Top 5 Proptech Angel Investors in Ireland in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 5 angel investors that invest in Proptech startups based in Ireland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Proptech companies from Ireland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Proptech Angel Investors in Ireland in January 2025

Investor	Proptech Ireland investments
Killian O’Higgins	1
Chris Evdaimon	1
Chris Burggraeve	1
Jim Mountjoy	1
Brian Caulfield	1

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Killian O'Higgins is a Chartered Surveyor with 37 years' experience in the Ireland, UK, Continental Europe, Middle East, USA and Asia Pacific. In Ireland, Killian started his career at Lisney before moving to Sherry FitzGerald, joining in 1983, shortly after the Sherry & Sons/FitzGerald & Partners merger. He spent 18 yearsgrowing and developing the business with a particular focus on commercial property, becoming Managing Director of DTZ Sherry FitzGerald in 1998.

Investment focus

FinTech, Real Estate
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Geowox — Geowox automates home valuations for the digital mortgage journey. We build online workflow tools for lender websites, automate valuations and offer accredited surveyor sign-off.

Chris is working in the Private Companies team at Baillie Gifford, based in the Bay Area. Prior to Baillie Gifford, he was a Partner at China's Sinovation Ventures for 10 years, initially in Beijing and then in Silicon Valley. He has 20 years of “hands on” entrepreneurial and early stage investments experience.With Baillie Gifford, Chris hasworked on the investments behind Joby Aviation, Allbirds, Nuro, Honor and goPuff. With Sinovation in Beijing, Chris invested in the early rounds and actively worked on multiple portfolio companies, including Zhihu (NYSE:ZH), Wandoujia (acquired by Alibaba), Umeng (acquired by Alibaba) and Anquanbao (acquired by Baidu). He also designed, setup and operated the firm's incubation programs, as well as led the firm's fundraising efforts and investor relations. In Silicon Valley, Chris established and managed the firm's team and investment practice in the US. He invested in the early rounds and actively worked on multiple companies, with a focus on industrial automation, robotics, and edtech, including Fictiv, Compology, Eight Sleep, Dishcraft Robotics, Traptic, XYZ Robotics, Deep Vision, Fero Labs, Swivl, Abl Schools, Securly, ClassWallet, Swing Education, and others. Prior to Sinovation, Chris was a Managing Partner at Eastern Bell Venture Capital. He also served as the CEO of ICDL Asia, an organization in the computer skills certification sector with operations in over 25 Asian countries, which he helped turnaround and relocate to Singapore. Prior to going to Asia, Chris co-founded and managed ECDL Hellas in his native Athens, Greece.Chris holds a M.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College in London and an MBA from INSEAD.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, China, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Cosm — We Are Storytellers, Curators, and Innovators. It is our mission to foster the art of fulldome filmmaking and the immersive creator ecosystem. We have gathered an interdisciplinary community of some of the most talented artists, filmmakers, technologists, and experience designers, to push the boundaries of immersive storytelling and design.
UPSIDE Foods — Growing real meat directly from animal cells.
Finclude — Finclude revolutionizes creditworthiness & affordability assessment of individuals with machine learning on their transactions, powered by PSD2 APIs.

Chris Burggraeve - Founder @ Vicomte

Investment focus

Credit, Marketplace, Financial Services
Series A, Angel, Seed
United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Greenrush — Get weed delivered to your door with greenrush's cannabis delivery service. Our app let's you buy weed online from a network of local dispensaries near you.
Arcview Group — The ArcView Group works in the burgeoning legal cannabis industry by establishing connections between investors and entrepreneurs in an effort to meet the needs of cannabis cultivators, dispensaries, and customers. With industry experience, The ArcView Group is working to help usher in the next generation of cannabis-related businesses with thecreation of The ArcView Angel Network and the MyDispensary Mobile App.
Finclude — Finclude revolutionizes creditworthiness & affordability assessment of individuals with machine learning on their transactions, powered by PSD2 APIs.

Dr. Jim Mountjoy is the Board Director of Corvil.He is also a Deputy Chairman of Science Foundation Ireland.Dr. Mountjoy founded Euristix, an innovative supplier of advanced network management software solutions for the telecommunications industry. Euristix became a market leader and was sold to Fore Systems for US $80 million in February1999, a value that increased to US$175 million in two months when Fore Systems was acquired by Marconi.Dr. Mountjoy is currently involved as an investor and in a non-executive capacity with a number of technology companies and is a Board member of the,Abbey Theatre,Barnardos, the childrens’ charity.

Investment focus

Software, Real Estate, Consumer Goods
Series A
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Clavis Insight — Clavis eCommerce Insight is the Industry leader for Online Store Analytics. We deliver data, analysis and insights to enable consumer goods brands to track and optimize their online channel presence and performance.The solution analyzes everything consumers see in online retailer stores to quickly identify the actions brand owners andmanufacturers need to take to drive profitable eCommerce growth, protect their brands and beat the competition online.The majority of the world’s leading Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies including Unilever, Procter & Gamble, and Nestlé use Clavis Insight for online store analytics today.

Brian Caulfield is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and angel investor. He is a General Partner at DFJ Esprit (http://www.dfjesprit.com/).Brian currently sits on the boards of Datahug, Movidius, MTT, Clavis Technology and the Irish Times, Ireland's leading daily newspaper. He is also a personal investor in a number ofearly stage technology companies including Cicero Networks, GridStore and Teamer.From 2002 to 2007 Brian was a partner at Trinity Venture Capital. At TVC Brian sat on the boards of or led investments in AePONA (sold to Intel - Nasdaq: INTC), ChangingWorlds (Amdocs - NYSE: DOX), CR2, SteelTrace (Compuware - NASDAQ: CPWR) and APT (CSR LSE:CSR.L). Previously, in 1992 Brian co-founded Exceptis Technologies. Exceptis provided dispute management software for the electronic/card payments sector and was sold to Trintech Group (NASDAQ: TTPA) in November 2000. In 2001 Brian co-founded Similarity Systems, a business focused data quality management software company that was acquired by Informatica (NASDAQ: INFA) in January 2006. Brian was also a founder director and shareholder of Prediction Dynamics, which failed in 2004.Brian is a Computer Engineering graduate of Trinity College Dublin. Brian was the 2007 recipient of the Irish Software Association's "Technology Person of the Year" award. In 2010 he also received the Halo Business Angel Network's Business Angel of the Year award.