Shay Garvey
Venture Partner @ Frontline Ventures
Dublin, Ireland
Shay Garvey is a seed investor at Frontline Ventures in Dublin focused on SaaS and FinTech. Shay is a founding partner of Frontline Ventures and one of the most active and experienced early stage technology investors in Europe. He was part of the core team of Delta Partners that raised 4 funds and €235m between 1994-2007. He has invested in 25 early stage tech companies and achieved exits over a number of cycles. He has deep networksamong investors and the entrepreneurial community in Ireland and USA.Earlier in his career Shay worked in industry with Exxon and Corning before joining McKinsey. Shay then returned to Ireland and spent seven years in the Irish start up scene as a founder/investor in two companies and CEO of a major food exporter before joining the venture capital industry.Shay has served on the boards of the Irish Venture Capital Association, the Trinity College Science Gallery and the Harvard Business School European Leadership Council.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 70%
Last updated:
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Industries Shay Garvey invests in
Stages Shay Garvey invests in
Countries Shay Garvey invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $424k–$3.5M
- Series A
- $2.8M–$10M
Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 2 (20%)
- FinTech 2 (20%)
- Analytics 2 (20%)
- Financial Services 2 (20%)
- Sales 1 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (30%)
- Series A 2 (20%)
- Series B 1 (10%)
- Funding Round 1 (10%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (10%)
Country
- Ireland 2 (20%)
- United States 2 (20%)
- United Kingdom 1 (10%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Appital
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Appital, the Equity Capital Marketplace, brings technological innovation and automation to equity capital markets, unlocking and uncovering liquidity for investors. The Appital platform allows the buy-side community to gain greater exposure to deal flow and execution opportunities in highly illiquid small and mid-cap stocks, often in excess of 5days of ADV, with minimal market impact or risk of price erosion.Appital’s distribution methodology is highly efficient, unbiased and unconflicted, delivering a fair outcome for all market participants. Appital’s buy-side community has access to real-time visibility, full transparency and maximum control over the book building and deal distribution process. The Appital platform can be integrated into existing OMS and EMS systems and workflows, and the desktop application is also available on OpenFin. | $2.1M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 09, 2022 | |
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Appital
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Appital, the Equity Capital Marketplace, brings technological innovation and automation to equity capital markets, unlocking and uncovering liquidity for investors. The Appital platform allows the buy-side community to gain greater exposure to deal flow and execution opportunities in highly illiquid small and mid-cap stocks, often in excess of 5days of ADV, with minimal market impact or risk of price erosion.Appital’s distribution methodology is highly efficient, unbiased and unconflicted, delivering a fair outcome for all market participants. Appital’s buy-side community has access to real-time visibility, full transparency and maximum control over the book building and deal distribution process. The Appital platform can be integrated into existing OMS and EMS systems and workflows, and the desktop application is also available on OpenFin. | $3.5M / Seed / Aug 12, 2021 | |
Qstream
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Qstream is a microlearning platform that quantifiably improves job proficiency and changes behavior that results in teams who excel. The company specializes in the fields of analytics, enterprise software, health care, and medical device. The company was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts. | $15M / Series B / Dec 01, 2016 | |
ChangeX
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ChangeX is a platform of proven ideas to strengthen communities from across the world. ChangeX allows you to discover proven ideas and provides the blueprints and support you need to get these ideas up and running in your local community. | $424K / Seed / Jul 22, 2015 | |
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Qstream
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Qstream is a microlearning platform that quantifiably improves job proficiency and changes behavior that results in teams who excel. The company specializes in the fields of analytics, enterprise software, health care, and medical device. The company was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts. | $4M / Series A / Jan 13, 2015 | |
Logentries
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Logentries is a SaaS-delivered log management and analytics service, developed to make machine-generated log data easily accessible to developers, operations, and business analytics customers. While traditional log management and analytics solutions require advanced technical skills to use, and are costly to set-up, Logentries provides anaccessible alternative for managing huge amounts of data, visualizing insights that matter, and sharing that information across the business. With more than 20,000 users in over 100 countries, Logentries is processing billions of events everyday. | $10M / Series A / Sep 30, 2013 | |
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Qstream
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Qstream is a microlearning platform that quantifiably improves job proficiency and changes behavior that results in teams who excel. The company specializes in the fields of analytics, enterprise software, health care, and medical device. The company was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts. | $2.8M / Series A / Sep 27, 2013 | |
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Logentries
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Logentries is a SaaS-delivered log management and analytics service, developed to make machine-generated log data easily accessible to developers, operations, and business analytics customers. While traditional log management and analytics solutions require advanced technical skills to use, and are costly to set-up, Logentries provides anaccessible alternative for managing huge amounts of data, visualizing insights that matter, and sharing that information across the business. With more than 20,000 users in over 100 countries, Logentries is processing billions of events everyday. | $1.1M / Seed / Jul 17, 2012 | |
Linked Finance
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LinkedFinance offers a new and painless way for Irish businesses to borrow money from a large group of real people, including their own customers. Crowd Funding is the new way for companies to borrow, bankers get bypassed, the wheels of business keep turning and everyone wins!Person to Person (P2P) lending or Crowd Funding is simple. Peoplewith money to lend can lend it directly to people who need it. With LinkedFinance lenders can lend directly to small businesses looking for funding. Crowd Funding provides complete transparency to both the lender and borrower and it brings lending back to basics where a lender simply deposits funds and when there are enough funds available loans can be made to credit worthy borrowers.How it Works - Businesses looking for a loan can apply at Linkedfinance.com for funding. The loan required and full details of the business are posted in their market. Potential Lenders can participate in an auction process where they bid on how much of the loan they are prepared to fund and the interest rate they require. The lowest rate bids are accepted so the borrower secures the best interest rate possible. | $2.7M | |
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Linked Finance
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LinkedFinance offers a new and painless way for Irish businesses to borrow money from a large group of real people, including their own customers. Crowd Funding is the new way for companies to borrow, bankers get bypassed, the wheels of business keep turning and everyone wins!Person to Person (P2P) lending or Crowd Funding is simple. Peoplewith money to lend can lend it directly to people who need it. With LinkedFinance lenders can lend directly to small businesses looking for funding. Crowd Funding provides complete transparency to both the lender and borrower and it brings lending back to basics where a lender simply deposits funds and when there are enough funds available loans can be made to credit worthy borrowers.How it Works - Businesses looking for a loan can apply at Linkedfinance.com for funding. The loan required and full details of the business are posted in their market. Potential Lenders can participate in an auction process where they bid on how much of the loan they are prepared to fund and the interest rate they require. The lowest rate bids are accepted so the borrower secures the best interest rate possible. | $2.2M |
Co-Investors
LaunchPad Venture
3 deals together
Polaris Partners
3 deals together
Excel Venture Management
2 deals together
RRE Ventures
2 deals together
Floodgate
1 deal together
About Frontline Ventures
Wherever you are on your journey we have the fund to help you expandEXPERTS IN EXPANSION Founders see what the world misses. In fast pursuit of opportunity, you make critical decisions with little certainty. We get it, because we’ve been there. Frontline is the venture firm for globally ambitious B2B companies on both sides of the Atlantic.Frontline Seed speeds up ideas at inception across Europe. Frontline X is a growth-stage fund, for fast and frictionless US-Europe expansion.WE'VE LEARNED IT THE HARD WAY As a team of entrepreneurs, we have built many businesses, many ways. And as a venture fund, we’ve helped tens of founders and CEOs cross the pond. We’ve scaled too – with team members in Dublin, London and San Francisco. Today, our team, LPs and advisors represent senior leadership at many of the world’s most successful B2B companies (Think: Segment, Stripe, Looker, Linkedin, Airtable, Google and Workday – to name a few). Collectively, we can add value when founders need it most – at company defining moments.CAPITAL IS CHEAP Look around; the venture market is drowning in noise. Hundreds of funds and millions of blogposts – all claiming to “add value” left and right. We believe that capital is cheap, and we know that value-add is not made equal. Our focus is clear; we back challengers with global ambition, and we dedicate our time to helping them fly higher – faster. Our experience makes us knowledgeable. Our global network makes us unique. Want more detail or first-hand accounts? we are happy to introduce you to our founders.SYMBIOSIS In nature, the best things work together. We see the landscape ahead and can warn you of the risks, while you stay strong and focused on your goals. Indispensable; that’s how we see our relationship.
Frontline Ventures Contacts
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David Clarke
Venture Partner
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Shay Garvey
Venture Partner
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Brennan O'Donnell
Partner
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George Radford
Principal
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Jamie Bristow
Principal
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FAQ
What does Shay Garvey invest in?
Shay Garvey invests primarily in SaaS, FinTech and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Ireland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Shay Garvey's check size?
Shay Garvey typically joins rounds of $424k–$3.5M at Seed and $2.8M–$10M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Shay Garvey participates in.
When did Shay Garvey last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Shay Garvey closed in Aug 2022. Shizune tracks 10 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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