Chris Horn
Chairman @ Science Gallery International
Chris Horn is a seed investor at Science Gallery International focused on Software and Events. Chris was co-founder, CEO and Chairman of IONA Technologies, a leading software provider that was listed on the NASDAQ in 1997 and becoming for a time one of the top ten software companies in the world by revenue.Chris is a recognised thought leader in the Irish ICT space and regularly writes opinion pieces for the Irish Times as well asserving on various Government Advisory bodies. He is a former President of Engineers Ireland and Chairman of the Irish Management Institute and has served on the boards of Trinity College Dublin and Science Foundation Ireland. He is also a former Chairman of UNICEF Ireland, the Irish Brain Research Foundation and the Community Foundation Of Ireland. He regularly serves on a number of award and competition panels.Chris has been an active Angel Investor over the past decade and is currently Chairman of Sophia Search and Gridstore as well as a board member and Advisor to the World Irish Project. Chris is also Chairman of The Science Gallery, a young adult outreach initiative. He holds a degree in Electronic Engineering and a PhD in Computer Science, both from Trinity College Dublin.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 70%
Last updated:
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Industries Chris Horn invests in
Stages Chris Horn invests in
Countries Chris Horn invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (20%)
- Events 1 (10%)
- Travel 1 (10%)
- Big Data 1 (10%)
- Database 1 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (50%)
- Series A 1 (10%)
- Series B 1 (10%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (10%)
Country
- Ireland 5 (50%)
- United States 1 (10%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Ambisense
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Since 2014 Ambisense has been driving innovation within the environmental space. Their technology platform optimizes the delivery of environmental risk assessment on some of the world’s largest infrastructure projects across industrial, O&G and waste verticals. Ambilytics encompasses both IoT and ML solutions, combining information fromremotely deployed field devices with contextual data sources such as weather, satellite, geophysical and operational data to build machine learning models. These models identify the relationships, patterns, and drivers hidden within the data and allow our customers to forecast and predict the behaviour of targeted environmental pollutants. | $3.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 27, 2021 | |
Kastus Technologies
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Kastus’ patented surface technology was initially developed in response to government, industry and healthcare requests to help reduce the spread of antibiotic-resistant infections, specifically those caused by bacteria and fungus surviving on surfaces and indoor environments. After over 10-years of advanced research and development, Kastus wasformally founded in 2014 by John Browne, leading the company to where it is today.Kastus today is an Award-Winning surface innovation company with global headquarters and manufacturing based in Ireland. Our patented range of Antiviral and Antibacterial surface coatings are designed to enhance surfaces across our range of products and integrated solutions. Our ISO validated coating technology has been proven to kill >99% of harmful bacteria, common viruses, fungi and antibiotic-resistant superbugs, which makes it particularly useful for products including glass and ceramics. This year, an independent ISO test report found Kastus is also proven to kill >99% of human coronavirus.In 2020, Kastus have actively helped businesses to reopen safely from lockdown with the launch of our New Antiviral and Antimicrobial screen protectors. A unique, easy to install product, designed to help businesses better protect their touchscreens. Following the launch of our screen protectors we have recently been awarded EU Funding for developing an innovative business solution to help fight Covid-19. | $6.7M / Series A / Jun 21, 2021 | |
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Kastus Technologies
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Kastus’ patented surface technology was initially developed in response to government, industry and healthcare requests to help reduce the spread of antibiotic-resistant infections, specifically those caused by bacteria and fungus surviving on surfaces and indoor environments. After over 10-years of advanced research and development, Kastus wasformally founded in 2014 by John Browne, leading the company to where it is today.Kastus today is an Award-Winning surface innovation company with global headquarters and manufacturing based in Ireland. Our patented range of Antiviral and Antibacterial surface coatings are designed to enhance surfaces across our range of products and integrated solutions. Our ISO validated coating technology has been proven to kill >99% of harmful bacteria, common viruses, fungi and antibiotic-resistant superbugs, which makes it particularly useful for products including glass and ceramics. This year, an independent ISO test report found Kastus is also proven to kill >99% of human coronavirus.In 2020, Kastus have actively helped businesses to reopen safely from lockdown with the launch of our New Antiviral and Antimicrobial screen protectors. A unique, easy to install product, designed to help businesses better protect their touchscreens. Following the launch of our screen protectors we have recently been awarded EU Funding for developing an innovative business solution to help fight Covid-19. | $3.2M / Series A / Sep 01, 2018 | |
Coras
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Coras enables customers to purchase tickets they want from the sites they already use. | $1.7M / Seed / Jul 01, 2018 | |
TerminusDB
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TerminusDB is an open-source full-featured in-memory graph database management system with a rich query language, WOQL.TerminusDB allows for the whole suite of revision control features: branch, merge, squash, rollback, blame, and time-travel. It is about taking data seriously, structuring data to meet business needs, and reducing the coderequired to display, distribute and manipulate data and support great decision making.TerminusDB was previously known as DataChemist, was founded in Dublin, Ireland. | $1.2M / Seed / Jun 15, 2018 | |
Volograms
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Volograms powers user-generated 3D content creation for augmented reality (AR). Using the power of artificial intelligence, our mobile content creation platform, Volu, is the first to allow smartphone users to easily create, share and play with immersive, dynamic content from one quick mobile video. Headquartered in Dublin and backed by globalinvestors, our diverse team of passionate technologists and creatives is making the next generation of content and communications accessible for all. | $637K / Seed / May 10, 2018 | |
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Coras
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Coras enables customers to purchase tickets they want from the sites they already use. | $2.8M / Seed / Mar 28, 2017 | |
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Ambisense
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Since 2014 Ambisense has been driving innovation within the environmental space. Their technology platform optimizes the delivery of environmental risk assessment on some of the world’s largest infrastructure projects across industrial, O&G and waste verticals. Ambilytics encompasses both IoT and ML solutions, combining information fromremotely deployed field devices with contextual data sources such as weather, satellite, geophysical and operational data to build machine learning models. These models identify the relationships, patterns, and drivers hidden within the data and allow our customers to forecast and predict the behaviour of targeted environmental pollutants. | $1.1M / Seed / Mar 23, 2017 | |
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Kastus Technologies
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Kastus’ patented surface technology was initially developed in response to government, industry and healthcare requests to help reduce the spread of antibiotic-resistant infections, specifically those caused by bacteria and fungus surviving on surfaces and indoor environments. After over 10-years of advanced research and development, Kastus wasformally founded in 2014 by John Browne, leading the company to where it is today.Kastus today is an Award-Winning surface innovation company with global headquarters and manufacturing based in Ireland. Our patented range of Antiviral and Antibacterial surface coatings are designed to enhance surfaces across our range of products and integrated solutions. Our ISO validated coating technology has been proven to kill >99% of harmful bacteria, common viruses, fungi and antibiotic-resistant superbugs, which makes it particularly useful for products including glass and ceramics. This year, an independent ISO test report found Kastus is also proven to kill >99% of human coronavirus.In 2020, Kastus have actively helped businesses to reopen safely from lockdown with the launch of our New Antiviral and Antimicrobial screen protectors. A unique, easy to install product, designed to help businesses better protect their touchscreens. Following the launch of our screen protectors we have recently been awarded EU Funding for developing an innovative business solution to help fight Covid-19. | $1.6M / Seed / Dec 01, 2016 | |
Gridstore
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Gridstore™ is the leader in HyperConverged All-Flash Infrastructure for the Microsoft Cloud-Inspired Data Center. Our customers gain a 10X performance improvement over traditional storage as we put all-flash as close to the workload as possible. They realize 4X lower TCO by consolidation of three layers of infrastructure into one scalable layerbuilt on X86 hardware and 10X less management effort due to less management points and less infrastructure to manage. Gridstore's HyperConverged Appliances include both compute and storage in a single system, and provide external storage and work with any Windows servers and the HyperConverged Appliance, all driven by Gridstore's patented software. Gridstore software architecture delivers native Windows integration, per-VM I/O control, and elastic and independent scaling of resources. Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, CA. and its products and services are available through a global network of value-added resellers. | $19M / Series B / Jan 27, 2016 |
Co-Investors
Enterprise Ireland
5 deals together
Business Growth Fund
2 deals together
Elkstone Capital Partners
2 deals together
Salica
2 deals together
Acero Capital
1 deal together
About Science Gallery International
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FAQ
What does Chris Horn invest in?
Chris Horn invests primarily in Software, Events and Travel startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Ireland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Chris Horn last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Chris Horn closed in Aug 2021. Shizune tracks 10 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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