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Top 25 Music Startup Investors in Ireland (November 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Ireland Music startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Ireland Music startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Act Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1M–$13M
EIIS Investment
VC Fund
2 Ireland Music, Media and Entertainment
SparkLabs Global Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, South Korea, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Apps, Information Technology $264k–$8.6M
Continuous Ventures
VC Fund
1 Ireland Seed Music, Independent Music
Colin Wiel
Angel
1 United States, Ireland, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Apps, Software, iOS
Karl McEneff
Angel
1 Ireland Music, Media and Entertainment
NDRC
VC Fund
1 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Paddy Holahan
Angel
1 Ireland, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Travel, iOS $900k–$1.3M
Powai Lake Ventures
VC Fund
1 India, United States, Ireland Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed SaaS, Food and Beverage, Apps $25k–$1M
Balderton Capital
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services $3.7M–$160M
International Investment & Underwriting Limited
VC Fund
1 United States, Ireland, India Seed, Series A Software, Online Games, SaaS
Eastate
VC Fund
1 Sweden, Ireland, Morocco Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A Apps, Mobile, E-Commerce $352k–$1M
Mike Ryan
Angel
1 Ireland Venture - Series Unknown iOS, Apps, Local
Xandex Investments LLP
VC Fund
1 United States, Ireland Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $605k–$17M
Trevor Bowen
Angel
1 Ireland Venture - Series Unknown iOS, Apps, Local
Iain MacDonald
Angel
1 Ireland Venture - Series Unknown iOS, Apps, Local
Shane Brett
Angel
1 Ireland Angel, Pre-Seed Music, Artificial Intelligence
Polaris Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, Ireland, Singapore Series A, Series B, Series C Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $5M–$105M
Matthew Le Merle
Angel
1 Ireland, United States Seed, Series A iOS, Apps, Local
Enterprise Ireland
VC Fund
1 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant Software, Health Care, Information Technology $26k–$8.2M
Irelandia Aviation
VC Fund
1 Ireland, Colombia, Spain Seed, Series A Travel, Aerospace, Hotel $850k–$8.7M
Greycroft
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $1.5M–$79M
Lerer Hippeau
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Mobile $1.2M–$42M
Voicu Oprean
Angel
1 Romania, Ireland Pre-Seed, Angel Social Network, Music, eSports
APRIL Ventures
VC Fund
1 India, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed Music, Retail, Fashion
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Act Venture Capital
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 3 investments in Ireland Music startups

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, Internet and mobile. We help founders create and scale businesses globally. We work as a small team with diverse strengths accessing a community of over 200 founders. The teams and companies we back scale their investor base as they scale their business execution and ambition. We work closely with them in this process. Over the past 25 years have built a broad network of US and European investors and founders that share our vision and approach. Act is based in Dublin, Ireland. Our most recent funds are supported by the European Investment Fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 166
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $2.3M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $146M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Ubotica — Ubotica delivers live maritime intelligence powered by Orbital AI, using satellites and sensors to predict risk, confirm threats and deliver actionable evidence.
  • Entity — Entity's purpose is shape the future of web gaming by leveraging emerging technologies and maximizing the browser's capabilities. Our next-generation gaming hub, scheduled to arrive in 2027, will be a global place for players to discover, connect, and play together.
  • Fresco — Fresco powers connected cooking experiences for appliance brands, enabling faster launches, lower R&D costs, and continuous innovation.
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EIIS Investment
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in Ireland Music startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Media and Entertainment
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • 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.
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SparkLabs Global Ventures
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 2 investments in Ireland Music startups

A seed-stage fund built on the conviction that exceptional entrepreneurs building strong, category-defining companies at highly advantageous valuations can be found anywhere.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, South Korea, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 85
  • Round size: Seed $264k–$3M; Series A $769k–$8.6M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $700k in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Splab — Invite participants and let them request and confirm 1:1 meetings. Set up the event in the console and publish the same day, no onboarding.
  • Nitra — Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products.
  • Pierrot Company — Pierrot Company is a Korea-based circular commerce company focused on extending the lifecycle of IT devices through subscription, asset recovery, and cross-border trade. The company operates phoneGO, a device subscription service for consumers and businesses, and reGO, a service that helps organizations recover and monetize idle IT assets.Building on these operating data and supply networks, Pierrot Company is also developing reGO Trade, a global infrastructure layer for used IT device pricing, discovery, and transaction enablement. The company aims to improve transparency, liquidity, and reuse in the fragmented secondary market for electronics while reducing unnecessary e-waste.By combining operational know-how, market data, and international buyer networks, Pierrot Company is building a more efficient and scalable circular economy for IT assets.
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Continuous Ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in Ireland Music startups

A private investment platform focused on selective opportunities, strategic alignment, and long term value creation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Independent Music
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $50M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Andrson — Music Discovery Completely Reimagined. Your music now searchable by sound.
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Colin Wiel
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Music startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Software, iOS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Ireland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Quilt — Quilt is a new kind of social wellness space to connect, share, and learn with others through daily conversations. They believe that community is the greatest form of self-care. Because journaling and meditation alone can only do so much. They believe the best way to create healthy rituals is through spontaneity and play. They use technology to dojust that.
  • Arro — Discover the shared daily operating system that helps you get more from life and work. Get to Day Zero together.
  • PlushCare — PlushCare provides online doctor care for primary, urgent care, mental health and therapy. Affordable, convenient teleheath visits and same day online doctor appointments available now.
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Karl McEneff
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Music startups

Karl McEneff is a independent Non Executive Director of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Media and Entertainment
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% 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.
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NDRC
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Music startups

NDRC builds high-impact new ventures. By providing the people, time, space and investment needed at the earliest stages of dedicated commercialisation work, NDRC is creating companies worthy of commercial investment and with the ability to scale. The NDRC team has the breadth of knowledge and expertise in technology and markets. NDRC worksside-by-side with researchers, entrepreneurs and venture teams to turn great ideas into successful new ventures.By the end of 2014, NDRC’s portfolio of startup ventures had secured a cumulative €88m in follow-on investment from commercial investors, with a combined market capitalisation of approx. €220m.

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Investment focus

  • 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
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Paddy Holahan
Angel · , , Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Music startups

Paddy Holahan - Chairman @ Roomex

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Travel, iOS
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Venture - Series Unknown $900k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fin — Perfect customer experiences made possible with Fin. Over 12,000 of the world's most forward looking brands use Fin across the entire customer journey.
  • Roomex — Want to make business travel easier? Search, book, manage, and pay for all your business hotel bookings in one place.
  • WhatClinic.com — WhatClinic.com helps patients find, compare and book the right clinics for them, in more than 135 countries. They provide detailed listings for over 120,000 clinics on their site. These include doctors, dentists, beauty and cosmetic surgery, physiotherapy, fertility, holistics and a lot more. They believe that every patient is an empoweredconsumer.
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Powai Lake Ventures
VC Fund · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 1 investments in Ireland Music startups

They are a bunch of people who love the Powai Lake in Bombay. Some of us live on the southern bank of the lake and enjoy the view from their apartments every day. Many of us just hang around in the cafes around the lake, sipping a cold beer while soaking in the warm breeze. They love to meet founders who build companies from their hostel rooms on the northern bank of the lake. When they like them, they fund them. That makes us the funders. They are founders too. And they have had their share of years in the hostel rooms on the northern bank.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Food and Beverage, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: India, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $335k–$1M; Angel $25k–$394k
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EVEARA — EVEARA offers an easy to use and affordable do-it-yourself digital music distribution SaaS solution. Its state of the art WEB application enables music content rights owners such as musicians, producers, and labels to distribute their music easily and effectively via all relevant music downloading and streaming services such as Amazon, Apple,Deezer, Google, Juke, KKBOX, Melon, Napster, Pandora, QQ, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tidal, and many more.
  • Bite Club — Bite Club is a Gurgaon-headquartered food ordering start-up. Bite Club enables users to order meal from a dynamic changing menu through its Android app. The food is prepared by aggregated people like home chefs, amateur chefs, and professional chefs. Bite Club was founded on 2014 and is headquartered in Gurgaon, India.
  • TableHero — Reimagining the technology stack for small local businesses by building an intelligent small business OS. The OS includes a suite of products that will vastly simplify website and digital presence management; reservations, bookings and appointments; and payments and customer loyalty.
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Balderton Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Ireland Music startups

In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 482
  • Round size: Series A $3.7M–$30M; Series B $9.5M–$100M; Series C $15M–$160M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $615M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Duvo — Duvo brings your people, AI agents and existing systems together to map, run and improve your processes, with decisions, exceptions and results in one place.
  • NewBay — NewBay enables operators and device makers to deliver a lifetime of digital content experiences across any connected device such as mobile, PC, tablets and TV. The NewBay white label software platform powers cloud-based services for storing, sharing, accessing and organizing digital content. NewBay enables customers to monetize a wide range ofbranded services such as social networking, photo and video albums, digital vault, notifications and converged messaging. NewBay is delivering highly successful commercial services for operators and device makers worldwide. Customers include T-Mobile, Telefonica O2, Orange, U.S. Cellular, AT&T, Telstra, Verizon and LG Electronics. NewBay is processing millions of messages daily and stores billions of media for live operator and device maker services. NewBay is based in Dublin, Ireland; Seattle, USA; Atlanta, USA; London, UK; Sydney, Australia and Seoul, South Korea. NewBay was founded in 2002. Following acquisition in 2011, NewBay is a wholly owned subsidiary of Research In Motion Limited (RIM).
  • Socowave — Get full access to this domain. Easy, seamless transactions. Zero percent financing available.
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International Investment & Underwriting Limited
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Music startups

IIU (International Investment and Underwriting) is an international private equity firm specializing in investments across several industries, including technology, leisure, and hospitality. The firm manages a broad portfolio of investments and leverages partnerships with leading investment companies around the World.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Online Games, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Ireland, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Umba — With an Umba account, you have everything you need from your bank. Spend, pay bills, get loans, and cashback all from your phone.
  • Vela Games — We are an ambitious and independent development studio, creating engaging, co-operative games that put players first. We strive to create service based games for enthusiast gamers that deliver genre-defining experiences. Based in Dublin and made up of industry veterans and passionate gamers, we are in the early phases of our first unannouncedoriginal IP project in the multiplayer space. Vela is a constellation in the Southern Hemisphere that forms the sails of Argo Navis, the legendary ship that carried Jason and the Argonauts on their journey to retrieve the Golden Fleece. For us it represents the astronomical journey they are on, but more importantly it reminds us how they can build extraordinary things and forge legends by coming together. Whether it’s stars in the night sky, a team working to create something new, or players overcoming epic challenges, together they can shine brighter.At Vela they love games of every type, but they know that multiplayer, when done well, has a special ability to bring people together. Unforgettable moments are created through the power of playing together. It allows players to keep in touch with old friends regardless of distance, and to forge new friendships that will last lifetimes. Vela was created with these moments in mind, and their focus every day is thinking about how they can create impactful gaming experiences that inspire gamers around the world to play and win together.
  • GAN — SEGA SAMMY CREATION is a gaming machine manufacturer that utilizes its wealth of creativity, entertainment experience and technology to produce products that offer new and exciting experiences. With these products we look to surpass anything seen thus far and breathe new life into the global gaming market.
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Eastate
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 1 investments in Ireland Music startups

Stockholm-based family office and investment holding company. Investing with a long-term perspective across asset management, real estate, hospitality and

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Mobile, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Sweden, Ireland, Morocco

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Venture - Series Unknown $352k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Squid — --The arts are a manifestation of our emotions --
  • Babaliste — Babaliste is a mobile flea market that enables individuals to buy and sell clothing, accessories, electronics, and home furnishing.
  • DIB Travel — Business Travel Management Software - Easily manage your corporate travels by booking hotel, flight and train all in one place. DIB Travel
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Mike Ryan
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Music startups

Mike Ryan is the Founder and CEO of A Different Engine. He attended San Francisco State University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Apps, Local
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Soundwave — The Global Premium Domain SoundWave.com + @SoundWave Twitter (X) Handle is currently available for acquisition. Contact us now for details.
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Xandex Investments LLP
VC Fund · Petaluma, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Music startups

Xandex Investments is a California Limited Liability Company, wholly owned by Xandex Inc. and is the venture capital arm of Xandex Inc. The LLC was formed in 2005 to hold passive venture capital investments made by Xandex Inc. in prior years. In 2007, the LLC began direct investments in seed, angel and early stage rounds in promising technology companies. In addition to funding, access to Xandex Inc.'s 30 years of design, manufacturing and business experience is offered to portfolio companies. We call it our "Head Start" advantage.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $605k–$4M; Series A $3.4M–$17M; Venture - Series Unknown $900k–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Saccharo — Saccharo is a biotech start-up in the immuno-oncology space that develops therapeutic products for the treatment of cancer and other novel diseases. Saccharo discovered a polysaccharide that surrounds human cancer cells. The Sacchario approach has a mechanism of action that allows drugs to have multiple killing effects, a predicted safety profile,a broad therapeutic window, and applications to many cancers.
  • Hyalex Orthopaedics — Hyalex Orthopaedics is a Lexington, MA medical device company advancing new products that feature HYALEX™ materials technology, a polymer that is designed to mimic cartilage. Unlike other polymers, synthetic HYALEX material has the unique capability of maintaining low friction and low wear under the high loads encountered in human joints. HyalexOrthopaedics' products are in the development stage and have not been approved for use in humans by any regulatory agency.
  • Front Range Biosciences — Front Range Biosciences brings modern agriculture to cannabis and hemp to improve reliability, efficiency, and safety for cultivators and consumers. They provide advanced agricultural science services to plant growers.
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Trevor Bowen
Angel · , , Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Music startups

Trevor Bowen - Non Executive Director @ CEIBA Investments

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Apps, Local
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Soundwave — The Global Premium Domain SoundWave.com + @SoundWave Twitter (X) Handle is currently available for acquisition. Contact us now for details.
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Iain MacDonald
Angel · , , Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Music startups

Iain has been involved in various tech ventures from initiation stage through to exit. In 2003, Iain founded Perlico and was CEO of the company as it grew to become a leading broadband provider in the Irish consumer market before being sold to Vodafone in 2007 in a c.$100m deal.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Apps, Local
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Soundwave — The Global Premium Domain SoundWave.com + @SoundWave Twitter (X) Handle is currently available for acquisition. Contact us now for details.
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Shane Brett
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Music startups

Shane Brett is a serial entrepreneur, mentor, peer-reviewed author & thought-leader specializing in hedge funds, FinTech & the global economy. He is co-founder of "GECKO Governance" - the new RegTech Enterprise Ireland backed HPSU Real-Time Fund Regulation solution.Shane is the author of the "The Future of Hedge Funds"(2012) and "The AIFMD Cheat Sheet" (2013). Both available from Amazon. Shane is on the Editorial Board of "All About Alpha" & is a Contributor Writer for "Seeking Alpha" & "Hedge Tracker". He is a GLG Council Member & a member of the Atheneum Partners Executive Network. Shane has published dozens of articles in many industry publications including HFM Week, All About Alpha, Opalesque, The Hedge Fund Journal & Hedge Fund Insight. Full links below.Shane has been interviewed extensively on global financial and economic developments on radio and television in Europe (links below) & speaks regularly at industry conferences and on "Dukascopy TV" (Swiss Business Channel).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fanify — Fanify operates as an AI automated music promotion company.
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Polaris Partners
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Music startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Ireland, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 575
  • Round size: Series A $5M–$82M; Series B $7.5M–$100M; Series C $10M–$105M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $439M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • ice — Ice.com is one of the leading e-commerce website that sells diamonds, engagement rings, watches, earrings and all other types of jewelry. It raised $47 million from Polaris Venture Partners and Ignition Partners. The online retailer opened its doors in 1999 and has grown to annual sales of $83.4 million.
  • Living Proof — Living Proof was created for the purpose of applying advanced technology to solve the toughest beauty challenges from a completely fresh perspective. They are a team of scientists from outside beauty, led by MIT Institute Professor Dr. Bob Langer, and beauty authorities with a shared vision: to invent efficient formulas based on entirely newmolecules and breakthrough technologies for results you can see from across the room.
  • Cushcraft Corp. — Cushcraft Corp. designs, develops, manufactures, and distributes antennas and other passive radio frequency (RF) products for broadband wireless, communications, and data connectivity solutions.
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Matthew Le Merle
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Music startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Apps, Local
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Soundwave — The Global Premium Domain SoundWave.com + @SoundWave Twitter (X) Handle is currently available for acquisition. Contact us now for details.
  • Concept Art House — Concept Art House powers Web3 projects for the biggest brands and IP in the World.
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Enterprise Ireland
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Music startups

Enterprise Ireland is the government agency responsible for the development and funding of the indigenous business sector. Their mission is to accelerate the development of companies to achieve strong positions in global markets resulting in increased national and regional prosperity. It was founded in 1998 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant
  • Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 895
  • Round size: Seed $399k–$3.2M; Grant $26k–$5.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $560k–$8.2M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.2M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Foodcloud — We connect businesses that have surplus food with Charities and Community Groups that need it.
  • Amethyst Care — Amethyst Care is a startup that creates an AI-powered voice assistant for those with mobility difficulties.
  • EstateMin — EstateMin provides software for law firms handling estate planning, trust administration, probate, and estate administration. Its platform supports client intake, case workflows, document organization, asset and liability tracking, and case progress visibility through a centralized dashboard. A client portal lets clients and executors submit information and documents. The platform also offers AI-supported case review and integrates with Clio.
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Irelandia Aviation
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Music startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Aerospace, Hotel
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, Colombia, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Series A $850k–$8.7M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

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.
  • Alma Air — Alma Air provides passenger air travel services, connecting destinations in Colombia and the Caribbean.
  • Skyports — Skyports Infrastructure develops and operates vertiports and heliports around the world.
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Greycroft
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Music startups

Venture capital and technology investments

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1031
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.5M; Series A $3.2M–$24M; Series B $6.2M–$79M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $451M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Axiom — Axiom is an AI technology company that builds next-generation AI mathematicians.
  • Sapphire Digital — UFABRO situs judi bola dengan keamanan maksimal, enkripsi SSL, transaksi stabil, lisensi terverifikasi, dan layanan yang transparan. Mudah digunakan dan sangat andal.
  • Rocker — Rocker develops a secure, cloud-deployed AI assistant designed to integrate into corporate environments to automate tasks, manage project workflows, and enhance internal collaboration across teams.
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Lerer Hippeau
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Music startups

Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York City. As founders and operators ourselves, we see returns in relationships

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 728
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7M; Series A $3M–$15M; Series B $8.5M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $200M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Birdstop — Fully automated aerial imaging on your field assets through AI powered drones.
  • Hyperpublic — Hyperpublic is an open database of people, places, and things tied to a specific location. Anyone can add objects to the database and developers will be able to build applications on top of the data.
  • ShareWillow — ShareWillow is a SAAS company that offers a profit sharing software for companies to manage profit sharing plans.
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Voicu Oprean
Angel · Cluj-napoca, Cluj, Romania · 1 investments in Ireland Music startups

Voicu Oprean is based out of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County and is the CEO and Founder of AROBS Group. Voicu previously worked at Poli Fitness Club as a Manager and Owner. Voicu Oprean attended WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social Network, Music, eSports
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Romania, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Digitap — Digitap creates digital experiences for browsers and apps using blockchain technology. Web3 is here and it's native language is crypto, where users can win and transfer ingame items like rewards and NFTs in an instant. We are building for the future of casual entertainment. No ads. Just fun.
  • Soundmix — Everything you need to run amazing events from your own website
  • Skillview — Machine learning driven adaptive talent assessment platform for recruitment and talent growth.
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APRIL Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in Ireland Music startups

Venture capital fund focused on multiple sectors

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Retail, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: India, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TutAR — TutAR interactive whiteboard software for IFP brands, resellers, and teachers and schools.
  • GoodGudi — GoodGudi is a Lifestyle retail shopping destination. Our Stores sell Travel Accessories, Fashion Accessories, Home Improvement products, Toys and Cosmetics
  • Fanify — Fanify operates as an AI automated music promotion company.
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Music Investor funding in Ireland at a glance

Stats across 18 deals from 29 investors.

29
investors
in Ireland Music startups
18
deals
in Ireland Music startups
$950k
median round
in Ireland Music startups
34%
lead investors
lead at least one round
28%
Seed
most common funding stage
69/31
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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