# Top 35 FinTech Angel Investors in Ireland in May 2026 ## Maurice O’ Gorman - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Energy, CleanTech, Clean Energy Maurice O’ Gorman ## Tom Kennedy - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## Killian O’Higgins - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Real Estate Killian O'Higgins is a Chartered Surveyor with 37 years' experience in the Ireland, UK, Continental Europe, Middle East, USA and Asia Pacific. In Ireland, Killian started his career at Lisney before moving to Sherry FitzGerald, joining in 1983, shortly after the Sherry & Sons/FitzGerald & Partners merger. He spent 18 yearsgrowing and developing the business with a particular focus on commercial property, becoming Managing Director of DTZ Sherry FitzGerald in 1998. ## Kevin Abosch - Type: Angel - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: iOS, Apps, News Kevin Abosch is a visual artist / ontologist known best for his photographic portraits and public art installations. Abosch is also the Founder of KwikDesk a discreet and anonymous communication platform. ## Niall Dorrian - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Insurance, Real Time, Mobile Apps Niall Dorrian ## 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. ## Howard Roberts - Type: Angel - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Hospital Howard Roberts ## 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). ## Shane Naughton - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, SaaS, Apps Shane Naughton - Founding Partner and Board of Directors @ On The Stage ## Peter Lorent - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, FinTech, Insurance Peter Lorent ## RICHARD HAYES - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Financial Exchanges Richard Hayes is a Chairman at Assure Hedge Ltd. ## Shane Curran - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet, Software, B2B CEO at Evervault. ## Arjun Sethi - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech Arjun Sethi is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and executive, as well as a Co-Founder of Tribe Capital.Tribe Capital is a top-quartile venture capital firm focused on capturing a perpetual edge in venture and crypto using artificial intelligence and data science. Some of its noteworthy investments include Apollo.io, Carta, Docker, Kraken,Relativity Space, and Shiprocket.Arjun was previously a Partner at Social Capital where he led the Venture Team consisting of six full time GPs with a broad focus on early stage investing in the consumer and enterprise sector. Arjun has a long history of sourcing, winning and leading early stage deals. Arjun’s investments at Social Capital include notable companies such as Front, Carta, Swarm (Sold to SpaceX), Slack, Cloud Kitchens and Relativity Space. Arjun's track record includes being recognized as one of the top 100 angels in Silicon Valley through advisory, direct, and secondary investments across various stages. He has invested in high-profile names such as Frax, Snapchat, Lyft, OpenDoor, and Gusto. Prior to his work in venture, Arjun co-founded and sold two successful companies. After his second company, MessageMe, was acquired by Yahoo, he joined the executive team, where he was instrumental in driving mobile product usage from 100M to 1B monthly uniques and was a Board Observer on Alibaba. Before that, Arjun was the Founder and CEO of LOLapps, a mobile gaming company that grew to 100M monthly users and sold for $240M. ## Robert Smith - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Financial Exchanges CEO at Applied Financial Technology Ltd ## Gautam Gupta - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: SaaS, FinTech, Internet Gautam Gupta is the Co-Founder and General Partner of A* Capital. Gautam holds a MBA at Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management and had his bachelor's degree in computer engineering at Nanyang Technological University. ## Carlos Gonzalez- Cadenas - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas is the Partner at Index Ventures. He previously worked as a Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPO/CTO) at GoCardless. ## Chris Evdaimon - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Mobile, Machine Learning Chris is working in the Private Companies team at Baillie Gifford, based in the Bay Area. Prior to Baillie Gifford, he was a Partner at China's Sinovation Ventures for 10 years, initially in Beijing and then in Silicon Valley. He has 20 years of “hands on” entrepreneurial and early stage investments experience.With Baillie Gifford, Chris hasworked on the investments behind Joby Aviation, Allbirds, Nuro, Honor and goPuff. With Sinovation in Beijing, Chris invested in the early rounds and actively worked on multiple portfolio companies, including Zhihu (NYSE:ZH), Wandoujia (acquired by Alibaba), Umeng (acquired by Alibaba) and Anquanbao (acquired by Baidu). He also designed, setup and operated the firm's incubation programs, as well as led the firm's fundraising efforts and investor relations. In Silicon Valley, Chris established and managed the firm's team and investment practice in the US. He invested in the early rounds and actively worked on multiple companies, with a focus on industrial automation, robotics, and edtech, including Fictiv, Compology, Eight Sleep, Dishcraft Robotics, Traptic, XYZ Robotics, Deep Vision, Fero Labs, Swivl, Abl Schools, Securly, ClassWallet, Swing Education, and others. Prior to Sinovation, Chris was a Managing Partner at Eastern Bell Venture Capital. He also served as the CEO of ICDL Asia, an organization in the computer skills certification sector with operations in over 25 Asian countries, which he helped turnaround and relocate to Singapore. Prior to going to Asia, Chris co-founded and managed ECDL Hellas in his native Athens, Greece.Chris holds a M.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College in London and an MBA from INSEAD. ## Mandeep Singh - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology 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, investors in Intelsat, Foxtons (where Mandeep was on the board), and Chewy. Prior tothat he was a strategy consultant at OC&C and graduated in Natural Sciences (Physics) from the University of Cambridge. He set up his first startup in his bedroom as a teenage coder. ## Nicole Junkermann - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series C - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Analytics Nicole Junkermann is the Founder at NJF Capital. ## Prabir Adarkar - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: SaaS, FinTech, Grocery Prabir Adar is the President and COO at DoorDash. He attended NYU Stern School of Business, Columbia Engineering, and the University of Mumbai. ## Kevin Hartz - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## Lachy Groom - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services i did some stuff at stripe. chairman of Compound. ## Chris Burggraeve - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Angel, Seed - Focus: Credit, Marketplace, Financial Services Chris Burggraeve - Founder @ Vicomte ## Portman Wills - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking Portman Wills - Co-Founder & CTO @ Wagestream ## Mark Cummins - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, B2B, CRM Mark Cummins ## Gareth Lambe - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## Jason Calacanis - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO. ## John Purdy - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Medical John Purdy ## Richard Wang - Type: Angel - Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, FinTech, GovTech Richard Wang - Partner @ DFJ DragonFund ## Patrick Walsh - Type: Angel - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, FinTech, Insurance Former Product Manager at ezetop where he led the development and deployment of a white label mobile phone online top up system for Digicel across its 31 markets. KPMG exam qualified Chartered Accountant having worked across telecoms, music & software industries. ## Monique Woodard - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Apps, Software Monique Woodard is an early stage investor at the intersection of technology and newly powerful consumer groups. Her investments as a venture capital and angel investor include Blavity, Court Buddy, Mented Cosmetics, Silvernest, and many others. Today, Monique invests in the future of technology being driven by major demographic trends. She investsin companies with global ambitions who are creating technology products that meet the needs of tomorrow’s internet users. ## Bobby Healy - Type: Angel - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Series A 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. ## David Clarke - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, SaaS, Software David Clarke is the Venture Partner at Frontline Ventures. He attended Trinity College Dublin during 1989-1993. ## Peter Briffett - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Apps Peter Briffett has been the Chief Operating Officer of LeanWorks. Peter Briffett served as Sales Director of iView Multimedia Ltd. Peter Briffett has multimedia technology sales experience and begun his career at 3Com Corporation. He served as European Sales and Marketing Manager of Actiontec Electronics, where he significantly expanded itswireless business and implemented successful channels and distribution strategies. ## Allison Barr Allen - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Internet, SaaS Allison Barr Allen serves as LP at Operator Collective. Allison graduated from Northwestern University with a bachelor's Degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co