# Top 50 Software Angel Investors in Ireland in June 2026 ## Des Traynor - Type: Angel - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet Des is the Co-Founder of Intercom, the platform for all customer interaction needs from marketing to support to product development. Previously he worked as User Experience Lead at web app development agency Contrast, and he was a Co-Founder of popular social networking search engine Bigulo. ## Brian Caulfield - Type: Angel - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, Mobile, Apps Brian Caulfield is based out of Dublin, Dublin and is the Venture Partner at Molten Ventures and also serves as the Chairman at Barespace. Brian previously worked at Graphcore as Board Oberver. Brian Caulfield attended Trinity College Dublin. Brian has received the Irish Software Association's "Technology Person of the Year" award. ## Ray Nolan - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, News, Software Ray Nolan - Non-Exec Chair @ XSellco ## Chris Murphy - Type: Angel - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Chris Murphy is a Venture Partner at MS&AD Ventures. He previously cofounded SaaStock and was an early Web Summit employee. ## Shane Naughton - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: SaaS, Software, Apps Shane Naughton - Founding Partner and Board of Directors @ On The Stage ## Liam Casey - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology Liam is the founder and CEO of PCH. ## Marc McCabe - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Big Data Marc McCabe is a Scout at Sequoia Capital and General Partner at Nomad Capital. Prior to this role, Marc was a Business Development Lead and before that, a Team Member of Business and Corporate Development. Previously, Marc was a Partner at SV Angel and an Online Media Associate at Google. ## David Clarke - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS David Clarke is the Board member of Payslip. David Clarke is the Venture Partner at Frontline Ventures. He attended Trinity College Dublin during 1989-1993. ## Declan Kelly - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech Founder of Foreword.vc, an early-stage micro fund backing startups throughout their initial chapters. Also advisor at Web Summit and EiR at Seedcamp. Previously covering Europe for Techstars Ventures and founding member of Web Summits venture fund, Amaranthine. ## Bradley Horowitz - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Bradley Horowitz is an Advisor and Vice President of Product Management at Google. Most recently he helped create Area 120, Google's incubator for internally-sourced innovation. He's led a large number of products, programs and initiatives at Google - including Google for Startups, Google Photos, Gmail, Google Voice, blogger, and GoogleNews.Before joining Google in February 2008, Horowitz was Yahoo's vice president of Advanced Development where he drove the acquisitions of Flickr and MyBlogLog, launched the Brickhouse incubator and developed new products like Yahoo! Pipes. Additionally, he was responsible for the company's initiative to open up its platform which included overseeing the Yahoo Developer Network (YDN).Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical direction of the company from its founding through its IPO and eventual acquisition by Autonomy.Horowitz was a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab. While at the Media Lab, he worked on a number of topics related to computer vision, graphics and image processing, which resulted in a patented new technique for the recovery of structure, motion and camera parameters from video sequences.Horowitz holds an MS in Media Science from MIT and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan. ## Kevin Hartz - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology Kevin Hartz is a Co-Founder and Chairman of Sauron. He is also a Co-Founder and General Partner at A*. He previously worked at Eventbrite as Co-Founder and Chairman. Kevin attended Stanford University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts & Science in History and Applied Earth Science, and the University of Oxford, where he completed an MSt inHistory. ## Gareth Lambe - Type: Angel - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Tourism, Payments, Software Gareth Lambe is the Chief Executive Officer of Medihive. He previously worked at Meta as a Board Of Directors. Gareth Lambe attended the University College Dublin. ## Pa Nolan - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Medical, Delivery, Shipping Pa Nolan ## Peter Crowley - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Privacy, Software, Cyber Security Peter Crowley - Founder & Director @ FL Partners ## Tom Kennedy - Type: Angel - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Travel, Software, Video Tom Kennedy is the Founder of Hostelworld. Tom Kennedy attended Technological University Dublin. ## Walter Walsh - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Sports, Software Walter Walsh ## Hal Philipp - Type: Angel - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: News, SaaS, Big Data Hal Philipp - Principal Partner @ Meridian Growth Capital ## John Purdy - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Medical John Purdy ## Michael Dwyer - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality Michael Dwyer is a founder of Pigsback.com. ## Colm Long - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, SaaS, FinTech Colm Long ## Claire Hughes Johnson - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech Claire Hughes Johnson is the chief operating officer of Johnson holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Johnson lives in San Francisco, California, United States. ## Jared Messenger - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Product Design, Developer Tools, Developer Platform Jared Messenger is a technology entrepreneur and angel investor. He is currently an iOS computer vision and machine learning researcher. He also advises early-stage startups on building and shipping their iOS app. ## Charlie Songhurst - Type: Angel - Location: Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics. ## Sean Mullaney - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Web Apps, Cloud Security Sean Mullaney is a Chief Technology of Algolia. ## David Shackleton - Type: Angel - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: SaaS, Video, Internet David Shackleton is the Product Head at OpenBack Integration of Twitter. Took up The Role and Responsibilities of Company Directors at Institute of Directors in Ireland. ## Ian Madigan - Type: Angel - Location: Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Privacy, Software, Cyber Security Ian Madigan is a professional Rugby player at Ulster Rugby. ## Ciaran Lee - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: EdTech, Education, Sustainability Ciaran Lee - Co-Founder @ Intercom ## Oleg Tikhturov - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce I am an active Angel Investor in pre-seed and seed startups, having invested in 80+ startups. I invest in ambitious founders building scalable products for large markets and support founders with advice, strategic network of investors. Currently Founding Partner at TrueSight Ventures, Venture Capital firm investing in European early-stage startups. ## Patrick Walsh - Type: Angel - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, Beauty, FinTech Former Product Manager at ezetop where he led the development and deployment of a white label mobile phone online top up system for Digicel across its 31 markets. KPMG exam qualified Chartered Accountant having worked across telecoms, music & software industries. ## Laurence Krieger - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, FinTech, Big Data Laurence Krieger is the chief operating officer (COO) at Tide, the online current account for small and medium sized businesses. Krieger has more than 12 years of experience working in senior roles at fast-growing fintech start-ups.Prior to Tide, he was COO of Revolut, where he helped to rapidly scale the business from initial start-up to over800,000 customers. He was previously founder and CEO of payment business Cobalt where he delivered high profitability and grew annual revenues to more than £100m. He launched one of the first prepaid cards into the UK with Moneysupermarket and has also held senior roles at Yahoo! UK and IE. ## Rob Hickey - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Medical, Software, Biotechnology Rob Hickey is Vice President of Engineering at Azuki Systems, responsible for product design and development. Rob brings more than 20 years of proven management and engineer experience in the areas of video distribution, signal processing and content-aware networking to the role.Most recently, Rob worked at Cisco Systems and was a member of theCisco New England Development Center Leadership Team. His responsibilities included leading the Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Application development organization where he led the design and development of Label Switched Multicast for Cisco’s edge routing platforms. This technology is a key component of Cisco’s video distribution architecture. Prior to his current role, Rob managed a development and QA team responsible for the design and development of next generation security and content switching platforms. Prior to Cisco, Rob was a founding engineer at ArrowPoint Communications, which was acquired by Cisco in May 2000. ArrowPoint was a leader in the content networking space and pioneered the L4-L7 intelligent load balancer. At ArrowPoint, Rob held various roles in hardware and software development as well as QA.Before joining ArrowPoint, Rob held various engineering positions at Bay Networks and Raytheon Company.Rob received his BSEE from Northeastern University and completed the Global Leadership and Business Leadership Development Programs while at Cisco. ## Mike McGearty - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, Big Data, Transportation CEO at CarTrawler ## Brian Patterson - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Delivery, Shipping, Software Brian Patterson ## Mark Cummins - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, B2B, CRM Mark Cummins ## Sean Baker - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Web Development, Software Sean Baker - Director @ Calom Technologies ## Nigel Byrne - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality Nigel Byrne is an angel Investor and a former group CTO of Ooredoo. ## Paddy Flynn - Type: Angel - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel - Focus: SaaS, Machine Learning, Video Paddy Flynn - VP, Geo Data Operations @ Google ## Dan Kiely - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Human Resources, Machine Learning Dan Kiely is CEO and Co-Founder of Voxpro, a premium provider of high end outsourcing services exclusively to the disruptive technology market. Dan thrives in the entrepreneurial realm. He dreams big & encourages innovation in all aspects of his company. Dan is a man of passion and creativity. Find the limit and he will smash it. Voxpro’svision has always been driven by Dan’s desire to create something unique, something unforgettable. With its 2,000+ strong work force across multiple locations in Ireland, the U.S., Romania and shortly, the Philippines, Voxpro touches the lives of hundreds of thousands of people every year, all over the world. Voxpro has a rapidly expanding geographic footprint and well considered location roll-out plan. A growing partner list includes some of the most powerful technology companies in the world. Voxpro’s partners are of great inspiration to Dan. He resonates with their entrepreneurial spirit and they, with his. Dan’s tenure at the helm continues to steer Voxpro on an exciting and successful journey. Audacious and relentless, his dreams for the company know no bounds. ## Conor Stanley - Type: Angel - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Analytics Founder / Partner at Tribal.vc. We are a venture firm that empowers entrepreneurs on their own unique path to success. We invest early and with conviction, using our experience and networks to help guide founders and their teams as needed. ## Martin Ott - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Legal, Internet, Information Technology Martin Ott - CEO @ Taxfix ## Brian O'Driscoll - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Employment, Web Development Brian O'Driscoll ## Christian Vollmann - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS Christian Vollmann is the Chairman Of The Board at nebenan.de. ## Linda Kiely - Type: Angel - Location: Metropolitan, Michigan, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, Software, Analytics Linda Kiely is an Entrepreneur at Linda Green-Kiely Enterprises. ## Joe Kenny - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: SaaS, Customer Service, Business Intelligence Joe Kenny ## Matt Clifford - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence Matt co-founded EF after being a consultant at McKinsey & Co. Prior to EF Matt spent his time studying at MIT fuelled by an obsession with R, Python and unusual datasets. EF is the best place for Europe’s top technical individuals to meet and build world-changing startups in London.They select purely on the basis of technical talent, so youcan apply before you have a team or an idea. The intensive 6-month programme is designed to give you the best possible support in the first 200 days of your startup’s life.They have created over 40 startups now worth over $300 million. The startups are funded by some prestigious investors including Balderton Capital, Index Ventures, Octopus Investments and Y Combinator. ## Julie Zhuo - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Education, Internet Julie Zhuo is currently the co-founder of Inspirit, a product strategy, data and design advisory firm for high-growth tech companies. Before that she was the VP of Product Design for the Facebook app, where she helped scale the service from 10 million users to over 2 billion during her 13 years there. Her field guide to management, The Makingof a Manager, became an instant Wall Street Journal bestseller and was selected as one of Amazon's Best Business and Leadership Books of 2019. She writes about technology, design, and leadership on her popular blog and mailing list, The Looking Glass. She graduated with a computer science degree from Stanford University and lives with her husband and three children in California's Bay Area. ## Job van der Voort - Type: Angel - Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Job van der Voort is the Co-founder and CEO of Remote. He previously worked at GitLab as a VP of Product. Job van der Voort attended the University of Amsterdam. ## John Hearne - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Sports, Software, Consulting John Hearne, CEO and co-founder of Cúram Software ## Pádraig Canavan - Type: Angel - Location: Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Computer, Software, Clinical Trials Pádraig Canavan is a Managing Director at Singularity. ## Angus McMillian - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: News, SaaS, Big Data Angus McMillian # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co