Top 50 Transportation Angel Investors in Ireland in January 2026
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 January 2026
| Investor | Transportation Ireland investments |
|---|---|
| Tom Kennedy | 4 |
| Shane Naughton | 4 |
| Des Traynor | 3 |
| Ray Nolan | 3 |
| Declan Kelly | 3 |
| Eamonn Quinn | 3 |
| Kevin Hartz | 3 |
| Peter Crowley | 2 |
| Bobby Healy | 2 |
| Linda Kiely | 2 |
| Jared Messenger | 2 |
| Dan Kiely | 2 |
| Anne Herarty | 2 |
| Brian O'Driscoll | 2 |
| Chris Adelsbach | 2 |
| Pa Nolan | 2 |
| Mike McGearty | 2 |
| Brian Patterson | 2 |
| Chris Huskilson | 2 |
| Tony Smurfit | 2 |
| Peter O'Grady Walshe | 2 |
| Charlie Songhurst | 2 |
| Eamon Leonard | 2 |
| Ian Madigan | 2 |
| Colm Menton | 2 |
| Keith Weed | 1 |
| John Collison | 1 |
| Barry Lunn | 1 |
| Conor Stanley | 1 |
| Liam Casey | 1 |
| Brian Caulfield | 1 |
| Patrick Collison | 1 |
| John Herlihy | 1 |
| RICHARD HAYES | 1 |
| Robert Smith | 1 |
| Enrique Curran | 1 |
| Barry Maloney | 1 |
| Desmond Green | 1 |
| Georgina Smallwood | 1 |
| 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 |
Founder @ Web Reservations International
Founder @ Homestay.com
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Investment focus
- Video, Internet, Travel/Tourism
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
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 & 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
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
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.
Partner & Co-Founder @ Y Ventures
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, IT
- Seed, Series A, Series B
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
Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures
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Investment focus
- Financial, Software, IT
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Pa Nolan
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Investment focus
- Medical, Delivery, Shipping
- Seed, Funding Round
- Ireland, United Kingdom
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.
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.
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
Chief Executive Officer & Founder @ Smurfit Kappa
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- Video, Software, Internet
- Seed, Series A
Investment focus
- Video, Internet, Content/Publishing
- Seed
Advisor @ Bear Robotics
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- 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
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.
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.
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
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- NewLimit — NewLimit is extending human healthspan by unlocking regenerative potential.
- Rivan Industries — Rivan Industries designs and builds modular, vertically integrated, synthetic fuel plants.
- Flow Engineering — Requirements management, made collaborative
Barry Lunn, the founder and CEO of Provizio (previously founder and CEO of Arralis) takes a design led approach to tech entrepreneurship. Barry’s approach to solving difficult technology problems is as much artistic as it is actual physics.
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Investment focus
- Sensor, Software, Aerospace
- Seed, Angel
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Arralis — Arralis is a rapidly scaling technology company, providing world leading expertise in RF, micro, and millimetre-wave technology. It excels in Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMICs), packaged component modules, proprietary antenna technology, and integrated Radar and Communications front-end platforms. Its products, which are theultimate in precision and innovation, are used in both global and space environments where accuracy and reliability are critical. its also creates partnerships with other leading technology providers to build bespoke high performance, cutting-edge solutions. Arralis provides added value through advanced, research, and innovation aligning its solutions with its client’s strategic objectives.
- Cohort — Cohort helps its users find the people they need through the people they already know through social media. Cohort is an Ireland-based company that was founded in 2015 by Eamon Leonard.
- Provizio — Imagine an affordable system that gives every driver 360-degree insights in all weather conditions and paves a true path to autonomy.
Founder / Partner at Tribal.vc. We are a venture firm that empowers entrepreneurs on their own unique path to success. We invest early and with conviction, using our experience and networks to help guide founders and their teams as needed.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Boxever — Learn about how a CDP can increase conversion rates and improve customer loyalty.
- Intercom — Build lasting customer relationships with Intercom, the Engagement OS.
- MicksGarage — MicksGarage.com is the largest online retailer with over 10 million of car parts and car accessories listed for any car make or model. From braking parts to car care, service parts, roof racks, to...
Liam is the founder and CEO of PCH.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Ireland, United Kingdom, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Pandas — B2B e-commerce platform connecting Asia with the +10 million of Latin America small merchants
- Tracworx — The future of packaging is returnable and reusable. We're building the digital infrastructure to enable it.
- &Open — For businesses that gift to give back, share joy, or show they care. All you need is an email.
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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- Software, Mobile, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
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- 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
Patrick Collison is a CEO of Stripe.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, India
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- NewLimit — NewLimit is extending human healthspan by unlocking regenerative potential.
- Antithesis — At Antithesis, we want to bring the confidence and productivity benefits of autonomous testing to your team. We have developed a platform that searches for bugs in your software, in a controlled environment where all bugs are reproducible. Our first offering finds fault tolerance bugs: failures of your software that occur under specific network, hardware or timing conditions.
- Flow Engineering — Requirements management, made collaborative
John Herlihy is Chairperson of Carne's board of directors.
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- Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Ireland, United Kingdom
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Chairman @ Assure Hedge
Non Executive Director @ Global Shares
Non Executive Director @ BHSL
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- Financial, Lending and Investments
- Seed
Board Member @ Socowave
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- Internet, Mobile, Hardware
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
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- Commerce/Shopping, Community/Lifestyle
- Angel
Entrepreneur In Residence @ NDRC
Chief Strategy Officer @ Chegg
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- 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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- Software, IT, Data and Analytics
- Series A, Seed, Series B
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- Health Care
- Pre-Seed
Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ Earlybird Venture Capital
Managing Partner @ Young Turk Ventures
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- Financial, Commerce/Shopping, Media and Entertainment
- Series A, Seed, Series D
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- 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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- Other, Video, Events
- Seed, Funding Round
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