Top 50 Enterprise Angel Investors in Ireland in December 2024
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Enterprise startups based in Ireland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Enterprise companies from Ireland. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Enterprise Angel Investors in Ireland in December 2024
Investor | Enterprise Ireland investments |
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Gareth Lambe | 5 |
Brian Caulfield | 4 |
Liam Casey | 4 |
Shane Naughton | 4 |
Pa Nolan | 4 |
Kevin Hartz | 3 |
Michael Dwyer | 3 |
Anne Herarty | 3 |
Des Traynor | 3 |
Tom Kennedy | 3 |
Bradley Horowitz | 3 |
Ray Nolan | 2 |
Hal Philipp | 2 |
Patrick Joy | 2 |
Chris Huskilson | 2 |
David Shackleton | 2 |
Andrej Henkler | 2 |
Martin Ott | 2 |
Rob Hickey | 2 |
Peter O'Grady Walshe | 2 |
Jared Messenger | 2 |
Charlie Songhurst | 2 |
Peter Crowley | 2 |
Sean Mullaney | 2 |
Ian Madigan | 2 |
Brian Patterson | 2 |
Constantin Pellissier | 2 |
Chris Murphy | 2 |
Chris Adelsbach | 2 |
Tony Smurfit | 2 |
Nigel Byrne | 2 |
Julia Hartz | 1 |
Scott Chacon | 1 |
Bill McCabe | 1 |
Henry Bolger | 1 |
Peter Gray | 1 |
Julie Zhuo | 1 |
Declan Kelly | 1 |
Paschal Naylor | 1 |
Prabhu Goel | 1 |
Julien Nguyen | 1 |
Ben Ward | 1 |
Bryan Meehan | 1 |
Stephane Gantchev | 1 |
Rob Pierre | 1 |
Jim Fields | 1 |
Frederik Pfisterer | 1 |
Charles Williams | 1 |
Joe Hogan | 1 |
Dave Wright | 1 |
Gareth Lambe is the Chief Executive Officer of Medihive. He previously worked at Meta as a Board Of Directors. Gareth Lambe attended the University College Dublin.
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Investment focus
- Tourism, Payments, Software
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Imvizar — Transform your buildings, office spaces, visitor attractions, and parks with an immersive and visual storytelling experience using augmented reality. Discover unique ways to tell your story at Imvizar.
- CleverCards — The Platform for Contactless Cards. The CleverGift real-time payment platform offers gift cards, expenses, employee incentives, and travel foreign exchange.
- Bounce Insights — Bounce Insights is a digital consumer research platform. It provides a direct link between brands and any consumer they needed to speak to by maintaining a community of active, engaged respondents on their mobile app.
Brian Caulfield is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and angel investor. He is a General Partner at DFJ Esprit (http://www.dfjesprit.com/).Brian currently sits on the boards of Datahug, Movidius, MTT, Clavis Technology and the Irish Times, Ireland's leading daily newspaper. He is also a personal investor in a number ofearly stage technology companies including Cicero Networks, GridStore and Teamer.From 2002 to 2007 Brian was a partner at Trinity Venture Capital. At TVC Brian sat on the boards of or led investments in AePONA (sold to Intel - Nasdaq: INTC), ChangingWorlds (Amdocs - NYSE: DOX), CR2, SteelTrace (Compuware - NASDAQ: CPWR) and APT (CSR LSE:CSR.L). Previously, in 1992 Brian co-founded Exceptis Technologies. Exceptis provided dispute management software for the electronic/card payments sector and was sold to Trintech Group (NASDAQ: TTPA) in November 2000. In 2001 Brian co-founded Similarity Systems, a business focused data quality management software company that was acquired by Informatica (NASDAQ: INFA) in January 2006. Brian was also a founder director and shareholder of Prediction Dynamics, which failed in 2004.Brian is a Computer Engineering graduate of Trinity College Dublin. Brian was the 2007 recipient of the Irish Software Association's "Technology Person of the Year" award. In 2010 he also received the Halo Business Angel Network's Business Angel of the Year award.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Examfly — Examfly make online learning tools for professional tax exams. Our solutions are exam focused and use proven techniques from Ed Tech and Education Psychology.
- Inclusio — The inclusio diversity and inclusion platform is designed to measure and positively shift the culture of your organisation. Contact us for more information.
- Moby Bikes — MOBY Bikes. e-bike rentals: Dublin, London, Amsterdam, Utrecht. Bike sharing, Delivery rider rental, corporate and hotel e-bike fleets
Liam is the founder and CEO of PCH.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Ireland, United Kingdom, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Pandas — B2B e-commerce platform connecting Asia with the +10 million of Latin America small merchants
- Tracworx — The future of packaging is returnable and reusable. We're building the digital infrastructure to enable it.
- &Open — For businesses that gift to give back, share joy, or show they care. All you need is an email.
Shane Naughton - Founding Partner and Board of Directors @ On The Stage
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Trustev — Trustev offers a totally modern approach ecommerce fraud prevention through real-time online identity verification. It focuses on validating the individual making the transaction, not just the payment method they're using. The platform delivers individual, real time decisions for every one of your customers using multiple dynamic data sources(behavioral, transactional and social) instead of restrictive rules based decisioning and profiling. Trustev’s easy to integrate platform works by verifying consumer’s identities in real-time, using thousands of dynamic data points from sources such as deep location, email verification, device ID, social fingerprinting, proxy/VPN piercing, site velocity & behavior, browser ID and mobile location. It uses proprietary algorithms to combine all this data and compile it into a single, simple score of 1-100. This score is then used to provide a recommendation or allow, deny of flag the transaction.The Trustev platform enables rapid identity decisions in real time with an easy to integrate (very light touch), completely data driven and cost effective solution that works in the background, to ensure no disruption to the customer’s online experience. This results in a significant reduction in false positives leading to substantially increased revenues and increased sales opportunities while maintaining a customer centric experience at all times. Trustev's solution is focused on dramatically reducing the cost burden of fraud on your business, the cost of policing fraud and also maximizing revenues opportunities.
- NewsWhip — The only real-time media monitoring platform that predicts the stories and topics that will matter in the hours ahead.
- Spring Moves — Spring Moves’ mission is to make working out as interesting, enjoyable, and addictive as humanly possible. They harness the power of music and rhythm to turn casual runners into athletes and newbies into pros. It was founded in 2012 and is based in New York.
Pa Nolan
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Investment focus
- Medical, Delivery, Shipping
- Seed, Funding Round
- Ireland, United Kingdom
Kevin is the Co-Founder and GP of A* Capital & The Co-Founder & Chairman of Eventbrite (NYSE: EB)Prior A* Capital, Kevin was at Founders Fund. Previously Co-Founder and CEO of Eventbrite (NYSE: EB). Kevin was previously Co-Founder and CEO of Xoom Corporation, an international money transfer company servicing more than 30 countriesworldwide. Xoom went public in 2012 and was acquired by PayPal in 2015. Kevin has served as an early-stage investor and advisor to successful start-ups including Airbnb, Lookout, PayPal, Pinterest, Skybox Imaging, Trulia, Uber, and Yammer.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Ireland, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Icon — Icon helps brands partner with creators, turn 1 video into 20 videos with AI, and A/B test messaging to find winning ads. We’re backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, as well as founders & executives of OpenAI, Ramp, Flexport, Pika, & Cognition (Devin).
- Hedra — Video creation for everyone.
- Reflect Orbital — Reflect sells sunlight from space.
Michael Dwyer is a founder of Pigsback.com.
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Investment focus
- Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
- Seed, Angel
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Imvizar — Transform your buildings, office spaces, visitor attractions, and parks with an immersive and visual storytelling experience using augmented reality. Discover unique ways to tell your story at Imvizar.
- Bounce Insights — Bounce Insights is a digital consumer research platform. It provides a direct link between brands and any consumer they needed to speak to by maintaining a community of active, engaged respondents on their mobile app.
Anne Heraty is the CEO and Co-Founder at Cpl Solutions. Anne Heraty attended University College Dublin.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Human Resources, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Solidroad — AI-powered coaching for customer-facing teams. Empower reps with live call scoring, realistic simulations and feedback to perform their best.
- Nolea Health — As a clinician with Nolea you can set your own schedule, work with as many healthcare companies as you want, hold all of your credentials in one single sharable wallet, access new educational resources, and receive community feedback.
- Vivid Edge — Vivid Edge are the leading commercial energy consultants in Ireland. Energy efficiency upgrades for businesses that fit into your journey to get to Net Zero!
Des is the Co-Founder of Intercom, the platform for all customer interaction needs from marketing to support to product development. Previously he worked as User Experience Lead at web app development agency Contrast, and he was a Co-Founder of popular social networking search engine Bigulo.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- ZeKju — ZeKju provides Messenger Communication for Supply Chains. Leading shippers and logistics service providers rely on ZeKju for efficient transport execution, yard communication and fleet management. With ZeKju, drivers use their favorite messenger (e.g. WhatsApp or Telegram) for everyday tasks while benefiting from features such as auto-translation.
- Siro — Siro is a sales coaching platform that specializes in sales managers. Siro assists sales managers in providing precise feedback to field sales staff on live client conversations while also saving time in reporting.
- SimpleStudy — SimpleStudy is an exam prep platform for Junior Cycle & Leaving Cert students. With exam papers, revision notes, quizzes, questions by topic and essays, SimpleStudy is the study platform for Students in Ireland.
Tom has a proven track record as an entrepreneur and in building a global e-commerce business from Dublin as a co-founder of www.hostelworld.com (Web Reservations International). Tom achieved a successful exit from Hostelworld.com in 1999, generating $500m in shareholder value. He previously owned Avalon House hostel in Dublin. When he’s notworking, Tom enjoys the gastronomic delights of life and the views of the Wicklow mountains from the saddle of his bicycle.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Video, Retail
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Gigable — Join the fastest growing delivery network. Signup as a business to access freelancers or signup as a freelancer to earn additional income.
- Coindrum — Coindrum provides coin machines to spend your coin jars. No more manual counting, sorting or bagging!
- 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.
Bradley Horowitz is an Advisor and Vice President of Product Management at Google. Most recently he helped create Area 120, Google's incubator for internally-sourced innovation. He's led a large number of products, programs and initiatives at Google - including Google for Startups, Google Photos, Gmail, Google Voice, blogger, and GoogleNews.Before joining Google in February 2008, Horowitz was Yahoo's vice president of Advanced Development where he drove the acquisitions of Flickr and MyBlogLog, launched the Brickhouse incubator and developed new products like Yahoo! Pipes. Additionally, he was responsible for the company's initiative to open up its platform which included overseeing the Yahoo Developer Network (YDN).Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical direction of the company from its founding through its IPO and eventual acquisition by Autonomy.Horowitz was a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab. While at the Media Lab, he worked on a number of topics related to computer vision, graphics and image processing, which resulted in a patented new technique for the recovery of structure, motion and camera parameters from video sequences.Horowitz holds an MS in Media Science from MIT and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Mill — Meet the cleanest, easiest way to prevent food waste at home. Mill recycles your peels, bones, stalks, and forgotten leftovers.
- Parcha AI — Parcha is an AI-powered enterprise software that enables businesses to automate their scale compliance and operations.
- Overture Life — We are making In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) more accessible than ever before while improving success rates. An embryology lab in a box.
Ray Nolan - Non-Exec Chair @ XSellco
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Investment focus
- Apps, News, Software
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Kinzen — Kinzen's blend of human skill and scalable technology enables trust and safety professionals and policy makers to get ahead of emerging threats, detect policy violations faster and take the proportionate and appropriate action.
- Cohort — Cohort helps its users find the people they need through the people they already know through social media. Cohort is an Ireland-based company that was founded in 2015 by Eamon Leonard.
- REFLEX Gaming —
Hal Philipp - Principal Partner @ Meridian Growth Capital
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Investment focus
- News, SaaS, Big Data
- Seed, Angel
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- NewsWhip — The only real-time media monitoring platform that predicts the stories and topics that will matter in the hours ahead.
Patrick Joy - Owner & Founder & Executive Chairman @ Suretank Group
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile Apps, Internet of Things
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Gigable — Join the fastest growing delivery network. Signup as a business to access freelancers or signup as a freelancer to earn additional income.
- VT Networks — VT Networks has set up a cellular network in Ireland very similar to that of a Vodafone or Meteor network. Unlike those networks, which are used to handling vast amounts of 3G and 4G data traffic, the VT Networks’ Sigfox network is designed to handle tiny amounts of data coming from electricity meters, kettles, washing machines, oil tanks and evendoorbells.
Mr. Chris Huskilson began his career with Nova Scotia Power in 1980. He was made chief operating officer of Emera and Nova Scotia Power in July 2003 and president and chief executive officer of Emera in 2004.Mr. Huskilson is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Nova Scotia. He is chair of the Canadian ElectricityAssociation, and serves on many for-profit and non-profit boards of directors. He is past-chair of the Greater Halifax Partnership and past-chair of the Energy Council of Canada.Mr. Husklison holds a bachelor of science in engineering and a master of science in engineering from the University of New Brunswick.
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Investment focus
- Delivery, Internet, Analytics
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Canada, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
David Shackleton is the Product Head at OpenBack Integration of Twitter. Took up The Role and Responsibilities of Company Directors at Institute of Directors in Ireland.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Video, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- OpenBack — OpenBack was the only mobile engagement platform with dynamic push notifications and device-side decisions by using mobile edge computing. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.
- Overcast HQ — Overcast is a leading cloud video management solution that simplifies video management, compliance and collaboration for all, securely. Effortlessly organise assets with quick searches, AI tagging, and categorization, ensuring swift access and utilisation across images, videos, documents, and more.
- Bounce Insights — Bounce Insights is a digital consumer research platform. It provides a direct link between brands and any consumer they needed to speak to by maintaining a community of active, engaged respondents on their mobile app.
Entrepreneurial investments High-Tech, Internet and Media companies in US and Europe.Portfolio companies include among others Palantir Technologies, Taulia, Socotra, Context Logic (Wish), Evernote, CapLinked, Spectrum Investments, Open Door, Zipline, Properly, Simscale, Osaro, Polyspectra, Aether Bio, Ashby, Asyncy, Eligible, WayUp, Xage,Lampenwelt, Robin Hood, Klara, Qualia Labs, Aizon, Luna, Shogun (Hearth), Mosaic Finance, Cantourage, Seed Legals, Sava, Gordian, Form Logic, Vector, Bryte, Gartenhaus, Free Form, Fero Labs, Airly, Octane.ai, SmithRX, Contract Book, Quantum Systems, Energy Robotics, Airly, Memberstack, Orchest.ai, Inflammatix, Finway, Roadsurfer, Hive Logistics, AnyMove, Lucid Chart, Fursure, Arrows.to, Halo Industries, Almanac, Velocity Labs, Lumeo, Carbon Health, Almanac, Passion.io, US Bitcoin Corp, OQmented, Maev, LegalOS, Block Green, trypenny, remberg, Kaladin, Marvel Fusion, Arda Therapeutics, The Every Company, CryptoCities, Lenco, SaveIN, GetSona, Noibu, how.fm, Adyton, Hydra Host, Anchor Zero, Gen1e Lifesciences, Pasteur Labs, Windmill.dev, ISEE, ThreeDOT, Workpatterns, Pylon, Cylib,...
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Test and Measurement
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- CPTx — At CPTx, we develop new treatment paradigms across outsized medical challenges, with an initial focus on infectious diseases. The flexibility and precision of CPTx's platform supports multivalent drug development, which is crucial for addressing complex disease states involving multiple binding sites, such as viruses, cancer, and autoimmune diseases.
- Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.
- 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
Martin Ott - CEO @ Taxfix
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Investment focus
- Legal, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Germany, Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Unu motors — unu wants to create the mobility solution that fully connects people to the city. They believe in cities in which all people are enabled to embrace the full potential of urban life. Their first product, electric scooter unu, was launched in summer 2014. unu is stylish, emission-free, quiet and super-easy to charge thanks to portable batteries.
- IDnow — Your customers deserve seamless 24/7 identity verification and KYC experiences. Compliant with regulations (e.g. AML, eIDAS). Available in 195 countries.
- Mobius Labs — Multimodal AI for the world's scale. Fast, secure, and affordable technology for visual, audio, and text applications.
Rob Hickey is Vice President of Engineering at Azuki Systems, responsible for product design and development. Rob brings more than 20 years of proven management and engineer experience in the areas of video distribution, signal processing and content-aware networking to the role.Most recently, Rob worked at Cisco Systems and was a member of theCisco New England Development Center Leadership Team. His responsibilities included leading the Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Application development organization where he led the design and development of Label Switched Multicast for Cisco’s edge routing platforms. This technology is a key component of Cisco’s video distribution architecture. Prior to his current role, Rob managed a development and QA team responsible for the design and development of next generation security and content switching platforms. Prior to Cisco, Rob was a founding engineer at ArrowPoint Communications, which was acquired by Cisco in May 2000. ArrowPoint was a leader in the content networking space and pioneered the L4-L7 intelligent load balancer. At ArrowPoint, Rob held various roles in hardware and software development as well as QA.Before joining ArrowPoint, Rob held various engineering positions at Bay Networks and Raytheon Company.Rob received his BSEE from Northeastern University and completed the Global Leadership and Business Leadership Development Programs while at Cisco.
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Investment focus
- Medical, Software, Biotechnology
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Zerve AI — Securely Unlock Gen AI & LLMs in Your Enterprise
- Via Scientific — Via Scientific to help scientists and bioinformaticians generate novel science that improves the world. It was founded in 2022.
Peter O'Grady Walshe - Chairman @ VideoElephant
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Investment focus
- Video, Publishing, Social Media
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Jared Messenger is a technology entrepreneur and angel investor. He is currently an iOS computer vision and machine learning researcher. He also advises early-stage startups on building and shipping their iOS app.
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Investment focus
- Product Design, Developer Tools, Developer Platform
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Ireland
Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Stelia — Stelia stands at the forefront of the AI infrastructure revolution and is driving the transition from Internet 2.0, designed for data movement, to Internet 3.0, designed for data mobility, enabling the seamless flow and processing of data across diverse environments. With its ground-breaking HyperBand platform, Stelia enables businesses toharness the full potential of AI. The company's mission is to become the backbone of the next generation of data mobility, empowering organizations across industries to accelerate innovation, optimize operations, and drive transformative growth. Stelia will be at the gravitational centre of the AI infrastructure ecosystem – a trusted partner and catalyst for change that brings together forward-thinking businesses, technology leaders, and industry experts to shape the future of AI. It was founded in 2021 and is located in London, United Kingdom.
- Lodestar — Lodestar is a next-gen robotics company building a fully-integrated solutions to construct, restore and protect high-value assets in space.
- Briefcase — Briefcase is an AI-powered tool for bookkeeping and month-end automation designed specifically for professional services practices.
Peter Crowley - Founder & Director @ FL Partners
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Investment focus
- Privacy, Software, Cyber Security
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.
Sean Mullaney is a Chief Technology of Algolia.
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Investment focus
- Software, Web Apps, Cloud Security
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Ireland, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Kerno — Instantly identify the root cause of any critical issue in your Cloud apps and get back to business in minutes, not hours.
- Octomind — Octomind is an AI-powered end-to-end web app testing tool that detects bugs before they are discovered by users. It develops automated software that runs UI tests to discover bugs.
- Zerve AI — Securely Unlock Gen AI & LLMs in Your Enterprise
Ian Madigan is a professional Rugby player at Ulster Rugby.
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Investment focus
- Privacy, Software, Cyber Security
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.
Brian Patterson
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Investment focus
- Delivery, Shipping, Software
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Scurri — Scurri is next generation delivery management software that puts retailers back in control. Explore our delivery management software today.
Constantin was the CEO of Gravitation, the private investment holding of Charles Beigbeder (founder of Selftrade and Poweo).He also worked as a Director of Strategy & Development at Bouygues Group.In 2000 Constantin co-founded E-Win (a marketing automation startup).He is a BCG and Arthur Andersen alumni.Constantin graduated fromESCP Business School.Constantin joined Otium in January 2015.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Domain Registrar, Internet of Things
- Series A
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- StartingDot — StartingDot launched in October 2011. They are the registry for 3 new generic top-level domain names (TLDs) dedicated to major sectors: .archi, .bio and .ski. Their TLDs help people and businesses clearly express themselves and reach deeper into their audiences. They are a leading European TLD Registry with offices in Dublin (Ireland), Paris(France) and New York City (USA). Their strategy is to focus on TLDs in SME categories where the correlation between trade and domain name is critical. The company was acquired by Afilias plc in August 2016.
Chris Murphy is a Venture Partner at MS&AD Ventures. He previously cofounded SaaStock and was an early Web Summit employee.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
- Renew Risk — Renew Risk is a software development firm that offers B2B SaaS solutions based on deep science for optimizing the financial lifetime of major renewable energy assets.
- Camion — Empowering real estate to lead the energy transition with data and insights.
Tony Smurfit is the Founder & CEO of Smurfit Kappa.
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Investment focus
- Video, Privacy, Software
- Seed, Series A
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.
- 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.
Nigel Byrne is an angel Investor and a former group CTO of Ooredoo.
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Investment focus
- Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Imvizar — Transform your buildings, office spaces, visitor attractions, and parks with an immersive and visual storytelling experience using augmented reality. Discover unique ways to tell your story at Imvizar.
Julia Hartz hopes to inspire people to live more by building the world's largest marketplace of live experiences. Since founding Eventbrite in 2006 with Kevin Hartz and Renaud Visage, the company has generated over $3 billion in gross ticket sales, with more than $200 million tickets processed to events and experiences around the globe.A key to this growth and success is the people of Eventbrite (fondly referred to as The Britelings), which has grown to nearly 400 employees in six offices around the world.Julia cultivates and advocates for Eventbrite's award-winning culture (voted Best Places to Work in the San Francisco Bay Area five years running). She has been honored as one of Inc.'s 35 under 35 in 2014 and Fortune's Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs in 2013.Julia is also a frequent speaker on live experiences, consumer trends and entrepreneurship, and has been recently featured in Forbes, Fortune, Bloomberg and Inc. Magazine. Previous to Eventbrite, Julia was a TV development executive at MTV and FX Networks.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, Ireland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Microverse — Want to learn how to code? Pay $0 until you become a software developer and land a job. Learn programming from the best online coding school and connect with a global community.
- Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.
- Glimpse — Create a distributed showroom experience without the hassle of a real showroom. Drive product discovery and track the customer journey with Glimpse's platform.
Scott Chacon is a Git evangelist and Ruby developer currently as the Cofounder & CEO of Chatterbug. He is the author of the Pro Git book by Apress, the Git Internals Peepcode PDF as well as the maintainer of the Git homepage and the Git Community Book.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Germany, France, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Nhost — A powerful serverless backend with: Database, GraphQL API, Authentication, Storage, Serverless Functions and more. Get started for free!
- Livebuy — Directly in your online shop. Customer engagement and sales like you wouldn't believe. Unleash the power of engaging, authentic, shoppable live video streams.
- Taktile — Taktile's no-code platform enables you to easily build automated decision flows and iterate on them in a data-driven way leveraging backtests and A/B testing.
Bill McCabe
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Investment focus
- Apps, Gaming, Mobile
- Funding Round
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- SynergySuite — SynergySuite is an international provider of award winning, cloud based enterprise back office software to leading global restaurant chains. SynergySuite offers a modular solution covering all critical business areas including inventory & procurement, recipe management, food safety, scheduling, cash management, human resources, and businessintelligence. After using SynergySuite our customers add between 4% to 6% per location to their bottom line. SynergySuite has been in the industry since 2011 and works with top restaurant chains like KFC, Macaroni Grill, BrewDog, Hawthorne Leisure and many more across the US, UK, and Ireland.
Henry Bolger
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Investment focus
- Water, Internet of Things, Water Purification
- Funding Round
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- H2ozone — H2Ozone patented Technology completely eradicates all harmful bacteria and pathogens from all water sources. Our compact, energy-efficient machines create and harness the natural phenomena of Ultra-Violet light and Ozone, plus Filtration, to produce an environmentally sustainable and chemical-free supply of the pure, clean, fresh water.AgriSafe™uses patented H2Ozone Technology to accurately control a naturally self-disinfecting supply of Pure Ozonated Water for: • Livestock and Hydroponic Cultures • Dairy and Veterinary FacilitiesRainSafe™ uses patented H2Ozone Technology to provide a chemical-free purification solution for all water sources to independently verified drinking water standards.RainSafe™ offers 24/7 365-day guaranteed pure drinking water solutions for: • Residential Premises • Commercial and Office Premises • Hospitality, Restaurants and Pubs • Nursing Home and Cleaning Services • Medical and Dental Practices • Schools, Colleges and Sports Halls … Anywhere that requires 24/7 365-day guaranteed pure drinking water.
Peter Gray has served as a member of our Board of Directors since May 2013. Peter Gray is a self-employed consultant to the pharmaceutical industry.In 2011, Peter Gray retired from ICON plc, a global provider of outsourced development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. From 2002 to 2011, he served as ChiefExecutive Officer of ICON plc. From 2001 to 2002, he held the position of Group Chief Operating Officer and from 1997 to 2001, the position of Chief Financial Officer, both within ICON. Peter Gray serves on the board of United Drug plc, an international provider of healthcare services.Peter Gray holds a degree in Law from Trinity College Dublin and is a chartered accountant.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Big Data
- Funding Round
- India, Ireland
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- Circit — Circit is a leading provider of audit confirmations, Open Banking verified transactions, PBC Collaboration and e-signatures all on one centralised platform.
- ZestMoney — Enjoy the convenience of shopping for electronic gadgets, fashion, travel, education on EMI without credit card. No debit card or credit score required!
Julie Zhuo is currently the co-founder of Inspirit, a product strategy, data and design advisory firm for high-growth tech companies. Before that she was the VP of Product Design for the Facebook app, where she helped scale the service from 10 million users to over 2 billion during her 13 years there. Her field guide to management, The Makingof a Manager, became an instant Wall Street Journal bestseller and was selected as one of Amazon's Best Business and Leadership Books of 2019. She writes about technology, design, and leadership on her popular blog and mailing list, The Looking Glass. She graduated with a computer science degree from Stanford University and lives with her husband and three children in California's Bay Area.
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- Software, Education, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Ireland
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- Captions — Say hello to Captions, the only camera and editing app that automatically transcribes, captions and clips your talking videos for you.
- Primer — Primer is the world's first community built for curious and ambitious kids to find and explore their interests together.
- Pineapple — Pineapple helps people make a stellar first impression every time, with a visual story that shows off their personality.
Founder of Foreword.vc, an early-stage micro fund backing startups throughout their initial chapters. Also advisor at Web Summit and EiR at Seedcamp.
Previously covering Europe for Techstars Ventures and founding member of Web Summits venture fund, Amaranthine.
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- Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- Werk — Werk is building a construction labor marketplace, that matches workers internationally to any country, all while automating the paperwork and HR. Our community provides trade union benefits, globally. Think of it as a mix of Deel & LinkedIn, but for construction that disrupts the European gray economy. Werk is building a digital identity forthe workers building our homes and offices.
- Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.
- Gradient Labs — Gradient Labs is an AI firm developing an operating system for AI agents to automate manual, repetitive tasks.
Before becoming CEO of Arkphire, Paschal Naylor held senior management positions in a number of Irish technology companies, including EDS Ireland where he was a director and Memorex Telex where he was finance manager. Prior to joining Memorex, Paschal worked in Mostek Ireland, General Foods and Bailey Gibson Ireland. He is a certified accountant(FCCA) and a graduate member of the Marketing Institute of Ireland (MMII).
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- FinTech, Finance, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Ireland
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- Kalibr8 — Optimize Your Business
- Aikido Finance — Create an investment portfolio for free online. Automated algorithmic trading and long term investment strategies.
Prabhu began his career by joining IBM’s EDA organization at East Fishkill where he was involved with many developments in the area of chip test automation. At IBM he developed the Podem algorithm and other technologies that earned him 4 patents and several awards. He left in 1981 to join Wang Labs where he was exposed to the commercial EDAindustry. He left Wang in 1982 to start Gateway Design Automation – the company that delivered the now industry standard Verilog-XL to the market. In 1989 he sold Gateway to Cadence and continued at Cadence for 2 more years. He left Cadence to become a private venture capitalist. Since 1992, he has been an investor and a Director in a number of private companies. In 1996 he sold one of his companies, Frontline Design Automation, to Avant Corporation for a second venture success. Several of his present investments are in the EDA industry. Prabhu completed his graduate studies from Carnegie Mellon.
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- Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
- Series C, Seed, Angel
- United States, Ireland
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- Aera Technology — Aera Technology is the Decision Intelligence company that makes business agility happen. In the era of digital acceleration, Aera helps enterprises around the world transform how they respond to the ever-changing environment
- PowWow Mobile — Redefine how work is done in the digital era. Our SmartUX, the rapid mobile app platform for the enterprise, simplifies and extends business apps to mobile.
- Verecho — Verecho is a mobile first enterprise software platform to enable companies to automate their people knowledge management. Connect to both structured and unstructured data sets and enable employees to find others based on free text search.
Julien Nguyen has 30 years of operational, entrepreneurial and early stage investment experience.Prior to NanoDimension, Julien was a Managing Director at Applied Materials Ventures and Concept Ventures. Julien led investments in companies such as Infinera (Nasdaq: INFN), M-Stream (acq’d by Broadcom), Devicescape, Grandis (acq’d by Samsung),Takumi (acq’d by Sagantec), Envis (acq’d by Magma), with co-investors including August Capital, Benchmark, Kleiner Perkins, Matrix Partners, Sevin Rosen, Sigma Partners. Prior to his venture capital activities, Julien founded or was part of the founding team for four startups: Ezlogin (acquired by 724 Solutions), Novita Communications (acquired by Planetweb), E-Motions (acquired by Sigma Designs), Radius (IPO). He holds 21 patents issued in the US.Julien received his postgraduate degree from Telecom Paris (France) and his Master of Science from Ecole Polytechnique (France).
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Investment focus
- Hardware, Software, Science/Engineering
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India, Latvia, Germany
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- POWWOW — Studio POWWOW is a transmedia and Animation Production company based in Dublin, Ireland. We specialize in the creation, development and production of entertainment content solutions across multiple platforms, including mobile, web and TV. Studio POWWOW is currently in development of its first major cross platform entertainment IP ‘The World ofShipAntics.’ The World of ShipAntics is an animated comedy adventure game being developed for iOS & Android devices. We will be developing The World of ShipAntics into Appisodes, a TV series, and more.
- Drivezy — Own the Experience, not the Car
- OQmented — Outstanding MEMS-based laser scanning for top-notch 3D environment perception and AR projections. Unmatched in terms of size, performance and reliability.
Ben Ward
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- SaaS, Customer Service, Business Intelligence
- Angel
- Ireland
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- ServiceDock — Attract, convert & retain more customers with the all-in-one messaging platform that connects your stores & website to consumers for service & feedback.
Bryan Meehan is the Co-Founder of NUDE Skincare.
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- Biotechnology, Sustainability, Machine Learning
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Estonia
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- LOLIWARE — LOLIWARE is rewriting the story of destructive packaging. By harnessing the power of seaweed to replace plastic at scale, LOLIWARE is tapping into its potential to regenerate our ocean and decarbonize our planet.
- Shellworks — Reimaging nature's packaging with beautifully sustainable, truly compostable alternatives to plastic for cosmetics and beauty products.
- 8B Education Investments — 8B African Education Investments helps African students succeed at global universities with tools, resources, and world-class support to master every step of their educational journey.
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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- Software, EdTech, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
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- 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 — Using Orbiit you can effortlessly connect members for 1:1 and small-group conversations based on their common interests and challenges.
Rob Pierre is the co-founder and CEO of Jellyfish, a digital partner to some of the world’s leading brands. Today, Jellyfish is at the forefront of the global digital economy, working with brands including Uber, eBay, Spotify, Ford, Aviva Investors, and ASOS.
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Investment focus
- B2B, Software, Marketing
- Series A, Funding Round
- Ireland, United Kingdom
Jim Fields is the Founder and Managing Director of Relay, a Beijing-based cross-border marketing agency that helps visionary Chinese tech companies to expand in Western markets. Fields founded Relay with the ambition to create the first truly global Chinese brand.With over 15 years of studying Chinese and 8 years in China, Fields’ focus has beenon helping Chinese tech brands creatively and effectively communicate and engage with Western audiences. His work has gained millions of views across various platforms, both in China and internationally, for clients such as Xiaomi, Tencent, Lenovo, Garmin, Hover Camera and many others.Prior to founding Relay, Fields was responsible for launching British agency Studio Output’s Chinese business arm, which grew over 300% in revenue during his three years with the company. Before this, Fields began his career in Silicon Valley at Adobe and has also worked at Nokia and Reckitt Benckiser in Beijing.With a wealth of knowledge of Chinese business culture and over 15 years speaking Mandarin Chinese, Fields has been tapped as an industry expert to speak at events including: CHat Shanghai, HAX, China Accelerator events, DayDayUp, Tsinghua X-Lab and more.
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- Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
- Seed
- Ireland
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- Imvizar — Imvizar focuses on life-size, location-based experiences that allow users to feel as if they've gone back in time, meeting renowned individuals and witnessing historical events all from the comfort of their own phone. Imvizar was founded by Michael Guerin and is located in Dublin, Ireland.
Frederik has more than 10 years of experience in consultancy, technology and operations for the cloud business. He has a passion for new digital product development and innovation. At Mambu, Frederik leads global business operations while supporting critical sales and delivery projects.
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- Software, Information Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Ireland
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- SKYSEED — Mit Drohnen und Saatpellets
- Solarize — Solarize provides SaaS for energy production, distribution and billing for commercial microgrids.
- CarbonSpaceTech — Carbon footprint data to facilitate climate-responsible decisions and to unleash the carbon offset potential
Charles Williams is an angel investor.
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- Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
- Seed
- Ireland
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- Imvizar — Imvizar focuses on life-size, location-based experiences that allow users to feel as if they've gone back in time, meeting renowned individuals and witnessing historical events all from the comfort of their own phone. Imvizar was founded by Michael Guerin and is located in Dublin, Ireland.
Joe is Openet’s founder. He has served on the Openet board and as CTO since Openet’s founding in 1999. Joe is the principal architect of Openet’s product portfolio and has over 45 patents in 5G technology. He is responsible for technology innovation in Openet and is also a joint winner of the European Entrepreneur of the Year (2012) and EYEntrepreneur of the Year (2011).
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- Professional Services, Administrative
- Series A
- Ireland
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- HR Duo — HR Duo provides HR Solutions & Consultancy in Dublin, Ireland.
Dave Wright was a former Chief Innovation Officer at ServiceNow.
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- SaaS, Software, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed
- Ireland
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- Interplay — Interplay connects and automates design and code workflows to align your entire product team around a single source of truth
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