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Top 25 Social Media Angel Investors in Ireland (June 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Ireland Social Media startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Ireland Social Media startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Shane Naughton
Angel
3 Ireland, United States Seed, Angel SaaS, Software, Apps $972k–$3M
Tom Kennedy
Angel
2 Ireland Seed, Series A Travel, Video, Retail
Peter O'Grady Walshe
Angel
2 Ireland Seed Video, Publishing, Social Media $1M–$1.4M
Hal Philipp
Angel
2 Ireland Seed, Angel News, SaaS, Big Data
Jim Mullins
Angel
1 Ireland News, SaaS, Big Data
Prabhu Goel
Angel
1 United States, Ireland Series C, Seed, Angel Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
Eamon Leonard
Angel
1 United States, Ireland Seed, Angel, Series A Apps, Software, Messaging $531k–$1M
Tom Preston-Werner
Angel
1 United States, Germany, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools $150k–$30M
Julien Nguyen
Angel
1 India, Latvia, Germany Seed, Series A Internet, Social Media, Music $1.8M–$9.3M
Scott Chacon
Angel
1 Germany, United States, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $2.2M–$20M
Kumar Malavalli
Angel
1 United States, Ireland Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Enterprise Software, Internet $1M–$2.6M
Matthew Le Merle
Angel
1 Ireland, United States Seed, Series A iOS, Apps, Local
Paddy Bolger
Angel
1 Ireland Seed Video, Publishing, Social Media
Harper Reed
Angel
1 Ireland Angel Communities, Social Media, Online Portals
Sam Perry
Angel
1 Ireland, United States Convertible Note Social Media, Apps, News
Tony Smurfit
Angel
1 Ireland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Publishing, Video, Privacy $2.9M–$4.5M
Per Brilioth
Angel
1 Sweden, United Kingdom, The Netherlands Series B, Seed Apps, Software, Transportation $106k–$100M
Armando Biondi
Angel
1 United States, Spain, Ireland Seed SaaS, Software, Big Data $150k–$2M
Angus McMillian
Angel
1 Ireland News, SaaS, Big Data
Jon Staenberg
Angel
1 United States, Ireland Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Legal $1M–$6M
Barry Pitcher
Angel
1 Ireland Seed Video, Publishing, Social Media
Barry Lunn
Angel
1 Ireland Seed, Angel Sensor, Software, Aerospace $1.4M–$6.2M
Ray Nolan
Angel
1 Ireland Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Apps, News, Software $110k–$2M
Colin Wiel
Angel
1 United States, Ireland, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A iOS, Communities, Location Based Services
John Corcoran
Angel
1 Ireland Series A Video, Publishing, Social Media
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Shane Naughton
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Ireland Social Media startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $972k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trustev — Stop online fraud with Trustev, a new approach.
  • NewsWhip — NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.
  • 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.
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Tom Kennedy
Angel · 2 investments in Ireland Social Media startups

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

  • Industry: Travel, Video, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Peter O'Grady Walshe
Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in Ireland Social Media startups

Peter O'Grady Walshe - Chairman @ VideoElephant

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video, Publishing, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Hal Philipp
Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 2 investments in Ireland Social Media startups

Hal Philipp - Principal Partner @ Meridian Growth Capital

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, SaaS, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NewsWhip — NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.
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Jim Mullins
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Social Media startups

Jim Mullins

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, SaaS, Big Data
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NewsWhip — NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.
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Prabhu Goel
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Social Media startups

Prabhu began his career by joining IBM’s EDA organization at East Fishkill where he was involved with many developments in the area of chip test automation. At IBM he developed the Podem algorithm and other technologies that earned him 4 patents and several awards. He left in 1981 to join Wang Labs where he was exposed to the commercial EDAindustry. He left Wang in 1982 to start Gateway Design Automation – the company that delivered the now industry standard Verilog-XL to the market. In 1989 he sold Gateway to Cadence and continued at Cadence for 2 more years. He left Cadence to become a private venture capitalist. Since 1992, he has been an investor and a Director in a number of private companies. In 1996 he sold one of his companies, Frontline Design Automation, to Avant Corporation for a second venture success. Several of his present investments are in the EDA industry. Prabhu completed his graduate studies from Carnegie Mellon.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series C, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Aera Technology — Aera Technology is the Decision Intelligence company that makes business agility happen. In the era of digital acceleration, Aera helps enterprises around the world transform how they respond to the ever-changing environment
  • PowWow Mobile — Redefine how work is done in the digital era. Our SmartUX, the rapid mobile app platform for the enterprise, simplifies and extends business apps to mobile.
  • Verecho — Verecho is a mobile first enterprise software platform to enable companies to automate their people knowledge management. Connect to both structured and unstructured data sets and enable employees to find others based on free text search.
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Eamon Leonard
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Social Media startups

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

  • Industry: Apps, Software, Messaging
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $531k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • XMTP — XMTP is a decentralized and quantum-resistant messaging protocol for builders.
  • 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.
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Tom Preston-Werner
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Social Media startups

Steve Jang is an individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$12M; Pre-Seed $150k–$3.1M; Series A $10M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OpenPipe — OpenPipe is an artificial intelligence platform that empowers software developers to construct datasets and refine prompts using a cost-effective model. The platform works by automatically capturing existing prompts and completions and then using them to fine-tune a drop-in replacement.
  • Alinia AI — Alinia AI is an alignment platform that allows enterprises to implement generative AI in a safe and controlled manner, governed by their rules and operations.
  • MoneyHash — Emerging and Global markets first all-in-one flexible payment orchestration and revenue operations platform that covers all of your payment needs. We help you build, optimize, and scale your payment infrastructure at any stage of growth.
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Julien Nguyen
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Social Media startups

Julien Nguyen has 30 years of operational, entrepreneurial and early stage investment experience.Prior to NanoDimension, Julien was a Managing Director at Applied Materials Ventures and Concept Ventures. Julien led investments in companies such as Infinera (Nasdaq: INFN), M-Stream (acq’d by Broadcom), Devicescape, Grandis (acq’d by Samsung),Takumi (acq’d by Sagantec), Envis (acq’d by Magma), with co-investors including August Capital, Benchmark, Kleiner Perkins, Matrix Partners, Sevin Rosen, Sigma Partners. Prior to his venture capital activities, Julien founded or was part of the founding team for four startups: Ezlogin (acquired by 724 Solutions), Novita Communications (acquired by Planetweb), E-Motions (acquired by Sigma Designs), Radius (IPO). He holds 21 patents issued in the US.Julien received his postgraduate degree from Telecom Paris (France) and his Master of Science from Ecole Polytechnique (France).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Social Media, Music
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: India, Latvia, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$9.3M; Series A $1.8M–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • POWWOW — Studio POWWOW is a transmedia and Animation Production company based in Dublin, Ireland. We specialize in the creation, development and production of entertainment content solutions across multiple platforms, including mobile, web and TV. Studio POWWOW is currently in development of its first major cross platform entertainment IP ‘The World ofShipAntics.’ The World of ShipAntics is an animated comedy adventure game being developed for iOS & Android devices. We will be developing The World of ShipAntics into Appisodes, a TV series, and more.
  • Drivezy — Own the Experience, not the Car
  • Airdog — We build smart robots that bring unprecedented value to its owners.
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Scott Chacon
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Social Media startups

Scott Chacon is based out of Berlin, Germany, and is the Founder and CEO of GitButler. Scott previously worked at Chatterbug as a CEO. Scott Chacon attended UC San Diego.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$8M; Series A $12M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Livebuy — Directly in your online shop. Customer engagement and sales like you wouldn't believe. Unleash the power of engaging, authentic, shoppable live video streams.
  • Taktile — Taktile's no-code platform enables you to easily build automated decision flows and iterate on them in a data-driven way leveraging backtests and A/B testing.
  • Flower Labs — A unified approach to federated learning, analytics, and evaluation. Federate any workload, any ML framework, and any programming language.
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Kumar Malavalli
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Social Media startups

Kumar Malavalli is the co-author and driving force behind Fibre Channel, an evolutionary technology that enabled the development of production-class storage area networks (SAN's). Co-founder and former CTO of Brocade Communications; Currently Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of InMage Systems.In February 2003, Kumar was inducted into theSilicon Valley Engineering Council Hall of Fame for his contributions to technology. He also received the Gene Milligan Award for Effective Committee Management from the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) for chairing an INCITS committee that developed 17 standards in the area of Storage Area Networks. In 2012 the Computer History Museum published his work on Fibre Channel standards in the T11 Accredited Standards Committee.Kumar's philanthropy in the field of education extends from digital learning centers in rural India to American institutions of higher education. He has established the Kumar Malavalli Endowed Chair in Storage Systems Research at University of California Santa Cruz, co-founded the Indus Scholastic Management Services and serves as a trustee of the Indus International Schools.He currently invests in and mentors numerous startups in US, Canada and India, served as a member of the Board of Directors of The Indus Entrepreneurs Silicon Valley Chapter (TiE), and is a trustee of the American India Foundation (AIF). In 2012, Kumar became a trustee of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$2.6M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • POWWOW — Studio POWWOW is a transmedia and Animation Production company based in Dublin, Ireland. We specialize in the creation, development and production of entertainment content solutions across multiple platforms, including mobile, web and TV. Studio POWWOW is currently in development of its first major cross platform entertainment IP ‘The World ofShipAntics.’ The World of ShipAntics is an animated comedy adventure game being developed for iOS & Android devices. We will be developing The World of ShipAntics into Appisodes, a TV series, and more.
  • PowWow Mobile — Redefine how work is done in the digital era. Our SmartUX, the rapid mobile app platform for the enterprise, simplifies and extends business apps to mobile.
  • Wedding Party — Inspiration & ideas for your big day
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Matthew Le Merle
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Social Media startups

Matthew Le Merle is a Managing Partner of Keiretsu Capital and Fifth Era (www.fifthera.com). Matthew was formerly the Co-President of Keiretsu Forum in San Francisco and is an expert on digitization having advised leading technology companies including eBay, Google, HP, Microsoft and PayPal on how to drive and benefit from emerging digital valuepropositions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Apps, Local
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Soundwave — The Global Premium Domain SoundWave.com + @SoundWave Twitter (X) Handle is currently available for acquisition. Contact us now for details.
  • Concept Art House — Concept Art House powers Web3 projects for the biggest brands and IP in the World.
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Paddy Bolger
Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Social Media startups

Paddy Bolger - Chief Financial Officer @ CWSI

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video, Publishing, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Harper Reed
Angel · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Social Media startups

Harper Reed is the CEO of General Galactic Corporation. He previously worked at Braintree as the Head of Commerce. He attended Cornell College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Communities, Social Media, Online Portals
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Sam Perry
Angel · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Social Media startups

Sam Perry - President @ Ascendance Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social Media, Apps, News
  • Stage:Convertible Note
  • Geography: Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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 — NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.
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Tony Smurfit
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Social Media startups

Tony Smurfit is the Founder & CEO of Smurfit Kappa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Publishing, Video, Privacy
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $2.9M–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Per Brilioth
Angel · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 1 investments in Ireland Social Media startups

Per Brilioth - CEO @ VNV Global

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Software, Transportation
  • Stage:Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Sweden, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $106k–$5.3M; Series B $6.4M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • memmo.me — memmo.me provides a webpage for offering and distributing personalized video messages from actors, athletes, musicians, and other talent.
  • Arro — Discover the shared daily operating system that helps you get more from life and work. Get to Day Zero together.
  • Surfboard — Get Dialpad Workforce Management (WFM) software for accurate forecasting, demand-driven scheduling, fair shift planning, and more.
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Armando Biondi
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Social Media startups

Armando Biondi currently works as the Co-Founder and CEO for Breadcrumbs.io. He previously worked at Hootsuite as the global head of growth operations.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States, Spain, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NewsWhip — NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.
  • Mattermark — Mattermark lets you search for companies & investors to effortlessly create actionable lists for leads. Enrich your company data with customer intelligence from the industry leader of identity resolution.
  • Cloud Campaign — The only white-label SMM platform built to support rapidly growing agencies. Sign up for a free trial to see how Cloud Campaign can transform your business!
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Angus McMillian
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Social Media startups

Angus McMillian

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, SaaS, Big Data
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NewsWhip — NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.
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Jon Staenberg
Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Social Media startups

Jon Staenberg has been working with venture backed companies for more than a decade, and has participated in over 100 deals. In this capacity he has started his own company, worked full-time in other companies, and consulted to over 50 startups. He is one of the most experienced venture capitalists in the Pacific Northwest, having raised two fundstotaling over $100 million. After working in the marketing area at Microsoft for six years, he joined Virtual i-O as VP of Sales & Marketing. During the last eight years, he has been engaged in business planning, business development, financial planning and fundraising, recruiting and mergers and acquisitions work for a variety of Silicon Valley and Seattle-based startups.Jon serves on the boards of Class.com and Micropath, and is on the advisory boards of New Vine Logistics, Vista Broadband, Prime Advantage, Time Domain, Atlantes.com, OneName, Syncronex, and uReach.com.Jon graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University, where he received his B.S., M.A., and M.B.A. While at Stanford, he started and ran two successful companies.Jon grew up in Omaha, Nebraska and is a hardcore Nebraska Cornhusker fan. In his spare time he collects sports ticket stubs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Legal
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.3M; Series A $1.4M–$6M; Series B $3.5M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Proxifile — Our mission is to use technology and design to level the playing field for small businesses and the common person in a world where typically on the wealthiest people and large corporations can afford expensive counsel.
  • ZenLedger — ZenLedger is an analytics startup that simplifies cryptocurrency taxes to help investors and tax professionals in portfolio management. Built by expert industry veterans in technology, finance, and accounting, it allows users to easily import crypto transactions, calculate gains and income, and prepare tax returns.Its automated platform helpsinvestors and tax professionals reduce the uncertainty, frustration, and manual grunt work of creating personal crypto brokerage accounts.
  • Legalpad — Legalpad makes work visa applications faster, easier, and better for startups by pairing smart software with human support. Legalpad solves the work visa problem for startups and helps people to pursue employment across borders, beginning with startups. Legalpad was founded by Sara Itucas.
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Barry Pitcher
Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Social Media startups

Barry Pitcher

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video, Publishing, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Barry Lunn
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Social Media startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sensor, Software, Aerospace
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Ray Nolan
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Social Media startups

Ray Nolan - Non-Exec Chair @ XSellco

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, News, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $110k–$2M; Angel $575k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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
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Colin Wiel
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Social Media startups

Colin Wiel is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Mynd. He attended the University of California, Berkeley.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Communities, Location Based Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Ireland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Quilt — Quilt is a feminine-forward audio social network
  • Arro — Discover the shared daily operating system that helps you get more from life and work. Get to Day Zero together.
  • PlushCare — PlushCare provides online doctor care for primary, urgent care, mental health and therapy. Affordable, convenient teleheath visits and same day online doctor appointments available now.
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John Corcoran
Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Social Media startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video, Publishing, Social Media
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Social Media Angel investor funding in Ireland at a glance

Stats across 12 deals from 25 investors.

25
investors
in Ireland Social Media startups
12
deals
in Ireland Social Media startups
$1.1M
median round
in Ireland Social Media startups
0%
lead investors
lead at least one round
42%
Seed
most common funding stage

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