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Top 40 Payments VC Funds in Ireland

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 40 VC funds that invest in Payments startups based in Ireland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from Ireland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 40 Payments VC Funds in Ireland

Investor	Payments Ireland investments
Act Venture Capital	5
NDRC	4
Enterprise Ireland	4
Frontline Ventures	3
Greycroft	2
Mangrove Capital Partners	2
Delta Partners	2
LC Ventures	1
In-Q-Tel	1
Ulster Bank Diageo Venture Fund	1
Middlegame Ventures	1
Airstream Ventures	1
cFund	1
Wave Digital Assets	1
Wayra	1
Double Peak Group	1
Matrixport	1
Trinity Ventures	1
Neuberger Berman	1
Shima Capital	1
Business Venture Partners	1
Animoca Brands	1
Spark Digital Capital	1
iAngels	1
Notion Capital	1
Kernel Capital	1
Finch Capital	1
Bitrue	1
Proxy Ventures	1
COTI	1
Bitrue	1
The Spartan Group	1
SVG Ventures	1
Outpost Ventures	1
Atlantic Bridge	1
Investec	1
REDangels	1
SVG Ventures	1
IA Capital Group	1
Octopus Ventures	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, Analytics
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.
GREYSCOUT — Safeguard your reputation and increase revenue with GreyScout, the scalable, always-on platform for fighting IP infringement and grey market sellers.
Spotted Zebra — Spotted Zebra's skills cloud powers skills-based organisations. Our platform ensures skills are the centre of every decision made about people. Whether talent acquisition, talent development or internal mobility, Spotted Zebra focuses people on skills.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hiiker — Find 1000s of the best backpacking and hiking adventures, with reviews, photos, and great places to stay.
Legitify — Legitify is an AI powered solution using audio-video authentication that allows customers to notarize documents online remotely from anywhere, without the hassle of visiting a notary public in person.
Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.

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
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lative — Lative automates capacity planning, maximizing profitable sales growth & revenue efficiency for high-performance revenue teams.
Cytidel — Cytidel helps security teams reduce breaches, save time, and stay secure. Vulnerability Management and Cyber Risk Management, and Threat Intelligence Specialists
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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Harriet — Efficient, cost effective AI for HR that improves the employee experience. Get time back to focus on what counts and let Harriet do the rest | Harriet
DUDE CHEM — DUDE CHEM is a leading company in green chemical manufacturing based in Berlin.
JustParent — Parental leave insurance for businesses

Venture capital and technology investments

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Nurdle AI — Get your AI into production Faster, Cheaper & Easier with Nurdle's privacy-safe lookalike data. Trusted by leading brands in gaming and social media.
Tetra — InHome makes it easier, faster, and cheaper to buy a new boiler, furnace, or air conditioner replacements for your home in MA. No need to call contractors, have sales visits, wait for quotes, or research products. InHome does it all for you online. Get a free instant quote today for a replacement as soon as the next.
Raspberry AI — Raspberry AI employs artificial intelligence technology to design styles that are in high demand. The platform offers the convenience of instantly generating technical packs and CADs for any product image, providing a comprehensive solution for product design requirements. It also features automated, high-conversion product descriptions andphotography, along with the capability to create new high-fidelity designs from a sketch or reference image.

Mangrove Capital Partners is a contrarian investment firm helping innovative entrepreneurs start and grow.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Anome — Anome is a Web3 UGC game platform, dedicated to creating a more open, fair, transparent, and free Web3 game world through user creation, sharing, and games.
greenworkx — Green jobs are the future of work. We have numerous training and job opportunities that connect talent with like-minded green employers. From the retrofit industry to renewable energy, we're on a mission to make the world greener with your help, one job at a time.
K Health — We pair clinicians with advanced AI to provide data-driven, personalized care around the clock. Chat with your medical team today.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kayna — Kayna is an insurance distribution company that collaborates with vertical SaaS platforms and utilises data to offer insurance services.
Offr — Offr is the new way to buy and sell property, quickly and transparently.
Tailr — Redefining production for the clothing industry.

We’re an early stage European venture capital firm partnering with globally minded founders.We’re supportive, founder focused, and aim to work together with you as a close and collaborative team of independent thinkers. Along with the support of our entire network, each member of our team brings their own personal experience to the table. Thefirst ticket is up to 200K€ and the total investment in a given startup can be up to 1M€.We decide investments quickly, allowing the founders to get back focusing on growing the business. Our team and network of international mentors help young startups to scale quickly and to prepare for the next rounds.Our partners have been investing in tech-based startups since 2000 and have a portfolio of more than 100 companies in the USA, Brazil, The Netherlands, Spain and Portugal.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series D
Portugal, China, Poland

Portfolio highlights

360hyper — The groceries marketplace where you can find everthing you need. Buy online groceries as fast as in 4 hours with personalized picking.
Musiversal — Record your music in real time with world-class session musicians, vocalists, producers and audio engineers
Brands&Ninjas — SaaS to control the performance of physical marketing campaigns on retail.

In-Q-Tel identifies and partners with companies developing cutting-edge technologies to help deliver these solutions to the Central Intelligence Agency and the broader U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) to further their missions.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cortical Labs — Cortical Labs are creators of the dishbrain that fuses living brain cells onto computing devices to create machines with biological intelligence
Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.
High Earth Orbit Robotics — HEO Robotics provides on-orbit inspection services for satellites, using a network of space-based sensors. The high quality image data and insights allow satellite operators to conduct predictive maintenance and diagnose issues with their assets

Based in Dublin, Ulster Bank Diageo Venture Fund supports management teams that need capital to expand their businesses into new markets.

Investment focus

Personalization, Software, Advertising
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

StitcherAds — Kargo Commerce's retail and eCommerce-centric platform is designed to drive performance with ease across Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat, and TikTok.
HeyStaks — Based in NovaUCD, Co. Dublin, HeyStaks Technologies Ltd was founded in 2008 by Professor Barry Smyth, Dr Maurice Coyle and Dr Peter Briggs.HeyStaks patented intent analytics platform analyses web usage data to build rich, accurate profiles that capture a person's intent and interests. It does this in a privacy-enhanced way and is sensitiveto context signals such as location and time to create a dynamic view of customer intent. For mobile operators, HeyStaks helps them know their customer and unlock entirely new revenue streams by delivering superior user experiences, advertisements and offers that are timely and relevant.
Accuris Networks — Accuris Networks is a leading provider of convergence, roaming and interworking solutions . The AccuROAM platform is designed to enable Communication Service Providers to have integrated and disruptive solutions by connecting current and emerging mobile broadband networks such as GSM CDMA, LTE and Wi-Fi , which includes smartphone client software,access server/gateway technology and billing integration.This gives their subscribers a seamless and secure user experience for data, voice and messaging services on all of these technologies both internationally and domestically.

We back world-class fintech entrepreneurs creating transformative companies that will rearchitect financial services for decades to come

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
Ireland, United Kingdom, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Outmin — Outmin is automated accounting for hospitality. One solution that monitors and manages your financial operation, so you can run a more profitable business.
Kayna — Kayna is an insurance distribution company that collaborates with vertical SaaS platforms and utilises data to offer insurance services.
One Trading — Discover an unrivalled trading experience with One Trading. We believe regulation powers user experience, not breaks it. Crypto - But regulated. Buy crypto now, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, DOGE, Solana, Cardano and more.

Airstream Ventures is a corporate venturing and investment company.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Financial Services
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Splink — Splink's white-label fintech infrastructure offers secure plug-and-play fintech solutions, allowing brands to innovate and sell their services to existing and prospective clients. Splink's solution simplifies payment by offering partners a portfolio of payment industry options to choose from.

Digital asset capital management with Wave Digital Assets. Our early-stage crypto investment fund has been investing in blockchain companies, protocols, and cryptocurrencies since 2018. The fund takes a thesis-driven

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Kenya, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
EigenLabs — EigenLayer a platform to leverage Ethereum security through the innovative method of restaking.
Liqwid Labs — Liqwid Labs is an on-chain lending protocol on Cardano.

Wave Digital Assets offers early-stage investment, asset management, treasury management, and strategy consulting to further the growth of the crypto and digital asset ecosystem.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

IYK — IYK inspires people to live in the moment by bridging immersive physical and digital experiences.
1Kin Labs — Get early access to in-development games, claim rewards, and take your digital assets with you wherever you go - all with a single sign-on.
Fluree — Fluree is an open-source, blockchain-backed Data Management Platform for Web3 apps. Fluree empowers connected, trusted, and intelligent data ecosystems. Fluree is built on W3C semantic web standards in order to facilitate trusted data interoperability.

Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world. We currently operate in 10 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with drivenentrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

GrabrFi — GrabrFi provides access to US banking and all of its resources and possibilities and finances, life to the next level.
Remuner — Remuner's variable pay software automates sales commission systems, integrating company and employee objectives and incentives. Its commission management platform leverages AI and analytics to improve performance.
Depasify — The all in one platform for dealing with digital assets. Reduce costs and time to market in a secure way.

Double Peak Group is a family office focused on investments in the digital asset and blockchain space.As one of the first family offices based out of Asia focused on digital assets, we have been deeply entrenched in the crypto space since 2017. At Double Peak, we adopt a philosophy of value investing and making key investments with a long timehorizon in early funding rounds and secondary markets. The ultimate vision is to bridge cutting-edge decentralized technologies between China and International markets.Our team consists of talented people with institutional backgrounds. Namely, investment banking, private equity, venture capital and entrepreneurship.Double Peak have invested in a multitude of areas including: Asset Management, Banking & Payments, Cross-Chain Platforms, CeFi-DeFi Bridges, Infrastructure Protocols, Investment Funds, Gaming/GameFi, NFTs, Privacy/Security, The Metaverse, Trading and Exchanges.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Singapore, Australia

Portfolio highlights

OX.FUN — Trade Bitcoin, Ethereum and trending altcoin derivatives on the most FUN exchange around. Join OX.FUN today and earn up to 200% yield. Moo.
Farcana — Experience fast-paced 4v4 PvP battles in a futuristic sci-fi landscape. Compete as one of 24 Stars with unique abilities to dominate the arena.
Access Protocol — Publish written content. Mint NFTs. Build communities on Discord & Telegram. All under a single subscription.

Matrixport is an all-in-one crypto financial services platform where users can earn, invest, trade, loan and buy crypto assets. Get started today!

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Finance
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Singapore, China

Portfolio highlights

UXLINK — UXLINK is a social infrastructure comprised of social protocols and a collection of Dapps.UXLINk creates groundbreaking landing sceneries for web3 groups.
CELL Studio — A blockchain software development company with a dedicated focus on the BTC ecosystem, committed to advancing the Nervos BTCKB initiative
VETA FINANCE — VETA Finance is the world's first on-chain platform that supports margin trading of structured products, including the entire service chain of decentralized financial platforms, structured product quotations and operations for Exchanges & other channels. VETA Finance offers a variety of products with different returns and risk structures,such as Snowball, Snowball with Floor, Enhanced Snowballs, FCNs, Shark Fins, Dual Currency etc., to meet the needs of diverse customers.

Trinity Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm dedicated to partnering with passionate entrepreneurs to transform revolutionary ideas into reality. With over $1 billion under management, Trinity Ventures believes in personal engagement, mutual respect and goal alignment with the entrepreneurs. Trinity focuses on early stage and seedtechnology investments with particular emphasis on social commerce and entertainment, digital media, Saas, and cloud and infrastructure. Trinity Ventures has invested in such leading companies as Aruba Networks, 21Vianet, Blue Nile, LoopNet, Photobucket, SciQuest, Starbucks, BeachMint, Infoblox, Trion Worlds and Zulily.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Ireland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

InfluxData — Manage all types of time series data in a single, purpose-built database. Optimized for speed in any environment in the cloud, on-premises, or at the edge.
Pivo — Pivo is an all-in-one financial services platform for businesses in the supply chain. Set up accounts, access credit and manage your finances in one simple application.
Funnel — Our revolutionary CRM property management software saves both time and money for agents and owners while making leasing more efficient. Learn how here.

Neuberger Berman is an independent and employee-controlled asset management company, providing global investment solutions. Neuberger Berman provides a broad range of global investment solutions to institutions and individuals through customized separately managed accounts, mutual funds, and alternative investment products.It was founded in 1939and headquartered in New York, United States.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Health Care
Post-IPO Equity, Private Equity, Debt Financing
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

HanTangxu — HanTangxu is a brand that supplies Chinese-style milk tea and also offers refreshments in national style. It is a brand owned by Yunnan Gaoligong Brand Management Co., Ltd.
The Colibri Group — Colibri Group has become the most admired professional learning company in the world, our group is proud to present our 5 million experts and partners...
Health & Safety Institute — HSI is your single-source partner in EHS, safety training, employee development, DEI, emergency care training, and software solutions. Helping your business improve safety & compliance, skills development, company culture, and employee retention.

Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GOMBLE — GOMBLE creates blockchain-based casual games that focus on the game's core fun rather than just playing for the money.
PrismaStake — PrismaStake is a cutting-edge decentralized staking platform that provides users with new opportunities. Its innovative multi-chain staking platform aims to democratize cryptocurrency by allowing people of all backgrounds to generate passive income through ETH crypto staking, altcoin staking, and other methods.
Elixir Games — Elixir Games is a game company that develops next-generation games for power players.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Ireland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

OOHPod — Self service parcel lockers for personal and business customers. Choose from a range of plans to suit you. Pay As You Go, Monthly and Premium Subscriptions available. Find your nearest OOHPod parcel locker and start using your out of home flexible address today.
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.

Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Hong Kong, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Wanruntong — Wanruntong is a Blockchain game creator. It specializes in software development, blockchain system development, and mobile game creation. It is one of the few web3.0 technology service-oriented high-tech companies.
Imaginary Ones — Imaginary Ones is a developer of a gaming platform designed to gain a different digital asset based on a special rarity.
Humanity Protocol — Humanity Protocol developing Proof of Humanity as a novel feature of Humanity Protocol to provide developers with unique-human authentication mechanisms, and users complete ownership over data and identity.

Established in 2017, Spark Digital Capital is an NY based family office that invests in Blockchain-enabled companies. They firmly believe in a future where blockchain not only plays a significant role in the world but also creates unlimited efficiencies and opportunities to the society and people’s lives. With their teams' strong finance andtechnology background they aim to bring blockchain into prosperity.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Singapore, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Ta-da — Ta-da is a simple solution to have access to high quality data at a fair price. Thousands of users from all around the world contribute to collect and validate data in a fun fresh new way.
AutoLayer — AutoLayer is a Liquid Restaking Tokens (LRT) Finance application.
Ringfence — Harness the power of AI to create more dynamic, monetizable content for your audience.

Invest in groundbreaking startups with iAngels. Discover cutting-edge technology and join a community of forward-thinking investors shaping the future of entrepreneurship.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Vyzer — One platform for investment tracking, financial planning, data-driven insights, document analysis & more! Ideal for diverse portfolios.
Guardz — Discover the platform that secures and insures small businesses using AI and a multilayered approach.
CoinScan — Fastest trading history in the industry for any ETH token along with seeing pending transactions. One-of-a-kind Airdrops and Holders distribution for quick analysis and much more.

Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Jua — A new paradigm in weather forecasting. AI learning physics. Delivering accuracy beyond expectation. Covering use cases beyond belief. Accessible to everyone, wherever in the world they are. The world's first end to end deep learning model for weather forecasting, delivered on an intuitive platform for anyone to customise it. Startups,governments and large companies alike can now develop global, high frequency and high accuracy weather models within days.
NodeShift — NodeShift is a cloud service provider that enables companies to create and run safe applications on a budget.
Mews — Cloud-native, Mews PMS is an innovative hospitality management system that enables automation to boost revenue and empowers remarkable guest experiences.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
Pilot Photonics — Welcome to Pilot Photonics, a laser product development company in Dublin, Ireland. We provide optical frequency combs and tunable lasers.
Causeway Sensors — The Affinity, is a compact, bench-top Biosensor providing accurate real-time analysis at an accessible price. The Affinity biosensor and accompanying Access Chip incorporate the latest advancements in Nanotechnology, providing the biochemistry researcher the perfect platform to explore the complex world of biomolecular interactions.

Backing entrepreneurs to build Financial Technology market leaders in Europe and South East Asia. Finch Capital invests in financial services, real estate tech, insurance tech, etc.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

eflow — Regulatory Compliance solutions for Market Abuse, Best Execution and Regulatory Reporting. Trade Surveillance, Regulatory Reporting and Trade Lifecycle Management.
NomuPay — NomuPay's Unified Payments Platform provides local acceptance and payouts in Southeast Asia, Europe and Turkey via a single system integration.
Fourthline — Comply with KYC and AML regulations throughout the customer lifecycle with Fourthline's bank-grade identity platform.

Bitrue is the most secure and advanced online platform for buying, selling, transferring, and storing digital currency.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

WingRiders — WingRiders is a top tier AMM decentralized exchange on top of the eUTxO model. Fully Cardano native and super fast platform.

We have created brands for startup successes Supercell, Oura, Peak, Festicket and Fy! Being investors, we have an uniquely commercial branding approach.

Investment focus

Health Care, Marketplace, Mobile Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United Kingdom, Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Argent — Easily buy, earn, stake and invest in crypto on Starknet. Join over 2 million Argent users and get the best of Ethereum for a fraction of the cost.
Elo Health — Elo Health pioneers in delivering Smart Nutrition through personalized supplements, formulated with scientific precision to meet your unique health and performance goals.
Five Lives — Five Lives, your brain health coach. Take the risk assessment and start improving your brain health today!

COTI is the world's first DAG-based blockchain protocol optimized for use by payment dApps, merchants and stable coin issuers.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed
Israel, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

AdaSwap — The next-gen DEX based on Cardano! Swap, bridge & trade between Cardano-based tokens, NFTs and stablecoins within seconds.
Polemos — Polemos is a GameFi platform that is the first decentralized combination of its own asset lending library, Play to Own education hub, and gaming community.
WingRiders — WingRiders is a top tier AMM decentralized exchange on top of the eUTxO model. Fully Cardano native and super fast platform.

Bitrue is a software application that offers bitcoin, investments, loans, trading, XRP, ethereum, and asset management solutions.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Lending, Cryptocurrency
Seed
Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

WingRiders — WingRiders is a top tier AMM decentralized exchange on top of the eUTxO model. Fully Cardano native and super fast platform.
Liqwid Labs — Liqwid Labs is an on-chain lending protocol on Cardano.

We advise, invest and build with the best entrepreneurs in Web3.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Illuvium — Illuvium, the world's first IBG (Interoperable Blockchain Game) is an upcoming open-world exploration, NFT creature collector and autobattler game built on the Ethereum blockchain. Join a graphically-rich sci-fi adventure and conquer the wilderness to help your crash-landed crew flourish!
MetalCore — METALCORE is a free-to-play, first-person/third-person multiplayer mechanized combat game powered by towering War Machines fighting for dominance in large-scale battles.
Pallet Exchange — Pallet Exchange is developing a new sort of NFT marketplace that focuses on customer retention.

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

Investment focus

AgTech, Agriculture, Farming
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

FarmWise — FarmWise provides technology-based services that allow farmers to streamline farm operations and increase food production efficiency.
Napigen — We are the genome editing company specialized for mitochondrial engineering. We address unmet needs of future food supplies by creating hybrid crop plants to boost their yields to an unprecedented level. The company’s technology creates robust male sterile lines that are ideal over conventional lines because of their stability and elitebackgrounds. This allows the production of non-GM hybrid seeds in crop plants that are currently mostly non-hybrid such as wheat. Our technology solution is expected to fulfill the highest level of public acceptance and aspiration.
Iamus Technologies — Iamus Technologies Limited is an Artificial Intelligence & Robotics company based in Ireland that has developed poultry specific robotic technology that empowers poultry farmers to make better and safer production decisions. Over the last 2 years we have been working globally with poultry processors in identifying KPIs that our robots cancontinuously gather on the ground in poultry sheds and feedback instantly to both producer and the relevant personnel back at the processing plant. Results to date are impressive with automatic and accurate data recovery from the birds on every part of the floor and analysis with real-time intervention now possible. These factors are key in addressing the growing demands of modern, intensive broiler production with the Iamus robot & platform meeting these requirements.

OV aims to capitalize on the capital structure tailwinds resulting from the Government’s grant and matching program for defense companies.

Investment focus

Software, Cyber Security, Content
Series A, Series B
United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Cerby — Collaborate without chaos. Cerby helps your team be productive while protecting your brand. Secure unmanageable applications. Only with Cerby.
NomuPay — NomuPay's Unified Payments Platform provides local acceptance and payouts in Southeast Asia, Europe and Turkey via a single system integration.
Anvilogic — The Anvilogic detection automation platform helps unify and automate security operations across people, processes, and technology enabling security teams to reduce time, manual effort, complexity, and expertise needed for building detections and managing your overall SOC

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, Ireland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Neurobell — NeuroBell develop novel EEG medical devices for early detection and monitoring of neonatal seizures.
LUMA Vision — OneProjects is an Irish-German cardiac imaging specialist.
Cambridge Mechatronics — Cambridge Mechatronics (CML) is a high technology design and engineering company based in Cambridge, UK. We specialise in pioneering and developing cutting-edge mechatronic platform technology from concept to mass production. We achieve this through technology licensing or partnerships with global manufacturing corporations. Our intellectualproperty portfolio consists of over 100 granted patents that we can exploit.

Welcome to Investec. Find out more about us, our businesses, sponsorships and career opportunities.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Energy
Funding Round, Debt Financing, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Adumo — We are your expert partner in payments, enabling you to seamlessly and securely accept payments in-store and online with our true omni-channel experience. Never miss a sale with South Africa's largest independent payments processor.
Hecate Energy — Hecate Energy is a developer of solar, wind, and energy storage projects.
Pulse Clean Energy — Pulse Clean Energy builds and operates power stations. We deliver power into the UK’s network when it is most needed.

They believe the unbelievable and trust the untrustable.

Investment focus

Internet of Things, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Portugal, Poland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

HypeLabs — HypeLabs is the company that created the Hype SDK, an interoperable mesh networking software that improves connectivity on all kinds of devices, from mobile to desktop to IoT, allowing them to connect even when there is no internet. The software works by intelligently connecting devices in local mesh networks using existing connectivitytechnologies, such as Bluetooth, WiFi, LoRa and others. This network enables content to securely hop between devices, until it reaches a destination or an Internet exit point, improving range and deliverability.Founded in 2016, the company is located in San Francisco (USA), Porto (Portugal), London (UK) and Krakow (Poland). AngelPad #10 (Spring '16) alumni & Deutsche Telekom WARP alumni.
Musiversal — Record your music in real time with world-class session musicians, vocalists, producers and audio engineers
Sensefinity — Sensefinity The Blockchain IoT Transformation Company Building the Internet of Cargo Where Assets autonomously connect to processes

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

Investment focus

AgTech, Agriculture, Farming
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Mi Terro — We are an advanced material company that engineers upcycled agricultural waste into sustainable and affordable plastic-alternative and paperless biomaterials for food, fashion and packaging industries. Our proprietary technology can potentially apply to any agricultural waste, from plants to dairy.
Continuum Ag — The mission of the Billion Bushel Challenge is to build awareness, foster creativity, and enable collaboration between farmers and biofuel manufacturers.
Knead Technologies — Knead Technologies provides food recovery organizations with a technology platform that connects waste with food reuse.

IA Capital Group is a New York-based venture capital firm and manager of the Inter-Atlantic funds. Since 2000, IA Capital Group has partnered with entrepreneurs to shape the future of the financial services and insurance industries.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Insurance, FinTech
Series A, Series C, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Bermuda

Portfolio highlights

PayGround — PayGround provides healthcare businesses of all sizes a modernized payment solution in which they can easily upload their A/R and trigger digital-first requests for payment (via a mix of email/text/U.S. Mail). Patients can make payments in just a matter of a few seconds.
Boost — Boost enables companies in any industry to offer digital insurance products to their customers through a fully integrated experience embedded in their front-end environment.
Matic Insurance — Matic is an independent insurance agency that works with multiple insurance carriers so that we can provide the best recommendation to you. This often results in the best policy and the best price.

We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

CellVoyant — We provide services to accelerate development of stem cell therapies. We make therapy development faster and more cost-effective.
Bloom Coaching — A professional development platform that merges AI, psychometrics, and human insight to provide daily personalised coaching for all employees.
Connected — Connected is a startup that offers affordable connecting humans, unleashing a new wave of IoT-based business models and contributing to bridge the digital gap.

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