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Top 50 FinTech Startup Investors in Ireland in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Fintech startups based in Ireland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Fintech companies from Ireland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 FinTech Startup Investors in Ireland in January 2025

Investor	FinTech Ireland investments
Enterprise Ireland	24
NDRC	13
Delta Partners	9
Middlegame Ventures	7
Frontline Ventures	7
Act Venture Capital	7
Elkstone Capital Partners	4
Finch Capital	3
Lifeline Ventures	2
Index Ventures	2
Greycroft	2
Northzone	2
Mangrove Capital Partners	2
LocalGlobe	2
Furthr VC	2
HBAN	2
CIFL Ltd	2
AIB Seed Capital Fund	2
Aperture.co	2
NJF Capital	2
David Clarke	2
Karman Ventures	2
Kernel Capital	2
Oleg Tikhturov	2
Atlantic Bridge	2
Investec	1
JP Morgan	1
KCK	1
Peter Gray	1
Foreword Ventures	1
Romain Huet	1
Ulster Bank Diageo Venture Fund	1
VU Venture Partners	1
Wave Digital Assets	1
Mark Cummins	1
Tech Mahindra	1
Tiny VC	1
Matrixport	1
Kistefos Venture Capital	1
Peter Lorent	1
Spark Digital Capital	1
COTI	1
The Spartan Group	1
Mosaic Ventures	1
Business Venture Partners	1
Mandeep Singh	1
Patrick Walsh	1
Animoca Brands	1
Blackstone Group	1
Notion Capital	1

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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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

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.
LaNua Medical — LaNua Medical develop disruptive image-guided technologies providing safe and effective endovascular solutions.
Customs Window — Customs Window is an End-to-End Customs Clearance and Trade Solutions providing Support Services to solve challenges and operations.

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.

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

Early stage VC investments and funding for start-ups / founders in Ireland.

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 a technology focused provider of integrated data for intelligent fleet electrification planning, operations and reporting.
MarketSizer — MarketSizer offers subscription-based competitive intelligence and market insights for SaaS vendors who want to strategically grow their business.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Ireland, United Kingdom, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Linq.gg — Fintech solution tailored for mobile game developers to create, publish, and scale real-money games.
Trustap — Learn how we make buying & selling online safe & secure, every time. Create an account for free today!
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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Ireland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Loadar — Loadar is an online transport management system that optimizes the relationship between shippers and carriers. Easily work with your trusted carriers, enjoy cost efficiency, and have control over your transportation process. Free for Shippers.
Roboflow — With just a few dozen example images, you can train a working, state-of-the-art computer vision model in less than 24 hours
Melio — Pay and get paid for invoices quickly, simply, and without any of the usual costs. Increase cash-flow and reduce hassles with Melio Payments.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GridBeyond — Endeco's Energy ManagementSystem (EMS) provides wirelessenergy management and controlsystems for retail, commercial andindustrial users. Applications includebuilding control, refrigeration control,demand management, priceresponse, energy efficiency, anddemand response. Our automatedwireless systems seamlesslyintegrate intoyour existingoperations and/or BuildingManagement System (BMS) withoutany training of retail staff required.
Trustap — Learn how we make buying & selling online safe & secure, every time. Create an account for free today!
Mavarick AI — Explore Mavarick AI's Carbon Accounting Software Platform. Get accurate carbon emissions accounting data and generate auditable reports with ease.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Ireland, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Zerve AI — Securely Unlock Gen AI & LLMs in Your Enterprise
LaNua Medical — LaNua Medical develop disruptive image-guided technologies providing safe and effective endovascular solutions.
Retrograde — Talent agency of the future. Get early access now.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Louhe — Enabling Data-Driven Security Culture With Explainable AI. LOUHE recognises anomalies and creates smart situational awareness with explainable artificial intelligence.
In Parallel — In Parallel aligns strategy and execution, enabling organizations to thrive in complexity and adapt to change. Our Intelligent Operating Model bridges the gap between strategy and operations. Founded in 2023.
In Parallel — In Parallel aligns strategy and execution, enabling organizations to thrive in complexity and adapt to change. Our Intelligent Operating Model bridges the gap between strategy and operations. Founded in 2023.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Cartesia — Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. Its objective is to develop the next generation of AI: pervasive, interactive intelligence that operates everywhere.
Albert Invent — 1000’s of scientists, technicians, and engineers across 30+ countries rely on Albert’s end-to-end Cloud Platform to accelerate the innovation of new materials. With Albert, R&D organizations get the data insights and tools needed to increase speed to market, automate regulatory compliance, and heighten the impact of new products.Built fromthe ground up for the chemical and material science industry, the Albert Platform connects R&D processes and creates a single data source of truth across the R&D organization. Augmented with AI, machine learning and a comprehensive materials database, key platform functionality includes inventory, worksheets, workflows, tasks, and more. www.albertinvent.com
Sublime Security — Sublime lets you write, run, and share rules to block phishing attacks, hunt for threats, and more.

Venture capital and technology investments

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Whatnot — Whatnot is a community marketplace where you can safely buy, sell, go live and geek out with collectors and other like-minded people. All items on Whatnot are verified. Shop on web or download the app.
Reflexivity — Say goodbye to stodgy terminals and clunky, decades-old interfaces. By asking questions in natural language, our institutional-grade analytic tools come alive and at your service.
Thread AI — Thread AI makes infrastructure simple for enterprises and can drive adoption and innovation in AI.

Northzone is a multi-stage venture capital fund that seeks to invest in the healthcare, semiconductors, software, hardware, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and gaming industries.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Sweden, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Nivoda — Nivoda provides jewellery businesses with a simple solution to strengthen profits, increase efficiency and accelerate growth with its B2B diamond marketplace. Designed to save you time and money whilst giving you access to the world’s diamond supply at the best prices with zero inventory risk, Nivoda is trusted by thousands of retailers all overthe globe.
Flower — We enable the energy system of tomorrow by combining pioneering technology with flexible assets, allowing clean energy to power society
AirForestry — AirForestry thins forests in a completely new way, namely from the air. #Re-inventing Forestry

Mangrove Capital Partners is a contrarian investment firm helping innovative entrepreneurs start and grow.

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.
Frak Labs — Manage your unified web identity, earn rewards, and interact seamlessly with partner websites using our passkey-first blockchain smart wallet.
K Health — We pair clinicians with advanced AI to provide data-driven, personalized care around the clock. Chat with your medical team today.

Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Clock Bio — Clock Bio operates as a biotech company, that develops novel regenerative medicines.
Keel — Keel is a London-based startup offering modern businesses a much-needed third choice between off-the-shelf and no-code tools. Keel has developed a powerful programmable operations platform which offers all the benefits of bespoke tooling without the need to build from scratch.Keel was founded in 2022 by Benoit Machefer, Tom Frew and Jon Bretman,who directly experienced the frustration of being underserved by off-the-shelf software when scaling the fastest growing online pharmacy in Europe to over $130m revenue. The company represents a compelling vision of a future without legacy ERP, where ops teams and engineers work more closely together building bespoke tools on the robust and secure Keel platform.
ERS - Ecosystem Restoration Standard — Wildsense monitors forest health using satellite imagery to help foresters better adapt to climate change-related risks like insect outbreaks and drought.

Furthr VC invests in transformative tech. Furthr Venture Capital invests in scalable, early-stage companies. We help Ireland's next generation of technology.

Investment focus

Medical, Medical Device, Health Care
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!
Neurobell — NeuroBell develop novel EEG medical devices for early detection and monitoring of neonatal seizures.
LaNua Medical — LaNua Medical develop disruptive image-guided technologies providing safe and effective endovascular solutions.

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.

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
Quantmatix — Improve the quality, efficiency and timing of your investment decisions. Quantmatix is a systematic tool for professional investors to evaluate instruments, dynamically shape portfolios and drive performance.

Angel Investment Network

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

The AIB Seed Capital Fund was established in 2007 to provide venture capital for companies at the seed and early stages of development across a range of sectors throughout the Republic of Ireland. The Fund was established under the Enterprise Ireland Seed and Venture Capital Programme 2007-2012.The Fund has a total of â‚¬30m under managementwith AIB and Enterprise Ireland both committing â‚¬15m. It is managed by experienced managers with extensive expertise in making seed and early stage investments, adding value and facilitating business success.The Fund managers are empowered to make seed investments of up to approximately â‚¬500,000. Furthermore, the Fund has the capacity to make investments in later rounds to support the continued growth of investee companies.The Fund will be managed by Enterprise Equity Venture Capital and the Dublin Business Innovation Centre. This unique partnership brings together extensive regional and investment expertise.Enterprise Equity will evaluate and manage all investments outside the city and county of Dublin, as well as investments that require in excess of â‚¬250,000 from the fund within the city and county of Dublin.Dublin Business Innovation Centre (DBIC) will evaluate and manage all investments within the city and county of Dublin when the initial investment amount required from the Fund does not exceed â‚¬250,000.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Ireland, United States, Jersey

Portfolio highlights

NewsWhip — The only real-time media monitoring platform that predicts the stories and topics that will matter in the hours ahead.
Offr — Offr is the new way to buy and sell property, quickly and transparently.
Metabolomic Diagnostics — Metabolomic Diagnostics is a deep-tech company specialized in the development of novel biomarker based diagnostic solutions for complex diseases. The company has developed an effective pipeline to firstly identify diagnostic biomarker panels and then translate these panels into clinical assays ready for application in the clinical laboratory.Thispipeline combines the biomarker multiplexing capabilities of Mass Spectrometry, a powerful analytical technology, with the company’s own informatics and statistics solutions to deliver diagnostic innovation. This is reflected in Metabolomic Diagnostics’ strong and versatile IP portfolio of technical innovations and biomarkers.Our VisionMetabolomic Diagnostics’ primary vision is to develop a portfolio of diagnostic solutions which can determine, early in a woman’s pregnancy,her risk of developing major complications much later in her pregnancy and thus enabling personalized care, adapted to each woman’s individual needs. Pregnancy complications like preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, preterm birth, and in-uterine growth restriction, all have the potential to severely impact on the well-being of mother and child.The company’s innovative diagnostic solutions will assist clinicians in re-imagining how these conditions are managed: our novel risk assessment tools are specifically developed in conjunction with prenatal care providers to ensure they make a difference that really matters. This in turn will enable clinicians to improve pregnancy outcomes globally.Our solutions will empower pregnant women: accurate pregnancy risk information will allow a pregnant woman, in partnership with her care provider, to determine what prenatal care is best for her pregnancy.

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.

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

NJF Capital is the venture capital arm of NJF Holdings, founded by investor and entrepreneur Nicole Junkermann.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, 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.

David Clarke is the Venture Partner at Frontline Ventures. He attended Trinity College Dublin during 1989-1993.

Investment focus

SaaS, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Italy, Denmark, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Glaut — Glaut is an AI-native customer survey platform that conducts in-depth, AI-moderated interviews with customers at scale.
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).
Kota — Instant access to leading insurance and retirement providers globally, with flexible contributions, automated accounting and a delightfully simple employee app.

Karman Ventures (fka Moving Capital) is a venture capital firm backed by early employees of Uber and other decacorn startups.

Investment focus

Software, Transportation, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Toothio — Dental offices gain access to high-quality dental professionals, on-demand, while dental professionals can pick up work that fits their schedules.
Yuma AI — Yuma is using ChatGPT to automate customer support. We integrate directly with help desk software and focus on helping large Shopify merchants deal with their high volume of support requests.
Outsmart Education — Join the waitlist and see why higher education will never again be the same.

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.

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.

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.

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 — Instant access to leading insurance and retirement providers globally, with flexible contributions, automated accounting and a delightfully simple employee app.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, Ireland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mindgard — Mindgard is an AI security company that helps enterprise to test, detect, and respond to cyber threats against their AI models.Given that businesses are increasingly focused on offering AI-driven services such as LLMs, securing this new way of conducting business is equally important. Mindgard ensures that your business can safely and securelymove into the new AI world and continue to protect your digital assets, brand and reputation.Our platform enables enterprise customers to determine, detect, and remediate against any adversarial attack vulnerabilities within all their AI models. This answers the “What is my AI risk?” and “How do I mitigate my AI risk?” questions that currently cannot be answered using traditional Cyber Security platforms. By designing our platform from the ground up to integrate with existing AI and Cyber Security operational tooling, Mindgard can be seamlessly added to your organization, providing repeatable and automated AI model vulnerability testing.The Mindgard platform has been in development for over 4 years based on cutting edge PhD-led, AI & cyber security research, also used by the global Intelligence Community. As well as providing a library of adversarial attacks based on deep research, leveraging our platform that can automate repeated security testing, detection, and response across the entire AI estate. By leveraging the Mindgard platform, our clients free up precious AI and cyber security resources and at the same time understand, detect, and mitigate risks across their entire AI model portfolio, which currently takes too long and is too expensive. Our platform ensures that business can rapidly embrace LLMs and other AI technologies whilst protecting their digital assets, brand, and reputation within the new AI world.
Mindgard Ltd — Mindgard Ltd specializes in providing comprehensive AI security solutions to enterprises. Our operations center around a sophisticated platform designed to determine, detect, and remediate adversarial attack vulnerabilities within AI models. The platform is built on over four years of PhD-led research in AI and cyber security, ensuring advancedprotection that traditional Cyber Security platforms cannot offer.Our platform integrates seamlessly with existing AI and Cyber Security tools, enabling automated and repeatable vulnerability testing across the entire AI estate. This integration allows enterprises to efficiently assess and mitigate risks, optimizing their AI and cyber security resources.Key operational features include: - Automated Security Testing: Utilizing a library of adversarial attacks, our platform conducts thorough and repeated security tests to identify vulnerabilities. - Detection and Response: The platform continuously monitors AI models for threats and provides rapid detection and response capabilities to neutralize potential attacks. - Seamless Integration: Designed for compatibility with existing operational tools, our platform can be easily incorporated into current security infrastructures.Mindgard Ltd's operations ensure that businesses can securely adopt and innovate with AI technologies while protecting their digital assets, brand, and reputation in the evolving AI landscape.
LaNua Medical — LaNua Medical develop disruptive image-guided technologies providing safe and effective endovascular solutions.

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Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Energy
Funding Round, Debt Financing, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Voltera — Voltera’s customers are companies that have a pressing need to power EVs at scale. They are challenged by the fact that charging infrastructure does not exist in the right place, at the right time, or of the right type necessary to support planned EV deployments. They're also challenged by the complexity of siting, building, owning, andoperating EV charging infrastructure without disrupting operations or investing significant time and upfront capital.
Recurrent Energy — As a leading provider of distributed solar power, Recurrent Energy is overcoming the barriers to widespread solar adoption, making renewable energy a practical choice for today's large scale energy users. They are a developer and owner of locally-sited solar power systems, selling clean electricity to their customers worldwide at competitiverates via a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) or Feed-in Tariffs (FiT). In return, their utility, commercial, and government customers achieve energy independence, predictable pricing, and enhanced sustainability.
Onyx Renewable Partners — Onyx guides your every step toward a cleaner future. Established in 2014, Onyx offers clean energy, solar, and decarbonization solutions throughout the United States.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Funding Round, Debt Financing, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

La Doria — La Doria is a producer and sells tomato derivatives, ready sauces, preserved legumes, fruit juices, and beverage products. They offer products that include boiled legumes, baked beans, red kidney beans, carrots, ready-made soups and stews, and canned pasta in tomato sauce.
Embraer — Embraer SA is a Brazil-based holding company primarily engaged in the manufacture of aircraft. The company’s business activities are divided into three business segments: Commercial Aviation; Defense and Security Business, and Executive Aviation. The Commercial Aviation segment is involved in the development, production, and sale of commercialjets, as well as in the provision of support services, with emphasis on the regional aviation industry and aircraft leasing. The Defense and Security Business segment mainly includes the research, development, production and modification of defense aircrafts as well systems and software design. Through the Executive Aviation segment, the company is active in the development, production, and sale of business jets, the provision of support services related to this sector of the market, and aircraft leasing. Embraer has subsidiaries, affiliated companies, and representative offices in Brazil, the United States, France, Holland, and China, among others.
Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.

KCK is a family investment fund that invests in a diverse set of industries, including medical technologies. KCK interests in Life Sciences - Biopharm/ Biotech & MedTech, Energy, Science-rich companies and Industrial Technologies. KCK invest at all stages of a startup's from early stage to growth rounds and also invest in publiccompanies. KCK is the private equity arm of a family office which seeks to partner with experienced management teams, focused on niche markets, deploying long-term flexible capital to generate high risk-adjusted returns.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Series C, Series D
United States, Ireland, India

Portfolio highlights

Wunder Mobility — Launch, manage & scale your vehicle sharing service. Get started with the industry-leading mobility solution.
Chain Reaction — Chain Reaction is engineering the future of disruptive blockchain and privacy technologies by accelerating compute and mining hardware performance.
Dubizzle Group — The Emerging Markets Property Group (EMPG) owns and operates bespoke property verticals in emerging markets, primarily in the Middle East and South Asia. The group’s flagship ventures are Bayut.com in the UAE, Zameen.com in Pakistan and Bproperty.com in Bangladesh.They disrupt traditional processes in emerging markets by introducing solutionsthat make property searching faster, easier, and simpler. Their competitive advantage comes from the tremendous value they add to the businesses that work with their portals, and the significant ease we provide to end users.At EMPG, they are not interested in maintaining the status quo. Their property verticals in emerging markets completely redefine the way the property business is done there, and they are especially tuned into the unique requirements of these markets because they are borne of one.

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.

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!

Foreword Ventures is an early-stage micro fund backing startups throughout their initial chapters. Foreword commits to adding value far beyond the small checks they write by devoting time, reputation, and capital to clients' success. Foreword typically invests in the pre-seed and seed stages, but can also invest in Series A and beyond whenthere is an existing relationship with the founder or co-investor.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Trace.Space — Engineers develop complex products 10x faster with Trace.Space. Requirements management for the next generation
Kota — Instant access to leading insurance and retirement providers globally, with flexible contributions, automated accounting and a delightfully simple employee app.
Surfboard — Surfboard; Simpler, smarter and fairer scheduling software for customer support teams at scale. Click to learn more about our WFM solution.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Apps, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Lago — Lago is the easiest way to segment and sync customer data to your business tools. You can sync customer data in a minute to Sales, Customer Success, Mailing, Revenue or Advertising Platforms.
Twin — We are building the AI productivity platform for SMB teams to automate complex and repetitive tasks across, as seamlessly as delegating them to smart interns.
Kota — Instant access to leading insurance and retirement providers globally, with flexible contributions, automated accounting and a delightfully simple employee app.

Based in Dublin, Ulster Bank Diageo Venture Fund supports management teams that need capital to expand their businesses into new markets.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Personalization
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

StitcherAds — Kargo Commerce's retail and eCommerce-centric platform is designed to drive performance with ease across Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat, and TikTok.
HeyStaks — Mobile operators and online publishers can earn massive revenues from their first-party data with HeyStaks AI Marketing Platform.
Accuris Networks — Accuris Networks is a leading provider of convergence, roaming and interworking solutions . The AccuROAM platform is designed to enable Communication Service Providers to have integrated and disruptive solutions by connecting current and emerging mobile broadband networks such as GSM CDMA, LTE and Wi-Fi , which includes smartphone client software,access server/gateway technology and billing integration.This gives their subscribers a seamless and secure user experience for data, voice and messaging services on all of these technologies both internationally and domestically.

A multi-stage investment fund focused on Consumer, Enterprise, Fintech, Frontier, Healthcare, & PropTech

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Machine Learning
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Colombia, India

Portfolio highlights

Healx — At Healx we use AI drug discovery to develop new treatments for rare diseases. We bring treatments from prediction to patient.
Wegrow-app — Wegrow is a digital platform where your teams share & scale best practices in marketing, sales, supply chain, HR, to drive efficiency & margin.
Orchard Robotics — We develop advanced camera systems and computer vision software to enable precision crop load management for growers.

Wave Digital Assets offers early-stage investment, asset management, treasury management, and strategy consulting to further the growth of the crypto and digital asset ecosystem.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United States, Switzerland, Canada

Portfolio highlights

1Kin Labs — Get early access to in-development games, claim rewards, and take your digital assets with you wherever you go - all with a single sign-on.
Fluree — Knowledge, security, and trust in a single data system. Fluree combines data governance and semantic knowledge for better apps and AI.
Crypto Valley Exchange — The first portfolio risk capable platform for Options & Futures trading in DeFi, offering 1000x+ leverage based on margin offset.

Mark Cummins

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 — Instant access to leading insurance and retirement providers globally, with flexible contributions, automated accounting and a delightfully simple employee app.

Tech Mahindra represents the connected world, offering innovation & human-centric technology experiences to our customers, stakeholders & communities.

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.

Backing great companies when they're tiny

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

JUST — JUST is a company that specialises in ecommerce payment solutions.
Zero — Buy verified cash app account at the best IT service provider smmsellshop at cost-effective price, we provide SSN, Bank & Selfie verified accounts.
Briefcase — Briefcase automates the legwork in accounting so you can focus on growing your practice

Matrixport is an all-in-one crypto financial services platform where users can earn, invest, trade, loan and buy crypto assets. Get started today!

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Singapore, China

Portfolio highlights

UXLINK — UXLINK is a social infrastructure comprised of social protocols and a collection of Dapps.UXLINk creates groundbreaking landing sceneries for web3 groups.
CELL Studio — A blockchain software development company with a dedicated focus on the BTC ecosystem, committed to advancing the Nervos BTCKB initiative
Stoneblade Entertainment — Stoneblade Entertainment operates as a publisher of strategy games.

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.

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.

Peter Lorent

Investment focus

Apps, FinTech, Insurance
Pre-Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Kota — Instant access to leading insurance and retirement providers globally, with flexible contributions, automated accounting and a delightfully simple employee app.

Established in 2017, Spark Digital Capital is an NY based family office that invests in Blockchain-enabled companies. They firmly believe in a future where blockchain not only plays a significant role in the world but also creates unlimited efficiencies and opportunities to the society and people’s lives. With their teams' strong finance andtechnology background they aim to bring blockchain into prosperity.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Singapore, United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Ta-da — Ta-da is a simple solution to have access to high quality data at a fair price. Thousands of users from all around the world contribute to collect and validate data in a fun fresh new way.
AutoLayer — All LRTfi. One Interface.
TProtocol — TProtocol: The Next Generation DeFi Infrastructure.

COTI is the world's first DAG-based blockchain protocol optimized for use by payment dApps, merchants and stable coin issuers.

Investment focus

Other, Payments, Software
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

AdaSwap — The next-gen DEX based on Cardano! Swap, bridge & trade between Cardano-based tokens, NFTs and stablecoins within seconds.
Polemos — Polemos is a GameFi platform that is the first decentralized combination of its own asset lending library, Play to Own education hub, and gaming community.
WingRiders — WingRiders is a top tier AMM decentralized exchange on top of the eUTxO model. Fully Cardano native and super fast platform.

We advise, invest, and build with the best entrepreneurs in Web3.

Investment focus

Financial, Other, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Shardeum — Shardeum is the world's first EVM based L1 blockchain that truly solves scalability trilemma with linear scaling and low gas fees forever
Celestia — Celestia is a pluggable consensus and data availability layer, to enable anyone to quickly deploy a decentralised blockchain without the overhead of bootstrapping a new consensus network.
Tapio Protocol — Efficient Liquidity Standard for Staking and Crowdloan Assets on Polkadot

We back founders who are reimagining the world. We invest $1-10m early, in those building daring adventures in Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Parloa — Amplify your customer service experience with a team of personal AI agents. Leverage the full power of generative AI for contact center automation.
Podcastle — Podcastle is the simplest way to create professional-quality podcasts. Record, edit, transcribe, and export your content with the power of AI, in an intuitive web-based platform.
forward earth — Next-Gen carbon management for a sustainable future. AI-driven, automated, compliant, fast, and secure. Be prepared for requirements of CSRD, SFRD, EU-Taxonomy, and kick-start your carbon reduction and abatement program. White-label options for partners.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Ireland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

OOHPod — Self service parcel lockers for personal and business customers. Choose from a range of plans to suit you. Pay As You Go, Monthly and Premium Subscriptions available. Find your nearest OOHPod parcel locker and start using your out of home flexible address today.
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.
X-BOLT Orthapaedics — X-Bolt Trauma Solutions for osteoporotic bone fixation. FDA 510(k) approved. Clinical studies include the WHITE One (n=100) and WHITE Four (n=1,140) randomized control trials.

Founder and former CEO at Trouva (backed by Index Ventures & exited to LON:MADE). He is now an Angel Investor & Advisor, and a Board Member at Amnesty International. He was previously an investor at BC Partners, one of Europe’s largest Private Equity funds, investors in Intelsat, Foxtons (where Mandeep was on the board), and Chewy. Prior tothat he was a strategy consultant at OC&C and graduated in Natural Sciences (Physics) from the University of Cambridge. He set up his first startup in his bedroom as a teenage coder.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

11x.ai — Onboard the AI workforce from the future and 11x your productivity today
TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
Sourcerie — Discover the best products for you, based on reviews from people just like you.

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.

Investment focus

Apps, FinTech, Insurance
Pre-Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Kota — Instant access to leading insurance and retirement providers globally, with flexible contributions, automated accounting and a delightfully simple employee app.

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.

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.

Blackstone Group is a private equity firm that invests in private equity, real estate, public debt, equity, non-investment grade credit, real assets, and secondary funds.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
Private Equity, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Inhibikase Therapeutics — Inhibikase Therapeutics is innovating small-molecule kinase inhibitor therapeutics to treat neurological infections and neurodegenerative diseases.
Sia Partners — Sia Partners is a next-generation consulting firm focused on delivering superior value and tangible results to its clients as they navigate the digital revolution. We guide their projects and initiatives in strategy, business transformation, IT & digital strategy, and Data Science.
Smartsheet — Smartsheet is the best way to plan, track, automate, and report on work, enabling you to move from idea to impact - fast. This cloud-based work management platform empowers collaboration, drives better decision making, and accelerates innovation for over 70,000 brands in 190 countries, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500. Named by Forbes asone of the world’s top private cloud companies, Smartsheet complements existing enterprise investments by deeply integrating with applications from Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, Atlassian, and many others.

Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cogna — Cogna offers an AI-powered SaaS platform that streamlines the integration of data across several business domains.
Refute — Refute identifies and addresses misinformation on behalf of there businesses.
Upvest — Upvest empowers financial institutions to offer investment products in their app with a modular, scalable, and accessible API. Upvest brings together everything that’s required to offer a broad range of investment products on the website and app. They are connected to the world’s leading asset providers and exchanges to provide the bestinvestments, at the best prices and execution speed.

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