Pires Investments
Suite 39, 18 High Street, High Wycombe, Bucks, HP11 2BE, United Kingdom
Overview
Pires Investments invests in companies that have the potential for major transformation and exponential growth. The firm focused on both direct and co-investment in technology companies and in specialist technology venture capital funds in order to source proprietary deal flow. It also provides access for public market investors to companies at an early stage of their growth trajectory enabling investors to potentially maximise value capture. Pires Investments focuses on the area of cybersecurity, augmented/virtual reality, artificial intelligence, IoT, and machine learning.
- Total investments
- 2
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 0
Sector focus
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Augmented Reality
- Cyber Security
- Internet of Things
- Machine Learning
- Venture Capital
- Virtual Reality
Investment portfolio
- Getvisibility
Participated · Series A · Mar 2022
Getvisibility is an AI-driven platform that discovers, classifies and protects unstructured information to give organisations visibility and control over sensitive data. The platform provides risk and compliance assessments and enforces protection on identified sensitive data. The company intends to use the new funding to build out its senior management team, further develop its route to market and deliver its near-term strategic plan. Getvisibility was founded in 2018 by Ronan Murphy and Mark Brosnan and is based in Cork. Financially, the startup announced a €10 million Series A and the article states the company has until now raised over €13 million in total. No operating metrics (revenue/users) were disclosed in the article. Getvisibility, founded by Ronan Murphy in 2018, builds an AI-powered security product to help organisations manage unstructured data (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint). Murphy spun the business out from his cybersecurity company Smarttech 247, which has operated since 2008 and has offices in Ireland, Romania, Poland and the US. Getvisibility’s clients span insurance, healthcare and accountancy, including Laya Healthcare, FBD Insurance and Bord Bia, and the company is said to count blue-chip customers across oil and gas, finance and healthcare. The company raised new funding to support international growth. Following the round, Sure Valley Ventures partner Brian Kinane and software industry expert Ferras Zalt joined the board. No operating metrics (revenue/users) were disclosed in the article.
Team
No current team members are available.