# AIB

> AIB is a VC fund in Belfast backing Energy and Real Estate. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Belfast, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 63%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aib-ni/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/aib_ni
- Website: https://aibni.co.uk/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aib/

AIB is a VC fund in Belfast focused on Energy and Real Estate. AIB provides financial and banking services to individual, business and corporate customers.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for AIB. Shizune tracks 3 team members at AIB. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/aib-a706?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | $10M–$842M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 2 | 25% |
| Real Estate | 2 | 25% |
| Clean Energy | 2 | 25% |
| Renewable Energy | 2 | 25% |
| Men's | 1 | 13% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | 6 | 75% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 13% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ireland | 3 | 38% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 38% |
| France | 1 | 13% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brian Bracken | GDPR Business Readiness Lead | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-bracken |
| Mary Cronin | Agile Project Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mary-cronin-2 |
| Sally Hanrahan | Digital Content Specialist | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sally-hanrahan |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sonnedix | Sonnedix is an Independent Solar Power Producer (IPP) with a proven track record in delivering high performance cost competitive solar photovoltaic plants to the market. | $841.9M | Debt Financing | Aug 03, 2026 |  |
| Park Developments | Park Developments is a real estate company that provides office spaces, construction, joint ventures, and property development services. |  | Debt Financing | Mar 06, 2026 |  |
| Qivalis | Qivalis is a financial technology company designed for payments, settlements, and financial services. |  |  | Dec 01, 2025 |  |
| Ballymore Group | Ballymore is different. They have always taken a different approach. The difference is in the detail. They put an enormous amount of thought into the creativity, design and detail of eve!), development, as if they were going to live or work there ourselves. A lot of time is spent discussing how and where people are going to live in the future.I like to think that the imaginative work they do in their developments and their surroundings will play a big part in improving the quality of life of their customers. If they can achieve that, as well as creating great buildings that truly grace the landscape, then they will have succeeded in realising the vision I had for this company some thirty years ago. | $149.8M | Debt Financing | Nov 24, 2025 |  |
| Trinity College Dublin | Trinity College is a research university and the sole constituent college of the University of Dublin in Ireland. It is one of the seven ancient universities of Britain and Ireland as well as Ireland's oldest university.Trinity College is now surrounded by Dublin and is located on College Green, opposite the former Irish Houses ofParliament. The college proper occupies 47 acres with many of its buildings ranged around large quadrangles and two playing fields. Academically, it is divided into three faculties comprising 25 schools, offering degree and diploma courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.As of 2014, it was ranked by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings as the 138th best university in the world, by the QS World University Rankings as the 71st best, by the Academic Ranking of World Universities as within the 151–200 range, and by all three as the best university in Ireland. The college was founded in 1592. | $10.5M | Debt Financing | Nov 25, 2024 |  |
| North Star | North Star owns and operates the largest wholly UK-owned fleet engaged in the UK’s offshore industry in the North Sea, providing the comprehensive operational experience of the seas around the UK coastline. Our clients rely on our advanced vessels and the unrivaled experience of our highly trained crews to provide offshore infrastructure support24/7 365 days of the year. | $287.8M | Debt Financing | Jun 06, 2024 |  |
| Sons | Sons is a team of physicians, pharmacists, scientists, technologists, business consultants and marketeers, who are building a company where men’s health and well-being is talked about and treated with open optimism.Our mission is to make each new generation of sons healthier and happier than the last.We help men make informed decisions abouthealth issues they often don’t talk about - like how to keep their hair - and deliver reassuringly safe and reasonably priced products to their doors. |  | Debt Financing | Nov 19, 2023 |  |
| BNRG Renewables | BNRG Renewables is an international Renewable Energy development company. Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland the company has projects under development in seven countries.Specialising in utility-scale solar PV projects, the company’s work covers all aspects of development including: site assessment, obtaining planning and grid connection rights,construction management and long-term asset management. Our expertise is completing projects in a successful manner that makes them suitable investments for institutional and pension funds. | $9M | Convertible Note | Dec 20, 2022 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ABN AMRO Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abn-amro-bank) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Banco Sabadell](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/banco-sabadell) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bank of Ireland](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bank-of-ireland) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ING Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ing-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Intesa Sanpaolo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intesa-sanpaolo) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [UniCredit](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/unicredit) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does AIB invest in?

AIB invests primarily in Energy, Real Estate and Clean Energy startups, most often at Debt Financing and Funding Round stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Ireland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is AIB's check size?

AIB typically joins rounds of $10M–$842M at Debt Financing. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds AIB participates in.

### How do I contact AIB?

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### Who are the partners at AIB?

The team at AIB includes Brian Bracken (GDPR Business Readiness Lead), Mary Cronin (Agile Project Manager) and Sally Hanrahan (Digital Content Specialist). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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