# Ireland Strategic Investment Fund

> Ireland Strategic Investment Fund is a VC fund backing Software and Analytics. See 35 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dublin, Ireland
- Total investments: 35
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 54%
- Last fund: May 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/national-treasury-management-agency/
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/ntma_ie
- Website: http://isif.ie/

Ireland Strategic Investment Fund is a VC fund in Dublin focused on Software and Analytics. The Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, managed and controlled by the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA), is an €8.5 billion sovereign development fund with a unique mandate. We have a statutory mandate to invest on a commercial basis in a manner designed to support economic activity and employment in Ireland. With €8.5 billion availableto deploy, the Fund differs from other pools of capital in a number of key respects. It has a long investment time horizon and therefore can act as a permanent or patient source of long-term capital. It has flexibility up and down the capital structure and can therefore meet changing capital needs and gaps in the marketplace.The Fund will seek to invest in transactions where it can make a difference, where its characteristics can enable commercial investment transactions with positive economic impact and can make it an attractive “investor of choice” for company and project sponsors and advisors.We are a strategic investor with strong connections in both the public and private sectors. We are uniquely positioned to make connections and drive innovation across multiple industry players developing and delivering innovative opportunities that might otherwise go unrealised.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series C | $10M–$200M |
| Series D | $25M–$50M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 23% |
| Analytics | 5 | 14% |
| Biotechnology | 4 | 11% |
| Health Care | 3 | 9% |
| Cyber Security | 3 | 9% |

74 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 7 | 20% |
| Series C | 5 | 14% |
| Series D | 4 | 11% |
| Series A | 3 | 9% |
| Series B | 3 | 9% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ireland | 17 | 49% |
| United States | 7 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 6% |
| Israel | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fergal McAleavey | Senior Investment Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fergal-mcaleavey |
| James Brennan | Investment Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-brennan-161c |
| Patrick O' Regan | Senior Investment Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/patrick-o-regan |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CameraMatics | CameraMatics is a cutting-edge software platform that enables companies to manage fleet and driver risk by improving safety, reducing collisions and operating a safe, compliant fleet. | $56.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 10, 2026 |  |
| Manna Air Delivery | Manna is a Drone Delivery “As a Service” business. We enable, transform and grow local businesses of all types by powering a 3-minute delivery service across a 30 square mile catchment area for them. Reaching more customers - more quickly and in a more scalable way than road-based delivery.Manna is regulated by the relevant aviation regulatorybodies in Europe and USA. | $50M | Series B | Apr 01, 2026 |  |
| equal1 | Equal1 is accelerating the introduction of useful, cost-effective quantum computers within a three-year time horizon. The company has developed a disruptive, scalable and cost-effective quantum computing technology, based on a commercially available silicon semiconductor process. Our solution uses nanometer-scale quantum dots to form qubits on astandard silicon CMOS process. Along with silicon qubits, we have integrated all functions required for a quantum processing unit (QPU) – the brain of the quantum computer – which operates at 3 kelvin with over 10 million transistors. This is the first integrated quantum processing unit of its kind. | $60M |  | Jan 15, 2026 |  |
| ProVerum Medical | ProVerum Medical is a healthcare company that develops innovative treatments for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). ProVerum develops the ProVee System, which is a minimally invasive implant that gently opens the blocked part of the urethra without cutting, heating, or removing tissue. | $80M | Series B | Aug 25, 2025 |  |
| FIRE1 | FIRE1 and is based in Dublin, Ireland, will focus on developing novel therapeutic devices. |  |  | Jan 07, 2025 |  |
| FIRE1 | FIRE1 and is based in Dublin, Ireland, will focus on developing novel therapeutic devices. | $120M | Series B | Jan 07, 2025 |  |
| FIRE1 | FIRE1 and is based in Dublin, Ireland, will focus on developing novel therapeutic devices. | $25M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 15, 2023 |  |
| Aer Lingus | Aer Lingus is a national airline. They focus on aer lingus, business class, and aerClub. | $220.6M | Debt Financing | Mar 22, 2022 |  |
| Vectra AI | Vectra is a cybersecurity platform that uses AI to detect and automatically stop attackers in real-time while collecting data to perform conclusive incident investigations. It specializes in cloud and network detection and response (NDR) – from cloud and data center workloads to accounts, user, and IoT devices. The company offers four applicationson the Cognito platform to address high-priority use cases. Cognito Detect for Office365 and Azure AD finds and stops attacks in enterprise SaaS applications and the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. Cognito Stream sends security-enriched metadata in zeek format to data lakes and SIEMs. Cognito Recall is a cloud-based application to store and investigate threats in enriched metadata. And Cognito Detect uses AI to reveal and prioritize hidden and unknown attackers at speed. Vectra was founded in 2011 and is based in San Jose, California. | $130M | Series F | Apr 29, 2021 |  |
| Vectra AI | Vectra AI develops an AI-driven integrated attack signal for threat detection and response. It empowers hybrid and multi-cloud enterprises to see and stop advanced attacks before they become breaches. The company assists SOC analysts in turning the tables on attackers by applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to the problem offinding attack signals. | $130M | Series F | Apr 29, 2021 |  |

10 of 35 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Enterprise Ireland](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enterprise-ireland) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Atlantic Bridge](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atlantic-bridge) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Blackstone Innovations Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackstone-innovation-investments) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Gilde Healthcare](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gilde-healthcare-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Lightstone Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightstone-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Polaris Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/polaris-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Ireland Strategic Investment Fund invest in?

Ireland Strategic Investment Fund invests primarily in Software, Analytics and Biotechnology startups, most often at Funding Round and Series C stage. Most of the 35 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Ireland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Ireland Strategic Investment Fund's check size?

Ireland Strategic Investment Fund typically joins rounds of $10M–$200M at Series C and $25M–$50M at Series D. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ireland Strategic Investment Fund participates in.

### How do I contact Ireland Strategic Investment Fund?

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### Who are the partners at Ireland Strategic Investment Fund?

The team at Ireland Strategic Investment Fund includes Fergal McAleavey (Senior Investment Director), James Brennan (Investment Director) and Patrick O' Regan (Senior Investment Manager). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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