Kernel Capital
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Kernel Capital is a venture capital firm based in Cork, Ireland, investing in seed, early-stage, and growth companies, primarily in Ireland and Northern Ireland. It manages funds such as the Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Growth Fund and has a portfolio of over 50 companies.
Kernel Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Cork, Ireland. It invests directly in companies, from seed to growth, in technology, life sciences, software and medical devices. 50 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We partner with people of exceptional vision and ability from first time founders to seasoned entrepreneurs – pioneers who innovate and create new products and services.”
— Kernel Capital, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Cork, Ireland
- Invests in
- Ireland, Northern Ireland
- Sectors
- technology, life sciences, software, medical devices, clean energy, telecoms, semiconductors, diagnostics
- Portfolio
- 50 companies
Team, as Kernel Capital publishes it
- Niall Olden Managing Partner
- Denise Sidhu Partner
- Ger Goold Team Member
- Neil Murphy Team Member
- Dawn Walsh Team Member
- Padraic White Team Member
- Colin O'Brien Team Member
- Dr. Daniel McCaughan Team Member
Names and roles exactly as listed on kernel-capital.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 2 co-investors found.
- Invest Northern Ireland 1 shared company: b-secur.com
- Salica Investments 1 shared company: cirdan.com
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Kernel Capital publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.kernel-capital.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, stage_min, stage_max, description, portfolio_count, status
- https://www.kernel-capital.com/portfolio/invests_in_geographies, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page
- https://www.kernel-capital.com/team/people
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Record 6078 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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