# Top 15 Sports Angel Investors in Ireland in June 2026

## 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

## Meg Lustman
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Retail, Fashion, Fitness

Meg Lustman is the former chief executive of Hobbs London.

## Walter Walsh
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Sports, Software

Walter Walsh

## Tej Lalvani
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Fashion, Advertising, Beauty

Tej Lalvani is the CEO of Vitabiotics.

## Dan Ryan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Retail, Fashion, Fitness

Dan Ryan is the Chief Operating Officer of Kokoro Zenwear and Commercial Director at Peachylean.

## John Hearne
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Sports, Software, Consulting

John Hearne, CEO and co-founder of Cúram Software

## 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.

## Graham Stirling
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gibraltar, Gibraltar, Gibraltar
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Art, RFID, Mobile

Graham Stirling is the Manager - Investments at Veddis.

## Dan Leavy
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Sports

Dan Leavy

## Adam Byrne
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Sports

Adam Byrne

## Touker Suleyman
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Fitness, Advertising, CRM

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.

## Jordan Lamour
- Type: Angel
- Location: Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Sports, Software

Jordan Lamour is the Chief Technical Officer and Founder of TopOrder and he attended Rennes 2 University.

## Keith Bank
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Video, Sports, Video Streaming

Keith Bank is the CEO and Founder of KB Partners and has a diverse background in start-up companies, real estate and other entrepreneurial ventures.Keith has been a very "hands on" venture capital and angel investor in a wide variety of industries, including the medical, semiconductor, internet, telecom, software, cable TV, sports andgolf, consumer and retail, and social media arenas. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Versatile Sports Partners and Club Champion Golf and holds multiple other board seats. Prior to forming the KB Partners venture funds, Mr. Bank co-founded and served on the Board and as President of MST Analytics, Inc., a semi-conductor product and services business which was successfully sold to ATMI, Inc., a public company, in 1999.Keith was a founding board member of the Illinois Venture Capital Association, and served as its Chairman in 2005-2006. He was the recipient of the IVCA’s prestigious Fellows Medal in 2006. Keith founded, and for 16 years, served as the Chairman of the Chicago Select Golf Invitational, one of the largest American Cancer Society golf fundraising events in the country, having raised approximately $8 million under his guidance. He has been honored by Crain’s Chicago Business as a “40 Under 40”, a Who’s Who of Chicago Executives and as one of the 100 most prominent members of Chicago’s technology community. Keith is active in CEO’s against Cancer and NU Wave, an athletic fundraising vehicle for Northwestern University.Prior to forming KB Partners in 1996, Keith was a Principal at HSA, a Chicago based national real estate development, investment, management and brokerage firm. There he was instrumental in the development, acquisition, financing, sale, and leasing of over three million square feet of property with a value in excess of $650 million. Other career highlights include co-founding a deep discount retailer, acquiring and completing a successful turnaround of a women’s apparel manufacturing and sales company, and procuring the equity and debt financing for, and serving as the Producer and Executive Producer of feature films entitled “Heaven is a Playground” (1991) and the BAFTA award winning "Tommy's Honour" (2017).Keith graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. degree in Economics from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and holds an MBA in Finance with honors from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.He is 99% of the way towards achieving his goal of playing the Top 100 golf courses in the United States.

## David Shapiro
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Gaming, Sports

David Shapiro is the Managing Partner of KPS Capital Partners. He attended the University of Michigan.

## Sara Davies
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Toys, Gaming, Rental

Sara Davies

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