Top 10 Retail Angel Investors in Ireland in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 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 in November 2024

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

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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.

Investment focus

Travel, Video, Retail
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

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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.

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.

Dan Ryan is the Chief Operating Officer of Kokoro Zenwear and Commercial Director at Peachylean.

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.

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, Pre-Seed, 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 — Empower your Gen AI projects with Inspeq AI. Our platform enables financial institutions to responsibly deploy and manage generative AI applications.
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Meg Lustman is the former chief executive of Hobbs London.

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.

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

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.
Personify XP — Discover how Aprimo's Content Personalization solution enables brands to deliver tailored, relevant experiences to customers at scale, enhancing engagement and driving conversions through AI-driven insights and automation.

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

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.

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.