Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity fund
VC Fund
Dublin, Ireland
Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity fund is a VC fund in Dublin focused on Software and Photography. The Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity fund is a joint fund built with contributions from the Bank of Ireland, the University of Limerick Foundation, and government-backed The seed fund will invest in export-oriented high potential firms that operate in the technology, food and financial services sectors, inaddition to supporting patent and patent pending projects within Irish universities, targeting investments between EUR 100K-500K. The new fund comprises of a €17 million investment by Bank of Ireland, along with funding of €8 million from Enterprise Ireland and € 1million by the University of Limerick Foundation. It will be managed by
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
- Fund size:
- $40M
- Last fund:
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Industries Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity fund invests in
Stages Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity fund invests in
Countries Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity fund invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
1 more contact available
Round size
- Seed
- $384k–$1M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (44%)
- Photography 2 (22%)
- SaaS 1 (11%)
- Solar 1 (11%)
- Video 1 (11%)
Stage
- Funding Round 5 (56%)
- Seed 3 (33%)
- Series A 1 (11%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Geoff Meagher
Board Member
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Board Member | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Brendan Flood
Divisional Manager
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Divisional Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Lisa Vaughan
Manager
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Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Michael Cantwell
Divisional Manager
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Divisional Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
LegitFit
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LegitFit is the operating system empowering gym/studio owners to succeed by automating their workflows, reducing cancellations and maximising their customers’ experience. We believe that those who help people achieve their health goals deserve to be empowered to manage less and earn more. | $1M / Seed / Sep 08, 2022 | |
Pulsate
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Pulsate enables direct communication with customers based on their location, context, interests and behaviours. Pulsate allows you to design and push rich media content directly to customers devices. Deepen the relationship by establishing a customer dialogue. Allow users to reply to your campaigns, provide feedback and keep complaints outside ofsocial media. Maximize foot traffic by targeting street level or competitor locations. Combine with segmentation for optimal results. iBeacons:tm: enable you to understand indoor customer location and context with incredible accuracy. Easily manage deployment and configuration of iBeacons:tm: with the Pulsate cloud platform. Gain a deeper understanding of your mobile customers and a comprehensive view of each mobile campaign. | $1.5M / Aug 02, 2016 | |
Certification Europe
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Certification Europe is an ISO accredited certification body that offers its users with certification, enterprise solutions, and training services for enterprises.Certification Europe provides a variety of inspection services to clients that includes micro-enterprises as well as multinationals, government departments, and state bodies. Theycertify organizations to international standards which are related to quality, environment, health and safety, energy, sustainable event management, business continuity, and IT security management. They also offer specific training schemes to guide organizations staff members towards ISO standards implementation within their company, through both public and tailored in-house programs. The clients of the company are Xerox, BRIDGESTONE, Vodafone, astellas, Bank of Ireland, GlaxoSmithKline, LARGO FOODS, KPMG, and Microsoft.Certification Europe is located in Ireland and it was founded in 1999. | $439K / Nov 20, 2014 | |
AltraTech
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Altratech Limited designs biosensors and semiconductor chips for DNA testing of food traceability for agri business. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Shannon, Ireland. | $987K / Seed / Apr 17, 2014 | |
Nines Photovoltaics
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Electricity generation using solar energy has the greatest potential of all renewable sources to meet their global energy requirements.The manufacture of Photovoltaic (PV) Solar Cells is an expensive business that relies heavily on the use of water, vacuum pumps and high Global Warming Potential (GWP) chemicals; it is also very labourintensive. The use of these resources comes with significant financial and environmental cost.Nines Photovoltaics has developed new technology and will launch a product range, targeting PV solar cell 80 manufacturers worldwide. These products address the issues detailed above and aim to cause a paradigm shift in the manufacturing process.The Nines' processing tools are designed to work at atmospheric pressure, in a dry environment without the use of greenhouse gasses; in addition they will facilitate the move to high volume inline production and enable the use of cheaper thin wafers and other advanced cell concepts.The Nines’ offering will serve to significantly reduce the cost per watt of PV electricity generation whilst also improving the scalability and sustainability of manufacturing for the industry as a whole. | $384K / Seed / Sep 12, 2013 | |
Profitero
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Profitero is the eCommerce performance analytics platform of choice for leading brands around the world. With Profitero, brands can measure their digital shelf performance across 8,000+ retailer sites and mobile apps in 50 countries, gaining actionable insights to improve product content, search placement, ratings & reviews, availability,assortment and pricing. Profitero also allows brands to measure their Amazon sales & share and connect it to their digital shelf performance, so they can precisely identify the factors influencing sales. Many of the world’s leading brand manufacturers depend on Profitero’s granular and highly-accurate data to measure and improve their eCommerce performance. These include Bayer, Beiersdorf, iRobot, Edgewell, General Mills, Heineken, Kids II, MillerCoors and L’Oreal. | $823K / Series A / Dec 18, 2011 | |
ServiceFrame
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Established in 2009, ServiceFrame Value Management Ltd provides a SaaS based governance capability solution for shared services, outsourcing and Supplier management.ServiceFrame delivers value to Enterprise in three distinct segments in the corporate market:1. Shared Services – drives excellence in governance, improved customer experienceand increased productivity in Shared Service Centre operations.2. Supplier Management – automates supplier governance to reduce risk, improve control and deliver enhanced value in services delivered to the organisation.3. Service Providers – best in class governance capability drives improved margins, higher satisfaction and customer retention in outsourcing transformations.Customers include: Serco, Premier Foods, RBS, Unisys, Sysco Food Services, in the Shared Services sector, and Ericsson, Colt Telecom, Brit Insurance, RSA, Warner Music among others in the supplier/client relationship“They know exactly how their service providers are performing, relations are great and they have to spend less man hours to manage....” Warner Music. | $1M / Apr 07, 2011 | |
Wavebreak Media
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Wavebreak Media provide an online library of video footage, 2D and 3D animation. All material is royalty free, broadcast quality and high definition. The library categories include nature, scenery, lifestyles, business concepts, backgrounds and much more. Industry professionals including film production companies, web designers, graphicartists, art directors and corporate marketing can instantly download high definition footage and animations for use in web, broadcast and other new media productions. Wavebreak Media's head office is located in Cork City, Ireland, with a staff of artists, producers and technician experts. | $384K / Sep 25, 2010 | |
InishTech
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InishTech provides Software Developers and Product Managers globally with code protection and licence management solutions to protect their most valuable assets and enable them to provide their customers with the ability to deploy and use their products in the most flexible manner possible.InishTech SLP is designed to enable independentsoftware vendors (ISVs) and software development houses of any size to provide flexible, customer-oriented license and entitlement models to their customers. Specifically tailored for ISVs developing software applications with the Microsoft .NET framework, InishTech SLP is a platform for managing, packaging, licensing and selling software products in a way that encourages innovation, minimizes development effort, reduces development cost and maximizes profit. | $2M / Sep 20, 2010 |
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FAQ
What does Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity fund invest in?
Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity fund invests primarily in Software, Photography and SaaS startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Ireland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity fund's check size?
Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity fund typically joins rounds of $384k–$1M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity fund participates in.
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The team at Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity fund includes Geoff Meagher (Board Member), Brendan Flood (Divisional Manager) and Lisa Vaughan (Manager). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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