Top 10 Retail Angel Investors in Ireland in January 2026
A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Retail startups based in Ireland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Retail companies from Ireland. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Retail Angel Investors in Ireland in January 2026
| Investor | Retail Ireland investments |
|---|---|
| Bobby Healy | 1 |
| Christer Holloman | 1 |
| Tom Kennedy | 1 |
| Touker Suleyman | 1 |
| Dan Ryan | 1 |
| Desmond Green | 1 |
| Meg Lustman | 1 |
| Heather Morris | 1 |
| Tej Lalvani | 1 |
| Georgina Smallwood | 1 |
Bobby Healy is an experienced inventor and technology entrepreneur specialising in booking engine software. He joined CarTrawler in 2005 having begun his career building computer games for Nintendo at 16 years of age. Prior to joining CarTrawler, Bobby founded Eland Technologies which he later sold to airline technology giant SITA and remained asCTO until 2005. His booking solutions are now in use by 80% of the world's top 20 airlines. Bobby continues to be an avid computer programmer and is a frequent speaker on the international circuit on subjects related to technology in the airline industry, ancillary revenue and online distribution.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Local, Guides
- Angel, Series A, Funding Round
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Roomex — Want to make business travel easier? Search, book, manage, and pay for all your business hotel bookings in one place.
- Coindrum — Coindrum provides coin machines to spend your coin jars. No more manual counting, sorting or bagging!
- LikeWhere — LikeWhere's service helps travel brands identify the individual interests of their customers, so they can personalise their digital engagement, generating more revenues. LikeWhere utilises ‘affinity-marketing’ techniques deployed by brands including Amazon, Spotify & Netflix (‘others like you also liked this’), enabling travel brands tooptimise their retail strategy.
Founder of Divido, the world’s largest white-label saas platform for Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL). Prior to starting Divido, he launched Glassdoor.com in EMEA which subsequently got acquired for $1.2bn USD. Hold an MBA from the University of Oxford and is an active early-stage advisor, investor and NED.
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- Health Care, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom, Sweden, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Gilion — Gilion (Formerly known as Ark Kapital) is creating custom growth loans that helps founders protect equity. Because founders who remain in control, are hard to overtake.
- Juno — Meet Juno, a workplace wellbeing programme that you control.
- Superlayer — Superlayer drives better performance for sales teams, leveraging and automating best practices to close more deals in less time.
Tom has a proven track record as an entrepreneur and in building a global e-commerce business from Dublin as a co-founder of www.hostelworld.com (Web Reservations International). Tom achieved a successful exit from Hostelworld.com in 1999, generating $500m in shareholder value. He previously owned Avalon House hostel in Dublin. When he’s notworking, Tom enjoys the gastronomic delights of life and the views of the Wicklow mountains from the saddle of his bicycle.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Video, Retail
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Gigable — Join the fastest growing delivery network. Signup as a business to access freelancers or signup as a freelancer to earn additional income.
- Coindrum — Coindrum provides coin machines to spend your coin jars. No more manual counting, sorting or bagging!
- VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.
Touker Suleyman is a multi-millionaire Turkish Cypriot fashion retail entrepreneur and investor. In 2001, his company Low Profile Group purchased UK shirt maker Hawes & Curtis, and in 2008 he purchased UK fashion label Ghost. More recently, he has invested in a number of start-up companies including Bikesoup and Huxley & Cox.
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- CRM, Digital Media, Advertising Platforms
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Gener8 — We believe that the advertising industry needs more transparency and that people should be able to control their own data. Our technology gives people the control that is currently missing. And if people choose to share their data with advertisers, we reward them for it. Consequently, people trust us and 83% of them share their data with us.Meaning that we have an incredible understanding about these people and their online behaviour. We work with companies (and their media agencies) in the capacity of a media owner to do three things: 1. Provide premium media for you to reach this highly defined audience.2. Use our proprietary first party data to unveil actionable insights about your customers, eg. their purchase habits.3. To promote your brand and drive an action from your audience.
- Mood Bears — Mood Bears provides comfort, connection, and care through designed bears, each symbolizing an emotion or mood to promote mental health.
- Tiny Explorers — Discover Tiny Explorers' eco-friendly baby equipment rental across the UK Convenient, sustainable & hassle-free solutions for busy families!
Dan Ryan is the Chief Operating Officer of Kokoro Zenwear and Commercial Director at Peachylean.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Fashion, Fitness
- Angel
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Peachy Lean — Peachylean, is an Irish based athleisure business providing stylish, high quality, supportive, high waisted gym leggings. We want to support strong women who like to look good while working out in the gym.
Desmond Green is an entrepreneur.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Children
- Angel
- Ireland
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- Kindora — Kindora buys, sells, and rents premium pre-owned items – from cots and strollers to nursery furniture – after a deep clean.
Meg Lustman is the former chief executive of Hobbs London.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Fashion, Fitness
- Angel
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Peachy Lean — Peachylean, is an Irish based athleisure business providing stylish, high quality, supportive, high waisted gym leggings. We want to support strong women who like to look good while working out in the gym.
Heather Morris is the Entrepreneur In Residence at NDRC. She attended The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, EdTech, Internet
- Pre-Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Kindora — Kindora buys, sells, and rents premium pre-owned items – from cots and strollers to nursery furniture – after a deep clean.
- inspeq ai — Explore how Inspeq.ai transforms inspections with AI-powered solutions, delivering real-time insights, enhanced efficiency, and smarter decision-making.
- Talio — Making complex insight tasks easy with AI powered automation
Tej Lalvani is the CEO of Vitabiotics.
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Investment focus
- Fashion, Advertising, Beauty
- Angel, Seed
- India, Ireland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- POPxo — POPxo is India's online community for women that deals everything from fashion, beauty, lifestyle, work, and etc.Reaching 9 million users every month with over 102 million monthly engaged content views. POPxo provides text and video content in an accessible manner, and reach them where they live their lives: on social media and on mobile.It focuses on reaching a highly targeted audience - the millions of young urban women in India who are growing in confidence, in independence and in spending power, it monetises by working across formats (native ads, social posts, events) with brands who want to reach this important and influential consumer base.I was launch in March 2014 it's become the go-to lifestyle resource for the female (18-34) demographic.
- Gener8 — We believe that the advertising industry needs more transparency and that people should be able to control their own data. Our technology gives people the control that is currently missing. And if people choose to share their data with advertisers, we reward them for it. Consequently, people trust us and 83% of them share their data with us.Meaning that we have an incredible understanding about these people and their online behaviour. We work with companies (and their media agencies) in the capacity of a media owner to do three things: 1. Provide premium media for you to reach this highly defined audience.2. Use our proprietary first party data to unveil actionable insights about your customers, eg. their purchase habits.3. To promote your brand and drive an action from your audience.
- Peachy Lean — Peachylean, is an Irish based athleisure business providing stylish, high quality, supportive, high waisted gym leggings. We want to support strong women who like to look good while working out in the gym.
Georgie Smallwood is the Chief Product Officer at N26. In her role, Georgie leads the global product strategy and the team responsible for its delivery. With over 12 years experience in global digital and software companies such as Xero, News Ltd and Scout24, her leadership, strategic thinking and operational effectiveness has benefited from herbreadth of experience. Leading large teams in multiple locations, Georgie leans into the challenges of scaling global businesses and believes that growth and change are always successful when done with high levels of communication (verbal and non verbal) and respect throughout an organization.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Software, Children
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Kindora — Kindora buys, sells, and rents premium pre-owned items – from cots and strollers to nursery furniture – after a deep clean.
- Remi — Add mood-sharing and icebreakers to async check-ins and meetings. Stay connected and build trust on your remote team every day.
- LiSA — Offer shoppable live video streams to all your online audiences in ONE highly engaging and conversion-boosting experience. Live Stream Shopping Software tailored to all your needs.
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