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Top 50 Software Angel Investors in Ireland in January 2026

A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Software startups based in Ireland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Software companies from Ireland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Software Angel Investors in Ireland in January 2026

Investor Software Ireland investments
Brian Caulfield 5
Chris Murphy 5
Ray Nolan 5
Des Traynor 4
Liam Casey 4
Shane Naughton 4
Bradley Horowitz 3
Gareth Lambe 3
Marc McCabe 3
David Clarke 3
Kevin Hartz 3
Peter Crowley 2
Walter Walsh 2
Mark Cummins 2
Sean Baker 2
Paddy Flynn 2
Nigel Byrne 2
Oleg Tikhturov 2
Charlie Songhurst 2
Conor Stanley 2
Jared Messenger 2
Sean Mullaney 2
Dan Kiely 2
Rob Hickey 2
Hal Philipp 2
Mike McGearty 2
David Shackleton 2
John Purdy 2
Martin Ott 2
Ian Madigan 2
Brian O'Driscoll 2
Declan Kelly 2
Michael Dwyer 2
Pa Nolan 2
Brian Patterson 2
Pádraig Canavan 1
Angus McMillian 1
Howard Roberts 1
Feargal Mooney 1
Barry Brennan 1
Mike Stalley 1
Portman Wills 1
Ian Hogarth 1
Marc Murphy 1
Paul Peters 1
John Herlihy 1
Jim Fields 1
Phil Boddy 1
Colm Menton 1
Sean Mitchell 1
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Brian Caulfield Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Brian Caulfield is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and angel investor. He is a General Partner at DFJ Esprit (http://www.dfjesprit.com/).Brian currently sits on the boards of Datahug, Movidius, MTT, Clavis Technology and the Irish Times, Ireland's leading daily newspaper. He is also a personal investor in a number ofearly stage technology companies including Cicero Networks, GridStore and Teamer.From 2002 to 2007 Brian was a partner at Trinity Venture Capital. At TVC Brian sat on the boards of or led investments in AePONA (sold to Intel - Nasdaq: INTC), ChangingWorlds (Amdocs - NYSE: DOX), CR2, SteelTrace (Compuware - NASDAQ: CPWR) and APT (CSR LSE:CSR.L). Previously, in 1992 Brian co-founded Exceptis Technologies. Exceptis provided dispute management software for the electronic/card payments sector and was sold to Trintech Group (NASDAQ: TTPA) in November 2000. In 2001 Brian co-founded Similarity Systems, a business focused data quality management software company that was acquired by Informatica (NASDAQ: INFA) in January 2006. Brian was also a founder director and shareholder of Prediction Dynamics, which failed in 2004.Brian is a Computer Engineering graduate of Trinity College Dublin. Brian was the 2007 recipient of the Irish Software Association's "Technology Person of the Year" award. In 2010 he also received the Halo Business Angel Network's Business Angel of the Year award.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, Apps
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Examfly — Examfly make online learning tools for professional tax exams. Our solutions are exam focused and use proven techniques from Ed Tech and Education Psychology.
  • Inclusio — The inclusio diversity and inclusion platform is designed to measure and positively shift the culture of your organisation. Contact us for more information.
  • Moby Bikes — MOBY Bikes. e-bike rentals: Dublin, London, Amsterdam, Utrecht. Bike sharing, Delivery rider rental, corporate and hotel e-bike fleets
Chris Murphy Angel · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
Chris Murphy is a Venture Partner at MS&AD Ventures. He previously cofounded SaaStock and was an early Web Summit employee.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Germany, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
  • Zero — Buy verified cash app account at the best IT service provider smmsellshop at cost-effective price, we provide SSN, Bank & Selfie verified accounts.
  • Twirl — A seamless experience for deploying data products
  • SimpleStudy — Learn smarter with revision notes, past papers, quizzes, and expert tools for major Irish academic exams. Join SimpleStudy Ireland and boost your grades today.
Ray Nolan Angel
Ray Nolan - Non-Exec Chair @ XSellco
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Investment focus
  • Apps, News, Software
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Kinzen — Kinzen's blend of human skill and scalable technology enables trust and safety professionals and policy makers to get ahead of emerging threats, detect policy violations faster and take the proportionate and appropriate action.
  • Cohort — Cohort helps its users find the people they need through the people they already know through social media. Cohort is an Ireland-based company that was founded in 2015 by Eamon Leonard.
  • REFLEX Gaming
Des Traynor Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Des is the Co-Founder of Intercom, the platform for all customer interaction needs from marketing to support to product development. Previously he worked as User Experience Lead at web app development agency Contrast, and he was a Co-Founder of popular social networking search engine Bigulo.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
  • ZeKju — ZeKju provides Messenger Communication for Supply Chains. Leading shippers and logistics service providers rely on ZeKju for efficient transport execution, yard communication and fleet management. With ZeKju, drivers use their favorite messenger (e.g. WhatsApp or Telegram) for everyday tasks while benefiting from features such as auto-translation.
  • Paper — Paper is an digital canvas designed to help designers create and organize their work.
  • Anything — Anything is your AI agent for turning ideas into apps. Build sites, apps, tools, products and more just by describing what you want
Liam Casey Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Liam is the founder and CEO of PCH.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Ireland, United Kingdom, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
  • Pandas — B2B e-commerce platform connecting Asia with the +10 million of Latin America small merchants
  • Tracworx — The future of packaging is returnable and reusable. We're building the digital infrastructure to enable it.
  • &Open — For businesses that gift to give back, share joy, or show they care. All you need is an email.
Shane Naughton Angel · New York, New York, United States
Shane Naughton - Founding Partner and Board of Directors @ On The Stage
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Apps
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Trustev — Trustev offers a totally modern approach ecommerce fraud prevention through real-time online identity verification. It focuses on validating the individual making the transaction, not just the payment method they're using. The platform delivers individual, real time decisions for every one of your customers using multiple dynamic data sources(behavioral, transactional and social) instead of restrictive rules based decisioning and profiling. 
Trustev’s easy to integrate platform works by verifying consumer’s identities in real-time, using thousands of dynamic data points from sources such as deep location, email verification, device ID, social fingerprinting, proxy/VPN piercing, site velocity & behavior, browser ID and mobile location. It uses proprietary algorithms to combine all this data and compile it into a single, simple score of 1-100. This score is then used to provide a recommendation or allow, deny of flag the transaction.The Trustev platform enables rapid identity decisions in real time with an easy to integrate (very light touch), completely data driven and cost effective solution that works in the background, to ensure no disruption to the customer’s online experience. This results in a significant reduction in false positives leading to substantially increased revenues and increased sales opportunities while maintaining a customer centric experience at all times. Trustev's solution is focused on dramatically reducing the cost burden of fraud on your business, the cost of policing fraud and also maximizing revenues opportunities.
  • NewsWhip — 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.
Bradley Horowitz Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States
Bradley Horowitz is an Advisor and Vice President of Product Management at Google. Most recently he helped create Area 120, Google's incubator for internally-sourced innovation. He's led a large number of products, programs and initiatives at Google - including Google for Startups, Google Photos, Gmail, Google Voice, blogger, and GoogleNews.Before joining Google in February 2008, Horowitz was Yahoo's vice president of Advanced Development where he drove the acquisitions of Flickr and MyBlogLog, launched the Brickhouse incubator and developed new products like Yahoo! Pipes. Additionally, he was responsible for the company's initiative to open up its platform which included overseeing the Yahoo Developer Network (YDN).Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical direction of the company from its founding through its IPO and eventual acquisition by Autonomy.Horowitz was a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab. While at the Media Lab, he worked on a number of topics related to computer vision, graphics and image processing, which resulted in a patented new technique for the recovery of structure, motion and camera parameters from video sequences.Horowitz holds an MS in Media Science from MIT and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Key AI — Unlock new networking and career opportunities with Key, the leading AI-powered professional networking platform. Build and manage communities, host and join exclusive events, and create meaningful connections to supercharge your growth all in one place.
  • Opal — Making it better at capturing incredible low-light video. Even in dimly lit room, you’ll get a level of detail and color that wasn’t possible before.The Opal C1 comes with MicMesh™, an array of beamforming microphones that find and focus on the sound of your voice. And with intelligent noise cancellation, every ding, drop and dog bark is filteredout to get an audio experience that clearly speaks for itself.
  • Audioshake — AudioShake makes audio interactive, customizable, and accessible by using AI to separate sound recordings into their component parts and stems.
Gareth Lambe Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Gareth Lambe is the Chief Executive Officer of Medihive. He previously worked at Meta as a Board Of Directors. Gareth Lambe attended the University College Dublin.
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Investment focus
  • Tourism, Payments, Software
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Imvizar — Transform your buildings, office spaces, visitor attractions, and parks with an immersive and visual storytelling experience using augmented reality. Discover unique ways to tell your story at Imvizar.
  • CleverCards — The Platform for Contactless Cards. The CleverGift real-time payment platform offers gift cards, expenses, employee incentives, and travel foreign exchange.
  • Bounce Insights — Bounce Insights is a digital consumer research platform. It provides a direct link between brands and any consumer they needed to speak to by maintaining a community of active, engaged respondents on their mobile app.
Marc McCabe Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Marc McCabe is a Scout at Sequoia Capital and General Partner at Nomad Capital. Prior to this role, Marc was a Business Development Lead and before that, a Team Member of Business and Corporate Development. Previously, Marc was a Partner at SV Angel and an Online Media Associate at Google.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Big Data, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Noloco — Noloco is a no-code platform for teams to instantly create apps powered by their business data. Easily turn Airtable bases and spreadsheets into customer portals or internal tools without code.
  • Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
  • Practice — Sell your expertise online, and manage your business, all in one place.
David Clarke Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
David Clarke is the Board member of Payslip. David Clarke is the Venture Partner at Frontline Ventures. He attended Trinity College Dublin during 1989-1993.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Italy, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Procuros — More and more sales teams struggle with supplier portals. We help you integrate digitally with common supplier portals and consolidate all order documents.
  • TextYess — Increase your eCommerce Retention with a Frictionless Experience.
  • Kota — Replace your tools, brokers and outdated processes with the only platform that handles the entire employee benefits journey.
Kevin Hartz Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Kevin is the Co-Founder and GP of A* Capital & The Co-Founder & Chairman of Eventbrite (NYSE: EB)Prior A* Capital, Kevin was at Founders Fund. Previously Co-Founder and CEO of Eventbrite (NYSE: EB). Kevin was previously Co-Founder and CEO of Xoom Corporation, an international money transfer company servicing more than 30 countriesworldwide. Xoom went public in 2012 and was acquired by PayPal in 2015. Kevin has served as an early-stage investor and advisor to successful start-ups including Airbnb, Lookout, PayPal, Pinterest, Skybox Imaging, Trulia, Uber, and Yammer.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Ireland, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Rillet — Rillet automates majority of month-end close and offers powerful GAAP and SaaS reporting. The software has built-in revenue recognition, invoicing, and AI-powered accounting.
  • Icon — Icon helps brands partner with creators, turn 1 video into 20 videos with AI, and A/B test messaging to find winning ads. We’re backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, as well as founders & executives of OpenAI, Ramp, Flexport, Pika, & Cognition (Devin).
  • Vigil Labs — Vigil Labs is an applied research lab building proprietary systems for trading.
Peter Crowley Angel
Peter Crowley - Founder & Director @ FL Partners
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Investment focus
  • Privacy, Software, Cyber Security
  • Seed
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.
Walter Walsh Angel
Walter Walsh
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Investment focus
  • Sports, Software
  • Seed
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Grinds 360 — Grinds 360 operates as a hybrid learning platform. Grinds 360 uses a proven hybrid learning approach which elevates traditional classroom grinds using the latest cutting edge technology.
  • myClub — Join the thousands of community members who are embracing their new digital communities
Mark Cummins Angel
Mark Cummins
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Investment focus
  • Software, B2B, CRM
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Inscribe — Inscribe helps financial institutions manage risk by empowering teams with fraudulent document detection, intelligent automation, and the ability to better understand customer creditworthiness.
  • &Open — For businesses that gift to give back, share joy, or show they care. All you need is an email.
  • Kota — Replace your tools, brokers and outdated processes with the only platform that handles the entire employee benefits journey.
Sean Baker Angel
Sean Baker - Director @ Calom Technologies
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Investment focus
  • Web Development, Software
  • Angel
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • PutPlace — Premium domains add authority to your site. Transparent pricing. 1 year WHOIS privacy included. 30-day money back guarantee.
  • Kore Virtual Machines — Founded in 2008 by Dr. Steven Collins and Hugh Reynolds, New Game Technologies aims to revolutionize interactive application development for entertainment and education. The company re-branded to Kore in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA with engineering offices in Dublin, Ireland.With their previous company, Havok, theworld's leading real-time physics and animation company, the founders helped to shape a new generation of video games. Now, they are focused on the development of innovative new solutions for interactive application development on future media platforms.
Paddy Flynn Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Paddy Flynn - VP, Geo Data Operations @ Google
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Machine Learning, Video
  • Angel, Funding Round
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Talivest — Talivest optimises an intelligent ecosystem for hi-tech, high-growth companies by gathering insights throughout the employee lifecycle. Talivest’s solution uses machine learning and predictive analytics to help companies measure, build and maintain high performance.
  • Overcast HQ — Overcast is a leading cloud video management solution that simplifies video management, compliance and collaboration for all, securely. Effortlessly organise assets with quick searches, AI tagging, and categorization, ensuring swift access and utilisation across images, videos, documents, and more.
Nigel Byrne Angel
Nigel Byrne is an angel Investor and a former group CTO of Ooredoo.
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Investment focus
  • Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
  • Seed
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Imvizar — Transform your buildings, office spaces, visitor attractions, and parks with an immersive and visual storytelling experience using augmented reality. Discover unique ways to tell your story at Imvizar.
Oleg Tikhturov Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
I am an active Angel Investor in pre-seed and seed startups, having invested in 80+ startups. I invest in ambitious founders building scalable products for large markets and support founders with advice, strategic network of investors. Currently Founding Partner at TrueSight Ventures, Venture Capital firm investing in European early-stage startups.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Norway, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • MEplace — MEplace creates a new approach to children’s wellbeing and preschool education. MEplace was founded in 2019 and was headquartered in England, UK.
  • Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.
  • Kota — Replace your tools, brokers and outdated processes with the only platform that handles the entire employee benefits journey.
Charlie Songhurst Angel · Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States
Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Skrap — Skrap is an on-demand mobile marketplace for skip hire and other waste collection services.
  • Forgent AI — Forgent uses AI agents to draft tender proposals, find opportunities and coordinate teams.
  • Hyphen SCS — Building India's Biggest warehousing & Fulfilment Platform
Conor Stanley Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Founder / Partner at Tribal.vc. We are a venture firm that empowers entrepreneurs on their own unique path to success. We invest early and with conviction, using our experience and networks to help guide founders and their teams as needed.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Analytics
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Boxever — Learn about how a CDP can increase conversion rates and improve customer loyalty.
  • Intercom — Build lasting customer relationships with Intercom, the Engagement OS.
  • MicksGarage — MicksGarage.com is the largest online retailer with over 10 million of car parts and car accessories listed for any car make or model. From braking parts to car care, service parts, roof racks, to...
Jared Messenger Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Jared Messenger is a technology entrepreneur and angel investor. He is currently an iOS computer vision and machine learning researcher. He also advises early-stage startups on building and shipping their iOS app.
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Investment focus
  • Product Design, Developer Tools, Developer Platform
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Modulz — The visual code editor for producing production-ready design systems without writing code
  • Ten Dozen
Sean Mullaney Angel
Sean Mullaney is a Chief Technology of Algolia.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Web Apps, Cloud Security
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Ireland, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Kerno — Instantly identify the root cause of any critical issue in your Cloud apps and get back to business in minutes, not hours.
  • Octomind — Octomind is an AI-powered end-to-end web app testing tool that detects bugs before they are discovered by users. It develops automated software that runs UI tests to discover bugs.
  • Zerve AI — The agentic data workspace for everyone from PhD data scientists to beginners. Analyze data with chat or code, create insights, deploy APIs and apps.
Dan Kiely Angel
Dan Kiely is CEO and Co-Founder of Voxpro, a premium provider of high end outsourcing services exclusively to the disruptive technology market. Dan thrives in the entrepreneurial realm. He dreams big & encourages innovation in all aspects of his company. Dan is a man of passion and creativity. Find the limit and he will smash it. Voxpro’svision has always been driven by Dan’s desire to create something unique, something unforgettable. With its 2,000+ strong work force across multiple locations in Ireland, the U.S., Romania and shortly, the Philippines, Voxpro touches the lives of hundreds of thousands of people every year, all over the world. Voxpro has a rapidly expanding geographic footprint and well considered location roll-out plan. A growing partner list includes some of the most powerful technology companies in the world. Voxpro’s partners are of great inspiration to Dan. He resonates with their entrepreneurial spirit and they, with his. Dan’s tenure at the helm continues to steer Voxpro on an exciting and successful journey. Audacious and relentless, his dreams for the company know no bounds.
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Investment focus
  • Human Resources, Software, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Series A
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Talivest — Talivest optimises an intelligent ecosystem for hi-tech, high-growth companies by gathering insights throughout the employee lifecycle. Talivest’s solution uses machine learning and predictive analytics to help companies measure, build and maintain high performance.
  • Solidroad — The Automated Quality Management platform that optimizes human and AI agents to make every customer interaction better, faster, and more consistent.
  • SISU Aesthetic Clinic — SISU is a collection of doctor-led, patient-centric aesthetic medical clinics.
Rob Hickey Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Rob Hickey is Vice President of Engineering at Azuki Systems, responsible for product design and development. Rob brings more than 20 years of proven management and engineer experience in the areas of video distribution, signal processing and content-aware networking to the role.Most recently, Rob worked at Cisco Systems and was a member of theCisco New England Development Center Leadership Team. His responsibilities included leading the Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Application development organization where he led the design and development of Label Switched Multicast for Cisco’s edge routing platforms. This technology is a key component of Cisco’s video distribution architecture. Prior to his current role, Rob managed a development and QA team responsible for the design and development of next generation security and content switching platforms. Prior to Cisco, Rob was a founding engineer at ArrowPoint Communications, which was acquired by Cisco in May 2000. ArrowPoint was a leader in the content networking space and pioneered the L4-L7 intelligent load balancer. At ArrowPoint, Rob held various roles in hardware and software development as well as QA.Before joining ArrowPoint, Rob held various engineering positions at Bay Networks and Raytheon Company.Rob received his BSEE from Northeastern University and completed the Global Leadership and Business Leadership Development Programs while at Cisco.
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Software, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Zerve AI — The agentic data workspace for everyone from PhD data scientists to beginners. Analyze data with chat or code, create insights, deploy APIs and apps.
  • Via Scientific — Via Scientific to help scientists and bioinformaticians generate novel science that improves the world. It was founded in 2022.
Hal Philipp Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Hal Philipp - Principal Partner @ Meridian Growth Capital
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Investment focus
  • News, SaaS, Big Data
  • Seed, Angel
  • Ireland
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.
Mike McGearty Angel
CEO at CarTrawler
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Big Data, Transportation
  • Seed, Series A
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • CitySwift — CitySwift is a data-driven scheduling and planning technology for urban bus networks. It uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to predict journey times and passenger demand, making routes more efficient. Schedulers can create optimized timetables that take into account traffic, events, and hundreds of other external factors, ensuringon-time performance and increased passenger satisfaction.CitySwift was established in 2016 and is operating in Galway, Ireland.
David Shackleton Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
David Shackleton is the Product Head at OpenBack Integration of Twitter. Took up The Role and Responsibilities of Company Directors at Institute of Directors in Ireland.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Video, Internet
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • OpenBack — OpenBack was the only mobile engagement platform with dynamic push notifications and device-side decisions by using mobile edge computing. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.
  • Overcast HQ — Overcast is a leading cloud video management solution that simplifies video management, compliance and collaboration for all, securely. Effortlessly organise assets with quick searches, AI tagging, and categorization, ensuring swift access and utilisation across images, videos, documents, and more.
  • Bounce Insights — Bounce Insights is a digital consumer research platform. It provides a direct link between brands and any consumer they needed to speak to by maintaining a community of active, engaged respondents on their mobile app.
John Purdy Angel
John Purdy
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Medical
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • dimply — The experience & engagement platform for financial enterprises.
  • Beyondbmi — Beyondbmi is an expert led medical approach to weight loss. We provide a convenient and scientific telehealth program designed to help your reach your health goals.
  • FlowForma — Unlock competitive advantage with FlowForma, the #1 no code digital process automation software & business process management tool. Get a free trial now!
Martin Ott Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Martin Ott - CEO @ Taxfix
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Investment focus
  • Legal, Information Technology, Internet
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Germany, Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Unu motors — unu wants to create the mobility solution that fully connects people to the city. They believe in cities in which all people are enabled to embrace the full potential of urban life. Their first product, electric scooter unu, was launched in summer 2014. unu is stylish, emission-free, quiet and super-easy to charge thanks to portable batteries.
  • IDnow — IDnow provides advanced machine-learning technology for its Identity-as-a-Service platform that can verify identities in real time. The company's solutions guarantee legal security throughout Europe and the highest level of data security. The company provides a legally secure solution without additional hardware in the area of videoidentification of customers and electronic signatures.The company's offer is directed at all business customers who would like to provide customer identification and contract conclusion online, such as banks, telecommunications companies, Fintechs, etc. Its customer portfolio includes renowned firms such as Commerzbank, UBS, Sixt neuwagen, Telefónica, and N26.IDnow was founded on 2014 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.
  • Mobius Labs — Multimodal AI for the world's scale. Fast, secure, and affordable technology for visual, audio, and text applications.
Ian Madigan Angel · Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
Ian Madigan is a professional Rugby player at Ulster Rugby.
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Investment focus
  • Privacy, Software, Cyber Security
  • Seed
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.
Brian O'Driscoll Angel
Brian O'Driscoll
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Investment focus
  • Software, Employment, Web Development
  • Seed
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Grinds 360 — Grinds 360 operates as a hybrid learning platform. Grinds 360 uses a proven hybrid learning approach which elevates traditional classroom grinds using the latest cutting edge technology.
  • Time Warden — 1time is a user friendly, feature packed time tracking software that helps businesses increase productivity & profitablity.
  • Zipp Mobility — Zipp Mobility is a dockless scooter sharing company. Zipp Mobility reduce congestion and greenhouse gas emissions by providing affordable micromobility alternatives that enhance the quality of life of communities.
Declan Kelly Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Founder of Foreword.vc, an early-stage micro fund backing startups throughout their initial chapters. Also advisor at Web Summit and EiR at Seedcamp. Previously covering Europe for Techstars Ventures and founding member of Web Summits venture fund, Amaranthine.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Loctax — Complete oversight of global tax compliance obligations and risks in a single platform built for in-house tax teams.
  • Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.
  • Overwatch Research — Generate accurate in vivo study data as a part of your efficient, connected R&D.
Michael Dwyer Angel
Michael Dwyer is a founder of Pigsback.com.
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Investment focus
  • Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
  • Seed, Angel
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Imvizar — Transform your buildings, office spaces, visitor attractions, and parks with an immersive and visual storytelling experience using augmented reality. Discover unique ways to tell your story at Imvizar.
  • Bounce Insights — Bounce Insights is a digital consumer research platform. It provides a direct link between brands and any consumer they needed to speak to by maintaining a community of active, engaged respondents on their mobile app.
Pa Nolan Angel
Pa Nolan
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Delivery, Shipping
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Ireland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • SiSaf — SiSaf delivers on the promise of RNA therapeutics with Bio-Courier technology.
  • Scurri — Scurri is next generation delivery management software that puts retailers back in control. Explore our delivery management software today.
Brian Patterson Angel
Brian Patterson
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Investment focus
  • Delivery, Shipping, Software
  • Seed
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Scurri — Scurri is next generation delivery management software that puts retailers back in control. Explore our delivery management software today.
Pádraig Canavan Angel · Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
Pádraig Canavan is a Managing Director at Singularity.
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Investment focus
  • Computer, Software, Clinical Trials
  • Funding Round
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • FlowForma — Unlock competitive advantage with FlowForma, the #1 no code digital process automation software & business process management tool. Get a free trial now!
Angus McMillian Angel
Angus McMillian
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Investment focus
  • News, SaaS, Big Data
  • Funding Round
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • NewsWhip — The only real-time media monitoring platform that predicts the stories and topics that will matter in the hours ahead.
Howard Roberts Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Howard Roberts
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Finance, Hospital
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Kalibr8 — Optimize Your Business
  • PacSana — PacSana provides critical insight and understanding of user’s movement and health status. It uses a combination of sensors and expert systems to monitor critical user data and predict possible health events.
  • Aikido Finance — Create an investment portfolio for free online. Automated algorithmic trading and long term investment strategies.
Feargal Mooney Angel
Feargal Mooney - Chairman @ Luzern Technology Solutions
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile Apps, Information Technology
  • Seed
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Gigable — Join the fastest growing delivery network. Signup as a business to access freelancers or signup as a freelancer to earn additional income.
Barry Brennan Angel
Barry Brennan
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Customer Service, Business Intelligence
  • Angel
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • ServiceDock — Attract, convert & retain more customers with the all-in-one messaging platform that connects your stores & website to consumers for service & feedback.
Mike Stalley Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Mike Stalley Currently works as the Independent Non-Executive Director for Allied World Assurance Company (Europe) DAC.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Customs Window — Customs Window is an End-to-End Customs Clearance and Trade Solutions providing Support Services to solve challenges and operations.
Portman Wills Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Portman Wills - Co-Founder & CTO @ Wagestream
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, Spain, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Pillar — Pillar is a fintech credit platform that allows retail consumers to monitor, build and grow their credit footprint as well as access a credit facility through the Pillar credit card.
  • Kota — Replace your tools, brokers and outdated processes with the only platform that handles the entire employee benefits journey.
  • Pillar Financial Technologies — All-in-one Financial Platform for Small Businesses
Ian Hogarth Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Ian got a master's in machine learning at Cambridge and loves dystopian robot takeover narratives. Seven years ago, Ian realized being a choirboy came with no street cred, so he started DJing hip-hop, funk, drum & bass, and grime. Ian quit his job at Bain & Company, Singapore to start Songkick.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
  • The Garden — The Garden is an online media company.
  • Condense — Live-streamed volumetric video into game engines
Marc Murphy Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Founder and CEO, Marc is responsible for Fenergo’s business operational strategy and corporate direction. With 18 years’ experience developing, selling and delivering enterprise financial technology to global banks, Marc has developed a proven track record of building successful business-winning and leadership teams. In 2015, he led an $85m fundinground with Insight Venture Partners and Aquiline Capital Partners, marking the second fundraising effort for the company. In 2013, Fenergo secured €4m funding from Investec Ventures Ireland Limited. The latest fundraising enables Fenergo to create a platform for global growth that will see it capitalize on the growing demand being created by an ever-evolving financial regulations market. Marc was recently named a Fintech 100 Most Influential Leader in recognition of the impact that Fenergo’s technology is having on the way financial institutions manage their compliance obligations and operational requirements. Marc is a software engineering and MBA graduate of Dublin City University
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Investment focus
  • Legal, FinTech, Computer
  • Series A, Funding Round
  • Ireland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • FlowForma — Unlock competitive advantage with FlowForma, the #1 no code digital process automation software & business process management tool. Get a free trial now!
  • Thirdfort — Automated identity verification and AML compliance for lawyers and property professionals.
Paul Peters Angel
Paul Harvey Peters is the non-Executive Board Chair of online conference software provider ExOrdo.
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Investment focus
  • Events, Software, Publishing
  • Seed
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Ex Ordo — Ex Ordo is a Galway-based software company whose web applications enable research conference organisers to manage successful and career-enhancing events at which researchers can publish papers and collaborate together. Their web applications automate the mundane, time-consuming tasks, saving organisers an average of 15 days, €5 to €15k, overthe life of a conference.
John Herlihy Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
John Herlihy is Chairperson of Carne's board of directors.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Ireland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Tracworx — The future of packaging is returnable and reusable. We're building the digital infrastructure to enable it.
  • WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
Jim Fields Angel · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Jim Fields is the Founder and Managing Director of Relay, a Beijing-based cross-border marketing agency that helps visionary Chinese tech companies to expand in Western markets. Fields founded Relay with the ambition to create the first truly global Chinese brand.With over 15 years of studying Chinese and 8 years in China, Fields’ focus has beenon helping Chinese tech brands creatively and effectively communicate and engage with Western audiences. His work has gained millions of views across various platforms, both in China and internationally, for clients such as Xiaomi, Tencent, Lenovo, Garmin, Hover Camera and many others.Prior to founding Relay, Fields was responsible for launching British agency Studio Output’s Chinese business arm, which grew over 300% in revenue during his three years with the company. Before this, Fields began his career in Silicon Valley at Adobe and has also worked at Nokia and Reckitt Benckiser in Beijing.With a wealth of knowledge of Chinese business culture and over 15 years speaking Mandarin Chinese, Fields has been tapped as an industry expert to speak at events including: CHat Shanghai, HAX, China Accelerator events, DayDayUp, Tsinghua X-Lab and more.
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Investment focus
  • Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
  • Seed
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Imvizar — Transform your buildings, office spaces, visitor attractions, and parks with an immersive and visual storytelling experience using augmented reality. Discover unique ways to tell your story at Imvizar.
Phil Boddy Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Phil is an experienced equity derivatives broker working for Sunrise Brokers LLP, part of the BGC Partners Group. He is also an Angel Investor focused on post-seed early ventures.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Apps, FinTech
  • Equity Crowdfunding, Series A, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, Ireland, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
  • &Open — For businesses that gift to give back, share joy, or show they care. All you need is an email.
  • 24SEVEN — 24seven.pk is using tech and data to digitize and disrupt the fresh food and FMCG verticals in one of the fastest-growing and rapidly evolving consumer markets in the world.
  • AxiaFunder — AxiaFunder is a litigation funding platform, providing pre-vetted litigation investment opportunities to investors and flexible fast finance to claimants
Colm Menton Angel
Europcar Ireland, CEO, Colm Menton
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Parking, Automotive
  • Seed, Corporate Round
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Parkpnp — Parkpnp is the parking app that lets people and businesses find or rent underutilized parking spaces in seconds. Their car park technology helps all property owners increase revenue & automation of their parking assets.Parkpnp is modernising the €30bn European parking industry, where change has been slow due to fragmented ownership of parkingspace owners. Their solution connects all types of car park owners seamlessly with drivers looking to park faster, easier and more conveniently. Parkpnp allows people to list, advertise and then generate income from their unused or under utilized parking spaces. Through Parkpnp users can rent these listed spaces at an average saving of 50%.
  • Zeus Scooters — ZEUS is an Irish company deploying the World’s FIRST 3-wheeled electric scooter for the urban mobility sharing market. Our unique scooters with state-of-the-art technology and reliability that will ensure our users always enjoy the safest, smoothest and most stable ride.
Sean Mitchell Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Sean Mitchell is the Chairman and Chief Commercial Officer at Ubotica Technologies.
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Investment focus
  • Toys, Internet, Analytics
  • Seed, Series A
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • HoloToyz — HoloToyz is a line of animated children's products that use augmented reality to inspire creativity and imagination. Our products will amaze and amaze people of all ages with never-before-seen animations.
  • Glimpse — Glimpse empowers 'bricks-and-mortar' retailers with the same level of shopper data as their online counterparts, driving revenues with data.
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