HBAN

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.

Michael Culligan

Director

54 past transactions

UtilityAR

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

ClarityCX1

Seed Round in 2022
ClarityCX1 develops tailored CRM solutions built on the Salesforce Lightning platform.

Buymie

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.

Gasgon Medical

Seed Round in 2022
Gasgon Medical is medical device company that launches new products to support medical staff and deliver improved patient outcomes.

VascVersa

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

Signum Surgical

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.

Payslip

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.

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.

Umba

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.

Mountain Technologies

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

Boatyard Distillery

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

Seed Round in 2015
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.

Byowave

Seed Round in 2023
ByoWave has developed the Proteus Controller, a modular, accessible video game controller for disabled and non-disabled gamers.

AMPLY Discovery

Seed Round in 2022
AMPLY Discovery is to develop new biological molecules for anti-infective health and nutrition applications in animal and human health.

Rock Extraction

Seed Round in 2022
Rock Extraction is developing a cleantech alternative to explosives.

Klearcom

Seed Round in 2023
Klearcom provides End to End IVR Testing, IVR Test Automation, Assurance, and Analytics.

Modern Democracy

Venture Round in 2022
Modern Democracy’s wold class products are reinventing the way electoral service professionals solve delivery challenges through the deployment of a powerful, flexible, incredibly intuitive and easy to use solution. Our experienced consultants and leading edge technology experts are passionate about providing intuitive solutions for reducing risk, improving transparency and ensuring accuracy. Our mission is to deliver innovative, secure, accurate and transparent solutions that improve the efficiency of the election process

CropBiome

Seed Round in 2022
CropBiome sources, selects, ferments, characterizes and tests microbes that are formulated into biological products.

Ronspot

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of workspace management software designed to provide employee parking, office parking, and hot desk management with social distancing. The company's software helps to maintain space by allocating parking spots, comes up with a parking application that helps to view live and up-to-date availability and manages parking schedules, enabling employees to park their cars effortlessly with the parking application.

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.

SymPhysis Medical

Seed Round in 2022
SymPhysis Medical's goal is to develop innovative technologies that treat a range of chronic diseases, putting the patient experience at the forefront of our design solutions to improve quality of life. About SymPhysis MedicalSymPhysis Medical's emergent technology, releaze, is a drainage technology to treat a common complication of late-stage cancers, malignant pleural effusion (MPE). MPE causes significant shortness of breath and chest pain in up to 15% of patients with cancer.

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.

Klearcom

Seed Round in 2021
Klearcom provides End to End IVR Testing, IVR Test Automation, Assurance, and Analytics.

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

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.

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.

Thrive

Venture Round in 2020
TheAppBuilder provid the technology & support to assist organisations in powering up their internal communications and employee engagement.

Buymie

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.

Buymie

Series A in 2020
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

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.

FoodMarble

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

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

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.

Bluesona

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.

FeelTect

Venture Round in 2023
FeelTect’s technology, Tight Alright, is a pressure sensing, connected-health device for measuring and monitoring sub-bandage pressure during compression therapy, primarily for the millions of people worldwide with venous leg ulcers (VLUs). Compression is a proven therapy for VLUs, however if it’s applied too loose, it’s ineffective, and if it’s too tight, it’s dangerous.

Imvizar

Seed Round in 2023
Imvizar focuses on life-size, location-based experiences that allow users to feel as if they've gone back in time, meeting renowned individuals and witnessing historical events all from the comfort of their own phone. Imvizar was founded by Michael Guerin and is located in Dublin, Ireland.

UrbanFox

Seed Round in 2022
UrbanFox protects online retailers against new forms of stealth fraud by analysing and learning from existing legitimate and fraudulent customer behavioural patterns.

Snapfix

Seed Round in 2022
Snapfix is a Hotel maintenance platform. Their aim is to delight their customers, and deliver exceptional value. Snapfix is already benefiting hotels, as well as high quality office and apartment buildings, and service providers. Snapfix helps hotel teams, make their buildings the best they can be, and deliver the best customer experience, at all times. Snapfix helps hotel teams, make their buildings the best they can be, and deliver the best customer experience, at all times. They have designed their cloud platform to be the simplest building maintenance, fire safety and compliance solution on the planet. Snapfix works for every type of building, infrastructure and equipment.