Top 50 Transportation Angel Investors in Ireland in February 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Transportation startups based in Ireland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Transportation companies from Ireland. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Transportation Angel Investors in Ireland in February 2025
Investor | Transportation Ireland investments |
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Pa Nolan | 4 |
Shane Naughton | 4 |
Tom Kennedy | 4 |
Kevin Hartz | 3 |
Eamonn Quinn | 3 |
Declan Kelly | 3 |
Des Traynor | 3 |
Ray Nolan | 3 |
Chris Adelsbach | 2 |
Tony Smurfit | 2 |
Peter O'Grady Walshe | 2 |
Charlie Songhurst | 2 |
Eamon Leonard | 2 |
Peter Crowley | 2 |
Ian Madigan | 2 |
Bobby Healy | 2 |
Linda Kiely | 2 |
Jared Messenger | 2 |
Dan Kiely | 2 |
Anne Herarty | 2 |
Brian O'Driscoll | 2 |
Mike McGearty | 2 |
Chris Huskilson | 2 |
Colm Menton | 2 |
Brian Patterson | 2 |
Heather Morris | 1 |
Blaine Cook | 1 |
Tom Preston-Werner | 1 |
Harper Reed | 1 |
Chris Russell | 1 |
Cem Sertoglu | 1 |
Valentin de Torres-Solanot del Pino | 1 |
Con Lehane | 1 |
Tim Cederman-Haysom | 1 |
Danny Hughes | 1 |
Matt Haughey | 1 |
Jesper Brok-Jørgensen | 1 |
Matt Biddulph | 1 |
Edward Lando | 1 |
Joshua Schachter | 1 |
Joi Ito | 1 |
Esther Dyson | 1 |
John Herlihy | 1 |
Bobby Hambrick | 1 |
John Collison | 1 |
Brian Caulfield | 1 |
Robert Smith | 1 |
RICHARD HAYES | 1 |
Patrick Collison | 1 |
Keith Weed | 1 |
Pa Nolan
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Investment focus
- Medical, Delivery, Shipping
- Seed, Funding Round
- Ireland, United Kingdom
Founding Partner and Board of Directors @ On The Stage
Managing Partner @ Inundata
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Investment focus
- Software, Media and Entertainment, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Founder @ Web Reservations International
Founder @ Homestay.com
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Investment focus
- Video, Internet, Travel/Tourism
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Partner & Co-Founder @ Y Ventures
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, IT
- Seed, Series A, Series B
Eamonn Quinn
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Investment focus
- Grocery, E-Commerce, Food Delivery
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Buymie — Buymie is a same-day grocery delivery company focused on reducing the environmental impact of grocery shopping.
Founder @ Foreword VC
Director EMEA @ Techstars Ventures
Expert in Residence @ Seedcamp
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial, IT
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Founder & Chief Strategy Officer @ Intercom
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Investment focus
- Software, IT, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
Non-Exec Chair @ XSellco
Co-Founder @ Intalex
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Investment focus
- Internet, Community/Lifestyle, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures
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Investment focus
- Financial, Software, IT
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Chief Executive Officer & Founder @ Smurfit Kappa
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Investment focus
- Video, Software, Internet
- Seed, Series A
Investment focus
- Video, Internet, Content/Publishing
- Seed
Advisor @ Bear Robotics
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Investment focus
- Software, IT, Data and Analytics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Co-Founder @ Boundless
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Angel, Series A
CEO & Founder @ Manna Drone Delivery
Board Member @ DEBRA Ireland
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Investment focus
- Angel, Series A, Funding Round
CEO & Co-Founder @ Cpl Solutions
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Investment focus
- Other, Software, Advertising
- Angel, Pre-Seed
Investment focus
- Other, Software, Professional Services
- Seed
CEO at
CarTrawler
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Big Data, Transportation
- Seed, Series A
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- CitySwift — CitySwift is a data-driven scheduling and planning technology for urban bus networks. It uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to predict journey times and passenger demand, making routes more efficient. Schedulers can create optimized timetables that take into account traffic, events, and hundreds of other external factors, ensuringon-time performance and increased passenger satisfaction.CitySwift was established in 2016 and is operating in Galway, Ireland.
Mr. Chris Huskilson began his career with Nova Scotia Power in 1980. He was made chief operating officer of Emera and Nova Scotia Power in July 2003 and president and chief executive officer of Emera in 2004.Mr. Huskilson is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Nova Scotia. He is chair of the Canadian ElectricityAssociation, and serves on many for-profit and non-profit boards of directors. He is past-chair of the Greater Halifax Partnership and past-chair of the Energy Council of Canada.Mr. Husklison holds a bachelor of science in engineering and a master of science in engineering from the University of New Brunswick.
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Investment focus
- Delivery, Internet, Analytics
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Canada, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Mysa — Get Mysa Smart Thermostats to save money and energy with the free Mysa app! Best wifi thermostats for electric baseboard heaters. Remote access. Easy install. Utility rebates. Designed in Canada. Free shipping.
- XOCEAN — Using unmanned surface vessels (USVs), XOCEAN offers turnkey data collection services to Surveyors, Companies and Agencies.
Europcar Ireland, CEO, Colm Menton
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Investment focus
- Apps, Parking, Automotive
- Seed, Corporate Round
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Parkpnp — Parkpnp is the parking app that lets people and businesses find or rent underutilized parking spaces in seconds. Their car park technology helps all property owners increase revenue & automation of their parking assets.Parkpnp is modernising the €30bn European parking industry, where change has been slow due to fragmented ownership of parkingspace owners. Their solution connects all types of car park owners seamlessly with drivers looking to park faster, easier and more conveniently. Parkpnp allows people to list, advertise and then generate income from their unused or under utilized parking spaces. Through Parkpnp users can rent these listed spaces at an average saving of 50%.
- Zeus Scooters — ZEUS is an Irish company deploying the World’s FIRST 3-wheeled electric scooter for the urban mobility sharing market. Our unique scooters with state-of-the-art technology and reliability that will ensure our users always enjoy the safest, smoothest and most stable ride.
Brian Patterson
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Investment focus
- Delivery, Shipping, Software
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Scurri — Scurri is next generation delivery management software that puts retailers back in control. Explore our delivery management software today.
Entrepreneur In Residence @ NDRC
Chief Strategy Officer @ Chegg
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Investment focus
- Software, Education, Financial
- Angel, Funding Round
Author @ OAuth
Founder @ Poetica
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- Media and Entertainment, Video, Design
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Cofounder @ Preston-Werner Ventures
Co-Founder and Engineering @ Chatterbug
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Investment focus
- Software, IT, Data and Analytics
- Series A, Seed, Series B
Investment focus
- Health Care
- Pre-Seed
Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ Earlybird Venture Capital
Managing Partner @ Young Turk Ventures
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Investment focus
- Financial, Commerce/Shopping, Media and Entertainment
- Series A, Seed, Series D
Investment focus
- Energy, Sustainability, Natural Resources
- Seed
Group Chief Executive Officer @ Fastway Couriers Ireland
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- Health Care
- Pre-Seed
Founder @ MetaFilter
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Investment focus
- Other, Video, Events
- Seed, Funding Round
Co-Owner @ Handballperformance
Founder / Investor @ Legalfinder.com
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Investment focus
- Events, Software, Education
- Seed, Pre-Seed
Co-Founder & CEO @ Goody
Managing Partner @ Pareto Holdings
Co-Founder @ Horizons School of Technology
Founder @ Alpha
Co-Founder @ Conduit
First investor @ Catalina Crunch
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Investment focus
- Software, IT, Financial
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Parttime Lecturer @ Chiba Institute of Technology
Director, MIT Media Lab @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Senior Visiting Researcher @ Keio University
IDC Staff Instructor @ Professional Association of Diving Instructors
Instructor Trainer @ Divers Alert Network (DAN)
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Investment focus
- Software, Media and Entertainment, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Angel
Founder @ Way to Wellville
Founder @ HICCup
investor @ GridPoint
Chairman @ EDventure Holdings
Patron @ Commercial Spaceflight Federation
Director @ 23andMe
investor @ Wellgood
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
John Herlihy is Chairperson of Carne's board of directors.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Ireland, United Kingdom
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Bobby Hambrick
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Investment focus
- Sensor, Software, Automotive
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Provizio — Imagine an affordable system that gives every driver 360-degree insights in all weather conditions and paves a true path to autonomy.
- Velocity Robotics —
John Collison is a President and Co-founder at Stripe. He attended Harvard University.John and his brother Patrick Collison started Stripe in 2010 while John was studying physics at Harvard. Their goal was to make accepting payments online simpler and more inclusive, after learning firsthand how difficult it was. Today, the 100+ person (andgrowing) Stripe team powers online businesses around the world.Before Stripe, John co-founded Auctomatic, which was acquired by Live Current Media in March 2008. Originally from Limerick, Ireland, John lives in San Francisco, California, where Stripe is based.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Cortex — Cortex makes it easy for engineering organizations to gain visibility into their services and deliver high quality software.
- Cognition — Cognition is an applied artificial intelligence lab that focuses on reasoning and code.
- The Bot Company — The Bot Company a household robot startup.
Brian Caulfield is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and angel investor. He is a General Partner at DFJ Esprit (http://www.dfjesprit.com/).Brian currently sits on the boards of Datahug, Movidius, MTT, Clavis Technology and the Irish Times, Ireland's leading daily newspaper. He is also a personal investor in a number ofearly stage technology companies including Cicero Networks, GridStore and Teamer.From 2002 to 2007 Brian was a partner at Trinity Venture Capital. At TVC Brian sat on the boards of or led investments in AePONA (sold to Intel - Nasdaq: INTC), ChangingWorlds (Amdocs - NYSE: DOX), CR2, SteelTrace (Compuware - NASDAQ: CPWR) and APT (CSR LSE:CSR.L). Previously, in 1992 Brian co-founded Exceptis Technologies. Exceptis provided dispute management software for the electronic/card payments sector and was sold to Trintech Group (NASDAQ: TTPA) in November 2000. In 2001 Brian co-founded Similarity Systems, a business focused data quality management software company that was acquired by Informatica (NASDAQ: INFA) in January 2006. Brian was also a founder director and shareholder of Prediction Dynamics, which failed in 2004.Brian is a Computer Engineering graduate of Trinity College Dublin. Brian was the 2007 recipient of the Irish Software Association's "Technology Person of the Year" award. In 2010 he also received the Halo Business Angel Network's Business Angel of the Year award.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Examfly — Examfly make online learning tools for professional tax exams. Our solutions are exam focused and use proven techniques from Ed Tech and Education Psychology.
- Inclusio — The inclusio diversity and inclusion platform is designed to measure and positively shift the culture of your organisation. Contact us for more information.
- Moby Bikes — MOBY Bikes. e-bike rentals: Dublin, London, Amsterdam, Utrecht. Bike sharing, Delivery rider rental, corporate and hotel e-bike fleets
Chairman @ Assure Hedge
Non Executive Director @ Global Shares
Non Executive Director @ BHSL
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Investment focus
- Financial, Lending and Investments
- Seed
Patrick Collison is the Co-Founder, CEO and Content Strategist of Stripe. He previously worked at Auctomatic as a Co-Founder. Patrick Collison attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Cortex — Cortex makes it easy for engineering organizations to gain visibility into their services and deliver high quality software.
- Cursor — Cursor is an AI code editor used to enhance software engineering productivity. It offers a platform allowing developers to write code using predictive typing and natural language instructions. It also integrates with their existing codebase, ensuring privacy and security with SOC 2 certification.
- Pacific Fusion — Pacific Fusion was founded in 2023 with the mission to power the world with abundant, affordable, clean energy.
Keith is responsible for the Marketing, Communications and Sustainable Business functions, a role which has seen him lead the creation of the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan, direct significant advances in digital marketing and through Unilever’s #Unstereotype initiative, create the #Unstereotype Alliance with UN Women, bringing together 24companies to remove the portrayals of unhelpful stereotypes from their advertising by 2020.Prior to this, he was Chairman of Lever Fabergé before becoming Executive Vice President for Global Home Care & Hygiene, covering fabric cleaning, fabric conditioning, household cleaning products, oral care and potable water.Keith has worked for Unilever in the UK, France, the US and globally and regionally in a variety of general management and marketing roles.Outside Unilever, he is Chairman of Business in the Community International and a Business in the Community Board Trustee, President of the History of Advertising Trust, an Effie Board Director and Trustee of Grange Park Opera. He is also a Fellow of The Marketing Society, and as an engineering graduate, a Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers.
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Investment focus
- Grocery, E-Commerce, Food Delivery
- Series B, Funding Round
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Buymie — Buymie is a same-day grocery delivery company focused on reducing the environmental impact of grocery shopping.
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