Alan Metcalfe

GM, Europe @ Keychain | Investor | Board Member

📍 Greater Dublin, Ireland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 13 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025
VC🌍 Ireland
13
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4
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7
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1
Late stage
9y
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Investor
Jan 2025
Saving has never felt harder, whether that is into a pension or saving for a house deposit. Traditional ways to save seem to be offering low returns or remain shrouded in mystery to the average person. The cost of living crisis has only added to the pressure. Kaldi is an easy-to-understand savings & investing account with its own easy-to-use payment app. Focused on transforming the finances of Gen Z and Millennials by helping them to save earlier and better. Kaldi is dedicated to demystifying the world of money management and making it work for modern lifestyles. We’re creating easy and convenient solutions to improve personal financial wellness without sacrificing time and energy. Spend in store or online with the Kaldi app at one of our 150+ retail launch partners and watch your investments grow. You have: > The ability to auto-invest your cashback rewards and personal savings in easy to understand, low-cost investments from Fidelity and Vanguard and others. > Set and visualise savings targets with tools that explain in simple terms what investment choices fit for the time frame of your goals. > Help loved ones achieve their savings goals by linking your cashback rewards to their accounts. >Earn extra cashback from referrals. > Become a super saver with budgeting tools such as roundups and monthly account sweeps into your savings. Download on Google Play or the App Store. Or head over to our Money Matters blogs - Your handy guide to Kaldi, getting cashback, savings and investing - https://www.kaldiapp.co.uk/kaldi-money-matters The company has raised £3.8M to date and is backed by SFC Capital, The British Business Bank and Woodside Holdings. Kaldi has just raised a further £1m in a second crowd fund and is now live.
Investor
Nov 2024
Auxeris connects businesses with the best independent recruiters in the industry. Our focus on innovation and technology sets us apart from traditional recruitment services by streamlining the process and reducing the administrative burden for both businesses and recruiters. From data management to contracts, invoicing, and payments, we have taken care of every aspect to reduce unnecessary admin. Our network of highly skilled and experienced recruiters bring a unique combination of industry knowledge and recruitment expertise to ensure that your company finds the best match for your open positions. Our recruiters are dedicated to providing a personalised service and ensuring that your requirements are met. With our technology, they are able to focus on what they do best: finding top talent for your business. Get in touch if you are looking for help with temp, temp to perm and permanent recruitment solutions.
Board Member
Nov 2024
Smart nutrition for modern life
Investor
Sep 2024
Unlock the hidden potential and improve predictability in your projects through data-driven transparency! Claviate is specialized in developing customer-specific neural networks to digest visual data. Using IoT cameras that transmit directly to the cloud over the 4G(LTE) network, we have achieved a pipeline that is both fast to set up, easy to scale, and cheap. Our neural networks first and foremost ensure privacy by design, by permanently anonymizing all individuals in the images and thereby ensuring GDPR compliance. Following, we deploy a second layer of neural networks that enables the optimization of quality assurance or identifies optimization potential among other things. These tools are offered to our customers as a service - we call that Operational Tracking as a Service (OTaaS).
Investor
Jul 2024
Fully Recyclable Paper RFID Tags Made to Preserve Our World’s Resources.
Investor
Oct 2023
Unleashing AI-powered imaging for everything and everyone. Orbem combines rapid magnetic resonance imaging with advanced deep learning to shed light on the worlds toughest challenges. We are developing fast, accurate, and accessible imaging solutions that reveal hidden sources of knowledge. In everything we do, we seek to make a difference – and are leveraging deep tech solutions to sustainably feed the world, accelerate the transition to a green economy, and transform disease detection. Based on years of scientific research at the interface of AI and imaging technology, Orbem was founded in 2019 as a spin-off from the Technical University of Munich. Headquartered in Munich, our top tier, international, diverse, and multidisciplinary team is imagining new frontiers every single day to build a sustainable and healthy future. Discover our first line product, the Genus, at https://www.orbem.ai Join our team anywhere in the world and shape the future of AI-powered imaging.
Investor
Sep 2022
We believe that every worker has the right to go home safe every day. We also believe that every employer should provide a duty of care in order for this to happen. At Protex AI, were helping enterprise EHS teams to revolutionise how they make proactive safety decisions that help contribute to a safer work environment. Our AI-powered technology is enabling businesses to gain greater visibility of unsafe behaviours in their facilities. The privacy-preserving platform plugs into existing CCTV infrastructure and uses its computer vision technologies to capture unsafe events autonomously in settings such as warehouses, manufacturing facilities and ports.
Investor
Mar 2021
We Open Access to the Moon for the Progress of Humanity™
Investor
Jun 2018
Kinzen scales human solutions the information crisis. We work with technology platforms that need the skills of human editors, and human editors who need to scale engagement through technology.
Investor
Dec 2017
We help appliance brands launch smarter products faster, reduce complexity, and deliver seamless cooking experiences that customers actually use. Our platform, KitchenOS, connects appliances, content, and AI into a unified system, enabling brands to move quickly, scale globally, and stay ahead of evolving consumer expectations. From smart recipe content to guided cooking experiences and cross-brand interoperability, Fresco provides the infrastructure and intelligence that power modern connected kitchens. Trusted by global appliance leaders including Panasonic, Middleby, Instant Pot Brands and Kenwood. If you’re building the next generation of connected appliances, we’d love to talk. 👉 Learn more: www.frescocooks.com
Investor
Dec 2017
The world’s first customer platform empowering anyone to make food more, at home Eating food is part of our social fabric and a core part of a healthy body and mind. The experience of making food is now so daunting, ambiguous and friction filled that people are being forced to turn to take away, deliveries, and cooking packs which ultimately leave you unfilled and unhealthy. Drop is a fast-growing, venture-backed team of human-computer interaction specialists with a love of great food who are working with the biggest kitchen appliance brands in the world to deliver the experience that removes the friction from the whole food-making process. Our mission is to empower and inspire anyone to cook delicious food by connecting the world’s recipes and appliances — all orchestrated through a magical user experience. We started with our own smart kitchen devices that integrate with the critically acclaimed Drop Recipes app. We have since launched partnerships with Bosch, GE Appliances, De’Longhi and Kenwood, with more to be announced in the coming months. Each appliance and recipe partner we connect brings us one step closer to being the de facto KitchenOS.
Investor
Jul 2017
Pointy attracts local shoppers to your store by showing them what you sell
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2025
Mentor
Mar 2025
Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses. Founded in 2006, Techstars is on a mission to invest in startups to enable more capital to flow to more entrepreneurs around the world in order to deliver exceptional returns to our investors. We do this by operating accelerator programs and venture capital funds, as well as by connecting startups, investors, corporations, and cities to help build thriving startup communities. Our results show why Techstars is Better for Founders than any other global accelerator: On average, 74.5% of Techstars companies will raise money within 3 years of their program; 18.5% of Techstars portfolio companies have exited 5 years after their program and 31.1% after eight years. (PitchBook June 2023)
Investor
Jan 2025
Saving has never felt harder, whether that is into a pension or saving for a house deposit. Traditional ways to save seem to be offering low returns or remain shrouded in mystery to the average person. The cost of living crisis has only added to the pressure. Kaldi is an easy-to-understand savings & investing account with its own easy-to-use payment app. Focused on transforming the finances of Gen Z and Millennials by helping them to save earlier and better. Kaldi is dedicated to demystifying the world of money management and making it work for modern lifestyles. We’re creating easy and convenient solutions to improve personal financial wellness without sacrificing time and energy. Spend in store or online with the Kaldi app at one of our 150+ retail launch partners and watch your investments grow. You have: > The ability to auto-invest your cashback rewards and personal savings in easy to understand, low-cost investments from Fidelity and Vanguard and others. > Set and visualise savings targets with tools that explain in simple terms what investment choices fit for the time frame of your goals. > Help loved ones achieve their savings goals by linking your cashback rewards to their accounts. >Earn extra cashback from referrals. > Become a super saver with budgeting tools such as roundups and monthly account sweeps into your savings. Download on Google Play or the App Store. Or head over to our Money Matters blogs - Your handy guide to Kaldi, getting cashback, savings and investing - https://www.kaldiapp.co.uk/kaldi-money-matters The company has raised £3.8M to date and is backed by SFC Capital, The British Business Bank and Woodside Holdings. Kaldi has just raised a further £1m in a second crowd fund and is now live.
2024
Investor
Nov 2024
Auxeris connects businesses with the best independent recruiters in the industry. Our focus on innovation and technology sets us apart from traditional recruitment services by streamlining the process and reducing the administrative burden for both businesses and recruiters. From data management to contracts, invoicing, and payments, we have taken care of every aspect to reduce unnecessary admin. Our network of highly skilled and experienced recruiters bring a unique combination of industry knowledge and recruitment expertise to ensure that your company finds the best match for your open positions. Our recruiters are dedicated to providing a personalised service and ensuring that your requirements are met. With our technology, they are able to focus on what they do best: finding top talent for your business. Get in touch if you are looking for help with temp, temp to perm and permanent recruitment solutions.
Board Member
Nov 2024
Smart nutrition for modern life
Investor
Sep 2024
Unlock the hidden potential and improve predictability in your projects through data-driven transparency! Claviate is specialized in developing customer-specific neural networks to digest visual data. Using IoT cameras that transmit directly to the cloud over the 4G(LTE) network, we have achieved a pipeline that is both fast to set up, easy to scale, and cheap. Our neural networks first and foremost ensure privacy by design, by permanently anonymizing all individuals in the images and thereby ensuring GDPR compliance. Following, we deploy a second layer of neural networks that enables the optimization of quality assurance or identifies optimization potential among other things. These tools are offered to our customers as a service - we call that Operational Tracking as a Service (OTaaS).
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