Top 5 Travel Angel Investors in Ireland in January 2026
A list of 5 angel investors that invest in Travel startups based in Ireland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Travel companies from Ireland. We update this investor list every month.Top 5 Travel Angel Investors in Ireland in January 2026
| Investor | Travel Ireland investments |
|---|---|
| Bobby Healy | 3 |
| Tom Kennedy | 2 |
| Conor Stanley | 1 |
| Peter Bankov | 1 |
| Hristo Hristov | 1 |
Bobby Healy is an experienced inventor and technology entrepreneur specialising in booking engine software. He joined CarTrawler in 2005 having begun his career building computer games for Nintendo at 16 years of age. Prior to joining CarTrawler, Bobby founded Eland Technologies which he later sold to airline technology giant SITA and remained asCTO until 2005. His booking solutions are now in use by 80% of the world's top 20 airlines. Bobby continues to be an avid computer programmer and is a frequent speaker on the international circuit on subjects related to technology in the airline industry, ancillary revenue and online distribution.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Local, Guides
- Angel, Series A, Funding Round
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Roomex — Want to make business travel easier? Search, book, manage, and pay for all your business hotel bookings in one place.
- Coindrum — Coindrum provides coin machines to spend your coin jars. No more manual counting, sorting or bagging!
- LikeWhere — LikeWhere's service helps travel brands identify the individual interests of their customers, so they can personalise their digital engagement, generating more revenues. LikeWhere utilises ‘affinity-marketing’ techniques deployed by brands including Amazon, Spotify & Netflix (‘others like you also liked this’), enabling travel brands tooptimise their retail strategy.
Tom has a proven track record as an entrepreneur and in building a global e-commerce business from Dublin as a co-founder of www.hostelworld.com (Web Reservations International). Tom achieved a successful exit from Hostelworld.com in 1999, generating $500m in shareholder value. He previously owned Avalon House hostel in Dublin. When he’s notworking, Tom enjoys the gastronomic delights of life and the views of the Wicklow mountains from the saddle of his bicycle.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Video, Retail
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Ireland
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- Gigable — Join the fastest growing delivery network. Signup as a business to access freelancers or signup as a freelancer to earn additional income.
- Coindrum — Coindrum provides coin machines to spend your coin jars. No more manual counting, sorting or bagging!
- VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.
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...
Peter Bankov
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Investment focus
- Apps, Travel, Tourism
- Angel
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- 15toGO — 15toGO is a social travel app that allows users to find like-minded people according to the interests that they share. Together, they can book organized trips directly through the app’s marketplace. One of the first 15 people to book certain promo trips (called GO Deals) can go on them for free.
Hristo Hristov - Chief Executive Officer @ DarikNews.bg
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Advertising
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Bulgaria, Ireland, Romania
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- ONDO Smart Farming Solutions — Precise drip irrigation management and control, precise plant nutrition and climate control for various crops - ONDO Smart Farming solutions.
- Releva — Releva provides the global rails for real-time revenue operations and recommits to empathy in automated brand communication. Releva is the only AI-first growth platform that optimizes customer experiences by providing a deeper understanding of the needs of each customer.Releva is a one-stop solution for eCommerce sales and marketing. Itcombines tools to measure, attribute, experiment, analyze, predict and automate your growth in real-time on a single dashboard. Releva combines user needs with your sales strategy to optimize for expected, timely, and engaging communication.
- Biodit Global Technology JSC — Biodit Global Technology is a tech company that specializes in development of state-of-the-art biometric security systems.BIODIT means innovation, comfort, design but above all, it means the highest level of SECURITY. Endless areas of application - healthcare industry, business and office centers, commercial and residential buildings,hospitality, banking and automotive industries.The areas of application of our unique biometric technology for access control, time attendance monitoring and management of operations, just to name a few, are endless - healthcare industry, business and office centres, commercial and residential buildings, hospitality industry, university centres, banking industry, automotive industry, security companies etc.
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