# Top 50 Medical Startup Investors in Ireland in June 2026

## Enterprise Ireland
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 29
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

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.

## Western Development Commission
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ballaghaderreen, Roscommon, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology

Supporting communities to grow, investing in businesses to scale and planning for the future of the western region.

## Atlantic Bridge
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Atlantic Bridge is a Growth Equity Firm with a Cross Border Value Add strategy. We invest in deep technology companies in Europe and the US. Our team is made up of successful entrepreneurs and senior technology industry executives and we invest in strong ambitious entrepreneurs and management teams that have the passion and drive to scale up andexploit major growth opportunities. We help our portfolio companies expand and grow internationally through our global platform with our team and offices in London, Dublin, Munich, Paris and Palo Alto.Atlantic Bridge brings together a unique team of technology entrepreneurs, experienced managers, finance professionals, and investment experts. The team contains a wealth of international business experience across Europe, the UK and the US. They have worked together in various capacities for the last 30 years, bringing a true partnership approach to their firm and their investments. Its investors include the founders, leading institutional investors, and private investors with a track record of investment in successful technology companies.Atlantic Bridge has developed a unique and differentiated strategy that focuses on specific technology themes and the implementation of the “Atlantic Bridge Model” for scaling companies internationally. The “Bridge Model” accelerates the scale-up of technology companies in Europe and the US. This approach is highly differentiated and has delivered strong performance results to date.

## Elkstone Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

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.

## Furthr VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Medical Device, Medical, Software

We are a relationship driven early stage VC investor. We invest in and form close partnerships with the founders we back.We make initial investments at Seed to Series A stage in highly ambitious, born global Irish software and medtech companies. We are hands-on and support teams across key strategic areas to accelerate growth.In addition toproviding institutional investment at an early stage, we reserve significant capital for following on in subsequent rounds. We go the journey with founders.

## Irrus Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology

Irrus Investments is the leading Irish business angel network with international connections. Fueling Irish innovation in medical devices, software, hardware, digital healthcare and life sciences.

## AIB Seed Capital Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Medical

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.

## HBAN Medtech Syndicate
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Medical Device, Medical, Health Care

HBAN Medtech Syndicate

## Act Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## HBAN
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Medical Device

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. 

## Kernel Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cork, Cork, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

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.

## SOSV
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Princeton, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates.
HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

## Fountain Healthcare Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical

Fountain Healthcare Partners is an Irish based life science venture capital fund.

Fountain is exclusively focused on the life science sector. Specific areas of interest to them are: specialty pharma, medical devices, biotechnology and diagnostics. They will deploy the majority of their capital in Europe with a strong focus on Ireland.

## NDRC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

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.

## Seroba Life Sciences
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical

Seroba is a leading European life sciences venture capital firm focused on value creation through backing winning innovations in biotech and medtech.

## Enterprise Equity
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dundalk, Louth, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Enterprise Equity (or EEVC) is an excellent for providing capital to early stage and expanding business throughout Ireland.

## Medtech Syndicate Nominee
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Medical Device

Medtech Syndicate Nominee

## Faber
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS

Faber is a Lisbon-based venture capital firm investing in outstanding entrepreneurs who innovate at the intersection of science and technology to drive digital transformation and climate action. The firm combines a specialist focus on deep tech early-stage startups with dedicated funds, investment teams and expert advisors to actively helpfounders build global companies powered by AI/Data, Web3 or Ocean/Climate technologies.Faber’s unique approach in Southern Europe is led by an entrepreneurial management partnership and backed by notable thesis-driven institutions and private investors. Investing since 2013, the firm has been an early investor in hard tech companies such as Unbabel, SWORD Health, Codacy, iLoF or YData.

## SVG Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Gatos, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: AgTech, Agriculture, Farming

We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the agtech and foodtech industries.

## Business Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Medical

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.

## Artis Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software

Artis Ventures has spent over a decade backing bold teams who take the hard path, building market-defining companies to re-shape, re-invent, and re-make industries.

## Life Sciences Fund Amsterdam
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Private Equity
- Focus: Medical Device, Medical, Communities

Life Sciences Fund Amsterdam is an independent venture capital fund aiming to capitalize on new technological developments in the life sciences sector. It provides investment capital to fund high tech entrepreneurial activity in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area in general and at the academic medical centres in particular. The fund is a specialistt fund, targeting companies that are developing commercially promising products and technologies in life sciences, including: pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices and other high technology opportunities that offer venture capital returns. The Fund focuses on seed and early stage companies, but also on pre-seed commercially viable academic projects.The close collaboration between the fund, the technology transfer offices of the Life Sciences Centre Amsterdam and the Amsterdam Biomed Cluster, enables the fund to facilitate the transfer of technology to the private sector and to provide emerging technology companies and university researchers with vital seed funding and specialized financial and technical assistance. The fund started in 2007 and is now fully invested.

## Glanzmann Enterprises
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Medical Device

Glanzmann Enterprises

## Partisan Management Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Evergreen, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology

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## SciFounders
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Therapeutics

We invest in highly technical startups from idea-stage up to Series A.

## Ascentifi
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Galway, Galway, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical

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## Chip Hance
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Medical Device

Chip Hance

## Boole
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical

Boole 

## EIT Health
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical

EIT Health is a network of best-in-class health innovators backed by the EU. We deliver solutions to enable European citizens to live longer, healthier lives.

## Delta Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Leopardstown, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Early stage VC investments and funding for start-ups / founders in Ireland.

## Sanara MedTech
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Fort Worth, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Corporate Round
- Focus: Medical, Biotechnology, Medical Device

Sanara MedTech is in the business of improving patient outcomes through advanced healing solutions and biotechnology. Call us at 817-529-2300!

## Eamon Brady
- Type: Angel
- Location: Galway, Galway, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Medical, Health Diagnostics

Eamon Brady is the CEO of WhiteSwell. Eamon Brady attended Athlone Institute of Technology.

## Cliff Emmons
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Medical Device

Cliff Emmons is the Chief Executive Officer of Oxys.

## DHKN
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Galway, Galway, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Medical Device

DHKN offers accounting, outsourcing, taxation advisory, and financial services.

## Kreos Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series B, Post-IPO Debt
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

Kreos Capital is Europe's largest and leading provider of growth debt to high-growth companies with revenues up to €150 million. Since 1998, as the pioneer growth debt provider across the UK, Western Europe, Scandinavia and Israel: Kreos has completed nearly 450 transactions and committed €1.8 billion in 14 different countries. Kreos has aproven track record of adding value to portfolio companies and helping them to grow with additional capital and flexibility throughout their business cycle whilst working closely with both the portfolio company management team and their equity sponsors.The Kreos global team has extensive debt financing, management and equity investing experience, covering the pan-European market from its locations in London, Tel Aviv and Stockholm.Kreos is a value added partner, able to offer additional capital and more flexibility with lower equity dilution. Kreos's international team has extensive entrepreneurial, debt financing and equity investing experience, covering all local European markets from its locations in London, Tel Aviv and Stockholm.

## Invest Northern Ireland
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical

Invest Northern Ireland is Northern Ireland's economic development agency. Their overall goal is to help create wealth for the benefit of the whole community by strengthening the economy and helping it grow.

## Apicap
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Mobile

Apicap offers investment and co-investment solutions for managers, wealthy private clients and institutional investors.

## HBM-MedFocus
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device

HBM-MedFocus

## Tim Crowley
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Medical, Hospital, Health Care

Tim Crowley

## Venturewave Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Education, E-Commerce

VentureWave Capital is an actively managed private equity group that invests in and builds great companies.

## EQT life science
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

EQT life science develops innovative medicines, devices, and tools to address the single important thing that matters to the preservation of health. The organization believes that such opportunities add value to all stakeholders.

## Edison Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Princeton, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Analytics

Edison Partners assist their executive teams to grow and scale their companies. The firm’s investment team brings more than 275 years of combined investing and operating experience to each investment. Through a unique combination of growth capital and the Edison Edge platform, consisting of operating centers of excellence, executive educationprograms, and the Edison Director Network, the firm employs a truly integrated approach to accelerating growth and creating value for businesses. With experts in enterprise solutions, financial technology and healthcare IT, Edison targets high-growth companies located outside Silicon Valley with $10 million to $30 million in revenue. Investments also include buyouts, recapitalizations, spinouts, and secondary stock purchases. Its active portfolio has created aggregated market value exceeding $10 billion. Today, the firm manages $1.6 billion in assets.

## Crow Rock Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Medical Device

Crow Rock Capital is an investment firm.

## Sofinnova Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical

Sofinnova deploys human and financial capital to turn dreams into drugs. We are a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical venture capital firm with approximately $2B in assets under management and committed capital.

## Richard Goodbody
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Medical, Hospital, Health Care

Richard Goodbody

## Donagh Barry
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Medical, Hospital, Health Care

Donagh Barry

## Kevin Fielding
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Medical, Chemical, Pharmaceutical

Core expertise: building and managing companies in the semiconductor industry. Interested in companies doing product development for mobile computing, wireless communications and consumer entertainment applications.Career: President and CEO, ParthusCeva (Nasdaq: CEVA); President, Parthus Technologies plc (IPO 2000); founder and MD, theStrongARM microprocessor business (acquired by Intel 1998); DEC (original Alpha processor); Philips BV (high-speed processor design); National Microelectronics Research Centre, Cork.Academic achievements: MBA, Northeastern University, Boston; Masters and BE degrees in Electrical Engineering, University of Ireland, Cork.

## The Yield Lab Europe
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: AgTech, Agriculture, Biotechnology

The Yield Lab Europe is a €55m early stage Agrifood and Ag Tech fund which comprises an accelerator and a larger follow-on fund, investing in high tech companies with the potential to significant disrupt and improve our current systems of global food production, and to improve the environmental sustainability of the industry.  The main fund invests€1m each into 10-12 companies over several follow on rounds, with the strongest accelerator companies expected to progress to the main fund. The Yield Lab Europe is also part of a global network of Agrifood Tech funds, with global headquarters in St Louis USA, and sister funds in LATAM and Singapore.

## Quorndon Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Medical Device

Quorndon Capital is a Investment Firm.

## Oyster Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Blackrock, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Oyster Capital Partners, an Irish private equity firm, specializes in the energy technology, IT, and healthcare sectors.

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