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Enterprise Ireland

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Total investments 829
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 639
Rounds per year 31.88
Lead investments 107
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.23
Exits 68
Key employees 13
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Information Technology
  • Medical
  • SaaS
Summary

Enterprise Ireland appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1998. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Dublin. The venture was found in Europe in Ireland.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Enterprise Ireland, startups are often financed by Frontline Ventures, Atlantic Bridge, Kernel Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Western Development Commission, Wayra, Halo Business Angel Network. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Frontline Ventures, Delta Partners, AIB Seed Capital Fund.

The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 5 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. This Enterprise Ireland works on 21 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 25-48 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. When the investment is from Enterprise Ireland the average startup value is 1-5 millions dollars.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Ireland. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Commerce, Information Technology. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Openet, Atlantic Therapeutics, Intune Networks. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Protostars

Cyber Security
18 Oct 2024 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Wrksense

Recruiting
Software
16 Oct 2024 Dublin, Ireland

Imvizar

Augmented Reality
Digital Entertainment
Information Technology
Mobile Apps
Tourism
$1M12 Sep 2024 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Contenseo

Advertising
Education
Gaming
Information Technology
$460K10 Sep 2024 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Tao Climate

Software
$2M10 Aug 2024 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

CroíValve

Medical Device
$16M07 Aug 2024 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Giyst

Information Technology
Internet
$602K01 Aug 2024 Cork, Cork, Ireland

Skippio

Information Technology
Internet
$637K24 Jul 2024 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Persuva AI

Advertising
Marketing
Software
$236K12 Jul 2024 Irishtown, Dublin, Ireland
News
Kianda Technologies Raises €1.5M in Funding

– Kianda Technologies, a Dublin, Ireland-based provider of a platform to digitize and streamline business processes, raised €1.5m in funding.
– The round was led by Kernel Capital through the Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Growth Fund, supported by Enterprise Ireland.
– The company intends to use the funds to continue to expand operations and its business reach as well as to enhance product development.

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Total investments 829
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 31.88
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 107
Follow on index 0.23
Exits 68
Group Appearance index 0.52

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Protostars

Cyber Security
18 Oct 2024 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Wrksense

Recruiting
Software
16 Oct 2024 Dublin, Ireland

Imvizar

Augmented Reality
Digital Entertainment
Information Technology
Mobile Apps
Tourism
$1M12 Sep 2024 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Contenseo

Advertising
Education
Gaming
Information Technology
$460K10 Sep 2024 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Tao Climate

Software
$2M10 Aug 2024 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

CroíValve

Medical Device
$16M07 Aug 2024 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Giyst

Information Technology
Internet
$602K01 Aug 2024 Cork, Cork, Ireland

Skippio

Information Technology
Internet
$637K24 Jul 2024 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Persuva AI

Advertising
Marketing
Software
$236K12 Jul 2024 Irishtown, Dublin, Ireland
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