# Dermot Berkery

> Dermot Berkery is a seed investor at Clavis Insight backing Software and SaaS. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Clavis Insight](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clavis-technology)
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dermot-berkery/0/286/299

Dermot Berkery is a seed investor at Clavis Insight focused on Software and SaaS. Dermot Berkery joined Delta Partners in 1999 as a General Partner. He serves on the board of SeeWhy and Sensl. He was also previously on the board of Farran Technology (sold in 2005 to Smiths Industries) and Similarity Systems (sold in 2006 to Informatica Inc.).Before joining Delta, he was a Senior Manager with McKinsey & Co. Havingworked in McKinsey, Atlanta for 4 years, he returned to Dublin in 1995 to grow McKinsey’s presence in Ireland. From 1995 to 1998, he helped Irish companies in a range of sectors to develop and pursue accelerated growth strategies. Prior to McKinsey, he was a Senior in the Corporate Financial Services Division of Arthur Andersen in Dublin and London, where he specialised in financial restructurings.A graduate of University College Dublin in Commerce, he holds an MBA with distinction from the Harvard Business School and is qualified as a Chartered Accountant.Dermot has written a book for entrepreneurs seeking venture capital entitled Raising Venture Capital for the Serious Entrepreneur, published by McGraw-Hill.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 20% |
| SaaS | 1 | 10% |
| Travel | 1 | 10% |
| Tourism | 1 | 10% |
| Analytics | 1 | 10% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 20% |
| Series A | 2 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 20% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Series B | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ireland | 4 | 40% |
| United States | 2 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Imvizar | Imvizar focuses on life-size, location-based experiences that allow users to feel as if they've gone back in time, meeting renowned individuals and witnessing historical events all from the comfort of their own phone. Imvizar was founded by Michael Guerin and is located in Dublin, Ireland. | $1.7M | Seed | Sep 12, 2024 |  |
| MarketSizer | TamCalc Limited, Trading as MarketSizer Data-Driven Decisions® - Competitive Subscription Intelligence and Market Insights Platform to enable data-driven decisions across all stages of the SaaS customer lifecycle. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Jun 21, 2024 |  |
| Recruitroo | Recruitroo is a international recruitment agency that uses technologies to streamline and improve the international recruitment process for both companies and candidates. | $1.1M | Seed | Jul 04, 2023 |  |
| Good Travel Software | Good Travel Software has developed innovative booking software for the car share industry. Car sharing is a young high growth industry that exists in 600 cities worldwide and it allows customers to rent cars by the minute. Our software, Drop Car, introduces scheduled one-way bookings and dynamic pricing to the industry. Drop Car is sold as a pluginto existing car share booking software and is targeted at large car share companies. Drop Car was completed in early 2012, having been tested in Europe, and we have recently signed up our first customer, a German car share company. |  |  | Apr 04, 2023 |  |
| Good Travel Software | Good Travel Software has developed innovative booking software for the car share industry. Car sharing is a young high growth industry that exists in 600 cities worldwide and it allows customers to rent cars by the minute. Our software, Drop Car, introduces scheduled one-way bookings and dynamic pricing to the industry. Drop Car is sold as a pluginto existing car share booking software and is targeted at large car share companies. Drop Car was completed in early 2012, having been tested in Europe, and we have recently signed up our first customer, a German car share company. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 04, 2023 |  |
| Davra | Davras' IoT Platform provides organizations with a flexible, secure and integrated platform to fully leverage current and future IoT deployments. Davra IOT platform is the only available IoT Platform on AWS SaaS Contracts (https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/saas) giving it a very strong GTM strategy ahead of other IoTplatform vendors trying to attract System Integrator Partners.Davras' vision is to provide a complete Horizontal IoT AEP platform that allows our customers to define, build and bring to market vertical specific IoT applications. Davra Leads with Transportation VerticalThe ConnecThing™ IoT AEP platform is public cloud, private cloud (Openstack) based, simple to use application enablement platform that takes critical data from the network and any connected devices or sensors and publishes it through our IOT open API making it easy to build and run Internet of Things (IoT) applications. | $1.6M | Series A | Nov 19, 2015 |  |
| Davra | Davras' IoT Platform provides organizations with a flexible, secure and integrated platform to fully leverage current and future IoT deployments. Davra IOT platform is the only available IoT Platform on AWS SaaS Contracts (https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/saas) giving it a very strong GTM strategy ahead of other IoTplatform vendors trying to attract System Integrator Partners.Davras' vision is to provide a complete Horizontal IoT AEP platform that allows our customers to define, build and bring to market vertical specific IoT applications. Davra Leads with Transportation VerticalThe ConnecThing™ IoT AEP platform is public cloud, private cloud (Openstack) based, simple to use application enablement platform that takes critical data from the network and any connected devices or sensors and publishes it through our IOT open API making it easy to build and run Internet of Things (IoT) applications. | $2M | Series A | Jul 03, 2013 |  |
| SeeWhy | SeeWhy’s behavioral marketing solutions trigger real-time 1-to-1 marketing campaigns using email, advertising across desktop, mobile and social channels, based on individual customer behaviors. These solutions elevate marketing from irrelevant noise into personal service — extending and differentiating the brand, and stimulating purchase. SeeWhy’ssolutions are proven to drive increases in conversion and spending, resulting in an average increase in recovery of 18 percent. SeeWhy’s products deliver return on investment (ROI) that are among the highest in ecommerce, recovering more than US$500 million annually in lost sales for many of the world’s leading companies.Powered by a patented in-memory event processing engine, the SeeWhy suite of real-time eCommerce applications is delivered on-demand. SeeWhy was incorporated in 2003 and is headquartered in Andover, MA. More information can be found at http://www.seewhy.com/. | $4.5M | Series B | May 05, 2009 |  |
| SeeWhy | SeeWhy’s behavioral marketing solutions trigger real-time 1-to-1 marketing campaigns using email, advertising across desktop, mobile and social channels, based on individual customer behaviors. These solutions elevate marketing from irrelevant noise into personal service — extending and differentiating the brand, and stimulating purchase. SeeWhy’ssolutions are proven to drive increases in conversion and spending, resulting in an average increase in recovery of 18 percent. SeeWhy’s products deliver return on investment (ROI) that are among the highest in ecommerce, recovering more than US$500 million annually in lost sales for many of the world’s leading companies.Powered by a patented in-memory event processing engine, the SeeWhy suite of real-time eCommerce applications is delivered on-demand. SeeWhy was incorporated in 2003 and is headquartered in Andover, MA. More information can be found at http://www.seewhy.com/. | $3.5M |  | Jul 25, 2005 |  |
| SeeWhy | SeeWhy’s behavioral marketing solutions trigger real-time 1-to-1 marketing campaigns using email, advertising across desktop, mobile and social channels, based on individual customer behaviors. These solutions elevate marketing from irrelevant noise into personal service — extending and differentiating the brand, and stimulating purchase. SeeWhy’ssolutions are proven to drive increases in conversion and spending, resulting in an average increase in recovery of 18 percent. SeeWhy’s products deliver return on investment (ROI) that are among the highest in ecommerce, recovering more than US$500 million annually in lost sales for many of the world’s leading companies.Powered by a patented in-memory event processing engine, the SeeWhy suite of real-time eCommerce applications is delivered on-demand. SeeWhy was incorporated in 2003 and is headquartered in Andover, MA. More information can be found at http://www.seewhy.com/. | $2M | Series A | Mar 09, 2004 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Enterprise Ireland](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enterprise-ireland) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Pentech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pentech-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Act Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/act-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AIB Seed Capital Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aib-seed-capital-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Furthr VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dbic-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Investec](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/investec) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Clavis Insight

VC Fund · Dublin, Ireland

Clavis eCommerce Insight is the Industry leader for Online Store Analytics. We deliver data, analysis and insights to enable consumer goods brands to track and optimize their online channel presence and performance.The solution analyzes everything consumers see in online retailer stores to quickly identify the actions brand owners andmanufacturers need to take to drive profitable eCommerce growth, protect their brands and beat the competition online.The majority of the world’s leading Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies including Unilever, Procter & Gamble, and Nestlé use Clavis Insight for online store analytics today.

5 contacts available at Clavis Insight.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dermot Berkery | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dermot-berkery |
| Jim Mountjoy | Non - Executive Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-mountjoy |
| Brian Caulfield | Non-exec Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-caulfield |
| David Mora Gandarillas | Product Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-mora-gandarillas |
| Simon Glass | Chief Customer Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/simon-glass |

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## FAQ

### What does Dermot Berkery invest in?

Dermot Berkery invests primarily in Software, SaaS 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 Dermot Berkery last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Dermot Berkery closed in Sep 2024. 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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