# Furthr

> Furthr is a VC fund in Dublin backing Software and Web Development. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dublin, Ireland
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Aug 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Fund size: $62M
- Last fund: Jan 2007
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/871370
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/BICDublin
- Website: http://dublinbic.ie/

Furthr is a VC fund in Dublin focused on Software and Web Development. Delivering game changing impacts for start-up founders since 1988

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Furthr. Shizune tracks 8 team members at Furthr. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/dublin-business-innovation-centre?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $658k–$1M |
| Series A | $6.3M–$14M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 69% |
| Web Development | 3 | 23% |
| Mobile | 2 | 15% |
| Analytics | 2 | 15% |
| Social Media | 2 | 15% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 6 | 46% |
| Series A | 3 | 23% |
| Seed | 2 | 15% |
| Series B | 2 | 15% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ireland | 7 | 54% |
| United States | 2 | 15% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Richard Morton | Team | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/richard-morton-2 |
| Alex Hobbs | Portfolio Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-hobbs |
| Heidi Corr | Clients Investment | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heidi-corr |
| John Phelan | Consultant | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-phelan-2 |
| John Phelan | Consultant | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-phelan-ae5d |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CroíValve | CroíValve is a developed a safe, effective, easy to use, percutaneous solution for treating all patients with severe Tricuspid Regurgitation | $16M | Series B | Aug 07, 2024 |  |
| CroíValve | CroíValve is a developed a safe, effective, easy to use, percutaneous solution for treating all patients with severe Tricuspid Regurgitation | $9.2M | Series A | Feb 04, 2022 |  |
| NewsWhip | NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons. | $1.6M |  | May 28, 2015 |  |
| VideoElephant | VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin. | $1M | Seed | Oct 23, 2014 |  |
| Swrve | Swrve is the world's leading mobile marketing automation platform, pioneering the fast-growing mobile engagement marketing space.We are also proud to be the first mobile marketing company to combine predictive analytics with messaging for mobile apps in our Predictive Marketing Suite, which employs a continuously updated behavioralalgorithm that determines an app user’s propensity for action or inaction. Swrve combines class-leading analytics, segmentation, AB testing and in-app messaging in a unified application that allows marketing managers to continually test their applications by tracking user behavior, targeting specific user segments, tuning in-app elements, and talking to users via in-app messages. In the first half of 2015, Swrve signed more than 40 new clients in a wide range of industries from retail, travel, hospitality, banking and insurance to sports, media, entertainment, games, and lifestyle. Among the notable customer wins were The Guardian, Condé Nast, Glamsquad, Warner Brothers, Microsoft, and Backflip. As a result, our global bookings in the second quarter of 2015 increased 33% over the previous quarter and 153% over Q4 2014.In 2015, Swrve also ranked #420 in Inc. magazine’s 34th annual Inc. 500, an exclusive ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California and was founded by Hugh Reynolds and Steven Collins in 2010. | $6.3M | Series A | Nov 12, 2012 |  |
| Movidius | Movidius is a vision processor company that designs compact, high-performance, ultralow power, computational imaging and vision processing chips, software, development tools and reference designs. Movidius’ architecture delivers a new wave of intelligent and contextually aware experiences for consumers in mobile and wearable devices, and otherconsumer and industrial camera applications. Movidius is headquartered in San Mateo, California.Movidius is a venture-backed start-up with investors including: AIB Seed Capital Fund, Atlantic Bridge, Capital-E, DFJ Esprit and Robert Bosch Venture Capital. | $7.5M | Series B | May 19, 2010 |  |
| Onformonics | Onformonics innovates risk-based streamlined products and services to solve the serious business risk of data breach problems.Data breaches involving cardholder data resulting in fraud, eroded customer confidence and a hit to the bottom line continue to be a serious business risk for the card processing industry.The protection of sensitivecustomer data is a responsibility you carry. Compliance that delivers real security and reduced risk is your goal. | $658K | Seed | Feb 26, 2010 |  |
| Terminalfour | TERMINALFOUR is one of the fastest growing web content management companies in the world. Our flagship Web Content Management Systems (WCMS) - TERMINALFOUR Site Manager - is a WCMS specifically built for Higher Education. Their software enables organisations to improve the creation, flow and delivery of accessible information through variouschannels including web sites, mobile, personalized staff portals, intranets, extranets and emerging media.The company was founded in 1996 and is based in Dublin, Ireland. | $1.3M |  | Jan 07, 2010 |  |
| LicenseMetrics | License Metrics is a pioneering workplace and analytics tool.Openplain's products and solutions are used.Both LicenseMetrics and OfficeMetrics are available as online and in-house solutions. | $1.1M |  | Feb 27, 2009 |  |
| DataKraft | DataKraft is a software company that is highly focused on designing software solutions that reduce operational costs, increase profitability, and deliver complete visibility for their customers. To date DataKraft has successfully designed a suite of applications accross different vertical markets in both the public and private sector. | $1.1M |  | Jan 26, 2009 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Enterprise Ireland](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enterprise-ireland) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [AIB Seed Capital Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aib-seed-capital-fund) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Enterprise Equity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enterprise-equity-limited) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Act Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/act-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ascentifi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ascentifi) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Atlantic Bridge University Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atlantic-bridge-university-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Furthr invest in?

Furthr invests primarily in Software, Web Development and Mobile startups, most often at Funding Round and Series A stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Ireland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Furthr's check size?

Furthr typically joins rounds of $658k–$1M at Seed and $6.3M–$14M 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 Furthr participates in.

### How do I contact Furthr?

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### Who are the partners at Furthr?

The team at Furthr includes Richard Morton (Team), Alex Hobbs (Portfolio Manager) and Heidi Corr (Clients Investment), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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