# Top 10 Non Profit Startup Investors in Ireland in June 2026

## Elkstone Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

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.

## Brian Caulfield
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Apps

Brian Caulfield is based out of Dublin, Dublin and is the Venture Partner at Molten Ventures and also serves as the Chairman at Barespace. Brian previously worked at Graphcore as Board Oberver. Brian Caulfield attended Trinity College Dublin. Brian has received the Irish Software Association's "Technology Person of the Year" award.

## Paladin Capital Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Cyber Security, Information Technology

Paladin Capital Group is a leading global investor that supports and grows the world’s most innovative companies through venture investment, expansion, and growth capital. Paladin is a leader in investing in technologies, products, and services focused on dual use in both commercial and governmental markets with a strong value-add culture. ThePaladin team merges financial expertise with national security and technical competence to add value across a wide array of market sectors and company stages. Paladin is focused on being an active investor—bringing decades of experience, advice, access, and relationships to its portfolio companies.Their most recent fund focuses on digital infrastructure resilience, investing globally in advanced technologies and solutions which enable, monitor, manage, and defend critical infrastructure that is dependent on cyber space. The firm is headquartered in Washington, DC, with offices in New York City, Silicon Valley, London, and Luxembourg.

## Mike Lee
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Fitness, Software, Wellness

Mike Lee is Co-Founder of MyFitnessPal, the leading free resource helping people improve their health. Prior to founding MyFitnessPal, Mike co-founded NextC, a venture-funded startup focused on building online communities. During his 20 year tenure in the technology industry, Mike has held leadership positions at several other top start-upsin Silicon Valley, including Palm, Handspring, Beyond.com and Regis McKenna. Mike graduated summa cum laude from Princeton with a B.A. in Economics.

## Shay Garvey
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, FinTech, Analytics

Shay is a founding partner of Frontline Ventures and one of the most active and experienced early stage technology investors in Europe. He was part of the core team of Delta Partners that raised 4 funds and €235m between 1994-2007. He has invested in 25 early stage tech companies and achieved exits over a number of cycles. He has deep networksamong investors and the entrepreneurial community in Ireland and USA.Earlier in his career Shay worked in industry with Exxon and Corning before joining McKinsey. Shay then returned to Ireland and spent seven years in the Irish start up scene as a founder/investor in two companies and CEO of a major food exporter before joining the venture capital industry.Shay has served on the boards of the Irish Venture Capital Association, the Trinity College Science Gallery and the Harvard Business School European Leadership Council.

## Bill McKiernan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Gatos, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, SaaS, Bitcoin

William S. McKiernan, Bill founded CyberSource Corp. in 1994 and served as its Chief Executive Officer from December 1997 to January 1, 2010. Mr. McKiernan served as Chief Executive Officer of Beyond.com corp., from 1994 to March 1998. From 1992 to 1994, he was employed by Network Associates (formerly known as McAfee Associates, Inc.) a developerof computer security software, where he served as President and Chief Operating Officer during its initial public offering since October 1992. Prior to joining McAfee Associates in 1992, Mr. McKiernan served as Vice President of Princeton Venture Research, Inc., an investment banking and venture consulting firm from 1990 to 1992. He also held management positions with IBM/ROLM, a telecommunications company, and Price Waterhouse. He is the Founder of CyberSource Limited and serves as its Executive Chairman. He served as Chairman of the Board of Cybersource Corp. since December 1997. He Founded Beyond.com, an online reseller of computer software, in 1994 and served as its Chairman of the Board since March 1998. He serves as a Director of Vertical Software, Inc. He served as a Director of Cybersource Corp. since December 1997. Mr. McKiernan holds a B.S. from Boston College and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.

## Enterprise Ireland
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

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.

## Albert Wenger
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Internet

Albert Wenger is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). He previously founded or co-founded several companies, including a management consulting firm and an early hosted data analytics company. Albert graduatedfrom Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT.

## John O'Farrell
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series D
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Analytics

John O’Farrell is based out of San Francisco, California and currently works as National board member for UNICEF. John previously worked at Andreessen Horowitz as a general partner. John attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

## Victor Parker
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Education

Victor Parker - Managing Director @ Spectrum Equity