Faye Walsh Drouillard

Founder & Managing Partner @ WakeUp Capital | VC backing B2B Climate Resilience & Inclusive Health + Tech in Europe | Board Director

📍 Ireland, Ireland🔄 Updated October 2026💼 7 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2026
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Board Observer
Sep 2026
Volteum helps companies make confident decisions before, during and after transitioning their vehicle fleets to electric. Recognizing that companies face different challenges when transitioning to EVs and operating them, we offer two tailored products: the Electric Fleet Planner and the Electric Fleet Operations. ⚡ Electric Fleet Planner This tool assists companies in setting up their electrification strategies, analyzing current operations, and creating a cost-efficient electrification plan. The Planner identifies which vehicles can be electrified and provides a comprehensive TCO analysis for each EV alternative. Additionally, it offers a detailed charger infrastructure plan to ensure seamless integration and long-term planning. 🔌 Electric Fleet Operations Designed for companies already operating EVs, this product addresses daily challenges such as charging, route planning, and task management. It forecasts energy needs, plans optimal routes, and schedules charging sessions to ensure cost-efficient operations and minimal disruptions. Ready to discuss more in detail how Volteum can help electrify and optimize your fleet? Book a demo and try the worlds leading electrification and EV fleet software today.
Board Observer
Oct 2025
Breast cancer is the most treatable cancer, yet it remains the leading cause of death by cancer in women—largely because national screening programs miss up to 1 in 3 cases. The problem is even worse for women with dense breasts, who make up 50% of the screening population and for whom mammography is less reliable. At The Blue Box, weve developed a urine-based breast cancer test with a sensitivity of 88.42%, outperforming mammography by 15% overall—and by 30% in women with dense breasts. Were launching clinical trials in 2025 and bringing our test to gynecology clinics by 2026.
Board Observer
Jun 2025
UK based, Boeing-backed business developing core technology to enable autonomous flight. Founded by a senior team ex. Apple, CERN, McLaren and hedge funds. Our connected and autonomous solution spans flight control, collision avoidance, vehicle management & safety management to enable safe autonomous take-off, navigation and landing. Selected into the UK CAA Regulatory Sandbox in 2019. We now hold one of the worlds most advanced BVLOS permissions. Current focus on aerial inspection and logistics and executing complex close-quarter flight in challenging environments.
Board Observer
Aug 2020
Spraying crops with herbicides, pesticides and fungicides is a vital part of commercial agriculture, but it’s a costly practice. It is estimated that existing sprayer technology generates between 60 and 90% chemical waste, the equivalent of $42 billion. Until now. MagrowTec technology was designed to make spraying applications more efficient and effective by helping to reduce waste, drift, costs, and time required to apply. Our signature product is the MagrowTec Boom Kit Powered by Patented Magnetic Assist Spray Technology that significantly boosts the performance of new or existing boom spray equipment. This one-of-a-kind, proprietary, patented system conditions the fluids, priming them to hit their targets – the plants. The fluids literally stick to plant surfaces with more consistent thorough coverage row after row. With less wasted chemicals, time and unwanted drift, these powerful agents go where they need to go to be effective. Study after study has validated that the MagrowTec system can deliver up to 70% less drift; at least 20% or more coverage; even on the windiest days. This is the only system on the market today that can solve the compromises others require to achieve optimal drift and coverage. No major system or operational changes required. A fully sustainable solution. The MagrowTec Boom Kit is brand/product/crop agnostic, built to last, with no moving parts, no cables/power source required and maintenance free. The MagrowTec Spray-Assist Technology is truly different, distinctive and proven to deliver. It improves coverage, reduces drift, runoff and cost, creating better results. It’s the win/win agriculture has been looking for. A win/win for all. For more information, visit www.magrowtec.com
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Board Member
Dec 2018
ChangeX is a platform of proven innovations for the world's changemakers to build wellbeing. We are ChangeX. We have built a platform to connect communities to proven ideas, funding and support, to empower people everywhere to change their communities for the better. We believe that great ideas should be shared with the world. We believe everyone has the potential to be a changemaker. We believe that change accelerates when funders and communities collaborate. We believe that grassroots action has the power to change the world. We’re making the most impactful social innovations accessible and actionable in every community, everywhere. We’re partnering with companies, changemakers and social innovators to advance and accelerate their impact.
Angel Investor
Apr 2018
Angel Academe is a first of its kind, fast-growing and award-winning angel investor network. Since 2014, weve helped female founders who can demonstrate some early success with their tech startups access a unique pool of engaged, mainly female investors. Angel Academe investors have backed 55+ startups through 105+ funding rounds, helping them raise well over £200m in co and follow-on investment to grow their med tech, clean tech, fin tech and enterprise software businesses. Our investor-members are successful entrepreneurs and senior leaders who want to be part of a diverse, experienced and professionally managed network. -> https://www.angelacademe.com/ In addition to the angel network, weve recently launched the UKs first EIS fund for female founders. For the first time ever, individuals can achieve diversification across 7-10 female founded startups with a single £10k ticket AND benefit from the UKs generous EIS tax reliefs. -> https://www.syndicateroom.com/angel-academe-eis
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2026
Board Observer
Sep 2026
Volteum helps companies make confident decisions before, during and after transitioning their vehicle fleets to electric. Recognizing that companies face different challenges when transitioning to EVs and operating them, we offer two tailored products: the Electric Fleet Planner and the Electric Fleet Operations. ⚡ Electric Fleet Planner This tool assists companies in setting up their electrification strategies, analyzing current operations, and creating a cost-efficient electrification plan. The Planner identifies which vehicles can be electrified and provides a comprehensive TCO analysis for each EV alternative. Additionally, it offers a detailed charger infrastructure plan to ensure seamless integration and long-term planning. 🔌 Electric Fleet Operations Designed for companies already operating EVs, this product addresses daily challenges such as charging, route planning, and task management. It forecasts energy needs, plans optimal routes, and schedules charging sessions to ensure cost-efficient operations and minimal disruptions. Ready to discuss more in detail how Volteum can help electrify and optimize your fleet? Book a demo and try the worlds leading electrification and EV fleet software today.
2025
Board Observer
Oct 2025
Breast cancer is the most treatable cancer, yet it remains the leading cause of death by cancer in women—largely because national screening programs miss up to 1 in 3 cases. The problem is even worse for women with dense breasts, who make up 50% of the screening population and for whom mammography is less reliable. At The Blue Box, weve developed a urine-based breast cancer test with a sensitivity of 88.42%, outperforming mammography by 15% overall—and by 30% in women with dense breasts. Were launching clinical trials in 2025 and bringing our test to gynecology clinics by 2026.
Board Observer
Jun 2025
UK based, Boeing-backed business developing core technology to enable autonomous flight. Founded by a senior team ex. Apple, CERN, McLaren and hedge funds. Our connected and autonomous solution spans flight control, collision avoidance, vehicle management & safety management to enable safe autonomous take-off, navigation and landing. Selected into the UK CAA Regulatory Sandbox in 2019. We now hold one of the worlds most advanced BVLOS permissions. Current focus on aerial inspection and logistics and executing complex close-quarter flight in challenging environments.
2020
Member
Nov 2020
Toniic is a global community of private asset owners seeking to steward wealth and use influence to enable a thriving world. Our members – more than 500 high net-wealth individuals, family offices, and foundations from more than 25 countries – are active impact investors and philanthropists, for whom Toniic provides a vibrant community, with education, investment opportunities, impact support, and events. Toniic also builds the field of impact investing, leading by example to move money and mindsets. For a view into our world please visit: www.toniic.com
Board Observer
Aug 2020
Spraying crops with herbicides, pesticides and fungicides is a vital part of commercial agriculture, but it’s a costly practice. It is estimated that existing sprayer technology generates between 60 and 90% chemical waste, the equivalent of $42 billion. Until now. MagrowTec technology was designed to make spraying applications more efficient and effective by helping to reduce waste, drift, costs, and time required to apply. Our signature product is the MagrowTec Boom Kit Powered by Patented Magnetic Assist Spray Technology that significantly boosts the performance of new or existing boom spray equipment. This one-of-a-kind, proprietary, patented system conditions the fluids, priming them to hit their targets – the plants. The fluids literally stick to plant surfaces with more consistent thorough coverage row after row. With less wasted chemicals, time and unwanted drift, these powerful agents go where they need to go to be effective. Study after study has validated that the MagrowTec system can deliver up to 70% less drift; at least 20% or more coverage; even on the windiest days. This is the only system on the market today that can solve the compromises others require to achieve optimal drift and coverage. No major system or operational changes required. A fully sustainable solution. The MagrowTec Boom Kit is brand/product/crop agnostic, built to last, with no moving parts, no cables/power source required and maintenance free. The MagrowTec Spray-Assist Technology is truly different, distinctive and proven to deliver. It improves coverage, reduces drift, runoff and cost, creating better results. It’s the win/win agriculture has been looking for. A win/win for all. For more information, visit www.magrowtec.com
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