 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
Irelandia Aviation initiate, develop and deliver successful low cost carriers (LCCs) in partnership with airline management and investors.
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- Industry: Travel, Aerospace, Hotel
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, Colombia, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Series A $851k–$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 — Connecting the world through our skies by owning and operating infrastructure for urban aviation and managing end to end drone deliveries.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 244
- Round size: Seed $494k–$8.2M; Series A $3.3M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $197M 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 .
- Mela Works — Manage your work site with Mela, and generate logbooks and reports with one click. Download Mela now!
- 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.
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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- Industry: Education, E-Learning, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Italy, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $713k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $713k–$1.6M; Series A $3.3M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Gyver — Recruiting platform for skilled blue collars
- Ubimaster — Ubimaster provides personalised employee benefits and additional product services that support parents and students.
- Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences — Build the skills, competencies, and mindset needed in the 21st-century with our fully-remote and flexible bachelor's and master's degrees.
Sean Tai is the Exited fintech CEO founder, Board member & Investor at Debtdomain . Sean Tai attended University of Sydney.
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- 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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Brazil, United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 534
- Round size: Seed $181k–$5M; Pre-Seed $50k–$600k
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $362k in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- PlayBPO — Plataforma para gestão da operação para quem trabalha com BPO Financeiro
- Sukha — The Focus App for Healthy Productivity. Sukha offers focus music, timers, AI assistants and more while you work.
- Elemeno Health — Elemeno Health is an intuitive, cloud-based app, customized to specific needs of your hospital or unit. Streamline training and communication, drive best practices, and empower your staff with just-in-time access to critical information.
Sean Cunningham
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- Industry: EdTech, Secondary Education
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Stephen Langan
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- Industry: EdTech, Secondary Education
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
BGF is the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, providing long-term, minority investment to growing companies.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Private Equity
- Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 268
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Sulmara — Innovation for a sustainable energy future | Sulmara
- Besseges — ValvesTubesFittings.com launched in 2015 as the online arm of Besseges VTF and has become one of the leading online pipeline suppliers.
- Miracle Design & Play — Miracle Design & Play specializes in designing and installing playgrounds for children.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Semiconductor, E-Commerce, Electronics
- Stage:Series B, Series D
- Geography: United States, Ireland, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Superintelligence for work is here. Empower your people with agentic AI.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed, Series D, Series F
- Geography: United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% 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.
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- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 72
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Aleph Alpha — Aleph Alpha develops AI systems for modern security challenges.
- Hugging Face — Hugging Face is an open-source & platform provider of machine learning technologies. Hugging Face was launched in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.
- Vanguard Semiconductor — Vanguard Semiconductor is a Developer of semiconductors designed to be used in electrical power devices.
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- Industry: EdTech, Secondary Education
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
TLcom Capital, is an Africa focused tech VC, with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London. TLcom had been investing since 1999 in Tech, Media, Mobil and Internet companies across Europe, US and Africa, which is the exclusive focus of its most recent TLcom TIDE Africa funds. TLcom manages total commitments of approximately 300 million USD in thesesectors via a series of dedicated investment vehicles. Our investment strategy is to identify, back and assist world class entrepreneurs and management teams with disruptive technologies and business models, compelling intellectual property and deep market knowledge. We primarily target companies focused on Africa as a prime market, in the following investment themes: Access to Data Service; Financial Services; eCommerce; B2C applications (including but not limited to: health, education, energy, media and entertainment); and Software solutions to corporates and SMEs.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.5M; Series A $3.8M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Hub2.Io — Welcome to HUB2, the leading FINTECH startup in interoperability and payment infrastructure in Francophone Africa. We are proud to work with all financial industry players in Africa who need stable and high-performing infrastructure, and contribute to their success.
- Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
- 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.
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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- Industry: Apps, Internet, Social Media
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
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.
The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) aims to improve the European Union's economic, social, and territorial cohesion by resolving imbalances across its various regions. ERDF funds initiatives for which the European Commission and national and regional governments in member countries share responsibility. Each member state'sgovernment decides which initiatives to support and is responsible for their continued supervision.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Stage:Grant, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Grant $27k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $44k–$1.3M
- 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.
- Knock Technology — The world's simplest video chat app: Improves mental health and boosts innovation. It's a secure, cost effective and peer-to-peer telecoms solution for everyone.
The best companies, off the beaten path.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 253
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.5M; Series A $6.8M–$69M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DRUO — DRUO provides online payment gateway for businesses.
- Golioth — Golioth helps developers to build IoT devices, secure your IoT, pipe device data from the edge to the cloud, and manage your IoT fleet from anywhere.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Education, Software, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $589k–$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 offers online courses in gardening, cookery, floristry, art & design, photography, antiques, jewellery and wellbeing, taught by industry experts. Benefit from personalised feedback, collaborative online classrooms, and lifetime access to course materials. Start learning at your own pace.
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- Industry: EdTech, Secondary Education
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Peter is the founder of Starchema.
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- Industry: Apps, EdTech, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Hungary, Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Angel $154k–$250k; Pre-Seed $120k–$207k
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- VIZZU — Vizzu is a no-code data visualization tool that effortlessly transforms complex data into memorable, animated stories | Explore now!
- Redmenta — Redmenta - Amazing Worksheets
- Giggle — Giggle is an hourly workforce marketplace serving the flexible needs of the modern labour market. Via instant matchmaking technology, quality assurance system and staffing support, Giggle eases the full staffing, recruiting and employment lifecycle of low skilled workers. The instant and short term matchmaking process provides better schedulingand budgeting opportunities for students, gig workers and employees alike.The company primarily serves hospitality, logistics and retail businesses facing post-covid workforce problems, bridging the demand between rigid operating hours and flexible individual needs.Founded in 2022 in Budapest, Giggle is currently seeking partners, investors and talent to scale across various European markets.
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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United States, Jersey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $549k–$3.3M; Series A $1.1M–$8.1M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
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.
- 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.
BIC Angels is an investment firm that provides venture capital for startups engaged in the internet sector. It is primarily focused on companies engaged in SaaS, location-based services, and mobile applications. The Company's early-stage investment ranges from $25,000 to $1,000,000. BIC Angels is based in Istanbul, Turkey.
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- Industry: Internet, SaaS, Software
- Stage:Angel, Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Angel $20k–$250k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Doktorderki — Doktorderki is an online system that allows people to directly talk to doctors about their questions and problems regarding health. It aims to establish a scalable B2C growth model along with the investment it is taking and to do B2B work with pharmacists and mainly dermocosmetics companies.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered inIstanbul, Turkey.
- Kolay Randevu — Kolay Randevu is an online beauty booking marketplace and salon management software for salons.
- EvdekiBakıcım — EvdekiBakıcım empowers young generation so they can reach their full potential. EvdekiBakıcım aims to lead innovation in care, tutoring and activity categories.
OneRagtime is a venture capital platform that finances and scales early-stage startups. Join our investor community and discover unique opportunities.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $878k–$7.7M; Series A $3.8M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Golem.ai — Golem.ai is an artificial intelligence of understanding human language. Their solution automates tasks with low added value, involving interaction between the employee and the machine through language.
- 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.
- Hivenet — Hive is a decentralized cloud platform based on the peer-to-peer exchange of the available capacities of users' computers.
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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- Industry: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical
- Stage:Series C, Series D
- Geography: United States, Ireland, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Series C $44M–$100M; Series D $31M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Onward Robotics — We've moved Onward. IAM Robotics is now Onward Robotics, you will be automatically redirected.
- 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.
- Chain Reaction — Chain Reaction is engineering the future of disruptive blockchain and privacy technologies by accelerating compute and mining hardware performance.
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.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 70
- Round size: Seed $31k–$1.2M; Pre-Seed $6k–$250k
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% 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.
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- Industry: EdTech, Secondary Education
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $110k–$6.8M; Angel $1.1M–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ChangeX — <p>Find and start ideas that will transform your community. ChangeX provides everything you need to jumpstart projects you are passionate about!</p>
- PutPlace — PutPlace puts intelligence around your files in the cloud and lets you store the files anywhere you want. That includes storing it with with PutPlace's storage service itself, on Amazon S3, or your own cloud storage service.
- Cicero Networks — Cicero Networks is at the forefront of the wireless Internet revolution, developing solutions for the delivery of Voice over Wireless IP. Cicero’s mission is to harness the power of VoIP to enable the delivery of wireless voice services while maintaining mobility and flexibility for end users at a lower cost.Cicero Networks has focused onbuilding platform-independent solutions which offer operators and service providers a means of delivering high-quality voice services over both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth networks. Its innovative use of wireless technology enables operators to terminate calls to fixed-line or hotspot locations at least cost to subscribers.Cicero Networks was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. Cicero Networks is a privately held company.
We invest in entrepreneurs with the ambition to create world-class companies of scale.
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- Industry: Medical Device, Health Care, Big Data
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $823k–$3.8M; Series A $3.1M–$12M; Series B $16M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AYLIEN — Aylien is an artificial intelligence startup that focuses on creating technologies that help machines understand human languages better. The firm provides Text Analysis and News API's that allow users to make sense of human-generated content at scale. AYLIEN also provides a range of content analysis solutions to developers, data scientists,marketers and academics. Their core offerings include packages of information retrieval, machine learning, natural language processing and image recognition APIs.
- Siren — Siren is a software company that provides an Investigative Intelligence platform to complex organizations and derive business value. The platform provides a unique combination of search, business intelligence, big data, link analysis and knowledge representation which advances the way organizations address some of the world’s most importantdata-driven problems.Siren makes it easier to use the data you collect to answer questions and make links, find patterns and relationships. It also uniquely enables this in real-time at a scale that companies and government organizations require. it easy to leverages and deploy data directly on backends such as Elasticsearch, relational databases, virtual data warehouses, and graph databases.Siren was awarded the Technology Innovation of the Year and Enterprise of the Year (SME) at the Information Technology Association of Galway (ITAG) Excellence Awards and also was named the Irish Startup of the Year at Ireland’s National Tech Excellence Awards.Siren was founded in 2014 and is based in Galyway, Ireland.
- ProVerum Medical — The ProVee stent from Proverum Medical uses 3-D geometry which mirrors and engages with the anatomy of the prostate. The system alleviates Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) by opening the prostatic urethra, applying radial force to the prostatic lobes.
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