Top 45 Financial Services Angel Investors in Ireland in January 2026
A list of 45 angel investors that invest in Financial services startups based in Ireland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Financial services companies from Ireland. We update this investor list every month.Top 45 Financial Services Angel Investors in Ireland in January 2026
| Investor | Financial Services Ireland investments |
|---|---|
| Oleg Tikhturov | 2 |
| David Clarke | 2 |
| Declan Kelly | 2 |
| RICHARD HAYES | 1 |
| Howard Roberts | 1 |
| Maurice O’ Gorman | 1 |
| Patrick Walsh | 1 |
| Lar Bradshaw | 1 |
| Lorcan Tiernan | 1 |
| Bob Haugh | 1 |
| Romain Huet | 1 |
| Kevin Abosch | 1 |
| Robert Smith | 1 |
| Mike Stalley | 1 |
| Laurence Krieger | 1 |
| Colm Long | 1 |
| John Purdy | 1 |
| Job van der Voort | 1 |
| Killian O’Higgins | 1 |
| Mark Cummins | 1 |
| Prabir Adarkar | 1 |
| Bobby Healy | 1 |
| Chris Evdaimon | 1 |
| Gautam Gupta | 1 |
| Peter Briffett | 1 |
| Portman Wills | 1 |
| Chris Burggraeve | 1 |
| Nicole Junkermann | 1 |
| Paschal Naylor | 1 |
| Lachy Groom | 1 |
| Liam Casey | 1 |
| Arjun Sethi | 1 |
| Jason Calacanis | 1 |
| Monique Woodard | 1 |
| Gareth Lambe | 1 |
| Richard Wang | 1 |
| Allison Barr Allen | 1 |
| Tom Kennedy | 1 |
| Kevin Lane | 1 |
| Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas | 1 |
| Peter Gray | 1 |
| Mandeep Singh | 1 |
| Kevin Hartz | 1 |
| Shane Curran | 1 |
| Shane Naughton | 1 |
I am an active Angel Investor in pre-seed and seed startups, having invested in 80+ startups. I invest in ambitious founders building scalable products for large markets and support founders with advice, strategic network of investors. Currently Founding Partner at TrueSight Ventures, Venture Capital firm investing in European early-stage startups.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Norway, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- MEplace — MEplace creates a new approach to children’s wellbeing and preschool education. MEplace was founded in 2019 and was headquartered in England, UK.
- Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.
- Kota — Replace your tools, brokers and outdated processes with the only platform that handles the entire employee benefits journey.
David Clarke is the Board member of Payslip.
David Clarke is the Venture Partner at Frontline Ventures. He attended Trinity College Dublin during 1989-1993.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Italy, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Procuros — More and more sales teams struggle with supplier portals. We help you integrate digitally with common supplier portals and consolidate all order documents.
- TextYess — Increase your eCommerce Retention with a Frictionless Experience.
- Kota — Replace your tools, brokers and outdated processes with the only platform that handles the entire employee benefits journey.
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, 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.
Richard Hayes is a Chairman at Assure Hedge Ltd.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Financial Exchanges
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- ALT21 — Assure Hedge offers reliable currency hedging solutions to FX brokers, banks and payment entities which easily integrates into their product suite.
Howard Roberts
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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.
Maurice O’ Gorman
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Investment focus
- Energy, CleanTech, Clean Energy
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Fincovi — We Are Your Complete Asset Health Technology Partner Purpose-built autonomous drones perform at record-setting inspection speed to minimize downtime while
Former Product Manager at ezetop where he led the development and deployment of a white label mobile phone online top up system for Digicel across its 31 markets.
KPMG exam qualified Chartered Accountant having worked across telecoms, music & software industries.
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Investment focus
- Apps, FinTech, Insurance
- Pre-Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Kota — Replace your tools, brokers and outdated processes with the only platform that handles the entire employee benefits journey.
Lar Bradshaw is an individual investor.
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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.
Lorcan Tiernan is a former partner in law firm Dillon Eustace.
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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.
Bob Haugh - CEO @ OSLO Beauty
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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.
Romain Huet currently runs Stripe's global developer relations team. He previously served as a Senior Developer Advocate at Twitter. He was the first member of the Developer Relations team outside of the US, and joined joined Twitter in 2013 to tell the story of the platform and inspire developers to connect to the pulse of the planet withTwitter APIs. In October 2014, he helped launch Fabric, Twitter's new mobile platform, and Digits. Since then, he has been traveling the world to meet developers in more than 20 cities and working with amazing entrepreneurs and companies to build the best mobile apps for iOS & Android.Previously, he was the Co-Founder & CTO of Jolicloud. Romain Huet designed and launched Joli OS, the first cloud operating system based on Linux and Chromium. Huet created its user interface and exposed system APIs with cutting-edge JavaScript and HTML5, and built the platform connecting all major cloud services entirely in Node.During his engineering course, he worked at Netvibes where he pioneered the Facebook API development with the most popular widget of the personalized start page and helped create UWA, the open source JavaScript engine to make Netvibes apps run everywhere.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, France, Finland
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.
- Swarmia — Build better software faster with insights that power your whole engineering organization. Get started with a demo or a free 14-day trial.
- PromptLayer — Advanced prompt management and prompt engineering. Powerful prompt engineering tools for evaluation, deployment, observability, and analytics. Enable team collaboration, get help writing prompts, monitor AI agents, and improve prompt quality.
Kevin Abosch is a visual artist / ontologist known best for his photographic portraits and public art installations. Abosch is also the Founder of KwikDesk a discreet and anonymous communication platform.
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Investment focus
- iOS, Apps, News
- Seed, Funding Round
- Ireland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Summly — Nachrichten, E-Mails und die Suche sind nur der Anfang. Jeden Tag gibt es mehr zu entdecken. Finden Sie genau das, was Sie suchen.
- 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.
CEO at Applied Financial Technology Ltd
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Financial Exchanges
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- ALT21 — Assure Hedge offers reliable currency hedging solutions to FX brokers, banks and payment entities which easily integrates into their product suite.
Mike Stalley Currently works as the Independent Non-Executive Director for Allied World Assurance Company (Europe) DAC.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Customs Window — Customs Window is an End-to-End Customs Clearance and Trade Solutions providing Support Services to solve challenges and operations.
Laurence Krieger is the chief operating officer (COO) at Tide, the online current account for small and medium sized businesses. Krieger has more than 12 years of experience working in senior roles at fast-growing fintech start-ups.Prior to Tide, he was COO of Revolut, where he helped to rapidly scale the business from initial start-up to over800,000 customers. He was previously founder and CEO of payment business Cobalt where he delivered high profitability and grew annual revenues to more than £100m. He launched one of the first prepaid cards into the UK with Moneysupermarket and has also held senior roles at Yahoo! UK and IE.
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Investment focus
- Big Data, Computer, Security
- Series A
- Hungary
Portfolio highlights
- Seapoint — Business accounts, treasury and expense automation - built to scale with you. Join our beta programme and get your unfair financial advantage.
- SEON — SEON Fraud Prevention tools help organisations reduce the costs and resources lost to fraud. Spot fake accounts, slash manual reviews and cut chargebacks now.
Colm Long
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Investment focus
- Apps, E-Commerce, Advertising
- Funding Round
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- PropelAd — PropelAd is an e-commerce marketing automation solution that shows how shoppers behave and convert that knowledge into increased sales. It uses web and emails first-party data to power lifecycle remarketing campaigns for brands and online retailers. Target browsers who abandoned carts, engaged visitors, unengaged visitors, specific product viewersor nurture your current customers with ease. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
- Seapoint — Business accounts, treasury and expense automation - built to scale with you. Join our beta programme and get your unfair financial advantage.
John Purdy
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Medical
- Seed, Funding Round
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- dimply — The experience & engagement platform for financial enterprises.
- Beyondbmi — Beyondbmi is an expert led medical approach to weight loss. We provide a convenient and scientific telehealth program designed to help your reach your health goals.
- FlowForma — Unlock competitive advantage with FlowForma, the #1 no code digital process automation software & business process management tool. Get a free trial now!
Job van der Voort is the Co-founder and CEO of Remote. He previously worked at GitLab as a VP of Product. Job van der Voort attended the University of Amsterdam.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Palm — Cash Management for the Modern Treasury
- Kota — Replace your tools, brokers and outdated processes with the only platform that handles the entire employee benefits journey.
- The Network — A people search engine by The Network
Killian O'Higgins is a Chartered Surveyor with 37 years' experience in the Ireland, UK, Continental Europe, Middle East, USA and Asia Pacific. In Ireland, Killian started his career at Lisney before moving to Sherry FitzGerald, joining in 1983, shortly after the Sherry & Sons/FitzGerald & Partners merger. He spent 18 yearsgrowing and developing the business with a particular focus on commercial property, becoming Managing Director of DTZ Sherry FitzGerald in 1998.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Real Estate
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Geowox — Geowox automates home valuations for the digital mortgage journey. We build online workflow tools for lender websites, automate valuations and offer accredited surveyor sign-off.
Mark Cummins
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Investment focus
- Software, B2B, CRM
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Inscribe — Inscribe helps financial institutions manage risk by empowering teams with fraudulent document detection, intelligent automation, and the ability to better understand customer creditworthiness.
- &Open — For businesses that gift to give back, share joy, or show they care. All you need is an email.
- Kota — Replace your tools, brokers and outdated processes with the only platform that handles the entire employee benefits journey.
Prabir Adar is the President and COO at DoorDash. He attended NYU Stern School of Business, Columbia Engineering, and the University of Mumbai.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, FinTech, Grocery
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- Germany, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Flink — Flink is a developer of an online platform used to offer and deliver multi-category grocery products. Its application offers a wide selection of convenience items like fresh herbs, fruits, bread, essentials, and home supplies among others that enable people to get necessaries delivered to the door within ten minutes while saving transit costs.Thecompany was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
- Fonoa — Manage your sales tax, VAT, and GST obligations seamlessly through our API, globally. For internet businesses around the world, we make taxes simple, automated, borderless, and accessible via our API.
Bobby Healy is an experienced inventor and technology entrepreneur specialising in booking engine software. He joined CarTrawler in 2005 having begun his career building computer games for Nintendo at 16 years of age. Prior to joining CarTrawler, Bobby founded Eland Technologies which he later sold to airline technology giant SITA and remained asCTO until 2005. His booking solutions are now in use by 80% of the world's top 20 airlines. Bobby continues to be an avid computer programmer and is a frequent speaker on the international circuit on subjects related to technology in the airline industry, ancillary revenue and online distribution.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Local, Guides
- Angel, Series A, Funding Round
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Roomex — Want to make business travel easier? Search, book, manage, and pay for all your business hotel bookings in one place.
- Coindrum — Coindrum provides coin machines to spend your coin jars. No more manual counting, sorting or bagging!
- 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.
Chris is working in the Private Companies team at Baillie Gifford, based in the Bay Area. Prior to Baillie Gifford, he was a Partner at China's Sinovation Ventures for 10 years, initially in Beijing and then in Silicon Valley. He has 20 years of “hands on” entrepreneurial and early stage investments experience.With Baillie Gifford, Chris hasworked on the investments behind Joby Aviation, Allbirds, Nuro, Honor and goPuff. With Sinovation in Beijing, Chris invested in the early rounds and actively worked on multiple portfolio companies, including Zhihu (NYSE:ZH), Wandoujia (acquired by Alibaba), Umeng (acquired by Alibaba) and Anquanbao (acquired by Baidu). He also designed, setup and operated the firm's incubation programs, as well as led the firm's fundraising efforts and investor relations. In Silicon Valley, Chris established and managed the firm's team and investment practice in the US. He invested in the early rounds and actively worked on multiple companies, with a focus on industrial automation, robotics, and edtech, including Fictiv, Compology, Eight Sleep, Dishcraft Robotics, Traptic, XYZ Robotics, Deep Vision, Fero Labs, Swivl, Abl Schools, Securly, ClassWallet, Swing Education, and others. Prior to Sinovation, Chris was a Managing Partner at Eastern Bell Venture Capital. He also served as the CEO of ICDL Asia, an organization in the computer skills certification sector with operations in over 25 Asian countries, which he helped turnaround and relocate to Singapore. Prior to going to Asia, Chris co-founded and managed ECDL Hellas in his native Athens, Greece.Chris holds a M.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College in London and an MBA from INSEAD.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, China, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Cosm — Cosm is a global technology company delivering immersive experiences for Sports and Entertainment, Science and Education, and Parks and Attractions.
- TEKEVER — The Tekever Group is a provider of innovative technologies in Software, Aerospace, Defence and Security Markets.
- Finclude — Finclude revolutionizes creditworthiness & affordability assessment of individuals with machine learning on their transactions, powered by PSD2 APIs.
Gautam Gupta is the Co-Founder and General Partner of A* Capital.
Gautam holds a MBA at Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management and had his bachelor's degree in computer engineering at Nanyang Technological University.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, Israel, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Munch — Munch allows you to create once. Repurpose to Dozens of pieces on every platform. Analyze engagement. Control Monetization. All On One Platform.
- Decagon — Trusted by world-class companies, Decagon is the most advanced AI platform for customer support.
- Fonoa — Manage your sales tax, VAT, and GST obligations seamlessly through our API, globally. For internet businesses around the world, we make taxes simple, automated, borderless, and accessible via our API.
Peter Briffett has been the Chief Operating Officer of LeanWorks. Peter Briffett served as Sales Director of iView Multimedia Ltd. Peter Briffett has multimedia technology sales experience and begun his career at 3Com Corporation. He served as European Sales and Marketing Manager of Actiontec Electronics, where he significantly expanded itswireless business and implemented successful channels and distribution strategies.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Apps
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Pillar — Pillar is a fintech credit platform that allows retail consumers to monitor, build and grow their credit footprint as well as access a credit facility through the Pillar credit card.
- Kota — Replace your tools, brokers and outdated processes with the only platform that handles the entire employee benefits journey.
- Pillar Financial Technologies — All-in-one Financial Platform for Small Businesses
Portman Wills - Co-Founder & CTO @ Wagestream
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Spain, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Pillar — Pillar is a fintech credit platform that allows retail consumers to monitor, build and grow their credit footprint as well as access a credit facility through the Pillar credit card.
- Kota — Replace your tools, brokers and outdated processes with the only platform that handles the entire employee benefits journey.
- Pillar Financial Technologies — All-in-one Financial Platform for Small Businesses
Chris Burggraeve - Founder @ Vicomte
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Investment focus
- Credit, Marketplace, Financial Services
- Series A, Angel, Seed
- United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Greenrush — Get weed delivered to your door with greenrush's cannabis delivery service. Our app let's you buy weed online from a network of local dispensaries near you.
- Arcview Group — The ArcView Group works in the burgeoning legal cannabis industry by establishing connections between investors and entrepreneurs in an effort to meet the needs of cannabis cultivators, dispensaries, and customers. With industry experience, The ArcView Group is working to help usher in the next generation of cannabis-related businesses with thecreation of The ArcView Angel Network and the MyDispensary Mobile App.
- Finclude — Finclude revolutionizes creditworthiness & affordability assessment of individuals with machine learning on their transactions, powered by PSD2 APIs.
Nicole Junkermann is the Founder at NJF Capital.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Marketing
- Seed, Series C, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- RelateIQ — With Salesforce Essentials, small businesses have the world's most-powerful sales and customer support solution at their fingertips. For $25 a month, small businesses can easily manage customer and account information, close more sales deals, and provide high-level customer support so you can get on with your day. Salesforce is the #1 CRM software and contact manager system for small businesses. Learn more about how service and sales come together with Salesforce Essentials.
- Elvie — The official home of Elvie Trainer and Elvie Pump. We're pioneering female-first innovation in tech to improve the lives of women around the world. Learn more, direct from Elvie.
- Soundtrack Your Brand — Soundtrack Your Brand is a Spotify joint venture and the exclusive provider of Spotify Business and Spotify Enterprise. We connect brands and fans, and our vision is to grow the music market and thereby support artists, so that they can give the world more great music
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 — 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.
- STRATxAI — Create an investment portfolio for free online. Automated algorithmic trading and long term investment strategies.
Lachy Groom is the Co-Founder of Physical Intelligence. He previously worked at Stripe as the Head of Stripe Issuing.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Ashby — Ashby is a developer of recruitment software used for high-growth companies. It develops usable, enterprise-grade employment software that enables company leaders, recruiters, and hiring managers to run their hiring process significantly better. It was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.
- Meter — Meter provides internet infrastructure for businesses. Its full-stack approach combines hardware, software, and operations so that any company can seamlessly run on a reliable and modern network. Its goal is to make secure enterprise-grade networks more accessible, and to help innovative organizations get and stay online seamlessly. Fullstacksambition is to turn Meter’s infrastructure into a turnkey utility––when a company moves into any commercial space, the internet and WiFi just works.
- Chai Discovery — Building frontier artificial intelligence to predict and reprogram the interactions between biochemical molecules.
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.
Arjun Sethi is the Co-CEO of Kraken Digital Asset Exchange. He attended the University of Maryland.
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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
Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO. Jason Calacanis attended Fordham University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, Australia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Orreco — Orreco Their mission is to deliver a cutting edge biomarker program to optimise player performance, recovery and welfare. A tailored biomarker program can optimise player health and welfare and use sports science resources to target key or “at risk” players which will lead to increased player availability. Tailoring of recovery and playermanagement strategies to individuals’ own biomarker profiles backs up decision making processes with data giving your team an informed recovery strategy.
- TaxGPT — Looking for instant tax help? Meet TaxGPT, your AI-powered tax assistant. We simplify tax processes and maximize deductions. Try TaxGPT today!
- Created by Humans — Created by Humans enables creators to sell licensing rights for AI training and be reimbursed by AI firms.
Monique Woodard is an early stage investor at the intersection of technology and newly powerful consumer groups. Her investments as a venture capital and angel investor include Blavity, Court Buddy, Mented Cosmetics, Silvernest, and many others. Today, Monique invests in the future of technology being driven by major demographic trends. She investsin companies with global ambitions who are creating technology products that meet the needs of tomorrow’s internet users.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Apps, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
- Eli Health — Eli Health is a health care company located in Noida.
- Culina Health — Connect with one of Culina Health's virtual dietitians for inclusive, science-backed nutrition plans that are covered by insurance.
- McMullen — McMullen provides a singular shopping experience that allows women to feel confident and beautiful. Founded in 2007 by Sherri McMullen in Oakland, McMullen is an all-inclusive concept shop for luxury fashion featuring emerging and established designers from around the world.
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.
Richard Wang - Partner @ DFJ DragonFund
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Information Technology, Web3
- Angel, Pre-Seed, Series A
- China, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- AID:Tech — Identity based solutions for finance, payments & insurance. Leveraging blockchain, crypto & digital identity.
- Unit — Unit Network DAO is a sovereign layer 1 blockchain built using the Substrate framework by the Web3 Foundation, Polkadot and Parity Technologies. It provides the technological and economic infrastructure for mainstream adoption of the token economy. A near-future in which millions of tokens fuel borderless communities to empower the globe.
- Fog Works, Inc. — W3 Storage Lab has assembled a world-class team with a unique combination of P2P networking, blockchain, and entrepreneurial experience.
Allison Barr Allen serves as LP at Operator Collective. Allison graduated from Northwestern University with a bachelor's Degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Ireland, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- BukuWarung — Kemudahan untuk beragam transaksi digital dengan EDC, mini ATM, dan layanan keuangan lainnya. Beli lewat aplikasi BukuWarung sekarang!
- SquareDash — Claim funding, online invoicing, and collections process automation to help roofers get paid faster.
- Fonoa — Manage your sales tax, VAT, and GST obligations seamlessly through our API, globally. For internet businesses around the world, we make taxes simple, automated, borderless, and accessible via our API.
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.
Kevin Lane is a former chief executive of Kerrygold owner Ornua.
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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.
Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas is the Partner at Index Ventures. He previously worked as a Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPO/CTO) at GoCardless.
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- Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
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- Gotrade — Buy U.S. stocks with Gotrade! Investing is now easier, safer, and hassle-free. Access stocks like Google, Apple, Netflix, and more.
- PetsApp — A mobile-first veterinary telemedicine platform enabling veterinary clinics to offer text chat and video consultations to pet owners
- Fonoa — Manage your sales tax, VAT, and GST obligations seamlessly through our API, globally. For internet businesses around the world, we make taxes simple, automated, borderless, and accessible via our API.
Peter Gray has served as a member of our Board of Directors since May 2013. Peter Gray is a self-employed consultant to the pharmaceutical industry.In 2011, Peter Gray retired from ICON plc, a global provider of outsourced development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. From 2002 to 2011, he served as ChiefExecutive Officer of ICON plc. From 2001 to 2002, he held the position of Group Chief Operating Officer and from 1997 to 2001, the position of Chief Financial Officer, both within ICON. Peter Gray serves on the board of United Drug plc, an international provider of healthcare services.Peter Gray holds a degree in Law from Trinity College Dublin and is a chartered accountant.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Big Data
- Funding Round
- India, Ireland
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- Circit — Circit is a leading provider of audit confirmations, Open Banking verified transactions, PBC Collaboration and e-signatures all on one centralised platform.
- ZestMoney — Enjoy the convenience of shopping for electronic gadgets, fashion, travel, education on EMI without credit card. No debit card or credit score required!
Mandeep Singh is an Angel investor at multiple firms. He previously was the founding CEO at Trouva. Mandeep Singh studied Physics at the University of Cambridge.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- Droidrun — Droidrun is a cutting-edge software development company that specializes in creating innovative solutions enabling AI agents to seamlessly access and control smartphone applications. By leveraging advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms, their software facilitates smooth interactions between AI systems and mobile devices,empowering agents to autonomously navigate, operate, and optimize a wide range of apps on both Android and iOS platforms.
- Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
- Fractile — Fractile is designing AI compute systems that will enable the next generation of AI scaling: frontier model inference, 25x faster, at 1/10th the cost.
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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- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Ireland, Canada
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- Rillet — Rillet automates majority of month-end close and offers powerful GAAP and SaaS reporting. The software has built-in revenue recognition, invoicing, and AI-powered accounting.
- 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).
- Vigil Labs — Vigil Labs is an applied research lab building proprietary systems for trading.
CEO at Evervault.
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- Aerospace, Software, Space Travel
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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- Arcjet — Arcjet helps developers protect their apps in just a few lines of code. Implement rate limiting, bot protection, email validation, and defense against common attacks.
- Humaans — The fastest way to onboard and manage your staff. Mobile first, perfect for remote and distributed teams, and takes 1 minute to get up and running.
- The Browser Company — Browser Company is a developer of a web browser to keep users focused, organized, and in control. Its browser software improves on the browsing software that remains unchanged to acclimatize and get it up to date with new technology that enable users to access the internet in an improved manner.
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
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- 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 — NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.
- 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.
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