Barry Maloney
Board Member @ Socowave
Encinitas, United States
Barry Maloney is a general partner with Balderton Capital.Prior to joining Balderton Capital, Barry spent five years as CEO of Esat Digifone, Ireland’s second largest GSM mobile operator. Under Barry’s leadership, Esat Digifone expanded to a profitable company with 900 employees, more than one million customers and IR£400 million in revenues.Esat Digifone was acquired by British Telecom at a market value of IR£2 billion and is now part of the O2 Group.Before Esat Digifone, Barry spent two years at Xerox Corporation in Palo Alto, California, where as Vice President of first Business Development and then Channel Operations, he was instrumental in revolutionizing Xerox’s approach to global marketing.Before this Barry enjoyed a pan-European career at Digital Equipment as European Pricing Manager, Director of Software Business Europe and Vice President of the Component and Peripheral Business Unit Europe.He has an Economics Degree from University College Dublin.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 67%
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Industries Barry Maloney invests in
Stages Barry Maloney invests in
Countries Barry Maloney invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Mobile 3 (33%)
- Internet 2 (22%)
- CRM 1 (11%)
- Payments 1 (11%)
- Software 1 (11%)
Stage
- Series A 2 (22%)
- Funding Round 2 (22%)
- Seed 1 (11%)
- Series B 1 (11%)
- Series C 1 (11%)
Country
- Ireland 4 (44%)
- Switzerland 1 (11%)
- United States 1 (11%)
Investments
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Zipp Mobility
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Zipp Mobility is a dockless scooter sharing company. Zipp Mobility reduce congestion and greenhouse gas emissions by providing affordable micromobility alternatives that enhance the quality of life of communities. | $880.2K / Seed / Aug 12, 2021 | |
Urturn
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Urturn is the new social platform for self-expression. Both on the Desktop and as an iPhone app, users are able to spontaneously capture moments of inspiration on-the-fly! The ever-growing library of Expression can be instantly personalised in all kinds of ways and the unique 'Your Turn' button lets users take inspiration from or joinin with online movements in rich and interactive way. Spontaneous, engaging and fun, Urturn is the next natural step for social media. It's Urturn... | $13.4M / Series A / May 22, 2013 | |
LevelUp
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LevelUp is building next-generation mobile experiences for over 200 brands nationwide: empowering businesses to engage customers, grow sales and build a long-term scalable mobile strategy. LevelUp’s platform offers a broad range of customized functionality: mobile rewards, payments, native online ordering, customer relationship management, acampaign creator with custom messaging, loyalty, gifting, and much more. The LevelUp omnichannel loyalty and CRM platform gathers data from all in-store and order-ahead transactions, enabling merchants to develop and implement targeted marketing campaigns to increase customer spend and frequency. LevelUp’s strategic partnerships with Chase, Facebook, Google, and more give restaurants access to millions of customers in addition to those using their app. LevelUp is the only provider who is building a network that will enable you to take advantage of future shifts in the mobile landscape. | $12M / Series D / Jun 07, 2012 | |
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LevelUp
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LevelUp is building next-generation mobile experiences for over 200 brands nationwide: empowering businesses to engage customers, grow sales and build a long-term scalable mobile strategy. LevelUp’s platform offers a broad range of customized functionality: mobile rewards, payments, native online ordering, customer relationship management, acampaign creator with custom messaging, loyalty, gifting, and much more. The LevelUp omnichannel loyalty and CRM platform gathers data from all in-store and order-ahead transactions, enabling merchants to develop and implement targeted marketing campaigns to increase customer spend and frequency. LevelUp’s strategic partnerships with Chase, Facebook, Google, and more give restaurants access to millions of customers in addition to those using their app. LevelUp is the only provider who is building a network that will enable you to take advantage of future shifts in the mobile landscape. | $15M / Series C / Jan 04, 2011 | |
Intune Networks
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Intune Networks have developed a new networking technology, allowing telecoms operators to build networks that are far simpler to operate and with much greater connectivity than previously possible.Intune have created a new way of switching packets over long distances, creating an optical Ethernet switch fabric that can switch packets inreal-time across hundreds of kilometres. Intune's technology uses tuneable LASERs to switch packets using the emerging OBS (Optical Burst Switching) standard. This reduces network complexity and drastically reduces the number of network components required, as well as making bandwidth instantly available to any point in the network. | $32.5M / Oct 02, 2009 | |
NewBay
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NewBay enables operators and device makers to deliver a lifetime of digital content experiences across any connected device such as mobile, PC, tablets and TV. The NewBay white label software platform powers cloud-based services for storing, sharing, accessing and organizing digital content. NewBay enables customers to monetize a wide range ofbranded services such as social networking, photo and video albums, digital vault, notifications and converged messaging. NewBay is delivering highly successful commercial services for operators and device makers worldwide. Customers include T-Mobile, Telefonica O2, Orange, U.S. Cellular, AT&T, Telstra, Verizon and LG Electronics. NewBay is processing millions of messages daily and stores billions of media for live operator and device maker services. NewBay is based in Dublin, Ireland; Seattle, USA; Atlanta, USA; London, UK; Sydney, Australia and Seoul, South Korea. NewBay was founded in 2002. Following acquisition in 2011, NewBay is a wholly owned subsidiary of Research In Motion Limited (RIM). | $9.3M / Series B / Dec 17, 2007 | |
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Intune Networks
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Intune Networks have developed a new networking technology, allowing telecoms operators to build networks that are far simpler to operate and with much greater connectivity than previously possible.Intune have created a new way of switching packets over long distances, creating an optical Ethernet switch fabric that can switch packets inreal-time across hundreds of kilometres. Intune's technology uses tuneable LASERs to switch packets using the emerging OBS (Optical Burst Switching) standard. This reduces network complexity and drastically reduces the number of network components required, as well as making bandwidth instantly available to any point in the network. | $17.8M / Aug 09, 2007 | |
Socowave
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Socowave is a leading wireless technology company creating compelling radio access systems and products for high-speed cellular and wireless broadband networks. It is pioneering a new class of intelligent Active Antenna System that uses innovative beamforming techniques to significantly increase wireless link quality to mobile users. | $3.8M / Series A | |
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NewBay
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NewBay enables operators and device makers to deliver a lifetime of digital content experiences across any connected device such as mobile, PC, tablets and TV. The NewBay white label software platform powers cloud-based services for storing, sharing, accessing and organizing digital content. NewBay enables customers to monetize a wide range ofbranded services such as social networking, photo and video albums, digital vault, notifications and converged messaging. NewBay is delivering highly successful commercial services for operators and device makers worldwide. Customers include T-Mobile, Telefonica O2, Orange, U.S. Cellular, AT&T, Telstra, Verizon and LG Electronics. NewBay is processing millions of messages daily and stores billions of media for live operator and device maker services. NewBay is based in Dublin, Ireland; Seattle, USA; Atlanta, USA; London, UK; Sydney, Australia and Seoul, South Korea. NewBay was founded in 2002. Following acquisition in 2011, NewBay is a wholly owned subsidiary of Research In Motion Limited (RIM). | $3.5M |
Co-Investors
About Socowave
Socowave is a leading wireless technology company creating compelling radio access systems and products for high-speed cellular and wireless broadband networks. It is pioneering a new class of intelligent Active Antenna System that uses innovative beamforming techniques to significantly increase wireless link quality to mobile users.
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What does Barry Maloney invest in?
Barry Maloney invests primarily in Mobile, Internet and CRM startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round 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.
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The most recent investment recorded for Barry Maloney closed in Aug 2021. Shizune tracks 9 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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