# Top 50 Media (entertainment) Angel Investors in Ireland in June 2026

## Ray Nolan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, News, Software

Ray Nolan - Non-Exec Chair @ XSellco

## Shane Naughton
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Apps

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

## Peter O'Grady Walshe
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Video, Publishing, Social Media

Peter O'Grady Walshe - Chairman @ VideoElephant

## Gareth Lambe
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Tourism, Payments, Software

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.

## Tom Kennedy
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Travel, Video, Retail

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.

## Hal Philipp
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: News, SaaS, Big Data

Hal Philipp - Principal Partner @ Meridian Growth Capital

## Eamon Leonard
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Software, Messaging

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.

## Nigel Byrne
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality

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

## Michael Dwyer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality

Michael Dwyer is a founder of Pigsback.com.

## Jim Mullins
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: News, SaaS, Big Data

Jim Mullins

## Tim Cederman-Haysom
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: News, SaaS, Audio

Tim Cederman-Haysom is Product leader at Pyn.

## Cem Sertoglu
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series D
- Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, CRM

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

## Jim Fields
- Type: Angel
- Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality

Jim Fields is the Founder and Managing Director of Relay, a Beijing-based cross-border marketing agency that helps visionary Chinese tech companies to expand in Western markets. Fields founded Relay with the ambition to create the first truly global Chinese brand.With over 15 years of studying Chinese and 8 years in China, Fields’ focus has beenon helping Chinese tech brands creatively and effectively communicate and engage with Western audiences. His work has gained millions of views across various platforms, both in China and internationally, for clients such as Xiaomi, Tencent, Lenovo, Garmin, Hover Camera and many others.Prior to founding Relay, Fields was responsible for launching British agency Studio Output’s Chinese business arm, which grew over 300% in revenue during his three years with the company. Before this, Fields began his career in Silicon Valley at Adobe and has also worked at Nokia and Reckitt Benckiser in Beijing.With a wealth of knowledge of Chinese business culture and over 15 years speaking Mandarin Chinese, Fields has been tapped as an industry expert to speak at events including: CHat Shanghai, HAX, China Accelerator events, DayDayUp, Tsinghua X-Lab and more.

## Barry Lunn
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Sensor, Software, Aerospace

Barry Lunn, the founder and CEO of Provizio (previously founder and CEO of Arralis) takes a design led approach to tech entrepreneurship. Barry’s approach to solving difficult technology problems is as much artistic as it is actual physics.

## Tom Preston-Werner
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools

Steve Jang is an individual investor.

## Blaine Cook
- Type: Angel
- Location: Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Audio, Video, Events

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

## Dave Burke
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Events, Travel, Ticketing

Dave Burke

## Lachy Groom
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology

Lachy Groom is the Co-Founder of Physical Intelligence. He previously worked at Stripe as the Head of Stripe Issuing.

## Mehmet Onarcan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Internet, Social Media

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

## Angus McMillian
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: News, SaaS, Big Data

Angus McMillian

## Tony Smurfit
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Publishing, Video, Privacy

Tony Smurfit is the Founder & CEO of Smurfit Kappa.

## Barry Pitcher
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Video, Publishing, Social Media

Barry Pitcher

## Sean Blanchfield
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Analytics, Advertising

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

## Armando Biondi
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Big Data

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

## Julie Meyer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
- Focus: Events, Mobile, Leisure

Julie Meyer is the Founder and CEO at VIVA Investment Partners. She previously worked at VIVA Capital as a Chief Executive Officer. Julie Meyer attended INSEAD.

## Per Brilioth
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Seed
- Focus: Apps, Software, Transportation

Per Brilioth - CEO @ VNV Global

## Julien Nguyen
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Social Media, Music

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).

## John Corcoran
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Video, Publishing, Social Media

Dublin-based John Corcoran (89) co-founded the hugely successful Paddy Power chain of bookmakers in 1988 along with David Power and Stewart Kenny. At a time when big brands were taking over the market, the three men joined their three independent chains to become a force to be reckoned with. Corcoran remains a shareholder in Paddy Power Betfair,although he has sold off tranches for 'estate planning' purposes in recent years. John died in June 2019.

## Nagwa Abdel-Mottaleb
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Events, Software, Publishing

Nagwa Abdel-Mottaleb is the CEO at Arab Foundation for Education and Culture.

## Paul Peters
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Events, Software, Publishing

Paul Harvey Peters is the non-Executive Board Chair of online conference software provider ExOrdo.

## Niccolo Maisto
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, eSports, Software

Niccolo Maisto is the Co-CEO at ESL FACEIT Group. Niccolo Maisto attended NYU Stern School of Business and Bocconi University.

## Michele Attisani
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Michele Attisani - General Partner @ Insiders Ventures

## Marc Dassler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Web Apps, Legal Tech

Marc Dassler - Chief Executive Officer @ Energy Robotics

## Matt Haughey
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Audio, Video, Events

Matt Haughey - Founder @ MetaFilter

## Kumar Malavalli
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Internet

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

## Matthew Le Merle
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: iOS, Apps, Local

Matthew Le Merle is a Managing Partner of Keiretsu Capital and Fifth Era (www.fifthera.com). Matthew was formerly the Co-President of Keiretsu Forum in San Francisco and is an expert on digitization having advised leading technology companies including eBay, Google, HP, Microsoft and PayPal on how to drive and benefit from emerging digital valuepropositions.

## Andrej Henkler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Test and Measurement

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

## Joi Ito
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Mobile, Software, Internet

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

## Jesper Brok
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Learning, Recruiting, Communities

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

## Esther Dyson
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Medical

Esther Dyson - Founder @ Way to Wellville

## Bobby Healy
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Series A

Bobby Healy is an experienced inventor and technology entrepreneur specialising in booking engine software. He joined CarTrawler in 2005 having begun his career building computer games for Nintendo at 16 years of age. Prior to joining CarTrawler, Bobby founded Eland Technologies which he later sold to airline technology giant SITA and remained asCTO until 2005. His booking solutions are now in use by 80% of the world's top 20 airlines. Bobby continues to be an avid computer programmer and is a frequent speaker on the international circuit on subjects related to technology in the airline industry, ancillary revenue and online distribution.

## Prabhu Goel
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series C, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology

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

## David Shackleton
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, App Marketing, Consumer Research

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.

## Joshua Schachter
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet

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

## Niall Harbison
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Photo Sharing

Niall Harbison - Founder @ Lovin Media Group

## Paddy Flynn
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Machine Learning, Video

Paddy Flynn - VP, Geo Data Operations @ Google

## Sven Fund
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Publishing, Information Technology, Digital Media

Sven Fund - Managing Director @ Fullstopp

## Colin Wiel
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: iOS, Communities, Location Based Services

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

## Thomas Hesse
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Advertising, Restaurants, Media and Entertainment

Thomas Hesse is an experienced leader with over 20 years in music, entertainment, digital business building, and venture capital. He has worked as CEO and senior executive in large and small organizations. Thomas is the Founder and CEO of Consonance Investments, LLC, managing a successful angel & seed investment portfolio. He is the Founderand former CEO of DREAMSTAGE Inc., a paid streaming platform for live performances, acquired by Deezer. He is Senior Advisor to Musixmatch, the world's biggest music lyrics service, acquired by TPG, and to several other startups and investors.Thomas was President of Global Digital Business and US Sales & Distribution for Sony Music Entertainment, driving the transformation of the music business and digital revenue growth for many years. He was also President and Chief Digital Officer for Bertelsmann where he ran the venture funds, M&A, and several major transformational initiatives. He was a Senior Adviser to CVC Capital Partners, and has worked as turnaround CEO. Prior to Sony, Thomas was EVP and Chief Strategy Officer at music major BMG where he ran the merger process with Sony Music. He previously held various leadership roles in European TV as CEO of RTL Interactive and Head of Program Acquisition/Distribution for RTL Television. He started his professional career as a Consultant for McKinsey.Thomas holds a BA and MA from Oxford University, an MSc from the London School of Economics and a Doctorate in Corporate Finance from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He studied as a concert pianist at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Hochschule für Musik in Düsseldorf, Germany.Career highlights:
* Created significant value as venture investor and CEO
* Transformed Sony Music digital revenue profile from zero to 50% of company
* Co-founded leading music video platform VEVO
* Led digital transformation at $20bn media company Bertelsmann
* Ran merger of SONY MUSIC and BMG
* Built #1 online platform for leading European TV broadcaster RTL

## Graham Stirling
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gibraltar, Gibraltar, Gibraltar
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Art, RFID, Mobile

Graham Stirling is the Manager - Investments at Veddis.

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