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Top 35 Sports VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Ireland in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 2025 A list of 35 VC (Venture Capital) 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 35 Sports VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Ireland in July 2025

Investor	Sports Ireland investments
Enterprise Ireland	9
NDRC	5
Notion Capital	4
Tribal.vc	4
Partech	3
Elkstone Capital Partners	3
Octopus Ventures	2
HBAN	2
Atlantic Bridge	2
Growing Capital	1
Seroba Life Sciences	1
4Di Capital	1
Malin Corporation	1
Delta Partners	1
NewsWhip	1
Norwest Venture Partners	1
Earlybird Venture Capital	1
Business Growth Fund	1
Velvet Sea Ventures	1
Blockchain Founders Fund	1
Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity fund	1
Development Capital	1
Venturewave Capital	1
Fuel Ventures	1
Atlantic Bridge University Fund	1
Litquidity Capital	1
Cloud Apps Capital Partners	1
FEXCO	1
Enterprise Equity	1
Silicon Valley Bank	1
Western Development Commission	1
Ascentifi	1
AIB Seed Capital Fund	1
South East Business & Innovation Centre	1
BlueRun Ventures	1

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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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Axe — Axe provides modern logistics solutions for businesses of all sizes. Streamline your logistics process with our innovative platform.
Assiduous — The AI-enabled platform to do the heavy-lifting for business owners seeking finance for their aspiring growth company.
Galway Biomedical — Galway Biomedical develops and manufactures medical devices.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

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

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Orus — L'assurance professionnelle que vous attendiez. Plus juste, rapide, simple et humaine. Souscrivez en 5 minutes et recevez votre attestation sous 48 heures.
Zango — Zango is an AI-powered compliance automation platform designed to help financial services firms manage regulatory change across multiple regions, including the UK and EU. Leveraging cutting-edge AI, the platform performs real-time horizon scanning, automated gap analysis, and human validation to ensure accuracy and maintain security andtransparency. Backed by industry-leading investors, it empowers compliance teams to dramatically accelerate processes and reduce manual oversight.
OpenTrade — OpenTrade providers web3 treasurers, institutions, and accredited investors access to on-chain structured financial products backed by investment grade RWAs.

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Conjura — The eCommerce Analytics platform
GREYSCOUT — Need brand protection? Our best brand protection software monitors & removes unauthorized listings, helping businesses fight online counterfeiting.
&Open — For businesses that gift to give back, share joy, or show they care. All you need is an email.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Enter — baupal seeks to democratize sustainable and customized architecture, making design, energy assessments, permitting and cost evaluations more accessible and straightforward for private builders and smaller construction projects. baupal is an online building application service that takes advantage of digital processes and efficient team structuresto streamline design, planning and permitting processes for a range of small-scale projects.baupal was established in December, 2020 in Berlin, Germany.
Mercanis — Source services smarter and drive automation along your source-to-settle process. Discover how Mercanis enables you to collaborate with best-in-class suppliers across your departments.
Makersite — AI, data and apps for procurement, product design and expert teams to make faster sustainable product and supply chain decisions, at scale.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Ireland, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Advise — Advise Freemium is a ground-breaking automated data analytics for CPG solution. Discover how Advise can assist your Revenue Growth Management.
ZeroRisk.io — ZeroRisk.io is a platform for merchant management that provides cybersecurity and compliance solutions. It guarantees regulatory compliance, offers risk evaluation, and aids in risk mitigation. Additionally, it provides data analytics tools for performance optimization and growth opportunity identification. The platform offers real-time insightsand customization options.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

CRED — Compare millions of commercial data points and uncover unique and personalised opportunities for your brand.
Perci Health — Connecting cancer patients with expert practitioners. On-demand, affordable appointments. Get personalised support and a tailored care plan today.
Lyrebird Health — Lyrebird Health is revolutionising medical scribing with AI. Our AI medical scribe helps healthcare professionals save time and improve patient care.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Ireland, United Kingdom, United States

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.
Educatly — We help you get into the University of your dreams. We are the only platform with all the information you need to Study Abroad
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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, Ireland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mitiga — Mitiga proactively stores and enhances forensic data so our experts can start incident investigations fast to get you back to business as usual
Insight Terra — Insight Terra supports data driven risk management in critical situations where business operations, people and the environment all come together.
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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Lua Health — We believe the future of well-being is in prevention and early detection. Getting the right help, at the right time.
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+ — Slick+ is a SaaS B2B Video-Based platform designed for enhance learning and collaboration in hybrid and remote working environment. By enabling teams to create, share, and discuss short, engaging knowledge videos, Slick+ fosters a culture of continuous learning and innovation. The platform makes it easy for employees to capture and preserveessential expertise, share best practices, and implement new ideas, all seamlessly integrated into their daily workflows. With a focus on bite-sized content, Slick+ empowers organizations to boost productivity, enhance team communication, and stay agile in a rapidly evolving work environment. Ideal for L&D and HR managers, Slick+ is the go-to solution for companies looking to optimize their onboarding, training, and knowledge-sharing processes in both hybrid and remote work setups.

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

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

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.

4Di Capital is an independent seed- and early-stage technology venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa.Nurture capital is the term that best describes 4Di Capitalâ€:tm:s purpose and philosophy.We understand that in the early days of any business, support, mentoring and access to networks is just as important as seed capital.Using tried and tested international venture capital best practices, adapted for local use, we believe in entrepreneur-friendly finance without frills, and in working as a team with our investments to achieve their true potential.4Di Capital Early-Stage Technology Fund 1 targets startup investment opportunities with high growth potential at the seed- and early-stages in the mobile, enterprise software and web sectors.We look for founder teams with hungry passion, commitment, domain expertise and deep insights into the large market problems they wish to solve with their technology solutions.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Africa, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Maxe AI — AI investment Assistant for all investors. AI Portfolios tracker of stocks bonds exchanges futures. all in one to track mutual funds.
Cloudline — The all-in-one cloud platform helping leisure businesses sell more, reduce costs & personalize experiences.
Happy Pay — Happy Pay is a credit scoring system developing company. The company integrates an autonomous artificial intelligence technology system with the merchant's platform to increase their average basket size and customer conversion metrics, providing users with buy now, and pay later services.

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Biopharma
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

CG Oncology — CG Oncology is an oncolytic immunotherapy company that is intensely focused on developing bladder saving therapeutics for patients with bladder cancer.
Poseida Therapeutics — Poseida Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to utilizing our proprietary gene engineering platform technologies to create next generation cell and gene therapeutics with the capacity to cure.We have discovered and are developing a broad portfolio of product candidates in a variety of indications based on our coreproprietary platforms, including our non-viral piggyBac DNA Modification System, Cas-CLOVER site-specific gene editing system and nanoparticle- and AAV-based gene delivery technologies. Our core platform technologies have utility, either alone or in combination, across many cell and gene therapeutic modalities and enable us to engineer our wholly-owned portfolio of product candidates that are designed to overcome the primary limitations of current generation cell and gene therapeutics.
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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Imvizar — Transform your buildings, office spaces, visitor attractions, and parks with an immersive and visual storytelling experience using augmented reality. Discover unique ways to tell your story at Imvizar.
ZeroMission — ZeroMission is an electromobility and lead innovator in software development, and power-energy infrastructure.ZeroMission offers fleet management software to businesses that own and operate fleets of commercial electric vehicles (EVs).
MarketSizer — MarketSizer offers subscription-based competitive intelligence and market insights for SaaS vendors who want to strategically grow their business.

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.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Fitness
Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Glofox — Our all-in-one fitness software provides fitness operators with the functionality to increase member retention and improve revenue growth.

Norwest Venture Partners is a global venture and growth equity investment firm with over $15.5 billion in capital. Learn more about how Norwest helps CEOs and founders scale their businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series B, Series C, Series A
United States, India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Wisq — Wisq is computer software that aims to make people happier at work. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Redwood City, California.
Argus Systems — Argus Systems scales training data for physical AI.
Avalyn Pharma — Avalyn Pharma is a biopharma company that advances therapies for the treatment of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) and other severe respiratory diseases. Its therapies rapidly advance AP01 for the treatment of IPF, provides additional pipeline candidates for IPF, improve the care and outcomes of severe respiratory diseases, and develop novelinhaled therapeutics.Avalyn Pharma was established in 2011 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

TopK — TopK features native support for both vector search and keyword search in a single, unified system. With its powerful query expression language, TopK enables you to build reliable search applications (semantic search, RAG, multi-modal, you name it) without juggling multiple databases or services. Our unified retrieval engine will evolve tosupport document transformation, query understanding (parse metadata filters from user query), and adaptive ranking (provide more relevant results by sending “relevance feedback” back to TopK) under one roof.
Arago — Arago is an AI and computer hardware company developing an energy-efficient AI chip powered by light, and its associated software.
Portal Biotech — Portal has created next generation solutions that address the significant opportunities in protein sequencing and metabolomics

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
United Kingdom, Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

PMC — PMC combines consulting with expert software engineering capability and 24x7x365 managed services, to provide high quality technology services and solutions to retail, D2C and commerce. From supporting end-of-life legacy systems through to providing the latest digital retail solutions, we help retailers take control of their IT to deliver betterretail experiences. Past projects and programmes we have delivered include: > Strategy roadmap development > Digital Transformation programmes > Acceleration of existing programmes of work > System upgrades and integrations > Web development and testing > App development > Payment system integration > Trading platform development > Managed Services > Database management
Phlux Technology — We develop, manufacture and supply innovative communication and vision components
Maxion Therapeutics — Maxion Therapeutics helps in learning transformative therapies. It uses this technology to deliver long-acting, safe, and effective medications against previously inaccessible targets.

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).

Investment focus

Software, Marketplace, Information Services
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, Israel, India

Portfolio highlights

Healthie — Healthie's HIPAA compliant telehealth platform gives health and wellness professionals EHR software and client tools they need for success.
arketa — Online and in-person classes, video on-demand, courses and website hosting - all in one platform with arketa.
Connect The Dots — Connect The Dots is a network intelligence platform that uses AI to map and manage career-long professional relationships. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Metafide — Metafide offers AI-driven trading solutions and Web3 asset analysis for financial entities.
Sphinx — Experience 24/7 derivatives trading with near-instant clearing, dynamic margin and up to 90% lower fees.
Velvet Capital — Velvet Capital is a DeFi operating system that helps launch and manage on-chain funds and structured products. Velvet Capital offers its users a way to gain exposure to digital assets.

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 â‚¬17 million investment by Bank of Ireland, along with funding of â‚¬8 million from Enterprise Ireland and â‚¬ 1million by the University of Limerick Foundation. It will be managed by

Investment focus

Software, Photography, Solar
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Pulsate — Effectively engage consumers and transform digital micro-engagements into real growth for your bank/credit union with Pulsate.
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 — Achieve and maintain compliance with the most in-demand standards with Amtivo. We help organisations reach their true potential.

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

Health Care, Education, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Ireland, Egypt, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

XOCEAN — Using unmanned surface vessels (USVs), XOCEAN offers turnkey data collection services to Surveyors, Companies and Agencies.
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.
iSchool — iSchool is teaching kids from 6 to 18 years old coding and artificial intelligence using STEM-based curriculums.

Fuel Ventures - a leading early stage seed / growth stage EIS Fund based in London, UK. Investing in the most ambitious technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Roomix — Roomix is a DIY platform, partnering with you from inspiration to action. Our customers search for amazing home projects designed by our community, use our tech to tailor projects to their space, then receive a personalised project box delivered right to their door.
Eventwise — Eventwise is the all-in-one event budgeting platform designed to simplify the financial side of event planning.
Glyde — Glyde is a financial technology platform focused on simplifying and improving cross-border payments for small and medium-sized enterprises.

We invest in entrepreneurs with the ambition to create world-class companies of scale.

Investment focus

Medical Device, Health Care, Big Data
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

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

Litquidity Capital is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Marketing, Advertising, Marketplace
Seed
United States

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.

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.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series C, Series B
United States, Canada, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

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.
Connect The Dots — Connect The Dots is a network intelligence platform that uses AI to map and manage career-long professional relationships. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Fitness
Seed, Pre-Seed
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

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!

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

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.

Silicon Valley Bank is the financial partner of the innovation economy; helping individuals and investors in the innovation ecosystem achieve extraordinary outcomes.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Debt Financing, Series B, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Bugcrowd — Bugcrowd teams with elite security researchers to reduce risk & improve security ROI through our bug bounty, pen testing, & vulnerability disclosure programs.
MoneyLion — Our financial app is an easy way to borrow, save, invest, and earn. An all in one mobile banking app. Take control of your financial future today. Join now!
Squire — Squire is a booking and payment platform that connects people with great barbers nationwide. Squire makes it easy to discover and book the best barbers wherever you are, in just a few taps. Squire is also the premier management platform for barbershops. Using Squire, barbers are able to engage their customers, process bookings and payments andbetter market their business through Squire’s “barbershop discovery” capabilities. Fully integrated with a point of sale, inventory management and payroll systems, Squire is a one-stop solution for barbershop owners to efficiently operate their business. With headquarters in New York and a presence in major cities in the United States and Canada, Squire has quickly become a market leader in technology solutions for the barbershop industry nationwide.For more information, please visit getsquire.com or download the Squire iOS app from the App Store.

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

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Ireland, United States

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 develops and manufactures medical devices.

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Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Medical Device
Funding Round, Series A
Ireland

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.

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 â‚¬30m under managementwith AIB and Enterprise Ireland both committing â‚¬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 â‚¬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 â‚¬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 â‚¬250,000.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Ireland, United States, Jersey

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.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Robotics
Series A, Series B, Seed
China, United States, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Galaxy Bot — Galaxy Bot is an innovative robotics company that provides intelligent universal service robotic products.
Zhuling Technology — Zhuling Technology is a robotics company that specializes in construction robot machines and core hardware and technology solutions.
Lingchu Intelligence — Lingchu Intelligence is an embodied intelligence startup company that specializes in robot skill set training using reinforcement learning algorithms, scenario-based data generation and collection, and the development and implementation of end-to-end solutions for creating an industry-leading general-purpose dexterous operating intelligent entity.

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