IrishAngels
VC Fund
Chicago, United States
IrishAngels is an early-stage venture firm focused on funding the most promising startups across the US. We invest in pre-seed and seed stage startups and leverage our active network to add value to the companies we fund. All investors have a link to the University of Notre Dame but we do not exclusively fund founders with Notre Dame connections.We invest in B2B SaaS, consumer, and medical companies.
- Total investments:
- 208
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 6%
- Fund size:
- $16M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries IrishAngels invests in
Stages IrishAngels invests in
Countries IrishAngels invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $792k–$3.9M
- Series A
- $1.3M–$9.5M
- Series B
- $3.6M–$25M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 29 (14%)
- SaaS 15 (7%)
- Analytics 14 (7%)
- E-Commerce 14 (7%)
- Health Care 13 (6%)
Stage
- Seed 67 (32%)
- Series A 27 (13%)
- Series B 16 (8%)
- Convertible Note 15 (7%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 7 (3%)
Country
- United States 95 (46%)
- United Kingdom 1 (0%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Caroline Gash
Managing Director
|
Managing Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Craig Chval
Senior Associate
|
Senior Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
John McNelis
Angel Investor
|
Angel Investor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Julie Moylan
Manager, Operations & Investor Relations
|
Manager, Operations & Investor Relations | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q-rounds is a real-time, virtual queue that patients, families, and providers can access while in the hospital to ensure that everyone is aware of when rounds are scheduled. Q-rounds has telehealth technology through which it takes the responsibility of caring. This relieves the patient's burden of sharing information by ensuring that othershear directly from the provider and can ask questions in real-time. | $1.8M / Seed / Mar 02, 2026 | ||
| Nichefire is an AI-power marketing analytics company. | $2.6M / Seed / Jan 07, 2025 | ||
| Laws of Motion is an AI sizing technology on a mission to reduce apparel returns to 1%. Combining state-of-the-art AI with concierge service, Laws of Motion provides product-specific size recommendations sitewide, invites customers to choose how they engage, and utilizes in-cart prompts that prevent size sampling. | $6.2M / Seed / May 15, 2024 | ||
| Elevate K-12 is an instructional services company that provides live streaming instruction to K-12 classrooms. The company offers a platform that provides instruction in a school's classroom by using its live stream technology to deliver a live class into a physical classroom through a multi-location stream and LMS.Elevate K-12 was foundedin 2015 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. | $25M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 15, 2024 | ||
| Last Gameboard is a technology company that is building the world's first board game console. It is a 3D capture device using our patented SenseScreen Touch technology. Its 16” x 16” screen allows players to use their own dice, cards, minis, and play anyone anywhere. Gameboard establishes meaningful in-person and online connections throughgameplay. | Convertible Note / Feb 27, 2024 | ||
| Avive Solutions develops a next-generation Automated External Defibrillator (AED) and software solutions. Avive's AED enables anyone to positively impact the outcome of a Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) rescue by building a more robust solution that addresses the problem of SCA in its entirety. The AED will remove barriers to respond to a SCAscenario. It will be easy to purchase, easy to access in an emergency, easy to keep maintained, and most importantly easy to use effectively when it matters most.Avive Solutions is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $56.5M / Series B / Feb 14, 2024 | ||
| TeamSense is empowering organizations to better engage and enable their hourly workers. | Seed / Feb 12, 2024 | ||
| ICHOR Vascular develops a percutaneous arterial embolectomy system for the treatment of critical limb ischemia. The company transforms the outcomes and the economics in treating vascular occlusions. ICHOR Vascular was founded in 2013 and is based in Miramar, Florida. | $2.9M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 05, 2024 | ||
| The Automotus team is on a mission to transform urban mobility by helping cities, airports, fleets, and small businesses manage the unprecedented rise in congestion and emissions from commercial vehicle traffic. We’ve developed first-of-its-kind computer vision technology that helps our customers make smarter policy decisions using comprehensive,real-time curb activity data; fully automate payment for commercial vehicle (un)loading and parking; automate enforcement of curbside violations; make accessible real-time curb availability data for drivers; and incentivize adoption of electric vehicles. From cities to residents and small businesses, our solutions are meant to benefit everyone by making our communities safer, healthier, and more efficient places to live and move. Our technology supports cities across the US and in Europe, including the nation’s first zero-emissions delivery zones in Santa Monica and Los Angeles. | $7M / Series A / Dec 04, 2023 | ||
| The Automotus team is on a mission to transform urban mobility by helping cities, airports, fleets, and small businesses manage the unprecedented rise in congestion and emissions from commercial vehicle traffic. We’ve developed first-of-its-kind computer vision technology that helps our customers make smarter policy decisions using comprehensive,real-time curb activity data; fully automate payment for commercial vehicle (un)loading and parking; automate enforcement of curbside violations; make accessible real-time curb availability data for drivers; and incentivize adoption of electric vehicles. From cities to residents and small businesses, our solutions are meant to benefit everyone by making our communities safer, healthier, and more efficient places to live and move. Our technology supports cities across the US and in Europe, including the nation’s first zero-emissions delivery zones in Santa Monica and Los Angeles. | Series A / Nov 27, 2023 | ||
| See all 208 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does IrishAngels invest in?
IrishAngels invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 208 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is IrishAngels's check size?
IrishAngels typically joins rounds of $792k–$3.9M at Seed, $1.3M–$9.5M at Series A and $3.6M–$25M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds IrishAngels participates in.
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Who are the partners at IrishAngels?
The team at IrishAngels includes Caroline Gash (Managing Director), Craig Chval (Senior Associate) and John McNelis (Angel Investor). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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