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Top 50 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Ireland in September 2025

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

Top 50 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Ireland in September 2025

Investor	Food and Beverage Ireland investments
Enterprise Ireland	11
NDRC	6
Elkstone Capital Partners	5
SOSV	4
HBAN	4
Frontline Ventures	4
WI Harper Group	4
VTF Capital	3
Playfair Capital	3
Anamcara Capital	3
Eamonn Quinn	3
Tapestry VC	3
NAP	3
Sinovation Ventures	3
Atlantic Bridge	3
Growing Capital	3
Act Venture Capital	3
Dynamo	2
First Analysis	2
ff Venture Capital	2
Amaranthine	2
Oyster Capital Partners	2
Sure Valley Ventures	2
Samaipata	2
Business Growth Fund	2
PCH Capital	2
Business Venture Partners	2
Grosvenor Food & AgTech	2
CircleRock Capital	2
Triple Point Ventures	2
Sol Global investments	1
Accel	1
Enterprise Equity	1
Alsop Louie Partners	1
Gokhan Guner	1
Serena Cordero	1
PCH International	1
Bill McCabe	1
GP Winery	1
Epicure Wines	1
Samuel Dennigan	1
Grands Vignobles en Mediterranee	1
Connie Schwaderer	1
AIB Seed Capital Fund	1
Molten Ventures	1
Benjamin Darnault	1
Brownwyn Dunwoodie	1
Lazenby Group	1
Melanie Pfister	1
Alabaster	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
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 is your trusted Original Design Manufacturing (ODM) partner for biomaterial based medical devices & implant products.

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

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, 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.

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical 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, Software, Medical Device
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.
Movetru — Movetru a wearable device that aims to reduce injury and enhance rehabilitation.
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.

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

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.

WI Harper Group is a venture capital firm that focuses on early and early expansion investments in Mainland China, Taiwan and Silicon Valley.It was founded in 1993. Made 300+ investments with 80+ exits. Manages 9 funds and over $1B in capital through 19 dedicated investment professionals located in Beijing, Taipei and San Francisco.Thefirm's focus is technology, clean technology and healthcare. Its track record includes

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Taiwan, China

Portfolio highlights

GDMC — GDMC is a pharmaceutical company that engages in manufacturing and designing genetic medicines.
Blackpanda — Asia's premier digital forensics and cyber incident response firm.
Phase — Design and prototype websites and apps visually and intuitively, in a new powerful product reworked for the digital age.

We Invest In The Future of Commerce

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Fashion
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Ross & Snow — Ross & Snow is the brainchild of four good friends (the “shoe dogs,” each a longtime veteran of the footwear industry) coming together one evening for wine, laughter and a discussion about the current state of footwear quality. We wanted to see mountain-inspired footwear that was also perfect for the city, footwear that is both functional andcraveworthy, footwear that’s made in a family-owned Italian workshop but designed with American edge. We wanted to produce the kind of shoe or boot we would want to wear all day, the kind that takes us seamlessly from a chilly morning’s breakfast meeting all the way through to drinks in our favorite bar.
The/Studio — Manufacture high-quality custom products in small batches with fast turnaround and free shipping online from The/Studio. Browse our custom products, here.
ZenBusiness — Start a new business today for $0 or grow your existing business with the ZenBusiness platform. Get to your first dollar faster without the stress.

Playfair is a generalist VC fund with a contrarian approach to pre-seed technology investing. Based in London, Playfair invests across the UK and Europe with an intentionally high conviction, low volume approach: making 6-8 investments a year and preserving time, capital and resource to help companies post-investment. Playfair has backed 70+companies across two funds including Thought Machine, Andela, Mapillary, Recycleye and Orca AI.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Warden AI — Warden AI is an AI assurance platform for validating fair, compliant, and trustworthy AI systems. Schedule a demo to learn more!
Those Beyond — Those Beyond develops a social gaming platform that supports interactive fan experiences within fictional universes. The platform uses its proprietary Arise Engine to enable browser-based adventures, role-playing, and puzzle-solving activities involving mass community participation. Projects include collaborations with entertainment franchises suchas "The Walking Dead," allowing fans to engage with story-driven challenges and community events. The platform includes customizable social spaces designed to reflect the themes and aesthetics of the associated intellectual properties.
Astral Systems — Our compact multi-state fusion reactors offer high particle flux and exceptional lifetime performance, unlocking a wide variety of critical medical, industrial, and research applications today.

Anamcara invests in B2B software enabling small and medium-sized businesses, leading the next revolution of commerce.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Germany, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

PraxiPal — PraxiPal is building an AI-driven healthcare workforce to tackle the increasing shortage of healthcare staff.
Ameba — Capture, organise and analyse your existing supply chain data from any communication channel or system through an AI layer of intelligence
trumpet — Create beautiful, personalised, trackable and interactive digital sales pods in a few clicks with trumpet

Eamonn Quinn

Investment focus

Grocery, E-Commerce, Food Delivery
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Buymie — Buymie is a same-day grocery delivery company focused on reducing the environmental impact of grocery shopping.

Investing in technical and repeat founders across Europe & US. Seed and early investors in Hopin, Pitch, MetaMap, Manna, Zapp, Crossbeam, Nothing, Standard and more.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Maze — Maze is a new type of security platform - built from scratch to use modern AI to make decisions, instead of pre-defined logic.
Manna Air Delivery — Drone delivery made simple
Cloudsmith — Cloudsmith is the only universal, cloud-native solution for software artifact management and software supply chain security. Start your free trial today.

Cavalry is an early-stage venture capital investor focused on European technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

AMPECO — AMPECO enables large-scale EV charging providers to launch and scale their business operations under their own brand. The company offers a white-label and hardware-agnostic EV charging management platform to cover all business cases - public, private, and home charging. Advanced energy management, flexible billing and subscription management,automatic maintenance algorithms, and inter-operator roaming are some of the platform’s key components. With security and scalability at its core, the platform allows large-scale operators like energy companies, oil and gas, fleets, hardware manufacturers and installers to achieve quick go-to-market in a few months with a ready-made platform combined with unmatched flexibility and extensibility via APIs. AMPECO supports more than 110 charging network operators in over 45 markets and has been globally recognized by Frost & Sullivan for its superior technological innovation and strategic development with the 2022 Global Product Leadership Award.
UniteLabs — UniteLabs provides the foundational operating system for AI-driven lab automation in life science. It accelerates scientific discovery by closing the loop with a unified data and automation infrastructure, seamless integration, and intelligent control. Our platform empowers ambitious biotech companies, big pharma, integrators, and hardware vendorsby offering bidirectional connectors for diverse lab equipment, a scalable cloud platform with an open API, and a powerful workflow engine with an integrated compute environment. This allows for the creation of sophisticated, modular workflows, and enables rapid automation development through our Lab-as-Code environment, featuring a dynamic Python SDK and application-specific libraries.
beSirius — beSirius transforms ESG chaos into clarity - connecting your data to spot trends, reveal revenue signals, and answer any stakeholder in minutes. Smarter decisions, faster deals, zero admin drain.

Sinovation Ventures is a full-service venture capital firm that actively invests in the Chinese technology market.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

UniUni — Explore our shipping Universe. Our mission is to be your first-choice for last-mile delivery.
Sand.ai — Sand AI is an AI company that focuses on producing videos.
Mootion — Mootion is an AI video generation platform. It enables detailed 3D motion control, character replacements, and background adjustments. This aims to streamline the production process for users.

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, 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.

Growing Capital is an early-stage investment firm specialized in supporting startups with their roots in Ireland.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Lua Health — We believe the future of well-being is in prevention and early detection. Getting the right help, at the right time.
Protostars — Protostars is a regulatory technology business. It is the creator of a cyber risk and compliance program meant for secure code reports on audits.
Slick+ — Slick+ is a SaaS B2B Video-Based platform designed for enhance learning and collaboration in hybrid and remote working environment. By enabling teams to create, share, and discuss short, engaging knowledge videos, Slick+ fosters a culture of continuous learning and innovation. The platform makes it easy for employees to capture and preserveessential expertise, share best practices, and implement new ideas, all seamlessly integrated into their daily workflows. With a focus on bite-sized content, Slick+ empowers organizations to boost productivity, enhance team communication, and stay agile in a rapidly evolving work environment. Ideal for L&D and HR managers, Slick+ is the go-to solution for companies looking to optimize their onboarding, training, and knowledge-sharing processes in both hybrid and remote work setups.

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

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.

We invest in extraordinary founders building startups in supply chain and mobility. We are equipped to support founders through the seed stage in their effort to transform global trade and commerce.

Investment focus

Software, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Ceto — Maximising vessel performance, minimising downtime and cutting emissions across maritime fleets by capturing and analysing realtime vessel data.
Bonx — Bonx a startup studio focusing on operations (supply chain, construction, and industry), reinvents ERP for French SMEs. Bonx is a no-code ERP that can be deployed in a matter of weeks and readily adjusts to the difficulties unique to each manufacturer.
Pointsville — Empowering businesses to efficiently create, manage and service digital assets and loyalty programs, driving innovation and inclusion.

First Analysis leverages 40+ years of expertise to partner with growth-focused B2B tech companies, offering deep research, venture capital and advisory services.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Series C
United States, Germany, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Sware — Sware will automate your validation enabling you to release more products, accelerate implementation, and ensure compliance. Discover the Res_Q platform.
CSA Medical — RejuvenAir System aims to treat Chronic Bronchitis. The SPRAY-CB trial is evaluating the safety of the device and is currently recruiting in the USA.
Dina — Dina provides benefits and care coordination solutions to support health plans and providers as they extend care management into the home.

ff Venture Capital (ffVC) is a technology venture capital firm investing in some of the strongest growth areas to date, including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, drones, enterprise cloud software, and crowdfunding. The firm identifies and invests in technology and technology-enabled companies at its inception acrossgeographies and emerging industries. With three partners and an acceleration team of 20+ investment and operations professionals, ffVC actively participates with founders to develop products, target markets, and accelerate growth. Since 2008, ffVC has invested in over 100 companies and has helped to create companies with an aggregate market value exceeding $6 billion.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Poland, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Parento — Parento is a pioneering national insurance-based solution for paid parental empowering companies to support working parents with proactive, tangible paid leave coverage and employee resources.
Civ Robotics — Unmanned systems with precise marking capabilites for the construction industry. Laying out points with sub-inch accuracy with a press of a button.
Microamp — Microamp is a leading tech innovator designing and delivering multi-gigabit and ultra-low latency 5G mmWave wireless networks based on purpose-built radios. The company merges deep tech know-how and a broad portfolio of technology partners, empowering industries, system integrators, MNOs, DSPs, governments, and research institutions with newdimensions of wireless connectivity. Microamp's cutting-edge networks enable the implementation of the most bandwidth-hungry and technologically advanced use cases across verticals such as energy, mining, logistics, production, entertainment, and public service.

We connect, support and invest in the world's top technologists.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

EqualTo — EqualTo is the NO CODE sales commission operating system for high-growth sales teams.
Hour One — Hour One AI is a next-generation video creation and management platform uniquely built for the world of work. Hour One harnesses computer-generated AI people in photo-real quality to digitize and optimize the traditional video production process, enabling a novel - and fully scalable - means of creating and deploying live-action video forprofessional use cases, the first of which is presenter-led video. All of Hour One’s video creation is located in the cloud, making it possible for any business to create and use high-quality presenter videos at a fraction of the cost, in minutes, in any language, self-serve, and at high scale. Hour One counts global market-leading companies as its customers and is backed by leading venture capital funds. Hour One is headquartered in New York City and Tel Aviv.
Cloudsmith — Cloudsmith is the only universal, cloud-native solution for software artifact management and software supply chain security. Start your free trial today.

Oyster Capital Partners, an Irish private equity firm, specializes in the energy technology, IT, and healthcare sectors.

Investment focus

Software, Medical Device, Enterprise Software
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Ireland, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Inclusio — The inclusio diversity and inclusion platform is designed to measure and positively shift the culture of your organisation. Contact us for more information.
Ooodles — Ooodles offers a complete IT procurement and management platform for companies looking to streamline hardware acquisition and scale effortlessly. Buy or Lease Laptops, Desktops, Monitors & Tablets for Office or Remote Workers. From laptops and monitors to tablets, our solution empowers businesses to procure, finance, manage, and optimize their IT needs in one place.
&Open — For businesses that gift to give back, share joy, or show they care. All you need is an email.

Sure Valley Ventures is an entrepreneur-led Venture Capital Fund that invests in early-stage software companies. Working in partnership with Shard Capital, a specialist broker and asset manager based in the City of London, Sure Valley Ventures specializes in investing in Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), Financial Technology(FinTech), and the Internet of Things (IoT) Sectors.

Investment focus

Software, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Ireland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Momntum — Momntum is a fintech company that provides embedded point-of-sale consumer financing.
Capably AI — Capably empowers professionals to automate complex tasks with AI in minutes, regardless of their level of technical expertise. Operating autonomously in the background, Capably acts as an extension of the teams it supports, driving greater productivity and efficiency. Anyone in the company can use Capably to automate back-office tasks like dataentry and processing, generate insights and reports, manage projects, and more—all while the organisation maintains complete control and visibility over how and when employees delegate work to AI.
Literal Labs — Literal Labs is transforming artificial intelligence with a breakthrough, logic-based architecture that is vastly faster, inherently explainable, and dramatically more energy-efficient than conventional neural networks.Originating from years of academic research and spun out of Newcastle University, Literal Labs replaces the power-hungry matrixmultipliers of traditional AI with a radically different approach: logic-based networks founded on propositional logic, Tsetlin machines, and full binarisation. This enables models to achieve inference speeds up to 250x faster than XGBoost, 54x faster than neural networks, consume 52x less energy, and offer built-in explainability—without sacrificing performance.The company is led by former Arm VP Noel Hurley and was established by two world-leading experts in logic-based AI, Dr. Alex Yakovlev and Dr. Rishad Shafik. Together, they are pioneering a new standard for intelligent systems: efficient, transparent, and engineered for real-world constraints.Literal Labs is dedicated to building the most computationally efficient and energy-conscious AI architecture on the market.

Samaipata is a specialized and pan-European venture capital fund investing in digital platforms with network effects at the early stage across Europe. With over $160M of assets under management, we start with investments of $750k to $2.5m and reserve up to $10m for future rounds, from pre-seed to Se

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
Spain, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

VIVLA — We make exclusive second homes in top European locations accessible to everyone. Buy shares of your home without having to buy the whole property.
PropHero — Award-winning property investment technology and services to help you build wealth from a global pool of high yield properties.
Genesy AI — Instantly aggregate real-time B2B data from 30+ sources and enrichment tools, and scale personalised outreach using our AI sales agent.

BGF is the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, providing long-term, minority investment to growing companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Sulmara — Innovation for a sustainable energy future | Sulmara
Besseges — ValvesTubesFittings.com launched in 2015 as the online arm of Besseges VTF and has become one of the leading online pipeline suppliers.
Miracle Design & Play — Miracle Design & Play specializes in designing and installing playgrounds for children.

PCH Capital is a private advisory and investment group that manages private equity funds and offers financial consultancy services to the capital market. It also advises in obtaining capital and in investor relations, as well as the management of properties of corporate and individual customers. It carries out investment projects directly, and itis controlled and managed by stock exchange or private funds, which are operated in the markets of the state-of-the-art technologies, real estates, as well as in the venture capital businesses.PCH Capital is based in Warsaw.

Investment focus

Apps, Cooking, Hardware
Seed, Pre-Seed
Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Drop — Discover how easy it is to make food more with Drop. Through the Drop Recipes app; the connected Drop Scale; and partnerships with top kitchen brands, Drop is dedicated to bringing delicious and wholesome home-cooking back to your kitchen.
Fresco — Unlock the value of your kitchen appliances, get to market fast, and build a community of happy home cooks.

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, 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.

We are an active investor in companies that are reshaping food and agriculture around the world for the better.We identify entrepreneurs and businesses rethinking how food is produced, distributed, and consumed, supporting their growth as lead investors and highly engaged board members.We actively manage a portfolio of over 25 companies,helping them lead positive change in a way that enhances human health and the natural environment, enabling the economic sustainability of farming and food production.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Agriculture, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Series C, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

AeroFarms — AeroFarms is an award-winning vertical farming company solving agriculture's biggest challenges, specializing in nutrient-dense microgreens.
Meati — Meati Foods is a consumer goods company that offers carbon materials, bioengineering, and filtration. It focuses on using proprietary, clean technologies to provide nutrient-dense, plant-based meat alternatives that everyone can enjoy and feel good about eating every day.
The Jackfruit Company — The Jackfruit Company (TJC) is the producing convenient, whole food, plant-based products.

CircleRock Capital aim to be the leading European, multi-stage co-investor of choice for exceptional technology companies, investing primarily in Seed, Series A and Series B opportunities.We invest alongside the leading global VC firms, so that founders can have both a leading VC and us on their cap table. We don’t lead deals and we don’t takeboard seats.Our ticket sizes range from €500k to €5 million +.Our LP’s include exited entrepreneurs, leaders at global tech companies, venture-backed founders, family offices, leading angels, CEO’s & board members of public companies.We fight to win allocation based on our reputation for fundraising expertise and our valuable network – consisting of both commercial customers and access to our global network of industry leaders.CircleRock Capital have a successful history as both Investors and Operators. Conor was previously nominated for both UK Angel Investor of the Year and Exit of the Year. Barry built FCA regulated fintech Clear Treasury from inception to a multi-million pound turnover business, with over 2,500 clients across all industry sectors, exiting in 2020.Offices in Dublin and London.Are you an Angel Investor or Family Office? Sign up here to receive our curated deal flow:https://www.circlerockcapital.com/investor-registration

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Yonder — A modern lifestyle credit card packed with rewards, no foreign exchange fees, and loads more. Apply without needing a UK credit score.
PLATFORM Golf — PLATFORM Golf is a pioneering golf technology firm focusing on transforming the sport of golf.
Retrograde — Retrograde is a Software Development company.

Investment management that activates capital across a range of industries, asset classes and sectors, connecting legacies with growth and businesses with better futures.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

trumpet — Create beautiful, personalised, trackable and interactive digital sales pods in a few clicks with trumpet
Visibly — Visibly developing technology to bring about the change our built environment requires by providing businesses with the tools they need to reduce the industry's skills gap and ensure our infrastructure can meet the needs of the population.
Paloma Health — A technology-enabled provider of children's mental health services, starting with autism assessments.

Tuned for performance. SOL Global Investments is a diversified private equity firm targeting best-in-class companies that operate in ultra-high growth industries. Our team has a proven track record of identifying pioneering businesses that are poised to disrupt the status quo and take

Investment focus

Health Care, Cannabis, Cloud Computing
Corporate Round, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Semasio — The Fyllo Compliance Cloud is a suite of software and services that enable organizations to navigate today’s ever-changing regulatory landscape, streamline compliance, and scale with speed. Mainstream brands also use the Fyllo Data Marketplace to target previously inaccessible cannabis and CBD consumers.The company was founded in 2019 and isheadquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Cityrow Go — Cityrow Go is a rowing-based fitness app for smartphones or tablets. It offers rowing classes programmed to deliver an effective, efficient, and motivating workout to the at-home user. It was founded in 2013 and is based in New York, United States.
MCQ Markets — Start Investing in Investment-Grade Collector Cars with just $100. MCQ gives you access to invest in the same high-performance assets collectors and institutions are competing for.

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Framer — Framer is a tool to design interactive high-fidelity prototypes for iOS, Android, desktop, or the web. It enables users to turn static mockups into interactive prototypes and to experiment quickly with dynamic, native-feeling animations and interactions.Framer integrates with design tools, exports smoothly to mobile devices, and is powered bythe language of the modern web, Javascript. The company was founded by Jorn Dijk and Koen Bok.
CityMall — CityMall is a social e-commerce venture, backed by Elevation Capital, aiming to help the 200-300 million new to Internet users realize the power of Internet
FirstClub — FirstClub's mission is to become a rapid commerce-first omnichannel retailer that uses offline experience stores to promote the quality of its items. FirstClub's goal is to create a platform that serves customers and offers brands a unique opportunity to connect with affluent homes.

Enterprise Equity (or EEVC) is an excellent for providing capital to early stage and expanding business throughout Ireland.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Medical Device
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Phorest — Join 8000+ spas, barbers, hair, beauty and nail salon owners using the #1 management, scheduling, POS and appointment booking system. Try Phorest now!
SurgaColl — SurgaColl Technologies is a medical device company developing novel tissue regeneration products for the surgical treatment of diseases of the bone, cartilage and other human tissue. Based on technology developed at the Tissue Engineering Research Group (TERG) of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), headed by Professor Fergal O’Brien,the company aims to become a leader in the field of regenerative medical devices.
Metabolomic Diagnostics — https://metabolomicdiagnostics.com/ A deep-tech company specialized in the development of biomarker-based diagnostic solutions

Alsop Louie Partners is an early-stage, risk-oriented technology venture capital firm in San Francisco.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Security
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Tern — Looking for an IoT investor for your start up or early stage company? Tern PLC is a venture capitalist working alongside ambitious entrepreneurs in the Internet of Things (IoT) space to deliver strategic IoT investment to grow your company.
ZeroFox — ZeroFox provides enterprises protection, intelligence and disruption to identify and dismantle external threats in one comprehensive platform.
Aerospike — Aerospike provides organizations with a real-time, multi-model database that fits their needs to scale, manage cloud services, and reduce cost.

Venture Capital investor, Angel Investor, Deep-tech startups, Technology commercialization, AI, Big Data/Analytics, IoT, Med-tech, Mobility, Electronics and Telecom.

Investment focus

Pet, Sensor, Medical
Funding Round, Seed
Ireland, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Gudog — Gudog connects dog owners with the experienced pet sitters, ie. it facilitates the task of finding an ideal pet sitter nearby making it easy as one, two, three. It offers a wide range of services provided in a fun, relaxed manner yet with a complete safety and no risk involved. Dog owner also can choose to be updated in the real time via email,website or smartphone. A clear and easy to use platform offers an effortless online booking and guarantees a secure payment process.Gudog mission is to solve issues dog owners face on a regular basis by offering innovative solutions, combining technology and pet-knowledge. The major dilemma a dog owner encounters is the necessity to ensure a good care for his four legged friend at times when he or she is not able to take care of it himself. Prior to Gudog, the only solution were dog kennels. However, spending time in a dog kennel implies the dog being put under a lot of stress related to the change of habits. Moreover, in a dog kennel the dog spends most of the time in a cage - all of this is not the ideal environment a dog owner could wish for his pet. Gudog was born out of a desire to provide an alternative.
AventaMed — All in one ear tube placement device - No operating room or general anesthetic needed. A new standard of care in tympanostomy tube surgery.
Senoptica Technologies — Senoptica has created a novel sensor that helps Global Retailers increase category sales through reducing food waste

Serena Cordero

Investment focus

Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
Pre-Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.

An experienced partner managing the entire product journey from concept to delivery, providing real-time visibility and sustainability.

Investment focus

Apps, Cooking, Hardware
Seed, Series A
United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Ringly — Ringly designs and develops wearable technology solutions that are compact in size, but powerful in functionality. It is our belief that technology can blend more seamlessly into our lives and provide frictionless interactions with our environment, our devices and our selves. We get excited about pushing boundaries and solving big problems thatwill make our world a more enjoyable place to live.In 2015, we began shipping our first product and became an industry leader in fashionable wearable technology. We’ve built a specialized and integrated team that controls every aspect of the business including design, brand, software, hardware and manufacturing.
Adaptics — Adaptics Ltd. provides Drop, an iPad-connected kitchen scale and digital baking assistant for home bakers. Adaptics adds noticeable vitality to employees and organisations and helps them maintain long-term success. They do this by embedding top-quality service provision in vitalising managers, teams and players. Adaptics considers vitality astrategic resource that forms a basis for desired change in society. They have developed a unique integral approach that includes training, coaching, instructions and online tools. Adaptics has the ambition to address vitality at Champions League level, and to set the standard for corporate health in the Netherlands along with its partners and clients.
Thalman Health — Thalman Health envisioned a new paradigm for thermometry, creating a novel core sensor technology for continuous clinical grade tracking.

Bill McCabe

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Mobile Apps
Funding Round
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

SynergySuite — SynergySuite is an international provider of award winning, cloud based enterprise back office software to leading global restaurant chains. SynergySuite offers a modular solution covering all critical business areas including inventory & procurement, recipe management, food safety, scheduling, cash management, human resources, and businessintelligence. After using SynergySuite our customers add between 4% to 6% per location to their bottom line. SynergySuite has been in the industry since 2011 and works with top restaurant chains like KFC, Macaroni Grill, BrewDog, Hawthorne Leisure and many more across the US, UK, and Ireland.

GP Winery is a supplier of wines.

Investment focus

Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
Pre-Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.

Epicure Wines is a supplier of wines.

Investment focus

Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
Pre-Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.

Samuel Dennigan - Group Chief Executive Officer @ Strong Roots

Investment focus

Food and Beverage
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Fiid — We create crave worthy vegan meals served in the most convenient way possible and delivered straight to your door. Vegan Ready Meals in 3 minutes. No Prep, no Mess, no Problems! 3 of your 5 a day I Made using ~50% vegetables I High in Protein I High in Fibre I No Additives or Preservatives I Gluten Free I Plant Based

Grands Vignobles en Mediterranee is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
Pre-Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.

Connie Schwaderer

Investment focus

Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
Pre-Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.

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.

Molten Ventures - previously Draper Esprit - is the first European tech-focused VC not tied to five-year cycles. We back brilliant teams with global ambition. You in?

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Zaptic — The connected worker platform that accelerates transformation results. Leading Manufacturers Partner With Zaptic.
Riverlane — Riverlane's mission is to make quantum computing useful far sooner than previously imaginable, starting an era of human progress as significant as the industrial and digital revolutions.
Oliva Health — On-demand mental health platform for employees & managers. Give your team access to check-ins, therapy & workshops led by a curated team of professionals.

Benjamin Darnault

Investment focus

Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
Pre-Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.

Brownwyn Dunwoodie

Investment focus

Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
Pre-Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.

We were one of the first organisations to design and manufacture high quality modular, customizable, self-service kiosk solutions. From our base in Hull, East Yorkshire, we employ a skilled and experienced team of 3D product designers, sheet metal fabricators, kiosk manufacturers and specialist composite panel bonders. We take pride in the quality of our innovative manufactured solutions and are recognised as market leaders.

Investment focus

Delivery, Internet, Restaurants
Corporate Round
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Ordú — Ordú is an online ordering platform specially designed for multi-location restaurants, QSRs, dark kitchens, hotels, cafes, and pubs.

Melanie Pfister

Investment focus

Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
Pre-Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.

Alabaster is a start-up investor in founders to help them grow breakthrough companies that will make a positive, planet-level impact.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Fitness
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, Israel, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Cyabra — We break down social media so you can understand narratives, detect authenticity and reach true audiences.
Muse — Muse is an immersive meditation device that provides real-time feedback on your mental activity, heart rate, breathing, and body movements to help you build a consistent meditation practice.
Fluid Biomed Inc. — Fluid Biotech is a Calgary based company that aims to develop the next generation of stents to improve patient well-being and realise better health and quality of life through innovation.

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