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Top 50 Sports Startup Investors in Ireland (October 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Ireland Sports startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Ireland Sports startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Enterprise Ireland
VC Fund
19 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant Software, Health Care, Information Technology $16k–$8.3M
NDRC
VC Fund
5 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Atlantic Bridge
VC Fund
4 United States, Ireland, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.1M–$62M
Notion Capital
VC Fund
4 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.1M–$66M
Elkstone Capital Partners
VC Fund
4 Ireland, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $797k–$18M
Tribal.vc
VC Fund
4 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, SaaS, Analytics $336k–$26M
Business Growth Fund
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, Ireland, United States Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Series A Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $3.4M–$22M
Partech
VC Fund
3 France, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $1M–$56M
Ascentifi
VC Fund
2 Ireland Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Medical Device, Medical $2.3M–$34M
Martin Ott
Angel
2 Germany, Ireland, United States Seed, Series A, Angel Legal, Internet, Information Technology $221k–$8M
Octopus Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $2.1M–$43M
Silicon Valley Bank
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Debt Financing, Series B, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $2M–$105M
HBAN
VC Fund
2 Ireland, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Software, Medical Device $375k–$7.3M
Venturewave Capital
VC Fund
2 Ireland, Egypt, Hong Kong Series A, Seed Big Data, Health Care, Apps $3.2M–$9.3M
Fuel Ventures
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Information Technology $313k–$24M
Litquidity Capital
VC Fund
1 United States Seed Marketing, Advertising, Marketplace $2.6M–$11M
Xcendra Ventures
VC Fund
1 Ireland Venture - Series Unknown Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
Enterprise Equity
VC Fund
1 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Health Care $549k–$7.5M
Irrus Investments
VC Fund
1 Ireland, Sweden, United States Seed, Series A Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology $713k–$8.8M
MedTech Syndicates
VC Fund
1 Ireland, United States Pre-Seed, Series B, Series C Health Care, Medical Device, Fitness $16M–$20M
Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.5M–$75M
Castlegate Investments
VC Fund
1 Ireland Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Mobile, Sports, Apparel
South East Business & Innovation Centre
VC Fund
1 Ireland Angel Sports, Outdoors, Sporting Goods
AIB Seed Capital Fund
VC Fund
1 Ireland, United States, Jersey Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Medical $549k–$8.1M
Seroba Life Sciences
VC Fund
1 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $4.6M–$105M
Blockchain Founders Fund
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $200k–$6M
Graham Stirling
Angel
1 Ireland Seed Art, RFID, Mobile
BlueRun Ventures
VC Fund
1 China, United States, South Korea Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics $2M–$30M
Western Development Commission
VC Fund
1 Ireland, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology $702k–$17M
Dan Leavy
Angel
1 Ireland Seed Sports, Test and Measurement
Christian Vollmann
Angel
1 Germany, Ireland, Indonesia Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Information Technology $1M–$16M
Growing Capital
VC Fund
1 Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $3.2k–$1.9M
Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity fund
VC Fund
1 Ireland Seed, Series A Software, Photography, SaaS $384k–$1M
Norwest
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Israel Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Health Care, Information Technology $6.5M–$110M
Sara Davies
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Ireland Angel, Seed Toys, Gaming, Rental $40k–$158k
Colm Lyon
Angel
1 Ireland, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Local, Guides, Sports $88k–$708k
Avalanche
VC Fund
1 United States, France, Singapore Seed, Grant, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $365k–$70M
Walter Walsh
Angel
1 Ireland Seed EdTech, Sports, Software $1.1M–$3.5M
Tej Lalvani
Angel
1 India, Ireland, United Kingdom Angel, Seed Fashion, Advertising, Beauty $139k–$2.9M
Dan Ryan
Angel
1 Ireland Angel Retail, Fashion, Fitness
Adam Byrne
Angel
1 Ireland Seed Sports, Test and Measurement
FEXCO
VC Fund
1 Ireland, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Debt Financing SaaS, FinTech, Fitness
Meg Lustman
Angel
1 Ireland Angel Retail, Fashion, Fitness
David Shapiro
Angel
1 Ireland Gaming, Sports
Keith Bank
Angel
1 United States, Israel, Ireland Seed, Series A Video, Media and Entertainment, Sports
Malin Corporation
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Ireland Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Biopharma $16M–$142M
Veddis
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, India Seed, Series A Mobile, Internet, Software $729k–$10M
John Hearne
Angel
1 Ireland Seed Sports, Software, Consulting $1.4M–$4M
Delta Partners
VC Fund
1 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $812k–$6.6M
Velvet Sea Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Israel, India Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Fitness, Blockchain $7.6M–$100M
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Enterprise Ireland
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 19 investments in Ireland Sports startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant
  • Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 890
  • Round size: Seed $399k–$3.2M; Grant $16k–$5.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $560k–$8.3M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.2M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Foodcloud — We connect businesses that have surplus food with Charities and Community Groups that need it.
  • Amethyst Care — Amethyst Care is a startup that creates an AI-powered voice assistant for those with mobility difficulties.
  • Full Health Medical — Full Health Medical patient empowerment tools that improve prevention healthcare are part of the healthcare ecosystem. FHM provides reliable digital innovation, designed by healthcare professionals that are keen to help patients live a healthy life, in response to a national scarcity of healthcare providers, the development of chronic disease, anda lack of transparency at the patient level. People provide lifetime access to preventive care healthcare across screening, diagnostics, education, treatment, and a record of their journey driven technology provides lifetime access to preventative healthcare custom designed at every step screening, diagnostics, education, and action plans that motivate individuals to address risks before they develop health problems.
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NDRC
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 5 investments in Ireland Sports startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 110
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Nory AI — Revolutionise your restaurant with Nory's restaurant management software. Streamline operations, boost profits, and enhance decision-making in one platform.
  • Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.
  • Ceartas DMCA — Ceartas is the leader in piracy protection for creators, brands & enterprise. Powered by AI, we have the highest removal rate in the industry
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Atlantic Bridge
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 4 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Atlantic Bridge is a Growth Equity Firm with a Cross Border Value Add strategy. We invest in deep technology companies in Europe and the US. Our team is made up of successful entrepreneurs and senior technology industry executives and we invest in strong ambitious entrepreneurs and management teams that have the passion and drive to scale up andexploit major growth opportunities. We help our portfolio companies expand and grow internationally through our global platform with our team and offices in London, Dublin, Munich, Paris and Palo Alto.Atlantic Bridge brings together a unique team of technology entrepreneurs, experienced managers, finance professionals, and investment experts. The team contains a wealth of international business experience across Europe, the UK and the US. They have worked together in various capacities for the last 30 years, bringing a true partnership approach to their firm and their investments. Its investors include the founders, leading institutional investors, and private investors with a track record of investment in successful technology companies.Atlantic Bridge has developed a unique and differentiated strategy that focuses on specific technology themes and the implementation of the “Atlantic Bridge Model” for scaling companies internationally. The “Bridge Model” accelerates the scale-up of technology companies in Europe and the US. This approach is highly differentiated and has delivered strong performance results to date.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Ireland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 154
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.5M; Series A $5M–$26M; Series B $10M–$62M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $97M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • GloNav — GloNav develops global positioning system and satellite navigation technologies and products for the wireless handset and mobile consumer electronics device markets. It offers global positioning system radio frequency integrated circuits and single chip assisted-global positioning systems, which are used for low dropout tracking and cellularhandset integration. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Newport Beach, California. It has locations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Taiwan. As of January 2008, GloNav, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of NXP B.V.
  • Mindgard — Mindgard is the leading provider of AI Red Teaming solutions.
  • Neurobell — NeuroBell develop novel EEG medical devices for early detection and monitoring of neonatal seizures.
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Notion Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 291
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.1M; Series A $4.5M–$28M; Series B $7M–$66M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $130M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Volo Commerce — Volo brings together data and intelligence from all over the commerce ecosystem and uses AI to provide real-time actionable insights.
  • FSH Technologies (formerly Contenda) — Contenda helps repurpose old content into a new engagement. It contextually identifies content's key topics and spins it into the proper format for an audience to discover.
  • Endra — Endra is a purpose-built platform for modern MEP engineering. Generate 3D models and drawings, sync with Revit and enjoy coordinated design workflows.
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Elkstone Capital Partners
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 4 investments in Ireland Sports startups, 11 in the past 12 months

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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 98
  • Round size: Seed $797k–$5.8M; Series A $5.5M–$18M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$7.8M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $108M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Entity — Entity's purpose is shape the future of web gaming by leveraging emerging technologies and maximizing the browser's capabilities. Our next-generation gaming hub, scheduled to arrive in 2027, will be a global place for players to discover, connect, and play together.
  • ZeroRisk.io — https://t.co/Aukldsyhoy is the end-to-end merchant portfolio risk and compliance management system designed to make the payments ecosystem safer.
  • Full Health Medical — Full Health Medical patient empowerment tools that improve prevention healthcare are part of the healthcare ecosystem. FHM provides reliable digital innovation, designed by healthcare professionals that are keen to help patients live a healthy life, in response to a national scarcity of healthcare providers, the development of chronic disease, anda lack of transparency at the patient level. People provide lifetime access to preventive care healthcare across screening, diagnostics, education, treatment, and a record of their journey driven technology provides lifetime access to preventative healthcare custom designed at every step screening, diagnostics, education, and action plans that motivate individuals to address risks before they develop health problems.
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Tribal.vc
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 4 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Tribal.vc is a leading Venture Capital firm investing in the next generation of transformative companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$7.2M; Series A $2.3M–$26M; Venture - Series Unknown $336k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Meili — Meili is an ancillary revenue technology company that enables airlines, hotels, and mobility providers to integrate directly through a single, cloud-based platform.
  • UrbanFox — UrbanFox protects online retailers against new forms of stealth fraud by analysing and learning from existing legitimate and fraudulent customer behavioural patterns.
  • GREYSCOUT — Brand protection software that finds unverified sellers and counterfeit listings across marketplaces, verifies each one and enforces removal. 95% success rate.
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Business Growth Fund
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in Ireland Sports startups

BGF is the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, providing long-term, minority investment to growing companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 605
  • Round size: Series A $4.1M–$21M; Private Equity $6.4M–$22M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.4M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 86% lead, 14% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $97M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Citrus-Lime — Support notifications from the CitrusLime team. Please note that we don't see tweets sent to this account
  • Boost Juice Bars UK — Boost Juice Bars UK offer a range of smoothies and freshly squeezed juice products.
  • Thames Card Technology —
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Partech
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in Ireland Sports startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: France, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 694
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.8M; Series A $4.5M–$28M; Series B $9M–$56M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $345M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Modeinspect — acreom is the integrated markdown knowledge base with tasks. Your personal daily driver for your dev workflow.
  • TeamToolz — TeamToolz creates and implements user-friendly applications that simplify and streamline the creation, management and archiving of marketing communications. Addressing the urgency of time to market, our web-based tools better enable entire brand launches by coordinating the workflow of multiple outside agencies and internal groups, for moreintegrated worldwide brand management.
  • Revibe — Buy refurbished & used electronics (Smartphones, Laptops) in UAE at Revibe. Free delivery & 12 months warranty. Certified tech by our experts. Order Now!
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Ascentifi
VC Fund · Galway, Galway, Ireland · 2 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Discover start-up investing made simple. Access VC-led rounds, build your portfolio, and unlock growth at Ascentifi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$11M; Series A $9.2M–$34M; Venture - Series Unknown $3M–$3.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CroíValve — CroíValve is a developed a safe, effective, easy to use, percutaneous solution for treating all patients with severe Tricuspid Regurgitation
  • Vertigenius — Vertigenius designs and deploys customized exercises using an easy-to-use clinician portal and even uses a Vertigenius head sensor to consult and manage patients with dizziness and imbalance.
  • X-BOLT Orthapaedics — X-Bolt Trauma Solutions for osteoporotic bone fixation. FDA 510(k) approved. Clinical studies include the WHITE One (n=100) and WHITE Four (n=1,140) randomized control trials.
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Martin Ott
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Martin Ott - CEO @ Taxfix

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Legal, Internet, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Germany, Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $221k–$1.2M; Series A $6.2M–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Unu motors — unu wants to create the mobility solution that fully connects people to the city. They believe in cities in which all people are enabled to embrace the full potential of urban life. Their first product, electric scooter unu, was launched in summer 2014. unu is stylish, emission-free, quiet and super-easy to charge thanks to portable batteries.
  • IDnow — IDnow provides advanced machine-learning technology for its Identity-as-a-Service platform that can verify identities in real time. The company's solutions guarantee legal security throughout Europe and the highest level of data security. The company provides a legally secure solution without additional hardware in the area of videoidentification of customers and electronic signatures.The company's offer is directed at all business customers who would like to provide customer identification and contract conclusion online, such as banks, telecommunications companies, Fintechs, etc. Its customer portfolio includes renowned firms such as Commerzbank, UBS, Sixt neuwagen, Telefónica, and N26.IDnow was founded on 2014 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.
  • Mobius Labs — Multimodal AI for the world's scale. Fast, secure, and affordable technology for visual, audio, and text applications.
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Octopus Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Ireland Sports startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 440
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$12M; Series A $3.8M–$22M; Series B $8M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $108M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Grasp — Grasp is the world's first AI analyst for finance professionals. Our AI analyst automates company and market research for investment banks, private equity firms, and management consulting firms across the world.
  • Metris Energy — The AI-native operating system for renewable energy.
  • Monkey Bizness — Monkey Bizness is the largest provider of indoor family entertainment centres in the UK. Each centre includes a children's soft play area and is designed to provide a safe, clean and fun environment in which parents and children can feel comfortable. Monkey Bizness' centres provide a setting that encourages children to express themselvesthrough creativity and play as well as providing fresh and nutritious food to keep kids happy and healthy.Monkey Bizness currently has centres in eight locations: Lewes, Gosport, Poole, Sheffield, Stevenage, Hull Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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Silicon Valley Bank
VC Fund · Santa Clara, California, United States · 2 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Silicon Valley Bank works with technology, life science, cleantech, venture capital, private equity, and premium wine businesses. SVB provides industry knowledge and connections, financing, treasury management, corporate investment, and international banking services to its clients worldwide through 27 U.S. offices and seven internationaloperations. Banking innovative companies and exclusive wineries, Silicon Valley Bank’s diverse financial services, knowledge, global network, and world-class service increase its clients’ probability of success. Forbes Magazine ranks SVB among America’s Best Banks, and Fortune Magazine named SVB one of the Best Companies to Work For in 2012.

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  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 780
  • Round size: Series A $5.3M–$27M; Series B $6.5M–$45M; Debt Financing $2M–$105M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • JetZero — JetZero develops commercial aircraft centered on an all-wing or blended wing body design that integrates the fuselage and wings into a single structure to improve aerodynamics and reduce fuel use. The company is advancing the Z4 airplane, which targets lower fuel consumption and associated emissions compared with conventional tube-and-wing jets,and is working with industry partners on systems like engines, composites, and potential hydrogen fuel adaptations. JetZero collaborates with aerospace suppliers, research organizations, and regulatory bodies to design, test, and prepare full-scale demonstrators with the aim of advancing certification and entry into service. The company’s work includes aerodynamic simulation, structural engineering, and exploring sustainable fuel solutions to address aviation’s environmental goals.
  • Zogenix — Therapeutic Solutions for CNS Disorders and Rare Diseases
  • Critical Energy — Critical Energy builds modular power plants for geothermal and waste heat recovery, shipped in standard containers and installed in weeks.
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HBAN
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in Ireland Sports startups

HBAN is dedicated to raising the profile of business angel investment as an asset class on the island of Ireland and to promote the creation of business angel syndicates.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Medical Device
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 74
  • Round size: Seed $623k–$3.6M; Venture - Series Unknown $375k–$7.3M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $11M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Movetru — Movetru a wearable device that aims to reduce injury and enhance rehabilitation.
  • Glitch Ads — GlitchAds intends to democratize advertising by "leveraging" adverts and artificial intelligence.
  • Change by Degrees — Change by degrees supports individuals and organizations in developing sustainable competencies and gaining self-assurance to achieve sustainability goals, expand their businesses, and adhere to legal requirements.
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Venturewave Capital
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in Ireland Sports startups

VentureWave Capital is an actively managed private equity group that invests in and builds great companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Big Data, Health Care, Apps
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Ireland, Egypt, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $3.2M–$4.5M; Series A $7.3M–$9.3M
  • Lead/follow: 93% lead, 7% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $76M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • AIREV — AIREV platform allows users to build their own AI applications.
  • XOCEAN — Using unmanned surface vessels (USVs), XOCEAN offers turnkey data collection services to Surveyors, Companies and Agencies.
  • viAct — viAct optimises construction safety, productivity and environmental compliance. Ensuring higher ESG preposition with AI. Offering services for construction industry of Asia & Europe & operational in China, Singapore, Japan, Australia, Vietnam, Indonesia and Hong Kong.
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Fuel Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups, 20 in the past 12 months

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

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 255
  • Round size: Seed $674k–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $313k–$1.7M; Series A $4.4M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 76% lead, 24% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $126M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • AI Score — AI Score empowers organisations to harness AI safely
  • Souk — Coco is an AI partnerships manager: she finds partners, activates them, and handles agreements, attribution and payouts.
  • Stoa Corporation — Unlock perks when you save. Saving, reimagined - get high-value perks upfront, not small bank interest.
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Litquidity Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Litquidity Capital is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketing, Advertising, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $2.6M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Donut — Donut helps people discover new ways to build wealth, by providing the easiest and most trusted way to save & earn high yield with DeFi. Donut was founded in 2018 and is dual headquartered in Los Angeles and Berlin.
  • MOGL — MOGL is created for athletes by athletes. The platform empowers all athletes to seek out opportunities to monetize their name, image, and likeness in a safe...
  • PLATFORM Golf — PLATFORM Golf is a pioneering golf technology firm focusing on transforming the sport of golf.
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Xcendra Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Semiconductor & Tech Executive | Executive Mentor | Founder Xcendra Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vertigenius — Enhance patient care and treatment options for vertigo and dizziness with Vertigenius, enabling effective management and improved outcomes for your patients.
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Enterprise Equity
VC Fund · Dundalk, Louth, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Enterprise Equity (or EEVC) is an excellent for providing capital to early stage and expanding business throughout Ireland.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $549k–$2.2M; Series B $2.6M–$7.5M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

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.
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Irrus Investments
VC Fund · Limerick, Limerick, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Irrus Investments is the leading Irish business angel network with international connections. Fueling Irish innovation in medical devices, software, hardware, digital healthcare and life sciences.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, Sweden, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $713k–$4.7M; Series A $2.2M–$8.8M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Novus Diagnostics — Sepsis causing pathogen diagnostics under 15 minutes
  • Vertigenius — Enhance patient care and treatment options for vertigo and dizziness with Vertigenius, enabling effective management and improved outcomes for your patients.
  • Adama Innovations — Adama Innovations have a disruptive technology for advanced manufacturing. The company have developed a simple process for creating patterns, on a scale invisible to the human eye, on ultra-hard materials.The micro patterns can be applied to injection molds and forming dies used for the fabrication of medical devices, improving theircapability and reducing the cost of manufacture. Other applications include labelling and anti-counterfeiting technology.The company's first product is a nano-scale probe fabricated in diamond, for metrology applications in high-tech manufacturing.The company is a spin-out from CRANN, the flagship nanotechnology institute in Trinity College Dublin.
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MedTech Syndicates
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

MedTech Syndicates is a unique funding concept. We match startup MedTech companies seeking funding with Clinicians wanting to invest in the future of healthcare.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical Device, Fitness
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Series B $16M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CroíValve — CroíValve is a developed a safe, effective, easy to use, percutaneous solution for treating all patients with severe Tricuspid Regurgitation
  • Vertigenius — Enhance patient care and treatment options for vertigo and dizziness with Vertigenius, enabling effective management and improved outcomes for your patients.
  • illumicell AI — illumicell AI combines patented AI algorithms and proprietary microscopy technology to test 50x faster, 20x more effectively, empowering every healthcare provider at the point of care – not just fertility clinics – with accessible, scalable fertility diagnostics.
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Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Founded in 1997, Earlybird is a pan-European VC investor backing tech-enabled companies and investing in their growth and development. Funds include Earlybird, Earlybird Health, Growth Opportunities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 401
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$14M; Series A $3.5M–$35M; Series B $6M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $422M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Avrea — Avrea is the CI/CD platform built for the age of AI, helping teams ship software faster, more often, and with higher quality.
  • ColibrITD — ColibriTD leader of Simulation solutions using Quantum computing
  • TRAKKER — TRAKKER turns real-world visitor behavior into live analytics, lead intelligence, and personalized event journeys. For organizers, exhibitors, and visitors.
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Castlegate Investments
VC Fund · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Castlegate Investments is a private equity and family office firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Sports, Apparel
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CWSI — Security made human. Compliance made simple. Protect your business without slowing it down.
  • 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.
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South East Business & Innovation Centre
VC Fund · Waterford, Waterford, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

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

  • Industry: Sports, Outdoors, Sporting Goods
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hamstring Solo — The Hamstring Solo is an exercise aid for carrying out hamstring eccentric and concentric exercises.
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AIB Seed Capital Fund
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, United States, Jersey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $549k–$3.6M; Series A $1.1M–$8.1M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NewsWhip — NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.
  • 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.
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Seroba Life Sciences
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Seroba is a leading European life sciences venture capital firm focused on value creation through backing winning innovations in biotech and medtech.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Series A $5.4M–$33M; Series B $4.6M–$105M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $108M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Coave Therapeutics — Coave Therapeutics is active in the field of gene therapies in rare ocular and CNS (Central Nervous System) diseases.
  • Perfuze — Perfuze was founded in 2018 by Wayne Allen and Liam Mullins. Perfuze is located within Galway City in the West of Ireland. The founders have over 30 years combined medtech experience within start-up and large corporations.Perfuze is developing innovative medical technology to treat acute ischemic stroke.Perfuze is developing innovative cathetertechnology to treat acute ischemic stroke. Their technology is intended to provide superior clinical outcomes in shorter procedural times; resulting in safe, cost-effective therapy. Perfuze was founded in 2018 by Wayne Allen and Liam Mullins. The founders have over 30 years combined medtech experience within start-up and large corporations. Perfuze is currently located in the Business Innovation Centre on the campus of the National University of Ireland, Galway, and is in the process of relocating to the IDA Business Park in Dangan, Galway.
  • Azafaros — Azafaros aims at developing therapeutic agents for the treatment of rare metabolic disorders such as lysosomal storage disorders through oral administration of azasugar compounds. These novel, very promising agents were discovered by Professor Hans Aerts at Leiden University and Amsterdam UMC and are exclusively licensed to Azafaros.
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Blockchain Founders Fund
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 267
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $75M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
  • Osmo — Osmo is a payment company that helps people to send and receive money immediately.
  • Uniblock — Uniblock helps connect developers with Web3 using our APIs and services. Our developers use Uniblock because of how easy it is to integrate into exciting applications. Try it for free today!
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Graham Stirling
Angel · Gibraltar, Gibraltar, Gibraltar · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Graham Stirling is the Manager - Investments at Veddis.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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BlueRun Ventures
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: China, United States, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 281
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$15M; Series A $3M–$24M; Series B $5.1M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $493M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Ganji — Ganji.com is a Chinese domestic classified website.As a web portal in China where users publish and exchange information, Ganji.com has been providing a variety of local information, such as estates for rent or sale, jobs, second hand products, used cars, pets, tickets, education, training, group purchase, and more. Targeting the untapped localbusiness market, Ganji.com is building a massive user- and content-focused online community platform where both the users' and local merchants' needs are met.The website aggregates a large amount of real-time information because by the end of June 2011, there were around 890,000 users posting per day.Launched in 2005, the website has reached users in over 343 cities in China with offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen.The company completed a $70 million Series C round from Capital Today and Sequoia on May 6, 2011. China Renaissance acted as the exclusive financial advisor for Ganji.com.
  • SaveUp — SaveUp is the first free rewards program for saving money and reducing debt. Users earn SaveUp credits for every dollar saved or debt reduced and can use these credits to play for prizes ranging from travel, cars to even a $2M jackpot. While using SaveUp users are provided financial education, suggestions to improve their financial circumstancesand better financial services. SaveUp can be used with 18,000 financial institutions in the US including rewards for savings accounts, 401k, IRA, or reducing debts like credit cards, car loans, student loans and mortgages.
  • Qianjue Robot — Qianjue Robot researches and develops multimodal tactile perception and intelligence technologies for precision robot operations.
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Western Development Commission
VC Fund · Ballaghaderreen, Roscommon, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Supporting communities to grow, investing in businesses to scale and planning for the future of the western region.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $702k–$3.9M; Series A $2.2M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $753k–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ovagen — Ovagen is a biotechnology company that has developed the process of producing germ free (GF) chicken eggs and GF birds in commercial quantities for use primarily in the pharmaceutical industry. Ovagen can also provide a Contract Research Service and has extensive expertise in SPF poultry & rodent housing & husbandry, in specific poultry& rodent research technologies to GMP standards and in avian transgenics.
  • Peroptyx — Peroptyx is a platform that provides managed solutions for machine learning. At Peroptyx, they have assembled and pre-screened a qualified network of data evaluators across the globe. They strategically match ideal evaluators with each product to ensure authentic experiences through consistency and appropriate real-world contexts.
  • Galway Biomedical — Galway Biomedical partners with global medical device companies to bring complex braided devices from early concept through to full-scale production.
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Dan Leavy
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Christian Vollmann
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Christian Vollmann is the Chairman Of The Board at nebenan.de.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Ireland, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.7M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$2.7M; Series A $6.7M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ABSORA — ABSORA is pioneering breakthrough materials that outperform existing solutions in silencing noise and vibration.
  • Arctis AI — Specialized agents take on your preconstruction team's most time-consuming workflows, from finding the right projects to leveling bids and checking contracts.
  • Holy Technologies — Contract manufacturing with patented IFP technology: 12-weeks to prototype, scalable production up to 200k parts/year, and 100% recyclable materials.
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Growing Capital
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Growing Capital is an early-stage investment firm specialized in supporting startups with their roots in Ireland.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $272k–$1.9M; Pre-Seed $3.2k–$541k
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Persuva AI — Grow your dropshipping store to 7 figures fast with the #1 marketing tool for dropshippers
  • Protostars — Protostars is a regulatory technology business. It is the creator of a cyber risk and compliance program meant for secure code reports on audits.
  • Slick+ — The Same Best Practice. Every Worker. Every Shift. Make critical know-how easy to find, follow and prove. Speak to an expert Get a Demo Trusted by global teams About Us Point-of-need learning, from warehouse to last mile Slick+ enables frontline teams capture and apply process know-how without leaving the flow of work - speeding onboarding, absense
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Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity fund
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Photography, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $384k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $40M in 2011

Portfolio highlights

  • Pulsate — Pulsate enables direct communication with customers based on their location, context, interests and behaviours. Pulsate allows you to design and push rich media content directly to customers devices. Deepen the relationship by establishing a customer dialogue. Allow users to reply to your campaigns, provide feedback and keep complaints outside ofsocial media. Maximize foot traffic by targeting street level or competitor locations. Combine with segmentation for optimal results. iBeacons:tm: enable you to understand indoor customer location and context with incredible accuracy. Easily manage deployment and configuration of iBeacons:tm: with the Pulsate cloud platform. Gain a deeper understanding of your mobile customers and a comprehensive view of each mobile campaign.
  • LegitFit — LegitFit is the operating system empowering gym/studio owners to succeed by automating their workflows, reducing cancellations and maximising their customers’ experience. We believe that those who help people achieve their health goals deserve to be empowered to manage less and earn more.
  • Certification Europe — Achieve and maintain compliance with the most in-demand standards with Amtivo. We help organisations reach their true potential.
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Norwest
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Norwest: venture capital and growth equity firm with 65+ years backing bold teams in biotech, SaaS, fintech, consumer, and healthcare.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, India, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1090
  • Round size: Series A $6.5M–$33M; Series B $10M–$77M; Series C $11M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $3B in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Mblox — Unlock meaningful conversations across the customer journey with programmable SMS, voice, email, video, & verification APIs!
  • Rafter — Rafter is an established course materials management company whose mission is to promote student success by making education accessible, affordable, and effective for all. Rafter is redesigning and transforming course materials management in higher education with its innovative textbooks-in-tuition solution, Rafter360. Rafter has helped hundreds ofcampuses and over 2.7 million students to save nearly $700 million on textbooks. Rafter, headquartered in San Mateo, CA, is a privately held company. To learn more visit www.rafter.com Rafter was formed from the rebranding of popular textbook rental service (and Chegg competitor)
  • 41st Parameter — 41st Parameter provides solutions for detecting and preventing fraud across multiple channels for the world's most valued and recognizable brands. Leading financial institutions, e-commerce companies, and travel services businesses rely on 41st Parameter's technology to protect them from cybercrime threats including card not presentfraud, new account origination fraud, phishing and account compromise, credit bust outs, and fraud ring attacks. Founded in 2004, 41st Parameter makes the process of detecting and preventing fraud easier and more effective, reducing both expenses and potential losses. As a leading web fraud detection innovator the company supplies industry-proven solutions which integrate advanced device identification with comprehensive risk management capabilities.
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Sara Davies
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Sara Davies

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Investment focus

  • 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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Colm Lyon
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Colm Lyon - Founder and CEO @ Fire Financial Services

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Local, Guides, Sports
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $88k–$708k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • dbTwang — dbTwang is building the web’s favourite community for those who share a passion for guitars. dbTwang will provide a trusted place on the web where guitar players and collectors can keep important information about their instruments securely and in complete confidence. dbTwang will also provides a unique platform that will enables members toshare information selectively in a trusted and safe environment with fellow members and to complete secure trades by mutual consent. We will watch, develop and support the community and earn revenues by charging members a small subscription each month for premium services such as being part of a trusted network, guitar valuations and group insurance as well as relevant premium content.
  • 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.
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Avalanche
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Avalanche is the fastest smart contracts platform in the blockchain industry, as measured by time-to-finality, and has the most validators securing its activity of any proof-of-stake protocol.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Grant, Series A
  • Geography: United States, France, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$15M; Grant $365k–$4.5M; Series A $7.5M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Oumla — Secure, scalable blockchain infrastructure for businesses, enterprises, and governments to manage digital assets with ease and compliance.
  • KOR Protocol — KOR Protocol is a decentralized intellectual property (IP) infrastructure designed to empower creators, protect rights, and enable seamless collaboration and monetization of IP assets across various industries, including music, film, TV, gaming, and art. Backed by notable entities like Animoca Brands, Republic, Niantic, Sfermion, Solana, andprominent creators such as Black Mirror, Disclosure, deadmau5, and Richie Hawtin, KOR leverages blockchain, AI, and DeFi to offer a transparent, efficient, and scalable environment for IP expansion.
  • Forg3t Protocol — Forg3t Protocol provides provable AI unlearning infrastructure for enterprises. It enables verification and auditing of sensitive data removal from AI models. This ensures strong regulatory compliance. Built for secure, transparent AI data management.
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Walter Walsh
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Walter Walsh

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Tej Lalvani
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Tej Lalvani is the CEO of Vitabiotics.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Dan Ryan
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Adam Byrne
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Adam Byrne

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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FEXCO
VC Fund · Killorglin, Kerry, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Delivering great outcomes through Fresh Thinking and deep relationships across payments, business services and innovation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, FinTech, Fitness
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Debt Financing
  • Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tenora — End hidden FX costs and confusion. Tenora gives finance teams full transparency, real-time pricing, and control from exposure to execution. A portfolio company of Macquarie.
  • Cambrist — Cambrist - Payments Regulation, EU2019/518, Cross Border Payments Regulation, Multi-Currency Wallets, Foreign Exchange, Payment Cards, Mastercard, Visa
  • LegitFit — LegitFit is the operating system empowering gym/studio owners to succeed by automating their workflows, reducing cancellations and maximising their customers’ experience. We believe that those who help people achieve their health goals deserve to be empowered to manage less and earn more.
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Meg Lustman
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Meg Lustman is the former chief executive of Hobbs London.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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David Shapiro
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Sports
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • PLATFORM Golf — PLATFORM Golf is a pioneering golf technology firm focusing on transforming the sport of golf.
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Keith Bank
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video, Media and Entertainment, Sports
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Israel, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • OMORPHO — Weighted Training Gear from OMORPHO helps you burn more calories, build strength and boost your cardio. Lift your training to new heights!
  • Rypplzz — Through Interlife™, our mission is to advance humanity by spatially engineering the flow of the environment to create optimal efficiency. Interlife™ enables unique location-based experiences and transforms physical spaces into smart environments with precise geolocation and enhanced connectivity. The evolving use and omnipresence of connecteddevices and the increasing demand for experiential content, including mixed reality, are resulting in an exponentially increasing need for Interlife™ and its applications.Rypplzz partners with investors who like to back companies creating breakthrough proprietary tech and are on a mission to build a more sustainable world.
  • PLATFORM Golf — PLATFORM Golf is a pioneering golf technology firm focusing on transforming the sport of golf.
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Malin Corporation
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Malin Corporation plc (“Malin”) is an Irish incorporated public limited company whose head office is in Dublin, Ireland with subsidiary offices in New Haven, Connecticut and Research Triangle, North Carolina, USA.Malin’s purpose is to create shareholder value through the selective long-term application of capital and operational expertise toprivate, pre-IPO, pre-trade sale operating businesses in dynamic and fast growing segments of the life sciences industry. Through its operational involvement, Malin works with its investee companies to enable them to reach the full potential of their value proposition and to achieve commercial success.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Biopharma
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Series B $31M–$50M; Series C $100M–$142M; Venture - Series Unknown $16M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CG Oncology — CG Oncology is a late-stage pharmaceutical company that is passionate about developing and delivering bladder-sparing immunotherapies.
  • Poseida Therapeutics — Breakthrough science. One moment, one day, one person at a time.
  • Xenex — Xenex is offering an effective approach to reducing the incidence of healthcare-associated infections.The Xenex mission is to save lives and reduce suffering by destroying deadly microorganisms that can cause hospital-acquired infections (HAIs). Xenex’s Pulsed Xenon Full Spectrum™ UV Disinfection Solution reduces the bacterial load oftenassociated with an increased risk for HAIs. Since its commercial launch in June 2010, Xenex devices are now included in infection control protocols in almost three hundred hospitals throughout the U.S.Xenex was founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.
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Veddis
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

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

  • Industry: Mobile, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $729k–$4M; Series A $3M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hadean — Synthetic Environments that provide cutting edge training, real-time situational understanding and predictive intelligence for Governments, National Security and Commercial Enterprises
  • Excite Foundry — Get the fastest deal for your Amazon brand from a brand aggregator founded by experienced Amazon entrepreneurs like you.
  • Arvist — Be Global Safety is now ARVIST You will be automatically re-directed to www.arvist.ai in 10 seconds If you have trouble, please copy https://arvist.ai and paste it in the address bar of your browser
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John Hearne
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

John Hearne, CEO and co-founder of Cúram Software

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Delta Partners
VC Fund · Leopardstown, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Early stage VC investments and funding for start-ups / founders in Ireland.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 116
  • Round size: Seed $812k–$3M; Series A $1.6M–$6.6M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $76M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • CleverCards — The Platform for Contactless Cards. The CleverGift real-time payment platform offers gift cards, expenses, employee incentives, and travel foreign exchange.
  • Bloomberg PolarLake — Streamline the acquisition, management and distribution of instrument, pricing, index, legal and ratings data from multiple delivery channels.
  • WhatClinic.com — WhatClinic.com helps patients find, compare and book the right clinics for them, in more than 135 countries. They provide detailed listings for over 120,000 clinics on their site. These include doctors, dentists, beauty and cosmetic surgery, physiotherapy, fertility, holistics and a lot more. They believe that every patient is an empoweredconsumer.
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Velvet Sea Ventures
VC Fund · Dover, Delaware, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Velvet Sea Ventures is a 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. Velvet Seaspartners’ 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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Fitness, Blockchain
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Israel, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Round size: Seed $14M–$15M; Series A $7.6M–$100M; Series B $15M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.7M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • GammaTime — Stream bite-sized drama series. Browse shows, unlock free episodes, and keep up with the latest releases on GammaTime.
  • Arketa — Online and in-person classes, video on-demand, courses and website hosting - all in one platform with arketa.
  • Splash Sports — Splash Sports is the leading skill-based sports gaming platform built for friends to use their knowledge to compete for real money. Learn more and get started.
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Sports Investor funding in Ireland at a glance

Stats across 58 deals from 58 investors.

58
investors
in Ireland Sports startups
58
deals
in Ireland Sports startups
$761k
median round
in Ireland Sports startups
45%
lead investors
lead at least one round
31%
Seed
most common funding stage
76/24
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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