Top 50 Media (Entertainment) Startup Investors in Ireland (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Enterprise Ireland
VC Fund
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45 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $26k–$8.3M |
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Act Venture Capital
VC Fund
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11 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | |
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NDRC
VC Fund
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10 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | |
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AIB Seed Capital Fund
VC Fund
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8 | Ireland, United States, Jersey | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Medical | $549k–$8.1M |
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Kernel Capital
VC Fund
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7 | Ireland, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $549k–$12M |
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Elkstone Capital Partners
VC Fund
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7 | Ireland, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $797k–$18M |
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Tribal.vc
VC Fund
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7 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, SaaS, Analytics | $336k–$26M |
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Wayra
VC Fund
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5 | Spain, United Kingdom, Brazil | Seed, Grant, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $40k–$2.4M |
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Delta Partners
VC Fund
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4 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | |
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Frontline Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Ray Nolan
Angel
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4 | Ireland | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Web Development, Enterprise Software | $110k–$2.2M |
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Sure Valley Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $889k–$57M |
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Shane Naughton
Angel
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3 | Ireland, United States | Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | SaaS, Software, Apps | $971k–$3M |
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Business Venture Partners
VC Fund
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3 | Ireland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Information Technology, Medical | |
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EIIS Investment
VC Fund
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3 | Ireland | Venture - Series Unknown | Media and Entertainment | |
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Atlantic Bridge University Fund
VC Fund
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3 | Ireland, United States | Seed, Series A | Medical Device, Health Care, Big Data | |
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Salica
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Secondary Market, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $645k–$346M |
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Gaingels
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $72k–$35M |
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Enterprise Equity
VC Fund
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2 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $549k–$7.5M |
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Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity fund
VC Fund
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2 | Ireland | Seed, Series A | Software, Photography, SaaS | $384k–$1.2M |
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The Associated Press
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, Sweden | Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | SaaS, News, Video | $865k–$12M |
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Dods (Group) plc
VC Fund
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2 | Ireland, United Kingdom | Seed | E-Commerce, Market Research, Information Technology | $658k–$1.4M |
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Business Growth Fund
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States | Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Series A | Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $3.4M–$22M |
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Colm Lyon
Angel
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2 | Ireland, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Local, Guides, Sports | $88k–$708k |
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Meridian Growth Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Insurance | $1.1M–$1.7M |
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Furthr
VC Fund
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2 | Ireland, United States, Luxembourg | Series A, Seed | Software, Web Development, Mobile | $658k–$14M |
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Gareth Lambe
Angel
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2 | Ireland | Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | Mobile Apps, Apps, Tourism | $509k–$1.7M |
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HBAN
VC Fund
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2 | Ireland, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Health Care, Software, Medical Device | $375k–$7.3M |
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Furthr VC
VC Fund
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2 | Ireland | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Medical Device, Medical | $753k–$17M |
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Carl McCann
Angel
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2 | Ireland | Venture - Series Unknown | Video, Analytics, Machine Learning | $1.5M–$3.9M |
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Michael Dwyer
Angel
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2 | Ireland | Seed, Angel | Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality | |
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Peter O'Grady Walshe
Angel
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2 | Ireland | Seed | Video, Publishing, Social Media | $1M–$1.4M |
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Western Development Commission
VC Fund
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2 | Ireland, United States | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology | |
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Tom Kennedy
Angel
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2 | Ireland | Seed, Series A | Travel, Video, Retail | |
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Eamon Leonard
Angel
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2 | United States, Ireland | Seed, Angel, Series A | Messaging, Software, Apps | |
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SparkLabs Global Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, South Korea, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, Information Technology | |
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Social Starts
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, SaaS | |
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Nigel Byrne
Angel
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2 | Ireland | Seed | Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality | |
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Hal Philipp
Angel
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2 | Ireland | Seed, Angel | News, SaaS, Big Data | |
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Ray Coyle
Angel
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2 | Ireland | Venture - Series Unknown | Video, Analytics, Machine Learning | $1.5M–$3.9M |
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Capitan Investment Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Ireland, United States | Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Information Technology, CRM | $658k–$1.4M |
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Northstar Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $46k–$10M |
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Julien Nguyen
Angel
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1 | India, Latvia, Germany | Seed, Series A | Internet, Social Media, Music | $1.8M–$9.3M |
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Enterprise Ireland HPSU
VC Fund
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1 | Ireland | Seed | Software, Audio, AgTech | $236k–$1.4M |
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Sean Blanchfield
Angel
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1 | Ireland | Convertible Note | Software, Analytics, Advertising | |
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George Kilpatrick
Angel
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1 | Ireland | SaaS, Video, Collaboration | ||
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Karl McEneff
Angel
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1 | Ireland | Music, Media and Entertainment | ||
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David Shackleton
Angel
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1 | Ireland | Seed, Angel | Internet, App Marketing, Consumer Research | |
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Anil Kokaram
Angel
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1 | Ireland | SaaS, Video, Collaboration | ||
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Scott Chacon
Angel
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1 | Germany, United States, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Health Care | $2.2M–$20M |
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Enterprise Ireland is the government agency responsible for the development and funding of the indigenous business sector. Their mission is to accelerate the development of companies to achieve strong positions in global markets resulting in increased national and regional prosperity. It was founded in 1998 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant
- Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 894
- Round size: Seed $394k–$3.2M; Grant $26k–$5.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $560k–$8.3M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.2M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Foodcloud — We connect businesses that have surplus food with Charities and Community Groups that need it.
- Amethyst Care — Amethyst Care is a startup that creates an AI-powered voice assistant for those with mobility difficulties.
- Full Health Medical — Full Health Medical patient empowerment tools that improve prevention healthcare are part of the healthcare ecosystem. FHM provides reliable digital innovation, designed by healthcare professionals that are keen to help patients live a healthy life, in response to a national scarcity of healthcare providers, the development of chronic disease, anda lack of transparency at the patient level. People provide lifetime access to preventive care healthcare across screening, diagnostics, education, treatment, and a record of their journey driven technology provides lifetime access to preventative healthcare custom designed at every step screening, diagnostics, education, and action plans that motivate individuals to address risks before they develop health problems.
Technology-focused, investing capital and expertise to fuel growth in the most promising ideas and companies. Raised c.€600m across multiple funds and invest from seed to growth.We look for companies with potentially cutting-edge, category-defining businesses in markets including application software, IT infrastructure, communications, Internetand mobile. We help founders create and scale businesses globally. We work as a small team with diverse strengths accessing a community of over 200 founders. The teams and companies we back scale their investor base as they scale their business execution and ambition. We work closely with them in this process. Over the past 25 years have built a broad network of US and European investors and founders that share our vision and approach.Act is based in Dublin, Ireland.Our most recent funds are supported by the European Investment Fund.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 140
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- GridBeyond — Endeco's Energy ManagementSystem (EMS) provides wirelessenergy management and controlsystems for retail, commercial andindustrial users. Applications includebuilding control, refrigeration control,demand management, priceresponse, energy efficiency, anddemand response. Our automatedwireless systems seamlesslyintegrate intoyour existingoperations and/or BuildingManagement System (BMS) withoutany training of retail staff required.
- CitySwift — CitySwift is a data-driven scheduling and planning technology for urban bus networks. It uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to predict journey times and passenger demand, making routes more efficient. Schedulers can create optimized timetables that take into account traffic, events, and hundreds of other external factors, ensuringon-time performance and increased passenger satisfaction.CitySwift was established in 2016 and is operating in Galway, Ireland.
- Mavarick AI — Explore Mavarick AI's Carbon Accounting Software Platform. Get accurate carbon emissions accounting data and generate auditable reports with ease.
NDRC builds high-impact new ventures. By providing the people, time, space and investment needed at the earliest stages of dedicated commercialisation work, NDRC is creating companies worthy of commercial investment and with the ability to scale. The NDRC team has the breadth of knowledge and expertise in technology and markets. NDRC worksside-by-side with researchers, entrepreneurs and venture teams to turn great ideas into successful new ventures.By the end of 2014, NDRC’s portfolio of startup ventures had secured a cumulative €88m in follow-on investment from commercial investors, with a combined market capitalisation of approx. €220m.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 110
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Nory AI — Revolutionise your restaurant with Nory's restaurant management software. Streamline operations, boost profits, and enhance decision-making in one platform.
- Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.
- 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
The AIB Seed Capital Fund was established in 2007 to provide venture capital for companies at the seed and early stages of development across a range of sectors throughout the Republic of Ireland. The Fund was established under the Enterprise Ireland Seed and Venture Capital Programme 2007-2012. The Fund has a total of €30m under management with AIB and Enterprise Ireland both committing €15m. It is managed by experienced managers with extensive expertise in making seed and early stage investments, adding value and facilitating business success. The Fund managers are empowered to make seed investments of up to approximately €500,000. Furthermore, the Fund has the capacity to make investments in later rounds to support the continued growth of investee companies. The Fund will be managed by Enterprise Equity Venture Capital and the Dublin Business Innovation Centre. This unique partnership brings together extensive regional and investment expertise. Enterprise Equity will evaluate and manage all investments outside the city and county of Dublin, as well as investments that require in excess of €250,000 from the fund within the city and county of Dublin. Dublin Business Innovation Centre (DBIC) will evaluate and manage all investments within the city and county of Dublin when the initial investment amount required from the Fund does not exceed €250,000.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United States, Jersey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $549k–$3.6M; Series A $1.1M–$8.1M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
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.
- Offr — Offr is the new way to buy and sell property, quickly and transparently.
- Metabolomic Diagnostics — Metabolomic Diagnostics is a deep-tech company specialized in the development of novel biomarker based diagnostic solutions for complex diseases. The company has developed an effective pipeline to firstly identify diagnostic biomarker panels and then translate these panels into clinical assays ready for application in the clinical laboratory.Thispipeline combines the biomarker multiplexing capabilities of Mass Spectrometry, a powerful analytical technology, with the company’s own informatics and statistics solutions to deliver diagnostic innovation. This is reflected in Metabolomic Diagnostics’ strong and versatile IP portfolio of technical innovations and biomarkers.Our VisionMetabolomic Diagnostics’ primary vision is to develop a portfolio of diagnostic solutions which can determine, early in a woman’s pregnancy,her risk of developing major complications much later in her pregnancy and thus enabling personalized care, adapted to each woman’s individual needs. Pregnancy complications like preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, preterm birth, and in-uterine growth restriction, all have the potential to severely impact on the well-being of mother and child.The company’s innovative diagnostic solutions will assist clinicians in re-imagining how these conditions are managed: our novel risk assessment tools are specifically developed in conjunction with prenatal care providers to ensure they make a difference that really matters. This in turn will enable clinicians to improve pregnancy outcomes globally.Our solutions will empower pregnant women: accurate pregnancy risk information will allow a pregnant woman, in partnership with her care provider, to determine what prenatal care is best for her pregnancy.
Kernel Capital is the independent manager of The Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Venture Funds, one of the largest and most active sources of equity finance on the island of Ireland. Kernel leverage their extensive network to enable their portfolio companies recruit the highest caliber people, to break into new international markets and to generate revenues of scale. It is the only investment firm with venture capital Funds dedicated to both jurisdictions on the Island. Kernel have raised over €210M from investors which including their strategic partner Bank of Ireland, Invest NI, Enterprise Ireland, Galway University Foundation, The University of Limerick Foundation, The New York State Common Retirement Fund and undisclosed Family Offices. Consistently delivering strong financial returns for their investors Kernel have led more than 20 substantial trade sales to NASDAQ, NYSE, and LSE listed corporations.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 96
- Round size: Seed $549k–$2M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $40M in 2013
Portfolio highlights
- Cirdan — Cirdan provides highly reliable, innovative LIS & imaging solutions for the acceleration & enhancement of diagnosis, optimized for pathology & clinical lab.
- preico — Preico Network empowers Web2 and Web3 developers to create, own, and monetize crypto-native AI models on a decentralized platform
- Pretto — Pretto is the only truly transparent online real estate price comparator.Pretto accompanies you until the signing of your loan, free of charge and without commitment.
Elkstone is an investment firm, focusing on entrepreneurs, senior executives, institutional LPs, the venture community, and the Irish diaspora. The objective of the organization is to boost the economic value and overall well-being of the island of Ireland by expanding a network, facilitating deserving investments, and delivering excellent investment performance.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 98
- Round size: Seed $797k–$5.8M; Series A $5.5M–$18M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$7.8M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $108M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Entity — Entity's purpose is shape the future of web gaming by leveraging emerging technologies and maximizing the browser's capabilities. Our next-generation gaming hub, scheduled to arrive in 2027, will be a global place for players to discover, connect, and play together.
- ZeroRisk.io — ZeroRisk.io's Merchant Management Platform delivers advanced compliance and cybersecurity solutions. Gain insights, mitigate risks, and drive revenue. Book a demo today.
- Full Health Medical — Full Health Medical patient empowerment tools that improve prevention healthcare are part of the healthcare ecosystem. FHM provides reliable digital innovation, designed by healthcare professionals that are keen to help patients live a healthy life, in response to a national scarcity of healthcare providers, the development of chronic disease, anda lack of transparency at the patient level. People provide lifetime access to preventive care healthcare across screening, diagnostics, education, treatment, and a record of their journey driven technology provides lifetime access to preventative healthcare custom designed at every step screening, diagnostics, education, and action plans that motivate individuals to address risks before they develop health problems.
Tribal.vc is a leading Venture Capital firm investing in the next generation of transformative companies.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $400k–$7.2M; Series A $2.3M–$26M; Venture - Series Unknown $336k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- Meili — Meili is an ancillary revenue technology company that enables airlines, hotels, and mobility providers to integrate directly through a single, cloud-based platform.
- UrbanFox — UrbanFox protects online retailers against new forms of stealth fraud by analysing and learning from existing legitimate and fraudulent customer behavioural patterns.
- GREYSCOUT — Brand protection software that finds unverified sellers and counterfeit listings across marketplaces, verifies each one and enforces removal. 95% success rate.
Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world. We currently operate in 10 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela. Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with driven entrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Spain, United Kingdom, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 579
- Round size: Seed $48k–$2.4M; Grant $40k–$387k; Venture - Series Unknown $50k–$2.4M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- 1DOC3 — 1doc3 is a e-health platform that connects 490 million of Spanish speaking people with licensed and trusted doctors. Users find personalized answers to their health related questions. Doctors build their online reputation, find new patients and create the biggest health related questions and answers curated database in Spanish. The Platform isavailable via web, App, SMS and USSD, allowing the entire population to have access to a Doctor no matter where they are, or even if they don't have internet access.
- Devengo — Light-speed transfers. Our Instant Payments API enables seamless integration to automate payouts to your customers in Europe and the UK.
- Quantum Bridge — Quantum Bridge is a pioneer in Distributed Symmetric Key Establishment (DSKE) technology. It offers quantum-safe cybersecurity products and services.
Early stage VC investments and funding for start-ups / founders in Ireland.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 104
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
- ZeroMission — ZeroMission is a technology focused provider of integrated data for intelligent fleet electrification planning, operations and reporting.
- MarketSizer — MarketSizer offers subscription-based competitive intelligence and market insights for SaaS vendors who want to strategically grow their business.
Frontline is the venture firm for globally ambitious B2B companies on both sides of the Atlantic. Frontline Seed speeds up ideas at inception across Europe. Frontline X is a growth-stage fund, for fast and frictionless US-Europe expansion.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 157
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- StrongDM — Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy.
- DUDE CHEM — DUDE CHEM is a leading company in green chemical manufacturing based in Berlin.
- JustParent — Parental leave insurance for businesses
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Browse database — It's Free!Ray Nolan is the Founder and CEO of eDesk. He previously worked at HostelWorld as a Founder. Ray Nolan attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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- Industry: Software, Web Development, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $110k–$2.2M; Angel $575k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- dimply — The experience & engagement platform for financial enterprises.
- 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.
SVV is a UK and Ireland focused VC Firm that since 2017 has invested in high potential, AI software companies. The team are former Founders turned Investors, bringing their decades of entrepreneurial experience to bear on finding the very best company founders to invest in. SVV invests in software companies that use foundational core AI technologies to solve real-world industry problems.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Seed $889k–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$4.1M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$57M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $32M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Souk — Coco is an AI partnerships manager: she finds partners, activates them, and handles agreements, attribution and payouts.
- Nettle — The AI workspace for Loss Control
- BeCertain — BeCertain revolutionizes dental diagnostics with AI-powered tools for X-ray analysis, improving precision and reducing diagnostic errors.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $971k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Trustev — Stop online fraud with Trustev, a new approach.
- 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.
Business Venture Partners was founded in 2004 as a corporate finance adviser for SME/owner managed businesses. The investment team is comprised of Elliott Griffin, Ronan Smith, Edel Coen and Mark Ruane and the team skills combine deep industry knowledge with experience in venture investing, corporate finance and international expansion. Theteam works on behalf of its clients buying and selling companies, raising finances, working with start-ups and advising on strategic growth, business succession and owner exits.Since 2007, BVP has successfully raised and managed 10 Simple Green BES and EII Funds. They have invested, on behalf of their investors, in some of Ireland’s most innovative companies such as Celtic Bioenergy, EFT Controls, and UrbanVolt. Our investment strategy is to spread investments over project finance and a portfolio of high potential companies. Their philosophy is to work hard with each investment to deliver valuable support for the company promoters and build shareholder value for their investors.In 2016 BVP launched The 10th BVP Green EII Fund. The fund provides eligible investors with the opportunity to avail of up to 40% income tax relief and provides the investor access to a portfolio of cleantech companies and renewable energy projects. The 11th Green Fund will be launched in Q4 2017.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- OOHPod — OOHPod, your new Out Of Home Flexible Address, will revolutionise the way you send and receive parcels
- Positive Carbon — Positive Carbon provides an innovative solution for businesses to track, manage, and reduce food waste. With real-time analytics, CO2 calculation, and a comprehensive learning platform, we help you save costs and achieve sustainability goals. Request a demo today to start making a positive environmental impact.
- X-BOLT Orthapaedics — X-Bolt Trauma Solutions for osteoporotic bone fixation. FDA 510(k) approved. Clinical studies include the WHITE One (n=100) and WHITE Four (n=1,140) randomized control trials.
EIIS Investment is a joint venture company owned by Goodbody and Baker Tilly.
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- Industry: Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dublin Vinyl — Dublin Vinyl is a brand new, state-of-the-art record pressing plant based in Glasnevin, Dublin and servicing the world.
We invest in entrepreneurs with the ambition to create world-class companies of scale.
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- Industry: Medical Device, Health Care, Big Data
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- CroíValve — CroíValve is a developed a safe, effective, easy to use, percutaneous solution for treating all patients with severe Tricuspid Regurgitation
- ProVerum Medical — ProVerum Medical is an early stage medical device startup for the treatment of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH).
- Tympany Medical — Tympany Medical is a Needs-driven, Innovative MedTech StartUp based in the West of Ireland
Founded as an investment firm focusing on the most promising startups, we have evolved into a unique set of private market funds investing globally in equity and debt across complementary sectors and stages. We fuse traditional values with a contemporary approach and balance exacting processes with the agility to capture commercial opportunity andcompelling investment returns. Our continuous search for new opportunities has led us to create a balanced collection of complementary funds and relationships.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Secondary Market, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 249
- Round size: Seed $645k–$4.3M; Series A $3.9M–$19M; Secondary Market $60M–$346M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $12M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Moneybox — Moneybox is the simple way to save, invest, buy your first home, and combine your old pensions - all with one award-winning app. Download now.
- CameraMatics — Digitize fleet management to optimize performance. Onboard sensors, smart cameras, & apps to mitigate risk, manage safety & achieve sustainability goals.
- Modern Milkman — Modern Milkman is a Yorkshire-based milk delivery company.
Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital to date. The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1354
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8.1M; Series A $5M–$35M; Venture - Series Unknown $72k–$13M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $140k in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Allara — Allara is your all-in-one virtual care team for hormonal, metabolic & gynecological conditions such as PCOS and Endometriosis.
- North.cloud — Automate your enterprise-grade cloud finance with zero effort. Our AI reduces your cloud bill by 50% without any risk, contracts, or technical work.
- Uvi — Uvi provides infrastructure that serves as a context and reasoning layer for enterprise AI agents. The platform resolves internal corporate vocabulary, tracks dependencies, and reconstructs the decision-making intent scattered across disparate systems like Jira, GitHub, and Slack. By unifying data fragments into an integrated knowledge network, it enables AI tools to process query objectives accurately while enforcing existing user access permissions at the retrieval stage.
Enterprise Equity (or EEVC) has an excellent reputation for providing capital to early stage and expanding business throughout Ireland. With the advantage of having a strong regional presence in Cork, Galway and Dundalk – in addition to Dublin – they have been successfully investing in internationally focused Irish companies for over 25 years, making us the longest established venture capital firm in Ireland. Each of the general partners of the firm has successful commercial investing experience in their own right as well as investing on behalf of EEVC. Their success to date is achieved through investment of capital in well managed, genuinely innovative and growth orientated businesses across a wide range of sectors, focused across the software sector and high technology manufacturing, particularly in the medical device industry. With three funds under management, Enterprise Equity has invested in excess of €50m in over 80 companies throughout Ireland, with many of their founders/companies based in or significantly operating from North America and other locations. In addition, the Enterprise Equity managed AIB Seed Capital Fund is actively investing in founders/companies at the seed or early stage, and the Fund has an overall committed fund size of €53m. EEVC will invest €0.25m to €1.5m per business from this fund. They are regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland under the MiFID Regulations (Markets in Financial Instruments Directive of the European Community). Enterprise Equity’s offices are based in Dublin, Cork, Galway, and Dundalk.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 51
- Round size: Seed $549k–$2.5M; Series B $2.6M–$7.5M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Phorest — Join 8000+ spas, barbers, hair, beauty and nail salon owners using the #1 management, scheduling, POS and appointment booking system. Try Phorest now!
- SurgaColl — SurgaColl Technologies is a medical device company developing novel tissue regeneration products for the surgical treatment of diseases of the bone, cartilage and other human tissue. Based on technology developed at the Tissue Engineering Research Group (TERG) of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), headed by Professor Fergal O’Brien,the company aims to become a leader in the field of regenerative medical devices.
- Metabolomic Diagnostics — Metabolomic Diagnostics is a deep-tech company specialized in the development of novel biomarker based diagnostic solutions for complex diseases. The company has developed an effective pipeline to firstly identify diagnostic biomarker panels and then translate these panels into clinical assays ready for application in the clinical laboratory.Thispipeline combines the biomarker multiplexing capabilities of Mass Spectrometry, a powerful analytical technology, with the company’s own informatics and statistics solutions to deliver diagnostic innovation. This is reflected in Metabolomic Diagnostics’ strong and versatile IP portfolio of technical innovations and biomarkers.Our VisionMetabolomic Diagnostics’ primary vision is to develop a portfolio of diagnostic solutions which can determine, early in a woman’s pregnancy,her risk of developing major complications much later in her pregnancy and thus enabling personalized care, adapted to each woman’s individual needs. Pregnancy complications like preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, preterm birth, and in-uterine growth restriction, all have the potential to severely impact on the well-being of mother and child.The company’s innovative diagnostic solutions will assist clinicians in re-imagining how these conditions are managed: our novel risk assessment tools are specifically developed in conjunction with prenatal care providers to ensure they make a difference that really matters. This in turn will enable clinicians to improve pregnancy outcomes globally.Our solutions will empower pregnant women: accurate pregnancy risk information will allow a pregnant woman, in partnership with her care provider, to determine what prenatal care is best for her pregnancy.
The Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity fund is a joint fund built with contributions from the Bank of Ireland, the University of Limerick Foundation, and government-backed [Enterprise Ireland](/financial-organization/enterprise-ireland). The seed fund will invest in export-oriented high potential firms that operate in the technology, food and financial services sectors, in addition to supporting patent and patent pending projects within Irish universities, targeting investments between EUR 100K-500K. The new fund comprises of a €17 million investment by Bank of Ireland, along with funding of €8 million from Enterprise Ireland and € 1million by the University of Limerick Foundation. It will be managed by [Kernel Capital.](http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/kernel-capital-partners).
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- Industry: Software, Photography, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $384k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $40M in 2011
Portfolio highlights
- Pulsate — Pulsate enables direct communication with customers based on their location, context, interests and behaviours. Pulsate allows you to design and push rich media content directly to customers devices. Deepen the relationship by establishing a customer dialogue. Allow users to reply to your campaigns, provide feedback and keep complaints outside ofsocial media. Maximize foot traffic by targeting street level or competitor locations. Combine with segmentation for optimal results. iBeacons:tm: enable you to understand indoor customer location and context with incredible accuracy. Easily manage deployment and configuration of iBeacons:tm: with the Pulsate cloud platform. Gain a deeper understanding of your mobile customers and a comprehensive view of each mobile campaign.
- LegitFit — LegitFit is the operating system empowering gym/studio owners to succeed by automating their workflows, reducing cancellations and maximising their customers’ experience. We believe that those who help people achieve their health goals deserve to be empowered to manage less and earn more.
- Certification Europe — Achieve and maintain compliance with the most in-demand standards with Amtivo. We help organisations reach their true potential.
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- Industry: SaaS, News, Video
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Canada, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $865k–$1M; Series A $2.5M–$6.4M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Trint — Trint™ is what happens when technology meets opportunity. Jeff Kofman (veteran journalist) and Mark Boas (seasoned web developer) met at the Mozilla Festival in 2013, and quickly realized that the work Mark and his team were doing on media and transcripts could solve a problem that Jeff had long encountered: painstaking transcription of interviews.
- Stringr — Stringr combines a powerful cloud-based video software suite with a videographer network for on-demand video sourcing. On the same platform you can leverage Stringr's editing and enhancement tools, asset managent and sharing and streaming features to create video content faster and easier than ever before.
- Data.world — data.world makes it easy for everyone—not just the “data people”—to get clear, accurate, fast answers to any business question. Our cloud-native data catalog maps your siloed, distributed data to familiar and consistent business concepts, creating a unified body of knowledge anyone can find, understand, and use.data.world is also home to theworld’s largest collaborative data community. It’s where people team up on everything from social bot detection to award-winning data journalism. We use what we learn from this community to improve the enterprise product and vice versa. Our team co-created the Manifesto for Data Practices, the most effective, ethical, and modern approach to data teamwork. More people signed the Manifesto for Data Practices in its first year than signed the Agile Manifesto in its first two years combined. In 2019 DataPractices.org became a Linux Foundation Project. The vendor-neutral community features new, open courseware to help people and organizations improve data practices through inclusion, experimentation, accountability, and impact.We are a Public Benefit Corporation. Most corporations are required to prioritize shareholder returns above all else. Not us. We are legally structured as a Public Benefit Corporation so we can pursue our mission and shareholder value with equal vigor. This ability is rare, powerful, and sustaining.
Dods (Group) Plc is a United Kingdom-based content, media services and events company delivering information and analysis across multiple platforms. The Company's principal activity is the curation and aggregation of information and data and the provision of services through a combination of online information and digital services, trainingcourses, conferences and events, publications and other media.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Market Research, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $658k–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SocialVoice.ai — We give eCommerce data consumers an outright advantage in the marketplace, providing unmatched speed, quality, transparency and scalability
- Social360 — Social360 Ltd operates a social media monitoring and analysis platform for corporate communications and public affairs.
- SocialVoice.ai — We give eCommerce data consumers an outright advantage in the marketplace, providing unmatched speed, quality, transparency and scalability.
BGF is the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, providing long-term, minority investment to growing companies.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 608
- Round size: Series A $4.1M–$21M; Private Equity $6.4M–$22M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.4M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 86% lead, 14% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $97M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Camino — Camino Leisure Holdings is a Spanish bar and restaurant that serves authentic food and wines.
- Arran Aromatics —
- Boost Juice Bars UK — Boost Juice Bars UK offer a range of smoothies and freshly squeezed juice products.
Colm Lyon - Founder and CEO @ Fire Financial Services
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- Industry: Local, Guides, Sports
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $88k–$708k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- dbTwang — dbTwang is building the web’s favourite community for those who share a passion for guitars. dbTwang will provide a trusted place on the web where guitar players and collectors can keep important information about their instruments securely and in complete conï¬dence. dbTwang will also provides a unique platform that will enables members toshare information selectively in a trusted and safe environment with fellow members and to complete secure trades by mutual consent. We will watch, develop and support the community and earn revenues by charging members a small subscription each month for premium services such as being part of a trusted network, guitar valuations and group insurance as well as relevant premium content.
- Axe — AI phone agents that handle millions of calls. Build and manage voice, email, and chat agents.
- 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.
Meridian Growth Capital Ltd: Leading PE firm. Explore investments: Elecon, Blis, loveholidays, StorMagic, NewsWhip. Learn more from case studies.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Insurance
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DRC — We aim to be the communications provider of choice for the UK business market. We will do this by offering reliable communications products that just work, wrapped with deep customer relationships, impeccable service levels and customer personalisation.
- Elecon — Elecon designs and manufactures laser, punching, and folding technology machines.
- Tma Data Management — Discover TMA, a leader in smart metering, data management, and energy solutions, specialising in carbon compliance and DCC integration.
Delivering game changing impacts for start-up founders since 1988
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- Industry: Software, Web Development, Mobile
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Ireland, United States, Luxembourg
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $658k–$1M; Series A $6.3M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $70M in 2007
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.
- CroíValve — CroíValve is a developed a safe, effective, easy to use, percutaneous solution for treating all patients with severe Tricuspid Regurgitation
- 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.
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.
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- Industry: Mobile Apps, Apps, Tourism
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $847k–$1.7M; Angel $509k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
HBAN is dedicated to raising the profile of business angel investment as an asset class on the island of Ireland and to promote the creation of business angel syndicates.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Medical Device
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $623k–$3.6M; Venture - Series Unknown $375k–$7.3M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $11M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Movetru — Movetru a wearable device that aims to reduce injury and enhance rehabilitation.
- Glitch Ads — GlitchAds intends to democratize advertising by "leveraging" adverts and artificial intelligence.
- Change by Degrees — Change by Degrees is closed. While our purpose is to give every person on the planet sustainability as a superpower, policy changes at European level and
We are a relationship driven early stage VC investor. We invest in and form close partnerships with the founders we back.We make initial investments at Seed to Series A stage in highly ambitious, born global Irish software and medtech companies. We are hands-on and support teams across key strategic areas to accelerate growth.In addition toproviding institutional investment at an early stage, we reserve significant capital for following on in subsequent rounds. We go the journey with founders.
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- Industry: Software, Medical Device, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $797k–$6.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $753k–$17M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $36M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- WrxFlo — Optimise your supply chain with WrxFlo digitalisation platform. Unlock data-driven insights, automate compliance, and drive supply chain sustainability.
- Trustap — Learn how we make buying & selling online safe & secure, every time. Create an account for free today!
- Neurobell — NeuroBell develop novel EEG medical devices for early detection and monitoring of neonatal seizures.
Carl McCann
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- Industry: Video, Analytics, Machine Learning
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$3.9M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Everseen — Everseen's Vision AI stops retail shrink, boosts productivity and protects customer experience. Trusted by 11 of the world's top 20 grocery retailers.
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Browse database — It's Free!Michael Dwyer is a founder of Pigsback.com.
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- Industry: Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Investor in ACT Venture Capital Fund V and ACT Venture Capital Fund VI
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- Industry: Video, Publishing, Social Media
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $1M–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Supporting communities to grow, investing in businesses to scale and planning for the future of the western region.
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- Industry: Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- FeelTect — Connected health technology for disruptive improvements to wound care
- CitySwift — CitySwift is a data-driven scheduling and planning technology for urban bus networks. It uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to predict journey times and passenger demand, making routes more efficient. Schedulers can create optimized timetables that take into account traffic, events, and hundreds of other external factors, ensuringon-time performance and increased passenger satisfaction.CitySwift was established in 2016 and is operating in Galway, Ireland.
- Amara Therapeutics — Amara Therapeutics is passionate about empowering women and men to take control of their pelvic health. Amara Therapeutics use evidence based medicine and behavioural interventions supported by Amara Therapeutics platform of technologies to provide safe, convenient and non-invasive care pathways. At Amara Therapeutics mission is to fix the carepathway for pelvic health patients, connecting healthcare providers, patients and peers through our platform.
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.
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- Industry: Travel, Video, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
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- Industry: Messaging, Software, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
SparkLabs Global Ventures is a venture capital firm that offers seed-stage investment services to firms in the SaaS, healthcare, education, IoT, fintech, mobile, commerce, HR, gaming, security, and VR industries. It was founded in Dec 2013 and is based in California.Exceptional entrepreneurs, that are building strong, category defining companiesat highly advantageous valuations – can be found anywhere. The company has a team that is highly experienced in finding such talent and helping our entrepreneurs to develop, grow, network, and scale into other markets throughout the world.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, South Korea, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 80
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Splab — Grow your influence and expand your network with events.
- Nitra — Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products.
- Tella — Service
Social Starts is a $60M+ venture capital partnership with a uniquely data-driven approach to investing in moment-of-inception and Series A financing rounds.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 232
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Hey Jane — Get safe, effective and affordable abortion pills delivered fast to your home. Hey Jane is the first digital abortion clinic, connecting you to licensed providers in your state through telemedicine.
- Mae Health — Mae is a maternal health platform that connects expectant mothers with critical resources to drive positive pregnancy outcomes.
- Wayfinder Biosciences — We design RNA for next generation biomanufacturing and smart therapeutics.
Nigel Byrne is an angel Investor and a former group CTO of Ooredoo.
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- Industry: Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Hal Philipp - Principal Partner @ Meridian Growth Capital
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- Industry: News, SaaS, Big Data
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Ray Coyle
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- Industry: Video, Analytics, Machine Learning
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$3.9M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Everseen — Everseen's Vision AI stops retail shrink, boosts productivity and protects customer experience. Trusted by 11 of the world's top 20 grocery retailers.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, CRM
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $658k–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 3CLogic — The 3CLogic cloud contact center solution transforms your cloud platform or CRM by integrating voice with existing digital channels to create an omnichannel experience. Advance how your business communicates with customers and employees with telephony features and integrations for ServiceNow, Microsoft, Sugar CRM, and Salesforce.
- SocialVoice.ai — We give eCommerce data consumers an outright advantage in the marketplace, providing unmatched speed, quality, transparency and scalability
- SocialVoice.ai — We give eCommerce data consumers an outright advantage in the marketplace, providing unmatched speed, quality, transparency and scalability.
Northstar Ventures invests venture capital in early and later stage, high growth companies tackling global challenges, focusing on climate tech and healthy ageing.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 282
- Round size: Seed $46k–$1.4M; Series A $295k–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $261k–$3.8M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $20M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- OneClickComply — OneClickComply automates ISO 27001, SOC 2, Cyber Essentials and 240+ standards: evidence from 13,000+ tools, one-click fixes and an in-house audit team.
- Land Digital — Land Digital is a tech, web design, web creation, content marketing, digital marketing, SEO, and mobile application agency.
- Magnitude Biosciences — Magnitude Biosciences is a biotechnology firm combine experience in ageing research, the nematode C. elegans and automation.
Julien Nguyen has 30 years of operational, entrepreneurial and early stage investment experience.Prior to NanoDimension, Julien was a Managing Director at Applied Materials Ventures and Concept Ventures. Julien led investments in companies such as Infinera (Nasdaq: INFN), M-Stream (acq’d by Broadcom), Devicescape, Grandis (acq’d by Samsung),Takumi (acq’d by Sagantec), Envis (acq’d by Magma), with co-investors including August Capital, Benchmark, Kleiner Perkins, Matrix Partners, Sevin Rosen, Sigma Partners. Prior to his venture capital activities, Julien founded or was part of the founding team for four startups: Ezlogin (acquired by 724 Solutions), Novita Communications (acquired by Planetweb), E-Motions (acquired by Sigma Designs), Radius (IPO). He holds 21 patents issued in the US.Julien received his postgraduate degree from Telecom Paris (France) and his Master of Science from Ecole Polytechnique (France).
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- Industry: Internet, Social Media, Music
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, Latvia, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$9.3M; Series A $1.8M–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
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.
- OQmented — Outstanding MEMS-based laser scanning for top-notch 3D environment perception and AR projections. Unmatched in terms of size, performance and reliability.
- POPS Worldwide — POPS Worldwide is the leading digital entertainment company in Southeast Asia. With over 4 billion monthly views of its music and entertainment content, POPS is the fastest growing digital entertainment media company with hundreds of artists, content creators and partners from broadcast television, publishing and production in the POPS Network.POPS also produces a wide variety of original content for its industry-leading owned and operated channels like POPS Music, POPS Kids, POPS TV, Beauty Me, HerVoice and CoolTV that target highly sought after demographics: teens, kids, women and men.
Enterprise Ireland HPSU
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- Industry: Software, Audio, AgTech
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $236k–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CropBiome — CropBiome is an agricultural biotechnology company. It specializes in developing beneficial microbial products to support sustainable and regenerative
- TripAdmit — Collect up to 300% more five-star reviews, show them on your website and make them readable by AI, with TripAdmit's 360 AI Review Suite. Book a demo.
- Soapbox Labs — Our AI research and innovation teams are exploring how we could use AI responsibly to support educators in the future.
Sean Blanchfield studied at Trinity College, Dublin and Trinity College, Dublin.
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- Industry: Software, Analytics, Advertising
- Stage:Convertible Note
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- PageFair — Blockthrough is the market leader in adblock revenue recovery. With adblock rates of 10-40%, we recover revenue from blocked inventory.
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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- Industry: SaaS, Video, Collaboration
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Karl McEneff is a independent Non Executive Director of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust.
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- Industry: Music, Media and Entertainment
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Dublin Vinyl — Dublin Vinyl is a brand new, state-of-the-art record pressing plant based in Glasnevin, Dublin and servicing the world.
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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- Industry: Internet, App Marketing, Consumer Research
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Anil Kokaram
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- Industry: SaaS, Video, Collaboration
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Scott Chacon is based out of Berlin, Germany, and is the Founder and CEO of GitButler. Scott previously worked at Chatterbug as a CEO. Scott Chacon attended UC San Diego.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$8M; Series A $12M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bloom — Bloom empowers everyone to be their own therapist through interactive video-guided therapy sessions.
- Flower Labs — Flower is a full-stack AI neolab with a mission to advance collaborative superintelligence by building open-source frontier models, agents, and infrastructure.
- Bloom Health Partners — A mid-depth cap with classic style for any occasion, this Nike Club Cap comes in smooth cotton twill that's been softly washed for casual, daily comfort. Soft and unstructured, the precurved bill makes for easy styling, and the adjustable back-strap lets you find the right fit. Nike Hat Size 6 1/2 6 5/8 6 3/4 6 7/8 7 7 1/8 7 1/4 7 3/8 7 1/2 7 5/8 7 3/4 Head Size (CM) 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 Alpha Size - - XS - S - M - L - XL Swhoosh Flex - XS/S XS/S XS/S - OLXTOTO XS/S - OLXTOTO OLXTOTO - OLXTOTO TOGEL - OS OLXTOTO - SITUS TOGEL - OS OLXTOTO - TOGEL ONLINE - OS OLXTOTO - OLXTOTO RESMI - OS OLXTOTO TOGEL - XL-XXL SITUS TOGEL - XL-XXL Adjustable OLXTOTO TOGEL XS XS XS - S - OS XS - S - OS XS - S - OS XS -S - OS S - OS S - OS - XL OS - XL OS - XL XL Adjustable Women's S S S - OS S - OS S - OS S - OS OS - L OS - L L L L - - - XS/S - OLXTOTO - OLXTOTO TOGEL - SITUS TOGEL - Dual Size Women's - - OLXTOTO - OLXTOTO TOGEL - SITUS TOGEL - - - - Size Disclaimer: There may be a 1-2cm difference in measurements depending on the development and manufacturing process. Color Disclaimer: Actual colors may vary. This is due to the fact that every computer monitor has a different capability to display colors, we cannot guarantee that the color you see accurately portrays the true color of the product.
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