# Brian Kinane

> Brian Kinane is a seed investor at Sure Valley Ventures backing Software. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Sure Valley Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/suir-valley-venture)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 83%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-k-3442a/

Brian Kinane is a seed investor at Sure Valley Ventures in London focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Mr Brian Kinane is an experienced telecom industry executive, corporate financier, entrepreneur and computer scientist. Mr Kinane has extensive experience including managing/advising funds and investment vehicles that invest in high-growth software start- ups in artificial intelligence, cyber security, IOT, immersive technologies and crypto.In addition, Mr Kinane has long term experience of special situations investment into publicly traded companies including sectors such as technology, electric battery, natural resource and environmental technologies where he has funded over 60 companies.From a corporate perspective, Mr Kinane has worked as both an industry executive and entrepreneur in the technology sector, including roles at global telecoms companies such as Ericsson group and Telenor group and co-founder roles at technology companies in the mobile data sector including FeedHenry where Mr Kinane was a co-founding shareholder and director alongside Mr Barry Downes.Mr Kinane’s academic background includes a computer science degree from Trinity College Dublin and MBAs from London Business School and Columbia Business School. Mr Kinane is registered with the FCA.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 50% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 50% |
| SaaS | 1 | 17% |
| Drones | 1 | 17% |
| Gaming | 1 | 17% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 83% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ManaMind | ManaMind is an AI-powered platform that automates video game quality assurance (QA) testing using autonomous bots to help developers identify bugs faster and cheaper. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Apr 30, 2026 |  |
| Capably AI | Capably empowers professionals to automate complex tasks with AI in minutes, regardless of their level of technical expertise. Operating autonomously in the background, Capably acts as an extension of the teams it supports, driving greater productivity and efficiency. Anyone in the company can use Capably to automate back-office tasks like dataentry and processing, generate insights and reports, manage projects, and more—all while the organisation maintains complete control and visibility over how and when employees delegate work to AI. | $4M | Seed | Apr 22, 2025 |  |
| VIZGARD | Vizgard is a multi-award-winning SME building a safer future by automating time-critical Security systems that traditionally require repetitive or prolonged visual monitoring.Optimised for ultimate performance on the edge, Vizgard's autonomy-enabling AI engine, FortifAI, provides long-range visual intelligence, external sensor fusion andlow-latency camera platform control for reducing false alarms and operator burden.For increased situational awareness, several state-of-art computer vision capabilities are combined into a single easily integrated, platform-agnostic software application for enhancing perimeter, counter-UAS and unmanned systems (UAV, UGV, USV, UUV), as demonstrated on the Royal Navy's unmanned test submarine in late 2021. FortifAI's growing list of enhancements includes: -Detection and tracking of people, faces, cars, boats, drones, birds, planes and helicopters -Single object tracking and reacquisition of small and agile targets with PTZ camera control -Human behavioural prediction with an individually allocated Risk Index -Counter-UAS detect/track/classify capability from ground or air platforms -Real-time face redaction -Full-frame image stabilisation -Human-aware precision drone landing in GPS-denied environments | $1.8M | Seed | Jan 22, 2025 |  |
| PHINXT Robotics | PHINXT Robotics enables warehouses of any size to deploy autonomous robots as needed, with no expertise required. | $2.5M | Seed | Aug 06, 2024 |  |
| Ittybit | Ittybit is a API that enables users to handle rich media in applications. It provides developers with basic techniques for uploading, storing, transforming, and extracting data from video, music, and image files. | $1.9M | Seed | Jun 05, 2024 |  |
| Emergent Games | Emergent Games is a metaverse and blockchain games studio. Emergent is a joint venture between the London-based digital entertainment studio Maze Theory and crypto technology and operations business Pluto Digital. | $5.4M | Seed | Jan 31, 2022 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Ascension](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ascension-ventures-limited) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Heartfelt Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heartfelt-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ada Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ada-vemtires) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Arāya Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ar%C4%81ya-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Atlas Venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atlas-venture) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Baltic Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baltic-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Sure Valley Ventures

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Sure Valley Ventures is an entrepreneur-led Venture Capital Fund that invests in early-stage software companies. Working in partnership with Shard Capital, a specialist broker and asset manager based in the City of London, Sure Valley Ventures specializes in investing in Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), Financial Technology(FinTech), and the Internet of Things (IoT) Sectors.

5 contacts available at Sure Valley Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Barry Downes | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barry-downes-2 |
| Brian Kinane | Co-Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-k-135f |
| Brian K. | Co-Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-kinane-2773 |
| Brian Kinane | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-kinane |
| Cian Hughes | Partner and Head of Platform | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cian-hughes |

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## FAQ

### What does Brian Kinane invest in?

Brian Kinane invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Brian Kinane last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Brian Kinane closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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