Top 45 Social Media Startup Investors in Ireland (October 2026)
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Enterprise Ireland
VC Fund
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6 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $26k–$8.3M |
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Act Venture Capital
VC Fund
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6 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1M–$13M |
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AIB Seed Capital Fund
VC Fund
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4 | Ireland, United States, Jersey | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Medical | $549k–$8.1M |
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Wayra
VC Fund
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3 | Spain, United Kingdom, Brazil | Seed, Grant, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $40k–$2.4M |
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Shane Naughton
Angel
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3 | Ireland, United States | Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | SaaS, Software, Apps | $971k–$3M |
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Tribal.vc
VC Fund
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2 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, SaaS, Analytics | $336k–$26M |
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The Associated Press
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, Sweden | Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | SaaS, News, Video | $865k–$12M |
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Social Starts
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, Germany | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $50k–$14M |
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Tom Kennedy
Angel
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2 | Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed | Travel, Software, Video | $869k–$3.4M |
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NDRC
VC Fund
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2 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | |
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Hal Philipp
Angel
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2 | Ireland | Seed, Angel | News, SaaS, Big Data | |
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Furthr
VC Fund
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2 | Ireland, United States, Luxembourg | Series A, Seed | Software, Web Development, Mobile | $658k–$14M |
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Peter O'Grady Walshe
Angel
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2 | Ireland | Seed | Video, Publishing, Social Media | $1M–$1.4M |
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Meridian Growth Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Insurance | $1.1M–$1.7M |
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ZenStone Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Brazil, Canada | Series A, Seed, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Real Estate | $500k–$50M |
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Sam Perry
Angel
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1 | Ireland, United States | Convertible Note, Venture - Series Unknown | Social Media, Apps, News | |
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Angus McMillian
Angel
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1 | Ireland | Venture - Series Unknown | News, SaaS, Big Data | |
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AshGrove Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, Ireland, Finland | Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Financial Services, SaaS | $13M–$54M |
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Eamon Leonard
Angel
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1 | United States, Ireland | Seed, Angel, Series A | Apps, Software, Messaging | $681k–$1M |
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Element SaaS Finance
VC Fund
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1 | Ireland | Debt Financing | News, SaaS, Big Data | |
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Barry Pitcher
Angel
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1 | Ireland | Seed | Video, Publishing, Social Media | |
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Julien Nguyen
Angel
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1 | India, Latvia, Germany | Seed, Series A | Internet, Social Media, Music | $1.8M–$9.3M |
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Barry Lunn
Angel
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1 | Ireland | Seed, Angel | Sensor, Software, Aerospace | $1.4M–$6.2M |
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The Asahi Shimbun Company
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Ireland, United States | Series C, Seed, Series A | Apps, Big Data, Art | $950k–$9.7M |
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Ray Nolan
Angel
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1 | Ireland | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Web Development, Enterprise Software | $110k–$2.2M |
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Armando Biondi
Angel
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1 | United States, Spain, Ireland | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | SaaS, Software, Big Data | $150k–$2.8M |
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IT-Farm
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Japan, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Health Care, Medical | $1M–$36M |
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Voicu Oprean
Angel
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1 | Romania, Ireland | Pre-Seed, Angel | Social Network, Music, eSports | |
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Tom Preston-Werner
Angel
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1 | United States, Germany, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $337k–$30M |
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Paddy Bolger
Angel
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1 | Ireland | Seed | Video, Publishing, Social Media | |
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Gerry O'Shaughnessy
Angel
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1 | Ireland | Seed | Video, Publishing, Social Media | |
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Digital Irish Angels
VC Fund
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1 | Ireland | Seed | Video, Publishing, Social Media | |
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Colin Wiel
Angel
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1 | United States, Ireland, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | iOS, Communities, Location Based Services | |
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Shane Devane
Angel
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1 | Ireland | Seed | News, Content, Journalism | |
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Harper Reed
Angel
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1 | Ireland | Angel | Communities, Social Media, Online Portals | |
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Gaingels
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $72k–$35M |
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Jim Mullins
Angel
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1 | Ireland | Venture - Series Unknown | News, SaaS, Big Data | |
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Jon Staenberg
Angel
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1 | United States, Ireland | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Legal | $1M–$6M |
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Western Development Commission
VC Fund
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1 | Ireland, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology | $702k–$17M |
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Tony Smurfit
Angel
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1 | Ireland, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Publishing, SaaS, Video | $3M–$4M |
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SparkLabs Global Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, South Korea, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Apps, Information Technology | $264k–$8.6M |
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Per Brilioth
Angel
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1 | Sweden, United Kingdom, Pakistan | Series B, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | Apps, Software, Health Care | $129k–$85M |
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Matthew Le Merle
Angel
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1 | Ireland, United States | Seed, Series A | iOS, Apps, Local | |
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Prabhu Goel
Angel
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1 | United States, Ireland | Series C, Seed, Angel | Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology | $2.6M–$25M |
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Kumar Malavalli
Angel
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1 | United States, Ireland | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Enterprise Software, Internet | $1M–$2.6M |
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Technology-focused, investing capital and expertise to fuel growth in the most promising ideas and companies. Raised c.€600m across multiple funds and invest from seed to growth. We look for companies with potentially cutting-edge, category-defining businesses in markets including application software, IT infrastructure, communications, Internet and mobile. We help founders create and scale businesses globally. We work as a small team with diverse strengths accessing a community of over 200 founders. The teams and companies we back scale their investor base as they scale their business execution and ambition. We work closely with them in this process. Over the past 25 years have built a broad network of US and European investors and founders that share our vision and approach. Act is based in Dublin, Ireland. Our most recent funds are supported by the European Investment Fund.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 165
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $2.3M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $146M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Ubotica — Ubotica delivers live maritime intelligence powered by Orbital AI, using satellites and sensors to predict risk, confirm threats and deliver actionable evidence.
- Entity — Entity's purpose is shape the future of web gaming by leveraging emerging technologies and maximizing the browser's capabilities. Our next-generation gaming hub, scheduled to arrive in 2027, will be a global place for players to discover, connect, and play together.
- Fresco — Fresco powers connected cooking experiences for appliance brands, enabling faster launches, lower R&D costs, and continuous innovation.
The AIB Seed Capital Fund was established in 2007 to provide venture capital for companies at the seed and early stages of development across a range of sectors throughout the Republic of Ireland. The Fund was established under the Enterprise Ireland Seed and Venture Capital Programme 2007-2012. The Fund has a total of €30m under management with AIB and Enterprise Ireland both committing €15m. It is managed by experienced managers with extensive expertise in making seed and early stage investments, adding value and facilitating business success. The Fund managers are empowered to make seed investments of up to approximately €500,000. Furthermore, the Fund has the capacity to make investments in later rounds to support the continued growth of investee companies. The Fund will be managed by Enterprise Equity Venture Capital and the Dublin Business Innovation Centre. This unique partnership brings together extensive regional and investment expertise. Enterprise Equity will evaluate and manage all investments outside the city and county of Dublin, as well as investments that require in excess of €250,000 from the fund within the city and county of Dublin. Dublin Business Innovation Centre (DBIC) will evaluate and manage all investments within the city and county of Dublin when the initial investment amount required from the Fund does not exceed €250,000.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United States, Jersey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $549k–$3.6M; Series A $1.1M–$8.1M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% 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.
- Offr — Offr is the new way to buy and sell property, quickly and transparently.
- Metabolomic Diagnostics — Metabolomic Diagnostics is a deep-tech company specialized in the development of novel biomarker based diagnostic solutions for complex diseases. The company has developed an effective pipeline to firstly identify diagnostic biomarker panels and then translate these panels into clinical assays ready for application in the clinical laboratory.Thispipeline combines the biomarker multiplexing capabilities of Mass Spectrometry, a powerful analytical technology, with the company’s own informatics and statistics solutions to deliver diagnostic innovation. This is reflected in Metabolomic Diagnostics’ strong and versatile IP portfolio of technical innovations and biomarkers.Our VisionMetabolomic Diagnostics’ primary vision is to develop a portfolio of diagnostic solutions which can determine, early in a woman’s pregnancy,her risk of developing major complications much later in her pregnancy and thus enabling personalized care, adapted to each woman’s individual needs. Pregnancy complications like preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, preterm birth, and in-uterine growth restriction, all have the potential to severely impact on the well-being of mother and child.The company’s innovative diagnostic solutions will assist clinicians in re-imagining how these conditions are managed: our novel risk assessment tools are specifically developed in conjunction with prenatal care providers to ensure they make a difference that really matters. This in turn will enable clinicians to improve pregnancy outcomes globally.Our solutions will empower pregnant women: accurate pregnancy risk information will allow a pregnant woman, in partnership with her care provider, to determine what prenatal care is best for her pregnancy.
Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world. We currently operate in 10 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela. Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with driven entrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Spain, United Kingdom, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 568
- Round size: Seed $48k–$2.4M; Grant $40k–$387k; Venture - Series Unknown $50k–$2.4M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- 1DOC3 — 1doc3 is a e-health platform that connects 490 million of Spanish speaking people with licensed and trusted doctors. Users find personalized answers to their health related questions. Doctors build their online reputation, find new patients and create the biggest health related questions and answers curated database in Spanish. The Platform isavailable via web, App, SMS and USSD, allowing the entire population to have access to a Doctor no matter where they are, or even if they don't have internet access.
- Devengo — Light-speed transfers. Our Instant Payments API enables seamless integration to automate payouts to your customers in Europe and the UK.
- Quantum Bridge — Quantum Bridge is a pioneer in Distributed Symmetric Key Establishment (DSKE) technology. It offers quantum-safe cybersecurity products and services.
Shane Naughton - Founding Partner and Board of Directors @ On The Stage
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $971k–$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.
Tribal.vc is a leading Venture Capital firm investing in the next generation of transformative companies.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $400k–$7.2M; Series A $2.3M–$26M; Venture - Series Unknown $336k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- Meili — Meili is an ancillary revenue technology company that enables airlines, hotels, and mobility providers to integrate directly through a single, cloud-based platform.
- UrbanFox — UrbanFox protects online retailers against new forms of stealth fraud by analysing and learning from existing legitimate and fraudulent customer behavioural patterns.
- GREYSCOUT — Brand protection software that finds unverified sellers and counterfeit listings across marketplaces, verifies each one and enforces removal. 95% success rate.
Discover a world of unbiased journalism, in-depth analysis, and real-time updates from every corner of the globe.
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- Industry: SaaS, News, Video
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Canada, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $865k–$1M; Series A $2.5M–$6.4M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Trint — Trint™ is what happens when technology meets opportunity. Jeff Kofman (veteran journalist) and Mark Boas (seasoned web developer) met at the Mozilla Festival in 2013, and quickly realized that the work Mark and his team were doing on media and transcripts could solve a problem that Jeff had long encountered: painstaking transcription of interviews.
- Stringr — Stringr combines a powerful cloud-based video software suite with a videographer network for on-demand video sourcing. On the same platform you can leverage Stringr's editing and enhancement tools, asset managent and sharing and streaming features to create video content faster and easier than ever before.
- Data.world — data.world makes it easy for everyone—not just the “data people”—to get clear, accurate, fast answers to any business question. Our cloud-native data catalog maps your siloed, distributed data to familiar and consistent business concepts, creating a unified body of knowledge anyone can find, understand, and use.data.world is also home to theworld’s largest collaborative data community. It’s where people team up on everything from social bot detection to award-winning data journalism. We use what we learn from this community to improve the enterprise product and vice versa. Our team co-created the Manifesto for Data Practices, the most effective, ethical, and modern approach to data teamwork. More people signed the Manifesto for Data Practices in its first year than signed the Agile Manifesto in its first two years combined. In 2019 DataPractices.org became a Linux Foundation Project. The vendor-neutral community features new, open courseware to help people and organizations improve data practices through inclusion, experimentation, accountability, and impact.We are a Public Benefit Corporation. Most corporations are required to prioritize shareholder returns above all else. Not us. We are legally structured as a Public Benefit Corporation so we can pursue our mission and shareholder value with equal vigor. This ability is rare, powerful, and sustaining.
Social Starts is a $60M+ venture capital partnership with a uniquely data-driven approach to investing in moment-of-inception and Series A financing rounds.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 445
- Round size: Seed $50k–$3.6M; Series A $3.1M–$14M; Venture - Series Unknown $626k–$6.1M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $8.9M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Mae Health — Mae is a maternal health platform that connects expectant mothers with critical resources to drive positive pregnancy outcomes.
- Ruby Bio — Ruby Bio is a biosynthesis platform that can manufacture complex molecules that are biodegradable and non-toxic. Ruby Bio uses naturally occurring yeast as a factory to convert low-cost sugar into high-value products.
- Funnel — Our revolutionary CRM property management software saves both time and money for agents and owners while making leasing more efficient.
Tom Kennedy is the Founder of Hostelworld. Tom Kennedy attended Technological University Dublin.
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- Industry: Travel, Software, Video
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $869k–$3.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Barespace — Barespace provides end-to-end solutions that manage, market, and grow your beauty business.
- MARC — MARC is an AI startup dedicated to real estate asset management.
- Meetingsbooker.com — Remote working, without the isolation. Empower your teams to book workspaces, meetings and group stays without sacrificing safety or control. 150,000 spaces in 149 countries.
NDRC builds high-impact new ventures. By providing the people, time, space and investment needed at the earliest stages of dedicated commercialisation work, NDRC is creating companies worthy of commercial investment and with the ability to scale. The NDRC team has the breadth of knowledge and expertise in technology and markets. NDRC worksside-by-side with researchers, entrepreneurs and venture teams to turn great ideas into successful new ventures.By the end of 2014, NDRC’s portfolio of startup ventures had secured a cumulative €88m in follow-on investment from commercial investors, with a combined market capitalisation of approx. €220m.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 110
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Nory AI — Revolutionise your restaurant with Nory's restaurant management software. Streamline operations, boost profits, and enhance decision-making in one platform.
- Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.
- 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
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- 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.
Delivering game changing impacts for start-up founders since 1988
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- Industry: Software, Web Development, Mobile
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Ireland, United States, Luxembourg
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $658k–$1M; Series A $6.3M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $70M in 2007
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.
- CroíValve — CroíValve is a developed a safe, effective, easy to use, percutaneous solution for treating all patients with severe Tricuspid Regurgitation
- 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.
Investor in ACT Venture Capital Fund V and ACT Venture Capital Fund VI
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- 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.
Meridian Growth Capital Ltd: Leading PE firm. Explore investments: Elecon, Blis, loveholidays, StorMagic, NewsWhip. Learn more from case studies.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Insurance
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DRC — We aim to be the communications provider of choice for the UK business market. We will do this by offering reliable communications products that just work, wrapped with deep customer relationships, impeccable service levels and customer personalisation.
- Elecon — Elecon designs and manufactures laser, punching, and folding technology machines.
- Tma Data Management — Discover TMA, a leader in smart metering, data management, and energy solutions, specialising in carbon compliance and DCC integration.
Introduction of the investment thesis of ZenStone Venture Capital: Investing in passionate founders with extraordinatry vision and execution at post seed and early venture stages.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Real Estate
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Brazil, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Seed $500k–$2.9M; Series A $2.2M–$12M; Series B $3M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bolt — Bolt makes Ecommerce better with One-Click Checkout and CheckoutOS. See how Bolt checkout boosts your sales today.
- EquityZen — EquityZen's mission is to improve the way startup employees are paid by unlocking the value of their equity compensation in a way that benefits all key players: the shareholder, the company, and the investor.
- DecorMatters — Discover home decor ideas and interior design inspiration. Shop your favorite furniture stores and socialize with other interior designers.
Sam Perry - President @ Ascendance Ventures
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- Industry: Social Media, Apps, News
- Stage:Convertible Note, Venture - Series Unknown
- 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.
Angus McMillian
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- Industry: News, SaaS, Big Data
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
- 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.
AshGrove Capital is an independent London-based pan-European credit manager. The firm's usual investments in the software and services sectors range from $5 million to $40 million.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, SaaS
- Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Debt Financing $14M–$40M; Venture - Series Unknown $13M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 93% lead, 7% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $690M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Envera — Envera was founded in 2013 to bring smart savings and peace of mind to the housing boards of apartment complexes. While our original focus was on producing energy certificates, we soon noticed that excessive water consumption was a critical issue to many of our customers. Based on that key piece of insight, we revised our offering and startedproviding water conservation services to our customers. However, it didn’t take us long to realize that infrequent consumption monitoring was costing our customers tens of thousands of euros every year, and since none of the existing monitoring systems reached our standards, we decided to build our own.
- Voly — Voly is the number one software for superyacht management. Finance, crew, technical and compliance combine to deliver a platform you can rely on
- 10X Banking — Put the world's most powerful and comprehensive cloud native banking platform at the core of your bank.
Eamon Leonard is the Co Organizer of This Next Thing. He previously worked at Boundless as a Co-Founder. Eamon Leonard attended Technological University Dublin.
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- Industry: Apps, Software, Messaging
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $681k–$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.
Investment focus
- Industry: News, SaaS, Big Data
- Stage:Debt Financing
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $3.5M in 2020
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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- Industry: Video, Publishing, Social Media
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- 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.
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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- 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.
- OQmented — Outstanding MEMS-based laser scanning for top-notch 3D environment perception and AR projections. Unmatched in terms of size, performance and reliability.
- POPS Worldwide — POPS Worldwide is the leading digital entertainment company in Southeast Asia. With over 4 billion monthly views of its music and entertainment content, POPS is the fastest growing digital entertainment media company with hundreds of artists, content creators and partners from broadcast television, publishing and production in the POPS Network.POPS also produces a wide variety of original content for its industry-leading owned and operated channels like POPS Music, POPS Kids, POPS TV, Beauty Me, HerVoice and CoolTV that target highly sought after demographics: teens, kids, women and men.
Barry Lunn is based out of Limerick, Limerick and is the Founder & CEO of Provizio. Barry previously worked at Arralis as a Founder & Group CEO. Barry Lunn attended the University of Limerick. Barry Lunn has received Deloitte FAST 50 - Rising Star and High Potential Exporter Award in their career.
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- 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.
The Asahi Shimbun, which was first published in 1879, is one of Japan’s leading newspapers. They strive not only to protect both peace and democracy but also to strengthen them, and to serve the community and the people as a “company with vision and purpose.” That is The Asahi Shimbun Company’s core purpose—their point of origin. The Asahi Shimbun has an extensive news-gathering network that provides seamless coverage every day. In Japan, there are general bureaus and bureaus in all 47 prefectures; with an additional 5 general bureaus and 29 bureaus in place around the world. All in all, there are 320 domestic and global news-gathering bases.
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- Industry: Apps, Big Data, Art
- Stage:Series C, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $950k–$1.9M; Series A $1.2M–$6.4M; Series C $2.3M–$9.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BitStar — BitStar is the EnterTech company that accelerates the growth of video creators and content with our proprietary data and technology.
- Binded — Binded lets creators claim their copyrights on the blockchain and protect them for free. A creator uploads their art or photos to Binded via our website or integrations with creative tools like Instagram. We create a timestamp in the Bitcoin blockchain and give a certificate as proof. We are developing technology to create uniquefingerprints for all copyrighted works and store them on the blockchain. Like Youtube’s Content ID system for the entire internet. For every copyright claimed, we scan the web and show matches for possible copyright infringement. In 5 years we hope to be the main way copyrights are registered and utilized.
- MyDearest — MyDearest is a Full dive product planning and development company
Ray Nolan is the Founder and CEO of eDesk. He previously worked at HostelWorld as a Founder. Ray Nolan attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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- Industry: Software, Web Development, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $110k–$2.2M; Angel $575k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- dimply — The experience & engagement platform for financial enterprises.
- 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.
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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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Big Data
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Spain, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $150k–$2.8M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% 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.
- Arrows — Arrows is a customer onboarding checklist. Send every customer a personalized onboarding plan, with automated email reminders, due dates, assigned tasks, and a lot more.One of the hardest things about onboarding is getting everybody on the same page. Using Arrows, you can get "mutual buy-in" from your customers to build trust throughoutthe onboarding process. Plus, with due dates and automated email reminders, they'll always know what should be done next. Arrows is the place for you to collaborate, strategize, and coordinate together.Every customer is different... so why are you giving them the same onboarding plan? With Arrows, personalizing onboarding for your customers is a cinch. Start with a template, so your team never misses important steps. Then customize your plan for each customer, so you can get mutual buy-in on a plan perfectly structured for their goals and timeline.
- 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!
IT-Farm is a venture capital firm which specializes in seed, start-up, and early stage companies. It primarily invests in mobile, big-data, connected car, IoT, OTT service, Helth care, Bio Tech and other IT industries. The firm actively invests in SF bay area and Japan, as well as other geometries including Asia and Europe. We support portfolio companies, especially on the partnership with Japanese enterprises.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Japan, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 135
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7.5M; Series A $1.6M–$16M; Series B $2.5M–$36M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Ubitus — As cloud gaming enablers, Ubitus' GPU virtualization, Streaming technology and hybrid cloud deployment can serve different kinds of solutions for Telco, Game companies to quick enter cloud gaming market. Moreover, Ubitus provide Global distribution and New Media content solution for new media studio and fashion brand to help them distribute rich media contents worldwide.
- BitBiome — BitBiome is a biotechnology company focused on analyzing microbial genomes and discovering enzymes and proteins that can be applied across industries such as pharmaceuticals, food production, and sustainable manufacturing. The company uses single-cell microbial sequencing technology to study microbes that are difficult to culture throughconventional laboratory methods, enabling the creation of a large microbial genome database called bit-GEM. Its platform supports enzyme discovery, genome analysis, and bioengineering efforts aimed at developing bio-based alternatives for industrial processes. bitBiome also works with academic institutions and commercial partners on research projects involving areas such as biodegradable materials, biomass conversion, and pharmaceutical ingredient synthesis. The company positions microbes as a resource for advancing the bioeconomy by providing tools and data that support biotechnology research and industrial applications.
- POPS Worldwide — POPS Worldwide is the leading digital entertainment company in Southeast Asia. With over 4 billion monthly views of its music and entertainment content, POPS is the fastest growing digital entertainment media company with hundreds of artists, content creators and partners from broadcast television, publishing and production in the POPS Network.POPS also produces a wide variety of original content for its industry-leading owned and operated channels like POPS Music, POPS Kids, POPS TV, Beauty Me, HerVoice and CoolTV that target highly sought after demographics: teens, kids, women and men.
Voicu Oprean is based out of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County and is the CEO and Founder of AROBS Group. Voicu previously worked at Poli Fitness Club as a Manager and Owner. Voicu Oprean attended WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business).
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- Industry: Social Network, Music, eSports
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Romania, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Digitap — Digitap creates digital experiences for browsers and apps using blockchain technology. Web3 is here and it's native language is crypto, where users can win and transfer ingame items like rewards and NFTs in an instant. We are building for the future of casual entertainment. No ads. Just fun.
- Soundmix — Everything you need to run amazing events from your own website
- Skillview — Machine learning driven adaptive talent assessment platform for recruitment and talent growth.
Steve Jang is an individual investor.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $337k–$3.1M; Series A $10M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Milestone — Connect AI spend, engineering output, quality, and governance in one platform. See where AI creates value in your engineering org, and where it does not.
- Strix — Strix is an open-source AI security platform that uses autonomous agents to continuously pentest applications, APIs, and codebases.
- Sourcetable — Sourcetable connect, sync, and query all the data in a spreadsheet, without needing to know how to code. Founded in 2019, Sourcetable is based in San Francisco, California, United States.
Paddy Bolger - Chief Financial Officer @ CWSI
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- Industry: Video, Publishing, Social Media
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- 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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- Industry: Video, Publishing, Social Media
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- 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.
Digital Irish Angels was formed to provide a way for US based accredited investors to invest in, and support, early stage companies in Ireland.
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- Industry: Video, Publishing, Social Media
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- 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.
Colin Wiel is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Mynd. He attended the University of California, Berkeley.
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- 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.
Shane Devane is the Python Developer at Noa Technologies
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- Industry: News, Content, Journalism
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Newslinn — Newslinn is an online platform that enables its users to share photos with each other. The platform enables citizens to connect with journalists in their local area. Newslinn was launched in 2015 and is based in Dublin.
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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- 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.
Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital to date. The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1354
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8.1M; Series A $5M–$35M; Venture - Series Unknown $72k–$13M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $140k in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Allara — Allara is your all-in-one virtual care team for hormonal, metabolic & gynecological conditions such as PCOS and Endometriosis.
- North.cloud — Automate your enterprise-grade cloud finance with zero effort. Our AI reduces your cloud bill by 50% without any risk, contracts, or technical work.
- Uvi — Uvi provides infrastructure that serves as a context and reasoning layer for enterprise AI agents. The platform resolves internal corporate vocabulary, tracks dependencies, and reconstructs the decision-making intent scattered across disparate systems like Jira, GitHub, and Slack. By unifying data fragments into an integrated knowledge network, it enables AI tools to process query objectives accurately while enforcing existing user access permissions at the retrieval stage.
Jim Mullins
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- Industry: News, SaaS, Big Data
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
- 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.
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 funds totaling 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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- 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.
Supporting communities to grow, investing in businesses to scale and planning for the future of the western region.
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- Industry: Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $702k–$3.9M; Series A $2.2M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $753k–$17M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ovagen — Ovagen is a biotechnology company that has developed the process of producing germ free (GF) chicken eggs and GF birds in commercial quantities for use primarily in the pharmaceutical industry. Ovagen can also provide a Contract Research Service and has extensive expertise in SPF poultry & rodent housing & husbandry, in specific poultry& rodent research technologies to GMP standards and in avian transgenics.
- Peroptyx — Peroptyx is a platform that provides managed solutions for machine learning. At Peroptyx, they have assembled and pre-screened a qualified network of data evaluators across the globe. They strategically match ideal evaluators with each product to ensure authentic experiences through consistency and appropriate real-world contexts.
- Galway Biomedical — Galway Biomedical partners with global medical device companies to bring complex braided devices from early concept through to full-scale production.
Tony Smurfit is the Founder & CEO of Smurfit Kappa.
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- Industry: Publishing, SaaS, Video
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $3M–$4M
- 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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Browse database — It's Free!SparkLabs Global Ventures is a venture capital firm that offers seed-stage investment services to firms in the SaaS, healthcare, education, IoT, fintech, mobile, commerce, HR, gaming, security, and VR industries. It was founded in Dec 2013 and is based in California. Exceptional entrepreneurs, that are building strong, category defining companies at highly advantageous valuations – can be found anywhere. The company has a team that is highly experienced in finding such talent and helping our entrepreneurs to develop, grow, network, and scale into other markets throughout the world.
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- Industry: Software, Apps, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, South Korea, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 84
- Round size: Seed $264k–$3M; Series A $769k–$8.6M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $700k in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Splab — Handle everything from marketing to buyer matching, even without a full team. We cover: multi-stakeholder bookkeeping, virtual & physical events registration management, event tech setup, matchmaking, ticket sales & marketing, and post-event reporting.
- Nitra — Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products.
- Pierrot Company — Pierrot Company is a Korea-based circular commerce company focused on extending the lifecycle of IT devices through subscription, asset recovery, and cross-border trade. The company operates phoneGO, a device subscription service for consumers and businesses, and reGO, a service that helps organizations recover and monetize idle IT assets.Building on these operating data and supply networks, Pierrot Company is also developing reGO Trade, a global infrastructure layer for used IT device pricing, discovery, and transaction enablement. The company aims to improve transparency, liquidity, and reuse in the fragmented secondary market for electronics while reducing unnecessary e-waste.By combining operational know-how, market data, and international buyer networks, Pierrot Company is building a more efficient and scalable circular economy for IT assets.
Per Brilioth - CEO @ VNV Global
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- Industry: Apps, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series B, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: Sweden, United Kingdom, Pakistan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Seed $129k–$5.7M; Series B $7.1M–$85M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Supernormal Greens — Supernormal Greens uses vertical cultivation powered by 100 percent renewable energy and LED lighting, enabling year-round production without pesticides. The company grows plants hydroponically in water, anchored by sterile coconut-fiber pods, and circulates nutrients in response to plant needs. Its system recycles water to achieve significantreductions in water use, and it applies data-driven optimization via AI and machine learning to improve its processes.
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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- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Series C, Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Ireland
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- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $2.6M–$4.3M; Series C $8M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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.
- 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
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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- 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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Enterprise Ireland is the government agency responsible for the development and funding of the indigenous business sector. Their mission is to accelerate the development of companies to achieve strong positions in global markets resulting in increased national and regional prosperity. It was founded in 1998 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.
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Foodcloud
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Amethyst Care
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Full Health Medical
— Full Health Medical patient empowerment tools that improve prevention healthcare are part of the healthcare ecosystem. FHM provides reliable digital innovation, designed by healthcare professionals that are keen to help patients live a healthy life, in response to a national scarcity of healthcare providers, the development of chronic disease, anda lack of transparency at the patient level. People provide lifetime access to preventive care healthcare across screening, diagnostics, education, treatment, and a record of their journey driven technology provides lifetime access to preventative healthcare custom designed at every step screening, diagnostics, education, and action plans that motivate individuals to address risks before they develop health problems.
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