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Top 50 Sports VC Funds & Investors in Ireland (October 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Ireland Sports startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Ireland Sports startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Enterprise Ireland
VC Fund
20 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant Software, Health Care, Information Technology $26k–$8.3M
NDRC
VC Fund
5 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Atlantic Bridge
VC Fund
4 United States, Ireland, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.1M–$62M
Elkstone Capital Partners
VC Fund
4 Ireland, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $797k–$18M
Tribal.vc
VC Fund
4 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, SaaS, Analytics $336k–$26M
Notion Capital
VC Fund
4 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.1M–$66M
Partech
VC Fund
3 France, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $1M–$56M
Business Growth Fund
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, Ireland, United States Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Series A Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $3.4M–$22M
Octopus Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $2.1M–$43M
First Citizens Innovation Banking
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Debt Financing, Series B, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $2M–$105M
Ascentifi
VC Fund
2 Ireland Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Medical Device, Medical $2.3M–$34M
HBAN
VC Fund
2 Ireland, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Software, Medical Device $375k–$7.3M
Venturewave Capital
VC Fund
2 Ireland, Egypt, Hong Kong Series A, Seed Big Data, Health Care, Apps $3.2M–$9.3M
MedTech Syndicates
VC Fund
1 Ireland, United States Pre-Seed, Series B, Series C Health Care, Medical Device, Fitness $16M–$20M
Fuel Ventures
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $313k–$24M
Seroba Life Sciences
VC Fund
1 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $4.6M–$105M
QVIDTVM
VC Fund
1 Ireland, Switzerland, United States Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Sports $6M–$79M
BioExel
VC Fund
1 Ireland Pre-Seed Health Care, Fitness, Biotechnology $108k–$500k
H. Barton Co-Invest Fund
VC Fund
1 United States, Ireland Series B, Series A, Seed Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Sports $3.8M–$70M
NewsWhip
VC Fund
1 Ireland Seed B2B, SaaS, Fitness
Norwest
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Israel Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Health Care, Information Technology $6.5M–$110M
Avalanche
VC Fund
1 United States, France, Singapore Seed, Grant, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $365k–$70M
Velvet Sea Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Israel, India Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Fitness, Blockchain $7.6M–$100M
Delta Partners
VC Fund
1 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $812k–$6.6M
Veddis
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, India Seed, Series A Mobile, Internet, Software $729k–$10M
Atlantic Bridge University Fund
VC Fund
1 Ireland, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Medical Device, Big Data $859k–$80M
Development Capital
VC Fund
1 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Software, Manufacturing, Telecommunications $3.5M–$11M
Castlegate Investments
VC Fund
1 Ireland Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Mobile, Sports, Apparel
Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity fund
VC Fund
1 Ireland Seed, Series A Software, Photography, SaaS $384k–$1M
Western Development Commission
VC Fund
1 Ireland, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology $702k–$17M
Growing Capital
VC Fund
1 Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $3.2k–$1.9M
APEX Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Portugal, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Sports, Artificial Intelligence, Media and Entertainment $611k–$25M
AIB Seed Capital Fund
VC Fund
1 Ireland, United States, Jersey Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Medical $549k–$8.1M
NDRC LaunchPad
VC Fund
1 Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Augmented Reality, Energy
South East Business & Innovation Centre
VC Fund
1 Ireland Angel Sports, Outdoors, Sporting Goods
Dopamine Sports Ventures
VC Fund
1 Ireland, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Apps, Email, Sports
AwakenAngels
VC Fund
1 Ireland, France, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Sports, Security, Software $1.6M–$1.6M
FEXCO
VC Fund
1 Ireland, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Debt Financing SaaS, FinTech, Fitness
Enterprise Equity
VC Fund
1 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Health Care $549k–$7.5M
Xcendra Ventures
VC Fund
1 Ireland Venture - Series Unknown Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
CircleRock Capital
VC Fund
1 Ireland, United Kingdom, Spain Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Machine Learning, Financial Services $1.5M–$25M
Wayra
VC Fund
1 Spain, United Kingdom, Brazil Seed, Grant, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $40k–$2.4M
SFC Capital
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $123k–$2.5M
Litquidity Capital
VC Fund
1 United States Seed Marketing, Advertising, Marketplace $2.6M–$11M
Uni.Fund
VC Fund
1 Greece, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, SaaS, Big Data $168k–$222M
4Di Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, Mobile $677k–$47M
BlueRun Ventures
VC Fund
1 China, United States, South Korea Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics $2M–$30M
Malin Corporation
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Ireland Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Biopharma $16M–$142M
Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.5M–$75M
Blockchain Founders Fund
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $200k–$6M
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Enterprise Ireland
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 20 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Enterprise Ireland is the government agency responsible for the development and funding of the indigenous business sector. Their mission is to accelerate the development of companies to achieve strong positions in global markets resulting in increased national and regional prosperity. It was founded in 1998 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 894
  • Round size: Seed $394k–$3.2M; Grant $26k–$5.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $560k–$8.3M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.2M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

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

NDRC builds high-impact new ventures. By providing the people, time, space and investment needed at the earliest stages of dedicated commercialisation work, NDRC is creating companies worthy of commercial investment and with the ability to scale. The NDRC team has the breadth of knowledge and expertise in technology and markets. NDRC worksside-by-side with researchers, entrepreneurs and venture teams to turn great ideas into successful new ventures.By the end of 2014, NDRC’s portfolio of startup ventures had secured a cumulative €88m in follow-on investment from commercial investors, with a combined market capitalisation of approx. €220m.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • GloNav — GloNav develops global positioning system and satellite navigation technologies and products for the wireless handset and mobile consumer electronics device markets. It offers global positioning system radio frequency integrated circuits and single chip assisted-global positioning systems, which are used for low dropout tracking and cellularhandset integration. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Newport Beach, California. It has locations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Taiwan. As of January 2008, GloNav, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of NXP B.V.
  • Mindgard — Mindgard is the leading provider of AI Red Teaming solutions.
  • Neurobell — NeuroBell develop novel EEG medical devices for early detection and monitoring of neonatal seizures.
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Elkstone Capital Partners
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 4 investments in Ireland Sports startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Elkstone is an investment firm, focusing on entrepreneurs, senior executives, institutional LPs, the venture community, and the Irish diaspora. The objective of the organization is to boost the economic value and overall well-being of the island of Ireland by expanding a network, facilitating deserving investments, and delivering excellent investment performance.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Entity — Entity's purpose is shape the future of web gaming by leveraging emerging technologies and maximizing the browser's capabilities. Our next-generation gaming hub, scheduled to arrive in 2027, will be a global place for players to discover, connect, and play together.
  • ZeroRisk.io — ZeroRisk.io's Merchant Management Platform delivers advanced compliance and cybersecurity solutions. Gain insights, mitigate risks, and drive revenue. Book a demo today.
  • Full Health Medical — Full Health Medical patient empowerment tools that improve prevention healthcare are part of the healthcare ecosystem. FHM provides reliable digital innovation, designed by healthcare professionals that are keen to help patients live a healthy life, in response to a national scarcity of healthcare providers, the development of chronic disease, anda lack of transparency at the patient level. People provide lifetime access to preventive care healthcare across screening, diagnostics, education, treatment, and a record of their journey driven technology provides lifetime access to preventative healthcare custom designed at every step screening, diagnostics, education, and action plans that motivate individuals to address risks before they develop health problems.
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Tribal.vc
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 4 investments in Ireland Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Meili — Meili is an ancillary revenue technology company that enables airlines, hotels, and mobility providers to integrate directly through a single, cloud-based platform.
  • UrbanFox — UrbanFox protects online retailers against new forms of stealth fraud by analysing and learning from existing legitimate and fraudulent customer behavioural patterns.
  • GREYSCOUT — Brand protection software that finds unverified sellers and counterfeit listings across marketplaces, verifies each one and enforces removal. 95% success rate.
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Notion Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in Ireland Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 292
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.1M; Series A $4.5M–$28M; Series B $7M–$66M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $130M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Volo Commerce — Volo brings together data and intelligence from all over the commerce ecosystem and uses AI to provide real-time actionable insights.
  • Endra — Endra is a purpose-built platform for modern MEP engineering. Generate 3D models and drawings, sync with Revit and enjoy coordinated design workflows.
  • Scarlet — Scarlet certifies software medical devices. We’re Europe's only Notified Body specialised in software and AI, and have crafted a certification process that is built for software, and is thus significantly more efficient.This is how we deliver on our mission to hasten the world’s transition to accessible healthcare: by enabling manufacturersto release their medical software and AI to those who need it without unnecessary delays.We are designated as a UK Approved Body by the MHRA, and an EU Notified Body by the Dutch Ministry of Health and the European Commission.
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Partech
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 699
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$9M; Series A $4.5M–$28M; Series B $9M–$56M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $345M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Modeinspect — acreom is the integrated markdown knowledge base with tasks. Your personal daily driver for your dev workflow.
  • TeamToolz — TeamToolz creates and implements user-friendly applications that simplify and streamline the creation, management and archiving of marketing communications. Addressing the urgency of time to market, our web-based tools better enable entire brand launches by coordinating the workflow of multiple outside agencies and internal groups, for moreintegrated worldwide brand management.
  • Revibe — Buy refurbished & used electronics (Smartphones, Laptops) in UAE at Revibe. Free delivery & 12 months warranty. Certified tech by our experts. Order Now!
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Business Growth Fund
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in Ireland Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 608
  • Round size: Series A $4.1M–$21M; Private Equity $6.4M–$22M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.4M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 86% lead, 14% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $97M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Camino — Camino Leisure Holdings is a Spanish bar and restaurant that serves authentic food and wines.
  • Arran Aromatics —
  • Boost Juice Bars UK — Boost Juice Bars UK offer a range of smoothies and freshly squeezed juice products.
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Octopus Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Ireland Sports startups

We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 442
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$12M; Series A $3.4M–$22M; Series B $8M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $108M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Grasp — Grasp is the world's first AI analyst for finance professionals. Our AI analyst automates company and market research for investment banks, private equity firms, and management consulting firms across the world.
  • Living Optics — Living Optics is commercializing next generation imaging technology which leverages a compact camera system based on breakthroughs in hardware design and software processing.
  • 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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First Citizens Innovation Banking
VC Fund · Santa Clara, California, United States · 2 investments in Ireland Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 791
  • Round size: Series A $5.3M–$27M; Series B $8M–$45M; Debt Financing $2M–$105M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Zogenix — Therapeutic Solutions for CNS Disorders and Rare Diseases
  • Capitolis — Capitolis is the technology company helping to create safer and more vibrant financial markets by unlocking capital constraints and enabling greater access to more diversified capital and investment opportunities. Rooted in advanced technology and deep financial expertise, Capitolis powers groundbreaking financial solutions that drive growth forglobal and regional banks – and institutional investors alike.
  • Torch Systems — Ultra early fire detection and analytics platform. Built for communities, enterprises, and the environment
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Ascentifi
VC Fund · Galway, Galway, Ireland · 2 investments in Ireland Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Movetru — Movetru a wearable device that aims to reduce injury and enhance rehabilitation.
  • Glitch Ads — GlitchAds intends to democratize advertising by "leveraging" adverts and artificial intelligence.
  • Change by Degrees — Change by Degrees is closed. While our purpose is to give every person on the planet sustainability as a superpower, policy changes at European level and
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Venturewave Capital
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in Ireland Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Homepage | MedTech Syndicates brings together clinicians with start-up MedTech companies for future investment to support technological advances in healthcare.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • CroíValve — CroíValve is a developed a safe, effective, easy to use, percutaneous solution for treating all patients with severe Tricuspid Regurgitation
  • Vertigenius — 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.
  • illumicell AI — illumicell AI combines patented AI algorithms and proprietary microscopy technology to test 50x faster, 20x more effectively, empowering every healthcare provider at the point of care – not just fertility clinics – with accessible, scalable fertility diagnostics.
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Fuel Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups, 19 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 256
  • Round size: Seed $674k–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $313k–$2M; Series A $4.4M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $126M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • AI Score — AI Score is the intelligence-led AI governance platform for enterprise. Monitor AI risk, prove compliance and capture value in real time. Book a demo.
  • Souk — Coco is an AI partnerships manager: she finds partners, activates them, and handles agreements, attribution and payouts.
  • Affinity Labs — We build software companies with category-defining creators.
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Seroba Life Sciences
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

QVIDTVM is an Investment Management company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Sports
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Venture - Series Unknown $6M–$79M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nexxiot — Nexxiot is a TradeTech pioneer, delivering IoT solutions to improve the operational efficiency of the supply chain. Monitor your railcars, shipping containers, and cargo in real-time.
  • Kitman Labs — Kitman Labs all-in-one Intelligence Platform (iP) unlocks new levels of performance for Sports and Defense.
  • CEIBA HEALTH — Ceiba Health unifies IoMT interoperability, remote patient monitoring, and virtual clinical care in one enterprise platform. Improve outcomes and reduce consult times. Schedule a demo.
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BioExel
VC Fund · Galway, Galway, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Dedicated Medtech Accelerator Programme. Bridging the gap between technology derisking and raising investment. An Enterprise Ireland supported programme.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Fitness, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $108k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GlowDx — Bringing Accessible Diagnostics to the World. At GlowDx we develop molecular diagnostics for COVID19, Women's Health and Sexual Health delivering direct-to-consumer. Our platform Pandemic Protect, ensure COVID19 testing can be done by employers to protect their employees.
  • Sula Health — Sleep better, improve performance and drive a healthy lifestyle
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H. Barton Co-Invest Fund
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

H. Barton Co-Invest Fund is a venture capital firm focused on investments in early-stage technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Sports
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Series A $3.8M–$7M; Series B $7M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • alwaysAI — We provide developers and enterprises a comprehensive platform for building, deploying and managing computer vision applications on IoT devices.
  • nOps — Automatically reduce your cloud costs with zero ongoing effort. Autonomous hourly commitment management for 50%+ savings. Pay only for results.
  • Hatch — Hatch offers a variety of devices to help you sleep better night after night. Create healthy sleeping habits for the whole family with Hatch.
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NewsWhip
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, SaaS, Fitness
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Glofox — Our all-in-one fitness software provides fitness operators with the functionality to increase member retention and improve revenue growth.
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Norwest
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1097
  • Round size: Series A $6.5M–$33M; Series B $10M–$78M; Series C $11M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $3B in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Manta — Manta helps small businesses profit, connect and grow through the largest online community dedicated entirely to small business. Millions of people come to Manta each day to buy from, partner with and connect to companies. By joining Manta, small businesses easily harness the power of the Internet. Get visible, grow your business for free atwww.manta.com.
  • ClearDATA — Healthcare professionals across the globe trust the ClearDATA HITRUST-certified cloud to safeguard their sensitive data and power their critical applications available across the major public cloud platforms. For healthcare organizations, customers receive one of the most comprehensive Business Associate Agreements (BAA) in the industry, combinedwith market-leading healthcare-exclusive security and compliance solutions, and multi-cloud expertise. ClearDATA’s innovative platform of solutions and services protects customers from data privacy risks, improves their data management, and scales their healthcare IT infrastructure, enabling the industry to focus on making healthcare better by improving healthcare delivery, every single day.
  • The Rainmaker Group — Cendyn is a catalyst for digital transformation in the hospitality industry. Connect with your guests on their unique journey. Drive profitability and loyalty.
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Avalanche
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Oumla — Secure, scalable blockchain infrastructure for businesses, enterprises, and governments to manage digital assets with ease and compliance.
  • KOR Protocol — KOR Protocol is a decentralized intellectual property (IP) infrastructure designed to empower creators, protect rights, and enable seamless collaboration and monetization of IP assets across various industries, including music, film, TV, gaming, and art. Backed by notable entities like Animoca Brands, Republic, Niantic, Sfermion, Solana, andprominent creators such as Black Mirror, Disclosure, deadmau5, and Richie Hawtin, KOR leverages blockchain, AI, and DeFi to offer a transparent, efficient, and scalable environment for IP expansion.
  • Forg3t Protocol — Forg3t Protocol is an AI unlearning verification and evidence layer for LLMs that produces auditable proof artifacts for regulatory and enterprise compliance.
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Velvet Sea Ventures
VC Fund · Dover, Delaware, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Velvet Sea Ventures is a venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs turn their visions into reality. With more than 80 years of combined experience as founders and venture investors and more than $2.2 billion invested, the firm provides seed-to-growth stage capital investments coupled with strategic support across all sectors. Velvet Seaspartners’ past investments include such notable companies as Twitter (TWTR), Square (SQ), SpaceX, Snap Inc. (SNAP), Facebook (FB), Pinterest (PINS), Domo (DOMO), Buzzfeed, Namely, Eaze, Braze, and Map Anything (CRM).

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • GammaTime — Stream bite-sized drama series. Browse shows, unlock free episodes, and keep up with the latest releases on GammaTime.
  • Arketa — Online and in-person classes, video on-demand, courses and website hosting - all in one platform with arketa.
  • Splash Sports — Splash Sports is the leading skill-based sports gaming platform built for friends to use their knowledge to compete for real money. Learn more and get started.
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Delta Partners
VC Fund · Leopardstown, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Veddis is an investment advisory firm that seeks to create value through sourcing tailored investment decisions that meet the right criteria of asset class, risk profile, and geography. They currently manage a portfolio of carefully selected companies which specialise in technology, health & wellbeing and retail. Their sophisticated planningprocess provides their clients access to global investment vehicles free from bias, and has culminated in a longstanding record of superior returns. As a truly independent company, every decision they make is solely with the investors’ interests in mind.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

  • 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 $859k–$4.2M; Series A $3.4M–$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.
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Development Capital
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

At Development Capital, they are aware of the significant growth opportunities available to mid-sized companies and understand the management teams’ unique requirement for not only finance, but also for a funding partner who will bring experience, expertise and international reach to assist secure and maximise the business growth opportunity.Development Capital provides investee companies with a unique and unprecedented partnership approach which will maximise the growth opportunity in the most prompt and efficient manner. In addition to their experienced Investment Directors, their partners include:High profile and experienced Industry Experts who will provide direction and support to investee companies; andMajor Irish Corporates who have committed not only funding but also their international experience.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Telecommunications
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Venture - Series Unknown $3.5M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $103M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Zartis — Zartis is a global technology consulting partner specialising in AI transformation and advanced engineering. We help organisations integrate AI across their teams, systems, and products - turning ambition into practical, production-ready capability.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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Castlegate Investments
VC Fund · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Castlegate Investments is a private equity and family office firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • CWSI — Security made human. Compliance made simple. Protect your business without slowing it down.
  • Danu — Danu Sports is an innovative motion analysis tracking company that uses smart socks to track your movements.
  • Gym+Coffee — Gym+Coffee is an Irish-designed athleisure brand. We are passionately committed to encourage our community to Make Life Richer by socialising through exercise. We believe in awesome things to do, rad people to do them with and quality gear for all your adventures.
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Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity fund
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

The Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity fund is a joint fund built with contributions from the Bank of Ireland, the University of Limerick Foundation, and government-backed The seed fund will invest in export-oriented high potential firms that operate in the technology, food and financial services sectors, inaddition to supporting patent and patent pending projects within Irish universities, targeting investments between EUR 100K-500K. The new fund comprises of a €17 million investment by Bank of Ireland, along with funding of €8 million from Enterprise Ireland and € 1million by the University of Limerick Foundation. It will be managed by

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Persuva AI — Grow your dropshipping store to 7 figures fast with the #1 marketing tool for dropshippers
  • Protostars — Protostars is a regulatory technology business. It is the creator of a cyber risk and compliance program meant for secure code reports on audits.
  • Slick+ — The Same Standard. Every Worker. Every Shift. Put critical guidance where work happens, and keep a time-stamped record of who completed it. Speak to an expert Get a Demo Trusted by global teams About Us Point-of-need training, from warehouse to last mile Slick+ enables frontline teams capture and apply process know-how without leaving the flow of
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APEX Capital
VC Fund · Cascais, Lisboa, Portugal · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Investing with elite athletes in Sports, Media and Entertainment.

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Investment focus

  • 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 $53M 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 — The official source of NSL news, opinion, video highlights, schedules, scores, stats, game day coverage and more.
  • International Dance League — 6 Pro-Teams. 5 global stages. 1 champion. The IDL is the world's first professional dance league where elite teams compete head-to-head for the title.
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AIB Seed Capital Fund
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

The AIB Seed Capital Fund was established in 2007 to provide venture capital for companies at the seed and early stages of development across a range of sectors throughout the Republic of Ireland. The Fund was established under the Enterprise Ireland Seed and Venture Capital Programme 2007-2012. The Fund has a total of €30m under management with AIB and Enterprise Ireland both committing €15m. It is managed by experienced managers with extensive expertise in making seed and early stage investments, adding value and facilitating business success. The Fund managers are empowered to make seed investments of up to approximately €500,000. Furthermore, the Fund has the capacity to make investments in later rounds to support the continued growth of investee companies. The Fund will be managed by Enterprise Equity Venture Capital and the Dublin Business Innovation Centre. This unique partnership brings together extensive regional and investment expertise. Enterprise Equity will evaluate and manage all investments outside the city and county of Dublin, as well as investments that require in excess of €250,000 from the fund within the city and county of Dublin. Dublin Business Innovation Centre (DBIC) will evaluate and manage all investments within the city and county of Dublin when the initial investment amount required from the Fund does not exceed €250,000.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • NewsWhip — NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.
  • Offr — Offr is the new way to buy and sell property, quickly and transparently.
  • Metabolomic Diagnostics — Metabolomic Diagnostics is a deep-tech company specialized in the development of novel biomarker based diagnostic solutions for complex diseases. The company has developed an effective pipeline to firstly identify diagnostic biomarker panels and then translate these panels into clinical assays ready for application in the clinical laboratory.Thispipeline combines the biomarker multiplexing capabilities of Mass Spectrometry, a powerful analytical technology, with the company’s own informatics and statistics solutions to deliver diagnostic innovation. This is reflected in Metabolomic Diagnostics’ strong and versatile IP portfolio of technical innovations and biomarkers.Our VisionMetabolomic Diagnostics’ primary vision is to develop a portfolio of diagnostic solutions which can determine, early in a woman’s pregnancy,her risk of developing major complications much later in her pregnancy and thus enabling personalized care, adapted to each woman’s individual needs. Pregnancy complications like preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, preterm birth, and in-uterine growth restriction, all have the potential to severely impact on the well-being of mother and child.The company’s innovative diagnostic solutions will assist clinicians in re-imagining how these conditions are managed: our novel risk assessment tools are specifically developed in conjunction with prenatal care providers to ensure they make a difference that really matters. This in turn will enable clinicians to improve pregnancy outcomes globally.Our solutions will empower pregnant women: accurate pregnancy risk information will allow a pregnant woman, in partnership with her care provider, to determine what prenatal care is best for her pregnancy.
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NDRC LaunchPad
VC Fund · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Augmented Reality, Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GameX — GameX is an award winning recommendation engine for the gaming industry.GameX is the first company to connect the data of the 4 segments of the gaming industry - Mobile, Console, Handheld and PC.By doing this, GameX.io can learn exactly what type of game a gamer should play next. This is done by the GameX recommendation engine analysingthings such as previous game achievements, in game time spent, money spent on games, social media interaction and even hardware requirements.Combining these and hundreds of other factors. GameX can guarantee that the recommendations provided are the best out there.GameX can even cross recommend. This means that it can look at a console history and recommend mobile games, or an xbox history and recommend PC games. This has never been done before.GameX can also recommend the best gamers to connect with, the most interested developers to follow. It even gives personal analytics into the gamers own personal persona.Releasing the open alpha on the 22/09/2016. GameX has already seen over 50,000 signups for its alpha in the space of 8 weeks.
  • Skmmp — SKMMP is a centralised digital wholesale platform enabling RTW Fashion Designers and Brands transact their wholesale orders with high end global Retailers. We offer retailers a 24/7 showroom for brand discovery, fashion week appointment scheduling, order documentation and realtime data on inventory orders and deliveries. For designers SKMMPoffers a 24/7 showroom enabling remote access to view, browse collections and place orders, buyer visibility via SKMMP's 20 years industry relations and efficiency for more established brands scaling sales volume into existing and new territories.
  • 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.
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South East Business & Innovation Centre
VC Fund · Waterford, Waterford, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

South East Business Innovation Centre supports the generation and development of new innovative enterprises by providing tailored business consultancy services in Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford, Wexford and South Tipperary.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Hamstring Solo — The Hamstring Solo is an exercise aid for carrying out hamstring eccentric and concentric exercises.
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Dopamine Sports Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Dopamine Sports Ventures operates as an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Email, Sports
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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AwakenAngels
VC Fund · Derry, Derry, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups, 8 in the past 12 months

AwakenAngels is a women-led angel investment community that focuses on supporting startups through pooled resources and syndicate investments. The company organizes regular pitch events both online and across the country to present founders to potential investors. AwakenAngels aims to reduce investment risk by allowing syndicate members tocollectively invest in promising startups. The community is a sister organization to AwakenHub, which fosters connections and collaboration among its members.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Security, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Ireland, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $1.6M–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 82% lead, 18% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BiaSol — BiaSol creates food products from upcycled brewers' spent grains, offering granola and baking mixes focused on nutrition and sustainability.
  • Movetru — Movetru a wearable device that aims to reduce injury and enhance rehabilitation.
  • EVE — EVE offers software that specializes in the company's fleet management. Dashboards, drivers, and transactions are all part of the company's software. It allows fleet managers and managers to keep track of their EV drivers' off-site charging transactions from anywhere. EVE was founded by Sarah-Marie Rust and Oana Rosca in 2020 and isbased in Dublin, Ireland.
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FEXCO
VC Fund · Killorglin, Kerry, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Enterprise Equity (or EEVC) has an excellent reputation for providing capital to early stage and expanding business throughout Ireland. With the advantage of having a strong regional presence in Cork, Galway and Dundalk – in addition to Dublin – they have been successfully investing in internationally focused Irish companies for over 25 years, making us the longest established venture capital firm in Ireland. Each of the general partners of the firm has successful commercial investing experience in their own right as well as investing on behalf of EEVC. Their success to date is achieved through investment of capital in well managed, genuinely innovative and growth orientated businesses across a wide range of sectors, focused across the software sector and high technology manufacturing, particularly in the medical device industry. With three funds under management, Enterprise Equity has invested in excess of €50m in over 80 companies throughout Ireland, with many of their founders/companies based in or significantly operating from North America and other locations. In addition, the Enterprise Equity managed AIB Seed Capital Fund is actively investing in founders/companies at the seed or early stage, and the Fund has an overall committed fund size of €53m. EEVC will invest €0.25m to €1.5m per business from this fund. They are regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland under the MiFID Regulations (Markets in Financial Instruments Directive of the European Community). Enterprise Equity’s offices are based in Dublin, Cork, Galway, and Dundalk.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $549k–$2.5M; Series B $2.6M–$7.5M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Phorest — Join 8000+ spas, barbers, hair, beauty and nail salon owners using the #1 management, scheduling, POS and appointment booking system. Try Phorest now!
  • SurgaColl — SurgaColl Technologies is a medical device company developing novel tissue regeneration products for the surgical treatment of diseases of the bone, cartilage and other human tissue. Based on technology developed at the Tissue Engineering Research Group (TERG) of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), headed by Professor Fergal O’Brien,the company aims to become a leader in the field of regenerative medical devices.
  • Metabolomic Diagnostics — Metabolomic Diagnostics is a deep-tech company specialized in the development of novel biomarker based diagnostic solutions for complex diseases. The company has developed an effective pipeline to firstly identify diagnostic biomarker panels and then translate these panels into clinical assays ready for application in the clinical laboratory.Thispipeline combines the biomarker multiplexing capabilities of Mass Spectrometry, a powerful analytical technology, with the company’s own informatics and statistics solutions to deliver diagnostic innovation. This is reflected in Metabolomic Diagnostics’ strong and versatile IP portfolio of technical innovations and biomarkers.Our VisionMetabolomic Diagnostics’ primary vision is to develop a portfolio of diagnostic solutions which can determine, early in a woman’s pregnancy,her risk of developing major complications much later in her pregnancy and thus enabling personalized care, adapted to each woman’s individual needs. Pregnancy complications like preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, preterm birth, and in-uterine growth restriction, all have the potential to severely impact on the well-being of mother and child.The company’s innovative diagnostic solutions will assist clinicians in re-imagining how these conditions are managed: our novel risk assessment tools are specifically developed in conjunction with prenatal care providers to ensure they make a difference that really matters. This in turn will enable clinicians to improve pregnancy outcomes globally.Our solutions will empower pregnant women: accurate pregnancy risk information will allow a pregnant woman, in partnership with her care provider, to determine what prenatal care is best for her pregnancy.
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Xcendra Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Xcendra Ventures is a venture finance and advisory firm that focuses on innovation in consumer, industrial, automotive, health, aerospace, and defense industries.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Vertigenius — 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.
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CircleRock Capital
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Wayra
VC Fund · Madrid, Madrid, Spain · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world. We currently operate in 10 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela. Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with driven entrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Grant, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Spain, United Kingdom, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 575
  • Round size: Seed $48k–$2.4M; Grant $40k–$387k; Venture - Series Unknown $50k–$2.4M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • 1DOC3 — 1doc3 is a e-health platform that connects 490 million of Spanish speaking people with licensed and trusted doctors. Users find personalized answers to their health related questions. Doctors build their online reputation, find new patients and create the biggest health related questions and answers curated database in Spanish. The Platform isavailable via web, App, SMS and USSD, allowing the entire population to have access to a Doctor no matter where they are, or even if they don't have internet access.
  • Devengo — Light-speed transfers. Our Instant Payments API enables seamless integration to automate payouts to your customers in Europe and the UK.
  • Quantum Bridge — Quantum Bridge is a pioneer in Distributed Symmetric Key Establishment (DSKE) technology. It offers quantum-safe cybersecurity products and services.
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SFC Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups, 53 in the past 12 months

Discover the UK's leading SEIS Fund, offering tax-efficient investments in innovative startups. Join thousands of savvy investors and raise capital for your business with SFC Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 783
  • Round size: Seed $123k–$2M; Pre-Seed $170k–$858k; Venture - Series Unknown $201k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.9M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Obsero — Obsero is an AI search intelligence platform and consultancy designed for marketing and communications teams. The platform tracks, measures, and optimizes how brands surface, get cited, and are recommended across Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI search assistants.
  • SolarSub — SolarSub is an environmental firm that offers floating solar cooling system.
  • NEARHUMAN — Nearhuman develops intelligent safety systems for micromobility and other physical-world devices. The company focuses on edge AI and computer vision that run directly on vehicles such as e-scooters and e-bikes to detect hazards, monitor pedestrian proximity, and support real-time decision making. Its flagship product, Scootrr, is an AI-powered safety platform that enables on-device perception, automatic deceleration, and safety analytics without reliance on cloud connectivity. Nearhuman designs its technology to integrate with existing shared micromobility fleets, collaborating with operators, vehicle manufacturers, and research partners. The company also provides dashboards and tools that turn on-vehicle events into route-level safety intelligence for stakeholders such as fleet operators and city authorities. Its work spans hardware vision kits, embedded firmware, perception models, and supporting software for deployment and monitoring.
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Litquidity Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

Litquidity Capital is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Unifund We amplify the development of real ventures by fostering innovation and empowering people

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Greece, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $339k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $168k–$1.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $337k–$222M
  • Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Project-S — Project-S is a space safety and technology startup focused on building an end-to-end orbital intelligence and space traffic management infrastructure.
  • Piney — Piney is a specialized property technology (PropTech) and logistics company that provides comprehensive turnkey cleaning, laundry, and operational services specifically for short-term and vacation rental property managers.
  • SolidWatts — We electrify industrial process heating by creating the new state-of-the-art in microwave and radio frequency power sources for industry.
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4Di Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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 $677k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $1.8M–$4M; Series A $2M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $24M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • BFree — BFree focuses its collection processes on sustainably leading customers out of debt by giving them back control over their finances.
  • 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.
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BlueRun Ventures
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

BlueRun Ventures is a venture capital firm with offices in the United States, Shanghai, Beijing, and Korea. BlueRun invests in information technology, mobile, and consumer technologies, with an emphasis on mobile opportunities. BRV has invested in over 160 companies, with select exits from PayPal (acquired by eBay), Waze (acquired by Google), Topsy (acquired by Apple), Coupa (NASDAQ: COUP), and more. In 2005, BlueRun changed its name from Nokia Venture Partners. While branded as Nokia Venture Partners, the firm helped to build emerging market leaders such as Airgo, Bitfone, Cornice, PayPal, Wavemarket, and WiderThan.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 402
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$14M; Series A $3.5M–$35M; Series B $6M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $422M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Avrea — Drop-in replacement for GitHub Actions runners. About 2x faster on hardware alone, up to 10x with cache hits. Deep observability on every job.
  • finmid — Scale bigger by building your business on finmid's lending infrastructure. Our APIs enable tech companies to offer credit cards, transaction-based lending, and working capital to their business customers.
  • ColibrITD — ColibriTD leader of Simulation solutions using Quantum computing
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Blockchain Founders Fund
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in Ireland Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
  • Osmo — Osmo is a payment company that helps people to send and receive money immediately.
  • Uniblock — Uniblock helps connect developers with Web3 using our APIs and services. Our developers use Uniblock because of how easy it is to integrate into exciting applications. Try it for free today!
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Stats across 59 deals from 46 investors.

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$703k
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in Ireland Sports startups
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