Halo Business Angel Network

HBAN is an all-island umbrella group responsible for the development of business angel syndicates. HBAN actively works to increase the number of angel investors involved in investing in early stage companies and supports the formation of new and existing angel networks, both regionally and internationally, and within industry sectors. Despite the economic tsunami, the growth in Irish business angel investment in recent times has been significant. In 2014 HBAN business angels, across the island invested €9 million into 48 companies. This direct angel investment leveraged a further €20M of additional public & private funds into these companies from organisations such as Enterprise Ireland, venture capital companies and founders. These numbers have risen steadily from 2011 when HBAN helped 29 companies raise €12m of which €6m came from angel investors.
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Michael Culligan

Director

41 past transactions

Hexafly

Seed Round in 2018
Hexafly develops material sources from farming of insects for aqua feed, chitin, and plant nutrition industries. Its products include insect oil for the aquaculture fish feed market; protein that is used as a fish feed additive; Frass, a plant nutrition compound; and Chitin, a bio-polymer that is used in medicines and cosmetics, as well as a food additive. The company sells its products online. Hexafly was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Kells, Ireland.

ViperClip

Venture Round in 2020
ViperClip is a fully insulated cable clip that works with its specially designed battery-powered stapler to secure 110v to 240v electrical cables to wooden joists and structures.

VascVersa

Seed Round in 2021
VascVersa is a med-tech company specializing in vascular regeneration.

UtilityAR Limited

Seed Round in 2019
UtilityAR Limited designs, develops, and manufactures augmented reality solutions for asset and maintenance management. The company’s solutions allow the users to interact with the real world while accessing existing databases and software systems. It serves customers in various industries, including manufacturing, utilities, and pharmaceuticals industries, as well as data centres. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Dublin, Ireland with an additional location in London, United Kingdom.

CroíValve

Seed Round in 2019
CroíValve is a developed a safe, effective, easy to use, percutaneous solution for treating all patients with severe Tricuspid Regurgitation

Buymie Technologies Limited

Venture Round in 2022
Buymie Technologies Limited operates a mobile application for on-demand groceries. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.

Haru

Seed Round in 2021
Haru provides charities a platform to sell and process orders online to help boost their revenues without the large investment that e-commerce typically requires.

Cerebreon Technologies

Seed Round in 2020
Cerebreon Technologies specializes in advanced data analytics, business management systems and process automation. Cerebreon Technologies Ltd. provides bespoke software solutions and expert consultancy services to enterprises with a mission to make high-end analytics accessible to all businesses, irrespective of their size or sector.

CroíValve

Series A in 2022
CroíValve is a developed a safe, effective, easy to use, percutaneous solution for treating all patients with severe Tricuspid Regurgitation

Vaultree

Seed Round in 2021
At the moment 98% of all database and cloud providers use deterministic encryption, meaning decrypting information in the cloud in order to access and work with it, leaving it vulnerable. And only 2020 has seen over 36 billion data records exposed due to hacks, leaks, negligence or poor data governance. Vaultree’s facilitate companies of any type to protect their data without significant expenses or having to employ specialists via a unique and proven technology allowing them to read/write or query on their data in cloud environments without decrypting it, supporting them in being compliant according to their local jurisdiction and regulations as well as helping them secure their sensitive data against unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, unlawful destruction or loss.

Ostoform Limited

Series A in 2018
Ostoform Limited develops a medical device that helps to manage and reduce skin complications for people with ostomies. It offers OSTOFORM, a mouldable seal that wraps snugly around that stoma; and FLOWASSIST that directs and assists the flow of stoma output away from the skin. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.

VascVersa

Seed Round in 2022
VascVersa is a med-tech company specializing in vascular regeneration.

Signum Surgical Limited

Venture Round in 2016
Founded in 2014 by Eoin Bambury and Moshe Zilversmit, Signum Surgical is a medtech platform striving to develop technology that could cure perianal fistula. Bambury and Zilversmit, who met on the BioInnovate Ireland programme at NUI Galway, recognised a lack of innovation surrounding the treatment of perianal fistulas (small tunnels that develop between the end of the bowel and the skin near the anus). The device developed by Signum Surgical is implanted post-surgery to prevent reinfection and to allow a faster healing process.

ND Sport Performance

Venture Round in 2018
ND Sports Performance based in Kilkenny.

SeeMeHired

Pre Seed Round in 2021
SeeMeHired is a cloud-based platform to automate much of the recruitment process, including engaging, selecting, and hiring job candidates.

Payslip Ltd.

Series A in 2020
Payslip provides Automation & Integration technology for global payroll management. We help multinationals standardize their global payroll process, centrally manage their payroll with visibility & control and scale into new countries easily.

Buymie Technologies Limited

Venture Round in 2019
Buymie Technologies Limited operates a mobile application for on-demand groceries. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.

Wicklow Wolf Brewing

Venture Round in 2016
Wicklow, because that’s where we opened our brewhouse in Bray. Wolf, because tradition has it that the last one in Ireland lived around here, and because the hops that they plant on our own hop farm takes its name – Humulus Lupulus – from that wild and proud creature too. Craft beer, because if it’s made better it tastes better. They love craft beer, and our passion shows in every pint. They hope you’ll love it too.

UmbaBox

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Umba is an African digital bank, offering free bank accounts and financial services to our customers. We provide an ecosystem of connected financial services that allows the customer complete control of their finances all in one App.
Buymie Technologies Limited operates a mobile application for on-demand groceries. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.

Adoreboard

Venture Round in 2019
Adoreboard Limited provides emotion artificial intelligence (AI) software solutions. The company develops Emotics, a software-as-a-service platform which produces decision ready insights for data analytics teams to understand customer or employee reviews. It helps brands in analyzing strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT), competitor benchmarking, customer journey mapping, measuring empathy, and integrating multiple sources. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Belfast, United Kingdom with additional offices in London, United Kingdom and New York, New York.

Elivar

Venture Round in 2014
Elivar has developed a range of sports nutrition products that specifically address the sports nutrition needs of middle aged endurance athletes, delivering a performance edge while also providing longer term health benefits that support their continued participation in sport.

AventaMed Ltd.

Venture Round in 2017
AventaMed is a start-up medical device company focused on improving patient care and reducing healthcare costs. The company is a spin-out from the 'MEDIC' research centre within the Cork Institute of Technology and has been founded upon technology developed from 4 years of product development.

Mountain Technologies

Seed Round in 2020
Mountain Technologies is an innovative Northern Ireland-based startup that transforms mountain resort operational management.

FoodMarble Digestive Health Ltd.

Venture Round in 2020
FoodMarble Digestive Health Ltd. develops a breath test device for digestive health clinics and gastroenterology departments. The company offer device equipment with a range of sensors that detect gas, temperature, and humidity inside the digestive system. It also offers an online application software that enables users to control digestive health. FoodMarble Digestive Health Ltd. was founded in 2016 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.

StormHarvester Ltd

Venture Round in 2020
StormHarvester links civil infrastructure to a weather forecasting platform. This allows civil infrastructure to take action prior to heavy rainfall. StormHarvester was designed and developed through collaboration between specialist drainage engineers, leading engineering academics from Queens University, Belfast, and specialist software and electronics engineers. Our ‘smart’ drainage solutions are set to fundamentally disrupt traditional drainage design by reducing capital costs, water demand and pollution events.

Loanitt

Seed Round in 2020
Loanitt is a finance Intermediary. It works with a panel of lenders in Ireland using advanced technology to provide you with the best access to finance.

Kite Medical Ltd.

Seed Round in 2018
Kite medical has developed a novel device for detecting Kidney Reflux in children with Urinary Tract Infections. The non-invasive diagnostic solution for kidney reflux removes the need for complicated procedures and a hospital visit. Kidney reflux is the most common urological disorder in childhood, affecting up to three per cent of young children. It is most prevalent from six months to five years of age. The condition may resolve as the child gets older, but left undiagnosed and untreated it can lead to permanent kidney damage and ultimately to kidney failure.

Boatyard Distillery Limited

Venture Round in 2020
Boatyard Distillery is a farm-to-bottle distillery that produces farm to bottle organic spirits. It uses only organic ingredients for the products with the terroir of the land. The company's gin botanical, sweet gale, is foraged from the family bog and wheat is used for the vodka. Boatyard Distillery is headquartered in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.

Hexafly

Angel Round in 2019
Hexafly develops material sources from farming of insects for aqua feed, chitin, and plant nutrition industries. Its products include insect oil for the aquaculture fish feed market; protein that is used as a fish feed additive; Frass, a plant nutrition compound; and Chitin, a bio-polymer that is used in medicines and cosmetics, as well as a food additive. The company sells its products online. Hexafly was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Kells, Ireland.

SustainIQ

Seed Round in 2021
SustainIQ is a new platform that transforms how organizations manage their sustainability performance.

InishTech

Venture Round in 2010
InishTech provides Software Developers and Product Managers globally with code protection and licence management solutions to protect their most valuable assets and enable them to provide their customers with the ability to deploy and use their products in the most flexible manner possible. InishTech SLP is designed to enable independent software vendors (ISVs) and software development houses of any size to provide flexible, customer-oriented license and entitlement models to their customers. Specifically tailored for ISVs developing software applications with the Microsoft .NET framework, InishTech SLP is a platform for managing, packaging, licensing and selling software products in a way that encourages innovation, minimizes development effort, reduces development cost and maximizes profit.
Iconic Translation Machines develops and delivers cloud-based machine translation (MT) solutions for the language services industry. The company’s products include IPTranslator, a solution for the patent and legal translation industry that delivers machine translation for patents and filings, researches and search reports, and e-discovery and litigation applications; and domain-adapted MT solutions for specific technical areas, including intellectual property, financial services, pharmaceutical, medical, life sciences, and more. The company also provides post-edited machine translation, MT for information purposes, customization, languages, file and document format, and data security solutions. In addition, it offers Iconic API, an application programming interface that allows its users to connect directly with services and retrieve translations from the cloud; and Iconic Workflow which provides access to MT through a web-based interface, enabling its users to upload files across various formats and retrieve translations. It serves clients in Europe, Asia, and the United States.

Bluesona LTD

Seed Round in 2019
Bluesona LTD develops a software application for promoting safe driving. It offers Loop, an application a combination of advanced software systems, as well as custom engineered patented smart charger to detect and deter distraction driving. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Downpatrick, Ireland.