Who are the active seed investors in Ireland and the UK?

Raising seed-level investment (under €1M/£1M) in Ireland and the UK is not easy. Here is a list of VCs and angel groups who are active (i.e. have actually done deals recently) in this geographic space. It’s not yet exhaustive so if I’ve omitted anyone, please let me know. Also, it doesn’t include government investment bodies such as Enterprise Ireland, InvestNI etc.

Note about definitions: some VCs state that they are ‘early stage’ when in reality they will only invest in companies which are generating revenue. So although I’m using the definitions below, always ask around before committing time with investors:

Early stage = pre-revenue
Mid-stage = some revenue 

 

Accel Partners: Stage agnostic, see their portfolio here.

Index Ventures: Stage agnostic, see their portfolio here.

Passion Capital: Early Stage, see their portfolio here.

Delta Partners: Early to mid-stage, see their portfolio here.

Atomico: Stage agnostic, see their portfolio here.

Profounders: Early and mid-stage, see their portfolio here.

AIB Seed Capital Fund: Managed by two funds which invest under-€250k and over-€250k, see their portfolio here.

Notion Capital: Mid-stage, see their portfolio here

ACT: Early to mid-stage, see their portfolio here.

Bloom Equity: Early to mid-stage angel syndicate, see their portfolio here.

DFJ Esprit: Early to mid-stage, see their portfolio here.

Halo: Early stage angel syndicate. Portfolio not available.

Connect Capital: Early to mid-stage, see their portfolio here.

Dawn Capital: Early to mid-stage, see their portfolio here.

SV Angel: Early stage (technically a super-angel fund), normally US-only investments but this seems to be changing recently, see their portfolio here.

Kernel Capital: Early stage, see their portfolio here.

Octopus Ventures: Early to mid-stage, see their portfolio here.

EC1 Capital: Early stage, see their portfolio here