€7.5M
The seed round was led by 13books and included participation from Frontline Ventures, Tapestry VC, and numerous angel investors.
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Des Traynor
AngelPortfolio
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companies
Investment by month
By category
- AI/ML£55.1M
- HRTech£3.6M
By location
- London£52.2M
- Dublin£6.5M
Portfolio companies
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Granola
Granola turns workplace conversations into searchable company memory.
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Humaans
Humaans provides modular human resource software for modern workplaces.
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Papercup
Papercup provides AI video and audio dubbing services featuring expressive synthetic voices.
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Seapoint
Seapoint builds automated financial operations software for early stage startups.
Team
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
$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"
£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."
£3.6M
The seed round was led by Frontline Ventures with participation from numerous technology leaders and operators.
