# Colm Lyon

> Colm Lyon is a seed investor at Fire Financial Services backing Local and Guides. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Fire Financial Services](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fire-financial-services)
- Total investments: 4
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colmlyon
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/colmlyon
- Website: https://x.com/colmlyon

Colm Lyon is a seed investor at Fire Financial Services focused on Local and Guides. Colm Lyon - Founder and CEO @ Fire Financial Services

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $88k–$713k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Local | 1 | 25% |
| Guides | 1 | 25% |
| Travel | 1 | 25% |
| Big Data | 1 | 25% |
| Software | 1 | 25% |

9 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Angel | 1 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ireland | 1 | 25% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Axe | Axe is a software firm that develops procurement software for businesses. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | May 09, 2025 |  |
| LikeWhere | LikeWhere's service helps travel brands identify the individual interests of their customers, so they can personalise their digital engagement, generating more revenues. LikeWhere utilises ‘affinity-marketing’ techniques deployed by brands including Amazon, Spotify & Netflix (‘others like you also liked this’), enabling travel brands tooptimise their retail strategy. | $603K | Angel | Jan 05, 2017 |  |
| Pundit Arena | Pundit Arena has created one of Europe's fastest growing sports publishing platforms that allows the mass creation of quality content across all sports throughout the world.Pundit Arena is revenue generating, and enables sports bloggers, writers and fans to monetise their work through Pundit Arena's unique revenue sharing model. The‘pundits’ write about topics and sports they are passionate about and publish their content through our web platform.This results in Pundit Arena ('PA') delivering unique and thought-provoking content to sports fans. Pundit Arena is essentially an online sports broadsheet powered by the sporting public.PA enables writers to earn money for their content through the revenue generated from both advertising and content syndication. Payment is issued to the site’s top writers in each category according to the highest performing articles in a unique Paid User Generated Media (PUGM) system. titled the ‘Hit List’. | $713K | Seed |  |  |
| dbTwang | dbTwang is building the web’s favourite community for those who share a passion for guitars. dbTwang will provide a trusted place on the web where guitar players and collectors can keep important information about their instruments securely and in complete confidence. dbTwang will also provides a unique platform that will enables members toshare information selectively in a trusted and safe environment with fellow members and to complete secure trades by mutual consent. We will watch, develop and support the community and earn revenues by charging members a small subscription each month for premium services such as being part of a trusted network, guitar valuations and group insurance as well as relevant premium content. | $88K | Seed |  |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Enterprise Ireland](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enterprise-ireland) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Pitchdrive](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pitchdrive) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Fire Financial Services

VC Fund



1 contacts available at Fire Financial Services.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Colm Lyon | Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/colm-lyon |

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## FAQ

### What does Colm Lyon invest in?

Colm Lyon invests primarily in Local, Guides and Travel startups, most often at Seed and Angel 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.

### What is Colm Lyon's check size?

Colm Lyon typically joins rounds of $88k–$713k 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 Colm Lyon participates in.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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