The seed round was co-led by Infinity Ventures and Frontline

Frontline
Venture CapitalA Dublin headquartered firm with six unicorns in its portfolio including Vanta and LangChain.
Portfolio
20
companies
AUM
£225M
under management
Investment by month
By category
- AI/ML£53.1M
- Uncategorised£45.2M
- FinTech£42.8M
- Mobile App£27.2M
- HRTech£16.7M
- Other£18.2M
By location
- London£98.4M
- Soho£36.3M
- Belfast£34.2M
- Dublin£21.7M
- San Francisco£12.6M
Portfolio companies
Appital
Appital provides an equity capital marketplace to automate bookbuilding and liquidity discovery for institutional investors.
BETR Technology
BETR Technology operates an Open Banking powered consumer lending platform.
Cloudsmith
Cloudsmith offers a cloud-native control layer for software artifacts and supply chain security.

Countingup
Countingup offers a mobile banking and bookkeeping platform designed for small businesses.
Docbot Labs
Docbot Labs provides a workspace document and information sharing platform for engineering teams.
Flagright
Flagright provides an artificial intelligence operating system for financial crime compliance.
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Harriet
Harriet provides an artificial intelligence assistant to handle internal human resources queries and documentation.
HelmGuard
AI agents for automated enterprise governance, risk, and compliance.
Humaans
Humaans provides modular human resource software for modern workplaces.
Kota
Kota provides a unified platform to simplify the administration of international employee benefits.

Learnerbly
Learnerbly provides a workplace learning platform that helps companies upskill and develop their employees.
Loadar
Loadar offers a digital platform that streamlines freight procurement and management for large enterprises.
Nolea Health
Nolea Health operates a digital jobs marketplace connecting healthcare professionals with clinical roles.
Seapoint
Seapoint builds automated financial operations software for early stage startups.
Shackle
Shackle provides a digital platform that streamlines the hotel guest journey from check-in to checkout.
Signal Media
Signal Media operates an artificial intelligence platform for corporate reputation management and decision support.
Solvo.ai
Solvo.ai develops machine learning software for supply chain optimisation in the logistics sector.
Speckle
Speckle provides a data hub and collaboration platform for the architecture and engineering sector.
Spirable
Spirable provides a video marketing automation platform for personalised advertising campaigns.
Stanhope AI
Stanhope AI builds brain inspired artificial intelligence for autonomous and physical systems.
Team

Steve Collins
Partner
Steve brings technical leadership experience from roles as chief technology officer at Unity and King. He currently operates as a partner at Frontline Ventures.

Shay Garvey
Founding Partner
Shay brings venture capital experience from roles at Frontline Ventures and Delta Partners. He also serves as chairperson of The Irish Times and sits on the advisory board for the EBRD Venture Capital Investment Program.
LinkedInFinn Murphy
Partner
Finn brings investment experience from Frontline Ventures and Nebular. He also holds founding roles at Tachyon and Project Eleven.
LinkedInWilliam McQuillan
Partner
Will Prendergast
Partner
Recent investments
The financing round was led by Infinity Ventures with participation from Sella Direct Ventures, Frontline Ventures, and Y Combinator.
"The competency of a financial institution is not building financial crime technology. It’s such a complex, T-shaped domain. That’s why I decided to start the company myself,"
The seed round was led by 13books and included participation from Frontline Ventures, Tapestry VC, and numerous angel investors.
Stanhope AI raises £5.9m in seed funding led by Frontline Ventures to develop physical intelligence models.
Frontline Ventures led the seed financing round to support the development of adaptive AI for physical environments.
"We’re moving from language-based AI to intelligence that possesses the ability to act to understand its world – a system with a fundamental agency. Our approach doesn’t just process words, it understands context, uncertainty, and physical reality."
The Dublin-based HR tech startup secured the capital from Eurazeo alongside existing backers to grow its team and carrier network.
"As a founder and GM, I experienced how managing benefits through email, between brokers and insurance companies, was completely disconnected and alien from everything else in the business."


