Top 15 Platforms Startup Investors in Ireland
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 |
Finch Capital | 2 |
SparkLabs Global Ventures | 2 |
Enterprise Ireland | 2 |
TLcom Capital Partners | 2 |
Matthew Le Merle | 1 |
Lough Shore Investments | 1 |
Colin Wiel | 1 |
Endeavour Vision | 1 |
Blackbox | 1 |
Per Brilioth | 1 |
TVM Capital | 1 |
REDangels | 1 |
LC Ventures | 1 |
Enterprise Equity | 1 |
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.
Show more
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.
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.
Show more
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.
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.
Show more
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
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.
Show more
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.
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.
Show more
Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Information Technology
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- 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.
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.
Show more
Investment focus
- iOS, Apps, Local
- Seed, Series A
- Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Soundwave — The Global Premium Domain SoundWave.com + @SoundWave Twitter (X) Handle is currently available for acquisition.
- Concept Art House — Concept Art House powers Web3 projects for the biggest brands and IP in the World.
Discover the latest in investment strategies and market insights with Loughshore Investments. Explore our blog and contact us to learn more.
Show more
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.
Show more
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.
Endeavour Vision is an investment advisory firm focused on transformative healthcare technologies.
Show more
Investment focus
- Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
- Series C, Series B, Series A
- United States, Switzerland, France
Portfolio highlights
- Venture Med Group — VentureMed Group (VMG) designs, develops and markets innovative medical devices which enable interventionalists to cost effectively treat peripheral artery diseases and improve the lives of their patients.Founded by physicians who understand the clinical, medical and financial demands in today’s healthcare environment, VMG creates truly costeffective solutions. Their flagship product, the FLEX Scoring Catheter enables providers to reduce expensive inventory costs while offering the interventionalist more treatment options from a single device.
- Relievant Medsystems — Relievant's mission is to provide patients with low risk therapy that can alleviate their back pain.
- 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.
Blackbox is a global founder accelerator based in Silicon Valley.
Show more
Investment focus
- Social, Charity, Facebook
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Ireland
Per Brilioth - CEO @ VNV Global
Show more
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; Simpler, smarter and fairer scheduling software for customer support teams at scale. Click to learn more about our WFM solution.
TVM Capital Life Science is one of the transatlantic Venture Capital pioneers with teams based in North America and Europe.
Show more
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.
They believe the unbelievable and trust the untrustable.
Show more
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’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.
Show more
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.
Enterprise Equity (or EEVC) is an excellent for providing capital to early stage and expanding business throughout Ireland.
Show more
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.
Investors by industry
Health Care
Biotech
Community
Marketplace
FinTech
Impact
Proptech
Media (entertainment)
EdTech
Consumer
Climate
Energy
Hardware
Gaming
Artificial intelligence
Sustainability
Agriculture (agtech)
Venture Capital
Restaurants
Publishing
Beauty
Oil and Gas
Web3
Video Games
Medical
Food and Beverage
Email
Wellness
Social Media
Clean Energy
Music
Franchise
Celebrity
Android
Internet
Legal
Google
Real Estate
eSports
Construction
Infrastructure
Local
Mobile
Enterprise Software
Sports
Big Data
Social Network
Manufacturing
Organic Food
Digital Media
Facebook
Photography
Art
Social Impact
Fashion
Education
Recruiting
B2B
Platforms
Travel
Renewable Energy
Fitness
Mobile Advertising
Payments
Financial Services
Cannabis
Sporting Goods
Biotechnology
Hospitality
Finance
Automotive
Crowdfunding
Retail
Wine And Spirits
Medical Device
Social
Transportation
CleanTech
InsurTech
Mobile Apps
Enterprise
LGBT
Cryptocurrency
Film
Life Science
Theatre
Non Profit
SaaS
Software
Blockchain
Investors by country
Canada
United Kingdom
Ireland
Germany
South Korea
Australia
United States
India
New Zealand
Oceania
Armenia
China
Europe
Indonesia
LATAM
Middle East
Spain
Asia
Japan
South Africa
Qatar
Vietnam
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Sri Lanka
Brazil
Africa
Czech Republic
Bahrain
Belize
Bermuda
Costa Rica
Belarus
Bulgaria
Denmark
Algeria
Georgia
Gibraltar
Kuwait
Cameroon
Israel
Jersey
Kazakhstan
Nicaragua
Chile
Philippines
Italy
Mali
Finland
Lithuania
Cambodia
Liechtenstein
Estonia
Kenya
Liberia
Faroe Islands
Lebanon
Mauritius
Greece
Morocco
Ethiopia
Malaysia
Ghana
Norway
Peru
Hungary
Myanmar
Cayman Islands
Panama
Croatia
Malta
Mexico
Egypt
Belgium
Seychelles
Slovenia
Barbados
Ecuador
France
Russian Federation
Hong Kong
Nigeria
Rwanda
Serbia
Uzbekistan
Togo
Taiwan
Ukraine
Bahamas
Sierra Leone
Turkey
Tunisia
Thailand
Azerbaijan
Iraq
Tajikistan
Poland
Iceland
Uganda
Zimbabwe
Tanzania
San Marino
Namibia
Uruguay
Venezuela
United Arab Emirates
Zambia
Senegal
Honduras
Puerto Rico
Isle of Man
Portugal
Sweden
El Salvador
Bolivia
Pakistan
Luxembourg
Albania
Austria
Argentina
Bangladesh
Cyprus
Grenada
Jordan
Romania
Latvia
Oman
Switzerland
Colombia
Guatemala
Marshall Islands
Investors in Ireland by industry
FinTech
Enterprise
Transportation
Consumer
Health Care
EdTech
Climate
Biotech
Impact
SaaS
Proptech
Artificial intelligence
Agriculture (agtech)
Hardware
Gaming
Marketplace
Restaurants
Construction
Mobile Apps
Real Estate
Cryptocurrency
Finance
InsurTech
Payments
Food and Beverage
Video Games
Wine And Spirits
Renewable Energy
Medical
Medical Device
CleanTech
Wellness
Social Network
Art
Manufacturing
Social Media
Digital Media
Music
Android
Mobile
Local
Legal
Non Profit
Social Impact
Software
Sports
Enterprise Software
Travel
Fitness
Automotive
Hospitality
Recruiting
Biotechnology
Platforms
B2B
Retail
Web3
Fashion
Life Science
Blockchain
Publishing
Photography
Big Data
Education
Financial Services
Clean Energy
Oil and Gas
Internet
Sustainability
Community
Energy
Media (entertainment)