# Top 50 SaaS Angel Investors in Ireland in May 2026 ## 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 ## Pa Nolan - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Medical, Delivery, Shipping Pa Nolan ## Ray Nolan - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, News, Software Ray Nolan - Non-Exec Chair @ XSellco ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## Mike McGearty - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, Big Data, Transportation CEO at CarTrawler ## 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. ## 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. ## Brian Patterson - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Delivery, Shipping, Software Brian Patterson ## Mark Cummins - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, B2B, CRM Mark Cummins ## Tony Smurfit - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Video, Privacy, Software Tony Smurfit is the Founder & CEO of Smurfit Kappa. ## Declan Kelly - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology 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. ## 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. ## Sean Baker - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Web Development, Software Sean Baker - Director @ Calom Technologies ## John Purdy - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Medical John Purdy ## Patrick Joy - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Mobile Apps, Internet of Things Patrick Joy - Owner & Founder & Executive Chairman @ Suretank Group ## Eamon Leonard - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Messaging, Software, Apps Eamon is a veteran of 20 years developing and building products, leading teams, and creating communities.Over the years he has: built and sold a company, built and failed to sell a company, made angel investments, hosted numerous conferences, organised hundreds of meetups, and brought thousands of people together to collaborate and do goodthings.As of June 2019, he's working on Boundless: making it easy for businesses to employ people in other countries and be compliant with tax and employment law. ## Marc McCabe - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Big Data, FinTech 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## Bobby Healy - Type: Angel - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 2 - 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: 2 - 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. ## Barry Lunn - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - 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. ## 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 ## Conor Stanley - Type: Angel - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, 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. ## 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 ## Peter Crowley - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Privacy, Software, Cyber Security Peter Crowley - Founder & Director @ FL Partners ## Jordan Lamour - Type: Angel - Location: Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Sports, Software Jordan Lamour is the Chief Technical Officer and Founder of TopOrder and he attended Rennes 2 University. ## Joe Kenny - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: SaaS, Customer Service, Business Intelligence Joe Kenny ## Pádraig Canavan - Type: Angel - Location: Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Hardware, Software, Health Care Pádraig Canavan is a Managing Director at Singularity. ## Niall Harbison - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Content/Publishing, Media and Entertainment Niall Harbison - Founder @ Lovin Media Group ## Cian Kinsella - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Other, Software, Professional Services 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. ## Julie Meyer - Type: Angel - Location: Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Other, Events Julie Meyer is the Founder and CEO at VIVA Investment Partners. She previously worked at VIVA Capital as a Chief Executive Officer. Julie Meyer attended INSEAD. ## 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. ## James Fitzgerald - Type: Angel - Location: San Diego, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: SaaS, Software, Information Technology James Fitzgerald ## 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). ## Julian Kulkarni - Type: Angel - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Content/Publishing, Media and Entertainment Julian Kulkarni ## Prabhu Goel - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series C, Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology Prabhu began his career by joining IBM’s EDA organization at East Fishkill where he was involved with many developments in the area of chip test automation. At IBM he developed the Podem algorithm and other technologies that earned him 4 patents and several awards. He left in 1981 to join Wang Labs where he was exposed to the commercial EDAindustry. He left Wang in 1982 to start Gateway Design Automation – the company that delivered the now industry standard Verilog-XL to the market. In 1989 he sold Gateway to Cadence and continued at Cadence for 2 more years. He left Cadence to become a private venture capitalist. Since 1992, he has been an investor and a Director in a number of private companies. In 1996 he sold one of his companies, Frontline Design Automation, to Avant Corporation for a second venture success. Several of his present investments are in the EDA industry. Prabhu completed his graduate studies from Carnegie Mellon. ## Howard Roberts - Type: Angel - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Hospital Howard Roberts ## Michael Chadwick - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Employment, Recruiting, Marketplace Michael Chadwick ## Dave Wright - Type: Angel - Location: San Diego, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: SaaS, Software, Information Technology Dave Wright joined in December 2011 and currently serves as ServiceNow’s Chief Strategy Officer. Prior to joining ServiceNow, Wright spent over six years with VMware, Inc. as Vice President of Technical Services for EMEA. From 2003 to 2005 Wright headed up the technical division for Northern and Southern Europe at Mercury Interactive. Prior to thathe spent six years at Peregrine Systems, Inc., where he held a variety of senior technical and marketing positions. Wright has also worked for Boole & Babbage, Inc. and Candle Services (later acquired by IBM). ## Daniel Curran - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Financial, Mobile 57%+ / yr. liquid returns >>> https://danielcurran.substack.com/Forbes #7 rank: bit.ly/2Oh7XhF **Only interested in start ups OVER $40k MRR w/o competition!Eqvista #5 rank: https://eqvista.com/top-100-active-angel-investors-list-for-startups/Media/PR:https://billionairechronicle.com/daniel-curran-super-angel/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvAUJzDCa3Q&t=2s https://angelconnect.libsyn.com/investor-connect-episode-122-daniel-curran-of-silicon-valley https://thesyndicate.vc/angel-investor-hit-4-unicorn-companies-using-simple-investment-framework-super-angel-daniel-curran/ https://borsen.dk/soeg/daniel%20curranBad Ass x-Rocket Scientist Rock Star! Read my 110+ Founder recommendations below.We share deal flow with billionaire Family Offices, Midas List VC's, and other Forbes superangels.Passions: stopping/reversing human aging/immortality/parabiosis, bci, brain emulation/download, quantum teleportation, & cryonics.CustEx launches website/app soon to help Biden Admin get voters' demands right. Benefits corp innovation, BLM, prevents civil unrest, as THE place for ads and co-creation.2020 EBRD-led B round: https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/31/allset-series-b/ 2017 Greycroft deal: bit.ly/2ylWbLB 2016 A16Z deal: bit.ly/2d67xJcFortune 500 $16B WDC pivot from $2.20 to $114/share!Relentless, visionary Tech entrepreneur builds $B companies that improve world.Founded 14 startups, invested cash in 178+, created 1k+ jobs, personally netted investors $170M in exits.Startups I endorse get oversubscribed by top vc's fast!As Angel Investor: $1B+ cash exits < 1 year @decacorn Cruise @DollarShaveClub: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/daniel-curran https://angel.co/dcurran-custex-com https://fundersclub.com/danielcurran/Claims to Fame: -Founder/CEO, USLab NASDAQ IPO in 1998: raised $130M -VP & acting COO@Western Digital Silicon Valley sub [$40M sale to Brocade/PMCS/Snap, 2001], -Founder/CEO of 1st company [AlaStor, 2003] to converge IP+FC SAN, adopted by Cisco Systems [Andiamo], -Founder/CEO of CustEx Internet Platform [2012]Experienced ramping up companies using innate ability to quickly size up a company’s position & execute pro-customer action + cash-flow results. Began career at large companies as a software engineer and morphed into a business entrepreneur/CXO at startups with responsibility for up to 250 teammatesMade sales ramp from $2M to $100M in 8 months as VP & acting COO of Western Digital’s Silicon Valley Connex Unit. Earned multiple top eng. school master's degrees (Illinois-PhD dropout, USC-cert, Penn State) ## Tom Preston-Werner - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, IT, Data and Analytics Cofounder @ Preston-Werner Ventures Co-Founder and Engineering @ Chatterbug # 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