Top 5 Finance Angel Investors in Ireland in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 5 angel investors that invest in Finance startups based in Ireland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Finance companies from Ireland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Finance Angel Investors in Ireland in January 2026

Investor	Finance Ireland investments
Declan Kelly	2
Arjun Sethi	1
Lorcan Tiernan	1
Howard Roberts	1
Paschal Naylor	1

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Investor list

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Loctax — Complete oversight of global tax compliance obligations and risks in a single platform built for in-house tax teams.
Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.
Overwatch Research — Generate accurate in vivo study data as a part of your efficient, connected R&D.

Arjun Sethi is the Co-CEO of Kraken Digital Asset Exchange. He attended the University of Maryland.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Nibiru Chain — Nibiru is a smart contract ecosystem with a high-performance, EVM-equivalent execution layer. Nibiru is engineered to meet the growing demand for versatile, scalable, and easy-to-use Web3 applications.
Slingshot AI — Slingshot AI is a mental health research lab building a foundation model for psychology. Our mission is to use AI to make mental health care more accessible, and to help people change their minds and lives the way they want to.
Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees

Lorcan Tiernan is a former partner in law firm Dillon Eustace.

Investment focus

Finance, Accounting, Financial Services
Funding Round
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Fitzgerald Power — Trusted accountants and business advisors in Ireland to pharmacies, SMEs and scaling companies with audit, tax, corporate finance, and growth strategies.

Howard Roberts

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Hospital
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Kalibr8 — Kalibr8 cloud optimization SaaS delivers automated and easy-to-use cloud-cost solutions to organizations through Managed Service Providers and Distributors. Kalibr8’s automated cloud optimization capabilities allow MSPs to manage their customer's cloud resources easily. No coding, No scripting, No hassle.
PacSana — PacSana provides critical insight and understanding of user’s movement and health status. It uses a combination of sensors and expert systems to monitor critical user data and predict possible health events.
STRATxAI — Create an investment portfolio for free online. Automated algorithmic trading and long term investment strategies.

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).