# Top 20 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in Ireland in October 2023 ## Mike McGearty - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, Big Data, Transportation CEO at CarTrawler ## Ali Partovi - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce Ali Partovi is the CEO and Founder of Neo and was a Founding partner at linkexchange. Ali attended Harvard University. ## Linda Kiely - Type: Angel - Location: Metropolitan, Michigan, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, Software, Analytics Linda Kiely is an Entrepreneur at Linda Green-Kiely Enterprises. ## Tom Kelly - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Human Resources, SaaS Tom Kelly founded Iona Capital Advisors after a fifteen-year career with some of the leading global investment banks such as Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, Robertson Stephens and Blackstone. Tom has extensive experience raising private capital for clients and has worked on over 100 transactions amounting to over $5 billion in transaction value.He is exclusively focused on advising and assisting companies in accessing the private capital markets.Prior to founding Iona, Tom was a Managing Director and Head of the Global Private Capital Advisory Group at Blackstone Advisory Partners where he was responsible for advising Blackstone's clients on raising capital in the private capital markets. Prior to joining Blackstone, he ran the private capital advisory group at Montgomery & Co. and ran the west coast private placement group for Bank of America. He began his investment banking career with Merrill Lynch in London and New York before transferring to San Francisco in 1999 to launch Merrill Lynch's Silicon Valley private placement practice.Tom has fifteen years of experience providing strategic advisory and capital-raising services to corporate clients. He has extensive experience in negotiating, structuring and executing transactions on behalf of companies in a variety of sectors including technology, media, healthcare, real estate and financial services. He has assisted both private and public companies in raising capital from venture capital firms, financial sponsors, hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds, mutual funds and strategic investors. He is also an active angel investor and secondary market participant.Tom obtained his MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was the recipient of a John F. Kennedy Scholarship and a Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering. He previously obtained a First Class Honors Degree in Pharmacy from the University of Bradford, United Kingdom and worked as a research scientist with Pfizer and a production manager with Baxter Healthcare and Weleda prior to getting his MBA.Tom was born and raised in Ireland and remains very connected to the Irish entrepreneurial community. He participated in the Global Irish Economic Forum of October 2011 at the invitation of the Irish Government and was named to the Irish Technology Leadership Group's "Silicon Valley 50" in 2011 and 2012. ## Chris Adelsbach - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures ## Sean Mitchell - Type: Angel - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Toys, Internet, Analytics Sean Mitchell is the Chairman and Chief Commercial Officer at Ubotica Technologies. ## Vincent Nolan - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Internet, Analytics, E-Commerce Vincent Nolan is the Executive Chairman at 2CV. Vincent Nolan attended The University of Sheffield. ## Anne Herarty - Type: Angel - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: SaaS, Internet, Software Anne Heraty is the CEO and Co-Founder at Cpl Solutions. Anne Heraty attended University College Dublin. ## Bryan Meehan - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Packaging Services, Farming, Waste Management Bryan Meehan CEO at Blue Bottle Coffee. Previously, I co-founded Nude Skincare (acquired by LVMH) and Fresh & Wild in London (acquired by Whole Foods).I'm an advocate of socially responsible investing and co-founded Greenmont Capital, a venture firm focused on investing in people who are primarily interested in creating environmentallyfriendly products. Investments include IZZE soda line and Mary's Gone Crackers. I get very excited about great founders and have recently invested in Slack, Hampton Creek, and of course, Blue Bottle Coffee where I spend most of my time working with James Freeman and the Blue Bottle team. I'm also a very active real estate investor.I grew up in Dublin. Since, I've lived in London, Boston and San Francisco. I love music, hiking, travel, art, organic food and coffee. I'm on the Board of Trustees at De Young and Legion of Honor museums in San Francisco. I hate GMOs and campaigning hard to have food properly labelled. ## Charlie Songhurst - Type: Angel - Location: Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics. ## Conor Stanley - Type: Angel - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Sales/Marketing, Data and Analytics 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. ## Ronan Harris - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: SaaS, Software, Analytics Ronan Harris is the President of EMEA at Snap. He previously worked as the Managing Director for Google across the UK and Ireland. Harris has been based in Dublin, in charge of the sales teams for large customers across EMEA. He has been at Google for more than 11 years, joining as senior director for large customer sales for EMEA. ## Simon Murdoch - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Analytics Simon set up online bookstore Bookpages in 1996 and sold it to Amazon in 1998. As VP Europe for Amazon, he managed huge growth from start-up through to multimillion turnover and hundreds of staff. As an Angel investor, he has invested in Shazam, been chairman of VideoIsland (now merged with and renamed LoveFilm, and purchased in Feb 2011 byAmazon.com), Zoopla! and Shutl (currently chairman).Simon founded and funded FriendsAbroad.com, a social network for developing language skills and contacts abroad which was successfully sold to Lesson Nine GmbH, operators of language learning site Babbel.com. Simon is currently CEO of StormForward, an e-commerce conversion consultancy which helpsonline retailers to increase their online salesand profits. ## Dan Kiely - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, Software, Analytics Dan Kiely is CEO and Co-Founder of Voxpro, a premium provider of high end outsourcing services exclusively to the disruptive technology market. Dan thrives in the entrepreneurial realm. He dreams big & encourages innovation in all aspects of his company. Dan is a man of passion and creativity. Find the limit and he will smash it. Voxpro’svision has always been driven by Dan’s desire to create something unique, something unforgettable. With its 2,000+ strong work force across multiple locations in Ireland, the U.S., Romania and shortly, the Philippines, Voxpro touches the lives of hundreds of thousands of people every year, all over the world. Voxpro has a rapidly expanding geographic footprint and well considered location roll-out plan. A growing partner list includes some of the most powerful technology companies in the world. Voxpro’s partners are of great inspiration to Dan. He resonates with their entrepreneurial spirit and they, with his. Dan’s tenure at the helm continues to steer Voxpro on an exciting and successful journey. Audacious and relentless, his dreams for the company know no bounds. ## Barry Lunn - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Sensor, Software, Aerospace 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. ## Paddy Flynn - Type: Angel - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: SaaS, Software, Analytics Paddy Flynn - VP, Geo Data Operations @ Google ## Nicolas Berggruen - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence Nicolas Berggruen is the Founder and Chairman of the Berggruen Institute. He attended New York University. ## Mark Whittaker - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed Mark Whittaker joined Parkwalk Advisors as Corporate Advisor in 2012. ## Liam Casey - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, SaaS, FinTech Liam is the founder and CEO of PCH. He has lived 23 years in China and is recognized as a thought leader in new product introductions, supply chain orchestration, sustainability and startup initiatives. He is on the boards of the California College for the Arts, and UC Berkeley Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation. ## Bobby Hambrick - Type: Angel - Location: Morton, Illinois, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Sensor, Software, Automotive Bobby Hambrick # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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