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Who are the active early-stage investors in Ireland and the UK?

Updated Nov 5th 2016

Here is a (periodically updated) list of VCs and angel groups who are active (i.e. have actually done deals recently) in the early-stage (<£2M/€2M) space. It’s not 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 investors state that they are ‘early stage’ when in reality they will only invest in companies which are generating revenue (from 2015 onwards this is a much more common position). So although I’m using the definitions below, always ask around before committing time with investors:

Super-early = pre-revenue
Early = some revenue
Stage agnostic = both (although probably veering more towards Early)

Later updates have removed investors who are no longer investing at this early stage.

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, see their portfolio here.

Atomico: Stage agnostic, see their portfolio here.

Profounders: Early 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: Early, see their portfolio here

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

Bloom Equity: Stage agnostic angel syndicate, see their portfolio here.

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

Halo: Early stage angel syndicate. Portfolio not available.

Connect Ventures: 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

Hoxton Ventures: Early stage, see their portfolio here

Frontline Ventures: Early stage, see their portfolio here

Tribal Ventures: Early stage, see their portfolio here

Passion Capital: Early stage, see their portfolio here

White Star Capital: Early stage, see their portfolio here

Kindred Capital: Super early

Kinetic Capital: Stage agnostic, see their portfolio here

Entrepreneur First: Super early stage (not technically a fund but worth mentioning), see their portfolio here

Nohovation: Early stage, portfolio not available

Lean Investments: Stage agnostic, see their portfolio here

Episode 1: Early stage, see portfolio here

Forward Partners: Stage agnostic, see their portfolio here

Potential: Super early stage, see their portfolio here

Growing Capital: Stage agnostic, see portfolio here