# Dogpatch Labs

> Dogpatch Labs is a VC fund in Dublin backing Software and SaaS. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dublin, Ireland
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dogpatch-labs
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/dogpatchlabs
- Website: http://dogpatchlabs.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dogpatchlabs

Dogpatch Labs is a curated startup hub, located in the historic chq Building and in the heart of Dublin’s Digital Docklands. Our mission is to accelerate the development of Ireland’s startup ecosystem by providing a valuable community from where you can grow, share knowledge and form connections.Our co-working space includes dedicated desks,hotdesking & private offices. Teams range in size from 1 to 20 people.A unique and thriving community of Irish startups, international companies and innovative social enterprises are based here.We open our space to the tech community and host more startup events than any other in Dublin.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Dogpatch Labs. Shizune tracks 5 team members at Dogpatch Labs. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/dogpatchlabs?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 30% |
| SaaS | 2 | 20% |
| Video | 2 | 20% |
| Internet | 2 | 20% |
| Logistics | 2 | 20% |

36 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 6 | 60% |
| Seed | 4 | 40% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jennifer Barrett | Events Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jennifer-barrett-2 |
| Patrick Walsh | Managing Director | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/patrick-walsh-5 |
| Alexey Bulygin | Mentor | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexey-bulygin |
| David Power | Director Of Innovation | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-power |
| Gleb Sapunenko | Analyst | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gleb-sapunenko |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Barespace | Barespace provides end-to-end solutions that manage, market, and grow your beauty business. | $3.4M | Seed | Sep 18, 2025 |  |
| Ceartas DMCA | The world's most advanced copyright protection service for content creators! With Ceartas DMCA, you can easily monitor your content and manage your rights-lines. Our proprietary technology keeps you safe from copyright infringement, protecting you and the value of your creations with lightning-quick takedowns at a price to suit every need. | $4.5M | Seed | Apr 30, 2024 |  |
| Tipple | Tipple is a unified Fintech and regtech B2B saas / vertical saas commerce infrastructure for the alcohol industry, purpose-built to streamline logistics, payments, and compliance across borders. Our platform empowers brands, distributors, and bars/retailers. From DTC startups to wholesalers - to sell, ship, and get paid effortlessly,regardless of where they or their customers are based. | $102.5K | Pre-Seed | Aug 04, 2022 |  |
| Tracworx | Tracworx creates the backbone infrastructure to capture unit-level data within the supply chain. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Aug 04, 2022 |  |
| Chopcast | Chopcast enables users to simply search for videos by topic and make social snippets from them. Get auto-suggested clips based on the topics you've covered in your videos, or search for your own keywords and topics. Export them after resizing them to your desire. | $102.5K | Pre-Seed | Aug 04, 2022 |  |
| MoveAhead | MoveAhead is a digital platform for children that provides movements and personalizes play and feedback for children's play, engagement, and growth. It is the motion tracking engine built specifically for children | $102.5K | Pre-Seed | Aug 04, 2022 |  |
| thefullstack | The Fullstack is a space where developers connect with like-minded developers to show off projects, learn, and hang out. | $102.5K | Pre-Seed | Aug 04, 2022 |  |
| Examfly | Examfly is a platform that helps clients prepare for professional tax and accounting exams. Examfly was founded in 2019 and was headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. | $102.5K | Pre-Seed | Aug 04, 2022 |  |
| FeelTect | FeelTect’s technology, Tight Alright, is a pressure sensing, connected-health device for measuring and monitoring sub-bandage pressure during compression therapy, primarily for the millions of people worldwide with venous leg ulcers (VLUs). Compression is a proven therapy for VLUs, however if it’s applied too loose, it’s ineffective, and if it’stoo tight, it’s dangerous. | $1.4M | Seed | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| FanFootage | FanFootage’s technology allows artists and event organisers to team up with their audience and produce broadcast-quality video content together at their live shows. It's a great way to channel fan-filming behaviour into an engaging and brandable fan-artist collaboration. The technology can also automatically sync fan video uploads with aprofessional live audio recording of the live show, arranged and approved by the artist and label. Each individual fan video will sound great, and the live performance of the song can then be viewed while changing between many different fan perspectives based on their location during a given concert. FanFootage are also working to be the fan video platform for sporting events. |  | Seed | Jan 29, 2012 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Enterprise Ireland](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enterprise-ireland) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Furthr VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dbic-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Earlybird Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/earlybird-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Elkstone Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elkstone-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Frontline Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frontline-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Insiders Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/insiders-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Dogpatch Labs invest in?

Dogpatch Labs invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Video startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed 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.

### How do I contact Dogpatch Labs?

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### Who are the partners at Dogpatch Labs?

The team at Dogpatch Labs includes Jennifer Barrett (Events Manager), Patrick Walsh (Managing Director) and Alexey Bulygin (Mentor). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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