Led · Equity · Feb 2024

Intact develops business management software that helps companies manage finance, stock, customer relationships, sales and other operational areas. Its flagship product, Intact iQ, is central to the company’s offering and it focuses on businesses that must manage large inventories. The company built a reputation working with building materials distribution industries in the Republic of Ireland and the UK. Intact was founded in 1992 by Aidan Lawless and Paul Marry and employs about 300 people across offices in the Republic, the UK and the US. Justin Lawless has served as chief executive since 2013. The company says it will use the recently raised capital to accelerate its US expansion and to enhance Intact iQ.

Led · Equity · Oct 2022

Johnson Hana, founded in 2017 by brothers Dan and Alex Fox, provides alternative legal solutions focused on high-volume legal process work such as contract management, litigation support and securitisations. The company delivers services through a combination of innovative legal technologies, project management methodologies and expert lawyers. It serves corporate clients including Tinder, Airbnb, Wayfler and Ryanair. Johnson Hana raised €10.5m in its latest funding round, bringing total funding to €15m. The company intends to use the new funds to continue to meet global demand. Its core product is outsourced, technology-enabled legal process work for large-scale legal operations.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2020

Offr offers a digital transaction platform aimed at helping real estate agents manage and complete property offers and transactions. The company says it has processed 50,000 offers to date, representing €20bn in total value. Leadership includes Robert Hoban and co‑founders Philip Farrell and Niall Dawson. In a LinkedIn announcement the team framed growth plans around expanding the company’s ability to help agents “at home and abroad.” The post highlights continued support from banks and industry backers as the company scales. The funding is positioned to support product and geographic expansion and to further improve the agent-facing transaction experience. Offr offers a white-label, device-agnostic platform that digitizes the end-to-end property transaction process for agents and buyers, enabling offers, viewings, deposits, solicitor connections and contract signing online. Launched ten months prior to the article by Robert Hoban (CEO), Niall Dawson (CTO) and Philip Farrell (CCO), the product lets agents track sales or leases in real time and gives buyers tools to submit offers, upload ID/proof of funds and complete transactions via smartphone. Behind the interface Offr connects agents with solicitors and banks to automate and speed the legal and financial steps of a sale or lease. The platform digitizes over 85% of the buying and selling process for agents and their customers. Offr plans to use the new funding to accelerate international expansion and to further develop its transaction infrastructure to cover all property types, including traditional and auction sales, residential lettings and commercial sales and leases. The company also participated in the Barclays London Accelerator, powered by Techstars, and was selected for follow-on investment from the cohort. Financially, the business reported the seed raise and cumulative funding information in this round.

Participated · Equity · Jan 2020

TeachKloud is a cloud-based, browser-accessible platform that enables early-childhood educators to manage their business, comply with regulations (TUSLA, DES & Pobal), and communicate with parents. Founded in 2016 and based in Cork, Ireland, the company targets childcare providers where teachers spend over two hours per day on administrative tasks. The product aims to reduce paperwork so educators can focus on curriculum development and individualized learning. TeachKloud announced a €750K raise to accelerate growth and hire additional full-time engineering resources in Cork. The company plans to use the funds to expand into the UK and US markets. Backers include Frontline Ventures, the AIB Discovery Fund, Enterprise Ireland, Folens, and EdTech investor Sean Tai.

Participated · Series A · Feb 2017

NewsWhip is a real-time media monitoring platform based in Dublin and New York, led by CEO Paul Quigley. Its platform predicts the stories and topics that will matter in the hours ahead, helping communications professionals make quick, confident decisions. The product is used to predict the news, unpack crises and issues, and understand which stories are engaging audiences on global and local scales. Customers include PepsiCo, Google, Tinder, ConAgra, Samsung, McDonald’s, Walmart, ABInBev, the Associated Press, Condé Nast, the Washington Post, and NGOs such as Amnesty International, Médecins Sans Frontières and the World Health Organization. NewsWhip raised $13M in funding and intends to use the proceeds to expand operations and its business reach. NewsWhip offers a SaaS platform that transforms data from stories, videos, and social posts into actionable insights to inform content strategy. Its technology scans the world’s social media activity every two minutes and compares that activity to millions of pieces of content to identify what is spreading fastest and overperforming. The company serves clients including Associated Press, BuzzFeed, MTV, Edelman, and Bauer. Led by CEO Paul Quigley, NewsWhip plans to use the new funding to continue developing its platform. The company is based in New York City and Dublin, EIRE. The announcement frames the Series A as support for product development rather than specific operational metrics or revenue figures. NewsWhip provides a social content discovery platform called Spike. Spike tracks social network activity around millions of stories daily, giving newsrooms, marketers and PR professionals real-time indicators such as tweets, shares and comments. The platform detects articles, videos, Facebook posts and other content and predicts what will matter in hours or days. The company is led by CEO Paul Quigley and is based in Dublin, Ireland. NewsWhip raised over $1.6M in funding to develop the next generation of its platform—improving tracking, predicting and understanding capabilities—and to grow its New York business development team. NewsWhip is a Dublin-headquartered breaking news aggregator whose core product, Spike, identifies and surfaces stories gaining real engagement for journalists, editors, producers, and marketers. The company stores vast volumes of social data and captures hundreds of social data points and metadata for every piece of content to map what it calls the "genome of social distribution." It reports newsroom clients in 12 countries, plus freelancers, small publishers, agencies, and some brands focused on content marketing. NewsWhip will use the new funding to continue developing Spike and to update its main website and Android and iPhone apps. The company also plans to expand geographically, opening a New York office this month and hiring a New York-based sales and communications team. NewsWhip surfaces the latest news by aggregating social signals (tweets and Facebook Likes) from the broader crowd rather than a user’s personal social graph. The company operates a consumer-facing service and has redesigned its site while preparing native mobile and tablet apps. NewsWhip also offers a professional product called Spike, a newsroom dashboard that shows which stories are trending or about to trend; Spike is being trialled with newsrooms and is intended to be subscription-based. Spike was developed with input from the BBC, MSNBC, BuzzFeed and The Huffington Post. Co-founder Paul Quigley has described the product as emphasizing what everyone is sharing across topics to avoid the echo chamber of an individual’s social graph. The company is Dublin-based and has already participated in the NDRC Launchpad program.