# Niall Murphy

> Niall Murphy is a funding round investor at EVRYTHNG backing Mobile. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: EVRYTHNG
- Location: Manhattan, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Oct 2014
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/connectedbeing
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/nialltweet
- Website: http://www.evrythng.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/fb.niall

Niall Murphy is a CEO and co-founder of EVRYTHNG, the IoT Smart Products Platform connecting products to the Web and managing real-time data to drive applications and experiences. He is also known as a technologist and serial entrepreneur.Niall co-founder pan European WiFi network The Cloud with George Polk, ultimately acquired by BSkyB in2010. He founded one of the first ISPs in South Africa in a joint venture with Sprint, and three digital media businesses in South Africa. Niall co-founded Amsterdam-based scenario thinking consultancy The Digital Thinking Network in 1994 with Daniel Erasmus.He is a member of UK telecoms regulator Ofcom's advisory board, and was a co-author of the Wi-Fi International Roaming Access Protocols Framework in 2005.Murphy completed his secondary education at Redhill High School and obtained a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Witwatersrand.Murphy currently lives in New York, USA.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 1 | 100% |
| Wireless | 1 | 100% |
| Mobile Apps | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Instabridge | Instabridge is a Wi-Fi sharing community and mobile app, particularly popular in Brazil and Mexico. Its mission is to build a wifi sharing community on every city on the planet. Originally founded in late 2012 as a way to enable you to share your home Wi-Fi with friends on Facebook, the Stockholm-based company has since pivoted to become a broaderWi-Fi sharing community, and has found traction in developing markets where cellular data remains prohibitively expensive.The Instabridge app lets you share the details of any Wi-Fi hotspot with other Instabridge users, and provides access to Wi-Fi hotspots shared by everyone else in the community. This has enabled it to build a crowdsourced database of Wi-Fi hotspots, in addition to a list of known public venues that have free Wi-Fi, such as McDonald’s or Starbucks. | $1M |  | Oct 15, 2014 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Creandum](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creandum) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [GP Bullhound](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gp-bullhound) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About EVRYTHNG

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

EVRYTHNG is the internet of things smart products platform connecting consumer products to the Web and managing real-time data to drive applications and analytics throughout the product lifecycle. Its a consumer product manufacturers work with EVRYTHNG to manage billions of intelligent identities in the cloud for their products. This enables brandsto deliver digital services directly to end-users through their products, manage supply chains more effectively using real-time data, and operate smart products connected to the broader ecosystem of applications and services on the Web and in the enterprise.It was founded in 2011 and is based in London, Greater London.

5 contacts available at EVRYTHNG.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Niall Murphy | CEO & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/niall-murphy |
| Andy Hobsbawm | Co-Founder & Chief Marketing Officer | — |
| Curt Schacker | Vice President & Managing Director, Connected Products | — |
| Cyrus Gilbert-Rolfe | President & Managing Director, EMEA&O | — |
| Dominique Guinard | Co-Founder & CTO | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Niall Murphy invest in?

Niall Murphy invests primarily in Mobile, Wireless and Mobile Apps startups, most often at Funding Round stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Sweden. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Niall Murphy last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Niall Murphy closed in Oct 2014. Shizune tracks 1 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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