Top 10 Retail Angel Investors in Ireland

Last updated: Apr 2024 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

Investor	Retail Ireland investments
Bobby Healy	1
Touker Suleyman	1
Tej Lalvani	1
Heather Morris	1
Christer Holloman	1
Georgina Smallwood	1
Tom Kennedy	1
Desmond Green	1
Meg Lustman	1
Dan Ryan	1

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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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

CRM, Digital Media, Advertising Platforms
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Cablato — For the past 70 years broadcast TV advertising practices have remained fairly unchanged. The advent of data proliferation, technology advancements & shifting consumer behavior have created an opportunity for a seismic shift in how TV advertising is planned, targeted, purchased and measured - moving media dollars from traditional broadcasting toaddressable TV advertising.The next phase of broadcast and addressable TV evolution is the ability to personalize and serve dynamic video content and advertising, which aligns the content the consumer views to their interests, location, viewing habits or even the weather.Developing broadcast ready video personalization technology is extremely complex, with the technology needing to not only serve broadcast quality TV advertising, but also work seamlessly within the myriad of existing broadcast technologies, processes and regulations.Cablato has built the first technology solution that overcomes these challenges, enabling advertisers to create and serve highly engaging personalized video ads at scale, and to integrate into buy-side and broadcaster technology stacks that provide broadcasters with a new untapped revenue stream.Quantifiable KPIs / Business Performance Cablato has built the first video personalisation technology solution for OTT and addressable TV enabling advertisers to create and serve highly engaging personalized video ads at scale.Challenges we've had to solve in order to scale and get buy-in - Dynamic video creation and ad serving for both broadcaster managed & programmatic addressable TV - Cloud rendering and use of dynamic content within linear video files - Regulations, content approval and management - Buy-side technology integrations and use of data for personalisation - Sell-side technology integrations and use of data for personalisation
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.
Personify XP — Personify XP uses AI and automation personalization SAAS technology to help retailers understand what their customers are shopping for.The Personify Anonymous Experience platform is a platform to focuses exclusively on anonymous visitors. The company's AI platform connects great products with shoppers that don't know anything aboutthrough automating how content and products are shown to which shoppers and when. Personify XP provides a unique insight into how your anonymous customers shop whilst ensuring your customer's data is private and we are GDPR compliant out-of-the-box. We drive 15% additional revenue and 35% higher conversions through our patent-pending AI technology. Personify XP was founded in 2018 and based in London, England.

Tej Lalvani is the CEO of Vitabiotics.

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.

Heather Morris is the Entrepreneur In Residence at NDRC. She attended The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Investment focus

EdTech, Retail, Finance
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 — Inspeq AI uses metric-based evaluation and improves model performance, helps detect responses with low factual accuracy, and prevents them before serving to the end-users.
Frank Financial Aid — Tuition isn't cheap. Financial aid is hard to get. Meet Frank - We're here to change how you finance and pay for school.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, Sweden, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Juno — Meet Juno, a workplace wellbeing programme that you control.
Gilion (Formerly Ark Kapital) — Ark Kapital is a precision financing company that empowers technology businesses to grow faster, enables owners to maintain control, and reduces risk for investors. ArK is founded by a world-class AI technology developer, a six-time-founder, and the veteran banker you always wanted.
Superlayer — Superlayer drives better performance for sales teams, leveraging and automating best practices to close more deals in less time.

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.

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.

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.