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Top 50 Financial Services Startup Investors in Ireland in July 2025

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds 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 50 Financial Services Startup Investors in Ireland in July 2025

Investor Financial Services Ireland investments
Enterprise Ireland 25
NDRC 13
Delta Partners 9
Frontline Ventures 8
Act Venture Capital 7
Middlegame Ventures 7
Elkstone Capital Partners 4
Finch Capital 3
Furthr VC 3
Kernel Capital 2
CIFL Ltd 2
Aperture.co 2
Mangrove Capital Partners 2
Oleg Tikhturov 2
David Clarke 2
Declan Kelly 2
HBAN 2
NJF Capital 2
Index Ventures 2
Atlantic Bridge 2
Greycroft 2
LocalGlobe 2
Lifeline Ventures 2
EQT Ventures 2
Northzone 2
Karman Ventures 2
Peter Gray 1
AAF Management Ltd. 1
Uncommon Projects 1
Portman Wills 1
Lachy Groom 1
Goldman Sachs 1
Peter Lorent 1
Outpost Ventures 1
Richard Wang 1
Firebolt Ventures 1
Airstream Ventures 1
FEXCO 1
JP Morgan 1
Business Venture Partners 1
UNIQA Ventures 1
Trinity Ventures 1
Aquiline Technology Growth 1
Ridge Road Partners 1
Tech Mahindra 1
In-Q-Tel 1
Kistefos Venture Capital 1
Animoca Brands 1
BNP Paribas Private Equity 1
Peter Briffett 1
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Enterprise Ireland VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 26 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
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Axe — Axe provides modern logistics solutions for businesses of all sizes. Streamline your logistics process with our innovative platform.
  • Assiduous — The AI-enabled platform to do the heavy-lifting for business owners seeking finance for their aspiring growth company.
  • Galway Biomedical — Galway Biomedical develops and manufactures medical devices.
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 — Revolutionise your restaurant with Nory's restaurant management software. Streamline operations, boost profits, and enhance decision-making in one platform.
  • 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
Delta Partners VC Fund · Leopardstown, Dublin, Ireland
Early stage VC investments and funding for start-ups / founders in Ireland.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
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.
  • ZeroMission — ZeroMission is an electromobility and lead innovator in software development, and power-energy infrastructure.ZeroMission offers fleet management software to businesses that own and operate fleets of commercial electric vehicles (EVs).
  • 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 · 9 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
  • United States, Ireland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Hydrolix — Hydrolix is an early-stage startup with an ambition to change the economics of high density data. The company develops a query service technology intended to process petabyte-scale time series data.Hydrolix's cloud-based query service utilizes proprietary compression and indexing technology, allowing customers to process sub-secondinteractive queries at a fraction of the cost of other existing services.
  • Kota — Replace your tools, brokers and outdated processes with the only platform that handles the entire employee benefits journey.
  • Cloudsmith — Cloudsmith is the only universal, cloud-native solution for software artifact management and software supply chain security. Start your free trial today.
Act Venture Capital VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Technology-focused, investing capital and expertise to fuel growth in the most promising ideas and companies. Raised c.€600m across multiple funds and invest from seed to growth.We look for companies with potentially cutting-edge, category-defining businesses in markets including application software, IT infrastructure, communications, Internetand mobile. We help founders create and scale businesses globally. We work as a small team with diverse strengths accessing a community of over 200 founders. The teams and companies we back scale their investor base as they scale their business execution and ambition. We work closely with them in this process. Over the past 25 years have built a broad network of US and European investors and founders that share our vision and approach.Act is based in Dublin, Ireland.Our most recent funds are supported by the European Investment Fund.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Momntum — Momntum is a fintech company that provides embedded point-of-sale consumer financing.
  • Trustap — Learn how we make buying & selling online safe & secure, every time. Create an account for free today!
  • Advise — Advise Freemium is a ground-breaking automated data analytics for CPG solution. Discover how Advise can assist your Revenue Growth Management.
Middlegame Ventures VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Middlegame Ventures is a fintech​ venture capital firm investing in early-stage growth businesses focused on Financial Innovation. The firm is seeking great entrepreneurial teams who are focusing on rearchitecting financial services infrastructure.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • Ireland, United Kingdom, Luxembourg
Portfolio highlights
  • Fundcraft — fundcraft offers digital-native fund operations for the management of private equity, venture capital, funds of funds, and feeder funds.
  • 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.
  • Cloud Capital — CloudCapital manages cloud costs and invests in tech companies using AI and ML.
Elkstone Capital Partners VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Elkstone is an investment firm, focusing on entrepreneurs, senior executives, institutional LPs, the venture community, and the Irish diaspora.The objective of the organization is to boost the economic value and overall well-being of the island of Ireland by expanding a network, facilitating deserving investments, and delivering excellentinvestment performance.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Advise — Advise Freemium is a ground-breaking automated data analytics for CPG solution. Discover how Advise can assist your Revenue Growth Management.
  • ZeroRisk.io — ZeroRisk.io is a platform for merchant management that provides cybersecurity and compliance solutions. It guarantees regulatory compliance, offers risk evaluation, and aids in risk mitigation. Additionally, it provides data analytics tools for performance optimization and growth opportunity identification. The platform offers real-time insightsand customization options.
  • Output Sports — Discover Output's portable and affordable athlete testing and tracking device. Measure strength, power and speed in minutes giving accurate and reliable data.
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.
  • Webio — Webio's customer engagement solution uses conversational AI to understand customer intent, blend chatbot / live agent conversations in messaging channels.
  • big xyt — big xyt provides independent, flexible and customisable smart data and analytics solutions to the global trading and investment community.
Furthr VC VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
We are a relationship driven early stage VC investor. We invest in and form close partnerships with the founders we back.We make initial investments at Seed to Series A stage in highly ambitious, born global Irish software and medtech companies. We are hands-on and support teams across key strategic areas to accelerate growth.In addition toproviding institutional investment at an early stage, we reserve significant capital for following on in subsequent rounds. We go the journey with founders.
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Investment focus
  • Medical Device, Medical, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Trustap — Learn how we make buying & selling online safe & secure, every time. Create an account for free today!
  • LaNua Medical — At LaNua Medical it is our mission to develop disruptive image-guided technologies providing safe and effective endovascular solutions.
  • STRATxAI — STRATxAI is a WealthTech Company based in Dublin, Ireland. Specialising in AI-driven model portfolios, combining decades of expertise with proprietary AI to serve Advisors and Institutional Investors. STRATxAI Model Portfolios are built to navigate market complexity and deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns. Through close collaboration withclients, we create bespoke portfolios tailored to their unique needs, preferences and risk profiles. Alana, our proprietary engine leverages advanced machine learning algorithms to streamline the implementation and management of adaptive. multi factor strategies.
Kernel Capital VC Fund · Cork, Cork, Ireland
Kernel Capital is the independent manager of The Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Venture Funds, one of the largest and most active sources of equity finance on the island of Ireland. Kernel leverage their extensive network to enable their portfolio companies recruit the highest caliber people, to break into new international markets and to generaterevenues of scale. It is the only investment firm with venture capital Funds dedicated to both jurisdictions on the Island. Kernel have raised over €210M from investors which including their strategic partner Bank of Ireland, Invest NI, Enterprise Ireland, Galway University Foundation, The University of Limerick Foundation, The New York State Common Retirement Fund and undisclosed Family Offices. Consistently delivering strong financial returns for their investors Kernel have led more than 20 substantial trade sales to NASDAQ, NYSE, and LSE listed corporations.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Ireland, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Cirdan — Cirdan provides highly reliable, innovative LIS & imaging solutions for the acceleration & enhancement of diagnosis, optimized for pathology & clinical lab.
  • Pretto — Pretto is the only truly transparent online real estate price comparator.Pretto accompanies you until the signing of your loan, free of charge and without commitment.
  • Pilot Photonics — Welcome to Pilot Photonics, a laser product development company in Dublin, Ireland. We provide optical frequency combs and tunable lasers.
CIFL Ltd VC Fund · Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Angel Investment Network
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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
Aperture.co VC Fund · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland · 2 investments in the past 12 months
We are a company accelerator, providing services that enable fintech companies to grow faster with better capital efficiency. And we invest capital based on first-hand validation of winning teams and models.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, InsurTech, Insurance
  • Pre-Seed
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Kayna — Enhance your SaaS platform's value by integrating Kayna's insurance solutions. Drive additional revenue and offer more to your users with every policy sold.
  • Fundcraft — This is the future of digital fund administration.
  • Groov — Get the measure of merchant business - Access merchant-consented, up-to-the-day transaction data to streamline customer journeys and lending decisions
Mangrove Capital Partners VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Mangrove Capital Partners is a contrarian investment firm helping innovative entrepreneurs start and grow.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Exoticca — Exoticca develops an online platform intended to facilitate travel booking. The company's platform offers holiday packages which includes flights, accommodation, meals, guides and private transports, for exotic locations all around the world, enabling travelers to book travel packages online at competitive prices.
  • K Health — We pair clinicians with advanced AI to provide data-driven, personalized care around the clock. Chat with your medical team today.
  • Brain.space — Brain.space is a brain-mapping data company that is on a mission to provide researchers, medical practitioners and software developers the underlying foundation to interpret, analyze, and build brain activity products and services. The end-to-end technology stack aims to power products, services, and apps that access and interpret brain activitydata.
Oleg Tikhturov Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
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, FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • 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 Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Germany, United Kingdom, Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Glaut — Glaut is the AI-native platform for market research. Use AI-moderated interviews (AIMI) to collect qualitative insights at scale, with multilingual support, fraud prevention, and real-time analysis.
  • Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
  • Plato — Plato operates as a sales intelligence platform for wholesale.
Declan Kelly Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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, 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.
  • Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.
  • Gradient Labs — Our AI agent resolves complex customer service queries end-to-end. Delivering quality, efficiency and compliance at every step.
HBAN VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 3 investments in the past 12 months
HBAN is dedicated to raising the profile of business angel investment as an asset class on the island of Ireland and to promote the creation of business angel syndicates.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Medical Device, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Ovagen — Ovagen is a biotechnology company that has developed the process of producing germ free (GF) chicken eggs and GF birds in commercial quantities for use primarily in the pharmaceutical industry. Ovagen can also provide a Contract Research Service and has extensive expertise in SPF poultry & rodent housing & husbandry, in specific poultry& rodent research technologies to GMP standards and in avian transgenics.
  • Educatly — We help you get into the University of your dreams. We are the only platform with all the information you need to Study Abroad
  • Change by Degrees — Change by degrees supports individuals and organizations in developing sustainable competencies and gaining self-assurance to achieve sustainability goals, expand their businesses, and adhere to legal requirements.
NJF Capital VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
NJF Capital is the venture capital arm of NJF Holdings, founded by investor and entrepreneur Nicole Junkermann.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Bioptimus — Our mission is to build the first universal AI foundation model for biology to fuel breakthrough discoveries and accelerate innovations in biomedicine and beyond.
  • Pesto — Pesto is a San Francisco-based fintech business that recently released the Pesto Mastercard a next-generation asset-backed secured credit card.
  • Evolv AI — Evolv AI is the first AI-led experience optimization platform that recommends, builds, deploys and optimizes testing ideas for you.
Index Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 54 investments in the past 12 months
Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Boulevard — Boulevard is the first and only Client Experience Platform. Streamline bookings, optimize your schedule, and drive growth with a complete platform built just for you
  • Moment — Engineering the future of fixed income with the world's leading financial institutions.
  • Bigger Games — Bigger Games, a dynamic mobile gaming company, is at the forefront of transforming the mobile gaming landscape. We aim for great execution and passionately work on each and every detail in our casual games to build the best experience for our players.
Atlantic Bridge VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Atlantic Bridge is a Growth Equity Firm with a Cross Border Value Add strategy. We invest in deep technology companies in Europe and the US. Our team is made up of successful entrepreneurs and senior technology industry executives and we invest in strong ambitious entrepreneurs and management teams that have the passion and drive to scale up andexploit major growth opportunities. We help our portfolio companies expand and grow internationally through our global platform with our team and offices in London, Dublin, Munich, Paris and Palo Alto.Atlantic Bridge brings together a unique team of technology entrepreneurs, experienced managers, finance professionals, and investment experts. The team contains a wealth of international business experience across Europe, the UK and the US. They have worked together in various capacities for the last 30 years, bringing a true partnership approach to their firm and their investments. Its investors include the founders, leading institutional investors, and private investors with a track record of investment in successful technology companies.Atlantic Bridge has developed a unique and differentiated strategy that focuses on specific technology themes and the implementation of the “Atlantic Bridge Model” for scaling companies internationally. The “Bridge Model” accelerates the scale-up of technology companies in Europe and the US. This approach is highly differentiated and has delivered strong performance results to date.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • United States, Ireland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Mitiga — Mitiga proactively stores and enhances forensic data so our experts can start incident investigations fast to get you back to business as usual
  • Insight Terra — Insight Terra supports data driven risk management in critical situations where business operations, people and the environment all come together.
  • Output Sports — Discover Output's portable and affordable athlete testing and tracking device. Measure strength, power and speed in minutes giving accurate and reliable data.
Greycroft VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 21 investments in the past 12 months
Venture capital and technology investments
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • HOPPR — HOPPR offers a secure platform delivering data, foundation models, and tools for you to fine-tune and accelerate your app development with higher accuracy and better performance.
  • Plastic Labs — Radically Decentralizing Alignment
  • H2Ok Innovations — H2Ok Innovations Harnesses Artificial Inteligence and Data Science to Empower Comunities With the Knowledge for Clean Water.
LocalGlobe VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 18 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, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Dreamhub — Dreamhub removes the obstacles hidden in disjointed stacks and antiquated CRMs. It gives Sales, Success, and RevOps the tools they need to secure renewal pipelines, close deals more quickly, and use every customer engagement as an opportunity to win more and get stronger.
  • Nia — Nia is an AI platform building the next generation of autonomous engineering agents and redefining how developers interact with their codebase.
  • NOAH — API-first stablecoin payments, enterprise-grade compliance and real-time settlements, powered by stablecoin technology.
Lifeline Ventures VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 14 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
  • Swarmia — Build better software faster with insights that power your whole engineering organization. Get started with a demo or a free 14-day trial.
  • Inven — Save time by using AI to find companies. Inven scans millions of websites to provide comprehensive data on companies similar to your search criteria.
  • Ovido — Ovido company specialises in supply chain and product data automation, with a focus on providing full product traceability and the establishment of Digital Product Passports (DPPs).
EQT Ventures VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 26 investments in the past 12 months
EQT Ventures is a European VC fund with just over €2.3 billion in total capital raised. EQT Ventures I launched in May 2016, with commitments totaling €566 million and a simple mission - to be the kind of VC the team would have liked to have had on their own startup journeys. Recognizing that building and growing a company takes more than justcapital, the EQT Ventures team provides founders with support and advice throughout different stages of growth. EQT Ventures doesn't focus on particular markets or industries, but on bold and ambitious founders who have the grit and determination to build global success stories. EQT Ventures II launched in November 2019, with commitments totaling €660 million. EQT Ventures III launched in 2022, with commitments totaling €1.1 billion, making it the biggest European Venture Capital fund committed to early-stage tech startups. The EQT Ventures team is based across six offices in London, Stockholm, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Paris, and San Francisco, taking a locals-with-locals approach and supporting founders on the ground. Motherbrain, EQT Ventures' in-house-developed artificial intelligence (AI) platform, ensures the team has a data-driven approach and has driven more than $100 million in portfolio company investments.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Germany, Sweden, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • MarvelX — Transform Your Operations With Trusted AI Agents. MarvelX AI Agents take care of repetitive, high-stakes workflows so your team can focus on the exceptions, not the routine. Built for insurance and beyond.
  • Payrails — Payrails enables high-growth companies to craft their payment experiences and financial services globally.
  • Kota — Replace your tools, brokers and outdated processes with the only platform that handles the entire employee benefits journey.
Northzone VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 23 investments in the past 12 months
Northzone is a multi-stage venture capital fund that seeks to invest in the healthcare, semiconductors, software, hardware, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and gaming industries.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Sweden, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • CarOnSale — Operator of B2B auction platform intended to digitize the lease-return and trade-in of cars.
  • Murphy AI — Murphy uses AI to help businesses recover unpaid invoices through respectful, personalized communication.
  • Bedrock Ocean Exploration — Bedrock is building smarter, more efficient ways to collect and manage seafloor data.
Karman Ventures VC Fund · Santa Monica, California, United States · 19 investments in the past 12 months
Karman Ventures (fka Moving Capital) is a venture capital firm backed by early employees of Uber and other decacorn startups.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Jarsy — Jarsy Inc offers a platform for global investment opportunities using stablecoins.
  • Collate — The Collate Platform empowers data teams with Agents to organize data, improve quality, and automate governance. Improve productivity and efficiency for your modern data team.
  • Blok — Blok models product changes, expedites decision-making, optimizes engineering resources, and uses artificial intelligence (AI) to assist you in determining which product experiments should launch first.
Peter Gray Angel
Peter Gray has served as a member of our Board of Directors since May 2013. Peter Gray is a self-employed consultant to the pharmaceutical industry.In 2011, Peter Gray retired from ICON plc, a global provider of outsourced development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. From 2002 to 2011, he served as ChiefExecutive Officer of ICON plc. From 2001 to 2002, he held the position of Group Chief Operating Officer and from 1997 to 2001, the position of Chief Financial Officer, both within ICON. Peter Gray serves on the board of United Drug plc, an international provider of healthcare services.Peter Gray holds a degree in Law from Trinity College Dublin and is a chartered accountant.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Big Data
  • Funding Round
  • India, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • 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!
AAF Management Ltd. VC Fund · Arlington, Virginia, United States · 6 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
Uncommon Projects VC Fund
Uncommon Projects operates as an investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, FinTech, Insurance
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Captions — Say hello to Captions, the only camera and editing app that automatically transcribes, captions and clips your talking videos for you.
  • Kota — Replace your tools, brokers and outdated processes with the only platform that handles the entire employee benefits journey.
  • Daylight — Discover new relevant things to do in crypto: mints, claims, votes, and more.
Portman Wills Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
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
Lachy Groom Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 13 investments in the past 12 months
Lachy Groom
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Formation Bio — Building the pharma company of the future.
  • Weights — Weights is a social AI Creation Platform. Create audio, images, chat, and more for free, and share with your friends!
  • Zepto — India's fastest grocery delivery service.
Goldman Sachs VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 26 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
  • Anthropic — An AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
  • Trackunit — Trackunit is the SaaS-based IoT solution and machine insights provider to the global construction equipment industry. With telematics they can detect and collect an incredible amount of data, They are dedicated to challenging the status quo by creating services that connect the entire ecosystem within construction.
  • Vultr — Vultr provides cloud infrastructure services that enable users to deploy and manage virtual servers. The platform offers a range of computing resources, including storage and networking options, designed for flexibility and scalability. Users can access data centers in various global locations to optimize performance and latency. Vultr servesindustries such as technology, e-commerce, gaming, and education.
Peter Lorent Angel
Peter Lorent
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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.
Outpost Ventures VC Fund · 2 investments in the past 12 months
OV aims to capitalize on the capital structure tailwinds resulting from the Government’s grant and matching program for defense companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Cyber Security, Content
  • Series A, Series B
  • United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Cerby — Collaborate without chaos. Cerby helps your team be productive while protecting your brand. Secure unmanageable applications. Only with Cerby.
  • NomuPay — NomuPay's Unified Payments Platform provides local acceptance and payouts in Southeast Asia, Europe and Turkey via a single system integration.
  • Anvilogic — The Anvilogic detection automation platform helps unify and automate security operations across people, processes, and technology enabling security teams to reduce time, manual effort, complexity, and expertise needed for building detections and managing your overall SOC
Richard Wang Angel · Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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.
Firebolt Ventures VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Firebolt partners are entrepreneurs who have successfully navigated the thrilling yet challenging startup journey from conception to exit. We have also built and run multiple $B products, including...
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Apata — Apata the go-to fraud prevention provider for fintech issuers.
  • Planera — Planera is a collaborative software to build construction schedules and plans in hours instead of weeks. Intuitive whiteboard interface makes it easy for the entire team to create CPM schedules with ease.
  • Riscosity — Leader in Third Party Data Observability and Securing the Data Supply Chain
Airstream Ventures VC Fund
Airstream Ventures is a corporate venturing and investment company.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Payments, Financial Services
  • Seed
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Splink — Splink's white-label fintech infrastructure offers secure plug-and-play fintech solutions, allowing brands to innovate and sell their services to existing and prospective clients. Splink's solution simplifies payment by offering partners a portfolio of payment industry options to choose from.
FEXCO VC Fund · Killorglin, Kerry, Ireland
Delivering great outcomes through Fresh Thinking and deep relationships across payments, business services and innovation.
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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!
JP Morgan VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 25 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
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Animaj — Explore the future of storytelling where AI meets creativity at Animaj Lab. Join us on a journey to revolutionize kids' entertainment, crafting captivating content that keeps the digital-first generation engaged and inspired.
  • Remitly — Send money online faster and more securely with Remitly, and discover our great exchange rates and low money transfer fees.
  • Ekho Dealer — Ekho Dealer is a licensed dealership that vehicle manufacturers can integrate into their websites, enabling them to compliantly sell new vehicles online. Ekho Dealer was founded in 2022.
Business Venture Partners VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Business Venture Partners was founded in 2004 as a corporate finance adviser for SME/owner managed businesses. The investment team is comprised of Elliott Griffin, Ronan Smith, Edel Coen and Mark Ruane and the team skills combine deep industry knowledge with experience in venture investing, corporate finance and international expansion. Theteam works on behalf of its clients buying and selling companies, raising finances, working with start-ups and advising on strategic growth, business succession and owner exits.Since 2007, BVP has successfully raised and managed 10 Simple Green BES and EII Funds. They have invested, on behalf of their investors, in some of Ireland’s most innovative companies such as Celtic Bioenergy, EFT Controls, and UrbanVolt. Our investment strategy is to spread investments over project finance and a portfolio of high potential companies. Their philosophy is to work hard with each investment to deliver valuable support for the company promoters and build shareholder value for their investors.In 2016 BVP launched The 10th BVP Green EII Fund. The fund provides eligible investors with the opportunity to avail of up to 40% income tax relief and provides the investor access to a portfolio of cleantech companies and renewable energy projects. The 11th Green Fund will be launched in Q4 2017.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Information Technology, Medical
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Ireland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
  • OOHPod — OOHPod, your new Out Of Home Flexible Address, will revolutionise the way you send and receive parcels
  • Advise — Advise Freemium is a ground-breaking automated data analytics for CPG solution. Discover how Advise can assist your Revenue Growth Management.
  • Positive Carbon — Positive Carbon provides an innovative solution for businesses to track, manage, and reduce food waste. With real-time analytics, CO2 calculation, and a comprehensive learning platform, we help you save costs and achieve sustainability goals. Request a demo today to start making a positive environmental impact.
UNIQA Ventures VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria
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.
Trinity Ventures VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Trinity Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm dedicated to partnering with passionate entrepreneurs to transform revolutionary ideas into reality. With over $1 billion under management, Trinity Ventures believes in personal engagement, mutual respect and goal alignment with the entrepreneurs. Trinity focuses on early stage and seedtechnology investments with particular emphasis on social commerce and entertainment, digital media, Saas, and cloud and infrastructure. Trinity Ventures has invested in such leading companies as Aruba Networks, 21Vianet, Blue Nile, LoopNet, Photobucket, SciQuest, Starbucks, BeachMint, Infoblox, Trion Worlds and Zulily.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, Ireland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • InfluxData — Manage all types of time series data in a single, purpose-built database. Optimized for speed in any environment in the cloud, on-premises, or at the edge.
  • Pivo — Pivo is an all-in-one financial services platform for businesses in the supply chain. Set up accounts, access credit and manage your finances in one simple application.
  • Brightside — Brightside goes beyond financial wellness with holistic financial care to resolve the unique financial challenges of your employees.
Aquiline Technology Growth VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
Aquiline Technology Growth (ATG) is a VC based in New York City. We partner with entrepreneurs who are transforming financial services and insurance. We invest in early through growth stage FinTech, InsureTech, and Enterprise Software companies. As the dedicated venture platform of Aquiline Capital Partners, we are enhanced by the domain expertiseand strategic relationships of a financial technology and services focused private equity firm.
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Investment focus
  • InsurTech, Software, Insurance
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Flueid — Flueid Software Corporation is on a mission to fundamentally change how the traditional real estate transaction closing process works. With broad strategic, design, technology and operational experience within these industries, our goal is not to eliminate critical functions within the process, but to re-think them and make them smarter, whichultimately increases productivity and reduces redundancy and cost. Working with major title insurance, real estate and mortgage lending partners, Flueid develops key solutions that streamline real estate transaction workflow, automate the delivery of risk-eliminating information during closing, and optimize business processes throughout the entire process.
  • Helcim — Helcim is a payments company that lets businesses accept credit cards with ease. Helcim focuses on delivering a better payment service by making it easier to sign up, providing smarter payment tools, and making it more affordable to get paid.
  • GAN Integrity — Streamline compliance with GAN Integrity's ethics and compliance management software. Ensure success with our comprehensive and configurable platform.
Ridge Road Partners VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
Ridge Road is different sort of investment firm. We focus on creating long-term value, with a capital base that is flexible and long-term.We buy good businesses, or businesses that we can help transform into good businesses – with a view to holding them indefinitely. We combine investment excellence with operational acumen to uncover, unlock andcreate value.We also make opportunistic investments in public markets, during periods of dislocation or when we uncover significantly mispriced inflection points in great businesses.We are not a middle-market private equity firm or a hedge fund focused on asset gathering. We are owner-operators with deep experience investing in private companies and public markets.
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Investment focus
  • Finance, Education, Financial Services
  • Series A, Series B
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Future Finance — Future Finance is a non-government lender that offers student loans.Its mission is to provide loans for students that are simple, straightforward, and based on where they're heading, not where they've been. Future Finance helps students focus on what matters. Therefore, it aims to ensure everyone has the freedom to focus on theirstudies or kickstart their career whatever their financial background may be. It was founded in 2014 by Brian Norton and Vishal Garg and is headquartered in Dublin.
Tech Mahindra VC Fund · Pune, Maharashtra, India
Tech Mahindra represents the connected world, offering innovation & human-centric technology experiences to our customers, stakeholders & communities.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Big Data, Software
  • Series A, Series C, Corporate Round
  • United States, Israel, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • TradeIX — Blockchain Enabled Supply Chain & Payment Solutions | Marco Polo Network
  • Surance.io — AI platform, cyber attack response and prevention. Comprehensive white-label and end-to-end service, enhancing household cyber insurance offering.
  • Altiostar Networks — Welcome to cloud native networks at scale. By reimagining telecom, Rakuten Symphony makes it possible to launch and operate advanced mobile services in a fraction of the time and cost of conventional approaches, with no compromise to network quality or security.
In-Q-Tel VC Fund · Arlington, Virginia, United States · 19 investments in the past 12 months
In-Q-Tel identifies and partners with companies developing cutting-edge technologies to help deliver these solutions to the Central Intelligence Agency and the broader U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) to further their missions.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • United States, Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Cortical Labs — Cortical Labs are creators of the dishbrain that fuses living brain cells onto computing devices to create machines with biological intelligence
  • Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.
  • Transcelestial Technologies — Secure, last mile connectivity with fiber-like speeds using next gen Wireless Fiber Optics or Lasercomms, at a fraction of the deployment time and cost of fiber.
Kistefos Venture Capital VC Fund · Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Kistefos focus on investing between NOK 10m and NOK +100m in each company, aiming at obtaining a significant ownership stake. Kistefos is opportunistic with regards to sectors, company sizes, life-cycle stages and geographies. Kistefos’ investment strategy selectively seeks out a diverse range of proprietary transactions in companies of varioussizes, including build-ups, growth capital, rescue financings and buyouts.Kistefos is an active partner to the management teams and founders, providing considerable internal resources to ensure the long-term value creation through identification of the key value drivers. Furthermore, we operate under a flexible investment mandate, giving us the opportunity to optimally support our portfolio companies throughout our ownership period.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Norway, Singapore, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • Surer — Surer is a cloud-based insurtech platform with a digital ecosystem of intermediaries and insurers. It provides tech solutions to help orchestrate the network in the insurance industry enabling insurance intermediaries to close deals with greater speed and allows insurers to distribute their product with better efficiency.
  • Workclass — Apply for any jobs and get hired in 24 hours now!
  • bluesheets — Build a solid data foundation with Bluesheets, the all-in-one tool that connects, categorises and automates your finanical data. Set up once, automate forever.
Animoca Brands VC Fund · Cyberport, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 43 investments in the past 12 months
Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • We.Rich — We.Rich operates as a User Generated Assets(UGA) platform.
  • Fanton — The first P2E Fantasy Football game with Telegram integration
  • Pentagon Games — Pioneering the Future of Gaming Development and Distribution. In the fast-evolving gaming landscape, Pentagon Games stands at the forefront, marrying the digital with the physical through groundbreaking AI and Web3 technologies.
BNP Paribas Private Equity VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in the past 12 months
BNP Paribas Private Equity brings together the third party private equity teams of BNP Paribas Investment Partners. As of September 2008, this activity has EUR 817 million of assets under management, spread out over five different types of vehicles: funds of funds and investment management mandates, innovation funds (FCPI), local investment funds(FIP ISF), unlisted small cap funds and feeder funds.The asset management activities are supported by:- A strategy and development arm dedicated to the creation of new activities both in and outside France using BNPP IP's global network.- A comprehensive fund administration service.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • France, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
  • Credem Banca — Scopri i servizi bancari, finanziari e assicurativi di Credem Banca per persone, famiglie e imprese. Credem, Wellbanking People.
  • Santexpat.fr — Santexpat is a health insurance platform for French expatriates in more than 200 countries. It allows users to analyze more than 100 health insurance solutions and subscribe to them directly. The company also offers teleconsultations with French-speaking doctors 24/7. Santexpat was founded in 2020 and is based in Paris, France.
  • Pollen Robotics — Pollen Robotics develops humanoid service robots specialized in the interaction and manipulation of objects.
Peter Briffett Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
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
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