Top 50 Media (Entertainment) Startup Investors in Ireland (August 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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35 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $494k–$12M |
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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 | |
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Kernel Capital
VC Fund
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7 | Ireland, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $531k–$9M |
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Elkstone Capital Partners
VC Fund
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7 | Ireland, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $797k–$18M |
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Tribal.vc
VC Fund
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6 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, 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–$2M |
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Frontline Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Ireland, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $110k–$16M |
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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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Atlantic Bridge University Fund
VC Fund
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3 | Ireland, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Health Care, Medical Device, Big Data | $823k–$80M |
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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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Sure Valley Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $823k–$6.2M |
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Shane Naughton
Angel
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3 | Ireland, United States | Seed, Angel | Software, SaaS, Apps | |
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HBAN
VC Fund
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2 | Ireland, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Medical Device | $623k–$9.2M |
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Eamon Leonard
Angel
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2 | United States, Ireland | Seed, Angel, Series A | Apps, Software, Messaging | $531k–$1M |
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Michael Dwyer
Angel
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2 | Ireland | Seed, Angel | Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality | $847k–$1.7M |
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Northstar Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, E-Commerce | $39k–$10M |
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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 | $1M–$346M |
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Tom Kennedy
Angel
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2 | Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed | Travel, Software, Video | $869k–$3.4M |
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Gaingels
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, Mexico | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $1M–$100M |
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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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The Associated Press
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, Sweden | Series A, Seed | News, SaaS, Video | $878k–$6.4M |
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Social Starts
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $100k–$15M |
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Hal Philipp
Angel
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2 | Ireland | Seed, Angel | News, SaaS, Big Data | |
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Western Development Commission
VC Fund
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2 | Ireland, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology | $702k–$17M |
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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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Meridian Growth Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Insurance, Digital Media | $1.1M–$1.7M |
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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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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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Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity fund
VC Fund
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2 | Ireland | Seed, Series A | Software, Photography, SaaS | $384k–$1M |
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Nigel Byrne
Angel
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2 | Ireland | Seed | Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality | $847k–$1.7M |
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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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Gareth Lambe
Angel
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2 | Ireland | Seed, Angel | Tourism, Payments, Software | |
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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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Colm Lyon
Angel
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2 | Ireland, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Local, Guides, Travel | $88k–$713k |
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Business Growth Fund
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States | Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $3.5M–$21M |
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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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Kumar Malavalli
Angel
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1 | United States, Ireland | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Enterprise Software, Internet | $1M–$2.6M |
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Barry Lunn
Angel
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1 | Ireland | Seed, Angel | Sensor, Software, Aerospace | $1.4M–$6.2M |
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Per Brilioth
Angel
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1 | Sweden, United Kingdom, The Netherlands | Series B, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | Apps, Software, Health Care | $106k–$100M |
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Dave Burke
Angel
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1 | Ireland | Seed | Events, Travel, Ticketing | |
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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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Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Ireland, United Kingdom, The Netherlands | Grant, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | Health Care, Medical Device, Medical | $2.6M–$11M |
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Blaine Cook
Angel
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1 | United States, Ireland | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Audio, Video, Events | |
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Mehmet Onarcan
Angel
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1 | Turkey, Germany, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Social Media, Apps, Mobile | |
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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, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 665
- Round size: Seed $494k–$3.3M; Series A $2.2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- mAdme — mAdme Technologies is a digital communications channel that delivers rich and dynamic messages directly to mobile subscribers, with the highest engagement rates.
- Finovation Limited — Finovation Limited
- Touchtech Payments — At Touchtech Payments, believe in making industry changing and innovative technology.
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 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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United States, Jersey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- NewsWhip — The only real-time media monitoring platform that predicts the stories and topics that will matter in the hours ahead.
- 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 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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 94
- Round size: Seed $531k–$4.4M; Series A $1.4M–$9M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $34M 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 excellentinvestment performance.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 94
- Round size: Seed $797k–$5M; Series A $5.1M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $110M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- WrxFlo — WrxFlo deliver real time data insights and software solutions to allow business achieve greater levels of supply chain efficiencies
- Danalto — Simple, cost-effective, high-accuracy Location Services for large open environments, both indoor and outdoor. Asset Tracking made simple!
- Neurobell — NeuroBell develop novel EEG medical devices for early detection and monitoring of neonatal seizures.
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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Conjura — The eCommerce Analytics platform
- GREYSCOUT — Need brand protection? Our best brand protection software monitors & removes unauthorized listings, helping businesses fight online counterfeiting.
- &Open — For businesses that gift to give back, share joy, or show they care. All you need is an email.
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–$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.
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, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Ireland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 191
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $110k–$2.6M; Series A $3.3M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $82M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
- Astronomer — Astronomer’s mission is to help organizations realize the potential of Apache Airflow. Building on the foundation of Astronomer Cloud, the market-leading Airflow as a Service offering, Astronomer is developing new standards of scale, performance, and reliability and leading the way to enterprise-grade Airflow.
- Linked Finance — LinkedFinance offers a new and painless way for Irish businesses to borrow money from a large group of real people, including their own customers. Crowd Funding is the new way for companies to borrow, bankers get bypassed, the wheels of business keep turning and everyone wins!Person to Person (P2P) lending or Crowd Funding is simple. Peoplewith money to lend can lend it directly to people who need it. With LinkedFinance lenders can lend directly to small businesses looking for funding. Crowd Funding provides complete transparency to both the lender and borrower and it brings lending back to basics where a lender simply deposits funds and when there are enough funds available loans can be made to credit worthy borrowers.How it Works - Businesses looking for a loan can apply at Linkedfinance.com for funding. The loan required and full details of the business are posted in their market. Potential Lenders can participate in an auction process where they bid on how much of the loan they are prepared to fund and the interest rate they require. The lowest rate bids are accepted so the borrower secures the best interest rate possible.
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.
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- Industry: Health Care, Medical Device, Big Data
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $823k–$3.9M; Series A $3.1M–$34M; Series B $16M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CroíValve — CroíValve is a developed a safe, effective, easy to use, percutaneous solution for treating all patients with severe Tricuspid Regurgitation
- 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.
- ProVerum Medical — The ProVee stent from Proverum Medical uses 3-D geometry which mirrors and engages with the anatomy of the prostate. The system alleviates Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) by opening the prostatic urethra, applying radial force to the prostatic lobes.
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.
Sure Valley Ventures is 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 specializes in investing in Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), Financial Technology(FinTech), and the Internet of Things (IoT) Sectors.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $823k–$5.9M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$6.2M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $35M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Xylo — Xylo offers higher quality processes with full officer oversight, reducing planning uncertainty and boosting UK housing delivery.
- CameraMatics — Digitize fleet management to optimize performance. Onboard sensors, smart cameras, & apps to mitigate risk, manage safety & achieve sustainability goals.
- BeCertain — BeCertain revolutionizes dental diagnostics with AI-powered tools for X-ray analysis, improving precision and reducing diagnostic errors.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Trustev — Trustev offers a totally modern approach ecommerce fraud prevention through real-time online identity verification. It focuses on validating the individual making the transaction, not just the payment method they're using. The platform delivers individual, real time decisions for every one of your customers using multiple dynamic data sources(behavioral, transactional and social) instead of restrictive rules based decisioning and profiling. Trustev’s easy to integrate platform works by verifying consumer’s identities in real-time, using thousands of dynamic data points from sources such as deep location, email verification, device ID, social fingerprinting, proxy/VPN piercing, site velocity & behavior, browser ID and mobile location. It uses proprietary algorithms to combine all this data and compile it into a single, simple score of 1-100. This score is then used to provide a recommendation or allow, deny of flag the transaction.The Trustev platform enables rapid identity decisions in real time with an easy to integrate (very light touch), completely data driven and cost effective solution that works in the background, to ensure no disruption to the customer’s online experience. This results in a significant reduction in false positives leading to substantially increased revenues and increased sales opportunities while maintaining a customer centric experience at all times. Trustev's solution is focused on dramatically reducing the cost burden of fraud on your business, the cost of policing fraud and also maximizing revenues opportunities.
- NewsWhip — The only real-time media monitoring platform that predicts the stories and topics that will matter in the hours ahead.
- Spring Moves — Spring Moves’ mission is to make working out as interesting, enjoyable, and addictive as humanly possible. They harness the power of music and rhythm to turn casual runners into athletes and newbies into pros. It was founded in 2012 and is based in New York.
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: Software, Health Care, Medical Device
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 70
- Round size: Seed $623k–$3.5M; Series A $1.2M–$9.2M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Movetru — Movetru a wearable device that aims to reduce injury and enhance rehabilitation.
- FoodMarble — Your personal breath tester to identify food intolerances and reduce digestive symptoms. Ideal for managing IBS and SIBO, all from the comfort of home.
- Glitch Ads — Launch AI Powered Google Ad Campaigns in Minutes. Think of us like an agency in a box. Built for speed. Priced for scaling companies. Powered by AI.
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: Apps, Software, Messaging
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $531k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- XMTP — XMTP is a decentralized and quantum-resistant messaging protocol for builders.
- Cohort — Cohort helps its users find the people they need through the people they already know through social media. Cohort is an Ireland-based company that was founded in 2015 by Eamon Leonard.
- PicStash — They offer a valuable but inexpensive PR tool, ensuring the maximum exposure of your Brand with minimum costs to your business. They make it easier for journalists to view your latest products and press releases, and share them with the rest of Ireland and beyond.
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
- Round size: Seed $847k–$1.7M
- 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.
- 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.
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, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 208
- Round size: Seed $39k–$2.1M; Series A $295k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- H2CHP — H2CHP's Free Piston Engine Technology enables your transition to green energy with the reliability & confidence of fuel flexibility.
- NunaBio — NunaBio operates as a privately-owned specialist DNA development company. NunaBio engaged in CRO (Contract Research Organizations) and CDMO (Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisation) activities.
- Advanced Electric Machines — Our magnet free motors help manufacturers build more sustainable vehicles and products. See how we can help you today.
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: 217
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $5M–$21M; Secondary Market $60M–$346M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
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.
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Browse database — It's Free!Tom Kennedy is the Founder of Hostelworld. Tom Kennedy attended Technological University Dublin.
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- Industry: Travel, Software, Video
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $869k–$3.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Barespace — Barespace provides end-to-end solutions that manage, market, and grow your beauty business.
- MARC — MARC is an AI startup dedicated to real estate asset management.
- 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.
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 todate. 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, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1258
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8.5M; Series A $5.5M–$37M; Series B $16M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Quadient Accounts Receivable by YayPay — YayPay accounts receivable automation software helps businesses collect faster, forecast cash flow accurately, and improve payment process. Automate your AR
- Sharper Sense — Neuromodulation for Clear Senses
- Willow Wealth — Willow Wealth is an alternative investment platform focused on generating income streams for investors. Get exclusive access to private market investments.
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 $62M 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.
Discover a world of unbiased journalism, in-depth analysis, and real-time updates from every corner of the globe.
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- Industry: News, SaaS, Video
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $878k–$1M; Series A $2.5M–$6.4M
- 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.
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, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 289
- Round size: Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $3.2M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Funnel — Our revolutionary CRM property management software saves both time and money for agents and owners while making leasing more efficient.
- Original Stitch — PLATINUMTOTO hadir sebagai situs togel macau di Indonesia yang sangat populer di kalangan togelers platinumtoto dengan jackpot 4D setiap hari nya
- Bark Technologies — Learn how Bark's parental controls can help you protect your kids online and in real life with monitoring, screen time controls, and more.
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.
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, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $702k–$3.9M; Venture - Series Unknown $753k–$17M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Peroptyx — Peroptyx is a platform that provides managed solutions for machine learning. At Peroptyx, they have assembled and pre-screened a qualified network of data evaluators across the globe. They strategically match ideal evaluators with each product to ensure authentic experiences through consistency and appropriate real-world contexts.
- Galway Biomedical — Galway Biomedical partners with global medical device companies to bring complex braided devices from early concept through to full-scale production.
Enterprise Equity (or EEVC) is an excellent for providing capital to early stage and expanding business throughout Ireland.
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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–$2.2M; 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.
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, Insurance, Digital Media
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dream Doors — Dream Doors operate a kitchen refurbishment franchise with over 80 stores throughout the UK.
- Elecon — Elecon designs and manufactures laser, punching, and folding technology machines.
- 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.
Peter O'Grady Walshe - Chairman @ VideoElephant
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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.
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Browse database — It's Free!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
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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- Industry: Software, Photography, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $384k–$1M
- 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.
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
- Round size: Seed $847k–$1.7M
- 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.
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.
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: Tourism, Payments, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- 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.
- 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.
Capitan Investment Partners
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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.
Colm Lyon - Founder and CEO @ Fire Financial Services
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- Industry: Local, Guides, Travel
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $88k–$713k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Pundit Arena — Pundit Arena has created one of Europe's fastest growing sports publishing platforms that allows the mass creation of quality content across all sports throughout the world.Pundit Arena is revenue generating, and enables sports bloggers, writers and fans to monetise their work through Pundit Arena's unique revenue sharing model. The‘pundits’ write about topics and sports they are passionate about and publish their content through our web platform.This results in Pundit Arena ('PA') delivering unique and thought-provoking content to sports fans. Pundit Arena is essentially an online sports broadsheet powered by the sporting public.PA enables writers to earn money for their content through the revenue generated from both advertising and content syndication. Payment is issued to the site’s top writers in each category according to the highest performing articles in a unique Paid User Generated Media (PUGM) system. titled the ‘Hit List’.
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, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 416
- Round size: Series A $3.9M–$21M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.5M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 85% lead, 15% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $102M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- TMT ID — A leading provider of global mobile and device intelligence. We power leading identity providers, A2P SMS messaging companies and financial organisations.
- UK Flooring Direct — Transform your home with UK Flooring Direct. Shop wood, laminate, & vinyl flooring at great prices with fast UK delivery & expert advice.
- Thames Card Technology —
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.
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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.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $1M–$2.6M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% 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.
- PowWow Mobile — Redefine how work is done in the digital era. Our SmartUX, the rapid mobile app platform for the enterprise, simplifies and extends business apps to mobile.
- Wedding Party — Inspiration & ideas for your big day
Barry Lunn, the founder and CEO of Provizio (previously founder and CEO of Arralis) takes a design led approach to tech entrepreneurship. Barry’s approach to solving difficult technology problems is as much artistic as it is actual physics.
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- Industry: Sensor, Software, Aerospace
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$6.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Arralis — Arralis is a rapidly scaling technology company, providing world leading expertise in RF, micro, and millimetre-wave technology. It excels in Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMICs), packaged component modules, proprietary antenna technology, and integrated Radar and Communications front-end platforms. Its products, which are theultimate in precision and innovation, are used in both global and space environments where accuracy and reliability are critical. its also creates partnerships with other leading technology providers to build bespoke high performance, cutting-edge solutions. Arralis provides added value through advanced, research, and innovation aligning its solutions with its client’s strategic objectives.
- Cohort — Cohort helps its users find the people they need through the people they already know through social media. Cohort is an Ireland-based company that was founded in 2015 by Eamon Leonard.
- Provizio — Imagine an affordable system that gives every driver 360-degree insights in all weather conditions and paves a true path to autonomy.
Per Brilioth - CEO @ VNV Global
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- Industry: Apps, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series B, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: Sweden, United Kingdom, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $106k–$5.7M; Series B $6.4M–$100M; Venture - Series Unknown $11M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Arro — Discover the shared daily operating system that helps you get more from life and work. Get to Day Zero together.
- Surfboard — Get Dialpad Workforce Management (WFM) software for accurate forecasting, demand-driven scheduling, fair shift planning, and more.
- Supernormal Greens — Supernormal Greens uses vertical cultivation powered by 100 percent renewable energy and LED lighting, enabling year-round production without pesticides. The company grows plants hydroponically in water, anchored by sterile coconut-fiber pods, and circulates nutrients in response to plant needs. Its system recycles water to achieve significantreductions in water use, and it applies data-driven optimization via AI and machine learning to improve its processes.
Dave Burke
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- Industry: Events, Travel, Ticketing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Coras — Coras is changing the way tickets are sold online. Our platform lets customers buy tickets for any event or activity, through websites they already use.
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.
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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- Industry: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical
- Stage:Grant, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Grant $2.6M–$7.4M; Venture - Series Unknown $11M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 94% lead, 6% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FeelTect — FeelTect’s technology, Tight Alright, is a pressure sensing, connected-health device for measuring and monitoring sub-bandage pressure during compression therapy, primarily for the millions of people worldwide with venous leg ulcers (VLUs). Compression is a proven therapy for VLUs, however if it’s applied too loose, it’s ineffective, and if it’stoo tight, it’s dangerous.
- CroíValve — CroíValve is a developed a safe, effective, easy to use, percutaneous solution for treating all patients with severe Tricuspid Regurgitation
- HT Materials Science — HT Materials Science provides nanofluid science in thermal systems for commercial and industrial infrastructure.
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.
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- Industry: Audio, Video, Events
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Typedream — Create stunning landing pages with just 1 sentence with AI.
- Little Bird — Little Bird powers fast and focused engagement for modern marketers in tech, entertainment, and financial services. Its solution helps marketers overcome the noise and chaos of the social web, to map and engage with the most influential subject matter experts online. Little Bird helps marketing organizations build social capital, expand theirrelevant reach, and grow their businesses.
- Planetary — Planetary is a humane decentralized social network. We've built an open protocol and platform for social media and software. A place where you control your data and relationships. This new platform does for social media what open source did for software, creating a common platform for all to build upon secure scuttlebutt.Social media is thepublic sphere and it needs to be owned and controlled by the people who create it.
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.
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- Industry: Social Media, Apps, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, Germany, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Letz — Letz is a mobile app that lets you find available people for all activities to hang out with.
- Missafir — Missafir creates value both for homeowners and short/mid term house rental guests. Missafir’s comprehensive services including profile management on more than 15 platforms, dynamic pricing and tech-enabled operational support services enable homeowners to rent their homes through a fast, reliable, high-profit and stress-free model. On theother side, 24/7 service support, concierge and cleaning services, provide 5-star hotel quality experience to the guests.
- Influanza — Influanza is an influencer marketing platform for startups. Influanza is a marketplace that connects video creators with marketers who want to sponsor their content.
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 — Bloom Health Partners has been shutdown.
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