Top 15 Sports Angel Investors in Ireland (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Martin Ott
Angel
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2 | Germany, Ireland, United States | Seed, Series A, Angel | Legal, Internet, Information Technology | $221k–$8M |
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Paul McGreevy
Angel
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1 | Ireland | Private Equity | Energy, Fitness, Nutrition | |
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John Hearne
Angel
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1 | Ireland | Seed | Sports, Software, Consulting | $1.4M–$4M |
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Tej Lalvani
Angel
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1 | India, Ireland, United Kingdom | Angel, Seed | Fashion, Advertising, Beauty | $139k–$2.9M |
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Meg Lustman
Angel
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1 | Ireland | Angel | Retail, Fashion, Fitness | |
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Colm Lyon
Angel
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1 | Ireland, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Local, Guides, Travel | $88k–$713k |
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Dan Ryan
Angel
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1 | Ireland | Angel | Retail, Fashion, Fitness | |
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Graham Stirling
Angel
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1 | Ireland | Seed | Art, RFID, Mobile | |
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Jordan Lamour
Angel
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1 | Ireland | Seed | Sports, Software | |
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Sara Davies
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, Ireland | Angel, Seed | Toys, Gaming, Rental | $40k–$158k |
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Walter Walsh
Angel
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1 | Ireland | Seed | EdTech, Sports, Software | $1.1M–$3.5M |
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Touker Suleyman
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, Ireland | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | Fitness, Software, Advertising | $25k–$2.5M |
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Dan Leavy
Angel
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1 | Ireland | Seed | Sports, Test and Measurement | |
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Adam Byrne
Angel
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1 | Ireland | Seed | Sports, Test and Measurement | |
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David Shapiro
Angel
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1 | Ireland | Gaming, Sports | ||
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Martin Ott - CEO @ Taxfix
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- Industry: Legal, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Germany, Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $221k–$1.1M; Series A $6.2M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Plantix — Plantix is the world’s most downloaded app for farmers - combining artificial intelligence and the expertise of leading research institutions around the globe. Millions of customers use Plantix in order to identify pests, diseases and nutrient deficiencies affecting their crops. For the first time in their farming life, they are able to obtain anaccurate diagnosis and suitable treatment options. On top of this, Plantix provides detailed advice on how to avoid crop loss and to optimize pesticide and fertilizer use. With Plantix, we are able to make a meaningful impact in farmers’ lives and to collect unprecedented insights on smallholder farming and disease spread.Plantix has been developed by Peat GmbH (Progressive Environmental & Agricultural Technologies), a deep learning AgTech Startup.
- 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.
Paul McGreevy
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- Industry: Energy, Fitness, Nutrition
- Stage:Private Equity
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Revive Active — Revive Active health supplement is the only brand that unlocks your abundant natural energy to maximize the lifestyle you want because it’s a supplement that does not compromise on amount or quality but is abundant with fantastic ingredients. Revive Active Health Supplement is a high quality blend of 26 ingredients delivered in one convenientsachet. The unique blend of vitamins and minerals combine to provide a multitude of health benefits including natural sustained energy without the use of sugar and caffeine. The revolutionary product also brings two key Nobel prize-winning ingredients together for the first time. The combined inclusion of Coenzyme Q10 and L-Arginine further improves Revive Active’s ability to enhance energy and vitality and support a healthy immune system in regular consumers all for as little as a cup of coffee per day.Unlike traditional fish oil supplements, Revive Krill Oil is an extremely bioavailable source of EPA and DHA. Key to the enhanced absorption is the unique structure of the omega-3s. Fish oil omega-3s are found in a triglyceride form, which repel water impairing absorption in the digestive tract. Krill oil is found in a phospholipid form which attracts water promoting fast and efficient absorption. This helps deliver the essential omega-3s to the places you need it most.
John Hearne, CEO and co-founder of Cúram Software
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- Industry: Sports, Software, Consulting
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Inclusio — The inclusio diversity and inclusion platform is designed to measure and positively shift the culture of your organisation. Contact us for more information.
- Output Sports — Discover Output's portable and affordable athlete testing and tracking device. Measure strength, power and speed in minutes giving accurate and reliable data.
Tej Lalvani is the CEO of Vitabiotics.
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- Industry: Fashion, Advertising, Beauty
- Stage:Angel, Seed
- Geography: India, Ireland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$2.9M; Angel $139k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- POPxo — POPxo is India's online community for women that deals everything from fashion, beauty, lifestyle, work, and etc.Reaching 9 million users every month with over 102 million monthly engaged content views. POPxo provides text and video content in an accessible manner, and reach them where they live their lives: on social media and on mobile.It focuses on reaching a highly targeted audience - the millions of young urban women in India who are growing in confidence, in independence and in spending power, it monetises by working across formats (native ads, social posts, events) with brands who want to reach this important and influential consumer base.I was launch in March 2014 it's become the go-to lifestyle resource for the female (18-34) demographic.
- Gener8 — We believe that the advertising industry needs more transparency and that people should be able to control their own data. Our technology gives people the control that is currently missing. And if people choose to share their data with advertisers, we reward them for it. Consequently, people trust us and 83% of them share their data with us.Meaning that we have an incredible understanding about these people and their online behaviour. We work with companies (and their media agencies) in the capacity of a media owner to do three things: 1. Provide premium media for you to reach this highly defined audience.2. Use our proprietary first party data to unveil actionable insights about your customers, eg. their purchase habits.3. To promote your brand and drive an action from your audience.
- Peachy Lean — Peachylean, is an Irish based athleisure business providing stylish, high quality, supportive, high waisted gym leggings. We want to support strong women who like to look good while working out in the gym.
Meg Lustman is the former chief executive of Hobbs London.
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- Industry: Retail, Fashion, Fitness
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Peachy Lean — Peachylean, is an Irish based athleisure business providing stylish, high quality, supportive, high waisted gym leggings. We want to support strong women who like to look good while working out in the gym.
Colm Lyon - Founder and CEO @ Fire Financial Services
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- Industry: Local, Guides, Travel
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $88k–$713k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Axe — AI phone agents that handle millions of calls. Build and manage voice, email, and chat agents.
- LikeWhere — LikeWhere's service helps travel brands identify the individual interests of their customers, so they can personalise their digital engagement, generating more revenues. LikeWhere utilises ‘affinity-marketing’ techniques deployed by brands including Amazon, Spotify & Netflix (‘others like you also liked this’), enabling travel brands tooptimise their retail strategy.
- Pundit Arena — Pundit Arena has created one of Europe's fastest growing sports publishing platforms that allows the mass creation of quality content across all sports throughout the world.Pundit Arena is revenue generating, and enables sports bloggers, writers and fans to monetise their work through Pundit Arena's unique revenue sharing model. The‘pundits’ write about topics and sports they are passionate about and publish their content through our web platform.This results in Pundit Arena ('PA') delivering unique and thought-provoking content to sports fans. Pundit Arena is essentially an online sports broadsheet powered by the sporting public.PA enables writers to earn money for their content through the revenue generated from both advertising and content syndication. Payment is issued to the site’s top writers in each category according to the highest performing articles in a unique Paid User Generated Media (PUGM) system. titled the ‘Hit List’.
Dan Ryan is the Chief Operating Officer of Kokoro Zenwear and Commercial Director at Peachylean.
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- Industry: Retail, Fashion, Fitness
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Peachy Lean — Peachylean, is an Irish based athleisure business providing stylish, high quality, supportive, high waisted gym leggings. We want to support strong women who like to look good while working out in the gym.
Graham Stirling is the Manager - Investments at Veddis.
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- Industry: Art, RFID, Mobile
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ticket ABC — Ticket ABC is a white label ticketing software and venue management solution used by over 120 venues, promoters, artists in 4 countries. Brand your account to have the same look and feel as your website, better understand your sales and customers with their graphical reporting tool and integrate with social media to sell tickets within anyFacebook page. Fanalytics (Ticket ABC's customer analytics tool) transforms all the customer data generated from selling tickets into a snapshot of your business so you know who your top customers are, where they are from and the ability to communicate and reward them for their loyalty.
Jordan Lamour is the Chief Technical Officer and Founder of TopOrder and he attended Rennes 2 University.
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- Industry: Sports, Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- myClub — myClub is a Dublin-based sports club management app that offers sporting clubs and organisations with free software.
Sara Davies
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- Industry: Toys, Gaming, Rental
- Stage:Angel, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Angel $40k–$158k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sibstar — Empowering vulnerable people to spend safely, free from scams, overspending and addiction relapse
- Tiny Explorers — Discover Tiny Explorers' eco-friendly baby equipment rental across the UK Convenient, sustainable & hassle-free solutions for busy families!
- Brainspark Games — Brainspark Games creates educational games and revision apps for kids of all ages. Find out more about our products, services and mission for revolutionising education.
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- Industry: EdTech, Sports, Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$3.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Grinds 360 — Unlimited Leaving Cert Grinds in all your subjects with our team of expert teachers. Follow for daily Leaving Cert Advice and Tutorials
- myClub — myClub is a Dublin-based sports club management app that offers sporting clubs and organisations with free software.
Touker Suleyman is a multi-millionaire Turkish Cypriot fashion retail entrepreneur and investor. In 2001, his company Low Profile Group purchased UK shirt maker Hawes & Curtis, and in 2008 he purchased UK fashion label Ghost. More recently, he has invested in a number of start-up companies including Bikesoup and Huxley & Cox.
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- Industry: Fitness, Software, Advertising
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $25k–$2.5M; Angel $40k–$139k
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cablato — For the past 70 years broadcast TV advertising practices have remained fairly unchanged. The advent of data proliferation, technology advancements & shifting consumer behavior have created an opportunity for a seismic shift in how TV advertising is planned, targeted, purchased and measured - moving media dollars from traditional broadcasting toaddressable TV advertising.The next phase of broadcast and addressable TV evolution is the ability to personalize and serve dynamic video content and advertising, which aligns the content the consumer views to their interests, location, viewing habits or even the weather.Developing broadcast ready video personalization technology is extremely complex, with the technology needing to not only serve broadcast quality TV advertising, but also work seamlessly within the myriad of existing broadcast technologies, processes and regulations.Cablato has built the first technology solution that overcomes these challenges, enabling advertisers to create and serve highly engaging personalized video ads at scale, and to integrate into buy-side and broadcaster technology stacks that provide broadcasters with a new untapped revenue stream.Quantifiable KPIs / Business Performance Cablato has built the first video personalisation technology solution for OTT and addressable TV enabling advertisers to create and serve highly engaging personalized video ads at scale.Challenges we've had to solve in order to scale and get buy-in - Dynamic video creation and ad serving for both broadcaster managed & programmatic addressable TV - Cloud rendering and use of dynamic content within linear video files - Regulations, content approval and management - Buy-side technology integrations and use of data for personalisation - Sell-side technology integrations and use of data for personalisation
- Tiny Explorers — Discover Tiny Explorers' eco-friendly baby equipment rental across the UK Convenient, sustainable & hassle-free solutions for busy families!
- Brainspark Games — Brainspark Games creates educational games and revision apps for kids of all ages. Find out more about our products, services and mission for revolutionising education.
Dan Leavy
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- Industry: Sports, Test and Measurement
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Output Sports — Discover Output's portable and affordable athlete testing and tracking device. Measure strength, power and speed in minutes giving accurate and reliable data.
Adam Byrne
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- Industry: Sports, Test and Measurement
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Output Sports — Discover Output's portable and affordable athlete testing and tracking device. Measure strength, power and speed in minutes giving accurate and reliable data.
David Shapiro is the Managing Partner of KPS Capital Partners. He attended the University of Michigan.
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- Industry: Gaming, Sports
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PLATFORM Golf — PLATFORM Golf is a pioneering golf technology firm focusing on transforming the sport of golf.
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