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Top 15 Platforms Startup Investors in Ireland

Last updated: Jul 2024 A list of 15 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Platforms startups based in Ireland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Platforms companies from Ireland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 15 Platforms Startup Investors in Ireland

Investor	Platforms Ireland investments
Act Venture Capital	3
SparkLabs Global Ventures	2
TLcom Capital Partners	2
Enterprise Ireland	2
Finch Capital	2
Matthew Le Merle	1
Lough Shore Investments	1
Colin Wiel	1
Blackbox	1
REDangels	1
Endeavour Vision	1
Enterprise Equity	1
Per Brilioth	1
TVM Capital	1
LC 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, SaaS
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GridBeyond — Endeco's Energy ManagementSystem (EMS) provides wirelessenergy management and controlsystems for retail, commercial andindustrial users. Applications includebuilding control, refrigeration control,demand management, priceresponse, energy efficiency, anddemand response. Our automatedwireless systems seamlesslyintegrate intoyour existingoperations and/or BuildingManagement System (BMS) withoutany training of retail staff required.
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.
Mavarick AI — Mavarick helps manufacturers to achieve sustainability breakthroughs with AI-Driven Carbon Reporting & Management across their operations & entire supply chain

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 — Manage communities and events and enjoy them like never before. Umoh is a super-connector for participants and provides a powerful dashboard full of insights for event and community managers.
Nitra — Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products.
Tella — Service

TLcom Capital, is an Africa focused tech VC, with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London. TLcom had been investing since 1999 in Tech, Media, Mobil and Internet companies across Europe, US and Africa, which is the exclusive focus of its most recent TLcom TIDE Africa funds. TLcom manages total commitments of approximately 300 million USD in thesesectors via a series of dedicated investment vehicles. Our investment strategy is to identify, back and assist world class entrepreneurs and management teams with disruptive technologies and business models, compelling intellectual property and deep market knowledge. We primarily target companies focused on Africa as a prime market, in the following investment themes: Access to Data Service; Financial Services; eCommerce; B2C applications (including but not limited to: health, education, energy, media and entertainment); and Software solutions to corporates and SMEs.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Information Technology
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
Zone — Zone is a regulated blockchain network that enables payments and acceptance of digital currencies.
Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.

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

Xocean — Using unmanned surface vessels (USVs), XOCEAN offers turnkey data collection services to Surveyors, Companies and Agencies.
Lua Health — We believe the future of well-being is in prevention and early detection. Getting the right help, at the right time.
MarketSizer — MarketSizer offers subscription-based competitive intelligence and market insights for SaaS vendors who want to strategically grow their business.

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.

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.

Investment focus

iOS, Apps, Local
Seed, Series A
Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Soundwave — Soundwave was founded by Brendan O’Driscoll, Aidan Sliney and Craig Watson in 2012, and was acquired by Spotify in January 2016. Backed by Mark Cuban and ACT Venture Capital, Soundwave is a mobile music-discovery co. Soundwave tracks what songs people are listening to on their smartphones and where in real time.Before being acquired bySpotify, Soundwave scaled its Android and iPhone app to over 1.5 million users across 190 countries in 14 languages, tracking over 150 million song plays. Since launch, the Soundwave product has been voted by Apple as "Best Innovation in Music” and has been permanently positioned globally by Google in the Android "Editors Choice" sections alongside only 50 other apps out of over 1.5 million.
Concept Art House — Concept Art House powers Web3 projects for the biggest brands and IP in the World.

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Investment focus

Apps, Mobile, Android
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Converser — Founded in 2011 in Dublin, Ireland, Converser is a mobile app CRM that offers in-app marketing & analytics to help you communicate with your users, transform them into loyal customers, drive revenue and increase the success of your mobile app marketing. With Converser, you can view detailed app user insights, create beautiful, personalisedin-app marketing and customer service messages that work on both iOS and Android devices, segment audiences and use behavioural targeting to help you send the right message to the right user at the right time. Converser also helps you put customer feedback at the heart of your app's development with in-app feedback messaging. Interested in learning more about Converser? Visit: www.converser.io

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

Investment focus

iOS, Communities, Location Based Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Ireland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Quilt — Quilt is a feminine-forward audio social network
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.

Blackbox is a global founder accelerator based in Silicon Valley.

Investment focus

Social, Charity, Facebook
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Webio — Webio's customer engagement solution uses conversational AI to understand customer intent, blend chatbot / live agent conversations in messaging channels.
Foodcloud — We connect businesses that have surplus food with Charities and Community Groups that need it.

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

Endeavour Vision is an investment advisory firm focused on transformative healthcare technologies.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
Series C, Series B, Series A
United States, Switzerland, France

Portfolio highlights

Gynesonics — Gynesonics is a women’s healthcare company focused on the development of advanced incision-free solutions for the treatment of uterine conditions. Gynesonics serves customers worldwide. It was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.
Nalu Medical — Nalu Medical is an early-stage company that develops a range of medical devices. Their vision to modernize and improve the technology in medical devices, thus improving the lives of people.The Nalu neurostimulation system is a battery-free, micro-implantable pulse generator (iPG) currently cleared by the FDA for both Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS)and Peripheral Nerve Stimulation (PNS) for mitigating chronic pain. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Carlsbad, California.
Virtual Incision — Virtual Incision is reimagining robotic support for minimally invasive (MIS) procedures with simple innovations offering mobility, flexibility, and accessibility to provide MIS options to more patients. It has develops the MIRA® (Miniaturized In vivo Robotic Assistant) Platform, a first-of-its-kind miniaturized surgical robotic support device,focusing first on colon resection, with follow-on specialty robots for additional potential applications.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Medical Device
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Phorest — Join 8000+ spas, barbers, hair, beauty and nail salon owners using the #1 management, scheduling, POS and appointment booking system. Try Phorest now!
SurgaColl — SurgaColl Technologies is a medical device company developing novel tissue regeneration products for the surgical treatment of diseases of the bone, cartilage and other human tissue. Based on technology developed at the Tissue Engineering Research Group (TERG) of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), headed by Professor Fergal O’Brien,the company aims to become a leader in the field of regenerative medical devices.
Metabolomic Diagnostics — Metabolomic Diagnostics is a deep-tech company specialized in the development of novel biomarker based diagnostic solutions for complex diseases. The company has developed an effective pipeline to firstly identify diagnostic biomarker panels and then translate these panels into clinical assays ready for application in the clinical laboratory.Thispipeline combines the biomarker multiplexing capabilities of Mass Spectrometry, a powerful analytical technology, with the company’s own informatics and statistics solutions to deliver diagnostic innovation. This is reflected in Metabolomic Diagnostics’ strong and versatile IP portfolio of technical innovations and biomarkers.Our VisionMetabolomic Diagnostics’ primary vision is to develop a portfolio of diagnostic solutions which can determine, early in a woman’s pregnancy,her risk of developing major complications much later in her pregnancy and thus enabling personalized care, adapted to each woman’s individual needs. Pregnancy complications like preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, preterm birth, and in-uterine growth restriction, all have the potential to severely impact on the well-being of mother and child.The company’s innovative diagnostic solutions will assist clinicians in re-imagining how these conditions are managed: our novel risk assessment tools are specifically developed in conjunction with prenatal care providers to ensure they make a difference that really matters. This in turn will enable clinicians to improve pregnancy outcomes globally.Our solutions will empower pregnant women: accurate pregnancy risk information will allow a pregnant woman, in partnership with her care provider, to determine what prenatal care is best for her pregnancy.

Per Brilioth - CEO @ VNV Global

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

memmo.me — memmo.me provides a webpage for offering and distributing personalized video messages from actors, athletes, musicians, and other talent.
Arro — Discover the shared daily operating system that helps you get more from life and work. Get to Day Zero together.
Surfboard — Surfboard WFM features integrated forecasting, capacity planning, automated scheduling and performance analytics for modern support teams.

TVM Capital Life Science is one of the transatlantic Venture Capital pioneers with teams based in North America and Europe.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
Series B, Funding Round, Series C
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Definiens — Definiens is the provider of image analysis and data mining solutions for quantitative digital pathology in the life sciences, diagnostic biomarkers and healthcare industries. Definiens software provides detailed readouts from whole tissue slides, cell-based assays and full body scans and allows correlating this information with data derived fromother sources. By automating analysis workflows, Definiens helps pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, research institutions, clinical service organizations and pathologists to generate new knowledge and supports better decisions in research, diagnostics and therapy. Definiens’ vision is to open new fields of research, to contribute to development of personalized medicine and to significantly improve the quality of patients’ lives. Definiens is headquartered in Munich, Germany, and has offices throughout the United States.
Lamab Biologics — Lamab Biologics operates as a biotechnology company. Lamab Biologics develop first-in-class monoclonal antibody prophylactic therapeutic targeting IgE, a key mediator for allergic diseases.
Rapid Micro Biosystems — Rapid Micro Biosystems provides products for the detection of microbial contamination in the manufacture of pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and personal care products. It offers the Growth Direct System, a non-destructive method for microbial enumeration. The company was formerly known as Genomic Profiling Systems and changed its name to RapidMicro Biosystems in 2007. Rapid Micro Biosystems was founded in 2006 and is based in Bedford, Massachusetts.

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.

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