# Gerard Buggy

> Gerard Buggy is a seed investor at Iona Star (London) backing SaaS and Privacy. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Iona Star
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerrybuggy
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gerard.buggy.5

Gerard Buggy is a seed investor at Iona Star in London focused on SaaS and Privacy. Gerard Buggy is the Co-founder of Ocula Technologies. Gerry has twenty years experience within information technology crossing a wide spectrum, specialising in real-time enterprise software and data architectures. Highlights include Tibco, California, Head of Revenue, NEON/IBM IPO, Thomson Reuters – Head of Data Division and Strategy at FirstDerivatives (AIM listed). Gerry has also founded three companies with successful exits through onward sale to Capco, First Derivatives and Sybase/SAP. Currently he is CTO at First Derivatives PLC.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 50% |
| Privacy | 1 | 50% |
| Big Data | 1 | 50% |
| Robotics | 1 | 50% |
| Software | 1 | 50% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Angel | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Worldmodeldata | Worldmodeldata is an AI data infrastructure company that develops large-scale, training-ready datasets for world models, embodied AI, robotics, and autonomous systems. It transforms licensed video game data into structured, multimodal datasets that help AI developers train models capable of understanding physical environments, human behavior, andcause-and-effect relationships. Its mission is to provide the data backbone for the next generation of AI by converting complex real-world signals into high-quality, ethically sourced training data. The company's platform extracts synchronized data from modern video games built on engines such as Unreal Engine and Unity, capturing frame-aligned video, player inputs, telemetry, ground-truth 3D world states, and other structured signals. Unlike conventional video datasets, Worldmodeldata provides action-conditioned trajectories and detailed annotations that allow AI models to learn how environments evolve over time and how actions influence outcomes, making the datasets well suited for training world models and physical AI systems.Worldmodeldata serves AI laboratories, robotics companies, autonomous vehicle developers, and enterprises building next-generation AI systems. Its proprietary datasets are designed to support applications including embodied AI, robot learning, autonomous navigation, simulation, and self-supervised learning. By sourcing data through formal licensing agreements rather than web scraping, the company emphasizes data provenance, quality, and regulatory compliance while reducing labeling errors and improving temporal consistency. | $9.3M | Seed | Jul 06, 2026 |  |
| Privitar | Privitar is an enterprise software company with a global client-base across North America, Europe, and Asia. The company is the development and adoption of privacy engineering technology enabling its customers to innovate and leverage data with an uncompromising approach to data privacy. Its software is designed to allow clients to analyzepotentially sensitive data while respecting customers’ privacy and confidentiality, resulting in the ability to leverage large, sensitive data sets while ensuring compliance with regulations (such as GDPR, CPRA and HIPAA) and ethical data principles.Privitar was founded in 2014 and is based in London, UK. | $1.2M | Angel | Jul 17, 2015 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## About Iona Star

VC Fund

Iona Star advises early -stage growth companies.

1 contacts available at Iona Star.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gerard Buggy | Technology Fund Owner | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Gerard Buggy invest in?

Gerard Buggy invests primarily in SaaS, Privacy and Big Data startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Gerard Buggy last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Gerard Buggy closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 2 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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