Ciaran Hynes
Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ COSIMO Ventures
Boston, United States
Ciaran Hynes is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at COSIMO Ventures. He attended University College Dublin.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 100%
Last updated:
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Industries Ciaran Hynes invests in
Stages Ciaran Hynes invests in
Countries Ciaran Hynes invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Computer 2 (50%)
- Blockchain 2 (50%)
- Software 1 (25%)
- Consulting 1 (25%)
- Cryptocurrency 1 (25%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (50%)
- Series A 2 (50%)
Country
- Ireland 1 (25%)
- United States 1 (25%)
Investments
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Oneiro
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Oneiro is a global provider of high-performance blockchain solutions including ndau - the world's first adaptive digital currency. As a new category of digital asset, ndau is optimized for a long-term store of value with staking rewards and a goal of buoyancy. Ndau provides all the benefits of a digital currency while promoting fair andaccountable governance, dependability, and greater safety not found in existing cryptocurrencies. | $5M / Series A / Oct 02, 2019 | |
Gecko Governance
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GECKO Governance is the first solution in the market to provide fund managers with a live oversight of all the funds regulation and compliance requirements - which funds are on schedule and which are behind, which compliance tasks are outstanding and which have been completed. GECKO Governance enables fund managers to schedule all their end toend compliance and regulatory tasks and provides a verifiable independent audit trail of compliance to satisfy global financial regulators requirements.It is the first company in the Funds industry to integrate or use Blockchain technology for the management of fund data with regards to their AML/KYC , Operational Due Diligence (ODD), Fund Launch and On-Boarding.GECKO Governance offers a suite of unique Blockchain integrated products which hugely improves our client's operational efficiency cost effectiveness and compliance security.GECKO Governance is based in New York City, Ireland and Sydney, Australia Real Time Compliance View Easily Customizable front-end One centralised dashboard fund view Multi-Client Oversight End to end Blockchain compliance task management Independent verifiable Blockchain audit trail of fund compliance "Drag & Drop" regulatory calendar management Enables regulators fiduciary requirements Wraps around all funds compliance documentation Live birds-eye view of fund regulatory status Full Version control Fully integrated into Google Docs and Microsoft Office 365 Completly partitioned user access | $1.4M / Series A / Mar 13, 2019 | |
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Oneiro
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Oneiro is a global provider of high-performance blockchain solutions including ndau - the world's first adaptive digital currency. As a new category of digital asset, ndau is optimized for a long-term store of value with staking rewards and a goal of buoyancy. Ndau provides all the benefits of a digital currency while promoting fair andaccountable governance, dependability, and greater safety not found in existing cryptocurrencies. | Seed | |
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Gecko Governance
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GECKO Governance is the first solution in the market to provide fund managers with a live oversight of all the funds regulation and compliance requirements - which funds are on schedule and which are behind, which compliance tasks are outstanding and which have been completed. GECKO Governance enables fund managers to schedule all their end toend compliance and regulatory tasks and provides a verifiable independent audit trail of compliance to satisfy global financial regulators requirements.It is the first company in the Funds industry to integrate or use Blockchain technology for the management of fund data with regards to their AML/KYC , Operational Due Diligence (ODD), Fund Launch and On-Boarding.GECKO Governance offers a suite of unique Blockchain integrated products which hugely improves our client's operational efficiency cost effectiveness and compliance security.GECKO Governance is based in New York City, Ireland and Sydney, Australia Real Time Compliance View Easily Customizable front-end One centralised dashboard fund view Multi-Client Oversight End to end Blockchain compliance task management Independent verifiable Blockchain audit trail of fund compliance "Drag & Drop" regulatory calendar management Enables regulators fiduciary requirements Wraps around all funds compliance documentation Live birds-eye view of fund regulatory status Full Version control Fully integrated into Google Docs and Microsoft Office 365 Completly partitioned user access | Seed |
About COSIMO Ventures
COSIMO Ventures is an emerging venture capital firm that focuses on early stage companies seeking to develop disruptive technology, primarily located in Ireland and the United Kingdom. COSIMO has offices in Boston, Massachusetts and Dublin, Ireland. Our Team have over 100 years of combined entrepreneurial operating and investing experience. We aretechnology pioneers resolute in our mission of helping emerging entrepreneurs build legendary companies. Our mission is to help transform the most promising early stage, Irish and UK technology companies into global leaders that will dominate new market categories or disrupt existing ones. We partner with management teams to help them accelerate and grow into the US market.COSIMO is a team of entrepreneurs that have been at the forefront of value creation for early stage companies over the past 25 years. As technology pioneers, we have developed products used by 100’s of millions of users every day and created many firsts; from the first commercially available financial service on the Internet to the first push notification.
COSIMO Ventures Contacts
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Ciaran Hynes
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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Connor Cantwell
Partner - Europe
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Robert Frasca
Managing Partner
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Ken Lang
Chief Technology Officer
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What does Ciaran Hynes invest in?
Ciaran Hynes invests primarily in Computer, Blockchain and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 4 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 Ciaran Hynes closed in Oct 2019. Shizune tracks 4 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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