Top 45 Sports VC Funds & Investors in Ireland (August 2026)
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Enterprise Ireland
VC Fund
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15 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $494k–$12M |
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NDRC
VC Fund
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5 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | |
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Notion Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $1.1M–$66M |
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Atlantic Bridge
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Ireland, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $4.5M–$62M |
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Tribal.vc
VC Fund
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4 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Analytics | $439k–$26M |
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Elkstone Capital Partners
VC Fund
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4 | Ireland, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $797k–$18M |
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Partech
VC Fund
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3 | United States, France, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, SaaS | $1.1M–$55M |
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Business Growth Fund
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States | Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $3.5M–$21M |
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HBAN
VC Fund
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2 | Ireland, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Medical Device | $623k–$9.2M |
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Octopus Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $2.1M–$44M |
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Ascentifi
VC Fund
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2 | Ireland | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Health Care, Medical Device, Medical | $2.3M–$34M |
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Enterprise Equity
VC Fund
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1 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $549k–$7.5M |
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Uni.Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Greece, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | SaaS, Analytics, Big Data | $165k–$2.3M |
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4Di Capital
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, Mobile | $527k–$47M |
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Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1.5M–$75M |
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Cloud Apps Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Ireland | Series A, Series B, Series C | SaaS, Software, Enterprise Software | $3M–$60M |
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Castlegate Investments
VC Fund
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1 | Ireland | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Mobile, Sports, Apparel | |
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Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity fund
VC Fund
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1 | Ireland | Seed, Series A | Software, Photography, SaaS | $384k–$1M |
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Fuel Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $313k–$24M |
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APEX Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Portugal, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Sports, Artificial Intelligence, Media and Entertainment | $611k–$25M |
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Silicon Valley Bank
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Debt Financing, Series B, Series A | Software, Health Care, Biotechnology | $3M–$130M |
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Blockchain Founders Fund
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | $200k–$6M |
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AIB Seed Capital Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Ireland, United States, Jersey | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Medical | $549k–$8.1M |
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MedTech Syndicates
VC Fund
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1 | Ireland, United States | Pre-Seed, Series B, Series C | Health Care, Medical Device, Fitness | $16M–$20M |
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Irrus Investments
VC Fund
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1 | Ireland, Sweden, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology | $713k–$24M |
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Venturewave Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Ireland, Egypt, Hong Kong | Series A, Seed | Health Care, Education, Apps | $3.3M–$8.8M |
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Development Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Private Equity | Manufacturing, Telecommunications, VoIP | |
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CircleRock Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Ireland, United Kingdom, Spain | Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Machine Learning, Financial Services | $1.5M–$25M |
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NDRC LaunchPad
VC Fund
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1 | Ireland | Pre-Seed | Sports, Fitness, Software | |
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Litquidity Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States | Seed | Marketing, Advertising, Marketplace | $2.6M–$11M |
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FEXCO
VC Fund
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1 | Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed | SaaS, FinTech, Finance | |
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NewsWhip
VC Fund
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1 | Ireland | Seed | B2B, SaaS, Fitness | |
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South East Business & Innovation Centre
VC Fund
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1 | Ireland | Angel | Sports, Outdoors, Sporting Goods | |
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BlueRun Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | China, United States, South Korea | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Mobile, Robotics | $2M–$50M |
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Dopamine Sports Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Ireland, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Apps, Email, Sports | |
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Seroba Life Sciences
VC Fund
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1 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical | $4.6M–$105M |
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Xcendra Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Ireland | Venture - Series Unknown | Fitness, Wellness, Health Care | |
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Atlantic Bridge University Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Ireland, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Health Care, Medical Device, Big Data | $823k–$80M |
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Norwest
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Israel | Series B, Series C, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $6.4M–$115M |
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Malin Corporation
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Ireland | Series B, Series C | Biotechnology, Health Care, Biopharma | $31M–$142M |
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Avalanche
VC Fund
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1 | United States, France, Singapore | Seed, Grant, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming | $365k–$70M |
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Velvet Sea Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Israel, India | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Fitness, Blockchain | $7.6M–$100M |
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Delta Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $795k–$6.6M |
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Western Development Commission
VC Fund
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1 | Ireland, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology | $713k–$17M |
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Veddis
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Mobile, Internet, Software | $729k–$10M |
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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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 660
- Round size: Seed $494k–$3.3M; Series A $2.2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Sytorus — Sytorus data protection and privacy management software and solutions streamline privacy compliance for regulations including GDPR, CCPA and HIPPAA
- Oncomark — OncoMark is a UCD spin-out that develops companion diagnostic tests to support cancer drug development. Companion diagnostics allow pharmaceutical companies to select patients for which a drug may be particularly effective (patient stratification).The test can also be used during clinical trials to help reduce the numbers of patients required tocomplete a clinical trial and its duration, while also increasing the likelihood that the trial will be successful. The end result is improved outcome for cancer patients.The company has a portfolio of diagnostic tests in development, covering some of the key cancer types (breast, colorectal, prostate, melanoma), supported by €3.9m in EU R&D funding. There are currently 12 employees funded through 6 grants.The company was founded by Prof. William Gallagher in UCD and is led by Dr. Mairin Rafferty, the CEO/COO. The company has a strong advisory board, which includes Prof. John Crown and Prof. Bryan Hennessy.
- Orbidal — Orbidal helps early-stage businesses and SMEs to easily compete for government tenders and grow their businesses.acts with Orbidal's bid management software that offers bid document templates, RFP tools and proposal management.
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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- 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
Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 279
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7M; Series A $4.5M–$28M; Series B $7.5M–$66M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
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.
- Apperio — Apperio is now part of PERSUIT. Find out more about the platform, or log in to your Apperio account.
- Wercker — Industry leading container registry, for organizations to manage Docker images, perform vulnerability analysis, and manage access via fine-grained access control.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Ireland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 147
- Round size: Series A $4.5M–$26M; Series B $10M–$62M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $88M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Aizon — Improve yield, reduce deviations, and ensure product quality in GxP pharmaceutical manufacturing with real-time, practical Artificial Intelligence (AI)- powered software as a service solutions.
- Aiqudo — Aiqudo offers an artificial intelligence-based technology that connects voice computing to the mobile app ecosystem. Its Voice-to-Action platform lets people use natural voice commands to instantly execute actions in their mobile apps. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Campbell, California.
- 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.
Tribal.vc is a leading Venture Capital firm investing in the next generation of transformative companies.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $439k–$7.2M; Series A $2.2M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% 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 — Need brand protection? Our best brand protection software monitors & removes unauthorized listings, helping businesses fight online counterfeiting.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 94
- Round size: Seed $797k–$5M; Series A $5.1M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $110M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- WrxFlo — WrxFlo deliver real time data insights and software solutions to allow business achieve greater levels of supply chain efficiencies
- Danalto — Simple, cost-effective, high-accuracy Location Services for large open environments, both indoor and outdoor. Asset Tracking made simple!
- Neurobell — NeuroBell develop novel EEG medical devices for early detection and monitoring of neonatal seizures.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, France, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 557
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9M; Series A $4.2M–$28M; Series B $9M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- AB Tasty — We're the experience optimization partners pushing brave ideas from the inside out. The only digital experience platform you need.
- Volterra — Transition to a cloud-native environment and simplify deployment, security, and operations of your apps and infrastructure with F5 Distributed Cloud Services.
- DAMAE Medical — Damae Medical is a Paris, France-based medtech company. It has developed a medical device capable of seeing biological tissues in depth, at a cellular level and in vivo. This innovative optical imaging technology will especially allow dermatologists to evaluate in a precise, efficient and rapid way malignancy of tumors by a simple contact with thesurface of the skin. DAMAE Medical’s mission is to put the great power of bio-photonics at the service of opening new opportunities in medical imaging and diagnosis.
BGF is the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, providing long-term, minority investment to growing companies.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 410
- Round size: Series A $3.9M–$21M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.5M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 84% lead, 16% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $102M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Camino — Camino Leisure Holdings is a Spanish bar and restaurant that serves authentic food and wines.
- TMT ID — A leading provider of global mobile and device intelligence. We power leading identity providers, A2P SMS messaging companies and financial organisations.
- CHS Healthcare — CHS Healthcare Has Been Working In Partnership With The NHS For 20 Years, Providing Specialist Support Schemes Across The UK. Get In Touch Today.
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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Medical Device
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Round size: Seed $623k–$3.5M; Series A $1.2M–$9.2M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Movetru — Movetru a wearable device that aims to reduce injury and enhance rehabilitation.
- FoodMarble — Your personal breath tester to identify food intolerances and reduce digestive symptoms. Ideal for managing IBS and SIBO, all from the comfort of home.
- Glitch Ads — Launch AI Powered Google Ad Campaigns in Minutes. Think of us like an agency in a box. Built for speed. Priced for scaling companies. Powered by AI.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 399
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$12M; Series A $3.3M–$22M; Series B $8M–$44M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $101M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- geoSurge — Customers don't search. They ask.
- 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.
- 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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- 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 — Enhance patient care and treatment options for vertigo and dizziness with Vertigenius, enabling effective management and improved outcomes for your patients.
- 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.
Enterprise Equity (or EEVC) is an excellent for providing capital to early stage and expanding business throughout Ireland.
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- 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.
Unifund We amplify the development of real ventures by fostering innovation and empowering people
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- Industry: SaaS, Analytics, Big Data
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Greece, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $384k–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $165k–$2.3M
- Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bolsterup — Bolsterup specializes in a B2B SaaS platform for the construction industry. It offers a digital ecosystem that centralizes project data, connecting professionals, teams, and products. The platform enables users to create digital portfolios, identify potential collaborators, and expand their market reach. Bolsterup uses AI-driven matchmaking and averification/referral system to facilitate growth, with a subscription-based model and plans for additional revenue streams. The company has rapidly expanded with customers in Cyprus, Greece, and the UAE.
- SolidWatts — We electrify industrial process heating by creating the new state-of-the-art in microwave and radio frequency power sources for industry.
- Terra Robotics — Cut agricultural labor costs and maximize yield. Our Greek-built AI laser weeder eliminates 92% of weeds with automated 0.45 ha/h coverage-engineered at a lightweight 1050kg to protect your soil.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $527k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $1.8M–$4M; Series A $2M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FireID — FireID is a venture builder that helps makers, with unique skills and passion, build businesses to solve meaningful problems.
- Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.
- Aerobotics — Powerful insights for precision growing and crop insurance
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 364
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$14M; Series A $4.4M–$34M; Series B $6M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $190M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Hilo — Get stress-free readings round the clock with Hilo's clinically validated blood pressure monitor. Learn more
- TrillerTV — FITE is a direct-to-consumer digital live streaming service for combat sports. The platform is specializing in broadcasting professional wrestling, mixed martial arts and boxing events. FITE streams a rich array of live pay-per-view events, subscription packages and thousands of hours of live and on-demand free programs to millions of fans aroundthe world.FITE's mission is to help fans discover and watch premium live events, and help programmers to distribute and monetize them. While FITE's beachhead market is combat sports, the product is designed to serve over time a much wider range of premium live programming.It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Uniondale, New York, United States.
- Neuracore — The robot skill creation engine: collect demonstrations, curate datasets, train imitation and reinforcement learning policies, and deploy them on real robots, all on one platform.
Cloud Apps Capital Partners is a market-focused venture capital firm helping early stage companies in the cloud business applications sector. We know firsthand what it takes to build category-leading business application companies. We also recognize entrepreneurs need much more than capital which is why we differentiate and pride ourselves onthe guidance and support we give entrepreneurs to help accelerate and maximize their business potential during the critical early stage. Our firm is leading change in the venture market for early-stage companies with our market-focused Classic Series A approach which provides early stage investments of $2 to $10 million and full board support. This “classic” approach benefits entrepreneurs by giving them the right financial backing along with operational guidance from a seasoned, skilled and engaged investment firm.We are the leading investor in early stage cloud business applications companies. Cloud Apps Capital Partners has more direct operating, commercial and venture experience building great cloud business app companies than any other early stage VC firm. This translates into exceptional market and business insights, guidance grounded in expertise for our entrepreneurs, plus access to a world class network of cloud business application executives.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, Canada, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Series A $3M–$15M; Series B $10M–$30M; Series C $20M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $87M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- DataGrail — DataGrail is a data privacy startup that helps businesses navigate the growing array of privacy regulations. It constitutes part of a growing roster of platforms that are capitalizing on privacy regulations, such as GDPR in Europe and CCPA in California, by making it easier for companies to manage, automate, and grow their privacy programs.
- 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.
Castlegate Investments is a private equity and family office firm.
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- 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.
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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- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 243
- Round size: Seed $670k–$4.1M; Pre-Seed $313k–$1.7M; Series A $4.4M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 76% lead, 24% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PANTA — PANTA Index Technology is a pioneering fintech company founded by industry veterans to transform the index creation landscape. Our state-of-the-art, cloud-based SaaS solution empowers financial institutions to build and operate complex, bespoke indices and portfolios with unprecedented scale, speed, and precision.As the only pure-play technologyprovider in this space, we streamline the entire index lifecycle while offering advanced back-testing and simulation capabilities. PANTA aims to democratize index technology, enabling institutions of all sizes to innovate faster and make data-driven investment decisions. We're set to become the operating system for next-generation indexing, driving innovation and efficiency across the rules-based and quantitative investment landscape.
- Vouchsafe — Vouchsafe is a trust and counter-fraud platform that helps financial services replace legacy document checks with safe, easy digital ID acceptance.
- Stoa Corporation — Unlock perks when you save. Saving, reimagined - get high-value perks upfront, not small bank interest.
Investing with elite athletes in Sports, Media and Entertainment.
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- Industry: Sports, Artificial Intelligence, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Portugal, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Pre-Seed $611k–$2.5M; Series A $3M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $59M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Marquee — Marquee turns football data into decision-ready insights in seconds, unifying external and internal data and filtering it through your club's sporting DNA.
- Northern Super League — Northern Super League operates a professional women's soccer league, offering matches, stats, and news online.
- International Dance League — The Global Professional Dance League Teams: Royal Family, Quick Style, 1MILLION, Jam Republic, Brotherhood, GRV
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 538
- Round size: Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $6M–$50M; Debt Financing $3M–$130M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Zogenix — Therapeutic Solutions for CNS Disorders and Rare Diseases
- Clir Renewables — Clir is a renewable energy optimization and reporting software that increases the performance and profitability of renewable plants through a cloud based platform software as a service, that integrates deep domain expertise with AI.
- Oxford BioTherapeutics — At Oxford BioTherapeutics, we are dedicated to pioneering the next generation of oncology treatments through targeted therapies, including Antibody-Drug Conjugates (ADC), Immuno-oncology, T-Cell Engagers (TCE), and radiopharmaceuticals.
We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 263
- Round size: Seed $550k–$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!
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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United States, Jersey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $549k–$3.3M; 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.
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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- 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.
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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- Industry: Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Ireland, Sweden, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $713k–$4.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.2M–$24M
- 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 — Sharp Conductive Single Crystal Diamond AFM Probes
VentureWave Capital is an actively managed private equity group that invests in and builds great companies.
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- Industry: Health Care, Education, Apps
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Ireland, Egypt, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $3.3M–$4.5M; Series A $7.3M–$8.8M
- Lead/follow: 91% lead, 9% follow
Portfolio highlights
- XOCEAN — Using unmanned surface vessels (USVs), XOCEAN offers turnkey data collection services to Surveyors, Companies and Agencies.
- Medihive — Medihive offers digital healthcare solutions designed to enhance patient care, streamline healthcare operations, and improve outcomes.
- 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.
At Development Capital, they are aware of the significant growth opportunities available to mid-sized companies and understand the management teams’ unique requirement for not only finance, but also for a funding partner who will bring experience, expertise and international reach to assist secure and maximise the business growth opportunity.Development Capital provides investee companies with a unique and unprecedented partnership approach which will maximise the growth opportunity in the most prompt and efficient manner. In addition to their experienced Investment Directors, their partners include:High profile and experienced Industry Experts who will provide direction and support to investee companies; andMajor Irish Corporates who have committed not only funding but also their international experience.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Telecommunications, VoIP
- Stage:Seed, Private Equity
- Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $88M in 2014
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.
CircleRock Capital aim to be the leading European, multi-stage co-investor of choice for exceptional technology companies, investing primarily in Seed, Series A and Series B opportunities.We invest alongside the leading global VC firms, so that founders can have both a leading VC and us on their cap table. We don’t lead deals and we don’t takeboard seats.Our ticket sizes range from €500k to €5 million +.Our LP’s include exited entrepreneurs, leaders at global tech companies, venture-backed founders, family offices, leading angels, CEO’s & board members of public companies.We fight to win allocation based on our reputation for fundraising expertise and our valuable network – consisting of both commercial customers and access to our global network of industry leaders.CircleRock Capital have a successful history as both Investors and Operators. Conor was previously nominated for both UK Angel Investor of the Year and Exit of the Year. Barry built FCA regulated fintech Clear Treasury from inception to a multi-million pound turnover business, with over 2,500 clients across all industry sectors, exiting in 2020.Offices in Dublin and London.Are you an Angel Investor or Family Office? Sign up here to receive our curated deal flow:https://www.circlerockcapital.com/investor-registration
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- Industry: Software, Machine Learning, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $2.8M–$8.4M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$3M; Series A $6.3M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- TurinTech AI — TurinTech is a leader in Evolutionary AI Optimisation. We are a research-driven deep tech company founded in 2018 based in London. We envision an intelligent and efficient business world powered by scalable AI. We automate multi-objective optimisation to help businesses scale AI efficiently: build AI quicker, run AI faster, deploy AI greener.TurinTech builds upon over 10 years’ research in optimisation. We are professors, data scientists and engineers from prestigious universities across the globe who are actively collaborating with world-leading academic institutions to create breakthroughs.Learn more about scaling AI at https://turintech.ai/
- SimpleStudy — Learn smarter with revision notes, past papers, quizzes, and expert tools for major Irish academic exams. Join SimpleStudy Ireland and boost your grades today.
Investment focus
- Industry: Sports, Fitness, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- KinetikIQ — KinetikIQ specializes in advanced motion capture systems that focus on athletic performance and health monitoring. Their products provide real-time analysis of movement, allowing athletes and coaches to understand biomechanics and improve training. KinetikIQ's motion capture solutions track and analyze movements with precision, offeringinsights into performance metrics. The platform includes data analysis tools that help users identify strengths and weaknesses, facilitating the creation of personalized training programs. Additionally, KinetikIQ offers training solutions that incorporate motion capture data into practice sessions to support skill development and injury prevention. Their technology also provides health insights to help athletes monitor their physical condition and recovery. KinetikIQ aims to support athletes in various sports with data-driven insights and training methodologies.
Litquidity Capital is an investment firm.
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- 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
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- 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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- Industry: SaaS, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Ireland
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- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Cambrist — Cambrist - Payments Regulation, EU2019/518, Cross Border Payments Regulation, Multi-Currency Wallets, Foreign Exchange, Payment Cards, Mastercard, Visa
- LegitFit — LegitFit is 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.
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.
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- Industry: B2B, SaaS, Fitness
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Glofox — Our all-in-one fitness software provides fitness operators with the functionality to increase member retention and improve revenue growth.
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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- Industry: Sports, Outdoors, Sporting Goods
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
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- 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.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Robotics
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: China, United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 259
- Round size: Seed $2M–$50M; Series A $3M–$23M; Series B $5.1M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% 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.
- Subtle Medical — Subtle Medical is a healthcare technology company that provides AI-powered medical imaging. Its products, SubtlePET and SubtleMR, are FDA Cleared and CE Marked AI product that enhances images in PET and MR exams aimed for faster & safer workflow.The company's SubtleGAD technology is also awarded by RSNA and a $1.6M NIH SBIR Grant tofacilitate the adoption using AI to make imaging exams safer. They provide a vendor-agnostic AI infrastructure powering its products and providing service and analytics to clinical imaging providers.Subtle Medical's goal is to improve the quality, value, and accessibility of medical imaging by significantly reducing cost, imaging time, and radiation dose.
Dopamine Sports Ventures operates as an investment firm.
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- Industry: Apps, Email, Sports
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Hexis — Hexis optimises your daily energy needs to the unique demands of your workouts, lifestyle and goals. The only system to personalise, periodic and plan, your daily carbohydrate and calorie needs.
- 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.
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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- 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 $111M in 2017
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- 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.
Semiconductor & Tech Executive | Executive Mentor | Founder Xcendra Ventures
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- Industry: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Vertigenius — Enhance patient care and treatment options for vertigo and dizziness with Vertigenius, enabling effective management and improved outcomes for your patients.
We invest in entrepreneurs with the ambition to create world-class companies of scale.
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- Industry: Health Care, Medical Device, Big Data
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $823k–$3.9M; Series A $3.1M–$34M; Series B $16M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CroíValve — CroíValve is a developed a safe, effective, easy to use, percutaneous solution for treating all patients with severe Tricuspid Regurgitation
- PlasmaBound — PlasmaBound provides a step-change technology, termed Controlled Plasma Ablation (CPA), which facilitates the structural adhesive joining of lightweight materials, namely carbon and glass fibre reinforced composites. CPA technology will accelerate the use of these lightweight composite materials into multi-material structural assemblies, byenabling reliable adhesive joining which is stronger than the composite structures themselves.
- ProVerum Medical — The ProVee stent from Proverum Medical uses 3-D geometry which mirrors and engages with the anatomy of the prostate. The system alleviates Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) by opening the prostatic urethra, applying radial force to the prostatic lobes.
Norwest: venture capital and growth equity firm with 65+ years backing bold teams in biotech, SaaS, fintech, consumer, and healthcare.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Series B, Series C, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 930
- Round size: Series A $6.4M–$40M; Series B $10M–$100M; Series C $12M–$115M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Mblox — Unlock meaningful conversations across the customer journey with programmable SMS, voice, email, video, & verification APIs!
- RiseSmart — People are the heart of your business, and Randstad Enterprise helps you put them first across the talent life cycle. Learn about our talent advisory, talent acquisition, talent development and talent transition services.
- PeopleSoft — PeopleSoft is a company that provided software solutions and management systems for Human Resources, Financial, Supply Chain, Customer Relationship, and Enterprise Performance. It was acquired by Oracle and continues to offer applications today.
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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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Biopharma
- Stage:Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Series B $31M–$50M; Series C $100M–$142M
- 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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- 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.
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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- 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: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
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.
Early stage VC investments and funding for start-ups / founders in Ireland.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 112
- Round size: Seed $795k–$2.6M; Series A $1.6M–$6.6M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $82M 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.
Supporting communities to grow, investing in businesses to scale and planning for the future of the western region.
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- Industry: Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $713k–$3.9M; 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.
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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- 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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