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Top 20 Consumer Angel Investors in Ireland (October 2023)

The most active angel investors investing in Ireland Consumer startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Ireland Consumer startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Brian Caulfield
Angel
2 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Mobile, Apps
Sara Davies
Angel
1 Ireland Angel Design, Sports, Health Care
Meg Lustman
Angel
1 Ireland Angel Retail, Fashion, Fitness
Jim Mountjoy
Angel
1 Ireland Series A Software, Analytics, E-Commerce
Touker Suleyman
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Ireland Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed CRM, Digital Media, Advertising Platforms
Dan Ryan
Angel
1 Ireland Angel Retail, Fashion, Fitness
Tej Lalvani
Angel
1 India, Ireland, United Kingdom Angel, Seed Fashion, Advertising, Beauty
Shalena O'Connell
Angel
1 Ireland Seed Toys
Pádraig Canavan
Angel
1 Ireland Computer, Software, Clinical Trials
Patrick Collison
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Series A, Series C Software, Financial Services, Enterprise Software $2M–$31M
John Collison
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A, Series C Software, Apps, Enterprise Software $2M–$31M
Marc Murphy
Angel
1 Ireland, United Kingdom Series A Legal, FinTech, Computer
Marc McCabe
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Big Data, FinTech
Eric Yuan
Angel
1 United States, India, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, Internet $7.5M–$13M
John Purdy
Angel
1 Ireland Seed Software, FinTech, Medical $563k–$1.1M
Bob Young
Angel
1 United States, Ireland Seed, Series A, Series B Marketplace, E-Commerce, iOS $5M–$27M
John Herlihy
Angel
1 Ireland Seed Toys
Colm Heffernan
Angel
1 Ireland Computer, Software, Clinical Trials
Mark Whittaker
Angel
1 Seed
Garry Lyons
Angel
1 Ireland Seed Toys
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Brian Caulfield
Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in Ireland Consumer startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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 is an innovative start-up company focused on developing and bringing to market a range of electric mobility solutions for cities and individuals.
  • Marker Content — Marker Content is a female-founded online article marketplace where freelancers and copywriters can upload their pre-written or new articles free of charge. Businesses download the content for their marketing needs, edit and rebrand it and use it for their newsletters, blogs, social media posts and websites. Marker Content is the Shutterstock ofWords.
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Sara Davies
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Consumer startups

Sara Davies

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Design, Sports, Health Care
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Peachy Lean — Peachylean, is an Irish based athleisure business providing stylish, high quality, supportive, high waisted gym leggings. We want to support strong women who like to look good while working out in the gym.
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Meg Lustman
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Consumer startups

Meg Lustman is the former chief executive of Hobbs London.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Fashion, Fitness
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Peachy Lean — Peachylean, is an Irish based athleisure business providing stylish, high quality, supportive, high waisted gym leggings. We want to support strong women who like to look good while working out in the gym.
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Jim Mountjoy
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Consumer startups

Dr. Jim Mountjoy is the Board Director of Corvil.He is also a Deputy Chairman of Science Foundation Ireland.Dr. Mountjoy founded Euristix, an innovative supplier of advanced network management software solutions for the telecommunications industry. Euristix became a market leader and was sold to Fore Systems for US $80 million in February1999, a value that increased to US$175 million in two months when Fore Systems was acquired by Marconi.Dr. Mountjoy is currently involved as an investor and in a non-executive capacity with a number of technology companies and is a Board member of the,Abbey Theatre,Barnardos, the childrens’ charity.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Analytics, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Clavis Insight — Clavis eCommerce Insight is the Industry leader for Online Store Analytics. We deliver data, analysis and insights to enable consumer goods brands to track and optimize their online channel presence and performance.The solution analyzes everything consumers see in online retailer stores to quickly identify the actions brand owners andmanufacturers need to take to drive profitable eCommerce growth, protect their brands and beat the competition online.The majority of the world’s leading Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies including Unilever, Procter & Gamble, and Nestlé use Clavis Insight for online store analytics today.
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Touker Suleyman
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Ireland Consumer startups

Touker Suleyman is a multi-millionaire Turkish Cypriot fashion retail entrepreneur and investor. In 2001, his company Low Profile Group purchased UK shirt maker Hawes & Curtis, and in 2008 he purchased UK fashion label Ghost. More recently, he has invested in a number of start-up companies including Bikesoup and Huxley & Cox.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: CRM, Digital Media, Advertising Platforms
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Cablato — For the past 70 years broadcast TV advertising practices have remained fairly unchanged. The advent of data proliferation, technology advancements & shifting consumer behavior have created an opportunity for a seismic shift in how TV advertising is planned, targeted, purchased and measured - moving media dollars from traditional broadcasting toaddressable TV advertising.The next phase of broadcast and addressable TV evolution is the ability to personalize and serve dynamic video content and advertising, which aligns the content the consumer views to their interests, location, viewing habits or even the weather.Developing broadcast ready video personalization technology is extremely complex, with the technology needing to not only serve broadcast quality TV advertising, but also work seamlessly within the myriad of existing broadcast technologies, processes and regulations.Cablato has built the first technology solution that overcomes these challenges, enabling advertisers to create and serve highly engaging personalized video ads at scale, and to integrate into buy-side and broadcaster technology stacks that provide broadcasters with a new untapped revenue stream.Quantifiable KPIs / Business Performance Cablato has built the first video personalisation technology solution for OTT and addressable TV enabling advertisers to create and serve highly engaging personalized video ads at scale.Challenges we've had to solve in order to scale and get buy-in - Dynamic video creation and ad serving for both broadcaster managed & programmatic addressable TV - Cloud rendering and use of dynamic content within linear video files - Regulations, content approval and management - Buy-side technology integrations and use of data for personalisation - Sell-side technology integrations and use of data for personalisation
  • Peachy Lean — Peachylean, is an Irish based athleisure business providing stylish, high quality, supportive, high waisted gym leggings. We want to support strong women who like to look good while working out in the gym.
  • Personify XP — Personify XP uses AI and automation personalization SAAS technology to help retailers understand what their customers are shopping for.The Personify Anonymous Experience platform is a platform to focuses exclusively on anonymous visitors. The company's AI platform connects great products with shoppers that don't know anything aboutthrough automating how content and products are shown to which shoppers and when. Personify XP provides a unique insight into how your anonymous customers shop whilst ensuring your customer's data is private and we are GDPR compliant out-of-the-box. We drive 15% additional revenue and 35% higher conversions through our patent-pending AI technology. Personify XP was founded in 2018 and based in London, England.
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Dan Ryan
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Consumer startups

Dan Ryan is the Chief Operating Officer of Kokoro Zenwear and Commercial Director at Peachylean.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Fashion, Fitness
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Peachy Lean — Peachylean, is an Irish based athleisure business providing stylish, high quality, supportive, high waisted gym leggings. We want to support strong women who like to look good while working out in the gym.
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Tej Lalvani
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Consumer startups

Tej Lalvani is the CEO of Vitabiotics.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion, Advertising, Beauty
  • Stage:Angel, Seed
  • Geography: India, Ireland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • POPxo — POPxo is India's online community for women that deals everything from fashion, beauty, lifestyle, work, and etc.Reaching 9 million users every month with over 102 million monthly engaged content views. POPxo provides text and video content in an accessible manner, and reach them where they live their lives: on social media and on mobile.It focuses on reaching a highly targeted audience - the millions of young urban women in India who are growing in confidence, in independence and in spending power, it monetises by working across formats (native ads, social posts, events) with brands who want to reach this important and influential consumer base.I was launch in March 2014 it's become the go-to lifestyle resource for the female (18-34) demographic.
  • Gener8 — We believe that the advertising industry needs more transparency and that people should be able to control their own data. Our technology gives people the control that is currently missing. And if people choose to share their data with advertisers, we reward them for it. Consequently, people trust us and 83% of them share their data with us.Meaning that we have an incredible understanding about these people and their online behaviour. We work with companies (and their media agencies) in the capacity of a media owner to do three things: 1. Provide premium media for you to reach this highly defined audience.2. Use our proprietary first party data to unveil actionable insights about your customers, eg. their purchase habits.3. To promote your brand and drive an action from your audience.
  • Peachy Lean — Peachylean, is an Irish based athleisure business providing stylish, high quality, supportive, high waisted gym leggings. We want to support strong women who like to look good while working out in the gym.
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Shalena O'Connell
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Consumer startups

Shalena O'Connell is a VP of Operations - helping fast-growing tech companies scale of MongoDB.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Toys
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • HoloToyz — HoloToyz is a line of animated children's products that use augmented reality to inspire creativity and imagination. Our products will amaze and amaze people of all ages with never-before-seen animations.
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Pádraig Canavan
Angel · Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Ireland Consumer startups

Pádraig Canavan is a Managing Director at Singularity.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Computer, Software, Clinical Trials
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • FlowForma — Unlock competitive advantage with FlowForma, the #1 no code digital process automation software & business process management tool. Get a free trial now!
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Patrick Collison
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Consumer startups

Patrick Collison is a Content Strategist for Stripe.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$9M; Series A $7M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Polywork — Launch an AI-powered personal website to showcase your work, grow your personal brand, or start your side hustle.
  • Rain Industries — Every wildfire starts small. Rain contains wildfires within 10 minutes of ignition with autonomous drones.
  • keen technologies — keen technologies provides SAP education and other skill based education that needs to the students in current market needs.
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John Collison
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Consumer startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Apps, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$9M; Series A $13M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Polywork — Launch an AI-powered personal website to showcase your work, grow your personal brand, or start your side hustle.
  • Rain Industries — Every wildfire starts small. Rain contains wildfires within 10 minutes of ignition with autonomous drones.
  • Terraform Industries — Terraform Industries manufactures carbon negative "natural gas" by extracting CO2 from the atmosphere. Since a large fraction of natural gas is not burned but used industrially for products including fertilizer, plastics, pharmaceuticals, coatings and adhesives, our natural gas is net carbon negative.Terraform Industries is a bet oncheap solar, synthetic hydrocarbon supremacy, and hyperscale.The overarching goal is to zero out the net transport of carbon from the crust to the atmosphere and oceans as quickly as possible by displacing drilled natural gas production with direct atmospheric processing.
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Marc Murphy
Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Consumer startups

Founder and CEO, Marc is responsible for Fenergo’s business operational strategy and corporate direction. With 18 years’ experience developing, selling and delivering enterprise financial technology to global banks, Marc has developed a proven track record of building successful business-winning and leadership teams. In 2015, he led an $85m fundinground with Insight Venture Partners and Aquiline Capital Partners, marking the second fundraising effort for the company. In 2013, Fenergo secured €4m funding from Investec Ventures Ireland Limited. The latest fundraising enables Fenergo to create a platform for global growth that will see it capitalize on the growing demand being created by an ever-evolving financial regulations market. Marc was recently named a Fintech 100 Most Influential Leader in recognition of the impact that Fenergo’s technology is having on the way financial institutions manage their compliance obligations and operational requirements. Marc is a software engineering and MBA graduate of Dublin City University

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Legal, FinTech, Computer
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • FlowForma — Unlock competitive advantage with FlowForma, the #1 no code digital process automation software & business process management tool. Get a free trial now!
  • Thirdfort — Automated identity verification and AML compliance for lawyers and property professionals.
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Marc McCabe
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Consumer startups

Marc McCabe is a Scout at Sequoia Capital and General Partner at Nomad Capital. Prior to this role, Marc was a Business Development Lead and before that, a Team Member of Business and Corporate Development. Previously, Marc was a Partner at SV Angel and an Online Media Associate at Google.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Big Data, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Noloco — Noloco is a no-code platform for teams to instantly create apps powered by their business data. Easily turn Airtable bases and spreadsheets into customer portals or internal tools without code.
  • Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
  • Practice — Sell your expertise online, and manage your business, all in one place.
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Eric Yuan
Angel · Santa Clara, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Consumer startups

Eric Yuan founded Zoom in 2011 to deliver happiness and bring teams together in a frictionless video environment. Zoom’s video-first unified communications platform continues to dramatically transform the way leading global enterprises communicate. Under Eric’s leadership, Zoom was one of the highest-performing tech IPOs of 2019.Prior to foundingZoom, Eric was corporate vice president of engineering at Cisco, where he was responsible for Cisco's collaboration software development. Eric was one of the founding engineers and vice president of engineering at Webex. Between 1997 and 2011, he grew his team from 10 engineers to more than 800 worldwide and contributed to revenue growth from $0 to more than $800M.Eric has been named one of the Most Powerful People in Enterprise Tech by Business Insider. In 2018, he was named the #1 CEO of a large US company by Glassdoor and EY Entrepreneur of the Year in Northern California (software category). In 2019, he was added to the Bloomberg 50 as a leader who changed the game in global business. Eric is a named inventor on 11 issued and 20 pending patents in real-time collaboration.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Series A $7.5M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trendsi — Trendsi is an online fashion B2B marketplace reimagined, that makes it easy for sellers to build their businesses by providing inventory, offering dropshipping and open-pack wholesale with fast shipping, quality products, back-end infrastructure and a great profit margin for boutique owners.
  • HireEZ — At hireEZ, our mission is to make outbound recruiting easy. We’re dedicated to helping recruiters proactively bring jobs to people and give organizations the solutions they need to make the switch from inbound to outbound recruiting to achieve their business goals, hire the right people and build more inclusive workplaces. That’s why we developedhireEZ (formerly Hiretual), an AI-powered outbound recruitment platform. With hireEZ, you can execute a strategically scalable approach to build your workforce of the future.
  • Saltalk — Saltalk is a virtual kitchen platform that focuses on Asian Authentic Food optimized for delivery services.
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John Purdy
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Consumer startups

John Purdy

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Medical
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $563k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • dimply — The experience & engagement platform for financial enterprises.
  • Beyondbmi — Beyondbmi is an expert led medical approach to weight loss. We provide a convenient and scientific telehealth program designed to help your reach your health goals.
  • FlowForma — Unlock competitive advantage with FlowForma, the #1 no code digital process automation software & business process management tool. Get a free trial now!
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Bob Young
Angel · Raleigh, North Carolina, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Consumer startups

Bob Young is the founder and CEO of Lulu.com, a premiere international marketplace for new digital content on the Internet, with more than 300,000 recently published titles and more than 15,000 new creators from 80 different countries joining each week.Lulu.com, founded in 2002, is Young's most recent endeavour. The success of this companyhas earned Young notable recognition; he was named one of the "Top 50 Agenda-Setters in the Technology Industry in 2006" and was ranked as the fourth "Top Entrepreneur for 2006," both by Silicon.com.In 1993, Young co-founded Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the open-source software company that gives hardware and software vendors a standard platform on which to certify their technology. Red Hat is a Fortune 500 company and chief rival to Microsoft. His success at Red Hat won him industry accolades, including nomination as one of Business Week's "Top Entrepreneurs" in 1999.Before founding Red Hat, Young spent 20 years at the helm of two computer-leasing companies that he founded. His experiences as a high tech entrepreneur combined with his innate marketing savvy led to Red Hat's success. His book, "Under the Radar", chronicles how Red Hat's open source strategy successfully won wide industry acceptance in a market previously dominated by proprietary binary-only systems. Young has also imparted the lessons learned from his entrepreneurial experiences through his contributions to the books to "You've GOT to Read This Book!" and "Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur's Soul."In 2000, Young co-founded the Center for Public Domain, a non-profit foundation created to bolster healthy conversation of intellectual property, patent and copyright law, and the management of the public domain for the common good. Grant recipients included the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Creative Commons, the Free Software Foundation, and the Future of Music Coalition.Young graduated from the University of Toronto in 1976 prior to beginning his career in the computer finance arena.In 2003, Young purchased the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League and currently serves as the league's vice chairman.In addition to enjoying fly fishing, Young collects calculators and antique typewriters, a nod to his beginnings as a typewriter salesman and can usually be found sporting a pair of red socks. However, instead of red on his head, Young now tips his orange hat.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketplace, E-Commerce, iOS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Series A $5M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • W4 Games — W4 Games is a new company whose mission is to strengthen the open source Godot ecosystem by providing companies with the commercial products and services they need.
  • Liquid AI — Building AGI, AI as Service, Generative AI
  • ResearchHub — We're a community seeking to improve prioritization, collaboration, reproducibility, and funding of scientific research. Discuss and discover academic research on ResearchHub
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John Herlihy
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Consumer startups

John Herlihy is an Assistant Manager.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Toys
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • HoloToyz — HoloToyz is a line of animated children's products that use augmented reality to inspire creativity and imagination. Our products will amaze and amaze people of all ages with never-before-seen animations.
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Colm Heffernan
Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Consumer startups

Colm Heffernan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Computer, Software, Clinical Trials
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • FlowForma — Unlock competitive advantage with FlowForma, the #1 no code digital process automation software & business process management tool. Get a free trial now!
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Mark Whittaker
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Ireland Consumer startups

Mark Whittaker joined Parkwalk Advisors as Corporate Advisor in 2012.

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Investment focus

  • Stage:Seed

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Aphix Software — Aphix offers a fully integrated eCommerce & Mobile Ordering Platform for B2B, Wholesalers, Distributors, and Online Retailers in the UK & Ireland.
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Garry Lyons
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Consumer startups

Garry Lyons is a chief executive of Shipyard Technologies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Toys
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • HoloToyz — HoloToyz is a line of animated children's products that use augmented reality to inspire creativity and imagination. Our products will amaze and amaze people of all ages with never-before-seen animations.
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Shizune has a database of 48,091 investors. Our investor database is fresh and updated daily.

The Shizune investor database has information on investor investment focus, investor contact data, and full investor portfolio since 2020.

You can enrich with email and download the data.

Does Shizune have investor emails and contacts?

Shizune enriches investors with contact data that includes: email, phones, LinkedIn, socials, website, and others.

To guarantee the highest discovery rate, we search across 20+ contact search tools.

To maximize delivery rate and reduce bounce rate, we validate emails.

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What is Shizune?

Shizune is a 48,091 investor database updated daily.

With Shizune you can:

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Who is Shizune for?

Shizune is built for startup founders by startup founders.

If you are looking for funding for your startup, try the Shizune database — we have investors for every stage, industry, and country.

Is Shizune free?

Shizune is free forever. You can search and browse investors for free.

Email search and export are paid features.

For full info, visit our pricing.

Who built Shizune?

Shizune is built by founders with the goal of helping all founders raise funding no matter where they are.

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