Crescent Capital
VC Fund
Belfast, United Kingdom
Crescent Capital is a Belfast based venture capital fund manager. Their primary investment focus is with Northern Ireland based companies operating in the information technology, life sciences, and manufacturing sectors. Since 1995 Crescent Capital has been supporting and building high-grade venture backed companies in Northern Ireland.
- Total investments:
- 26
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 46%
- Fund size:
- $565M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Crescent Capital invests in
Stages Crescent Capital invests in
Countries Crescent Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 6 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $521k–$4.5M
- Series B
- $2.6M–$11M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $500k–$6.6M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 9 (35%)
- Manufacturing 5 (19%)
- Computer 3 (12%)
- Information Technology 3 (12%)
- SaaS 2 (8%)
Stage
- Venture - Series Unknown 8 (31%)
- Seed 6 (23%)
- Series B 4 (15%)
- Funding Round 2 (8%)
- Debt Financing 2 (8%)
Country
- United Kingdom 13 (50%)
- United States 7 (27%)
- Ireland 1 (4%)
- Lebanon 1 (4%)
- Malaysia 1 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bob McGowan-Smyth
Investment Director
|
Investment Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Colin Walsh
Founder & Chief Executive
|
Founder & Chief Executive | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Deirdre Terrins
Investment Manager
|
Investment Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Ed Finnegan
Finance Officer
|
Finance Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Oonagh McIntaggart
Office Manager
|
Office Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keystone Agency Partners is a consulting firm that specialises in insurance brokerage. They assist agencies in regularly creating value through strategic acquisitions, organic growth, and long-term collaboration. | $330M / Debt Financing / Jan 16, 2024 | ||
| Islamic Fintech in internet payments gateway space and ewallet issuing space . Services include merchant acquiring. We are licensed by Malaysian Central Bank for merchant acquiring. PayHalal offers PSaaS for Islamic Digital Banks and payment gateways in the halal space. | $4.5M / Seed / Apr 27, 2023 | ||
| Ostaz is an education technology (EdTech) company focused on delivering AI-powered personalized tutoring services across the Middle East, particularly in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon. The platform connects students with qualified tutors while using artificial intelligence to improve tutor-student matching and educational outcomes. | $1.8M / Seed / Sep 27, 2020 | ||
| Right Revenue is a brand new cloud based revenue product providing detailed analytics and accurate rate forecasting.Right Revenue offers a system that is user-friendly, flexible and most importantly, accurate – helping you make those all important decisions on pricing – all with the goal of increasing profitability.Designed by a Revenue Managerwith over 20 years experience, our modular system allows you to tailor-make your revenue journey. | $520.7K / Seed / Dec 19, 2019 | ||
| Photonic Measurements is provide solutions for the measurement of UV254 in all applications within the drinking and waste water treatment, industrial effluent, receiving water and environmental testing, amongst others. Photonic Measurements range of UV254 products allow for the measurement of UV254 and its surrogates TOC, DOC, COD and BOD that fityour application needs. | $520.7K / Seed / Dec 19, 2019 | ||
| Integrity Marketing Group provides product design, proven marketing systems, and profitability into today’s top-selling products. They bring together the needs of insurance companies and major distribution channels by providing product design, proven marketing systems, and profitability into today’s top-selling products. Their expertise in thesenior market allows us to partner with some of the largest insurance carriers in the nation. They strive to continually bring value to our business partners by designing proprietary products, offering exclusive marketing systems and having a proven track record of successful new products. | $945M / Debt Financing / Sep 16, 2019 | ||
| Modern Democracy’s wold class products are reinventing the way electoral service professionals solve delivery challenges through the deployment of a powerful, flexible, incredibly intuitive and easy to use solution.Our experienced consultants and leading edge technology experts are passionate about providing intuitive solutions for reducing risk,improving transparency and ensuring accuracy. Our mission is to deliver innovative, secure, accurate and transparent solutions that improve the efficiency of the election process | $979K / Venture - Series Unknown / May 01, 2019 | ||
| GoReport provides a range of purpose-built solutions for a variety of survey types across the entire property sector. Surveyors can now carry out surveys and generate reports more efficiently and in much less time. Surveyors can now quickly capture all relevant survey data directly on an iPad using a simple and easy to use combination of standardand custom phrases, automated voice to text and pick lists.GoReport was founded on 2011 and is headquartered in Belfast, United Kingdom. | $500K / Venture - Series Unknown / May 01, 2019 | ||
| Right Revenue is a brand new cloud based revenue product providing detailed analytics and accurate rate forecasting.Right Revenue offers a system that is user-friendly, flexible and most importantly, accurate – helping you make those all important decisions on pricing – all with the goal of increasing profitability.Designed by a Revenue Managerwith over 20 years experience, our modular system allows you to tailor-make your revenue journey. | $594.5K / Seed / Mar 01, 2019 | ||
| Photonic Measurements is provide solutions for the measurement of UV254 in all applications within the drinking and waste water treatment, industrial effluent, receiving water and environmental testing, amongst others. Photonic Measurements range of UV254 products allow for the measurement of UV254 and its surrogates TOC, DOC, COD and BOD that fityour application needs. | $886.8K / Seed / Dec 20, 2018 | ||
| See all 26 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Crescent Capital invest in?
Crescent Capital invests primarily in Software, Manufacturing and Computer startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Seed stage. Most of the 26 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Crescent Capital invest in?
Crescent Capital typically joins rounds of $521k–$4.5M at Seed, $2.6M–$11M at Series B and $500k–$6.6M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Crescent Capital's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Crescent Capital took part in.
How do I contact Crescent Capital?
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Who are the partners at Crescent Capital?
The team at Crescent Capital includes Bob McGowan-Smyth (Investment Director), Colin Walsh (Founder & Chief Executive) and Deirdre Terrins (Investment Manager), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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