Top 50 Media (entertainment) VC Funds in Ireland
A list of 50 VC funds that invest in Media (entertainment) startups based in Ireland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Media (entertainment) companies from Ireland. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Media (entertainment) VC Funds in Ireland
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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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, IT
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Manna Drone Delivery — Drone delivery made simple
- Klearcom — Klearcom tests the full customer call path from domestic phone number through the IVR Interactive Voice Response for connectivity and voice quality, validating voice call paths ensuring the connection between customer and agent is always reachable and accessible, software telecommunications IVR testing voice
- Biologit — biologit develops Artificial Intelligence powered Software for Safety Survaillance
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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Investment focus
- Software, Hardware, Science/Engineering
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Oblivious — Oblivious builds tools to allow you to use your sensitive data with internal and external partners while keeping it private and secure.
- Spectrum Life — Spectrum.Life's comprehensive solution enables organisations to provide a workplace wellbeing programme that can have a substantially positive impact on their health and wellness, as well as on the culture and performance of the company.
- Everyangle — Everyangle facilitates business in computer vision applications based on cisco meraki MV smart cameras across retail and industrial firms.
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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Investment focus
- Software, IT, Data and Analytics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.
- Hiiker — Find 1000s of the best backpacking and hiking adventures, with reviews, photos, and great places to stay.
- Legitify — Legitify is an AI powered solution using audio-video authentication that allows customers to notarize documents online remotely from anywhere, without the hassle of visiting a notary public in person.
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 managementwith 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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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Ireland, United States, Jersey
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- NewsWhip — The only real-time media monitoring platform that predicts the stories and topics that will matter in the hours ahead.
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 generaterevenues 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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Investment focus
- Software, Hardware, Science/Engineering
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Ireland, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Pilot Photonics — Pilot Photonics develops and licenses comb source laser technology. The technology has been implemented as a Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) and the company offers prototypes, reference designs, technology licenses, and product for a variety of module and subsystem implementations.
- Causeway Sensors — The Affinity, is a compact, bench-top Biosensor providing accurate real-time analysis at an accessible price. The Affinity biosensor and accompanying Access Chip incorporate the latest advancements in Nanotechnology, providing the biochemistry researcher the perfect platform to explore the complex world of biomolecular interactions.
- 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.
We are a venture firm that empowers entrepreneurs on their own unique path to success. We invest early and with conviction, using our experience and networks to help guide founders and their teams as needed.
Our investment experience includes;
Seed investment in Boxever, acquired by SiteCore.
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Investment focus
- Software, Data and Analytics, IT
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- &Open — For businesses that gift to give back, share joy, or show they care. All you need is an email.
- Conjura — The eCommerce Analytics platform
- ClarityCX1 — ClarityCX1 develops tailored CRM solutions built on the Salesforce Lightning platform.
Elkstone Capital Partners is a multi-family office focused on venture, real estate and wealth management.
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Investment focus
- Software, Science/Engineering, Commerce/Shopping
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bluedrop Medical — Thermal and visual assessment in a single scan. Award winning, patented design.
- Manna Drone Delivery — Drone delivery made simple
- Inclusio — The inclusio diversity and inclusion platform is designed to measure and positively shift the culture of your organisation. Contact us for more information.
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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Investment focus
- Software, IT, Data and Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Nolea Health — As a clinician with Nolea you can set your own schedule, work with as many healthcare companies as you want, hold all of your credentials in one single sharable wallet, access new educational resources, and receive community feedback.
- Docbot Labs — Scattered and unfindable information is a productivity nightmare. dot puts an end to the chaos and helps you find, organise, and share resources with your team seamlessly.
- Solvo.ai — Solvo.ai provides a human-influenced automated decision-making platform that can help logistics firms.
We invest in entrepreneurs with the ambition to create world-class companies of scale.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Science/Engineering
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Ireland, United States
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
An entrepreneur led Venture Capital Fund that invests in early stage software companies. Working in partnership with Shard Capital, a specialist broker and asset manager based in the City of London, Sure Valley Ventures specialises in investing in Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), Financial Technology (FinTech), and the Internet ofThings (IoT) Sectors.
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Investment focus
- Software, Hardware, IT
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Ireland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Jaid — Jaid is an artificial intelligence-powered platform that identifies and extracts critical data from various company and customer communications.
- Everyangle — Everyangle facilitates business in computer vision applications based on cisco meraki MV smart cameras across retail and industrial firms.
- Virtex Stadium — Take over the stadium with your friends and view the game live in 3D. You have never been closer to the game before! Join Virtex Stadium now and never miss the live show!
Early stage VC investments and funding for start-ups / founders in Ireland.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, IT
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Eppione — Eppione was created to help employers and employees substantially leverage technology in the day to day management of HR, Employee Benefits and Business Insurance.The founders of the company account for 100+ years of experience and innovation in these areas.Eppione Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority in the UnitedKingdom.
- Promotion Rewards — Promotion Rewards is a consumer rewards app.
- NoFrixion — We take the complexity of payments & banking networks and deliver them as a simple service with just one API, one technology partner.
Hambro Perks partner with founders and entrepreneurs to support growth businesses at all stages of investment cycle. Hambro Perks has specialised and dedicated investment teams, working across a number of funds. In addition to their flagship Venture, EIS and co-investment funds, Hambro Perks offers a number of specialist differentiated investmentstrategies, including Hambro Perks Environmental Technology, Special Situations, and Access, which invests in venture secondaries.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial, Health Care
- Seed, Secondary Market, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Vedanta Biosciences — Vedanta Biosciences is a developer of immunotherapies designed to treat immune-mediated and infectious diseases. The company's immunotherapies include a suite of proprietary assays to select pharmacologically potent strains, vast proprietary datasets from human interventional studies, and facilities for cGMP-compliant manufacturing ofrationally-defined bacterial consortia in powder form, enabling physicians to access live bacteria drug to treat autoimmune and inflammatory diseases easily.It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Paytrix — Access the best payments infrastructure around the world, all through a single platform.
- Medwing — MEDWING serves as the most trusted and convenient platform for finding opportunities and working in healthcare. From temporary to permanent staffing, we simplify hiring, allowing healthcare professionals to do what they do best -- care. MEDWING Berlin-based company wants to empower healthcare candidates to work in a way that suits their individuallifestyles and to support hospitals and care facilities in recruiting and human resource management.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Hardware
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, South Korea
Build your next story with up-to-the-minute breaking news and history's most iconic images and video directly from The Associated Press. Where stories begin.
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Investment focus
- Media and Entertainment, Software, Content/Publishing
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Furthr provides long-term support to startups and SME businesses in Ireland. We support Irish entrepreneurs who excel in innovation and international trading.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Data and Analytics
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Ireland, United States, Luxembourg
Portfolio highlights
- CroíValve — CroíValve is a developed a safe, effective, easy to use, percutaneous solution for treating all patients with severe Tricuspid Regurgitation
- NewsWhip — The only real-time media monitoring platform that predicts the stories and topics that will matter in the hours ahead.
- 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.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Transportation
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Ireland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Chupi — Chupi is a multi award-winning fine jeweller making solid gold, diamond and precious gemstone jewellery in the heart of Dublin, Ireland.
- PlasmaBound — PlasmaBound provides a step-change technology, termed Controlled Plasma Ablation (CPA), which facilitates the structural adhesive joining of lightweight materials, namely carbon and glass fibre reinforced composites. CPA technology will accelerate the use of these lightweight composite materials into multi-material structural assemblies, byenabling reliable adhesive joining which is stronger than the composite structures themselves.
- Zeus Scooters — ZEUS is an Irish company deploying the World’s FIRST 3-wheeled electric scooter for the urban mobility sharing market. Our unique scooters with state-of-the-art technology and reliability that will ensure our users always enjoy the safest, smoothest and most stable ride.
Supporting communities to grow, investing in businesses to scale and planning for the future of the western region.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Science/Engineering, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bluedrop Medical — Thermal and visual assessment in a single scan. Award winning, patented design.
- ByoWave — ByoWave has developed the Proteus Controller, a modular, accessible video game controller for disabled and non-disabled gamers.
- Ovagen — Ovagen is a biotechnology company that has developed the process of producing germ free (GF) chicken eggs and GF birds in commercial quantities for use primarily in the pharmaceutical industry. Ovagen can also provide a Contract Research Service and has extensive expertise in SPF poultry & rodent housing & husbandry, in specific poultry& rodent research technologies to GMP standards and in avian transgenics.
Investing in entrepreneurial businesses and backing management teams since 2009.
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Investment focus
- Media and Entertainment, Software, Professional Services
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Four Tees Engineers — Four Tees offers a complete range of services in fabrication and site work assisting in project management and offering solutions to clients engineering problems.
- Dream Doors — Dream Doors operate a kitchen refurbishment franchise with over 80 stores throughout the UK.
- Stewart Signs — Livery, Signage and Outdoor Media for passenger transport, commercial vehicles and buildings. Call 023 8025 4781 for information.
Enterprise Equity (or EEVC) is an excellent for providing capital to early stage and expanding business throughout Ireland.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, IT
- Funding Round, Seed, Series B
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
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!
- 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.
- 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.
EIIS Investment is a joint venture company owned by Goodbody and Baker Tilly.
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Investment focus
- Music and Audio, Media and Entertainment
- Funding Round
- Ireland
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.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Data and Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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.
- Wayfinder Biosciences — We design RNA for next generation biomanufacturing and smart therapeutics.
- Fulcrum — Designed with technology in mind, be free of paper with Fulcrum, the manufacturing ERP of the future. Ai scheduling, visual BOM, live tracking
Boom 22 Technologies Ltd is a creative digital marketing agency with a passion for design & development of websites, apps and everything online. Boom 22 had the privilege to work with some of the largest names in the business and have established a reputation for always getting their clients a return on their digital investments.
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Investment focus
- Music and Audio, Media and Entertainment
- Seed
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- WAMbloc — WAMbloc is an online platform that enables musicians, writers, and musicians to collaborate on new work.
- Rouge Reel — Rouge Reel is an interactive marketplace where beauty companies, YouTube beauty vloggers, & their fans come together on one platform and engage in live streaming video product reviews, and tutorials. The platform enables viewers to instantly purchase beauty products while participating and watching videos. Rouge Reel was founded by
Wtatil offers travel agency services.
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Investment focus
- Content/Publishing, Media and Entertainment
- Corporate Round
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Uzakrota.com — Uzakrota Travel Summit is one of the biggest conference and foyer areas for online travel agencies, airline companies, hotels, travel agencies, travel tech startups, hospitality investors, venture capitalists, tech companies, and distribution tech companies.
Northstar Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in innovative solutions to help solve the most pressing societal issues we have today. Our ticket sizes range from £100k to £500k into early stage tech companies. We provide added value in leveraging our network of university partners, funders, non-executive directors and talent to supporteach investment.
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Investment focus
- Software, Commerce/Shopping, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Peek Home — Peek Home provides sketch plans, prices and planning advice for people who are puzzled by the process of creating their perfect home. All we need is your house number & postcode - no home visit needed.
- Asaren — The First DNA Test Service at Affordable Prices, Diversity of Reports About Lifestyle is displayed in an Easy-to-Under App. You Can Get it Only in Asa Ren
- BelleVie — Home care tailored to your needs, helping you to live happily at home. We offer a wide range of care services with a focus on wellbeing.
Norwest is a leading venture and growth equity firm focusing on consumer, enterprise, and healthcare sectors.
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Investment focus
- Software, IT, Internet
- Series B, Series C, Series A
- United States, India, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Elevate — Elevate is a modern platform that makes benefits better for employees and easier for employers.
- Numbers Station — Numbers station is a software development platform that enables artificial intelligence workflows.
- Mintifi — Mintifi is India’s first online lending platform on the mission of achieving financial empowerment for small and medium businesses. They provide loans and other simple lending solutions to SMBs in the fastest and easiest way possible. They look at much more than your credit score so that you get exactly what you need for your business.
Foresight Group is a listed infrastructure and private equity investment manager which has been managing funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients for more than 35 years. Foresight has over £7.2 billion of assets under management across a number of funds on behalf of some of the world’s largest institutional investors, family offices,private and high net-worth individuals and retail investors. Foresight's investment strategies are underpinned by a strong environmental, social & governance (“ESG”) focus, which increasingly meets the demands of today’s investors and ensures we are consistently working towards creating a sustainable legacy for future generations.
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Investment focus
- Software, Hardware, Science/Engineering
- Funding Round, Private Equity, Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Jersey
Portfolio highlights
- Fresh Car Valeting — Highly experienced professional valeters operating in Edinburgh & Glasgow. A complete mobile car valeting service, we can clean your car anywhere that you can park it.
- BlueSkeye AI — Blueskeye AI use ethical AI for the analysis of medically relevant expressive behaviour to change the way medical conditions are monitored
- Ruleguard — Ruleguard is an regulatory technology platform for financial sector firms that helps you manage and evidence compliance across your organisation. Features include automated horizon scanning, rules mapping, SMCR compliance, third party oversight tools, breach management and regulatory checklists.
We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the agtech and foodtech industries.
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Investment focus
- Agriculture/Farming, Software, Science/Engineering
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Napigen — We are the genome editing company specialized for mitochondrial engineering. We address unmet needs of future food supplies by creating hybrid crop plants to boost their yields to an unprecedented level. The company’s technology creates robust male sterile lines that are ideal over conventional lines because of their stability and elitebackgrounds. This allows the production of non-GM hybrid seeds in crop plants that are currently mostly non-hybrid such as wheat. Our technology solution is expected to fulfill the highest level of public acceptance and aspiration.
- FarmWise — FarmWise provides technology-based services that allow farmers to streamline farm operations and increase food production efficiency.
- Muddy Machines — Muddy Machines is working on field robots to help farms manage labor-intensive crops by completing the fieldwork.
Cloud Apps Capital Partners is a market-focused venture capital firm helping early stage companies in the cloud business applications sector. We know firsthand what it takes to build category-leading business application companies. We also recognize entrepreneurs need much more than capital which is why we differentiate and pride ourselves onthe guidance and support we give entrepreneurs to help accelerate and maximize their business potential during the critical early stage. Our firm is leading change in the venture market for early-stage companies with our market-focused Classic Series A approach which provides early stage investments of $2 to $10 million and full board support. This “classic” approach benefits entrepreneurs by giving them the right financial backing along with operational guidance from a seasoned, skilled and engaged investment firm.We are the leading investor in early stage cloud business applications companies. Cloud Apps Capital Partners has more direct operating, commercial and venture experience building great cloud business app companies than any other early stage VC firm. This translates into exceptional market and business insights, guidance grounded in expertise for our entrepreneurs, plus access to a world class network of cloud business application executives.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, IT
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, Canada, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- DataGrail — DataGrail provides businesses with a simple platform to manage compliance with GDPR, CCPA and similar data privacy regulations.
- 4CRisk.ai — AI-powered regulatory compliance solutions that will reduce your cost of compliance while decreasing compliance risk.
- Extracker — Construction's leading Change Order Communication Platform. We help Subs, GCs, and Owners communicate T&M Tags and Change Order Requests in real-time.
We are PROfounders. We are the proactive European early-stage venture fund.
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Investment focus
- Software, Media and Entertainment, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Bloobirds — Bloobirds is a sales engagement tool that transforms your (CRM) into a solution that powers up your sales and helps your company grow.
- Scaleup Finance — Improve your financial management
- Nodalview — Nodalview helps real estate agents deliver cutting edge content and an impressive buying experience for happy and loyal customers.
Enterprise Ireland HPSU
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Investment focus
- Hardware, Software, Real Estate
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- CropBiome — CropBiome sources, selects, ferments, characterizes and tests microbes that are formulated into biological products.
- TripAdmit — TripAdmit is an easy to integrate solution for tour and activity providers to sell online via their own website and distribute their activities via local and international distribution partners, and, for distribution partners to simply and quickly earn ancillary revenue from tours and activities.We ensure your customers get live access to onlythe best guided tours, skip the line tickets, day trips and much more. Our team of destination experts handpick the best so you don’t have to.
- Soapbox Labs — Award-winning speech recognition tech that actually understands kids. Privacy-first. High accuracy. All ages and accents. Try our API for free.
Introduction of the investment thesis of ZenStone Venture Capital: Investing in passionate founders with extraordinatry vision and execution at post seed and early venture stages.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial, Other
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Brazil, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- DecorMatters — Discover home decor ideas and interior design inspiration. Shop your favorite furniture stores and socialize with other interior designers.
- Bolt — Bolt makes Ecommerce better with One-Click Checkout and CheckoutOS. See how Bolt checkout boosts your sales today.
- EquityZen — EquityZen's mission is to improve the way startup employees are paid by unlocking the value of their equity compensation in a way that benefits all key players: the shareholder, the company, and the investor.
Alpama is an investment firm
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Investment focus
- Apps, Mobile, Hardware
- 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.
IT-Farm is a venture capital firm which specializes in seed, start-up, and early stage companies. It primarily invests in mobile, big-data, connected car, IoT, OTT service, Helth care, Bio Tech and other IT industries. The firm actively invests in SF bay area and Japan, as well as other geometries including Asia and Europe. We support portfoliocompanies, especially on the partnership with Japanese enterprises.
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- Software, Science/Engineering, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Japan, Germany
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- ALT TEX — ALT TEX is creating sustainable textiles regenerated from post-industrial waste.
- German Bionic — German Bionic is backed by renowned international technology investors such as Samsung Catalyst Fund, Storm Ventures and MIG, which is also invested in Covid-19 vaccine developer BioNTech. The company and its products are regularly featured in top-tier publications and are the recipients of numerous awards including the German Entrepreneur Award,the Land of Ideas Award, the Automatica Award as well as a nomination for Hannover Messe’s coveted Hermes Award.The German Bionic Cray X is the world’s first connected exoskeleton. Linked to the Smart Factory, it self-learns to reinforce lifting movements and prevent incorrect posture, thus becoming an intelligent link between humans and machines. In doing so, it delivers data that underscores its ability to protect the health of workers, measurably reduce the risk of accidents, and thereby make quantifiable improvements to work processes.
- Genecis — Genecis proprietary technology utilizes bacteria to convert food waste into PHA plastic, a biodegradable alternative to traditional plastics
Tribal Ventures is an early stage investment fund based in New York City and Princeton, NJ. Tribal Ventures makes selective investments, focused on opportunities where their deep industry knowledge can meaningfully help entrepreneurs take their businesses to the next level.The Tribal team has senior level operational experience in Adtech, mobileand TV technology, sales & marketing strategy/execution, revenue generation and product development.
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- Software, Advertising, Data and Analytics
- Seed
- Ireland
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- PageFair — Blockthrough is the market leader in adblock revenue recovery. With adblock rates of 10-40%, we recover revenue from blocked inventory.
We are an early-stage focused Venture Capital and Startup advisory firm. We support and invest in entrepreneurs with the passion, drive and focus needed for success
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- Media and Entertainment, Data and Analytics, Gaming
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Argentina, United States, Brazil
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- Charquiqui — Charquiqui specializes in manufacturing red meat products intended to offer cured meat snacks. It offers retail products and packages of red meat that contains beef bites, cured in natural brine, and partially dehydrated on grills.
- 13 Fronteras — Latin American Cuisine
- Parra — Eat. Drink. Interact. Pay.
NCB Ventures invests across all development stages and is a venture capital company based in Dublin, Ireland.
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- Hardware, Design, Sports
- Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, United States
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- Authentic Japan — Authentic Japan manufactures a transmitter known as Coco Heli to realize the early detection of the missing person.In the summer of 2016, “Koko Heli” was born supported by various companies, groups, and individuals. , Kokoheli is becoming the "new idea" of safety climbing. In the future, the company aims to expand the service area fromthe mountain to the sea and to become a "JAF" in outdoor activities.
- Gridstore — Gridstore™ is the leader in HyperConverged All-Flash Infrastructure for the Microsoft Cloud-Inspired Data Center. Our customers gain a 10X performance improvement over traditional storage as we put all-flash as close to the workload as possible. They realize 4X lower TCO by consolidation of three layers of infrastructure into one scalable layerbuilt on X86 hardware and 10X less management effort due to less management points and less infrastructure to manage. Gridstore's HyperConverged Appliances include both compute and storage in a single system, and provide external storage and work with any Windows servers and the HyperConverged Appliance, all driven by Gridstore's patented software. Gridstore software architecture delivers native Windows integration, per-VM I/O control, and elastic and independent scaling of resources. Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, CA. and its products and services are available through a global network of value-added resellers.
- Vearsa — Vearsa excels in publishing technologies and provides the best ebook platform to its clients. It extends its support to them as ebook distributor and takes other roles as well.
Velvet Sea Ventures is a multi-stage venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs turn their visions into reality. With more than 80 years of combined experience as founders and venture investors and more than $2.2 billion invested, the firm provides seed-to-growth stage capital investments coupled with strategic support across all sectors. VelvetSeas partners’ past investments include such notable companies as Twitter (TWTR), Square (SQ), SpaceX, Snap Inc. (SNAP), Facebook (FB), Pinterest (PINS), Domo (DOMO), Buzzfeed, Namely, Eaze, Braze and Map Anything (CRM).
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- Software, Media and Entertainment, Gaming
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Israel, Ireland
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- Xona Space Systems — Xona's Pulsar service is the first high-performance alternative to GPS designed to support the age of autonomy. Our constellation of smallsats will provide secure navigation and timing services with the resilience and accuracy needed to enable modern devices to operate safely in any conditions.
- Healthie — Healthie's HIPAA compliant telehealth platform gives health and wellness professionals EHR software and client tools they need for success.
- Punks Comic — Join the adventures of the crew and their hunt for the ultimate prizes. They face down absurdly dangerous, life-or-death stakes for ridiculous rewards.An unapologetic tribute to the NFT world, crammed with content and humor for those living the web3 life.
QVentures sources, screens, and invests in top-tier start-ups from Seed to Series B. Our investors consist of Family Offices, Institutional Investors, UHNWIs, and Cashed-out Entrepreneurs. We look for disruptive companies with a proven product-market fit, set to scale from Seed to Series B. We focus on Enterprise SaaS, Marketplaces, Consumer Tech,FinTech, AdTech, EdTech, InsurTech and HealthTech and more. We look for quality management teams, large addressable markets, proven traction, sustainable business models, route to scale and quality investors.To apply for investment, please fill out this short form to be reviewed: https://qventures.typeform.com/to/zZPOWf
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- Software, Commerce/Shopping, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- Presentient Technologies — Presentient Technologies provides pharmaceutical and drug research businesses with real-time and predictive information on the status of clinical trials through the meristem platform.
- Fluffy — Take the right care of your furry friend and get rewards and cashback with Fluffy pet insurance.
- Bridged Media — Bridge the gap between empathy to action to boost your engagement and retention on text, audio, and video. The easiest way to help your audience create an impact.
Astia Angels is a global network of both female and male angel investors that invest in high-growth companies. The angel investor network is actively engaged in the Astia community and screening process (Astia Expert Sift TM) and founded by experienced angel investors. All members are highly involved throughout the investment process and makeindependent investment decisions.
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- Health Care, Software, Science/Engineering
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Ellevest — Money & career coaching, investing, and banking that gives you cash back.
- ORNA — ORNA is a turn-key solution for cross-functional teams designed to take the guesswork out of cyber incident response with playbooks, process automation, reporting, and more.
- Bone Health Technologies — Bone Health Technologies specializes in developing medical devices designed for low bone mass. Its solution is a gentle mechanical stimulation that mimics weight-bearing exercise, providing an effective non-drug intervention. It offers the OsteoBoost device that relies on safe, natural, and effective whole-body vibration technology usingvibrational energy to turn stem cells into the bone using the same mechanisms as physical exercise. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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- Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Finland, United States, United Kingdom
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- BetterDoctor — BetterDoctor helps validate and deliver accurate provider data to health plans, health systems, and hundreds of other companies via its API — from startups to publicly traded ones. This ultimately helps achieve the mission of helping consumers find the healthcare they need.Today, BetterDoctor's data platform and APIs power 9 health plans,350 companies, 1,500 developers, helping millions of people find the right doctor each month. Health Plans BetterDoctor uses multi-modal outreach to drive providers to attest their information on BetterDoctor's online portal. API PartnersBetterDoctor brings transparency to doctor data. Their real-time platform, master database and API services enable everyone to add doctor data to their systems, websites and applications. Today, BetterDoctor API and data tools power health insurance companies, healthcare startups and doctor search tools. https://betterdoctor.com/developers
- Transfluent — Professional translations for all business needs. Fast. Easy.
- Gutsy Animations — Gutsy Animations creates and develops animations that are clever and gutsy content that is above all meaningful. Gutsy Animations' production are aimed at international audiences and based on a concept of genuine social impact.
The Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund is a €500 million fund established under Project Ireland 2040 and is run by the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation with administrative support from Enterprise Ireland.
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- Hardware, Software, Real Estate
- Series A
- Ireland
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- Soapbox Labs — Award-winning speech recognition tech that actually understands kids. Privacy-first. High accuracy. All ages and accents. Try our API for free.
- Signum Surgical — Founded in 2014 by Eoin Bambury and Moshe Zilversmit, Signum Surgical is a medtech platform striving to develop technology that could cure perianal fistula. Bambury and Zilversmit, who met on the BioInnovate Ireland programme at NUI Galway, recognised a lack of innovation surrounding the treatment of perianal fistulas (small tunnels that developbetween the end of the bowel and the skin near the anus). The device developed by Signum Surgical is implanted post-surgery to prevent reinfection and to allow a faster healing process.
- CeADAR Ireland — Making the Possible Real, CeADAR is a one stop shop for innovation and applied R&D in AI, Machine learning and Data Analytics.
Executive Agency for SMEs
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- Science/Engineering, Software, Health Care
- Grant, Seed, Funding Round
- Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom
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- AGADE — AGADE specialising in robotic exoskeletons. The company created its first product, AGADEXO, which can significantly reduce muscle fatigue and the risk of injury associated with repetitive and dynamic activities. They provide variable support, eliminating the effect of gravity on human limbs and allowing movements comparable to those possible in azero-g environment.
- BroadBit Batteries — BroadBit is a technology company developing revolutionary new batteries using novel sodium-based chemistries to power the future green economy.
- Aenitis Technologies — We develop innovative devices for cells therapy processing using Acoustic Radiation Forces.
Gaingels represents the LGBT+ community and allies investing in VC-backed companies with diverse and inclusive leadership teams.
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- Software, Health Care, Data and Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Israel
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- SoundMind — Relax. Reset. Refocus. Bringing the latest mental health technologies to the palm of your hand.
- StellarFi — We Pay Your Bills, So YouCan Build Credit. With Stellar your bills are paid on time and on your terms.
- Foro — We help your business connect, compare, and choose between top business lenders. Get started to see the best loan options for your business.
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 The seed fund will invest in export-oriented high potential firms that operate in the technology, food and financial services sectors, inaddition 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
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- Energy, Hardware, Software
- Seed, Funding Round
- Ireland
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- LegitFit — LegitFit is there to help you from first sale to scale! Our leading software solution is everything you need to run & grow a successful business. It's easy to use, affordable, and integrates powerful tools for bookings, payments, and communication!
- 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.
- Certification Europe — Certification Europe offers ISO Certification, Inspection and ISO Training solutions to drive compliance for our clients!
Veddis is an investment advisory firm that seeks to create value through sourcing tailored investment decisions that meet the right criteria of asset class, risk profile, and geography. They currently manage a portfolio of carefully selected companies which specialise in technology, health & wellbeing and retail. Their sophisticated planningprocess provides their clients access to global investment vehicles free from bias, and has culminated in a longstanding record of superior returns. As a truly independent company, every decision they make is solely with the investors’ interests in mind.
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- Software, Internet, Commerce/Shopping
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, India
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- Excite Foundry — Get the fastest deal for your Amazon brand from a brand aggregator founded by experienced Amazon entrepreneurs like you.
- Hadean — Hadean are a venture backed tech startup providing the most simple and secure platform for cloud native development. Intuitive and developer friendly, the Hadean Platform provides a friction free route to a cloud-native infrastructure. It lets you write applications once and deploy anywhere, taking care of setup, configuration, scaling, securityand more.Hadean have developed two flagship applications. Aether Engine provides distributed load balancing for agent-based simulations, while Muxer is a network model that utilises distributed edge networks. The result is spatial simulations of unparalleled size and complexity, where thousands of concurrent users can join and interact. Hadean have found traction in gaming, healthcare, virtual events and defence with industry leading companies such as Microsoft, Minecraft and CAE.
- Student.com — Student.com is the world’s leading marketplace for international student housing, helping students find their perfect home abroad. Student.com has been six years in the making and their international team has already helped thousands of students find their home.They have the widest and most carefully selected range of rooms that were built andare managed specifically for students. This gives you the power to explore and compare a variety of rooms across different neighbourhoods so that you can make the right choice. Choosing the right home provides a safe and inspiring foundation. It helps you to grow and make the most of your journey.
Frontline is a fortnightly English magazine from the stable of The Hindu that offers in-depth reporting and analysis of issues and events at the regional, national, and international levels. It covers topics such as politics, economics, social, environment, nature, culture, and cinema.
Frontline is published in Chennai, India.
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- Apps, Gaming, Software
- Series A
- Ireland
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- Baserow — Self hosted open source no-code database and Airtable alternative. Baserow gives you the powers of a developer without leaving your browser.
- Fresco — Build a community of happy and engaged home cooks with a user experience that solves their everyday challenges and an all-in-one platform that empowers you to unlock more value from each appliance.
- PageFair — Blockthrough is the market leader in adblock revenue recovery. With adblock rates of 10-40%, we recover revenue from blocked inventory.
Based in Dublin, Ulster Bank Diageo Venture Fund supports management teams that need capital to expand their businesses into new markets.
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- Payments, Software, Financial
- Funding Round
- Ireland
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- StitcherAds — Kargo Commerce's retail and eCommerce-centric platform is designed to drive performance with ease across Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat, and TikTok.
- HeyStaks — Based in NovaUCD, Co. Dublin, HeyStaks Technologies Ltd was founded in 2008 by Professor Barry Smyth, Dr Maurice Coyle and Dr Peter Briggs.HeyStaks patented intent analytics platform analyses web usage data to build rich, accurate profiles that capture a person's intent and interests. It does this in a privacy-enhanced way and is sensitiveto context signals such as location and time to create a dynamic view of customer intent. For mobile operators, HeyStaks helps them know their customer and unlock entirely new revenue streams by delivering superior user experiences, advertisements and offers that are timely and relevant.
- Fenergo — Client Lifecycle Management Technology Developed in Collaboration with 60+ Global Banks. Home.
Bloom Equity is a group of experienced entrepreneurs who invest as a type of angel network in early stage Irish Technology companies.The members of the group have already successfully founded, developed and exited from technology companies and try to bring this experience as a value add to their investee companies often in the form of a boardseat.
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- Software, Sales/Marketing, IT
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Ireland, United States
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- Umba — With an Umba account, you have everything you need from your bank. Spend, pay bills, get loans, and cashback all from your phone.
- Payslip — The leading automation technology for the delivery & management of global payroll at large multinational companies. 1 Platform - All Countries
- Iconic Translation Machines — Iconic Translation Machines is a language technology software company. Iconic specialises in developing best-in-class Neural Machine Translation solutions.
Flight Ventures is the first fund that was built by leveraging AngelList syndicates. They operate some of the top syndicates on AngelList, as well as the Flight Ventures Expansion fund (offline). Flight Ventures includes 25 partners with exceptional operational and entrepreneurial accolades, all whom actively engage with our portfolio companies.
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- Software, Other, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Ireland
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- Feel Therapeutics — Feel develops Biomarkers and Digital Therapeutics to bring objective data and measurement in the way we diagnose, manage and care for Mental Health.
- Elude — Search by your budget. Find out where you could fly. Leave your normal far behind.
- HUNGRY — HUNGRY connects hundreds of local companies to top chefs in the area to provide amazing office catering experiences in a reliable and cost efficient way.
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