# Niall Olden

> Niall Olden is a funding round investor at Kernel Capital backing Compliance and Health Care. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Kernel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kernel-capital-partners)
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niall-olden-273773132/?locale=de_DE

Niall Olden is a funding round investor at Kernel Capital focused on Compliance and Health Care. Niall Olden is Founder and Managing Partner of Kernel Capital and a Non Executive Director of associate company Seroba Kernel Life Sciences Ltd. He has held a wide range of non executive directorships across general industry, technology and life science companies.His current directorships include Stokes Bio, MP Stor, Straatum Processware, ChipSensors, Mini Storage Holdings and Intune Networks. In 1999 he founded Kernel Capital a firm which, with its associate company Seroba Kernel Life Science Ltd has in excess of €190m in active venture capital funds under management.Niall has a BComm, 1988, from the National University of Ireland, Cork. He is a Chartered Management Accountant, 1994. He has an MSc International Business, 2007, from Dublin University (Trinity College).

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Compliance | 2 | 25% |
| Health Care | 2 | 25% |
| Risk Management | 2 | 25% |
| SaaS | 1 | 13% |
| FinTech | 1 | 13% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 3 | 38% |
| Seed | 2 | 25% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ireland | 5 | 63% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Causeway Sensors | The Affinity, is a compact, bench-top Biosensor providing accurate real-time analysis at an accessible price. The Affinity biosensor and accompanying Access Chip incorporate the latest advancements in Nanotechnology, providing the biochemistry researcher the perfect platform to explore the complex world of biomolecular interactions. | $2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 15, 2022 |  |
| Nova Leah | Nova Leah believe in excellence through knowledge development, sharing and collaboration to enhance the security assurance of medical devices. Nova Leah's product, SelectEvidence, is an intelligent cybersecurity risk management compliance solution aimed at medical device manufacturers and healthcare providers. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 07, 2021 |  |
| Kianda | Kianda is a cloud-based No Code business process automation platform, providing a platform within user’s browser, integrated seamlessly with back-end systems, enabling users simply build forms and workflows to streamline complex business operations.They focus on a single goal - bringing digital business process automation and collaboration to thenext level. they have been working with companies from all sizes and industries to help them achieve their digital transformation goals. Their vision for Kianda is to become a global BPM product helping enterprises realise their full potential by providing them innovative collaboration solutions to communicate, share, reduce resolution times and improve efficiency.Kianda is located in The LINC Innovation Center in ITB, Dublin, supported by Local Enterprise Office Fingal and involved with Enterprise Ireland. | $1.7M | Seed | Oct 18, 2021 |  |
| Corlytics | Corlytics is the world leader in regulatory risk intelligence. Positive regulatory outcomes are of enormous benefit to regulators, regulated firms and their clients. Corlytics uniquely analyses enforcement data and other important regulatory information. This helps all stakeholders achieve better regulatory planning and execution, by providingevidence-based intelligence. We do this by providing a unique multidisciplinary team of legal analysts, risk professionals and data scientists. Our intelligence is used by regulators, financial institutions and their advisors on a global basis.Working in partnership with regulators and eminent financial institutions globally. We will enable a more transparent and stable financial system through greater regulatory compliance. By delivering world-class regulatory risk data and analytics, we empower our partners to make transformational, informed, positive choices.Corlytics operates as a trusted strategic partner to banks and financial institutions globally.Set up in 2013, the Corlytics team has understood from the beginning that to restore trust and build transparency in global finance system, intelligence needs to be developed for multiple players. Data needs to be understood by different departments within financial houses. The lawyers in compliance and the mathematicians in risk. The market and the regulators need the same view. | $3.3M |  | Jan 04, 2017 |  |
| Corlytics | Corlytics is the world leader in regulatory risk intelligence. Positive regulatory outcomes are of enormous benefit to regulators, regulated firms and their clients. Corlytics uniquely analyses enforcement data and other important regulatory information. This helps all stakeholders achieve better regulatory planning and execution, by providingevidence-based intelligence. We do this by providing a unique multidisciplinary team of legal analysts, risk professionals and data scientists. Our intelligence is used by regulators, financial institutions and their advisors on a global basis.Working in partnership with regulators and eminent financial institutions globally. We will enable a more transparent and stable financial system through greater regulatory compliance. By delivering world-class regulatory risk data and analytics, we empower our partners to make transformational, informed, positive choices.Corlytics operates as a trusted strategic partner to banks and financial institutions globally.Set up in 2013, the Corlytics team has understood from the beginning that to restore trust and build transparency in global finance system, intelligence needs to be developed for multiple players. Data needs to be understood by different departments within financial houses. The lawyers in compliance and the mathematicians in risk. The market and the regulators need the same view. | $1.1M | Seed | Jun 18, 2015 |  |
| ChipSensors | ChipSensors Ltd is a fabless semiconductor company, developing and producing novel sensors on deep submicron CMOS for measuring temperature, humidity and gases. Founded in 2007, ChipSensors is led by a team of industry professionals, all of whom have extensive experience in the design and manufacture of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors. | $2.7M |  | Apr 20, 2010 |  |
| Intune Networks | Intune Networks have developed a new networking technology, allowing telecoms operators to build networks that are far simpler to operate and with much greater connectivity than previously possible.Intune have created a new way of switching packets over long distances, creating an optical Ethernet switch fabric that can switch packets inreal-time across hundreds of kilometres. Intune's technology uses tuneable LASERs to switch packets using the emerging OBS (Optical Burst Switching) standard. This reduces network complexity and drastically reduces the number of network components required, as well as making bandwidth instantly available to any point in the network. | $32.5M |  | Oct 02, 2009 |  |
| ChipSensors | ChipSensors Ltd is a fabless semiconductor company, developing and producing novel sensors on deep submicron CMOS for measuring temperature, humidity and gases. Founded in 2007, ChipSensors is led by a team of industry professionals, all of whom have extensive experience in the design and manufacture of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors. | $1.4M |  | Aug 01, 2007 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Amadeus Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amadeus-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Balderton Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/balderton-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Enterprise Ireland](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enterprise-ireland) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Infinity Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/infinity-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Invest Northern Ireland](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/invest-northern-ireland) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Northwell Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/northwell-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Kernel Capital

VC Fund · Cork, Ireland

Kernel Capital is the independent manager of The Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Venture Funds, one of the largest and most active sources of equity finance on the island of Ireland. Kernel leverage their extensive network to enable their portfolio companies recruit the highest caliber people, to break into new international markets and to generaterevenues of scale. It is the only investment firm with venture capital Funds dedicated to both jurisdictions on the Island. Kernel have raised over €210M from investors which including their strategic partner Bank of Ireland, Invest NI, Enterprise Ireland, Galway University Foundation, The University of Limerick Foundation, The New York State Common Retirement Fund and undisclosed Family Offices. Consistently delivering strong financial returns for their investors Kernel have led more than 20 substantial trade sales to NASDAQ, NYSE, and LSE listed corporations.

5 contacts available at Kernel Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Niall Olden | Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/niall-olden |
| Orla Rimmington | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/orla-rimmington |
| Sigurdur Sævarsson | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sigurdur-svarsson |
| Alan Seacy | Financial Controller | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alan-seacy |
| Brendan Vaughan | Senior Investment Executive | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brendan-vaughan |

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## FAQ

### What does Niall Olden invest in?

Niall Olden invests primarily in Compliance, Health Care and Risk Management startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Ireland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Niall Olden last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Niall Olden closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 8 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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