HBAN
hban.org Direct investor
HBAN is a business angel network that connects angel investors with startups, providing curated deal flow and education. It operates across the island of Ireland and is a joint initiative of Enterprise Ireland and InterTradeIreland.
HBAN is an angel network headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in ICT, GreenTech, fintech and sports. 700 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“Our angels typically invest at seed and pre-seed stage.”
— HBAN, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Angel network
- Invests in
- Ireland, Northern Ireland
- Portfolio
- 700 companies
Team, as HBAN publishes it
- Niamh Sterling HBAN All-Island Director
- Mark Farrelly HBAN Associate Director
- Gary Davidson HBAN Lead (North)
- John Brennan HBAN Lead (West)
- Katherine Small HBAN Lead (West)
- Madison Roche HBAN Programme Coordinator
- Antony Matsepa HBAN Lead (South-East)
- Maeve Lyons HBAN Lead (South-West)
- Mary Rodgers CEO, Portershed
- Frank Brennan CEO, Republic of Work
- Fergal Brosnan CEO, RDI Hub
- Jon Bradford CEO, Ormeau Labs
Names and roles exactly as listed on hban.org. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 3 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- ACT Venture Capital 1 shared company: umba.com
- Frontline Ventures 1 shared company: umba.com
- Valia Ventures Limited 1 shared company: umba.com
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page HBAN publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.hban.org/name, is_investor, layer, type, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, portfolio_count, status
- https://www.hban.org/teamhq_country, hq_city, people
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Record 276 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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