Top 5 Local Angel Investors in Ireland
A list of 5 angel investors that invest in Local startups based in Ireland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Local companies from Ireland. We update this investor list every month.Top 5 Local Angel Investors in Ireland
Investor | Local Ireland investments |
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Matthew Le Merle | 1 |
Colm Lyon | 1 |
Bobby Healy | 1 |
Per Brilioth | 1 |
Colin Wiel | 1 |
Matthew Le Merle is a Managing Partner of Keiretsu Capital and Fifth Era (www.fifthera.com). Matthew was formerly the Co-President of Keiretsu Forum in San Francisco and is an expert on digitization having advised leading technology companies including eBay, Google, HP, Microsoft and PayPal on how to drive and benefit from emerging digital valuepropositions.
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Investment focus
- iOS, Apps, Local
- Seed, Series A
- Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Soundwave — Soundwave was founded by Brendan O’Driscoll, Aidan Sliney and Craig Watson in 2012, and was acquired by Spotify in January 2016. Backed by Mark Cuban and ACT Venture Capital, Soundwave is a mobile music-discovery co. Soundwave tracks what songs people are listening to on their smartphones and where in real time.Before being acquired bySpotify, Soundwave scaled its Android and iPhone app to over 1.5 million users across 190 countries in 14 languages, tracking over 150 million song plays. Since launch, the Soundwave product has been voted by Apple as "Best Innovation in Music” and has been permanently positioned globally by Google in the Android "Editors Choice" sections alongside only 50 other apps out of over 1.5 million.
- Concept Art House — Concept Art House powers Web3 projects for the biggest brands and IP in the World.
Colm Lyon - Founder and CEO @ Fire Financial Services
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Investment focus
- Local, Guides, Travel
- Seed, Angel
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- dbTwang —
- LikeWhere — LikeWhere's service helps travel brands identify the individual interests of their customers, so they can personalise their digital engagement, generating more revenues. LikeWhere utilises ‘affinity-marketing’ techniques deployed by brands including Amazon, Spotify & Netflix (‘others like you also liked this’), enabling travel brands tooptimise their retail strategy.
- Pundit Arena —
Bobby Healy is an experienced inventor and technology entrepreneur specialising in booking engine software. He joined CarTrawler in 2005 having begun his career building computer games for Nintendo at 16 years of age. Prior to joining CarTrawler, Bobby founded Eland Technologies which he later sold to airline technology giant SITA and remained asCTO until 2005. His booking solutions are now in use by 80% of the world's top 20 airlines. Bobby continues to be an avid computer programmer and is a frequent speaker on the international circuit on subjects related to technology in the airline industry, ancillary revenue and online distribution.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Local, Guides
- Angel, Series A, Funding Round
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Roomex — Want to make business travel easier? Search, book, manage, and pay for all your business hotel bookings in one place.
- Coindrum — Coindrum provides coin machines to spend your coin jars. No more manual counting, sorting or bagging!
- LikeWhere — LikeWhere's service helps travel brands identify the individual interests of their customers, so they can personalise their digital engagement, generating more revenues. LikeWhere utilises ‘affinity-marketing’ techniques deployed by brands including Amazon, Spotify & Netflix (‘others like you also liked this’), enabling travel brands tooptimise their retail strategy.
Per Brilioth - CEO @ VNV Global
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Investment focus
- Apps, Software, Transportation
- Funding Round, Series B, Seed
- Sweden, United Kingdom, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- memmo.me — memmo.me provides a webpage for offering and distributing personalized video messages from actors, athletes, musicians, and other talent.
- Arro — Discover the shared daily operating system that helps you get more from life and work. Get to Day Zero together.
- Surfboard — Surfboard WFM features integrated forecasting, capacity planning, automated scheduling and performance analytics for modern support teams.
Colin Wiel is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Mynd. He attended the University of California, Berkeley.
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Investment focus
- iOS, Communities, Location Based Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Ireland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Quilt — Quilt is a feminine-forward audio social network
- Arro — Discover the shared daily operating system that helps you get more from life and work. Get to Day Zero together.
- PlushCare — PlushCare provides online doctor care for primary, urgent care, mental health and therapy. Affordable, convenient teleheath visits and same day online doctor appointments available now.
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