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Des Traynor

Angel

Portfolio

5

companies

Investment by month

By category

  • AI/ML£60.0M
  • HRTech£3.6M

By location

  • London£57.0M
  • Dublin£6.5M

Portfolio companies

G

Granola

Granola turns workplace conversations into searchable company memory.

H

Humaans

Humaans provides modular human resource software for modern workplaces.

L

Lette

Lette develops artificial intelligence agents to manage tenant leasing and resident support services for residential property operators.

P

Papercup

Papercup provides AI video and audio dubbing services featuring expressive synthetic voices.

S

Seapoint

Seapoint builds automated financial operations software for early stage startups.


Team

Des Traynor

Des Traynor

Angel Investor

Des co-founded Intercom and Fin, helping internet businesses use artificial intelligence in customer support. He previously held roles in user experience design and research at the National College of Ireland and NUI Maynooth.


Recent investments

Seed
$6.5M

The round was led by Peak with participation from Heliad, Foreword, Pitchdrive, Adeline, and angel investor Des Traynor.

"Housing is a human industry. Letting agents and property managers come into this job to look after people, yet their days are still spent chasing leads, copying details between systems and updating spreadsheets. We started Lette to automate that repetitive work and give teams their time back, so they can pick up the phone when it matters and be there when a resident really needs them"
— Jakub Rajek, Co-founder
Series B
$43.0M

The London-based artificial intelligence note-taking startup secured backing from Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross.

"Since our launch a year ago, people have started referring to Granola as their ‘second brain’. With Granola 2.0, we’re bringing that power to your entire team, tapping into the most up-to-date, relevant data on what’s happening in your company, the conversations your employees are having day in, day out"
— Christopher Pedregal
Series A
£16.2M

Octopus Ventures led the Series A round to support machine learning research and language expansion.

"People retain up to 70% more information when watching videos dubbed in their native language. With truly emotive cross-lingual AI dubbing, we can tackle all forms of content, making video and audio more accessible and enjoyable for everyone. This funding will allow us to double down on our promising research and break into new content categories."
— Jesse Shemen, CEO