Venturewave Leads $40m Investment in Funderbeam to Shape the Future of Venture Markets
Venturewave will take a strategic majority stake in Funderbeam and contribute its capital, global networks, leadership, and Vestiver platform capabilities. Co-investors in the round include Mistletoe, Draper Associates, and Kaidi Ruusalepp, the founder of Funderbeam. The group will serve institutional investors and angel networks globally, helping them access venture deals and secondaries with a strong […]
Robert Kennedy on SDG’s 1968
Redefining Progress: Robert Kennedy’s 1968 Vision In 1968, Robert Kennedy delivered a speech challenging traditional measures of progress. He critiqued the Gross National Product (GNP), often viewed as the ultimate indicator of a nation’s success. Instead, Kennedy highlighted its failure to account for the intangible aspects of life that truly matter. The Limitations of GNP […]
Venturewave Capital Invests in Peptalk
PepTalk, founded by Bernard and James Brogan and headquartered in Dublin, is the world’s first Team Experience (TX)™ platform provider. It has completed a €3M funding round led by Venture Wave Capital. The funding will be used to scale the company in the USA. CEO James Brogan will relocate to their newly opened New York […]
Impact Ireland Award presented to Mary Robinson
Dublin, 10 June 2022 – Ms. Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has been presented with the inaugural Impact Ireland Award in recognition of her career-long contribution to global environmental sustainability. The Edge and Adam Clayton, members of the Global Advisory Council of Impact Ireland, presented the […]
Conversation with Sir Ronald Cohen: Pioneering Impact Investing and Shaping the Future of Capitalism
In this unique conversation, Kieran McLoughlin, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of VentureWave Capital, sits down with Sir Ronald Cohen, one of the founding fathers of venture capital, impact investing, and social entrepreneurship. As the former chair of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment, Sir Ronald brings decades of experience and groundbreaking ideas on integrating […]
Venturewave Capital Invests in XOCEAN
Irish based international ocean data company, XOCEAN, has received an €8m investment to accelerate its growth and deliver its exciting ambitions. Valued in excess of €100 million, carbon neutral XOCEAN is driving down emissions in the offshore industry and is delivering on its sustainability goal of displacing the emission of one million tons of carbon. […]
Venturewave Capital Invests €3m in WebDoctor
WebDoctor, the Irish health technology platform, has received a €3 million investment from Venturewave Capital, a venture private equity investor focusing on entrepreneurial companies with high impact potential. The investment values the business at €48 million. It will accelerate WebDoctor’s international growth and expansion and scale the sales, marketing, product, and technology teams. WebDoctor is […]
Venturewave Exits Unified Communications Business, StarBlue
January 29th 2021 – Dublin, Ireland: Venturewave, the group and affiliate holding company of Venturewave Capital Limited and Blueface Holdings Limited, confirmed today that it has successfully agreed to the sale of StarBlue Inc., a leading enterprise communications business, to Sangoma Technologies Corporation (“Sangoma”) (TSXV: STC), a trusted leader in delivering cloud-based Communications-as-a-Service (“CaaS”) solutions, […]
Venturewave Capital Invests in DropChef
DropChef secures €2 million investment from Venturewave Capital’s Impact Ireland Fund. Venturewave’s Impact Ireland Fund has announced a EUR 2 million investment in DropChef.com, the online healthy food and fulfilment platform. Please check out The Irish Times Article here. The investment will expand this disruptive Irish food-tech platform, fostering scale, innovation, and new market […]
New Irish Technology Fund Launches to make an Impact
Dublin, Ireland, 25th June 2020: Venturewave Capital has confirmed the successful first close of a new fund, “Impact Ireland”, which aims to invest in and build global ‘technology for good’ companies from Ireland. The fund will take strategic stakes in up to 15 high-growth potential and scaling Irish companies. It will invest €1 million to […]