# Conor Sharpe

> Conor Sharpe is a Series A investor at CircleRock Capital backing Artificial Intelligence. See 22 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [CircleRock Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/circlerock-capital)
- Location: Dublin, Ireland
- Total investments: 22
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/conorsharpe/
- Website: https://www.circlerockcapital.com/

Conor Sharpe is a Series A investor at CircleRock Capital in Dublin focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Co-Founder and Partner at CircleRock Capital. Angel Investor of the Year & Exit of the Year, Finalist @ UKBAA Awards 2019.Conor has extensive experience in the Venture Capital ecosystem, with his returns and impact recognised with nominations for both Angel Investor of the Year and Exit of the Year at the UKBAA Awards (representing 18,000angel investors) in 2019. Conor started his career in the City of London, spending 13 years in the derivative markets, including 10 years building a market-leading global commodity business. He is also a Venture Scout at €200m VC fund Backed.Conor is based in our Dublin office.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$7.6M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.5M–$3M |
| Series A | $6.3M–$26M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 23% |
| Software | 3 | 14% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 14% |
| SaaS | 2 | 9% |

52 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 9 | 41% |
| Seed | 7 | 32% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 14% |
| Angel | 1 | 5% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 27% |
| Ireland | 5 | 23% |
| United States | 4 | 18% |
| Spain | 1 | 5% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| NetFoundry | NetFoundry provides a software-defined networking platform focused on zero trust architecture. Its solutions enable organizations to create secure, microsegmented overlay networks, known as AppNets, that operate independently of traditional network infrastructure. The platform includes components such as Ziti Fabric for virtual overlays, Ziti Edgefor endpoint connectivity, and Ziti Console for network orchestration. NetFoundry offers deployment options across cloud, on-premise, and hybrid environments, supporting integration with major cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Developers can embed zero trust networking directly into applications using available SDKs, facilitating secure communication for various use cases, including DevOps, IIoT, and remote management. The platform emphasizes identity-based access controls, end-to-end encryption, and the elimination of inbound firewall ports to reduce attack surfaces.oud administrators, container orchestration engineers, DevOps, DevSecOps, network admins, etc. | $15M | Series A | Nov 24, 2025 |  |
| Caribou | Companies are now global from day one. The tax & legal admin needed to operate globally compounds with every entity.To solve this, companies engage external experts (lawyers/tax experts), but their solutions rely on human intervention and create hidden future costs by focusing on a narrow part of the problem, not the whole state of thecompany.Caribou is an alternative to working with service providers. By tracking your finances, personnel, and corporate information, we can continuously monitor your entities and prepare the compliance docs you need to operate anywhere in the world legally. | $2.7M | Seed | Dec 23, 2024 |  |
| Yonder | Yonder is a credit card that allows users to build good credit habits while earning and enjoying rewards at their favorite spots in town. They're on a mission to make money rewarding and credit empowering through products people understand and love.They're building a challenger credit card that's a key to the city, designed forexpats and young professionals. They've packed it with modern rewards, travel insurance, no FX fees, and loads more - all without needing a UK credit score. | $31.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 19, 2024 |  |
| Nory | Nory is the all-knowing restaurant management system that learns the behind the scenes of your business. Helping you forecast sales, plan labour & optimise your inventory. | $15.9M | Series A | May 22, 2024 |  |
| Symbe | Symbe is an AI-powered, collaborative business case platform that automates and standardizes the generation of compelling business cases, enabling large-scale value-selling. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | May 02, 2024 |  |
| TrustPath | TrustPath is on a mission to help AI companies turn compliance into a market advantage.AI compliance goes beyond adhering to regulations; it represents a strategic opportunity to stand out, save resources, and build a reputation of trust and reliability. By offering innovative solutions, TrustPath simplifies AI compliance, enabling companies toenhance efficiency and differentiate themselves in a competitive market. At the same time, these solutions support enterprise organizations in adopting AI with greater confidence by ensuring transparency and regulatory alignment. |  | Seed | Apr 18, 2024 |  |
| Griffin | Griffin is making a bank you can build on. They provide banking-as-a-service solutions for companies that want to offer financial services products. The company is currently seeking regulatory approval from the PRA and FCA to become the UK's first platform bank. It was founded in 2017 and based in London, England. | $24.4M | Series A | Mar 11, 2024 |  |
| Coroflo | Coroflo is developing the world's first breastfeeding monitor. Know how much your baby is getting, real time data tracked on your phone. | $3M | Seed | Feb 14, 2024 |  |
| Piper | Piper is a next-gen sales productivity and intelligence solution that puts AI to work for both sales reps and sales managers.Through its advanced interpretation of sales conversations from video calls, emails and audio notes, Piper automatically populates deal-related fields in the CRM, freeing up sales capacity and ensuring unbiased, highquality data.Piper further lightens the daily workload of salespeople by assisting through every stage of the client engagement: enhancing meeting prep, drafting follow-up emails, scheduling the next call, and more.For sales reps, Piper is a game-changer, letting them focus on selling without the admin drag. For sales directors and revenue ops, Piper provides top-notch data insights into the sales pipeline, enhancing sales forecasting and data-driven decision-making. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Oct 25, 2023 |  |
| Piper | Piper is a next-gen sales productivity and intelligence solution that puts AI to work for both sales reps and sales managers.Through its advanced interpretation of sales conversations from video calls, emails and audio notes, Piper automatically populates deal-related fields in the CRM, freeing up sales capacity and ensuring unbiased, highquality data.Piper further lightens the daily workload of salespeople by assisting through every stage of the client engagement: enhancing meeting prep, drafting follow-up emails, scheduling the next call, and more.For sales reps, Piper is a game-changer, letting them focus on selling without the admin drag. For sales directors and revenue ops, Piper provides top-notch data insights into the sales pipeline, enhancing sales forecasting and data-driven decision-making. | $3.3M | Seed | Oct 24, 2023 |  |

10 of 22 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [IGNIA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ignia) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [LocalGlobe](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/localglobe) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Notion Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/notion-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Playfair Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/playfair-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [RTP Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rtp-global) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Samaipata](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/samaipata-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About CircleRock Capital

VC Fund · Dublin, Ireland

CircleRock Capital aim to be the leading European, multi-stage co-investor of choice for exceptional technology companies, investing primarily in Seed, Series A and Series B opportunities.We invest alongside the leading global VC firms, so that founders can have both a leading VC and us on their cap table. We don’t lead deals and we don’t takeboard seats.Our ticket sizes range from €500k to €5 million +.Our LP’s include exited entrepreneurs, leaders at global tech companies, venture-backed founders, family offices, leading angels, CEO’s & board members of public companies.We fight to win allocation based on our reputation for fundraising expertise and our valuable network – consisting of both commercial customers and access to our global network of industry leaders.CircleRock Capital have a successful history as both Investors and Operators. Conor was previously nominated for both UK Angel Investor of the Year and Exit of the Year. Barry built FCA regulated fintech Clear Treasury from inception to a multi-million pound turnover business, with over 2,500 clients across all industry sectors, exiting in 2020.Offices in Dublin and London.Are you an Angel Investor or Family Office? Sign up here to receive our curated deal flow:https://www.circlerockcapital.com/investor-registration

1 contacts available at CircleRock Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Conor Sharpe | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/conor-sharpe |

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## FAQ

### What does Conor Sharpe invest in?

Conor Sharpe invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Financial Services startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 22 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Conor Sharpe's check size?

Conor Sharpe typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$7.6M at Seed, $1.5M–$3M at Pre-Seed and $6.3M–$26M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Conor Sharpe participates in.

### When did Conor Sharpe last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Conor Sharpe closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 22 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?

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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