Top 45 Sports Startup Investors in Ireland
A list of 45 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Sports startups based in Ireland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sports companies from Ireland. We update this investor list every month.Top 45 Sports Startup Investors in Ireland
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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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lative — Lative automates capacity planning, maximizing profitable sales growth & revenue efficiency for high-performance revenue teams.
- Cytidel — Cytidel helps security teams reduce breaches, save time, and stay secure. Vulnerability Management and Cyber Risk Management, and Threat Intelligence Specialists
- Positive Carbon — Positive Carbon provides an innovative solution for businesses to track, manage, and reduce food waste. With real-time analytics, CO2 calculation, and a comprehensive learning platform, we help you save costs and achieve sustainability goals. Request a demo today to start making a positive environmental impact.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Hiiker — Find 1000s of the best backpacking and hiking adventures, with reviews, photos, and great places to stay.
- Legitify — Legitify is an AI powered solution using audio-video authentication that allows customers to notarize documents online remotely from anywhere, without the hassle of visiting a notary public in person.
- Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.
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.
Our investment experience includes;
Seed investment in Boxever, acquired by SiteCore.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Conjura — The eCommerce Analytics platform
- GREYSCOUT — Safeguard your reputation and increase revenue with GreyScout, the scalable, always-on platform for fighting IP infringement and grey market sellers.
- &Open — For businesses that gift to give back, share joy, or show they care. All you need is an email.
Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Xaver — Increase your sales efficiency by 65% with Xaver. Enhance productivity and unlock more time for customers using our specialised AI-driven sales solutions tailored for the financial sector, ensuring every agent becomes a high-achieving expert.
- ValidMind — ValidMind is the most efficient solution for governance & risk management of AI and LLMs. Automate model documentation and validation for all model types.
- Tomorrow Things — TomorrowThings builds digital twins in a one-click fashion to enable sustainability with the power of simplicity.
Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Groover — Groover is the best way to promote your music to blogs, radios, record labels, & Spotify playlisters. Get listened to, receive coverage & guaranteed feedback!
- HD — HD is a healthcare and surgery marketplace, powering over 1,500+ healthcare providers including some of the biggest hospitals. HD connects patients to hospitals, clinics, operating rooms, and surgeons while offering healthcare financing solutions to increase access to affordable care and surgeries. To date, over 250,000 patients have benefited frommore accessible and affordable healthcare and surgeries through the company's platform.
- MyRealTrip — MyRealTrip is leading tours&activities marketplace in South Korea. MyRealTrip is the best free travel platform in Korea where you can book flights, accommodations, tours & tickets, and special offers. Starting with guided tour service in 2012, it has been growing rapidly since it successfully launched air service in 2018. MyRealTrip isconstantly striving to provide travelers with a personalized experience and provide them with a more valuable experience.
We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Cogna — Cogna offers an AI-powered SaaS platform that streamlines the integration of data across several business domains.
- Haiper — Haiper is a generative AI startup building perceptual foundation models for next-generation visual content creation.
- Connected — Connected is a startup that offers affordable connecting humans, unleashing a new wave of IoT-based business models and contributing to bridge the digital gap.
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 — Your customers deserve seamless 24/7 identity verification and KYC experiences. Compliant with regulations (e.g. AML, eIDAS). Available in 195 countries.
- Mobius Labs — Multimodal AI for the world's scale. Fast, secure, and affordable technology for visual, audio, and text applications.
At Development Capital, they are aware of the significant growth opportunities available to mid-sized companies and understand the management teams’ unique requirement for not only finance, but also for a funding partner who will bring experience, expertise and international reach to assist secure and maximise the business growth opportunity.Development Capital provides investee companies with a unique and unprecedented partnership approach which will maximise the growth opportunity in the most prompt and efficient manner. In addition to their experienced Investment Directors, their partners include:High profile and experienced Industry Experts who will provide direction and support to investee companies; andMajor Irish Corporates who have committed not only funding but also their international experience.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Telecommunications, VoIP
- Funding Round, Seed, Private Equity
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- IP Telecom — Ireland's most competitive SME & Enterprise VoIP provider. We are Ireland's leading VoIP Phone Systems Provider. Connect your business to the technology of today.
- Nomadic Dairy — Nomadic Dairy is a growing, premium branded yogurt manufacturer. The company supplies multiple products across the UK and Republic of Ireland.
- Spotlight Oral Care — Spotlight Oral Care aims to create the best oral health products, to educate and promote oral care, empowering people to engage with true customised preventative oral care.
Paul McGreevy
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Investment focus
- Energy, Fitness, Nutrition
- Private Equity
- Ireland
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.
Growing together every step of the way. We empower great leaders throughout the journey of growth.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Series B, Series C, Series A
- United States, India, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Anomalo — Anomalo allows users to continuously inspect and validate the data coming into their warehouses.
- Ediphi — The most advanced cloud-based estimating solution.
- tvScientific — tvScientific is the first performance platform for CTV. It combines the power of television with the precision of digital marketing.
South East Business Innovation Centre supports the generation and development of new innovative enterprises by providing tailored business consultancy services in Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford, Wexford and South Tipperary.
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Investment focus
- Sports, Outdoors, Sporting Goods
- Angel
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Hamstring Solo — The Hamstring Solo is an exercise aid for carrying out hamstring eccentric and concentric exercises.
Cloud Apps Capital Partners is a market-focused venture capital firm helping early stage companies in the cloud business applications sector. We know firsthand what it takes to build category-leading business application companies. We also recognize entrepreneurs need much more than capital which is why we differentiate and pride ourselves onthe guidance and support we give entrepreneurs to help accelerate and maximize their business potential during the critical early stage. Our firm is leading change in the venture market for early-stage companies with our market-focused Classic Series A approach which provides early stage investments of $2 to $10 million and full board support. This “classic” approach benefits entrepreneurs by giving them the right financial backing along with operational guidance from a seasoned, skilled and engaged investment firm.We are the leading investor in early stage cloud business applications companies. Cloud Apps Capital Partners has more direct operating, commercial and venture experience building great cloud business app companies than any other early stage VC firm. This translates into exceptional market and business insights, guidance grounded in expertise for our entrepreneurs, plus access to a world class network of cloud business application executives.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series C, Series B
- United States, Canada, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- 4CRisk.ai — AI-powered regulatory compliance solutions that will reduce your cost of compliance while decreasing compliance risk.
- DataGrail — DataGrail provides businesses with a simple platform to manage compliance with GDPR, CCPA and similar data privacy regulations.
- Clearstory.build — Construction's leading Change Order Communication Platform. We help Subs, GCs, and Owners communicate T&M Tags and Change Order Requests in real-time.
Christian Vollmann is the Chairman Of The Board at nebenan.de.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Germany, Ireland, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- autarc — We supercharge installers with our OS to become heat pump champions
- NeoCarbon — NeoCarbon reverses climate change by dramatically cutting costs of Direct Air Capture leveraging cooling towers around Europe. By retrofitting existing infrastructure without impacting their original function, the time and cost needed to set up a carbon capturing system is improved by up to 10x.
- Packmatic — Packmatic finds the ideal flexible packaging solution for your product and lets you manage it online.
We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Layer Edge — First Optimistic Rollups with Modular DA Layer on #Bitcoin. Fast, Inexpensive & Familiar EVM environment for #BTC ecosystem.
- Tanssi Network — The Tanssi Network is a permissionless appchain infrastructure protocol designed for swift and effortless deployment of application-specific blockchains.
- Unstable Protocol — Unstable Protocol implements zkOracles to enhance the DeFi utility for the LRTfi market.
Fuel Ventures - a leading early stage seed / growth stage EIS Fund based in London, UK. Investing in the most ambitious technology companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Eilla AI — AI Platform to Power the M&A, VC and PE Deal Workflow.
- iCustoms — ClearCustoms use AI & ML to reduce 200m new annual customs declarations time
- Think Cyber Security — Think Cyber Security was founded at the end of 2016 by Dr Mike Butler and Tim Ward, the ex-global heads of Information Security and Information Services respectively, from the cyber arm of BAE Systems (previously Detica). Their mission, to deliver pragmatic, user-oriented, solutions providing measurable security risk reduction.Despite a $1bnsecurity awareness market (predicted to grow to $10bn by 2027), 90% of successful cyber-attacks start with the human user. In a context where technical controls can never promise to be 100% and cyber risks involve people as much as computers, ThinkCyber offer the next generation in Security Awareness. Their RedFlags™ software product applies behavioural and learning science theory in a highly innovative approach, to provide context-sensitive just-in-time guidance – delivering secure behavioural change for their customers.
Castlegate Investments is a private equity and family office firm.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Sports, Fashion
- Funding Round, Series A
- Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- CWSI — CWSI are Europe's leading mobile, cyber security and cloud specialists enabling the world to securely work from anywhere.
- Danu — Danu Sports is an innovative motion analysis tracking company that uses smart socks to track your movements.
- Gym+Coffee — Gym+Coffee is an Irish-designed athleisure brand. We are passionately committed to encourage our community to Make Life Richer by socialising through exercise. We believe in awesome things to do, rad people to do them with and quality gear for all your adventures.
Founded in 1997, Earlybird invests in all development and growth phases of technology companies. Among the most experienced venture investors in Europe, Earlybird offers its portfolio companies not only financial resources but also strategic support plus access to an international network and capital markets. With EUR 2 billion under management,eight IPOs and 30 trade sales, Earlybird is one of the most established and active venture capital firms in Europe.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Neotaste — Neotaste is the developer of the restaurant-finding app that provides free marketing services for restaurateurs.
- Draftwise — DraftWise deals with knowledge management and business intelligence that assists law firms to procure quality contracts swiftly. It enables clients to avail and customize the security according to their requirements. DraftWise was founded in 2020 by Emre Ozen, Ozan Yalti, and James Ding and was headquartered in New York.
- Greenlyte Carbon Technologies — Greenlyte Carbon Technologies develops and markets an efficient low temperature DAC process that captures CO2 from the air.
Elkstone is an investment firm, focusing on entrepreneurs, senior executives, institutional LPs, the venture community, and the Irish diaspora.The objective of the organization is to boost the economic value and overall well-being of the island of Ireland by expanding a network, facilitating deserving investments, and delivering excellentinvestment performance.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Medical
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Lative — Lative automates capacity planning, maximizing profitable sales growth & revenue efficiency for high-performance revenue teams.
- Cytidel — Cytidel helps security teams reduce breaches, save time, and stay secure. Vulnerability Management and Cyber Risk Management, and Threat Intelligence Specialists
- Kerno — Instantly identify the root cause of any critical issue in your Cloud apps and get back to business in minutes, not hours.
Early stage VC investments and funding for start-ups / founders in Ireland.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
The Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity fund is a joint fund built with contributions from the Bank of Ireland, the University of Limerick Foundation, and government-backed The seed fund will invest in export-oriented high potential firms that operate in the technology, food and financial services sectors, inaddition to supporting patent and patent pending projects within Irish universities, targeting investments between EUR 100K-500K. The new fund comprises of a €17 million investment by Bank of Ireland, along with funding of €8 million from Enterprise Ireland and € 1million by the University of Limerick Foundation. It will be managed by
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Investment focus
- Software, Photography, Solar
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Pulsate — Engage digitally banked customers effectively with Pulsate: tools for deeper, impactful relationships beyond branch interactions.
- LegitFit — LegitFit is there to help you from first sale to scale! Our leading software solution is everything you need to run & grow a successful business. It's easy to use, affordable, and integrates powerful tools for bookings, payments, and communication!
- Certification Europe — Certification Europe offers ISO Certification, Inspection and ISO Training solutions to drive compliance for our clients!
Meg Lustman is the former chief executive of Hobbs London.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Fashion, Fitness
- Angel
- Ireland
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.
Walter Walsh
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Investment focus
- Sports, Software
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- myClub — myClub is a Dublin-based sports club management app that offers sporting clubs and organisations with free software.
Graham Stirling is the Manager - Investments at Veddis.
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Investment focus
- Art, RFID, Mobile
- Seed
- Ireland
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.
Supporting communities to grow, investing in businesses to scale and planning for the future of the western region.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- FeelTect — Connected health technology for disruptive improvements to wound care
- 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.
- Amara Therapeutics — Amara Therapeutics is passionate about empowering women and men to take control of their pelvic health. Amara Therapeutics use evidence based medicine and behavioural interventions supported by Amara Therapeutics platform of technologies to provide safe, convenient and non-invasive care pathways. At Amara Therapeutics mission is to fix the carepathway for pelvic health patients, connecting healthcare providers, patients and peers through our platform.
The only real-time media monitoring platform that predicts the stories and topics that will matter in the hours ahead.
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Investment focus
- B2B, SaaS, Fitness
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Glofox — Our all-in-one fitness software provides entrepreneurs with the functionality to increase member retention and improve revenue growth.
Enterprise Equity (or EEVC) is an excellent for providing capital to early stage and expanding business throughout Ireland.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Medical Device
- Funding Round, Seed, Series B
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Phorest — Join 8000+ spas, barbers, hair, beauty and nail salon owners using the #1 management, scheduling, POS and appointment booking system. Try Phorest now!
- SurgaColl — SurgaColl Technologies is a medical device company developing novel tissue regeneration products for the surgical treatment of diseases of the bone, cartilage and other human tissue. Based on technology developed at the Tissue Engineering Research Group (TERG) of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), headed by Professor Fergal O’Brien,the company aims to become a leader in the field of regenerative medical devices.
- 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.
Sara Davies
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Investment focus
- Retail, Fashion, Fitness
- Angel
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Sibstar — A flexible debit card and app. Helping families living with dementia to safely manage their everyday spending.
- 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.
Veddis is an investment advisory firm that seeks to create value through sourcing tailored investment decisions that meet the right criteria of asset class, risk profile, and geography. They currently manage a portfolio of carefully selected companies which specialise in technology, health & wellbeing and retail. Their sophisticated planningprocess provides their clients access to global investment vehicles free from bias, and has culminated in a longstanding record of superior returns. As a truly independent company, every decision they make is solely with the investors’ interests in mind.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Software, Consumer Electronics
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Hadean — Hadean are a venture backed tech startup providing the most simple and secure platform for cloud native development. Intuitive and developer friendly, the Hadean Platform provides a friction free route to a cloud-native infrastructure. It lets you write applications once and deploy anywhere, taking care of setup, configuration, scaling, securityand more.Hadean have developed two flagship applications. Aether Engine provides distributed load balancing for agent-based simulations, while Muxer is a network model that utilises distributed edge networks. The result is spatial simulations of unparalleled size and complexity, where thousands of concurrent users can join and interact. Hadean have found traction in gaming, healthcare, virtual events and defence with industry leading companies such as Microsoft, Minecraft and CAE.
- Student.com — Student.com is the world’s leading marketplace for international student housing, helping students find their perfect home abroad. Student.com has been six years in the making and their international team has already helped thousands of students find their home.They have the widest and most carefully selected range of rooms that were built andare managed specifically for students. This gives you the power to explore and compare a variety of rooms across different neighbourhoods so that you can make the right choice. Choosing the right home provides a safe and inspiring foundation. It helps you to grow and make the most of your journey.
- Excite Foundry — Get the fastest deal for your Amazon brand from a brand aggregator founded by experienced Amazon entrepreneurs like you.
Dan Leavy
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Investment focus
- Sports
- Seed
- Ireland
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.
VentureWave Capital is an actively managed private equity group that invests in and builds great companies.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Apps, Business Intelligence
- Funding Round, Series A
- Ireland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Xocean — Using unmanned surface vessels (USVs), XOCEAN offers turnkey data collection services to Surveyors, Companies and Agencies.
- Medihive — Our software and clinical solutions remove friction from patient pathways across healthcare, insurance, medtech and many more industries. Book a call today!
- Funderbeam — Funderbeam is a funding and trading platform that connects companies and investors to buy and sell equity stakes. The platform allows the founders to gain exposure, legal support, a funding manager, or an investor network. It also allows the investors to take control of their investments and trade anytime they want.The company was founded in 2013as a global data platform for startup companies.
4Di Capital is a Cape Town-based venture capital fund management firm focused on early-stage technology investments in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Africa, United States, Uganda
Portfolio highlights
- Maxe AI — AI investment Assistant for all investors. AI Portfolios of stocks bonds exchanges futures. all in one to track mutual funds.
- Sendmarc — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.
- Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
BlueRun Ventures is a venture capital firm with offices in the United States, Shanghai, Beijing, and Korea. BlueRun invests in information technology, mobile, and consumer technologies, with an emphasis on mobile opportunities. BRV has invested in over 160 companies, with select exits from PayPal (acquired by eBay), Waze (acquired by Google),Topsy (acquired by Apple), Coupa (NASDAQ: COUP), and more. In 2005, BlueRun changed its name from Nokia Venture Partners. While branded as Nokia Venture Partners, the firm helped to build emerging market leaders such as Airgo, Bitfone, Cornice, PayPal, Wavemarket, and WiderThan.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, United States, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- MyRealTrip — MyRealTrip is leading tours&activities marketplace in South Korea. MyRealTrip is the best free travel platform in Korea where you can book flights, accommodations, tours & tickets, and special offers. Starting with guided tour service in 2012, it has been growing rapidly since it successfully launched air service in 2018. MyRealTrip isconstantly striving to provide travelers with a personalized experience and provide them with a more valuable experience.
- Silicon Box — We are an advanced chiplet interconnection company specialising in cutting-edge semiconductor integration services. Learn more about our proprietary integration technology.
- Chain Reaction — Chain Reaction is engineering the future of disruptive blockchain and privacy technologies by accelerating compute and mining hardware performance.
John Hearne, CEO and co-founder of Cúram Software
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Investment focus
- Sports, Software, Consulting
- Seed
- Ireland
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.
Jordan Lamour is the Chief Technical Officer and Founder of TopOrder and he attended Rennes 2 University.
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Investment focus
- Sports, Software
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- myClub — myClub is a Dublin-based sports club management app that offers sporting clubs and organisations with free software.
Adam Byrne
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Investment focus
- Sports
- Seed
- Ireland
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.
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 managementwith 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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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Medical
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Ireland, United States, Jersey
Portfolio highlights
- NewsWhip — The only real-time media monitoring platform that predicts the stories and topics that will matter in the hours ahead.
- 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.
Dan Ryan is the Chief Operating Officer of Kokoro Zenwear and Commercial Director at Peachylean.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Fashion, Fitness
- Angel
- Ireland
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.
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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Investment focus
- CRM, Digital Media, Advertising Platforms
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Ireland
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
- 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.
- Personify XP — Personify XP uses AI and automation personalization SAAS technology to help retailers understand what their customers are shopping for.The Personify Anonymous Experience platform is a platform to focuses exclusively on anonymous visitors. The company's AI platform connects great products with shoppers that don't know anything aboutthrough automating how content and products are shown to which shoppers and when. Personify XP provides a unique insight into how your anonymous customers shop whilst ensuring your customer's data is private and we are GDPR compliant out-of-the-box. We drive 15% additional revenue and 35% higher conversions through our patent-pending AI technology. Personify XP was founded in 2018 and based in London, England.
Tej Lalvani is the CEO of Vitabiotics.
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- Fashion, Advertising, Beauty
- Angel, Seed
- India, Ireland, United Kingdom
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- 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.
Seroba is a leading European life sciences venture capital firm focused on value creation through backing winning biotech innovations.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
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- Shorla Pharma — Shorla Pharma is an Irish specialty pharmaceutical company. It is growing portfolio brings accessible, affordable and life-saving treatments to patients, delivering a major contribution to patient care and providing a significant clinical impact.
- Storm Therapeutics — Targeting pathways that modify RNA to deliver novel cancer therapeutics.
- Artica Therapeutics — Artica Therapeutics specializes in biotechnological research and development for medical devices, pharmaceutical processes, and food.
BGF is the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, providing long-term, minority investment to growing companies.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
- United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
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- Trojan Energy — Trojan Energy support the roll-out of its on-street flat and flush electric vehicle charging points, which aims to solve the issue for vehicle owners who do not have access to off-street parking.
- Elite Dynamics — Leading software solution developed for Holiday Parks, Marinas, Holiday Home Manufacturers and Holiday Home Dealers.
- The Insights Family — The global leader in kids, parents, and family market research. Clarity and confidence from independent real-time data & insights.
Velvet Sea Ventures is a multi-stage venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs turn their visions into reality. With more than 80 years of combined experience as founders and venture investors and more than $2.2 billion invested, the firm provides seed-to-growth stage capital investments coupled with strategic support across all sectors. VelvetSeas partners’ past investments include such notable companies as Twitter (TWTR), Square (SQ), SpaceX, Snap Inc. (SNAP), Facebook (FB), Pinterest (PINS), Domo (DOMO), Buzzfeed, Namely, Eaze, Braze and Map Anything (CRM).
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- Software, Blockchain, Marketplace
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Israel, Ireland
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- Healthie — Healthie's HIPAA compliant telehealth platform gives health and wellness professionals EHR software and client tools they need for success.
- SuperNFT — SuperNFT is the developer of virtual event platform intended to organize decentralized music festivals and events.
- Xona Space Systems — Xona's Pulsar service is the first high-performance alternative to GPS designed to support the age of autonomy. Our constellation of smallsats will provide secure navigation and timing services with the resilience and accuracy needed to enable modern devices to operate safely in any conditions.
Fexco is a world leader in innovative FinTech, Payments & Business Solutions, with operations across 29 countries worldwide.
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- FinTech, Finance, Fitness
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Ireland
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- Cambrist — Cambrist - Payments Regulation, EU2019/518, Cross Border Payments Regulation, Multi-Currency Wallets, Foreign Exchange, Payment Cards, Mastercard, Visa
- LegitFit — LegitFit is there to help you from first sale to scale! Our leading software solution is everything you need to run & grow a successful business. It's easy to use, affordable, and integrates powerful tools for bookings, payments, and communication!
We invest in entrepreneurs with the ambition to create world-class companies of scale.
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- Medical Device, Health Care, Big Data
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Ireland, United States
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- CroíValve — CroíValve is a developed a safe, effective, easy to use, percutaneous solution for treating all patients with severe Tricuspid Regurgitation
- ProVerum Medical — ProVerum Medical is an early stage medical device startup for the treatment of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH).
- Tympany Medical — Tympany Medical is a Needs-driven, Innovative MedTech StartUp based in the West of Ireland
Silicon Valley Bank is the financial partner of the innovation economy; helping individuals and investors in the innovation ecosystem achieve extraordinary outcomes.
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- Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Debt Financing, Series B, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Carputty — Carputty is a superior way to finance a car. Buying new, used, or refinancing? Carputty's flexible line of credit simplifies the process. Get started now!
- Coast — Coast is the simple, all-in-one fleet and fuel card that helps businesses easily pay for and track vehicle expenses. It's quick to set up, easy-to-use, and full of rewards.
- HawkEye 360 — HawkEye 360 is a space-based RF data analytics company with one-of-a-kind solutions to better spectrum mapping and monitoring on land & water
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