Top 50 SaaS Angel Investors in Ireland in April 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Saas startups based in Ireland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Saas companies from Ireland. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 SaaS Angel Investors in Ireland in April 2025
Investor | SaaS Ireland investments |
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Ray Nolan | 6 |
Gareth Lambe | 5 |
Brian Caulfield | 5 |
Pa Nolan | 4 |
Liam Casey | 4 |
Shane Naughton | 4 |
Des Traynor | 4 |
Michael Dwyer | 3 |
Kevin Hartz | 3 |
Anne Herarty | 3 |
Andrej Henkler | 3 |
David Shackleton | 3 |
Bradley Horowitz | 3 |
Tom Kennedy | 3 |
David Clarke | 3 |
Brian O'Driscoll | 2 |
Eamon Leonard | 2 |
Chris Adelsbach | 2 |
Peter O'Grady Walshe | 2 |
Constantin Pellissier | 2 |
Sean Baker | 2 |
Mark Cummins | 2 |
Sean Mullaney | 2 |
Peter Crowley | 2 |
Oleg Tikhturov | 2 |
Conor Stanley | 2 |
Chris Murphy | 2 |
Jared Messenger | 2 |
Walter Walsh | 2 |
Ian Madigan | 2 |
Hal Philipp | 2 |
Mike McGearty | 2 |
Chris Huskilson | 2 |
Patrick Joy | 2 |
Nigel Byrne | 2 |
Tony Smurfit | 2 |
Marc McCabe | 2 |
Declan Kelly | 2 |
Brian Patterson | 2 |
Rob Hickey | 2 |
Martin Ott | 2 |
Barry Lunn | 2 |
Paddy Flynn | 2 |
John Purdy | 2 |
Bobby Healy | 2 |
Charlie Songhurst | 2 |
John Corcoran | 1 |
Sam Perry | 1 |
Portman Wills | 1 |
Pádraig Canavan | 1 |
Ray Nolan - Non-Exec Chair @ XSellco
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Investment focus
- Apps, News, Software
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Kinzen — Kinzen's blend of human skill and scalable technology enables trust and safety professionals and policy makers to get ahead of emerging threats, detect policy violations faster and take the proportionate and appropriate action.
- Cohort — Cohort helps its users find the people they need through the people they already know through social media. Cohort is an Ireland-based company that was founded in 2015 by Eamon Leonard.
- REFLEX Gaming —
Gareth Lambe is the Chief Executive Officer of Medihive. He previously worked at Meta as a Board Of Directors. Gareth Lambe attended the University College Dublin.
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Investment focus
- Tourism, Payments, Software
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Imvizar — Transform your buildings, office spaces, visitor attractions, and parks with an immersive and visual storytelling experience using augmented reality. Discover unique ways to tell your story at Imvizar.
- CleverCards — The Platform for Contactless Cards. The CleverGift real-time payment platform offers gift cards, expenses, employee incentives, and travel foreign exchange.
- Bounce Insights — Bounce Insights is a digital consumer research platform. It provides a direct link between brands and any consumer they needed to speak to by maintaining a community of active, engaged respondents on their mobile app.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Examfly — Examfly make online learning tools for professional tax exams. Our solutions are exam focused and use proven techniques from Ed Tech and Education Psychology.
- Inclusio — The inclusio diversity and inclusion platform is designed to measure and positively shift the culture of your organisation. Contact us for more information.
- Moby Bikes — MOBY Bikes. e-bike rentals: Dublin, London, Amsterdam, Utrecht. Bike sharing, Delivery rider rental, corporate and hotel e-bike fleets
Pa Nolan
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Investment focus
- Medical, Delivery, Shipping
- Seed, Funding Round
- Ireland, United Kingdom
Liam is the founder and CEO of PCH.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Ireland, United Kingdom, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Pandas — B2B e-commerce platform connecting Asia with the +10 million of Latin America small merchants
- Tracworx — The future of packaging is returnable and reusable. We're building the digital infrastructure to enable it.
- &Open — For businesses that gift to give back, share joy, or show they care. All you need is an email.
Shane Naughton - Founding Partner and Board of Directors @ On The Stage
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Trustev — Trustev offers a totally modern approach ecommerce fraud prevention through real-time online identity verification. It focuses on validating the individual making the transaction, not just the payment method they're using. The platform delivers individual, real time decisions for every one of your customers using multiple dynamic data sources(behavioral, transactional and social) instead of restrictive rules based decisioning and profiling. Trustev’s easy to integrate platform works by verifying consumer’s identities in real-time, using thousands of dynamic data points from sources such as deep location, email verification, device ID, social fingerprinting, proxy/VPN piercing, site velocity & behavior, browser ID and mobile location. It uses proprietary algorithms to combine all this data and compile it into a single, simple score of 1-100. This score is then used to provide a recommendation or allow, deny of flag the transaction.The Trustev platform enables rapid identity decisions in real time with an easy to integrate (very light touch), completely data driven and cost effective solution that works in the background, to ensure no disruption to the customer’s online experience. This results in a significant reduction in false positives leading to substantially increased revenues and increased sales opportunities while maintaining a customer centric experience at all times. Trustev's solution is focused on dramatically reducing the cost burden of fraud on your business, the cost of policing fraud and also maximizing revenues opportunities.
- NewsWhip — The only real-time media monitoring platform that predicts the stories and topics that will matter in the hours ahead.
- Spring Moves — Spring Moves’ mission is to make working out as interesting, enjoyable, and addictive as humanly possible. They harness the power of music and rhythm to turn casual runners into athletes and newbies into pros. It was founded in 2012 and is based in New York.
Des is the Co-Founder of Intercom, the platform for all customer interaction needs from marketing to support to product development. Previously he worked as User Experience Lead at web app development agency Contrast, and he was a Co-Founder of popular social networking search engine Bigulo.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- ZeKju — ZeKju provides Messenger Communication for Supply Chains. Leading shippers and logistics service providers rely on ZeKju for efficient transport execution, yard communication and fleet management. With ZeKju, drivers use their favorite messenger (e.g. WhatsApp or Telegram) for everyday tasks while benefiting from features such as auto-translation.
- Paper — Paper is an digital canvas designed to help designers create and organize their work.
- SimpleStudy — Master your Junior Cycle, Leaving Cert & University Exams with our expert tips, resources, and insights. Achieve your academic goals and excel in your studies.
Michael Dwyer is a founder of Pigsback.com.
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Investment focus
- Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
- Seed, Angel
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Imvizar — Transform your buildings, office spaces, visitor attractions, and parks with an immersive and visual storytelling experience using augmented reality. Discover unique ways to tell your story at Imvizar.
- Bounce Insights — Bounce Insights is a digital consumer research platform. It provides a direct link between brands and any consumer they needed to speak to by maintaining a community of active, engaged respondents on their mobile app.
Kevin is the Co-Founder and GP of A* Capital & The Co-Founder & Chairman of Eventbrite (NYSE: EB)Prior A* Capital, Kevin was at Founders Fund. Previously Co-Founder and CEO of Eventbrite (NYSE: EB). Kevin was previously Co-Founder and CEO of Xoom Corporation, an international money transfer company servicing more than 30 countriesworldwide. Xoom went public in 2012 and was acquired by PayPal in 2015. Kevin has served as an early-stage investor and advisor to successful start-ups including Airbnb, Lookout, PayPal, Pinterest, Skybox Imaging, Trulia, Uber, and Yammer.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Ireland, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Icon — Icon helps brands partner with creators, turn 1 video into 20 videos with AI, and A/B test messaging to find winning ads. We’re backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, as well as founders & executives of OpenAI, Ramp, Flexport, Pika, & Cognition (Devin).
- Hedra — Video creation for everyone.
- Reflect Orbital — Reflect sells sunlight from space.
Anne Heraty is the CEO and Co-Founder at Cpl Solutions. Anne Heraty attended University College Dublin.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Human Resources, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Solidroad — Transform your sales & support teams with AI-powered quality assurance, training and recruitment.
- Nolea Health — As a clinician with Nolea you can set your own schedule, work with as many healthcare companies as you want, hold all of your credentials in one single sharable wallet, access new educational resources, and receive community feedback.
- Vivid Edge — Vivid Edge are the leading commercial energy consultants in Ireland. Energy efficiency upgrades for businesses that fit into your journey to get to Net Zero!
Entrepreneurial investments High-Tech, Internet and Media companies in US and Europe.Portfolio companies include among others Palantir Technologies, Taulia, Socotra, Context Logic (Wish), Evernote, CapLinked, Spectrum Investments, Open Door, Zipline, Properly, Simscale, Osaro, Polyspectra, Aether Bio, Ashby, Asyncy, Eligible, WayUp, Xage,Lampenwelt, Robin Hood, Klara, Qualia Labs, Aizon, Luna, Shogun (Hearth), Mosaic Finance, Cantourage, Seed Legals, Sava, Gordian, Form Logic, Vector, Bryte, Gartenhaus, Free Form, Fero Labs, Airly, Octane.ai, SmithRX, Contract Book, Quantum Systems, Energy Robotics, Airly, Memberstack, Orchest.ai, Inflammatix, Finway, Roadsurfer, Hive Logistics, AnyMove, Lucid Chart, Fursure, Arrows.to, Halo Industries, Almanac, Velocity Labs, Lumeo, Carbon Health, Almanac, Passion.io, US Bitcoin Corp, OQmented, Maev, LegalOS, Block Green, trypenny, remberg, Kaladin, Marvel Fusion, Arda Therapeutics, The Every Company, CryptoCities, Lenco, SaveIN, GetSona, Noibu, how.fm, Adyton, Hydra Host, Anchor Zero, Gen1e Lifesciences, Pasteur Labs, Windmill.dev, ISEE, ThreeDOT, Workpatterns, Pylon, Cylib,...
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Test and Measurement
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- CPTx — At CPTx, we develop new treatment paradigms across outsized medical challenges, with an initial focus on infectious diseases. The flexibility and precision of CPTx's platform supports multivalent drug development, which is crucial for addressing complex disease states involving multiple binding sites, such as viruses, cancer, and autoimmune diseases.
- Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.
- Ceartas DMCA — Ceartas is the leader in piracy protection for creators, brands & enterprise. Powered by AI, we have the highest removal rate in the industry
David Shackleton is the Product Head at OpenBack Integration of Twitter. Took up The Role and Responsibilities of Company Directors at Institute of Directors in Ireland.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Video, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- OpenBack — OpenBack was the only mobile engagement platform with dynamic push notifications and device-side decisions by using mobile edge computing. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.
- Overcast HQ — Overcast is a leading cloud video management solution that simplifies video management, compliance and collaboration for all, securely. Effortlessly organise assets with quick searches, AI tagging, and categorization, ensuring swift access and utilisation across images, videos, documents, and more.
- Bounce Insights — Bounce Insights is a digital consumer research platform. It provides a direct link between brands and any consumer they needed to speak to by maintaining a community of active, engaged respondents on their mobile app.
Bradley Horowitz is an Advisor and Vice President of Product Management at Google. Most recently he helped create Area 120, Google's incubator for internally-sourced innovation. He's led a large number of products, programs and initiatives at Google - including Google for Startups, Google Photos, Gmail, Google Voice, blogger, and GoogleNews.Before joining Google in February 2008, Horowitz was Yahoo's vice president of Advanced Development where he drove the acquisitions of Flickr and MyBlogLog, launched the Brickhouse incubator and developed new products like Yahoo! Pipes. Additionally, he was responsible for the company's initiative to open up its platform which included overseeing the Yahoo Developer Network (YDN).Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical direction of the company from its founding through its IPO and eventual acquisition by Autonomy.Horowitz was a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab. While at the Media Lab, he worked on a number of topics related to computer vision, graphics and image processing, which resulted in a patented new technique for the recovery of structure, motion and camera parameters from video sequences.Horowitz holds an MS in Media Science from MIT and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Mill — Mill is the smartest device in your kitchen. Mill turns would-be food waste into resources for the Earth. Keep filling it for weeks.
- Parcha AI — Parcha is an AI-powered enterprise software that enables businesses to automate their scale compliance and operations.
- Overture Life — We are making In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) more accessible than ever before while improving success rates. An embryology lab in a box.
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.
David Clarke is the Venture Partner at Frontline Ventures. He attended Trinity College Dublin during 1989-1993.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Italy, Denmark, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Glaut — Glaut is an AI-native customer survey platform that conducts in-depth, AI-moderated interviews with customers at scale.
- Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
- Kota — Instant access to leading insurance and retirement providers globally, with flexible contributions, automated accounting and a delightfully simple employee app.
Brian O'Driscoll
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Investment focus
- Software, Employment, Web Development
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Grinds 360 — Grinds 360 operates as a hybrid learning platform. Grinds 360 uses a proven hybrid learning approach which elevates traditional classroom grinds using the latest cutting edge technology.
- Time Warden — 1time is a user friendly, feature packed time tracking software that helps businesses increase productivity & profitablity.
- Zipp Mobility — Zipp Mobility is a dockless scooter sharing company. Zipp Mobility reduce congestion and greenhouse gas emissions by providing affordable micromobility alternatives that enhance the quality of life of communities.
Eamon is a veteran of 20 years developing and building products, leading teams, and creating communities.Over the years he has: built and sold a company, built and failed to sell a company, made angel investments, hosted numerous conferences, organised hundreds of meetups, and brought thousands of people together to collaborate and do goodthings.As of June 2019, he's working on Boundless: making it easy for businesses to employ people in other countries and be compliant with tax and employment law.
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Investment focus
- Messaging, Software, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- XMTP — XMTP is an open, crypto-native communication protocol that connects communities, applications, and users. It was founded in 2021 and is based in Austin, Texas.
- Cohort — Cohort helps its users find the people they need through the people they already know through social media. Cohort is an Ireland-based company that was founded in 2015 by Eamon Leonard.
- PicStash — They offer a valuable but inexpensive PR tool, ensuring the maximum exposure of your Brand with minimum costs to your business. They make it easier for journalists to view your latest products and press releases, and share them with the rest of Ireland and beyond.
Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Alfa AI — Alfa AI is a recruitment technology company specializing in AI-driven hiring solutions.
- WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
- Camion — Empowering real estate to lead the energy transition with data and insights.
Peter O'Grady Walshe - Chairman @ VideoElephant
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Investment focus
- Video, Publishing, Social Media
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Constantin was the CEO of Gravitation, the private investment holding of Charles Beigbeder (founder of Selftrade and Poweo).He also worked as a Director of Strategy & Development at Bouygues Group.In 2000 Constantin co-founded E-Win (a marketing automation startup).He is a BCG and Arthur Andersen alumni.Constantin graduated fromESCP Business School.Constantin joined Otium in January 2015.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Domain Registrar, Internet of Things
- Series A
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- StartingDot — StartingDot launched in October 2011. They are the registry for 3 new generic top-level domain names (TLDs) dedicated to major sectors: .archi, .bio and .ski. Their TLDs help people and businesses clearly express themselves and reach deeper into their audiences. They are a leading European TLD Registry with offices in Dublin (Ireland), Paris(France) and New York City (USA). Their strategy is to focus on TLDs in SME categories where the correlation between trade and domain name is critical. The company was acquired by Afilias plc in August 2016.
Sean Baker - Director @ Calom Technologies
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Investment focus
- Web Development, Software
- Angel
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- PutPlace — PutPlace puts intelligence around your files in the cloud and lets you store the files anywhere you want. That includes storing it with with PutPlace's storage service itself, on Amazon S3, or your own cloud storage service.
- Kore Virtual Machines — Founded in 2008 by Dr. Steven Collins and Hugh Reynolds, New Game Technologies aims to revolutionize interactive application development for entertainment and education. The company re-branded to Kore in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA with engineering offices in Dublin, Ireland.With their previous company, Havok, theworld's leading real-time physics and animation company, the founders helped to shape a new generation of video games. Now, they are focused on the development of innovative new solutions for interactive application development on future media platforms.
Mark Cummins
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Investment focus
- Software, B2B, CRM
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Inscribe — Inscribe helps financial institutions manage risk by empowering teams with fraudulent document detection, intelligent automation, and the ability to better understand customer creditworthiness.
- &Open — For businesses that gift to give back, share joy, or show they care. All you need is an email.
- Kota — Instant access to leading insurance and retirement providers globally, with flexible contributions, automated accounting and a delightfully simple employee app.
Sean Mullaney is a Chief Technology of Algolia.
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Investment focus
- Software, Web Apps, Cloud Security
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Ireland, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Kerno — Instantly identify the root cause of any critical issue in your Cloud apps and get back to business in minutes, not hours.
- Octomind — Octomind is an AI-powered end-to-end web app testing tool that detects bugs before they are discovered by users. It develops automated software that runs UI tests to discover bugs.
- Zerve AI — Securely Unlock Gen AI & LLMs in Your Enterprise
Peter Crowley - Founder & Director @ FL Partners
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Investment focus
- Privacy, Software, Cyber Security
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.
I am an active Angel Investor in pre-seed and seed startups, having invested in 80+ startups. I invest in ambitious founders building scalable products for large markets and support founders with advice, strategic network of investors. Currently Founding Partner at TrueSight Ventures, Venture Capital firm investing in European early-stage startups.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Norway, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- MEplace — MEplace creates a new approach to children’s wellbeing and preschool education. MEplace was founded in 2019 and was headquartered in England, UK.
- Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.
- Kota — Instant access to leading insurance and retirement providers globally, with flexible contributions, automated accounting and a delightfully simple employee app.
Founder / Partner at Tribal.vc. We are a venture firm that empowers entrepreneurs on their own unique path to success. We invest early and with conviction, using our experience and networks to help guide founders and their teams as needed.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Boxever — Learn about how a CDP can increase conversion rates and improve customer loyalty.
- Intercom — Build lasting customer relationships with Intercom, the Engagement OS.
- MicksGarage — MicksGarage.com is the largest online retailer with over 10 million of car parts and car accessories listed for any car make or model. From braking parts to car care, service parts, roof racks, to...
Chris Murphy is a Venture Partner at MS&AD Ventures. He previously cofounded SaaStock and was an early Web Summit employee.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Jared Messenger is a technology entrepreneur and angel investor. He is currently an iOS computer vision and machine learning researcher. He also advises early-stage startups on building and shipping their iOS app.
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Investment focus
- Product Design, Developer Tools, Developer Platform
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Ireland
Walter Walsh
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Investment focus
- Sports, Software
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Grinds 360 — Grinds 360 operates as a hybrid learning platform. Grinds 360 uses a proven hybrid learning approach which elevates traditional classroom grinds using the latest cutting edge technology.
- myClub — Unlock your businesses potential with MyClub360. Boost brand visibility, drive targeted traffic, and maximize ROI with our innovative advertising platform.
Ian Madigan is a professional Rugby player at Ulster Rugby.
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Investment focus
- Privacy, Software, Cyber Security
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.
Hal Philipp - Principal Partner @ Meridian Growth Capital
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Investment focus
- News, SaaS, Big Data
- Seed, Angel
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- NewsWhip — The only real-time media monitoring platform that predicts the stories and topics that will matter in the hours ahead.
CEO at
CarTrawler
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Big Data, Transportation
- Seed, Series A
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- CitySwift — CitySwift is a data-driven scheduling and planning technology for urban bus networks. It uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to predict journey times and passenger demand, making routes more efficient. Schedulers can create optimized timetables that take into account traffic, events, and hundreds of other external factors, ensuringon-time performance and increased passenger satisfaction.CitySwift was established in 2016 and is operating in Galway, Ireland.
Mr. Chris Huskilson began his career with Nova Scotia Power in 1980. He was made chief operating officer of Emera and Nova Scotia Power in July 2003 and president and chief executive officer of Emera in 2004.Mr. Huskilson is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Nova Scotia. He is chair of the Canadian ElectricityAssociation, and serves on many for-profit and non-profit boards of directors. He is past-chair of the Greater Halifax Partnership and past-chair of the Energy Council of Canada.Mr. Husklison holds a bachelor of science in engineering and a master of science in engineering from the University of New Brunswick.
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Investment focus
- Delivery, Internet, Analytics
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Canada, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Mysa — Get Mysa Smart Thermostats to save money and energy with the free Mysa app! Best wifi thermostats for electric baseboard heaters. Remote access. Easy install. Utility rebates. Designed in Canada. Free shipping.
- XOCEAN — Using unmanned surface vessels (USVs), XOCEAN offers turnkey data collection services to Surveyors, Companies and Agencies.
Patrick Joy - Owner & Founder & Executive Chairman @ Suretank Group
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile Apps, Internet of Things
- Seed
- 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.
- VT Networks — VT Networks has set up a cellular network in Ireland very similar to that of a Vodafone or Meteor network. Unlike those networks, which are used to handling vast amounts of 3G and 4G data traffic, the VT Networks’ Sigfox network is designed to handle tiny amounts of data coming from electricity meters, kettles, washing machines, oil tanks and evendoorbells.
Nigel Byrne is an angel Investor and a former group CTO of Ooredoo.
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Investment focus
- Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Imvizar — Transform your buildings, office spaces, visitor attractions, and parks with an immersive and visual storytelling experience using augmented reality. Discover unique ways to tell your story at Imvizar.
Tony Smurfit is the Founder & CEO of Smurfit Kappa.
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Investment focus
- Publishing, Video, Privacy
- Seed, Series A
- Ireland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ufurnish.com — ufurnish.com is the home for furniture discovery. Search, discover, compare and shop furniture online across the entire retail market on one website.
- Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.
- 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.
Marc McCabe is a Scout at Sequoia Capital and General Partner at Nomad Capital. Prior to this role, Marc was a Business Development Lead and before that, a Team Member of Business and Corporate Development.
Previously, Marc was a Partner at SV Angel and an Online Media Associate at Google.
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Investment focus
- Software, Big Data, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Noloco — Noloco is a no-code platform for teams to instantly create apps powered by their business data. Easily turn Airtable bases and spreadsheets into customer portals or internal tools without code.
- Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
- Practice — Sell your expertise online, and manage your business, all in one place.
Founder of Foreword.vc, an early-stage micro fund backing startups throughout their initial chapters. Also advisor at Web Summit and EiR at Seedcamp.
Previously covering Europe for Techstars Ventures and founding member of Web Summits venture fund, Amaranthine.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Werk — Werk is building a construction labor marketplace, that matches workers internationally to any country, all while automating the paperwork and HR. Our community provides trade union benefits, globally. Think of it as a mix of Deel & LinkedIn, but for construction that disrupts the European gray economy. Werk is building a digital identity forthe workers building our homes and offices.
- Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.
- Gradient Labs — Our AI agent resolves complex financial queries end-to-end, guaranteeing quality, efficiency and compliance at every step.
Brian Patterson
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- Delivery, Shipping, Software
- Seed
- Ireland
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- Scurri — Scurri is next generation delivery management software that puts retailers back in control. Explore our delivery management software today.
Rob Hickey is Vice President of Engineering at Azuki Systems, responsible for product design and development. Rob brings more than 20 years of proven management and engineer experience in the areas of video distribution, signal processing and content-aware networking to the role.Most recently, Rob worked at Cisco Systems and was a member of theCisco New England Development Center Leadership Team. His responsibilities included leading the Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Application development organization where he led the design and development of Label Switched Multicast for Cisco’s edge routing platforms. This technology is a key component of Cisco’s video distribution architecture. Prior to his current role, Rob managed a development and QA team responsible for the design and development of next generation security and content switching platforms. Prior to Cisco, Rob was a founding engineer at ArrowPoint Communications, which was acquired by Cisco in May 2000. ArrowPoint was a leader in the content networking space and pioneered the L4-L7 intelligent load balancer. At ArrowPoint, Rob held various roles in hardware and software development as well as QA.Before joining ArrowPoint, Rob held various engineering positions at Bay Networks and Raytheon Company.Rob received his BSEE from Northeastern University and completed the Global Leadership and Business Leadership Development Programs while at Cisco.
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- Medical, Software, Biotechnology
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Ireland, United States
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- Zerve AI — Securely Unlock Gen AI & LLMs in Your Enterprise
- Via Scientific — Via Scientific to help scientists and bioinformaticians generate novel science that improves the world. It was founded in 2022.
Martin Ott - CEO @ Taxfix
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- Legal, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Germany, Ireland, United States
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- Unu motors — unu wants to create the mobility solution that fully connects people to the city. They believe in cities in which all people are enabled to embrace the full potential of urban life. Their first product, electric scooter unu, was launched in summer 2014. unu is stylish, emission-free, quiet and super-easy to charge thanks to portable batteries.
- IDnow — Your customers deserve seamless 24/7 identity verification and KYC experiences. Compliant with regulations (e.g. AML, eIDAS). Available in 195 countries.
- Mobius Labs — Multimodal AI for the world's scale. Fast, secure, and affordable technology for visual, audio, and text applications.
Barry Lunn, the founder and CEO of Provizio (previously founder and CEO of Arralis) takes a design led approach to tech entrepreneurship. Barry’s approach to solving difficult technology problems is as much artistic as it is actual physics.
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- Sensor, Software, Aerospace
- Seed, Angel
- Ireland
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- Arralis — Arralis is a rapidly scaling technology company, providing world leading expertise in RF, micro, and millimetre-wave technology. It excels in Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMICs), packaged component modules, proprietary antenna technology, and integrated Radar and Communications front-end platforms. Its products, which are theultimate in precision and innovation, are used in both global and space environments where accuracy and reliability are critical. its also creates partnerships with other leading technology providers to build bespoke high performance, cutting-edge solutions. Arralis provides added value through advanced, research, and innovation aligning its solutions with its client’s strategic objectives.
- Cohort — Cohort helps its users find the people they need through the people they already know through social media. Cohort is an Ireland-based company that was founded in 2015 by Eamon Leonard.
- Provizio — Imagine an affordable system that gives every driver 360-degree insights in all weather conditions and paves a true path to autonomy.
Paddy Flynn - VP, Geo Data Operations @ Google
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- SaaS, Machine Learning, Video
- Angel, Funding Round
- Ireland
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- Talivest — Talivest optimises an intelligent ecosystem for hi-tech, high-growth companies by gathering insights throughout the employee lifecycle. Talivest’s solution uses machine learning and predictive analytics to help companies measure, build and maintain high performance.
- Overcast HQ — Overcast is a leading cloud video management solution that simplifies video management, compliance and collaboration for all, securely. Effortlessly organise assets with quick searches, AI tagging, and categorization, ensuring swift access and utilisation across images, videos, documents, and more.
John Purdy
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- Software, FinTech, Medical
- Seed, Funding Round
- Ireland
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- dimply — The experience & engagement platform for financial enterprises.
- Beyondbmi — Beyondbmi is an expert led medical approach to weight loss. We provide a convenient and scientific telehealth program designed to help your reach your health goals.
- FlowForma — Unlock competitive advantage with FlowForma, the #1 no code digital process automation software & business process management tool. Get a free trial now!
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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- Travel, Local, Guides
- Angel, Series A, Funding Round
- Ireland
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- 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.
Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Dublin-based John Corcoran (89) co-founded the hugely successful Paddy Power chain of bookmakers in 1988 along with David Power and Stewart Kenny. At a time when big brands were taking over the market, the three men joined their three independent chains to become a force to be reckoned with. Corcoran remains a shareholder in Paddy Power Betfair,although he has sold off tranches for 'estate planning' purposes in recent years. John died in June 2019.
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- Video, Publishing, Social Media
- Series A
- Ireland
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- 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.
Sam Perry - President @ Ascendance Ventures
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- Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment
- Funding Round, Convertible Note
- Ireland, United States
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- Hyperkey — Hyperkey is building the world's first proprietary library of collections based on human visual expressions. Our social network gives users, and branded content creators, the ability to make Gifs and Stickers shared in their chat conversations discoverable to the whole world. With our keyboard - or our iMessage extension - users expresstheir feelings with their friends in chat. These expressions are added to their public collections, and can be discovered by other users and followers instantly on Hyperkey, and then recycled in their own chats.Hyperkey works with all popular communication platforms, including iMessage, What's App, Facebook, Twitter and more.
- NewsWhip — The only real-time media monitoring platform that predicts the stories and topics that will matter in the hours ahead.
Portman Wills - Co-Founder & CTO @ Wagestream
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Spain, Canada
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- Pillar — Pillar is a fintech credit platform that allows retail consumers to monitor, build and grow their credit footprint as well as access a credit facility through the Pillar credit card.
- Kota — Instant access to leading insurance and retirement providers globally, with flexible contributions, automated accounting and a delightfully simple employee app.
- Pillar Financial Technologies — All-in-one Financial Platform for Small Businesses
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