Top 50 Enterprise Angel Investors in Ireland in May 2025
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 May 2025
Investor | Enterprise Ireland investments |
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Gareth Lambe | 5 |
Shane Naughton | 4 |
Brian Caulfield | 4 |
Liam Casey | 4 |
Des Traynor | 3 |
Bradley Horowitz | 3 |
Michael Dwyer | 3 |
Kevin Hartz | 3 |
Pa Nolan | 3 |
Anne Herarty | 3 |
Tom Kennedy | 3 |
Rob Hickey | 2 |
Constantin Pellissier | 2 |
Patrick Joy | 2 |
Ray Nolan | 2 |
Peter Crowley | 2 |
Chris Murphy | 2 |
David Shackleton | 2 |
Martin Ott | 2 |
Brian Patterson | 2 |
Hal Philipp | 2 |
Charlie Songhurst | 2 |
Ian Madigan | 2 |
Jared Messenger | 2 |
Sean Mullaney | 2 |
Dan Kiely | 2 |
Chris Adelsbach | 2 |
Chris Huskilson | 2 |
Tony Smurfit | 2 |
Nigel Byrne | 2 |
Peter O'Grady Walshe | 2 |
Andrej Henkler | 2 |
Gerry Devitt | 1 |
Cian Kinsella | 1 |
John Corcoran | 1 |
Jim Fields | 1 |
Dylan Field | 1 |
Harper Reed | 1 |
Phil Boddy | 1 |
Sean Mitchell | 1 |
Angus McMillian | 1 |
Julien Nguyen | 1 |
Bryan Meehan | 1 |
Daniel Curran | 1 |
Brian O'Driscoll | 1 |
Konstantin Sidorov | 1 |
Colm Lyon | 1 |
Jim Mullins | 1 |
Barry Brennan | 1 |
Julia Hartz | 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.
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.
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.
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.
- Paper — Paper is an digital canvas designed to help designers create and organize their work.
- SimpleStudy — SimpleStudy offers study and revision notes, quizzes, and past exam papers for Leaving Cert & Junior Cert to help Irish students succeed. Join SimpleStudy Ireland now to boost your grades.
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
- Catena Labs — Catena is a product studio where we transform complex computing advancements into accessible, practical tools for users and developers. Leveraging AI and web3 technology our aim is to turn innovative ideas into real-world applications that are easy to use.
- Odyssey — We're pioneering world models, the next frontier of artificial intelligence.
- Overture Life — We are making In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) more accessible than ever before while improving success rates. An embryology lab in a box.
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.
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.
Pa Nolan
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Investment focus
- Medical, Delivery, Shipping
- Seed, Funding Round
- Ireland, United Kingdom
Anne Heraty is the Chairperson of Sherry FitzGerald. Previously she was 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 — Increase CSAT without increasing cost with the AI QA & training platform that reviews 100% of your customer conversations. Generate individualized training simulations for human reps and refinement recommendations for AI agents.
- 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!
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.
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 — Zerve helps enterprises create computer vision solutions in minutes. Zerve is a cloud-based software service that makes it simple to develop reliable, consistent custom computer vision solutions. Zerve takes data privacy seriously, and its cutting-edge security mechanisms ensure the piece of mind regarding data protection that might be essentialfor businesses. By design, Zerve produces results that are simple to understand and support the inferences made by their models.
- Via Scientific — Via Scientific to help scientists and bioinformaticians generate novel science that improves the world. It was founded in 2022.
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.
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.
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 —
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.
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
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.
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 — IDnow provides advanced machine-learning technology for its Identity-as-a-Service platform that can verify identities in real time. The company's solutions guarantee legal security throughout Europe and the highest level of data security. The company provides a legally secure solution without additional hardware in the area of videoidentification of customers and electronic signatures.The company's offer is directed at all business customers who would like to provide customer identification and contract conclusion online, such as banks, telecommunications companies, Fintechs, etc. Its customer portfolio includes renowned firms such as Commerzbank, UBS, Sixt neuwagen, Telefónica, and N26.IDnow was founded on 2014 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.
- Mobius Labs — Multimodal AI for the world's scale. Fast, secure, and affordable technology for visual, audio, and text applications.
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.
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.
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
- Granola — Granola takes your raw meeting notes and makes them awesome. No awkward meeting bots - just beautiful notes for you and your team, every single time.
- Dex — Dex is a SaaS company that offers an AI assistant to act as user's personal talent agent and scan the tech market for next opportunity.
- Grouphug — Generates memes from the archive of group WhatsApp chats
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.
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
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 — Zerve helps enterprises create computer vision solutions in minutes. Zerve is a cloud-based software service that makes it simple to develop reliable, consistent custom computer vision solutions. Zerve takes data privacy seriously, and its cutting-edge security mechanisms ensure the piece of mind regarding data protection that might be essentialfor businesses. By design, Zerve produces results that are simple to understand and support the inferences made by their models.
Dan Kiely is CEO and Co-Founder of Voxpro, a premium provider of high end outsourcing services exclusively to the disruptive technology market. Dan thrives in the entrepreneurial realm. He dreams big & encourages innovation in all aspects of his company. Dan is a man of passion and creativity. Find the limit and he will smash it. Voxpro’svision has always been driven by Dan’s desire to create something unique, something unforgettable. With its 2,000+ strong work force across multiple locations in Ireland, the U.S., Romania and shortly, the Philippines, Voxpro touches the lives of hundreds of thousands of people every year, all over the world. Voxpro has a rapidly expanding geographic footprint and well considered location roll-out plan. A growing partner list includes some of the most powerful technology companies in the world. Voxpro’s partners are of great inspiration to Dan. He resonates with their entrepreneurial spirit and they, with his. Dan’s tenure at the helm continues to steer Voxpro on an exciting and successful journey. Audacious and relentless, his dreams for the company know no bounds.
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Investment focus
- Human Resources, Software, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Talivest — Talivest optimises an intelligent ecosystem for hi-tech, high-growth companies by gathering insights throughout the employee lifecycle. Talivest’s solution uses machine learning and predictive analytics to help companies measure, build and maintain high performance.
- Solidroad — Increase CSAT without increasing cost with the AI QA & training platform that reviews 100% of your customer conversations. Generate individualized training simulations for human reps and refinement recommendations for AI agents.
- SISU Aesthetic Clinic — SISU is a collection of doctor-led, patient-centric aesthetic medical clinics.
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
- Alfa AI — Alfa AI is a recruitment technology company specializing in AI-driven hiring solutions.
- WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
- Camion — Empowering real estate to lead the energy transition with data and insights.
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
- Mysa — Get Mysa Smart Thermostats to save money and energy with the free Mysa app! Best wifi thermostats for electric baseboard heaters. Remote access. Easy install. Utility rebates. Designed in Canada. Free shipping.
- XOCEAN — Using unmanned surface vessels (USVs), XOCEAN offers turnkey data collection services to Surveyors, Companies and Agencies.
Tony Smurfit is the Founder & CEO of Smurfit Kappa.
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Investment focus
- Publishing, Video, Privacy
- Seed, Series A
- Ireland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ufurnish.com — ufurnish.com is the home for furniture discovery. Search, discover, compare and shop furniture online across the entire retail market on one website.
- 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.
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.
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
Gerry Devitt is a Managing Director at Harvest Financial Services
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Investment focus
- Software, Analytics, Machine Learning
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Graphite Note — A no-code ML builder that lets data analysts create ML models in minutes. Turn your data into actionable insights instantly, and power your AI agents with ease.
Cian Kinsella founded or co-founded a number of successful companies in the software space. Experiences at director-level in software development, customer services and sales, and as an entrepreneur and CEO have taught me what it takes to run a successful software business: how to build teams, develop high quality software products and services,build a customer base, communicate with investors, and to bring a company to profitability while remaining focussed on a clear vision throughout.Cian Kinsella still enjoy the act of software development and have been personally responsible for a significant amount of the software at my recent projects digiprove.com, and giveandbuy.ie. Cian Kinsella work with software companies or IT divisions that need professional help in leadership, quality software development, product management and/or other areas. Experience helps me to to quickly identify achievable ways of improving overall performance or solving particular problems. Cian Kinsella am interested in interim C-level positions, short focussed projects, consultancy, or non-executive appointments.
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Investment focus
- Software, Employment, Web Development
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Time Warden — 1time is a user friendly, feature packed time tracking software that helps businesses increase productivity & profitablity.
Dublin-based John Corcoran (89) co-founded the hugely successful Paddy Power chain of bookmakers in 1988 along with David Power and Stewart Kenny. At a time when big brands were taking over the market, the three men joined their three independent chains to become a force to be reckoned with. Corcoran remains a shareholder in Paddy Power Betfair,although he has sold off tranches for 'estate planning' purposes in recent years. John died in June 2019.
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Investment focus
- Video, Publishing, Social Media
- Series A
- 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.
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 — 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.
Dylan Field is the CEO and Co-founder of Figma, a design and prototyping platform for teams who build products together. With the support of the Thiel Fellowship, Dylan dropped out of Brown University to start Figma with his TA Evan Wallace (who became Figma’s CTO). They built Figma on the web in the hopes of tearing down the walls around thesiloed design process. Dylan champions open, accessible design and believes such tooling must evolve for a cloud-based, collaborative world. He tweets @zoink
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- Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand
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- Resend — Build, test, and send transactional emails at scale.
- Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.
- Rain Industries — Every wildfire starts small. Rain contains wildfires within 10 minutes of ignition with autonomous drones.
Harper Reed is the CEO of General Galactic Corporation. He previously worked at Braintree as the Head of Commerce. He attended Cornell College.
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- Internet, Community/Lifestyle, Media and Entertainment
- Angel
- Ireland
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- 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.
Phil is an experienced equity derivatives broker working for Sunrise Brokers LLP, part of the BGC Partners Group. He is also an Angel Investor focused on post-seed early ventures.
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- Financial, Software, Apps
- Equity Crowdfunding, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Ireland, Pakistan
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- &Open — For businesses that gift to give back, share joy, or show they care. All you need is an email.
- 24seven.pk — 24seven.pk is using tech and data to digitize and disrupt the fresh food and FMCG verticals in one of the fastest-growing and rapidly evolving consumer markets in the world.
- AxiaFunder — AxiaFunder is a litigation funding platform, providing litigation finance to claimants and pre-vetted funding investment opportunities to sophisticated investors.
Sean Mitchell is the Chairman and Chief Commercial Officer at Ubotica Technologies.
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- Toys, Internet, Analytics
- Seed, Series A
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- HoloToyz — HoloToyz is a line of animated children's products that use augmented reality to inspire creativity and imagination. Our products will amaze and amaze people of all ages with never-before-seen animations.
- Glimpse — Glimpse empowers 'bricks-and-mortar' retailers with the same level of shopper data as their online counterparts, driving revenues with data.
Angus McMillian
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- News, SaaS, Big Data
- Funding Round
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- NewsWhip — The only real-time media monitoring platform that predicts the stories and topics that will matter in the hours ahead.
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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- 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.
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.
Daniel Curran is the Founder and CEO at CustEx.com.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Brazil
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- CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
- RentoMojo — RentoMojo is an online furniture rental platform that was incorporated in November 2014.It currently operates in Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida.RentoMojo was founded by Geetansh Bamania, an ex-IITM, in November 2014 in India. Like many other young working professionals, he was living in rented apartments,working long hours and found it inconvenient to equip the house with furniture when he moved. RentoMojo was developed to provide an alternative to buying and selling furniture in rental properties.
- GC Plus — Find Your Next Home Service Expert With Ease
Brian O'Driscoll
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- Software, Employment, Web Development
- Seed
- Ireland
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- 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.
Konstantin Sidorov is a successful entrepreneur and visionary in the information technology sector. He is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the exclusive London Technology Club, a platform for potential investors and technology professionals to co-invest, network and exchange ideas.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Information Services
- Funding Round
- Ireland
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- Channel Mechanics — Channel Program Automation Platform enabling you to design, deploy & track sales promotions and programs in real-time with Channel Mechanics.
Colm Lyon - Founder and CEO @ Fire Financial Services
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Investment focus
- Local, Guides, Travel
- Seed, Angel
- Ireland
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- dbTwang —
- LikeWhere — LikeWhere's service helps travel brands identify the individual interests of their customers, so they can personalise their digital engagement, generating more revenues. LikeWhere utilises ‘affinity-marketing’ techniques deployed by brands including Amazon, Spotify & Netflix (‘others like you also liked this’), enabling travel brands tooptimise their retail strategy.
- Pundit Arena —
Jim Mullins
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Investment focus
- News, SaaS, Big Data
- Funding Round
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- NewsWhip — The only real-time media monitoring platform that predicts the stories and topics that will matter in the hours ahead.
Barry Brennan
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Customer Service, Business Intelligence
- Angel
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- ServiceDock — ServiceDock helps multi-unit businesses like retail chains and restaurant groups thrive in a digital world by enabling them to capture feedback and provide customer service at store level via the messaging apps consumers love using while delivering reports and insights to head office.
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
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- 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.
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