Top 50 Education Startup Investors in Ireland (July 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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15 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $494k–$12M |
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Ciaran Lee
Angel
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3 | Ireland, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | EdTech, Education, Sustainability | $808k–$2M |
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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 | $604k–$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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3 | United States, United Kingdom, Ireland | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Internet | $2M–$57M |
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CDP Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $488k–$23M |
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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–$7.4M |
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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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Angel Invest
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $530k–$21M |
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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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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–$15M |
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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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Peter Csillag
Angel
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1 | Hungary, Ireland, United States | Pre-Seed, Angel | Apps, EdTech, Software | $138k–$505k |
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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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Investec
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, South Africa | Debt Financing, Series A | Software, Financial Services, Energy | $1.1M–$550M |
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Walter Walsh
Angel
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1 | Ireland | Seed | EdTech, 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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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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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 | EdTech, Software, Employment | $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 | $400k–$425k |
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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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Zanichelli Venture
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Italy, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Education, E-Learning, EdTech | $695k–$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, Artificial Intelligence | $40k–$5M |
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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, Mexico, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $500k–$30M |
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Caelan Doris
Angel
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1 | Ireland | Seed | EdTech, Secondary Education | |
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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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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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Shane Glynn
Angel
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1 | Ireland | Seed | EdTech, Secondary Education | |
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B Heroes
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, Spain, Germany | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $263k–$5.1M |
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Venturewave Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Ireland, Egypt, Hong Kong | Series A, Seed | Health Care, Education, Apps | $3.3M–$8.8M |
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Egypt Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, The Netherlands, Ireland | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $28k–$3M |
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Act Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $823k–$13M |
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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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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: 630
- Round size: Seed $494k–$3.3M; Series A $2.2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- E-Pire — E-Pire Limited was set up on Thu the 26th of Jun 2003 in Swords Co. Dublin.
- Sidero — Sidero, founded in Athlone in 2013, is a software services company that provides agile and cloud native software innovation to help and improve any business.
- Revive Active — Revive Active health supplement is the only brand that unlocks your abundant natural energy to maximize the lifestyle you want because it’s a supplement that does not compromise on amount or quality but is abundant with fantastic ingredients. Revive Active Health Supplement is a high quality blend of 26 ingredients delivered in one convenientsachet. The unique blend of vitamins and minerals combine to provide a multitude of health benefits including natural sustained energy without the use of sugar and caffeine. The revolutionary product also brings two key Nobel prize-winning ingredients together for the first time. The combined inclusion of Coenzyme Q10 and L-Arginine further improves Revive Active’s ability to enhance energy and vitality and support a healthy immune system in regular consumers all for as little as a cup of coffee per day.Unlike traditional fish oil supplements, Revive Krill Oil is an extremely bioavailable source of EPA and DHA. Key to the enhanced absorption is the unique structure of the omega-3s. Fish oil omega-3s are found in a triglyceride form, which repel water impairing absorption in the digestive tract. Krill oil is found in a phospholipid form which attracts water promoting fast and efficient absorption. This helps deliver the essential omega-3s to the places you need it most.
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: 5
- Round size: Pre-Seed $808k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% 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.
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: 66
- Round size: Seed $604k–$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
- Movetru — Movetru a wearable device that aims to reduce injury and enhance rehabilitation.
- 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.
- 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.
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: 56
- Round size: Seed $823k–$5.9M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$6.2M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $35M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- ManaMind — ManaMind is an AI-powered platform that automates video game quality assurance (QA) testing using autonomous bots to help developers identify bugs faster and cheaper.
- Smarttech247 — Human-led, AI-enhanced Managed Detection & Response. 24/7 SOC monitoring, incident response, and cyber resilience for critical infrastructure.
- 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: 46
- Round size: Seed $2M–$8.3M; Series A $6.7M–$20M; Series B $25M–$57M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Slashwork —
- 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.
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: 276
- Round size: Seed $488k–$8.1M; Series A $3.3M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $197M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Klaaryo —
- Macingo — Trasporto, spedizioni e traslochi a basso costo. Trasporti economici di auto, moto, barche e mobili in Italia ed Europa. Confronta prezzi e risparmia il 70%
- 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.
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: 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 — Your Source for Sustainable Solutions. Join us on a transformative journey towards a cleaner planet. Lets build a better, sustainable world.
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
Angel Invest is one of Europe's most active angel funds
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 160
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$6.8M; Pre-Seed $530k–$3.1M; Series A $4.7M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Modeinspect — acreom is the integrated markdown knowledge base with tasks. Your personal daily driver for your dev workflow.
- Qorelo — Qorelo is a tech company that provides agentic AI software designed to accelerate ERP transformations. Qorelo's software automates and structures deliverables across the SAP Activate methodology.
- Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
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: 92
- 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.
- 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.
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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.
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.
Jordan Larmour
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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: 68
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.5M; Series A $3.8M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Autochek — Welcome To Autochek Group's Homepage. Read About The Company's Vision And Mission. Select A Country And Apply For Car Loans
- 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.
- Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
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.
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 $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!
- Redmenta — Redmenta - Amazing Worksheets
- Voovo — Empower your learning today! Instantly generate flashcards from anatomy diagrams, textbooks, and notes using AI, text recognition algorithms and Voovo's unique features.
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: 71
- Round size: Seed $31k–$1.2M; Pre-Seed $6k–$250k
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
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- 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: Software, Financial Services, Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 88
- Round size: Series A $1.1M–$17M; Debt Financing $72M–$550M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% 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.
Walter Walsh
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- 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 — 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.
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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–$2M; Series A $247k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Un:Hurd Music — Welcome to the one stop music marketing shop. We help you understand your audience before creating award winning release strategies.
- neuroClues — An easy-to-use eye-tracking environment to help practitioners instantaneously quantify their clinical exam
- Gamevestor — Be more than a player. Invest in expert-selected video game projects and earn a share of their commercial revenues.
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: 58
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $550k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
Portfolio highlights
- estaie — Flexible furnished stays from weeks to a year. Stay longer and save across hotels, serviced apartments, and managed holiday homes with one simple payment and no hidden fees.
- Lola Do — Lola, Cake for every occasion, Customized your cake selections and Lola will bake it with love!
- Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
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: 188
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $110k–$3M; Series A $3.3M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $82M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Primis — Manage post purchase customer experience communications, connect with over 400 couriers & achieve sustainability goals - all with one platform. Start today...
- Qstream — Built to boost learner proficiency and performance at scale through engagement, reinforcement and analytics.
- Logentries — Explore Incident Command - Rapid7's next-gen security information and event management (SIEM) solution for a cloud-first era. Start your free trial today!
Brian O'Driscoll
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- Industry: EdTech, Software, Employment
- 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: 254
- Round size: Series B $15M–$600M; Private Equity $50M–$1.4B; Post-IPO Equity $64M–$1.5B
- Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $5.2B in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Mitiga — Mitiga proactively stores and enhances forensic data so our experts can start incident investigations fast to get you back to business as usual
- Ginger — Coaching, therapy, and psychiatry from the privacy of your smartphone.
- Rive Technology — Upgrade resid by using coke selective, metals tolerant, catalyst technologies including vanadium, nickel and iron metal traps. Effective catalyst design from Grace with the right ratio of mesoporosity and macroporosity and an effective matrix for bottoms cracking and coke selectivity allows for processing cost effective challenging heavy crudes.
Delivering game changing impacts for start-up founders since 1988
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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.
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: 6
- Round size: Grant $7k–$44k; Pre-Seed $44k–$55k
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Booka — Booka is an event matchmaker firm that makes event planning painless by connecting suitable suppliers with event planners.
- 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.
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 $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
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Browse database — It's Free!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.
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: 17
- Round size: Seed $695k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $704k–$2.7M; Series A $3.3M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Gyver — Recruiting platform for skilled blue collars
- Anthropos — Assess workforce skills and capabilities with AI readiness workforce assessment tools. Identify gaps, benchmark readiness, and develop teams for AI transformation.
- Ubimaster — Ubimaster provides personalised employee benefits and additional product services that support parents and students.
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
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- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Brazil, United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 649
- Round size: Seed $120k–$5M; Pre-Seed $40k–$653k
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $362k in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Sandwiche — Sandwiche creates customizable link in bio pages enabling social media monetization and affiliate marketing management.
- 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.
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
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- 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
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- 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.
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, 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
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- Industry: EdTech, Secondary Education
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ireland
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $878k–$7.7M; Series A $3.8M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PoliCloud — PoliCloud is a cost-effective, sustainable, and independent cloud solution designed for people that desire complete control over their data.
- Welink — WELINK is a publisher specializing in connecting individuals and liberal and independent professions. We give liberal professionals the platform, solutions, and support they need to grow their businesses and thrive. We measure our success by our customers’ success.
- Fydem — We believe the best way to help the next generation understand their financial options, and build a more secure future, is to modernize the approach to credit distribution.
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.
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
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- Coroflo — The world's first accurate breastfeeding monitor
- 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.
- Clavis Insight — Grow faster, smarter, and more efficiently with Flywheel's suite of digital commerce solutions, purpose-built for the world's leading brands.
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.
Shane Glynn
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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.
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
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- 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 — Cato AI is a Milan-based B2B SaaS startup that uses AI to automate public tender management.
- 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 platform is designed as a GDPR-compliant, EU-native system that complies with medical standards and is integrated with regional laboratory networks.
VentureWave Capital is an actively managed private equity group that invests in and builds great companies.
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- Industry: Health Care, Education, Apps
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Ireland, Egypt, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $3.3M–$4.5M; Series A $7.3M–$8.8M
- Lead/follow: 91% lead, 9% follow
Portfolio highlights
- XOCEAN — Using unmanned surface vessels (USVs), XOCEAN offers turnkey data collection services to Surveyors, Companies and Agencies.
- Medihive — Medihive offers digital healthcare solutions designed to enhance patient care, streamline healthcare operations, and improve outcomes.
- Funderbeam — Funderbeam is a funding and trading platform that connects companies and investors to buy and sell equity stakes. The platform allows the founders to gain exposure, legal support, a funding manager, or an investor network. It also allows the investors to take control of their investments and trade anytime they want.The company was founded in 2013as a global data platform for startup companies.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Egypt, The Netherlands, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $100k–$3M; Pre-Seed $28k–$2M
- 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
Technology-focused, investing capital and expertise to fuel growth in the most promising ideas and companies. Raised c.€600m across multiple funds and invest from seed to growth.We look for companies with potentially cutting-edge, category-defining businesses in markets including application software, IT infrastructure, communications, Internetand mobile. We help founders create and scale businesses globally. We work as a small team with diverse strengths accessing a community of over 200 founders. The teams and companies we back scale their investor base as they scale their business execution and ambition. We work closely with them in this process. Over the past 25 years have built a broad network of US and European investors and founders that share our vision and approach.Act is based in Dublin, Ireland.Our most recent funds are supported by the European Investment Fund.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 158
- Round size: Seed $823k–$5M; Series A $2.3M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $164M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Scurri — Scurri is next generation delivery management software that puts retailers back in control. Explore our delivery management software today.
- SiriusXT — SiriusXT is transforming cell and tissue imaging with the SXT-100, the first commercial, laboratory scale soft x-ray microscope.
- Worldnet Payments —
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–$1.5M; 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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