Top 5 Non Profit Angel Investors in Ireland in October 2023

Mike Lee is Co-Founder of MyFitnessPal, the leading free resource helping people improve their health. Prior to founding MyFitnessPal, Mike co-founded NextC, a venture-funded startup focused on building online communities. During his 20 year tenure in the technology industry, Mike has held leadership positions at several other top start-upsin Silicon Valley, including Palm, Handspring, Beyond.com and Regis McKenna. Mike graduated summa cum laude from Princeton with a B.A. in Economics.

Investment focus

Software, Fitness, Wellness
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C
United States, Ireland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Super.com — Through rich rewards and everyday savings, Super helps you access more of what you want at better prices, escape overspending, and level up life.
SwingVision — Real-Time Automated Video Analysis for Tennis
Sunnyside — Cutback Coach is a developer of an alcohol tracking app to help people build healthier habits around their drinking. It offers a custom plan based on current drinking habits and goals, then set a daily reminder via text message that help users set the limit of their drinking habit.

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Albert Wenger is the Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Analytics
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Germany, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Brale — Combining the best of CeFi & DeFi.
Terra.do — Learn about climate change and start working on climate change solutions today with the Terra.do community.
Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.

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John O'Farrell is a general partner at the Andreessen Horowitz. John was responsible for partnerships, mergers and acquisitions and strategic transactions for Silver Spring Networks. He has more than 25 years of the US and international experience in corporate/business development and operational roles in the Internet, enterprisesoftware and telecommunications industries.Prior to joining Silver Spring Networks in January 2008, John was Executive Vice President, Business Development, for Opsware Inc. During his tenure at Opsware, John was responsible for four successful acquisitions, major strategic partnerships with EDS and Cisco, and other strategic transactions culminating in the sale of Opsware to HP for $1.65 Billion in September 2007. Prior to Opsware, John was Executive Vice President, International, for Excite@Home, where he founded the international division and grew it to $70M in annual revenues. Earlier in his career, John held positions in the United States and Europe with organizations including MediaOne Group/US West, Booz Allen and Hamilton, Telecom Ireland, the European Commission, Digital Equipment and Siemens.John has an MBA degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he graduated as an Arjay Miller Scholar, and a Bachelor of Electronic Engineering from University College Dublin, where he graduated with First Class Honors. John speaks English, German, French and Portuguese.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Analytics
Series B, Series A, Series D
United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

ItsOn — How Does The Casino Make Money Through Slot Machines
ChangeX — <p>Find and start ideas that will transform your community. ChangeX provides everything you need to jumpstart projects you are passionate about!</p>
Granular — Corteva Agriscience software and digital solutions give the real-time, field-by-field information needed to maximize yield & manage input costs.

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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.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Apps
Seed, Angel, Series A
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

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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