# Top 20 Gaming Angel Investors in Ireland in June 2026

## Samuel Dennigan
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series C
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Apps, Cooking

Samuel Dennigan - Group Chief Executive Officer @ Strong Roots

## Eamonn Quinn
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Grocery, E-Commerce, Food Delivery

Eamonn Quinn

## Federico Cerelli
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage

Federico Cerelli

## Mauricio Lorca
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage

Mauricio Lorca

## Melanie Pfister
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage

Melanie Pfister

## Connie Schwaderer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage

Connie Schwaderer

## Amelia Aragon
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage

Amelia Aragon

## Gokhan Guner
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Advanced Materials, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Bob Young
- Type: Angel
- Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Marketplace

Bob Young is the founder and CEO of Lulu.com, a premiere international marketplace for new digital content on the Internet, with more than 300,000 recently published titles and more than 15,000 new creators from 80 different countries joining each week.Lulu.com, founded in 2002, is Young's most recent endeavour. The success of this companyhas earned Young notable recognition; he was named one of the "Top 50 Agenda-Setters in the Technology Industry in 2006" and was ranked as the fourth "Top Entrepreneur for 2006," both by Silicon.com.In 1993, Young co-founded Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the open-source software company that gives hardware and software vendors a standard platform on which to certify their technology. Red Hat is a Fortune 500 company and chief rival to Microsoft. His success at Red Hat won him industry accolades, including nomination as one of Business Week's "Top Entrepreneurs" in 1999.Before founding Red Hat, Young spent 20 years at the helm of two computer-leasing companies that he founded. His experiences as a high tech entrepreneur combined with his innate marketing savvy led to Red Hat's success. His book, "Under the Radar", chronicles how Red Hat's open source strategy successfully won wide industry acceptance in a market previously dominated by proprietary binary-only systems. Young has also imparted the lessons learned from his entrepreneurial experiences through his contributions to the books to "You've GOT to Read This Book!" and "Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur's Soul."In 2000, Young co-founded the Center for Public Domain, a non-profit foundation created to bolster healthy conversation of intellectual property, patent and copyright law, and the management of the public domain for the common good. Grant recipients included the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Creative Commons, the Free Software Foundation, and the Future of Music Coalition.Young graduated from the University of Toronto in 1976 prior to beginning his career in the computer finance arena.In 2003, Young purchased the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League and currently serves as the league's vice chairman.In addition to enjoying fly fishing, Young collects calculators and antique typewriters, a nod to his beginnings as a typewriter salesman and can usually be found sporting a pair of red socks. However, instead of red on his head, Young now tips his orange hat.

## Bill McCabe
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Mobile Apps

Bill McCabe

## Stefano di Blasi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage

Stefano di Blasi

## David Shapiro
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Gaming, Sports

David Shapiro is the Managing Partner of KPS Capital Partners. He attended the University of Michigan.

## Paul McGreevy
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity
- Focus: Energy, Fitness, Nutrition

Paul McGreevy

## Brownwyn Dunwoodie
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage

Brownwyn Dunwoodie

## Serena Cordero
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage

Serena Cordero

## Tim Murphy
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Wholesale, Food and Beverage

Tim Murphy is the former MD of BNY and CFO of Waystone.

## Keith Weed
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B
- Focus: Grocery, E-Commerce, Food Delivery

Keith is responsible for the Marketing, Communications and Sustainable Business functions, a role which has seen him lead the creation of the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan, direct significant advances in digital marketing and through Unilever’s #Unstereotype initiative, create the #Unstereotype Alliance with UN Women, bringing together 24companies to remove the portrayals of unhelpful stereotypes from their advertising by 2020.Prior to this, he was Chairman of Lever Fabergé before becoming Executive Vice President for Global Home Care & Hygiene, covering fabric cleaning, fabric conditioning, household cleaning products, oral care and potable water.Keith has worked for Unilever in the UK, France, the US and globally and regionally in a variety of general management and marketing roles.Outside Unilever, he is Chairman of Business in the Community International and a Business in the Community Board Trustee, President of the History of Advertising Trust, an Effie Board Director and Trustee of Grange Park Opera. He is also a Fellow of The Marketing Society, and as an engineering graduate, a Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers.

## John Collison
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

John Collison is a President and Co-founder at Stripe. He attended Harvard University.John and his brother Patrick Collison started Stripe in 2010 while John was studying physics at Harvard. Their goal was to make accepting payments online simpler and more inclusive, after learning firsthand how difficult it was. Today, the 100+ person (andgrowing) Stripe team powers online businesses around the world.Before Stripe, John co-founded Auctomatic, which was acquired by Live Current Media in March 2008. Originally from Limerick, Ireland, John lives in San Francisco, California, where Stripe is based.

## Benjamin Darnault
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage

Benjamin Darnault

## Sam Plunkett
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage

Sam Plunkett

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