Ireland's leading early-stage venture investor
Elkstone's mission is to nurture a vibrant Irish venture ecosystem - and the broader economic and societal benefits this brings.
Elkstone’s Founder Manifesto
We support founders right throughout their entrepreneurial and personal journey.
The Founder Journey
Start
Seed Investment
Board and Governance
Build for Scale
Scale
Next Round Ready
Follow On Investment
Advisor Introductions
Succeed
Liquidity Release
Holistic Wealth Advice
Investment Access
Sustain
Wealth Management
Client Counsel
Next Generation
Our Portfolio
We're proud partners to over 50 exceptional companies with a compelling track record.
We invest in founders with global ambition
We back exceptional entrepreneurs with the vision, passion, and grit, to build category defining global companies.
Our investment criteria
Sector agnostic
Tech-enabled
Capital light
Internationally scalable
Nurturing the Irish start up ecosystem
Our Venture Fund is the largest Ireland focused Seed stage fund, giving us the firepower to help entrepreneurs through those critical early stages and get you next round ready.
Elkstone Ireland Venture Fund
Country: Ireland
Stage: Seed to Series A
Investment Size: €1-3m
A window in
and out of
Ireland
Our Venture Club invests in both Irish and International startups at all stages, meaning we can continue to support our portfolio companies as they scale.
Elkstone Venture Club
Countries: Ireland, UK, Europe, US
Stage: Multi-Stage
Investment Size: €500k+
Our value-add
A special category of venture investor
We have a diverse range of founder, operator and investor skills on our venture team and advisory board. We also harness the intelligence and experience of our unique investor base of entrepreneurs, operators and senior executives to help you succeed.
Alignment and Partnership
As Ireland's leading Private Investment Office, we have knowledge, network and experience across all asset classes and capital markets.
Our ability to support both start-ups and their founders on their personal journey is unique in the market.
Ireland’s Investment Partner
We have a strong reputation and influential position in the Irish ecosystem. We’ve become the go-to Partner for strategic local and inbound institutional investors to Ireland.
Making a Real Impact
Our investments are addressing important economic, social, and environmental issues in Ireland and beyond.
We are nurturing a vibrant Irish innovation and start-up ecosystem - creating high-quality employment, and recycling capital to seed the next generation. We achieved legislative change for our EIIS Ireland Venture Fund, democratising access to a wider group of potential investors.
What our Founders say about us
Long term partnership
Learn more about Elkstone’s wealth management proposition for founders
Venture debt
Learn more about Elkstone's venture debt proposition.
Overview in Numbers
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Irish Unicorns backed at seed stage
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Ireland's Largest Seed Fund
Our Venture Advisory Board
Orla is a former Head of Listing for Ireland and UK at Euronext and founded Euronext’s IPO ready programme. A highly experienced corporate financier and advisor, with a wealth of deal strategy and execution know-how having uniquely worked on the advisory, stock exchange and corporate side of a wide variety of public and private transactions.
Orla O’Gorman
Sean has spent the last 20 years working in technology in London, Silicon Valley and now Dublin.
Sean also helps founders, CTOs and start-ups scale their product & engineering teams and advises/sits on boards of several local start-ups (Manna, Content Llama and Squid).
Sean Mullaney
Founder of a successful start-up Red Planet which secured venture capital funding and trade sale. Claire has spent the last 20 years immersed in the technology and telecoms sector. She has held a number of senior positions including most recently global strategy & operations lead for ConsenSys building out a blockchain engineering hub in Dublin.
Claire Fitzpatrick
