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Frontline

Frontline

Venture Capital

A 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

A

Appital

Appital provides an equity capital marketplace to automate bookbuilding and liquidity discovery for institutional investors.

BT

BETR Technology

BETR Technology operates an Open Banking powered consumer lending platform.

C

Cloudsmith

Cloudsmith offers a cloud-native control layer for software artifacts and supply chain security.

Countingup

Countingup

Countingup offers a mobile banking and bookkeeping platform designed for small businesses.

DL

Docbot Labs

Docbot Labs provides a workspace document and information sharing platform for engineering teams.

F

Flagright

Flagright provides an artificial intelligence operating system for financial crime compliance.

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Team

Steve Collins

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

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.

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FM

Finn Murphy

Partner

Finn brings investment experience from Frontline Ventures and Nebular. He also holds founding roles at Tachyon and Project Eleven.

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WM

William McQuillan

Partner

WP

Will Prendergast

Partner


Recent investments

Series A
$12.5M

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,"
— Baran Ozkan, Co-founder
Seed
£5.9M

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."
— Rosalyn Moran, CEO and Co-founder
Series A
$14.5M

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."
— Luke Mackey, Founder and CEO