# Top 50 Enterprise Angel Investors in Ireland in May 2026

## Brian Caulfield
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Apps

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.

## Shane Naughton
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Apps

Shane Naughton - Founding Partner and Board of Directors @ On The Stage

## Gareth Lambe
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Tourism, Payments, Software

Gareth Lambe is the Head of Meta Ireland & VP, International Business Planning & Operations. He attended the University College Dublin.

## Pa Nolan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Medical, Delivery, Shipping

Pa Nolan

## Bradley Horowitz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Bradley Horowitz is an Advisor and Vice President of Product Management at Google. Most recently he helped create Area 120, Google's incubator for internally-sourced innovation. He's led a large number of products, programs and initiatives at Google - including Google for Startups, Google Photos, Gmail, Google Voice, blogger, and GoogleNews.Before joining Google in February 2008, Horowitz was Yahoo's vice president of Advanced Development where he drove the acquisitions of Flickr and MyBlogLog, launched the Brickhouse incubator and developed new products like Yahoo! Pipes. Additionally, he was responsible for the company's initiative to open up its platform which included overseeing the Yahoo Developer Network (YDN).Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical direction of the company from its founding through its IPO and eventual acquisition by Autonomy.Horowitz was a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab. While at the Media Lab, he worked on a number of topics related to computer vision, graphics and image processing, which resulted in a patented new technique for the recovery of structure, motion and camera parameters from video sequences.Horowitz holds an MS in Media Science from MIT and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.

## Anne Herarty
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Kevin Hartz
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

Kevin is the Co-Founder and GP of A* Capital & The Co-Founder & Chairman of Eventbrite (NYSE: EB)Prior A* Capital, Kevin was at Founders Fund. Previously Co-Founder and CEO of Eventbrite (NYSE: EB). Kevin was previously Co-Founder and CEO of Xoom Corporation, an international money transfer company servicing more than 30 countriesworldwide. Xoom went public in 2012 and was acquired by PayPal in 2015. Kevin has served as an early-stage investor and advisor to successful start-ups including Airbnb, Lookout, PayPal, Pinterest, Skybox Imaging, Trulia, Uber, and Yammer.

## Liam Casey
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Tom Kennedy
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Travel, Video, Retail

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.

## Des Traynor
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

Des is the Co-Founder of Intercom, the platform for all customer interaction needs from marketing to support to product development. Previously he worked as User Experience Lead at web app development agency Contrast, and he was a Co-Founder of popular social networking search engine Bigulo.

## Chris Murphy
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Chris Murphy is a Venture Partner at MS&AD Ventures. He previously worked at SaaStock and attended Dublin City University.

## Charlie Songhurst
- Type: Angel
- Location: Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Hal Philipp
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: News, SaaS, Big Data

Hal Philipp - Principal Partner @ Meridian Growth Capital

## Chris Huskilson
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Delivery, Internet, Analytics

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.

## Jared Messenger
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Product Design, Developer Tools, Developer Platform

Jared Messenger is a technology entrepreneur and angel investor. He is currently an iOS computer vision and machine learning researcher. He also advises early-stage startups on building and shipping their iOS app. 

## Tony Smurfit
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Video, Privacy, Software

Tony Smurfit is the Founder & CEO of Smurfit Kappa.

## Brian Patterson
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Delivery, Shipping, Software

Brian Patterson

## Peter O'Grady Walshe
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Video, Publishing, Social Media

Peter O'Grady Walshe - Chairman @ VideoElephant

## Patrick Joy
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Mobile Apps, Internet of Things

Patrick Joy - Owner & Founder & Executive Chairman @ Suretank Group

## Peter Crowley
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Privacy, Software, Cyber Security

Peter Crowley - Founder & Director @ FL Partners

## Ian Madigan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Privacy, Software, Cyber Security

Ian Madigan is a professional Rugby player at Ulster Rugby.

## Chris Adelsbach
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

## Barry Brennan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Customer Service, Business Intelligence

Barry Brennan

## Harper Reed
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Internet, Community/Lifestyle, Media and Entertainment

Harper Reed is the CEO of General Galactic Corporation. He previously worked at Braintree as the Head of Commerce. He attended Cornell College.

## Ben Ward
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Customer Service, Business Intelligence

Ben Ward

## John Hearne
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Sports, Software, Consulting

John Hearne, CEO and co-founder of Cúram Software

## Cian Kinsella
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Employment, Web Development

Cian Kinsella founded or co-founded a number of successful companies in the software space. Experiences at director-level in software development, customer services and sales, and as an entrepreneur and CEO have taught me what it takes to run a successful software business: how to build teams, develop high quality software products and services,build a customer base, communicate with investors, and to bring a company to profitability while remaining focussed on a clear vision throughout.Cian Kinsella still enjoy the act of software development and have been personally responsible for a significant amount of the software at my recent projects digiprove.com, and giveandbuy.ie. Cian Kinsella work with software companies or IT divisions that need professional help in leadership, quality software development, product management and/or other areas. Experience helps me to to quickly identify achievable ways of improving overall performance or solving particular problems. Cian Kinsella am interested in interim C-level positions, short focussed projects, consultancy, or non-executive appointments.

## Alan Merriman
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Hardware, Software, Data and Analytics

Alan Merriman is a Founder at Elkstone.

## Joe Hogan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Professional Services, Administrative

Joe is Openet’s founder. He has served on the Openet board and as CTO since Openet’s founding in 1999. Joe is the principal architect of Openet’s product portfolio and has over 45 patents in 5G technology. He is responsible for technology innovation in Openet and is also a joint winner of the European Entrepreneur of the Year (2012) and EYEntrepreneur of the Year (2011).

## Konstantin Sidorov
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Software, IT

Konstantin Sidorov is a successful entrepreneur and visionary in the information technology sector. He is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the exclusive London Technology Club, a platform for potential investors and technology professionals to co-invest, network and exchange ideas.

## Julien Nguyen
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Hardware, Software, Science/Engineering

Julien Nguyen has 30 years of operational, entrepreneurial and early stage investment experience.Prior to NanoDimension, Julien was a Managing Director at Applied Materials Ventures and Concept Ventures. Julien led investments in companies such as Infinera (Nasdaq: INFN), M-Stream (acq’d by Broadcom), Devicescape, Grandis (acq’d by Samsung),Takumi (acq’d by Sagantec), Envis (acq’d by Magma), with co-investors including August Capital, Benchmark, Kleiner Perkins, Matrix Partners, Sevin Rosen, Sigma Partners. Prior to his venture capital activities, Julien founded or was part of the founding team for four startups: Ezlogin (acquired by 724 Solutions), Novita Communications (acquired by Planetweb), E-Motions (acquired by Sigma Designs), Radius (IPO). He holds 21 patents issued in the US.Julien received his postgraduate degree from Telecom Paris (France) and his Master of Science from Ecole Polytechnique (France).

## Paschal Naylor
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Software

Before becoming CEO of Arkphire, Paschal Naylor held senior management positions in a number of Irish technology companies, including EDS Ireland where he was a director and Memorex Telex where he was finance manager. Prior to joining Memorex, Paschal worked in Mostek Ireland, General Foods and Bailey Gibson Ireland. He is a certified accountant(FCCA) and a graduate member of the Marketing Institute of Ireland (MMII).

## Paddy Bolger
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Video, Internet, Content/Publishing

Paddy Bolger - Chief Financial Officer @ CWSI

## 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.

## Howard Roberts
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Hospital

Howard Roberts

## Richard Wang
- Type: Angel
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Other, Software, Hardware

Richard Wang - Partner @ DFJ DragonFund

## Declan Kelly
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial, Other

Founder of Foreword.vc, an early-stage micro fund backing startups throughout their initial chapters. Also advisor at Web Summit and EiR at Seedcamp.
Previously covering Europe for Techstars Ventures and founding member of Web Summits venture fund, Amaranthine.

## Jim Fields
- Type: Angel
- Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality

Jim Fields is the Founder and Managing Director of Relay, a Beijing-based cross-border marketing agency that helps visionary Chinese tech companies to expand in Western markets. Fields founded Relay with the ambition to create the first truly global Chinese brand.With over 15 years of studying Chinese and 8 years in China, Fields’ focus has beenon helping Chinese tech brands creatively and effectively communicate and engage with Western audiences. His work has gained millions of views across various platforms, both in China and internationally, for clients such as Xiaomi, Tencent, Lenovo, Garmin, Hover Camera and many others.Prior to founding Relay, Fields was responsible for launching British agency Studio Output’s Chinese business arm, which grew over 300% in revenue during his three years with the company. Before this, Fields began his career in Silicon Valley at Adobe and has also worked at Nokia and Reckitt Benckiser in Beijing.With a wealth of knowledge of Chinese business culture and over 15 years speaking Mandarin Chinese, Fields has been tapped as an industry expert to speak at events including: CHat Shanghai, HAX, China Accelerator events, DayDayUp, Tsinghua X-Lab and more.

## Mandeep Singh
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial, IT

Founder and former CEO at Trouva (backed by Index Ventures & exited to LON:MADE). He is now an Angel Investor & Advisor, and a Board Member at Amnesty International. He was previously an investor at BC Partners, one of Europe’s largest Private Equity funds, who owned a number of technology and retail businesses, such as Intelsat, Foxtons(where Mandeep was on the board), and Chewy. Prior to that he was a strategy consultant at OC&C. He set up his first startup in his bedroom as a teenage coder.

## Lachy Groom
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial, IT

i did some stuff at stripe. chairman of Compound.

## Dylan Field
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence

Dylan Field is the CEO and Co-founder of Figma, a design and prototyping platform for teams who build products together. With the support of the Thiel Fellowship, Dylan dropped out of Brown University to start Figma with his TA Evan Wallace (who became Figma’s CTO). They built Figma on the web in the hopes of tearing down the walls around thesiloed design process. Dylan champions open, accessible design and believes such tooling must evolve for a cloud-based, collaborative world. He tweets @zoink

## Bill McCabe
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Apps, Gaming, Mobile

Bill McCabe

## Julia Hartz
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

Julia Hartz hopes to inspire people to live more by building the world's largest marketplace of live experiences. Since founding Eventbrite in 2006 with Kevin Hartz and Renaud Visage, the company has generated over $3 billion in gross ticket sales, with more than $200 million tickets processed to events and experiences around the globe.A key to this growth and success is the people of Eventbrite (fondly referred to as The Britelings), which has grown to nearly 400 employees in six offices around the world.Julia cultivates and advocates for Eventbrite's award-winning culture (voted Best Places to Work in the San Francisco Bay Area five years running). She has been honored as one of Inc.'s 35 under 35 in 2014 and Fortune's Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs in 2013.Julia is also a frequent speaker on live experiences, consumer trends and entrepreneurship, and has been recently featured in Forbes, Fortune, Bloomberg and Inc. Magazine. Previous to Eventbrite, Julia was a TV development executive at MTV and FX Networks.

## Feargal Mooney
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Mobile Apps, Information Technology

Feargal Mooney - Chairman @ Luzern Technology Solutions

## David Shackleton
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1

David Shackleton is the Product Head at OpenBack Integration of Twitter. Took up The Role and Responsibilities of Company Directors at Institute of Directors in Ireland.

## Colm Lyon
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Local, Guides, Travel

Colm Lyon - Founder and CEO @ Fire Financial Services

## Scott Chacon
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Apps

Scott Chacon is a Git evangelist and Ruby developer currently as the Cofounder & CEO of Chatterbug. He is the author of the Pro Git book by Apress, the Git Internals Peepcode PDF as well as the maintainer of the Git homepage and the Git Community Book.
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## Vojta Roček
- Type: Angel
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Coffee, Fashion, Nutrition

Vojta Roček is the Partner of Presto Ventures.

## James Fitzgerald
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Diego, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Information Technology

James Fitzgerald

## Sean Blanchfield
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Advertising, Data and Analytics

Sean Blanchfield studied at Trinity College, Dublin and Trinity College, Dublin.

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