# Top 50 SaaS Angel Investors in Ireland in June 2026

## Des Traynor
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

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.

## Ray Nolan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, News, Software

Ray Nolan - Non-Exec Chair @ XSellco

## Brian Caulfield
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Apps

Brian Caulfield is based out of Dublin, Dublin and is the Venture Partner at Molten Ventures and also serves as the Chairman at Barespace. Brian previously worked at Graphcore as Board Oberver. Brian Caulfield attended Trinity College Dublin. Brian has received the Irish Software Association's "Technology Person of the Year" award.

## Chris Murphy
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Chris Murphy is a Venture Partner at MS&AD Ventures. He previously cofounded SaaStock and was an early Web Summit employee.

## Declan Kelly
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech

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.

## Gareth Lambe
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Tourism, Payments, Software

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.

## Tom Kennedy
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Travel, Software, Video

Tom Kennedy is the Founder of Hostelworld. Tom Kennedy attended Technological University Dublin.

## Liam Casey
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

Liam is the founder and CEO of PCH.

## Shane Naughton
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Apps

Shane Naughton - Founding Partner and Board of Directors @ On The Stage

## Bradley Horowitz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## David Clarke
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

David Clarke is the Board member of Payslip.
David Clarke is the Venture Partner at Frontline Ventures. He attended Trinity College Dublin during 1989-1993.

## Michael Dwyer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality

Michael Dwyer is a founder of  Pigsback.com.

## David Shackleton
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Video, Internet

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.

## Kevin Hartz
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

Kevin Hartz is a Co-Founder and Chairman of Sauron. He is also a Co-Founder and General Partner at A*. He previously worked at Eventbrite as Co-Founder and Chairman. Kevin attended Stanford University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts & Science in History and Applied Earth Science, and the University of Oxford, where he completed an MSt inHistory.

## Marc McCabe
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Big Data

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.

## Anne Herarty
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Energy, Internet

Anne Heraty is the Chairperson of Sherry FitzGerald. Previously she was the CEO and Co-Founder at Cpl Solutions. Anne Heraty attended University College Dublin.

## Andrej Henkler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Logistics

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,...

## Barry Lunn
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Sensor, Software, Aerospace

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.

## Eamon Leonard
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Software, Messaging

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.

## Hal Philipp
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: News, SaaS, Big Data

Hal Philipp - Principal Partner @ Meridian Growth Capital

## Rob Hickey
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Medical, Software, Biotechnology

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.

## Walter Walsh
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Sports, Software

Walter Walsh

## Peter Crowley
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Privacy, Software, Cyber Security

Peter Crowley - Founder & Director @ FL Partners

## Brian Patterson
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Delivery, Shipping, Software

Brian Patterson

## Ciaran Lee
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Education, Sustainability

Ciaran Lee - Co-Founder @ Intercom

## Laurence Krieger
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, FinTech, Big Data

Laurence Krieger is the chief operating officer (COO) at Tide, the online current account for small and medium sized businesses. Krieger has more than 12 years of experience working in senior roles at fast-growing fintech start-ups.Prior to Tide, he was COO of Revolut, where he helped to rapidly scale the business from initial start-up to over800,000 customers. He was previously founder and CEO of payment business Cobalt where he delivered high profitability and grew annual revenues to more than £100m. He launched one of the first prepaid cards into the UK with Moneysupermarket and has also held senior roles at Yahoo! UK and IE.

## Mark Cummins
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, B2B, CRM

Mark Cummins

## Charlie Songhurst
- Type: Angel
- Location: Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Bobby Healy
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Series A
- Focus: Travel, Local, Guides

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.

## Sean Mullaney
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Web Apps, Cloud Security

Sean Mullaney is a Chief Technology of Algolia.

## Patrick Walsh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Beauty, FinTech

Former Product Manager at ezetop where he led the development and deployment of a white label mobile phone online top up system for Digicel across its 31 markets. 

KPMG exam qualified Chartered Accountant having worked across telecoms, music & software industries.

## Colm Long
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, SaaS, FinTech

Colm Long

## Chris Adelsbach
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

## Chris Huskilson
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Delivery, Internet, Analytics

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.

## Peter O'Grady Walshe
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Video, Publishing, Social Media

Peter O'Grady Walshe - Chairman @ VideoElephant

## Martin Ott
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Legal, Internet, Information Technology

Martin Ott - CEO @ Taxfix

## Conor Stanley
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Analytics

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.

## Sean Baker
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Web Development, Software

Sean Baker - Director @ Calom Technologies

## Tony Smurfit
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Publishing, Video, Privacy

Tony Smurfit is the Founder & CEO of Smurfit Kappa.

## Brian O'Driscoll
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Employment, Web Development

Brian O'Driscoll

## Constantin Pellissier
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Internet, Domain Registrar, Internet of Things

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.

## Dan Kiely
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Human Resources, Machine Learning

Dan Kiely is CEO and Co-Founder of Voxpro, a premium provider of high end outsourcing services exclusively to the disruptive technology market. Dan thrives in the entrepreneurial realm. He dreams big & encourages innovation in all aspects of his company. Dan is a man of passion and creativity. Find the limit and he will smash it. Voxpro’svision has always been driven by Dan’s desire to create something unique, something unforgettable. With its 2,000+ strong work force across multiple locations in Ireland, the U.S., Romania and shortly, the Philippines, Voxpro touches the lives of hundreds of thousands of people every year, all over the world. Voxpro has a rapidly expanding geographic footprint and well considered location roll-out plan. A growing partner list includes some of the most powerful technology companies in the world. Voxpro’s partners are of great inspiration to Dan. He resonates with their entrepreneurial spirit and they, with his. Dan’s tenure at the helm continues to steer Voxpro on an exciting and successful journey. Audacious and relentless, his dreams for the company know no bounds.

## John Purdy
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Medical

John Purdy

## Pa Nolan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Medical, Delivery, Shipping

Pa Nolan

## Patrick Joy
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Mobile Apps, Internet of Things

Patrick Joy - Owner & Founder & Executive Chairman @ Suretank Group

## Oleg Tikhturov
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce

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.

## Paddy Flynn
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Machine Learning, Video

Paddy Flynn - VP, Geo Data Operations @ Google

## Mike McGearty
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Big Data, Transportation

CEO at
CarTrawler

## Jared Messenger
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Product Design, Developer Tools, Developer Platform

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. 

## Nigel Byrne
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality

Nigel Byrne is an angel Investor and a former group CTO of Ooredoo.

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