Top 5 Impact Angel Investors in Ireland in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 5 angel investors that invest in Impact startups based in Ireland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Impact companies from Ireland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Impact Angel Investors in Ireland in January 2025

Investor	Impact Ireland investments
Maurice O’ Gorman	1
Valentin de Torres-Solanot del Pino	1
Peter Murphy	1
Barry Downes	1
Gokhan Guner	1

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Maurice O’ Gorman

Investment focus

Energy, CleanTech, Clean Energy
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Fincovi — We Are Your Complete Asset Health Technology Partner Purpose-built autonomous drones perform at record-setting inspection speed to minimize downtime while

Valentin de Torres-Solanot del Pino

Investment focus

Wind Energy, Renewable Energy
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Gazelle Wind Power — UNLOCKING THE MASSIVE DEEP-WATER WIND MARKET: Introducing Gazelle's hybrid attenuated mooring platform, an evolutionary step-change in the design of floating platforms.

Peter Murphy joined American Capital in January 2013. Peter was President and CEO of Astrodyne Corporation, a power solutions company, from 2005 to 2013. Prior to that, he was President and CEO of Parlex Corporation (PRLX:NASD) and President of Teledyne Electro-Mechanisms. Peter was Chairman of the IPC, the world’s largest electronicsstandards organization, from 2002 to 2005. Peter retired as a Captain in the United States Naval Reserves.Peter Murphy received his BS in Finance from Mt. St. Mary’s University. He was designated an aviator by the USN Aviation Command and is a graduate of the Stanford University Engineering Executive Program.

Investment focus

Battery, Automotive, Wind Energy
Seed
Ireland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Gazelle Wind Power — UNLOCKING THE MASSIVE DEEP-WATER WIND MARKET: Introducing Gazelle's hybrid attenuated mooring platform, an evolutionary step-change in the design of floating platforms.
Breathe Battery Technologies — Breathe Battery Technologies is a research-led technology company developing advanced battery management algorithms

Barry Downes is an experienced technology investor, entrepreneur and technologist with extensive domain experience in Artificial Intelligence, Security Technologies and Immersive Technologies. Barry is Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Sure Valley Ventures, which he founded in 2017. He is a software founder turned investor, having founded severaltechnology businesses throughout his career, including FeedHenry, a leader in mobile cloud technologies, which was sold to Red Hat/ IBM in 2014. Previously, Barry was CEO of the leading academic software research and futurist institute, the Walton Institute, which worked with many of the top Silicon Valley and European global software companies on advanced technology research and futurist projects. He is also an advisor to the European Commission’s European Innovation Council, which is focused on developing Europe’s next unicorns with an allocated budget of over €1 billion.Barry holds a BSc in Applied Computing from Waterford Institute of Technology, an MBA from Smurfit Business School, University College Dublin and executive qualifications from Henley Business School in the UK, Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkley, in Venture Capital. He is also a Certified Investment Fund Director (CIFD), awarded by the Institute of Banking (IOB) and is registered with the FCA.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ambisense — Since 2014 Ambisense has been driving innovation within the environmental space. Their technology platform optimizes the delivery of environmental risk assessment on some of the world’s largest infrastructure projects across industrial, O&G and waste verticals. Ambilytics encompasses both IoT and ML solutions, combining information fromremotely deployed field devices with contextual data sources such as weather, satellite, geophysical and operational data to build machine learning models. These models identify the relationships, patterns, and drivers hidden within the data and allow our customers to forecast and predict the behaviour of targeted environmental pollutants.
Vortex IQ — Vortex IQ employs proprietary AI algorithms to detect and analyze data for merchants. It removes the guesswork from data analysis by delivering actionable recommendations and safely implementing it on a staging site, allowing businesses to test before going live.
Stylus — Stylus automates the assessment and feedback procedure in schools by using artificial intelligence.

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