Top 50 Media (entertainment) Angel Investors in Ireland in January 2026

Investor	Media (entertainment) Ireland investments
Ray Nolan	4
Ray Nolan	4
Shane Naughton	3
Shane Naughton	3
Gareth Lambe	2
Nigel Byrne	2
Michael Dwyer	2
Gareth Lambe	2
Peter O'Grady Walshe	2
Nigel Byrne	2
Tom Kennedy	2
Michael Dwyer	2
Hal Philipp	2
Eamon Leonard	2
Hal Philipp	2
Peter O'Grady Walshe	2
Tom Kennedy	2
Eamon Leonard	2
Tim Cederman-Haysom	1
Matt Haughey	1
Kumar Malavalli	1
Matthew Le Merle	1
Cem Sertoglu	1
Blaine Cook	1
Jim Fields	1
Andrej Henkler	1
Barry Pitcher	1
Barry Lunn	1
Matt Haughey	1
Joi Ito	1
Jesper Brok	1
Esther Dyson	1
Bobby Healy	1
Prabhu Goel	1
David Shackleton	1
Kumar Malavalli	1
Jon Staenberg	1
Joshua Schachter	1
Niall Harbison	1
Paddy Flynn	1
Sean Blanchfield	1
Armando Biondi	1
Sven Fund	1
Graham Stirling	1
Jim Fields	1
Mehmet Onarcan	1
Joi Ito	1
Colin Wiel	1
Harper Reed	1
Tom Preston-Werner	1

Ray Nolan - Non-Exec Chair @ XSellco

Investment focus

Apps, News, Software
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Kinzen — Kinzen's blend of human skill and scalable technology enables trust and safety professionals and policy makers to get ahead of emerging threats, detect policy violations faster and take the proportionate and appropriate action.
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.
REFLEX Gaming —

Ray Nolan - Non-Exec Chair @ XSellco

Investment focus

Apps, News, Software
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Kinzen — Kinzen's blend of human skill and scalable technology enables trust and safety professionals and policy makers to get ahead of emerging threats, detect policy violations faster and take the proportionate and appropriate action.
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.
REFLEX Gaming —

Shane Naughton - Founding Partner and Board of Directors @ On The Stage

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Apps
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Trustev — Trustev offers a totally modern approach ecommerce fraud prevention through real-time online identity verification. It focuses on validating the individual making the transaction, not just the payment method they're using. The platform delivers individual, real time decisions for every one of your customers using multiple dynamic data sources(behavioral, transactional and social) instead of restrictive rules based decisioning and profiling.  Trustev’s easy to integrate platform works by verifying consumer’s identities in real-time, using thousands of dynamic data points from sources such as deep location, email verification, device ID, social fingerprinting, proxy/VPN piercing, site velocity & behavior, browser ID and mobile location. It uses proprietary algorithms to combine all this data and compile it into a single, simple score of 1-100. This score is then used to provide a recommendation or allow, deny of flag the transaction.The Trustev platform enables rapid identity decisions in real time with an easy to integrate (very light touch), completely data driven and cost effective solution that works in the background, to ensure no disruption to the customer’s online experience. This results in a significant reduction in false positives leading to substantially increased revenues and increased sales opportunities while maintaining a customer centric experience at all times. Trustev's solution is focused on dramatically reducing the cost burden of fraud on your business, the cost of policing fraud and also maximizing revenues opportunities.
NewsWhip — The only real-time media monitoring platform that predicts the stories and topics that will matter in the hours ahead.
Spring Moves — Spring Moves’ mission is to make working out as interesting, enjoyable, and addictive as humanly possible. They harness the power of music and rhythm to turn casual runners into athletes and newbies into pros. It was founded in 2012 and is based in New York.

Shane Naughton - Founding Partner and Board of Directors @ On The Stage

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Apps
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Trustev — Trustev offers a totally modern approach ecommerce fraud prevention through real-time online identity verification. It focuses on validating the individual making the transaction, not just the payment method they're using. The platform delivers individual, real time decisions for every one of your customers using multiple dynamic data sources(behavioral, transactional and social) instead of restrictive rules based decisioning and profiling.  Trustev’s easy to integrate platform works by verifying consumer’s identities in real-time, using thousands of dynamic data points from sources such as deep location, email verification, device ID, social fingerprinting, proxy/VPN piercing, site velocity & behavior, browser ID and mobile location. It uses proprietary algorithms to combine all this data and compile it into a single, simple score of 1-100. This score is then used to provide a recommendation or allow, deny of flag the transaction.The Trustev platform enables rapid identity decisions in real time with an easy to integrate (very light touch), completely data driven and cost effective solution that works in the background, to ensure no disruption to the customer’s online experience. This results in a significant reduction in false positives leading to substantially increased revenues and increased sales opportunities while maintaining a customer centric experience at all times. Trustev's solution is focused on dramatically reducing the cost burden of fraud on your business, the cost of policing fraud and also maximizing revenues opportunities.
NewsWhip — NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.
Spring Moves — Spring Moves’ mission is to make working out as interesting, enjoyable, and addictive as humanly possible. They harness the power of music and rhythm to turn casual runners into athletes and newbies into pros. It was founded in 2012 and is based in New York.

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.

Investment focus

Tourism, Payments, Software
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Imvizar — Imvizar focuses on life-size, location-based experiences that allow users to feel as if they've gone back in time, meeting renowned individuals and witnessing historical events all from the comfort of their own phone. Imvizar was founded by Michael Guerin and is located in Dublin, Ireland.
CleverCards — The Platform for Contactless Cards. The CleverGift real-time payment platform offers gift cards, expenses, employee incentives, and travel foreign exchange.
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.

Nigel Byrne is an angel Investor and a former group CTO of Ooredoo.

Investment focus

Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Imvizar — Imvizar focuses on life-size, location-based experiences that allow users to feel as if they've gone back in time, meeting renowned individuals and witnessing historical events all from the comfort of their own phone. Imvizar was founded by Michael Guerin and is located in Dublin, Ireland.

Michael Dwyer is a founder of Pigsback.com.

Investment focus

Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
Seed, Angel
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Imvizar — Imvizar focuses on life-size, location-based experiences that allow users to feel as if they've gone back in time, meeting renowned individuals and witnessing historical events all from the comfort of their own phone. Imvizar was founded by Michael Guerin and is located in Dublin, Ireland.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Tourism, Payments, Software
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Imvizar — Transform your buildings, office spaces, visitor attractions, and parks with an immersive and visual storytelling experience using augmented reality. Discover unique ways to tell your story at Imvizar.
CleverCards — The Platform for Contactless Cards. The CleverGift real-time payment platform offers gift cards, expenses, employee incentives, and travel foreign exchange.
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.

Peter O'Grady Walshe - Chairman @ VideoElephant

Investment focus

Video, Publishing, Social Media
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.

Nigel Byrne is an angel Investor and a former group CTO of Ooredoo.

Investment focus

Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Imvizar — Transform your buildings, office spaces, visitor attractions, and parks with an immersive and visual storytelling experience using augmented reality. Discover unique ways to tell your story at Imvizar.

Tom has a proven track record as an entrepreneur and in building a global e-commerce business from Dublin as a co-founder of www.hostelworld.com (Web Reservations International). Tom achieved a successful exit from Hostelworld.com in 1999, generating $500m in shareholder value. He previously owned Avalon House hostel in Dublin. When he’s notworking, Tom enjoys the gastronomic delights of life and the views of the Wicklow mountains from the saddle of his bicycle.

Investment focus

Travel, Video, Retail
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Gigable — Join the fastest growing delivery network. Signup as a business to access freelancers or signup as a freelancer to earn additional income.
Coindrum — Coindrum provides coin machines to spend your coin jars. No more manual counting, sorting or bagging!
VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.

Michael Dwyer is a founder of Pigsback.com.

Investment focus

Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
Seed, Angel
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Imvizar — Transform your buildings, office spaces, visitor attractions, and parks with an immersive and visual storytelling experience using augmented reality. Discover unique ways to tell your story at Imvizar.
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.

Hal Philipp - Principal Partner @ Meridian Growth Capital

Investment focus

News, SaaS, Big Data
Seed, Angel
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

NewsWhip — NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.

Eamon is a veteran of 20 years developing and building products, leading teams, and creating communities.Over the years he has: built and sold a company, built and failed to sell a company, made angel investments, hosted numerous conferences, organised hundreds of meetups, and brought thousands of people together to collaborate and do goodthings.As of June 2019, he's working on Boundless: making it easy for businesses to employ people in other countries and be compliant with tax and employment law.

Investment focus

Messaging, Software, Apps
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

XMTP — 2M+ web3 identities trust XMTP for secure & private messaging
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.
PicStash — They offer a valuable but inexpensive PR tool, ensuring the maximum exposure of your Brand with minimum costs to your business. They make it easier for journalists to view your latest products and press releases, and share them with the rest of Ireland and beyond.

Hal Philipp - Principal Partner @ Meridian Growth Capital

Investment focus

News, SaaS, Big Data
Seed, Angel
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

NewsWhip — The only real-time media monitoring platform that predicts the stories and topics that will matter in the hours ahead.

Peter O'Grady Walshe - Chairman @ VideoElephant

Investment focus

Video, Publishing, Social Media
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.

Tom has a proven track record as an entrepreneur and in building a global e-commerce business from Dublin as a co-founder of www.hostelworld.com (Web Reservations International). Tom achieved a successful exit from Hostelworld.com in 1999, generating $500m in shareholder value. He previously owned Avalon House hostel in Dublin. When he’s notworking, Tom enjoys the gastronomic delights of life and the views of the Wicklow mountains from the saddle of his bicycle.

Investment focus

Travel, Video, Retail
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Gigable — Join the fastest growing delivery network. Signup as a business to access freelancers or signup as a freelancer to earn additional income.
Coindrum — Coindrum provides coin machines to spend your coin jars. No more manual counting, sorting or bagging!
VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.

Eamon is a veteran of 20 years developing and building products, leading teams, and creating communities.Over the years he has: built and sold a company, built and failed to sell a company, made angel investments, hosted numerous conferences, organised hundreds of meetups, and brought thousands of people together to collaborate and do goodthings.As of June 2019, he's working on Boundless: making it easy for businesses to employ people in other countries and be compliant with tax and employment law.

Investment focus

Messaging, Software, Apps
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

XMTP — XMTP is a decentralized and quantum-resistant messaging protocol for builders.
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.
PicStash — They offer a valuable but inexpensive PR tool, ensuring the maximum exposure of your Brand with minimum costs to your business. They make it easier for journalists to view your latest products and press releases, and share them with the rest of Ireland and beyond.

Tim Cederman-Haysom is Product leader at Pyn.

Investment focus

News, SaaS, Audio
Seed
United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Adioso — Adioso is a better search and booking app for leisure travel.It allows users to:* search without constraints on destinations & dates* follow destinations or search terms to receive deals, trip recommendations, and other content to help them plan and book their trip.Its key benefits are:* Travelers find it much easier to choosethe very best travel options available* Airlines & suppliers can focus messages and offers at highly qualified customers.Founded in Australia in 2008 by Fenn Bailey and Tom Howard, Adioso was in the Winter ‘09 class of Y Combinator, and has received seed funding from Silicon Valley and travel industry investors.As of March 2012, Adioso has a team of eight engineers and designers in Australia and the US, and is moving rapidly towards the launch of some major new product features and global airline coverage.
Lanyrd — Eventbrite - Discover the Best Local Events & Things to Do
OwnLocal — We help local media companies to power their digital services by automatically converting traditional print ads into powerful online marketing campaigns.

Matt Haughey - Founder @ MetaFilter

Investment focus

Audio, Video, Events
Seed, Funding Round
Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Lanyrd — Eventbrite - Discover the Best Local Events & Things to Do
Kickstarter — Kickstarter exists to help bring creative projects to life. A home for film, music, art, theater, games, comics, design, photography, and more.

Kumar Malavalli is the co-author and driving force behind Fibre Channel, an evolutionary technology that enabled the development of production-class storage area networks (SAN's). Co-founder and former CTO of Brocade Communications; Currently Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of InMage Systems.In February 2003, Kumar was inducted into theSilicon Valley Engineering Council Hall of Fame for his contributions to technology. He also received the Gene Milligan Award for Effective Committee Management from the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) for chairing an INCITS committee that developed 17 standards in the area of Storage Area Networks. In 2012 the Computer History Museum published his work on Fibre Channel standards in the T11 Accredited Standards Committee.Kumar's philanthropy in the field of education extends from digital learning centers in rural India to American institutions of higher education. He has established the Kumar Malavalli Endowed Chair in Storage Systems Research at University of California Santa Cruz, co-founded the Indus Scholastic Management Services and serves as a trustee of the Indus International Schools.He currently invests in and mentors numerous startups in US, Canada and India, served as a member of the Board of Directors of The Indus Entrepreneurs Silicon Valley Chapter (TiE), and is a trustee of the American India Foundation (AIF). In 2012, Kumar became a trustee of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Internet
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

POWWOW — Studio POWWOW is a transmedia and Animation Production company based in Dublin, Ireland. We specialize in the creation, development and production of entertainment content solutions across multiple platforms, including mobile, web and TV. Studio POWWOW is currently in development of its first major cross platform entertainment IP ‘The World ofShipAntics.’ The World of ShipAntics is an animated comedy adventure game being developed for iOS & Android devices. We will be developing The World of ShipAntics into Appisodes, a TV series, and more.
PowWow Mobile — Redefine how work is done in the digital era. Our SmartUX, the rapid mobile app platform for the enterprise, simplifies and extends business apps to mobile.
Wedding Party — Inspiration & ideas for your big day

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.

Investment focus

iOS, Apps, Local
Seed, Series A
Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Soundwave — The Global Premium Domain SoundWave.com + @SoundWave Twitter (X) Handle is currently available for acquisition. Contact us now for details.
Concept Art House — Concept Art House powers Web3 projects for the biggest brands and IP in the World.

Cem Sertoglu is an internet and technology venture capitalist and entrepreneur. He is currently a Managing Partner at Bek Ventures, a European venture investment firm focusing on technology and health technology companies.He is also a managing partner at Young Turk Ventures, an internet-focused investment firm. From 2008 to 2009, Sertoglu was apartner at iLab Ventures, the venture capital arm of AccessTurkey Capital Group that is focused on early-stage through late-stage growth equity investments, primarily in on-line consumer services companies and technology-driven business services companies in Turkey.Prior to these, Sertoglu founded SelectMinds, a provider of cloud-based, social talent sourcing apps that allow companies to use social networks such as Facebook to recruit employees. He served as its CEO from 1999 to 2005. The company was bought by Oracle in 2012.Sertoglu's investment highlights include: GittiGidiyor, the first major Turkish internet exit to eBay in 2011; YemekSepeti, the leading online meal delivery marketplace in Turkey; Grupanya, Turkey’s leading daily deal business; and Wikimart.ru, a leading Russian e-commerce platform. Other investments include: HipWay, CivicSolar, Lofty, Lime&Tonic, Gezlong and Vivense Home & Living.Sertoglu attended the University of Texas at Austin and received his bachelor's degree in Economics in 1993. He also attended Robert College from 1982 to 1989. He publishes a blog on Venture Capital and technology, titled SortiPreneur.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, CRM
Seed, Series A, Series D
United States, Turkey, Germany

Portfolio highlights

HipWay — Hipway is an online travel company maintaining two websites - hiplcub.ru and hipway.ru. Hipclub.ru - is a private online travel club running 10-15 flash sale deals per week. The deals include hotel stays and hotel+flight packages. Hipway.ru - is a travel package specialist offering wide range of hotel+flight packages of Russian touroperators. Hipway recieved angel funding from superangels such as Michael van Swaaij and Chamath Palihapitya in 2010.
idemama — Idemama is an online platform that provides its users with web and graphic design services. It is based in Istanbul, Turkey.
Lime&Tonic — Consumer demand for unique ways to spend scarce leisure time is increasing. Hospitality merchants (particularly restaurants) struggle to attract and retain consumers. Delivery of services is not personalized due to exceedingly high labor costs. Via mobile, L&T curates online marketplace focusing on discovery (vs. search) of the bestculinary experiences and unique activities. $2.0 trillion leisure sector with a nice focus on the $160bn fine dining and $227bn activities segments.Proven success with leading merchants including Mandarin Oriental, Intercontinental, Four Seasons, Park Hyatt. Over 1,600 experiences created since company launch.www.limeandtonic.com

Blaine Cook is the former Architect at Twitter. Before his departure he focused on building and maintaining Twitterâ€™s Jabber-based real-time backend infrastructure that tracks and distributes millions of updates every day to users on the Web, instant messaging, and SMS.

Investment focus

Audio, Video, Events
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Typedream — Use AI to help you plan, visualize, and build your website. Generate wireframes & copywriting for marketing websites in minutes with Typedream's AI Website Builder, then edit, customize, and publish your site with our powerful website editor
Little Bird — Little Bird powers fast and focused engagement for modern marketers in tech, entertainment, and financial services. Its solution helps marketers overcome the noise and chaos of the social web, to map and engage with the most influential subject matter experts online. Little Bird helps marketing organizations build social capital, expand theirrelevant reach, and grow their businesses.
Planetary — Planetary is a humane decentralized social network. We've built an open protocol and platform for social media and software. A place where you control your data and relationships. This new platform does for social media what open source did for software, creating a common platform for all to build upon secure scuttlebutt.Social media is thepublic sphere and it needs to be owned and controlled by the people who create it.

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.

Investment focus

Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Imvizar — Transform your buildings, office spaces, visitor attractions, and parks with an immersive and visual storytelling experience using augmented reality. Discover unique ways to tell your story at Imvizar.

Entrepreneurial investments High-Tech, Internet and Media companies in US and Europe.Portfolio companies include among others Palantir Technologies, Taulia, Socotra, Context Logic (Wish), Evernote, CapLinked, Spectrum Investments, Open Door, Zipline, Properly, Simscale, Osaro, Polyspectra, Aether Bio, Ashby, Asyncy, Eligible, WayUp, Xage,Lampenwelt, Robin Hood, Klara, Qualia Labs, Aizon, Luna, Shogun (Hearth), Mosaic Finance, Cantourage, Seed Legals, Sava, Gordian, Form Logic, Vector, Bryte, Gartenhaus, Free Form, Fero Labs, Airly, Octane.ai, SmithRX, Contract Book, Quantum Systems, Energy Robotics, Airly, Memberstack, Orchest.ai, Inflammatix, Finway, Roadsurfer, Hive Logistics, AnyMove, Lucid Chart, Fursure, Arrows.to, Halo Industries, Almanac, Velocity Labs, Lumeo, Carbon Health, Almanac, Passion.io, US Bitcoin Corp, OQmented, Maev, LegalOS, Block Green, trypenny, remberg, Kaladin, Marvel Fusion, Arda Therapeutics, The Every Company, CryptoCities, Lenco, SaveIN, GetSona, Noibu, how.fm, Adyton, Hydra Host, Anchor Zero, Gen1e Lifesciences, Pasteur Labs, Windmill.dev, ISEE, ThreeDOT, Workpatterns, Pylon, Cylib,...

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Test and Measurement
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

CPTx — At CPTx, we develop new treatment paradigms across outsized medical challenges, with an initial focus on infectious diseases. The flexibility and precision of CPTx's platform supports multivalent drug development, which is crucial for addressing complex disease states involving multiple binding sites, such as viruses, cancer, and autoimmune diseases.
Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.
Ceartas DMCA — Ceartas is the leader in piracy protection for creators, brands & enterprise. Powered by AI, we have the highest removal rate in the industry

Barry Pitcher

Investment focus

Video, Publishing, Social Media
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.

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.

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.

Matt Haughey - Founder @ MetaFilter

Investment focus

Audio, Video, Events
Seed, Funding Round
Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Lanyrd — Eventbrite - Discover the Best Local Events & Things to Do
Kickstarter — Kickstarter exists to help bring creative projects to life. A home for film, music, art, theater, games, comics, design, photography, and more.

Joichi Ito is a Parttime Lecturer at Chiba Institute of Technology. he attended Keio University in 2018.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

KLKTN — KLKTN is a curated music, manga and art NFT platform connecting creators with fans through special experiences. The platform allows fans to access special edition digital art and behind-the-scenes moments of artists' creative process. In collaboration with top creators and artists and powered by blockchain technology, KLKTN is takingartist-fan engagement and the best of creative experiential culture into the digital world. Artworks are available as a limited supply of authenticated digital products or NFTs, for purchase via credit card, with a fixed cost per item. KLKTN's co-founders are Jeff Miyahara, Chief Creative Officer and a renowned record producer and songwriter who has produced over 260 international artists; Fabiano Soriani, Chief Technology Officer and former lead blockchain engineer for Dapper Labs; and Daisuke Iwase, Chief Executive Officer, Harvard Business School graduate, former World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and a digital pioneer known for co-founding Lifenet, a disruptive fintech venture, which he took to IPO. Built on the Flow blockchain to achieve affordable and environmentally-sustainable minting, KLKTN leaves more for artists, fans, and the planet.
Toku — Seamless employment, built for Web3. WorkDAO is the only Web3-native employment service that provides legal employment, token payroll, and employee benefits that make a difference, globally. We're building the infrastructure to scale DAOs and Web3 organizations so you can focus on building.
Shibuya — Welcome to Shibuya, a platform for high potential short films. We provide creators with a full-stack solution to fund films and shorts, build community, and foster an engaged fanbase. Fans can fund their favorite films, participate in the creative process, and join communities for the films they love most.

Jesper Brok is the Founder of Tjommi and Legalfinder.com.

Investment focus

E-Learning, Recruiting, Communities
Seed, Pre-Seed
Denmark, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Healper — An online matching platform where you get matched with the mental health tools and psychologist who fits your personality, demography, and personal factors, giving you the best chance for effective therapy. The platform includes an online survey, psychologist profiles, booking and payment systems, reminders, sessions, and feedback systems. Webelieve better mental health starts with having a therapist in whom you trust, have chemistry with, and have relevant expertise. Healper will make a better match between you and the therapist based on professional and personal factors through a safe and smooth user journey. We believe a better match means better therapy, empowering you to get more out of your life.
Yard — The community for organisers rebuilding their local tech community

Esther Dyson - Founder @ Way to Wellville

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Medical
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Boxhub — Buy new & used shipping containers with Boxhub. We make buying a shipping container easy & deliver it right to your door. Buy a storage container today!
Way — Way combines intuitive eating with behavior science for mindful habits. 73.5% of app users report transformed thinking post-program.
Humanity — Slow down, or even, reverse your aging.

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.

Investment focus

Angel, Series A, Funding Round

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.

Prabhu began his career by joining IBM’s EDA organization at East Fishkill where he was involved with many developments in the area of chip test automation. At IBM he developed the Podem algorithm and other technologies that earned him 4 patents and several awards. He left in 1981 to join Wang Labs where he was exposed to the commercial EDAindustry. He left Wang in 1982 to start Gateway Design Automation – the company that delivered the now industry standard Verilog-XL to the market. In 1989 he sold Gateway to Cadence and continued at Cadence for 2 more years. He left Cadence to become a private venture capitalist. Since 1992, he has been an investor and a Director in a number of private companies. In 1996 he sold one of his companies, Frontline Design Automation, to Avant Corporation for a second venture success. Several of his present investments are in the EDA industry. Prabhu completed his graduate studies from Carnegie Mellon.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
Series C, Seed, Angel
United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Aera Technology — Aera Technology is the Decision Intelligence company that makes business agility happen. In the era of digital acceleration, Aera helps enterprises around the world transform how they respond to the ever-changing environment
PowWow Mobile — Redefine how work is done in the digital era. Our SmartUX, the rapid mobile app platform for the enterprise, simplifies and extends business apps to mobile.
Verecho — Verecho is a mobile first enterprise software platform to enable companies to automate their people knowledge management. Connect to both structured and unstructured data sets and enable employees to find others based on free text search.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, App Marketing, Consumer Research
Seed, Angel
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.

Kumar Malavalli is the co-author and driving force behind Fibre Channel, an evolutionary technology that enabled the development of production-class storage area networks (SAN's). Co-founder and former CTO of Brocade Communications; Currently Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of InMage Systems.In February 2003, Kumar was inducted into theSilicon Valley Engineering Council Hall of Fame for his contributions to technology. He also received the Gene Milligan Award for Effective Committee Management from the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) for chairing an INCITS committee that developed 17 standards in the area of Storage Area Networks. In 2012 the Computer History Museum published his work on Fibre Channel standards in the T11 Accredited Standards Committee.Kumar's philanthropy in the field of education extends from digital learning centers in rural India to American institutions of higher education. He has established the Kumar Malavalli Endowed Chair in Storage Systems Research at University of California Santa Cruz, co-founded the Indus Scholastic Management Services and serves as a trustee of the Indus International Schools.He currently invests in and mentors numerous startups in US, Canada and India, served as a member of the Board of Directors of The Indus Entrepreneurs Silicon Valley Chapter (TiE), and is a trustee of the American India Foundation (AIF). In 2012, Kumar became a trustee of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Internet
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

POWWOW — Studio POWWOW is a transmedia and Animation Production company based in Dublin, Ireland. We specialize in the creation, development and production of entertainment content solutions across multiple platforms, including mobile, web and TV. Studio POWWOW is currently in development of its first major cross platform entertainment IP ‘The World ofShipAntics.’ The World of ShipAntics is an animated comedy adventure game being developed for iOS & Android devices. We will be developing The World of ShipAntics into Appisodes, a TV series, and more.
PowWow Mobile — Redefine how work is done in the digital era. Our SmartUX, the rapid mobile app platform for the enterprise, simplifies and extends business apps to mobile.
Wedding Party — Inspiration & ideas for your big day

Jon Staenberg has been working with venture backed companies for more than a decade, and has participated in over 100 deals. In this capacity he has started his own company, worked full-time in other companies, and consulted to over 50 startups. He is one of the most experienced venture capitalists in the Pacific Northwest, having raised two fundstotaling over $100 million. After working in the marketing area at Microsoft for six years, he joined Virtual i-O as VP of Sales & Marketing. During the last eight years, he has been engaged in business planning, business development, financial planning and fundraising, recruiting and mergers and acquisitions work for a variety of Silicon Valley and Seattle-based startups.Jon serves on the boards of Class.com and Micropath, and is on the advisory boards of New Vine Logistics, Vista Broadband, Prime Advantage, Time Domain, Atlantes.com, OneName, Syncronex, and uReach.com.Jon graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University, where he received his B.S., M.A., and M.B.A. While at Stanford, he started and ran two successful companies.Jon grew up in Omaha, Nebraska and is a hardcore Nebraska Cornhusker fan. In his spare time he collects sports ticket stubs.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Proxifile — Our mission is to use technology and design to level the playing field for small businesses and the common person in a world where typically on the wealthiest people and large corporations can afford expensive counsel.
ZenLedger — ZenLedger is an analytics startup that simplifies cryptocurrency taxes to help investors and tax professionals in portfolio management. Built by expert industry veterans in technology, finance, and accounting, it allows users to easily import crypto transactions, calculate gains and income, and prepare tax returns.Its automated platform helpsinvestors and tax professionals reduce the uncertainty, frustration, and manual grunt work of creating personal crypto brokerage accounts.
Legalpad — Legalpad makes work visa applications faster, easier, and better for startups by pairing smart software with human support. Legalpad solves the work visa problem for startups and helps people to pursue employment across borders, beginning with startups. Legalpad was founded by Sara Itucas.

Joshua Schachter is an organizer at Self Racing Cars. He was the CEO of Tasty Labs and the founder of Joshua has also worked for directory, and was a co-creator of Memepool.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Japan, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Arrows — Arrows is a customer onboarding checklist. Send every customer a personalized onboarding plan, with automated email reminders, due dates, assigned tasks, and a lot more.One of the hardest things about onboarding is getting everybody on the same page. Using Arrows, you can get "mutual buy-in" from your customers to build trust throughoutthe onboarding process. Plus, with due dates and automated email reminders, they'll always know what should be done next. Arrows is the place for you to collaborate, strategize, and coordinate together.Every customer is different... so why are you giving them the same onboarding plan? With Arrows, personalizing onboarding for your customers is a cinch. Start with a template, so your team never misses important steps. Then customize your plan for each customer, so you can get mutual buy-in on a plan perfectly structured for their goals and timeline.
Urban Machine — Urban Machine pioneers sustainable wood reclamation. The Machine leverages robotics and AI technology to transform the construction industry by reducing wood waste and promoting circular practices.
Hidden Door — Hidden Door is an online game platform for youngsters to delight themselves by discovering, playing, and creating stories.

Niall Harbison - Founder @ Lovin Media Group

Investment focus

Photo Sharing
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

PicStash — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!

Paddy Flynn - VP, Geo Data Operations @ Google

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.

Sean Blanchfield studied at Trinity College, Dublin and Trinity College, Dublin.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Advertising
Convertible Note
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

PageFair — Blockthrough is the market leader in adblock revenue recovery. With adblock rates of 10-40%, we recover revenue from blocked inventory.

Armando Biondi currently works as the Co-Founder and CEO for Breadcrumbs.io. He previously worked at Hootsuite as the global head of growth operations.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Big Data
Seed, Funding Round
United States, Spain, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

NewsWhip — The only real-time media monitoring platform that predicts the stories and topics that will matter in the hours ahead.
Mattermark — Mattermark lets you search for companies & investors to effortlessly create actionable lists for leads. Enrich your company data with customer intelligence from the industry leader of identity resolution.
Cloud Campaign — The only white-label SMM platform built to support rapidly growing agencies. Sign up for a free trial to see how Cloud Campaign can transform your business!

Sven Fund - Managing Director @ Fullstopp

Investment focus

Publishing, Information Technology, Digital Media
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ex Ordo — Ex Ordo is a Galway-based software company whose web applications enable research conference organisers to manage successful and career-enhancing events at which researchers can publish papers and collaborate together. Their web applications automate the mundane, time-consuming tasks, saving organisers an average of 15 days, €5 to €15k, overthe life of a conference.
Zapnito — Zapnito is an online community platform that helps organizations connect with their communities. Harness your expertise with our community management software.
SciFlow — SciFlow is a comprehensive publishing platform that allows researchers to focus on what is important – their research. We offer an intuitive text editor that helps to focus on writing – not formatting – the document. All co-authors can write, comment and review the same version of the article. With our premium services, we allow researchers tocheck for plagiarism and spelling errors and to translate their text. With one click, the article is exported to a publisher compliant format. Unlike existing text editors, researchers can perform all tasks related to publishing scientific texts with SciFlow on a single platform. Thus, SciFlow saves time and gives the confidence to submit an article to a publisher.

Graham Stirling is the Manager - Investments at Veddis.

Investment focus

Art, RFID, Mobile
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Ticket ABC — Ticket ABC is a white label ticketing software and venue management solution used by over 120 venues, promoters, artists in 4 countries. Brand your account to have the same look and feel as your website, better understand your sales and customers with their graphical reporting tool and integrate with social media to sell tickets within anyFacebook page. Fanalytics (Ticket ABC's customer analytics tool) transforms all the customer data generated from selling tickets into a snapshot of your business so you know who your top customers are, where they are from and the ability to communicate and reward them for their loyalty.

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.

Investment focus

Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Imvizar — Imvizar focuses on life-size, location-based experiences that allow users to feel as if they've gone back in time, meeting renowned individuals and witnessing historical events all from the comfort of their own phone. Imvizar was founded by Michael Guerin and is located in Dublin, Ireland.

Mehmet Onarcan is the Founder of Mentors Network Turkey. He previously worked at Project House as an Advisory Board Member - Digital Transformation. Mehmet Onarcan attended Yildiz Technical University.

Investment focus

Apps, Internet, Social Network
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey, Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Missafir — Missafir is a PropTech start-up in Istanbul. We are the first short/mid term home rental management company in Turkey!We deliver for our customers through a combination of thoughtful interior design and attentive hotel-style services that deliver superior earnings from short/mid term rental management through our strength in data-drivendynamic pricing solutions.
Doktorderki — Doktorderki is an online system that allows people to directly talk to doctors about their questions and problems regarding health. It aims to establish a scalable B2C growth model along with the investment it is taking and to do B2B work with pharmacists and mainly dermocosmetics companies.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered inIstanbul, Turkey.
Local Guddy, Inc. — A marketplace connecting travelers and locals through unique guddy tours from locals all around the world. Taste local foods, drinks; see must see places, night life, views etc.

Joichi Ito is a Parttime Lecturer at Chiba Institute of Technology. he attended Keio University in 2018.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

KLKTN — KLKTN is a curated music, manga and art NFT platform connecting creators with fans through special experiences. The platform allows fans to access special edition digital art and behind-the-scenes moments of artists' creative process. In collaboration with top creators and artists and powered by blockchain technology, KLKTN is takingartist-fan engagement and the best of creative experiential culture into the digital world. Artworks are available as a limited supply of authenticated digital products or NFTs, for purchase via credit card, with a fixed cost per item. KLKTN's co-founders are Jeff Miyahara, Chief Creative Officer and a renowned record producer and songwriter who has produced over 260 international artists; Fabiano Soriani, Chief Technology Officer and former lead blockchain engineer for Dapper Labs; and Daisuke Iwase, Chief Executive Officer, Harvard Business School graduate, former World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and a digital pioneer known for co-founding Lifenet, a disruptive fintech venture, which he took to IPO. Built on the Flow blockchain to achieve affordable and environmentally-sustainable minting, KLKTN leaves more for artists, fans, and the planet.
Toku — Seamless employment, built for Web3. WorkDAO is the only Web3-native employment service that provides legal employment, token payroll, and employee benefits that make a difference, globally. We're building the infrastructure to scale DAOs and Web3 organizations so you can focus on building.
Shibuya — Welcome to Shibuya, a platform for high potential short films. We provide creators with a full-stack solution to fund films and shorts, build community, and foster an engaged fanbase. Fans can fund their favorite films, participate in the creative process, and join communities for the films they love most.

Colin Wiel is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Mynd. He attended the University of California, Berkeley.

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.

Harper Reed is the CEO of General Galactic Corporation. He previously worked at Braintree as the Head of Commerce. He attended Cornell College.

Investment focus

Communities, Social Media, Online Portals
Angel
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

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.

Tom Preston-Werner - Cofounder @ Preston-Werner Ventures

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Milestone — Milestone ensures your GenAI tools are fully integrated, optimized, and aligned with your business goals, driving measurable ROI and sustained innovation.
MoneyHash — Emerging and Global markets first all-in-one flexible payment orchestration and revenue operations platform that covers all of your payment needs. We help you build, optimize, and scale your payment infrastructure at any stage of growth.
Sourcetable — Sourcetable connect, sync, and query all the data in a spreadsheet, without needing to know how to code. Founded in 2019, Sourcetable is based in San Francisco, California, United States.