Top 10 Music Startup Investors in Ireland in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Music startups based in Ireland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Music companies from Ireland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Music Startup Investors in Ireland in May 2025

Investor	Music Ireland investments
Act Venture Capital	3
EIIS Investment	2
SparkLabs Global Ventures	2
Enterprise Ireland	2
Irelandia Aviation	1
Polaris Partners	1
Per Brilioth	1
Matthew Le Merle	1
Colin Wiel	1
Karl McEneff	1

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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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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Mavarick AI — Mavarick enables manufacturers to become more sustainable and productive.Our technology gives manufacturers precise and accurate information about their operations so they can reduce carbon emissions, increase productivity, and make better decisions across their business.Born on the shop floor and developed by data scientists, manufacturers,and sustainability experts, our easy-to-use tools make powerful AI solutions accessible to all the team.

EIIS Investment is a joint venture company owned by Goodbody and Baker Tilly.

Investment focus

Music, Media and Entertainment
Funding Round
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Dublin Vinyl — Dublin Vinyl is a brand new, state-of-the-art record pressing plant based in Glasnevin, Dublin and servicing the world.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, South Korea, Singapore

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

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Axe — Axe is a software firm that develops procurement software for businesses.
Assiduous — The AI-enabled platform to do the heavy-lifting for business owners seeking finance for their aspiring growth company.
Galway Biomedical — Galway Biomedical develops and manufactures medical devices.

Irelandia Aviation initiate, develop and deliver successful low cost carriers (LCCs) in partnership with airline management and investors.

Investment focus

Travel, Aerospace, Hotel
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Ireland, Spain, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Ayenda Hotels — Ayenda is the fastest-growing hotel chain in Latin America, with a presence in Mexico, Colombia, and Peru. Ayenda franchises independent hotels in main cities to ensure quality on the basics needs for travelers.Ayenda is a tech-based company that enables run the chain by proprietary software in all areas, from hotel software, pricing algorithms,and user-facing experience.
AERDRON — AERDRON is an innovative aerospace company that specializes in the development, and manufacturing of unmanned aerial vehicles. It specializes in designing prototypes, turnkey solutions, and finished commercial products to their clients requirements. They work with their clients through all stages of product development, and offer training and postsales support.AERDRON focuses on developing aerospace technology innovations for the unmanned aerial vehicle industry. They collaborate with both private, and public entities to further our R&D projects to the commercial market. AERDRON can also help other companies outsource development, and prototype manufacturing.
Skyports — Connecting the world through our skies by owning and operating infrastructure for urban aviation and managing end to end drone deliveries.

Polaris Partners invests in healthcare and biotechnology companies. Their healthcare portfolio companies' care delivery models include digital health, consumer-centric businesses, patient-provider solutions, data science, and analytics. Their life sciences and biotechnology portfolio companies focus on molecules and platforms, therapeutics,and genomics.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Ireland, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

FIRE1 — FIRE1 and is based in Dublin, Ireland, will focus on developing novel therapeutic devices.
Leyden Labs — Leyden Labs helps people live freely by developing products that protect from known and new respiratory viruses.
Auron Therapeutics — A differentiated approach to cure cancer.

Per Brilioth - CEO @ VNV Global

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Transportation
Funding Round, Series B, Seed
Sweden, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

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