# Top 30 Hardware Angel Investors in Ireland in June 2026 ## Gareth Lambe - Type: Angel - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Tourism, Payments, Software Gareth Lambe is the Chief Executive Officer of Medihive. He previously worked at Meta as a Board Of Directors. Gareth Lambe attended the University College Dublin. ## Michael Dwyer - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality Michael Dwyer is a founder of Pigsback.com. ## Marc McCabe - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Big Data Marc McCabe is a Scout at Sequoia Capital and General Partner at Nomad Capital. Prior to this role, Marc was a Business Development Lead and before that, a Team Member of Business and Corporate Development. Previously, Marc was a Partner at SV Angel and an Online Media Associate at Google. ## Barry Lunn - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Sensor, Software, Aerospace Barry Lunn, the founder and CEO of Provizio (previously founder and CEO of Arralis) takes a design led approach to tech entrepreneurship. Barry’s approach to solving difficult technology problems is as much artistic as it is actual physics. ## Rob Hickey - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Medical, Software, Biotechnology Rob Hickey is Vice President of Engineering at Azuki Systems, responsible for product design and development. Rob brings more than 20 years of proven management and engineer experience in the areas of video distribution, signal processing and content-aware networking to the role.Most recently, Rob worked at Cisco Systems and was a member of theCisco New England Development Center Leadership Team. His responsibilities included leading the Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Application development organization where he led the design and development of Label Switched Multicast for Cisco’s edge routing platforms. This technology is a key component of Cisco’s video distribution architecture. Prior to his current role, Rob managed a development and QA team responsible for the design and development of next generation security and content switching platforms. Prior to Cisco, Rob was a founding engineer at ArrowPoint Communications, which was acquired by Cisco in May 2000. ArrowPoint was a leader in the content networking space and pioneered the L4-L7 intelligent load balancer. At ArrowPoint, Rob held various roles in hardware and software development as well as QA.Before joining ArrowPoint, Rob held various engineering positions at Bay Networks and Raytheon Company.Rob received his BSEE from Northeastern University and completed the Global Leadership and Business Leadership Development Programs while at Cisco. ## Nigel Byrne - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality Nigel Byrne is an angel Investor and a former group CTO of Ooredoo. ## Brian Caulfield - Type: Angel - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, Mobile, Apps Brian Caulfield is based out of Dublin, Dublin and is the Venture Partner at Molten Ventures and also serves as the Chairman at Barespace. Brian previously worked at Graphcore as Board Oberver. Brian Caulfield attended Trinity College Dublin. Brian has received the Irish Software Association's "Technology Person of the Year" award. ## Sean Mullaney - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Web Apps, Cloud Security Sean Mullaney is a Chief Technology of Algolia. ## Sean Mitchell - Type: Angel - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Toys, Internet, Analytics Sean Mitchell is the Chairman and Chief Commercial Officer at Ubotica Technologies. ## Chris Murphy - Type: Angel - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Chris Murphy is a Venture Partner at MS&AD Ventures. He previously cofounded SaaStock and was an early Web Summit employee. ## Howard Roberts - Type: Angel - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Hospital Howard Roberts ## Mike Gleaves - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Aerospace, Satellite Communication Mike Gleaves ## Patrick Collison - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series C - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Patrick Collison is a CEO of Stripe. ## Marc Murphy - Type: Angel - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Legal, FinTech, Computer Founder and CEO, Marc is responsible for Fenergo’s business operational strategy and corporate direction. With 18 years’ experience developing, selling and delivering enterprise financial technology to global banks, Marc has developed a proven track record of building successful business-winning and leadership teams. In 2015, he led an $85m fundinground with Insight Venture Partners and Aquiline Capital Partners, marking the second fundraising effort for the company. In 2013, Fenergo secured €4m funding from Investec Ventures Ireland Limited. The latest fundraising enables Fenergo to create a platform for global growth that will see it capitalize on the growing demand being created by an ever-evolving financial regulations market. Marc was recently named a Fintech 100 Most Influential Leader in recognition of the impact that Fenergo’s technology is having on the way financial institutions manage their compliance obligations and operational requirements. Marc is a software engineering and MBA graduate of Dublin City University ## Eric Yuan - Type: Angel - Location: Santa Clara, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet Eric Yuan founded Zoom in 2011 to deliver happiness and bring teams together in a frictionless video environment. Zoom’s video-first unified communications platform continues to dramatically transform the way leading global enterprises communicate. Under Eric’s leadership, Zoom was one of the highest-performing tech IPOs of 2019.Prior to foundingZoom, Eric was corporate vice president of engineering at Cisco, where he was responsible for Cisco's collaboration software development. Eric was one of the founding engineers and vice president of engineering at Webex. Between 1997 and 2011, he grew his team from 10 engineers to more than 800 worldwide and contributed to revenue growth from $0 to more than $800M.Eric has been named one of the Most Powerful People in Enterprise Tech by Business Insider. In 2018, he was named the #1 CEO of a large US company by Glassdoor and EY Entrepreneur of the Year in Northern California (software category). In 2019, he was added to the Bloomberg 50 as a leader who changed the game in global business. Eric is a named inventor on 11 issued and 20 pending patents in real-time collaboration. ## Charles Williams - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality Charles Williams is an angel investor. ## Patrick Joy - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Mobile Apps, Internet of Things Patrick Joy - Owner & Founder & Executive Chairman @ Suretank Group ## 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. ## Pádraig Canavan - Type: Angel - Location: Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Computer, Software, Clinical Trials Pádraig Canavan is a Managing Director at Singularity. ## Bobby Hambrick - Type: Angel - Location: Morton, Illinois, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Sensor, Software, Automotive Bobby Hambrick ## Graham Stirling - Type: Angel - Location: Gibraltar, Gibraltar, Gibraltar - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Art, RFID, Mobile Graham Stirling is the Manager - Investments at Veddis. ## Colm Heffernan - Type: Angel - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Computer, Software, Clinical Trials Colm Heffernan ## John Purdy - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Medical John Purdy ## Vincent Nolan - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Internet, Analytics, E-Commerce Vincent Nolan is the Executive Chairman at 2CV. Vincent Nolan attended The University of Sheffield. ## Paschal Naylor - Type: Angel - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Software Before becoming CEO of Arkphire, Paschal Naylor held senior management positions in a number of Irish technology companies, including EDS Ireland where he was a director and Memorex Telex where he was finance manager. Prior to joining Memorex, Paschal worked in Mostek Ireland, General Foods and Bailey Gibson Ireland. He is a certified accountant(FCCA) and a graduate member of the Marketing Institute of Ireland (MMII). ## Stephane Gantchev - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, EdTech, Internet Stephane is partner at LAUNCHub Ventures, one of the leading Seed Stage funds in Central/Eastern Europe. LAUNCHub invests in the best entrepreneurs and startups in the digital space from the region, as well as founders originating from the region, but now based in the biggest startup hubs (Valley, London, etc. LAUNCHub Ventures has beeninvesting actively in Blockchain since 2014.Stephane is also Co-organizer of DigitalK, a leading European Digital/Tech/Startup conference, happening every year around end of May in Sofia, Bulgaria. Prior to joing the VC space Stephane's background includes 15 years in IT and Telecom with positions held at IT service providers, mobile operators (Orange), vendors, startups. ## Daniel Stefanic - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Equity Crowdfunding - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Dan spent over 18 years leading go-to-market strategies at IBM, Lenovo, Symantec, Atlassian, and Easy Agile.He has been involved in private equity and angel investing since 2018. This experience culminated in the founding of the Atlassian Alumni Angel Syndicate - Atlumni.Mr. Stefanic received a Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing & E-Commerceat the University of Wollongong and a Graduate Diploma in Management from Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM). He lives in Croatia. ## Kevin Hartz - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology Kevin Hartz is a Co-Founder and Chairman of Sauron. He is also a Co-Founder and General Partner at A*. He previously worked at Eventbrite as Co-Founder and Chairman. Kevin attended Stanford University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts & Science in History and Applied Earth Science, and the University of Oxford, where he completed an MSt inHistory. ## 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. ## Jim Fields - Type: Angel - Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality Jim Fields is the Founder and Managing Director of Relay, a Beijing-based cross-border marketing agency that helps visionary Chinese tech companies to expand in Western markets. Fields founded Relay with the ambition to create the first truly global Chinese brand.With over 15 years of studying Chinese and 8 years in China, Fields’ focus has beenon helping Chinese tech brands creatively and effectively communicate and engage with Western audiences. His work has gained millions of views across various platforms, both in China and internationally, for clients such as Xiaomi, Tencent, Lenovo, Garmin, Hover Camera and many others.Prior to founding Relay, Fields was responsible for launching British agency Studio Output’s Chinese business arm, which grew over 300% in revenue during his three years with the company. Before this, Fields began his career in Silicon Valley at Adobe and has also worked at Nokia and Reckitt Benckiser in Beijing.With a wealth of knowledge of Chinese business culture and over 15 years speaking Mandarin Chinese, Fields has been tapped as an industry expert to speak at events including: CHat Shanghai, HAX, China Accelerator events, DayDayUp, Tsinghua X-Lab and more. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co