Top 15 Machine Learning Angel Investors in Ireland in April 2025
A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Machine learning startups based in Ireland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Machine learning companies from Ireland. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Machine Learning Angel Investors in Ireland in April 2025
Investor | Machine Learning Ireland investments |
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Paddy Flynn | 2 |
Bryan Meehan | 1 |
Bobby Hambrick | 1 |
David Shackleton | 1 |
George Kilpatrick | 1 |
Gerry Devitt | 1 |
Sean Mitchell | 1 |
Vincent Nolan | 1 |
Barry Lunn | 1 |
Charlie Songhurst | 1 |
Nicolas Berggruen | 1 |
Liam Casey | 1 |
Tom Kelly | 1 |
Ronan Harris | 1 |
Anne Herarty | 1 |
Paddy Flynn - VP, Geo Data Operations @ Google
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Machine Learning, Video
- Angel, Funding Round
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Talivest — Talivest optimises an intelligent ecosystem for hi-tech, high-growth companies by gathering insights throughout the employee lifecycle. Talivest’s solution uses machine learning and predictive analytics to help companies measure, build and maintain high performance.
- Overcast HQ — Overcast is a leading cloud video management solution that simplifies video management, compliance and collaboration for all, securely. Effortlessly organise assets with quick searches, AI tagging, and categorization, ensuring swift access and utilisation across images, videos, documents, and more.
Bryan Meehan is the Co-Founder of NUDE Skincare.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Sustainability, Machine Learning
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- LOLIWARE — LOLIWARE is rewriting the story of destructive packaging. By harnessing the power of seaweed to replace plastic at scale, LOLIWARE is tapping into its potential to regenerate our ocean and decarbonize our planet.
- Shellworks — Reimaging nature's packaging with beautifully sustainable, truly compostable alternatives to plastic for cosmetics and beauty products.
- 8B Education Investments — 8B African Education Investments helps African students succeed at global universities with tools, resources, and world-class support to master every step of their educational journey.
Bobby Hambrick
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Investment focus
- Sensor, Software, Automotive
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Provizio — Imagine an affordable system that gives every driver 360-degree insights in all weather conditions and paves a true path to autonomy.
- Velocity Robotics —
David Shackleton is the Product Head at OpenBack Integration of Twitter. Took up The Role and Responsibilities of Company Directors at Institute of Directors in Ireland.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Video, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- OpenBack — OpenBack was the only mobile engagement platform with dynamic push notifications and device-side decisions by using mobile edge computing. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.
- Overcast HQ — Overcast is a leading cloud video management solution that simplifies video management, compliance and collaboration for all, securely. Effortlessly organise assets with quick searches, AI tagging, and categorization, ensuring swift access and utilisation across images, videos, documents, and more.
- Bounce Insights — Bounce Insights is a digital consumer research platform. It provides a direct link between brands and any consumer they needed to speak to by maintaining a community of active, engaged respondents on their mobile app.
I was once photographed by David Bailey! I also bring to work our therapy dog, Woody, for the Fareham team’s good mental health. And Woody’s lunch.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Video, Collaboration
- Funding Round
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Overcast HQ — Overcast is a leading cloud video management solution that simplifies video management, compliance and collaboration for all, securely. Effortlessly organise assets with quick searches, AI tagging, and categorization, ensuring swift access and utilisation across images, videos, documents, and more.
Gerry Devitt is a Managing Director at Harvest Financial Services
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Investment focus
- Software, Analytics, Machine Learning
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Graphite Note — A no-code ML builder that lets data analysts create ML models in minutes. Turn your data into prediction and actionable insights instantly, and power your AI
Sean Mitchell is the Chairman and Chief Commercial Officer at Ubotica Technologies.
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Investment focus
- Toys, Internet, Analytics
- Seed, Series A
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- HoloToyz — HoloToyz is a line of animated children's products that use augmented reality to inspire creativity and imagination. Our products will amaze and amaze people of all ages with never-before-seen animations.
- Glimpse — Glimpse empowers 'bricks-and-mortar' retailers with the same level of shopper data as their online counterparts, driving revenues with data.
Vincent Nolan is the Executive Chairman at 2CV. Vincent Nolan attended The University of Sheffield.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Analytics, E-Commerce
- Series A
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Glimpse — Glimpse empowers 'bricks-and-mortar' retailers with the same level of shopper data as their online counterparts, driving revenues with data.
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.
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Investment focus
- Sensor, Software, Aerospace
- Seed, Angel
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Arralis — Arralis is a rapidly scaling technology company, providing world leading expertise in RF, micro, and millimetre-wave technology. It excels in Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMICs), packaged component modules, proprietary antenna technology, and integrated Radar and Communications front-end platforms. Its products, which are theultimate in precision and innovation, are used in both global and space environments where accuracy and reliability are critical. its also creates partnerships with other leading technology providers to build bespoke high performance, cutting-edge solutions. Arralis provides added value through advanced, research, and innovation aligning its solutions with its client’s strategic objectives.
- Cohort — Cohort helps its users find the people they need through the people they already know through social media. Cohort is an Ireland-based company that was founded in 2015 by Eamon Leonard.
- Provizio — Imagine an affordable system that gives every driver 360-degree insights in all weather conditions and paves a true path to autonomy.
Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Nicolas Berggruen is the Founder and Chairman of the Berggruen Institute. He attended New York University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Helm.ai — Explore Helm.ai's AI software for high-end ADAS through Level 4 autonomous vehicles. Helm.ai offers a full suite of full-stack AI software, foundation models, and generative AI development and validation tools for production-bound projects.
- Story Protocol — Powering web3 narrative universes via story legos
- iLoF — iLoF is a digital health company pioneering a breakthrough AI-platform to accelerate the future of personalized drug discovery and development
Liam is the founder and CEO of PCH.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Ireland, United Kingdom, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Pandas — B2B e-commerce platform connecting Asia with the +10 million of Latin America small merchants
- Tracworx — The future of packaging is returnable and reusable. We're building the digital infrastructure to enable it.
- &Open — For businesses that gift to give back, share joy, or show they care. All you need is an email.
Tom Kelly founded Iona Capital Advisors after a fifteen-year career with some of the leading global investment banks such as Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, Robertson Stephens and Blackstone. Tom has extensive experience raising private capital for clients and has worked on over 100 transactions amounting to over $5 billion in transaction value.He is exclusively focused on advising and assisting companies in accessing the private capital markets.Prior to founding Iona, Tom was a Managing Director and Head of the Global Private Capital Advisory Group at Blackstone Advisory Partners where he was responsible for advising Blackstone's clients on raising capital in the private capital markets. Prior to joining Blackstone, he ran the private capital advisory group at Montgomery & Co. and ran the west coast private placement group for Bank of America. He began his investment banking career with Merrill Lynch in London and New York before transferring to San Francisco in 1999 to launch Merrill Lynch's Silicon Valley private placement practice.Tom has fifteen years of experience providing strategic advisory and capital-raising services to corporate clients. He has extensive experience in negotiating, structuring and executing transactions on behalf of companies in a variety of sectors including technology, media, healthcare, real estate and financial services. He has assisted both private and public companies in raising capital from venture capital firms, financial sponsors, hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds, mutual funds and strategic investors. He is also an active angel investor and secondary market participant.Tom obtained his MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was the recipient of a John F. Kennedy Scholarship and a Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering. He previously obtained a First Class Honors Degree in Pharmacy from the University of Bradford, United Kingdom and worked as a research scientist with Pfizer and a production manager with Baxter Healthcare and Weleda prior to getting his MBA.Tom was born and raised in Ireland and remains very connected to the Irish entrepreneurial community. He participated in the Global Irish Economic Forum of October 2011 at the invitation of the Irish Government and was named to the Irish Technology Leadership Group's "Silicon Valley 50" in 2011 and 2012.
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Investment focus
- Software, Human Resources, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Talivest — Talivest optimises an intelligent ecosystem for hi-tech, high-growth companies by gathering insights throughout the employee lifecycle. Talivest’s solution uses machine learning and predictive analytics to help companies measure, build and maintain high performance.
- Nestor — Bring together employee engagement, performance management and development planning with a skills-based approach to build a winning people strategy.
- zPREDICTA — zPREDICTA’s bio-simulation technology combines biology with automation and computation to automate drug development. zPREDICTA's bio-simulation platform enables pharma to rapidly identify drug candidates that will be effective in patients.r-Organ is a set of next generation 3D culture models that provide 1-to-1 reconstruction of humantissue microenvironment in an organ- and disease-specific manner allowing accurate prediction of drug response. Utilizing r-Organ technology, zPREDICTA is mapping cellular behavior in response to anticancer drugs.
Ronan Harris is the President of EMEA at Snap.
He previously worked as the Managing Director for Google across the UK and Ireland.
Harris has been based in Dublin, in charge of the sales teams for large customers across EMEA.
He has been at Google for more than 11 years, joining as senior director for large customer sales for EMEA.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Analytics
- Angel
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Talivest — Talivest optimises an intelligent ecosystem for hi-tech, high-growth companies by gathering insights throughout the employee lifecycle. Talivest’s solution uses machine learning and predictive analytics to help companies measure, build and maintain high performance.
Anne Heraty is the CEO and Co-Founder at Cpl Solutions. Anne Heraty attended University College Dublin.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Human Resources, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Solidroad — Transform your sales & support teams with AI-powered quality assurance, training and recruitment.
- Nolea Health — As a clinician with Nolea you can set your own schedule, work with as many healthcare companies as you want, hold all of your credentials in one single sharable wallet, access new educational resources, and receive community feedback.
- Vivid Edge — Vivid Edge are the leading commercial energy consultants in Ireland. Energy efficiency upgrades for businesses that fit into your journey to get to Net Zero!
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