David Tharp

IrishAngels is a Notre Dame inspired angel investing group for experienced operators, executives, and founders who want to invest thoughtfully in early-stage companies and stay meaningfully involved beyond the check. Our investors share a common foundation through the University of Notre Dame and a belief that early-stage investing works best when capital and community come together. We invest primarily at the seed stage across B2B and consumer technology, partnering closely with founders and co-investors we respect. Since 2012, IrishAngels has deployed over $65 million into more than 100 companies. More importantly, we’ve built an active, engaged community of over 250 angels who bring operating experience, pattern recognition, and long-term perspective to the companies we support. IrishAngels aims to be a trusted partner to founders and a credible co-investor to the broader venture ecosystem. Headquartered in Chicago, with members across the U.S.

Partnership Leaders elevates partnership careers with expert insights that cut through the noise. More than 2,200+ of the world’s top partner professionals grow with us through community, events, and resources. Apply for membership at www.partnershipleaders.com

Dataiku is the Platform for AI Success, the enterprise orchestration layer for building, deploying, and governing AI. In a single environment, teams design and operate AI agents, analytics, and machine learning with the transparency, collaboration, and control enterprises require. For more than a decade, Dataiku has helped organizations turn data, analytics, and AI into measurable business value. As the market has evolved from analytics to machine learning to generative AI and agents, Dataiku has enabled customers to stay ahead—operationalizing new technologies while maintaining stability, governance, and trust. Sitting above data platforms, cloud infrastructure, and AI services, Dataiku connects the full enterprise AI stack, enabling organizations to run AI across multi-vendor environments with centralized governance and oversight, at scale. Today, many of the world’s leading companies rely on Dataiku to deploy AI applications and agents in some of the most complex and highly regulated environments — turning AI into an enduring source of performance, competitive advantage, and long-term business value.

IrishAngels is a Notre Dame inspired angel investing group for experienced operators, executives, and founders who want to invest thoughtfully in early-stage companies and stay meaningfully involved beyond the check. Our investors share a common foundation through the University of Notre Dame and a belief that early-stage investing works best when capital and community come together. We invest primarily at the seed stage across B2B and consumer technology, partnering closely with founders and co-investors we respect. Since 2012, IrishAngels has deployed over $65 million into more than 100 companies. More importantly, we’ve built an active, engaged community of over 250 angels who bring operating experience, pattern recognition, and long-term perspective to the companies we support. IrishAngels aims to be a trusted partner to founders and a credible co-investor to the broader venture ecosystem. Headquartered in Chicago, with members across the U.S.

Anaplan is a leading AI-driven scenario planning and analysis platform designed to optimize decision-making in today’s complex business environment so that enterprises can outpace their competition and the market. By building connections and collaboration across organizational silos, our platform intelligently surfaces key insights — so businesses can make the right decisions, right now. More than 2,500 global brands plan with Anaplan.