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Top 45 Finance Startup Investors in Ireland

A list of 45 angel investors and VC funds 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 45 Finance Startup Investors in Ireland

Investor Finance Ireland investments
Enterprise Ireland 5
Frontline Ventures 5
Lifeline Ventures 2
Finch Capital 2
CIFL Ltd 2
LocalGlobe 2
NDRC 1
G1 Ventures 1
Enterprise Equity 1
Declan Kelly 1
Blackstone Group 1
Proxy Ventures 1
Speedinvest 1
FinTech Growth Fund Europe GmbH & Co KG 1
Firebolt Ventures 1
Left Lane Capital 1
JP Morgan 1
FEXCO 1
Goldman Sachs 1
Global Founders Capital 1
Mosaic Ventures 1
Rocket Internet 1
SITAM 1
Byld Ventures 1
AIB Seed Capital Fund 1
VU Venture Partners 1
Zinal Growth 1
Polar Light Ventures 1
RR² CAPITAL 1
Oddiyana Ventures 1
Megala Ventures 1
COSIMO Ventures 1
UNIQA Ventures 1
Middlegame Ventures 1
West Loop Ventures 1
Octopus Ventures 1
GoAhead Ventures 1
Paschal Naylor 1
Bias Capital 1
Howard Roberts 1
Arjun Sethi 1
AAF Management Ltd. 1
AAF Management Ltd. 1
Studio VC 1
KCK 1
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Enterprise Ireland VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 17 investments in the past 12 months
Enterprise Ireland is the government agency responsible for the development and funding of the indigenous business sector. Their mission is to accelerate the development of companies to achieve strong positions in global markets resulting in increased national and regional prosperity. It was founded in 1998 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Xocean — Using unmanned surface vessels (USVs), XOCEAN offers turnkey data collection services to Surveyors, Companies and Agencies.
  • Lua Health — We believe the future of well-being is in prevention and early detection. Getting the right help, at the right time.
  • MarketSizer — MarketSizer offers subscription-based competitive intelligence and market insights for SaaS vendors who want to strategically grow their business.
Frontline Ventures VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Frontline is the venture firm for globally ambitious B2B companies on both sides of the Atlantic. Frontline Seed speeds up ideas at inception across Europe. Frontline X is a growth-stage fund, for fast and frictionless US-Europe expansion.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • StrongDM — Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy.
  • DUDE CHEM — DUDE CHEM is a leading company in green chemical manufacturing based in Berlin.
  • JustParent — Parental leave insurance for businesses
Lifeline Ventures VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Lifeline Ventures Oy is a venture capital firm specializing in startups, growth capital, and early stage investments. The firm seeks to invest in healthcare, games, web based and general high technology sectors. It seeks to invest in Finland with a few investments made outside Finland as well. The firm targets investing between €0.5 million ($0.66million) and €1 million ($1.32 million). It seeks make inception to Series A investments. Lifeline Ventures Oy was founded in November 2009 and is based in Helsinki, Finland.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Mjuk — Marketplace for pre-owned, unique design furniture
  • Risk Ledger — Risk Ledger ensures your supply chain security by providing tools to run and respond to cyber security-led, third-party risk management programmes at scale.
  • Solar Foods — The Finnish company Solar Foods Oy produces an entirely new kind of nutrient-rich protein using only air and electricity as the main resources. The goal of the company is to start commercial production of the environmentally revolutionary protein in 2020.Solar Foods’ concept redefines the basics of food production, as it is not dependent onagriculture, the weather, or the climate. The price of the protein product is also competitive compared to sources such as soy protein.
Finch Capital VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
Backing entrepreneurs to build Financial Technology market leaders in Europe and South East Asia. Finch Capital invests in financial services, real estate tech, insurance tech, etc.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • eflow — Regulatory Compliance solutions for Market Abuse, Best Execution and Regulatory Reporting. Trade Surveillance, Regulatory Reporting and Trade Lifecycle Management.
  • NomuPay — NomuPay's Unified Payments Platform provides local acceptance and payouts in Southeast Asia, Europe and Turkey via a single system integration.
  • Fourthline — Comply with KYC and AML regulations throughout the customer lifecycle with Fourthline's bank-grade identity platform.
CIFL Ltd VC Fund · Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Cambrist — Cambrist - Payments Regulation, EU2019/518, Cross Border Payments Regulation, Multi-Currency Wallets, Foreign Exchange, Payment Cards, Mastercard, Visa
LocalGlobe VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 14 investments in the past 12 months
Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
  • MNZL — MNZL is on a mission to expand access to capital for Egyptians.Every person who owns an asset has accumulated wealth in it. When they want liquidity for their projects and needs, they should be able to tap into it as easily as withdrawing from a bank.With an innovative digital platform and products, we are working on making digital access tocapital a reality, and building the future of asset-backed financing in Africa.
  • CuspAI — CuspAI is a revolutionary AI startup that is developing a platform for next-generation materials to address global sustainability and renewable energy concerns. CuspAI uses cutting-edge generative AI, deep learning, and molecular simulation to accelerate the material design process. Their platform works similarly to a search engine for materials,allowing users to request certain properties for new materials on demand.
  • Human Native AI — A platform to control and compensate creative works used to train AI.
NDRC VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in the past 12 months
NDRC builds high-impact new ventures. By providing the people, time, space and investment needed at the earliest stages of dedicated commercialisation work, NDRC is creating companies worthy of commercial investment and with the ability to scale. The NDRC team has the breadth of knowledge and expertise in technology and markets. NDRC worksside-by-side with researchers, entrepreneurs and venture teams to turn great ideas into successful new ventures.By the end of 2014, NDRC’s portfolio of startup ventures had secured a cumulative €88m in follow-on investment from commercial investors, with a combined market capitalisation of approx. €220m.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Nory AI — All of your restaurant operations managed in one platform, powered by AI. Tools that fuel better decision making and fatter profit margins.
  • Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.
  • Ceartas DMCA — Ceartas is the leader in piracy protection for creators, brands & enterprise. Powered by AI, we have the highest removal rate in the industry
G1 Ventures VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Investing in a decentralized world
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Azuro — Powerful tooling, oracle & liquidity solutions for any EVM predictions & gaming ecosystem
  • Altitude — Actively managed collateralised loans
  • Arkis - DeFi Prime Broker — Arkis facilitates the provision of the most capital-efficient undercollateralized leverage for DeFi financial institutions and traders. Accelerating the maturity of DeFi.
Enterprise Equity VC Fund · Dundalk, Louth, Ireland
Enterprise Equity (or EEVC) is an excellent for providing capital to early stage and expanding business throughout Ireland.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Medical Device
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series B
  • Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Phorest — Join 8000+ spas, barbers, hair, beauty and nail salon owners using the #1 management, scheduling, POS and appointment booking system. Try Phorest now!
  • SurgaColl — SurgaColl Technologies is a medical device company developing novel tissue regeneration products for the surgical treatment of diseases of the bone, cartilage and other human tissue. Based on technology developed at the Tissue Engineering Research Group (TERG) of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), headed by Professor Fergal O’Brien,the company aims to become a leader in the field of regenerative medical devices.
  • Metabolomic Diagnostics — Metabolomic Diagnostics is a deep-tech company specialized in the development of novel biomarker based diagnostic solutions for complex diseases. The company has developed an effective pipeline to firstly identify diagnostic biomarker panels and then translate these panels into clinical assays ready for application in the clinical laboratory.Thispipeline combines the biomarker multiplexing capabilities of Mass Spectrometry, a powerful analytical technology, with the company’s own informatics and statistics solutions to deliver diagnostic innovation. This is reflected in Metabolomic Diagnostics’ strong and versatile IP portfolio of technical innovations and biomarkers.Our VisionMetabolomic Diagnostics’ primary vision is to develop a portfolio of diagnostic solutions which can determine, early in a woman’s pregnancy,her risk of developing major complications much later in her pregnancy and thus enabling personalized care, adapted to each woman’s individual needs. Pregnancy complications like preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, preterm birth, and in-uterine growth restriction, all have the potential to severely impact on the well-being of mother and child.The company’s innovative diagnostic solutions will assist clinicians in re-imagining how these conditions are managed: our novel risk assessment tools are specifically developed in conjunction with prenatal care providers to ensure they make a difference that really matters. This in turn will enable clinicians to improve pregnancy outcomes globally.Our solutions will empower pregnant women: accurate pregnancy risk information will allow a pregnant woman, in partnership with her care provider, to determine what prenatal care is best for her pregnancy.
Declan Kelly Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Tactic — Generate new customer insights using AI from web, internal, and 3rd party data in a few clicks.
  • Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.
Blackstone Group VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Blackstone Group is a private equity firm that invests in private equity, real estate, public debt, equity, non-investment grade credit, real assets, and secondary funds.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Software, Information Technology
  • Private Equity, Series B, Series C
  • United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
  • 7 Brew Coffee — Visit 7 Brew for an elevated coffee drive-thru experience.
  • Salas O'Brien — Salas O'Brien is a national leading Facilities Planning, Commissioning, Construction Management and Mechanical, Electrical.
  • Context Therapeutics — Context Therapeutics is advancing medicines for female cancers
Proxy Ventures VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
We have created brands for startup successes Supercell, Oura, Peak, Festicket and Fy! Being investors, we have an uniquely commercial branding approach.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Marketplace, Mobile Apps
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • United Kingdom, Finland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Argent — Easily buy, earn, stake and invest in crypto on Starknet. Join over 2 million Argent users and get the best of Ethereum for a fraction of the cost.
  • Elo Health — Elo Health pioneers in delivering Smart Nutrition through personalized supplements, formulated with scientific precision to meet your unique health and performance goals.
  • Five Lives — Five Lives, your brain health coach. Take the risk assessment and start improving your brain health today!
Speedinvest VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 45 investments in the past 12 months
Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, United Kingdom, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • planqc — planqc quantum computers store information in individual atoms – nature's best qubits. Quantum information is processed by arranging these qubits in highly scalable arrays and manipulating them with precisely controlled laser pulses. planqc unique combination of quantum technologies is the fastest way to scale to thousands of qubits, aprerequisite for industry-relevant quantum advantage.
  • Prewave — Supplier monitoring for purchasing, supply chain management and sustainability managers.
  • forward earth — Next-Gen carbon management for a sustainable future. AI-driven, automated, compliant, fast, and secure. Be prepared for requirements of CSRD, SFRD, EU-Taxonomy, and kick-start your carbon reduction and abatement program. White-label options for partners.
FinTech Growth Fund Europe GmbH & Co KG VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria
Joint FinTech Investment Vehicle of RBI's CVC Elevator Ventures GbmH and UNIQA Ventures GmbH
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Investment focus
  • Finance, E-Commerce
  • Seed
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Wayflyer — Wayflyer offers growth financing to eCommerce companies like yours. Sign up, connect your store and analytics, and receive funding offer today.
Firebolt Ventures VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Firebolt Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. The firm focuses on early-stage and seed-stage investments in companies that operate within the industries involved with digital media, mobile, software, e-commerce, and information technology. Moreover, the firm takes an algorithmic approach to investing.FireboltVentures was started in 2014 by Cherian Mathew.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Simbian — Simbian AI is your trusted partner for integrating secure and intelligent AI solutions into your business. Join our waitlist and stay ahead with cutting-edge AI technology.
  • Ema — Ema is developing next-generation AI technologies to help every employee in the workplace be their most creative and productive. Ema is a seamless, accurate, and secure Enterprise Generative AI system that simplifies complex tasks using enterprise tools.
  • Zingly — Zingly is currently operating in stealth mode.
Left Lane Capital VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 14 investments in the past 12 months
Left Lane Capital is a venture capital and seed-growth equity firm that invests in high-growth internet and consumer technology businesses that are fundamental to the human condition and spirit – where customers maintain a long-term relationship with the product, platform, or service.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Series A, Series B, Series D
  • United States, Germany, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Polycam — Capture reality with Polycam's LiDAR scanner & photogrammetry. Make 3D scans and download 3D models. Available on iPhone, iPad, Android and Web.
  • Modal.io — Modal is a Mastery Platform that gives every employee the skills they need to do better work by teaching them the technical skills to understand the context or the 'why' and the 'how'' in every step of the process.
  • AstroTalk — AstroTalk is a platform to consult best Astrologers of India online, on-call, or through chat. The company was founded in 2017 and based in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
JP Morgan VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
JP Morgan is a financial institution. It offers asset management, commercial banking, investment banking, merchant services, securities services, treasury and payments, and wealth management services.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Funding Round, Debt Financing, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Mirakl — Mirakl offers the industry’s advanced enterprise marketplace SaaS platform. With Mirakl, organizations across B2B and B2C industries can launch marketplaces faster, grow bigger, and operate with confidence as they exceed rising customer expectations. Platforms are the new competitive advantage in eCommerce, and the world’s most trusted brandschoose Mirakl for its comprehensive solution of technology, expertise, and the Mirakl Connect ecosystem to unlock the power of the platform business model for them. As a result, companies like ABB, Astore by AccorHotels, Best Buy Canada, Carrefour, Catch, Changi Airport, Darty, The Kroger Co., Leroy Merlin, Maisons du Monde, Metro, and Toyota Material Handling gain the speed, scale, and agility to win in the changing eCommerce landscape. For more information: www.mirakl.com.
  • New Era Cap — New Era Cap Co. is an international lifestyle brand with an authentic sports heritage that dates back 100 years. New Era is your online hat store for all MLB, NBA & NFL teams. Shop Fitted, Snapback & Adjustable Hats, today.
  • Exsilio Therapeutics — Exsilio's method is based on naturally occurring genetic elements that can accurately insert new genes into cells via RNA intermediate templates. Exsilio employs predictive in-silico modeling and wet lab-based experiments to create such elements for accurate insertion of therapeutic genes into safe harbor regions of disease-relevant cells.
FEXCO VC Fund · Killorglin, Kerry, Ireland
Fexco is a world leader in innovative FinTech, Payments & Business Solutions, with operations across 29 countries worldwide.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Finance, Fitness
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Cambrist — Cambrist - Payments Regulation, EU2019/518, Cross Border Payments Regulation, Multi-Currency Wallets, Foreign Exchange, Payment Cards, Mastercard, Visa
  • LegitFit — LegitFit is there to help you from first sale to scale! Our leading software solution is everything you need to run & grow a successful business. It's easy to use, affordable, and integrates powerful tools for bookings, payments, and communication!
Goldman Sachs VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 23 investments in the past 12 months
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Funding Round, Series C, Series B
  • United States, India, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Clip — Clip is changing card acceptance in Mexico, offering different models of portable card-reading hardware to accept all credit and debit cards as well as other solutions. More than a device to accept all cards, Clip is an ally focused on empowering Mexican businesses.
  • PharmEasy — PharmEasy is one of India's most trusted online pharmacy & medical stores offering pharmaceutical and healthcare products at a FLAT 20% OFF*. Used by 50 lakhs+ customers in India in 1.2K+ cities like Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Gurgaon, Noida, Pune, etc.
  • TORL BioTherapeutics — TORL BioTherapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical business focused on creating innovative, antibody-based medicines to improve the lives of cancer patients. They are developing a comprehensive pipeline of innovative preclinical ADCs and mAb in oncologic diseases with high unmet medical needs.
Global Founders Capital VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 19 investments in the past 12 months
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Carv.com — Carv's AI recruiting platform is designed to take over repetitive admin tasks related to intakes and interviews, for a renewed focus on the candidate.
  • Elevate Pay — Bloom mobile banking app helps in money transfer in Sudan.
  • Amica Finance — Jupiter's consumer-focused neo-banking startup Amica Finance operates as an NBFC non-banking finance company.
Mosaic Ventures VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in the past 12 months
We back founders who are reimagining the world. We invest $1-10m early, in those building daring adventures in Europe.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Parloa — Transform your customer service across all channels with our customized, enterprise-ready contact center AI platform.
  • Coram AI — Secure your business with cloud based security cameras from Coram AI. Remotely monitor your property with advanced AI security cloud camera systems. Book a demo.
  • Podcastle — Podcastle is the simplest way to create professional-quality podcasts. Record, edit, transcribe, and export your content with the power of AI, in an intuitive web-based platform.
Rocket Internet VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Rocket Internet incubates, builds, develops operationally and strategically invests in internet and technology companies globally. It provides operational support to its companies and helps them scale internationally. Rocket Internet's selected companies are active in a large number of countries around the world.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Germany, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Apata — Apata the go-to fraud prevention provider for fintech issuers.
  • Knoma — Search hundreds of courses from leading schools and bootcamps. Learn now and pay later with Knoma and spread the cost with ethical finance
  • The Coterie — https://blog.thecoterie.co/introducing-the-coterie-34e739cb85dcThe Coterie builds financial software for people who may make more from assets than salary. We offer founders access to venture capital investments, estate planning strategies and, coming soon, lending products. Our founders—Ethan Agarwal, Jeson Patel, and ChrisBoies—have all founded and sold companies before. We built The Coterie, alongside our incredible team, because we saw the need for these products first hand, and we created the world we want to live in. We’ve raised $50M in funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz. Other investors include Garry Tan (Midas List), Gokul Rajaram (IFKYK), Mar Hershenson (Midas List), Stanley Tang (Doordash co-founder), and more. Loans are made by Coterie Finance LLCLoans are made by Coterie Finance LLC. Investment advisory services provided through The Coterie Management Co LLC. Not investing advice, no guarantee of future results.
SITAM VC Fund
Angel Investment Firm
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
  • Seed
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Cambrist — Cambrist - Payments Regulation, EU2019/518, Cross Border Payments Regulation, Multi-Currency Wallets, Foreign Exchange, Payment Cards, Mastercard, Visa
Byld Ventures VC Fund · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Fintech founders backing fintech founders
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Ireland, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Apata — Apata the go-to fraud prevention provider for fintech issuers.
  • Anchor — Anchor is building the infrastructure needed for businesses to build, launch, and scale banking and payment solutions.
  • Cleva — For anyone with global financial needs, A US-based dollar account in your name to receive, hold, and save USD, even as a non-US resident.
AIB Seed Capital Fund VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
The AIB Seed Capital Fund was established in 2007 to provide venture capital for companies at the seed and early stages of development across a range of sectors throughout the Republic of Ireland. The Fund was established under the Enterprise Ireland Seed and Venture Capital Programme 2007-2012.The Fund has a total of €30m under managementwith AIB and Enterprise Ireland both committing €15m. It is managed by experienced managers with extensive expertise in making seed and early stage investments, adding value and facilitating business success.The Fund managers are empowered to make seed investments of up to approximately €500,000. Furthermore, the Fund has the capacity to make investments in later rounds to support the continued growth of investee companies.The Fund will be managed by Enterprise Equity Venture Capital and the Dublin Business Innovation Centre. This unique partnership brings together extensive regional and investment expertise.Enterprise Equity will evaluate and manage all investments outside the city and county of Dublin, as well as investments that require in excess of €250,000 from the fund within the city and county of Dublin.Dublin Business Innovation Centre (DBIC) will evaluate and manage all investments within the city and county of Dublin when the initial investment amount required from the Fund does not exceed €250,000.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Medical
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Ireland, United States, Jersey
Portfolio highlights
  • NewsWhip — The only real-time media monitoring platform that predicts the stories and topics that will matter in the hours ahead.
  • Offr — Offr is the new way to buy and sell property, quickly and transparently.
  • Metabolomic Diagnostics — Metabolomic Diagnostics is a deep-tech company specialized in the development of novel biomarker based diagnostic solutions for complex diseases. The company has developed an effective pipeline to firstly identify diagnostic biomarker panels and then translate these panels into clinical assays ready for application in the clinical laboratory.Thispipeline combines the biomarker multiplexing capabilities of Mass Spectrometry, a powerful analytical technology, with the company’s own informatics and statistics solutions to deliver diagnostic innovation. This is reflected in Metabolomic Diagnostics’ strong and versatile IP portfolio of technical innovations and biomarkers.Our VisionMetabolomic Diagnostics’ primary vision is to develop a portfolio of diagnostic solutions which can determine, early in a woman’s pregnancy,her risk of developing major complications much later in her pregnancy and thus enabling personalized care, adapted to each woman’s individual needs. Pregnancy complications like preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, preterm birth, and in-uterine growth restriction, all have the potential to severely impact on the well-being of mother and child.The company’s innovative diagnostic solutions will assist clinicians in re-imagining how these conditions are managed: our novel risk assessment tools are specifically developed in conjunction with prenatal care providers to ensure they make a difference that really matters. This in turn will enable clinicians to improve pregnancy outcomes globally.Our solutions will empower pregnant women: accurate pregnancy risk information will allow a pregnant woman, in partnership with her care provider, to determine what prenatal care is best for her pregnancy.
VU Venture Partners VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 investments in the past 12 months
A multi-stage investment fund focused on Consumer, Enterprise, Fintech, Frontier, Healthcare, & PropTech
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Colombia, India
Portfolio highlights
  • AOA — AOA based in Boston, New York, and London developing cancer diagnostics in the field of women’s health.AOA is a female-led company, is committed to bringing the first accurate early-stage liquid biopsy ovarian cancer diagnostic test to market that will improve clinical practice, help reduce patient mortality and deliver cost savings to payers.
  • Orchard Robotics — We develop advanced camera systems and computer vision software to enable precision crop load management for growers.
  • Isaac Health — Isaac Health is an online memory clinic for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of dementia and other brain health conditions.
Zinal Growth VC Fund · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Zinal Growth is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
  • Whop — One-stop-shop for all the latest and greatest digital products to help you earn online. From trading software to reselling communities, we've got you.
  • Bloom Money — Bloom Money is a savings club app designed to help growing communities in migrant communities and use technology to promote community, safety, and convenience.
  • Pledge — Pledge makes it simple for businesses of every size to measure, reduce and offset the climate impact of their products.
Polar Light Ventures VC Fund · Zug, Zug, Switzerland
Polar Light Ventures provides early stage capital to technology firms in Europe
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, E-Commerce, Marketplace
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Parabel — Parabel Nutrition operates in the U.S. through its subsidiary, Parabel USA Inc. in Florida. Parabel's proprietary technology enables the company to grow, harvest, and process water lentils –Latin name Lemnaceae – to create feed and food products for global markets in a consistent and profitable manner. The company delivers quality products atcompetitive prices due to sustainable growth, high product yields, and high quality.Parabel has developed a highly scalable and flexible solution, based on replicable growth increments, enabling phased construction and production of LENTEIN protein. LENTEIN received the innovations award from the highly regarded Institute of Food Technology in Chicago. The food industry is constantly looking for ways to source allergen-free plant proteins and LENTEIN is a complete solution. It is the only plant protein ingredient with an amino acid score of 1.0 which is the definition of a complete protein by WHO.Parabel provides a sustainable solution for food security, through a unique production process resulting in a protein ingredient with estimated neutral water and carbon footprint without the need for arable land.With successful testing and validation completed in USA, Africa, Asia, and Latin America, Parabel is now fully commercial in Florida, USA.Parabel presents the opportunity to invest profitably in a new sustainable technology designed to meet the substantial and rapidly growing demand for food and feed.
  • AUTO1 Fintech — AUTO1 Fintech is a digital platform offering instant financing and insurance products to automobile dealerships buying and selling used vehicles via AUTO1.
  • Myos — Myos was started in 2018 in Berlin by experienced e-commerce and financial experts. As a fintech company, they are rethinking working capital, dedicated to helping merchants globally grow to scale, fully digital and flexible. In doing so, they go completely new ways of assessing risks and collateral based on big data and machine learning, whichonly became possible with marketplaces such as Amazon.
RR² CAPITAL VC Fund · Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
RR2 Capital is a venture capital firm that provides investment services.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, FinTech, Bitcoin
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Bulgaria, Seychelles, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Aleph Zero — Discover Aleph Zero, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the adoption and development of decentralized technologies. Learn about our mission to create a secure blockchain ecosystem and develop secure smart contracts that power the decentralized world.
  • STAGE — Always-on music competitions powered by the blockchain. Vote for your favorite artists and share their success.
  • Dolomite.io — Dolomite.io is a simple & secure decentralized crypto exchange.
Oddiyana Ventures VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Investment that bridge the innovative Blockchain Startup and the Venture Capital. Expert in advisory and accelerating the growth.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Blockchain, Bitcoin
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Estonia, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • TREX20 — TREX20 is a Bitcoin game ecological project that enhances gaming by utilizing NFT Insoriptions built on the Bitcoin protocol.
  • Cookie3 — Cookie3 utilizes off- and on-chain analytics and an AI data layer to determine quality users who bring value on-chain and reward them for their contribution. It's a three-platform hub for businesses, creators, and users with a unique value offering for all.
  • RunesFi — RunesFi is a one-stop DeFi platform that provides an easy-to-use, secure, and efficient trading experience.
Megala Ventures VC Fund
Megala Ventures is a Southeast Asia based blockchain fund that focuses on primary market investment and exploration in edging ideas of technology and economics.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Blockchain, Software
  • Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Vietnam, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • MetaFi — MetaFi operates as a Trading Metaverse. Trading Metaverse is a new kind of social trading experience governed by its users.
  • Heroes & Empires — Heroes & Empires is the next-gen NFT gaming project.
  • Octopus Network — Octopus is a cryptonetwork for launching and running Web3.0 application specific blockchains, aka appchains. By decreasing the capital expenditure for bootstrap an appchain by two orders of magnitude, from several million dollars to less than one hundred thousand dollars, Octopus Network is committed to unleash an innovation wave of Web3.0.
COSIMO Ventures VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
COSIMO Ventures is an emerging venture capital firm that focuses on early stage companies seeking to develop disruptive technology, primarily located in Ireland and the United Kingdom. COSIMO has offices in Boston, Massachusetts and Dublin, Ireland. Our Team have over 100 years of combined entrepreneurial operating and investing experience. We aretechnology pioneers resolute in our mission of helping emerging entrepreneurs build legendary companies. Our mission is to help transform the most promising early stage, Irish and UK technology companies into global leaders that will dominate new market categories or disrupt existing ones. We partner with management teams to help them accelerate and grow into the US market.COSIMO is a team of entrepreneurs that have been at the forefront of value creation for early stage companies over the past 25 years. As technology pioneers, we have developed products used by 100’s of millions of users every day and created many firsts; from the first commercially available financial service on the Internet to the first push notification.
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Investment focus
  • Enterprise Software, Blockchain, Sports
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Defactor — Globally empowering businesses to tokenise real-world assets by offering decentralised open-source financial technology. Unlock a new financial future.
  • ICHI — Grow any token with low-slippage, on-chain liquidity
  • BEASY — BEASY Wallet & Forge makes it easy for collectors and creators to mint, buy, sell, trade, and manage their own NFTs. No crypto knowledge required!
UNIQA Ventures VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 3 investments in the past 12 months
UNIQA Ventures GmbH is the Venture Capital arm of UNIQA Insurance Group AG, a leading insurance carrier in Central & Eastern Europe and a pioneer in Corporate-backed Venture Capital in Austria and CEE. Based in Vienna, Austria, the firm is investing in outstanding business models driven by strong teams and a clear vision to shape the future ofkey industries. Investment areas are the future of Health, Mobility, Intelligent Home and FinTech/InsurTech as well as enabling technologies such as IoT, Blockchain, ML/AI.
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Investment focus
  • Insurance, Health Care, FinTech
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Austria, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • ifeel — Ifeel is the emotional well-being platform for modern organizations. Ifeel is a unique workplace mental health platform for companies.
  • goUrban — goUrban offers mobility solutions for sharing operators and B2B fleet management. The way of transportation and mobility is changing rapidly. For operating smarter and using the opportunities of the sharing economy we provide you our fleet management OS.
  • doctorly — doctorly is a digital medical infrastructure platform. We have a regulated, cloud powered, fully centralised, practice management platform for doctors, a fully connected health app for patients, and an integration platform for the wider industry to natively connect their tools & workflows directly with our doctors & patients.We are backedby amazing investors and driven by a desire to make positive and meaningful changes to the healthcare industry internationally.
Middlegame Ventures VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
We back world-class fintech entrepreneurs creating transformative companies that will rearchitect financial services for decades to come
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • Ireland, United Kingdom, Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Outmin — An automated hospitality accounting solution that monitors and manages your entire financial operation. Bookkeeping, tax, payroll, suppliers, and weekly reporting.
  • Kayna — Kayna is an insurance distribution company that collaborates with vertical SaaS platforms and utilises data to offer insurance services.
  • One Trading — Discover an unrivalled trading experience with One Trading. We believe regulation powers user experience, not breaks it. Crypto - But regulated. Buy crypto now, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, DOGE, Solana, Cardano and more.
West Loop Ventures VC Fund · Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
West Loop Ventures invests in B2B Fin Tech companies where institutions are customers. The backbone of finance is going to be revolutionized in the next five to ten years. The capital markets revolution happened in Chicago from 1997-2002. It's happening again. In the last revolution, big firms were created and sold to big institutions(OptionsExpress, ThinkorSwim, Archipelago) In the last five years (2010-2015), the Chicago ecosystem has had 23.5B in VC backed exits.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Ireland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • ML Tech — ML Tech is a FinTech startup building the next-generation trading platform within the crypto asset space.
  • Seel — Peace of mind for shoppers and increased conversion rate for merchants. Available on Shopify App Store.
  • Vauban — Vauban is a tech company reshaping the world of private investing. The platform makes it easier, faster, and more cost-effective for anyone to co-invest in private companies. With Vauban, you can easily create your Syndicate online, start sharing your deal flow and let your network co-invest with you in startups. Vauban has automated the SPV &funds setup process.
Octopus Ventures VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 27 investments in the past 12 months
We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Sidekick — Expertly-managed portfolios for the modern investor
  • ExpressionEdits — Redefining the status quo of protein expression
  • Swiipr Technologies — Restore passenger and staff confidence with contactless solutions post Covid 19/ SARS by embracing Swiipr’s mobile and web technology solutions for issuing; Welfare for disruption, compensation, crisis, staff, operational expenses and more! Automate and streamline operations. Reduce paper and plastic consumption. Reduce human touch points andgo contactless
GoAhead Ventures VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States
GoAhead Ventures is an early stage Venture Capital fund based in Silicon Valley. As a startup ourselves, we are always looking to innovate and break the Venture Capital mold. We are a people-first fund and as such we like to cover a lot of ground and meet talented founders from across the globe. Check out our website to submit your pitch to ourmanaging partners, this is the first step for all founders that we meet. All 3 of our managing partners review every submission, and from there we give founders a NEXT DAY decision after a partner pitch! We have begun deploying from our new fund and we lead ~40 deals per year.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Israel, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Telo Trucks — Explore TELO Trucks: unmatched in EV efficiency. Discover the future of electric pickups today!
  • Roofer.com — Roofing on-demand using drones and AI, serving the Dallas, Fort Worth, and Austin Texas regions.
  • Grapefruit Health — Grapefruit Health helps to connect health care providers, community organizations, and public health agencies so they can improve patients' access to preventive and chronic care services.
Paschal Naylor Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Finance, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Kalibr8 — Optimize Your Business
  • STRATxAI — Create an investment portfolio for free online. Automated algorithmic trading and long term investment strategies.
Bias Capital VC Fund
Bias Capital is a multi-sector and multi-stage angel syndicate.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Grabango — As the leader in checkout-free technology for large-scale grocery and convenience stores, Grabango is working with billion-dollar global retailers to retrofit existing stores to make waiting in lines a thing of the past. We just raised $39M in Series B funding, and we are excited to accelerate the growth of our team and our store deployments todeliver on our mission to eliminate lines and save people time.With Grabango, shoppers choose their items as usual, and then skip the line by scanning a code in their Grabango app on the way out. Our solution uses computer vision technology to identify items as they are picked up. It counts those items and sends the receipt to the shopper’s phone after they leave the store. Grabango delivers a seamless shopping experience that is becoming the global standard.Driven by passion to improve peoples’ daily lives, our technology brings computer vision and machine learning to existing brick-and-mortar stores by processing the interactions between people and products. We are the first and only company to successfully retrofit checkout-free technology into an existing store and work with high accuracy in a dynamic, real world environment. No facial recognition technology is used and all data is anonymized to protect customer privacy.Founded in 2016, Grabango is based in Berkeley, California.
  • Wayflyer — Wayflyer offers growth financing to eCommerce companies like yours. Sign up, connect your store and analytics, and receive funding offer today.
  • Parker Health, Inc. — Parker Health is a multinational Mexican-American-founded and minority-led biotechnology company determined to advance healthcare and technology into the next century. Parker Health is on a mission to simplify the complexities of healthcare and deliver on the unfulfilled promises of digital health innovation and pioneer the future of healthcare.Parker Health's proprietary full-stack multi-use Health Management System™, the Parker Suite™, is America's first FHIR-built, interoperable, affordable, and compliant platform that is revolutionizing the industry with limitless applications for patients, providers, health systems, governments, researchers, and payors. Its cloud-based platform unifies patient-centric data, biometrics, diagnostic tools, patient outcomes, care delivery, practitioner engagement, pharmaceuticals, and more.Parker Health is a member of the Sequoia Project. Parker Health is dual-headquartered in Washington, DC, and Dallas, TX with offices in Menlo Park, CA.
Howard Roberts Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Finance, Hospital
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Kalibr8 — Optimize Your Business
  • 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.
Arjun Sethi Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Arjun Sethi is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and executive, as well as a Co-Founder of Tribe Capital.Tribe Capital is a top-quartile venture capital firm focused on capturing a perpetual edge in venture and crypto using artificial intelligence and data science. Some of its noteworthy investments include Apollo.io, Carta, Docker, Kraken,Relativity Space, and Shiprocket.Arjun was previously a Partner at Social Capital where he led the Venture Team consisting of six full time GPs with a broad focus on early stage investing in the consumer and enterprise sector. Arjun has a long history of sourcing, winning and leading early stage deals. Arjun’s investments at Social Capital include notable companies such as Front, Carta, Swarm (Sold to SpaceX), Slack, Cloud Kitchens and Relativity Space. Arjun's track record includes being recognized as one of the top 100 angels in Silicon Valley through advisory, direct, and secondary investments across various stages. He has invested in high-profile names such as Frax, Snapchat, Lyft, OpenDoor, and Gusto. Prior to his work in venture, Arjun co-founded and sold two successful companies. After his second company, MessageMe, was acquired by Yahoo, he joined the executive team, where he was instrumental in driving mobile product usage from 100M to 1B monthly uniques and was a Board Observer on Alibaba. Before that, Arjun was the Founder and CEO of LOLapps, a mobile gaming company that grew to 100M monthly users and sold for $240M.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • DAOLens — Tasks, Proposals, Bounties, and Payouts in one place
  • Questbook — Discover Opportunities in Web 3.0 and Earn in Crypto
  • Sleek — Sleek is a FREE browser extension that offers seamless checkout from every store on the internet AND gives you up to 25% cash back when shopping online.
AAF Management Ltd. VC Fund · Arlington, Virginia, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Leading early-stage venture capital firm focused on pre-Seed, Seed and Series A stage technology companies in North America.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Caden — Caden is the world's first Zero-Party Data platform. We allow users to own and control their own personal data, make money off it, and share it with trusted consumer brands, while maintaining their privacy.
  • Dashy Dash — Dashy Dash is a free community powered tool that makes it easy to manage invoices, discover new products & compare prices to help you save money.
  • Vero Technologies — Powering Wholesale Financing
AAF Management Ltd. VC Fund · Arlington, Virginia, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Leading early-stage venture capital firm focused on pre-Seed, Seed and Series A stage technology companies in North America.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Caden — Caden is the world's first Zero-Party Data platform. We allow users to own and control their own personal data, make money off it, and share it with trusted consumer brands, while maintaining their privacy.
  • AnthologyAI — AnthologyAI is the breakthrough Artificial Intelligence Consumer Insights & Predictions Platform with billions of real-time data sourced directly and ethically from consumers. Access previously unavailable levels of intelligence about retail spending, geolocation, media consumption, travel, ride sharing and more — in realtime, at scale.
  • Vero Technologies — Powering Wholesale Financing
Studio VC VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
Studio VC is an early stage investment fund that provides capital and hands-on guidance to growing companies with breakout potential.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Canada, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Otis AI — Otis is the first AI-powered virtual assistant that helps run and optimize your digital marketing cross-platform, at scale and at a budget that works for your business.
  • Monitaur — Keeping AI honest is a full-time job. Ours. One platform to guide and govern the entire lifecycle of your AI. Complete risk management solution to record, monitor, govern, and audit your AI and achieve machine learning assurance.
  • Bionic Health — Get preventive healthcare guided by doctors with the most advanced AI. Bionic Health helps anyone achieve their optimal health.
KCK VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
KCK is a family investment fund that invests in a diverse set of industries, including medical technologies. KCK interests in Life Sciences - Biopharm/ Biotech & MedTech, Energy, Science-rich companies and Industrial Technologies. KCK invest at all stages of a startup's from early stage to growth rounds and also invest in publiccompanies. KCK is the private equity arm of a family office which seeks to partner with experienced management teams, focused on niche markets, deploying long-term flexible capital to generate high risk-adjusted returns.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
  • Funding Round, Series C, Series D
  • United States, Ireland, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Aerin Medical — Aerin Medical offers VivAer for nasal airway obstruction treatment and RhinAer for chronic runny nose treatment. Lasting relief when other solutions fall short.
  • RefleXion Medical — RefleXion is developing the first biology-guided radiotherapy system, a significant change in strategy from single tumor therapy to the ability to one day treat multiple tumors in the same treatment session in cancers that have metastasized. Currently, the RefleXion X1 machine is cleared for the delivery of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT),stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT). The company is also developing BgRT, which incorporates positron-emission tomography (PET) imaging data to enable tumors to continuously signal their location. The BgRT technology will synchronize these data with the linear accelerator to direct radiotherapy to tumors with subsecond latency.
  • Chain Reaction — Chain Reaction is engineering the future of disruptive blockchain and privacy technologies by accelerating compute and mining hardware performance.
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