John O'Sullivan

General Partner | Act Venture Capital

📍 Ireland, Ireland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 12 investments📅 15 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2019
VC🌍 Ireland
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Board Observer
Mar 2019
Deciphex is focused on the development of software applications for preclinical/toxicologic pathology that improve productivity and help pathologists focus on the critical content. The pathology industry is beset with increasing caseload and diagnostic complexity, against a globally declining number of pathologists to service the workload. We believe that digital pathology combined with computer aided diagnostic tools will help make pathologists work more efficiently in the future, and offers a solution to the pending crisis in supply/demand in pathology services.
Board Observer
Oct 2018
Toothpic is a world leader in dental technology. We’re on a mission to radically transform patient’s oral health by enabling a new era of dental care based on a personalized, better, smart dental experience that helps prevent disease. Toothpic was founded in 2012 and based in Brooklyn, New York and Dublin, Ireland. Toothpic connects patients with a licensed dentist via their smartphone at any time, from anywhere. By answering a few simple questions and capturing high-resolution images through our app, patients receive a bespoke, comprehensive dental health report with diagnosis, advice and recommended next steps within 24 hours. Toothpic’s Smart Dental service connects patients and dentists through software that fully integrates with the ecosystem of oral companies and benefit providers. We partner with industry leading companies to expand access to care, increase quality and improve oral health outcomes for individuals. These partnerships include Philips, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and Stanford University dental plan. Smart Dental: Smart Dental is the application of new technologies to the provision of oral care. This includes techniques such as Teledentistry, 3D teeth mapping/imaging, connected toothbrushes and augmented reality. These combine under the category term of Smart Dental to provide a vastly improved experience for the patient, the potential to shift from treatment to prevention and the enablement of new diagnostic approaches such as AI pattern matching to guide dentists’ diagnoses, treatment, prevention and home care. Smart Dental was originally enabled through societal and technical innovations such as high-resolution cameras that are now ubiquitous on smartphones and through widespread high-speed connectivity.
Board Observer
May 2018
Swrve is the only enterprise-grade marketing and customer engagement platform on the market helping brands connect with their customers with relevant messages, in real-time, and at scale. By combining messaging across channels like push, in-app messaging, and email, with real-time data streaming, marketers can leverage real-time relevance to make a real impact on their bottom line.
Board Observer
Sep 2017
Happiness is the best driver of success. beqom’s mission is to create a happy, high-performing workforce by transforming and unifying your compensation and performance processes. With beqom’s continuous performance and total rewards solution, you can offer personalized rewards that align with real-time performance data, peer feedback, skills, behaviors, and goals. beqom unifies and simplifies all reward processes on a single platform and empowers a vibrant culture of feedback and coaching, resulting in fair and effective compensation aligned with performance outcomes. Meaningful rewards combined with employee ownership of their performance journey engage your people and provide a sense of purpose. Thus, beqom supports an energized workforce, a strong employer brand, improved retention, and a high-performance culture, while ensuring continuous improvement, optimized costs, transparency, fairness, compliance, and better business results.
Board Observer
Sep 2017
Feedback that inspires. Tandem is moving beyond performance management so that you can optimize the potential of your people. We provide crowdsourced, real time feedback that energizes your people to achieve more. Managers & employees see their feedback in real time. They can identify their own strengths & weaknesses and take practical steps to improve themselves. Our insightful analytics allow HR to build and measure a performance culture that inspires. We provide meaningful data HR need to influence business strategy.
Board Observer
Jan 2016
Cesanta is a global specialist in embedded web servers and networking. Our core product Mongoose is an embedded web server, HTTP, Websocket and MQTT communication library for software, machinery, devices and appliances. It targets industries such as Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing, Industrial Automation, Oil & Energy, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Defence & Space, Utilities & Smart Metering, Electronic Component Manufacturing, Transportation, Logistics and more. https://mongoose.ws/case-studies/ Our diverse customer base includes multiple Fortune 500 companies, as well as many medium and small companies alike. Mongoose Web Server is also being used by NASA aboard the International Space Station. https://mongoose.ws/testimonials/ Our software has grown out of the open source space, and we still believe in the value of open source software. Mongoose Web Server is available under the GPLv2 license. We do offer commercial licensing for customers that do not wish to comply with GPL and would like to keep their source code private. https://mongoose.ws/licensing/ Our software products are used globally by developers to implement the following functionality for their software, devices and appliances: - Web UI interfaces, - RESTful API services, - Telemetry data exchange, - Remote control for a product, - Remote software / firmware update, - Remote monitoring. Looking for a partner that can help you to do any of the functionality listed above? Want to save time and resources by reducing your software development and support cycle? Looking for help to integrate networking and Web UI in your applications or products? We can help you: https://mongoose.ws/contact/
Board Observer
Sep 2015
DIGIT, a Scopely Studio, is an international team of talented and experienced game makers, creating truly unique multiplayer strategy games. Developers of Star Trek™ Fleet Command, one of the most ambitious games seen on mobile to date. In partnership with Scopely, we are excited to bring something new to the market which pushes the boundaries with every release - available now on iOS and Android. Our first game, a fantasy MMO called Kings of the Realm, reached the top grossing charts in over 50 countries. Our ambitions are huge and only a world-class team could achieve them. To date weve built a team of incredibly talented individuals from all over the world, who together are bringing industry defining games to life. Do you want to be part of a team that wants to see their game loved by millions and wont stop until they succeed? A team full of experience, talent and passion? A team looking for others like them to join them! Then check out our careers page and see what you think. https://www.digitgaming.com/careers/
Board Observer
May 2014
Scurri is customisable next generation delivery management software that was created to put you back in control of the most fundamental pillars of your eCommerce business. Scurri puts eCommerce retailers back in control of: - Your Costs - Your Operations - Your Offer - Your Issues - Your Growth - Your Experience Scurri is about ‘connecting commerce’ adding value at multiple stages along the eCommerce journey: from helping get the purchase over the line at the checkout, to selecting the most effective delivery option for each package, creating accurate labels, tracking the packages, and running analytics to deliver insight so we are continually helping improve the entire process for our clients. Through fully configurable automation, Scurri allows you to tailor carrier selection in a more sophisticated way, enhancing your offer while keeping costs tightly controlled. By automating carrier and even service selection processes using tightly defined, directly controlled and uniquely configurable rules, Scurri dramatically expands the delivery offering that you can manageably bring to market, making your life easier while creating a competitive advantage. With Scurri, you can do things you never thought possible. Previously unviable service offers become simple and automated with our fully configurable and uniquely sophisticated no-code rules engine. You can directly create new, customised checkout options and add premium services simply and swiftly, whatever your scale, enhancing customer experience, removing barriers to sale and improving margins. By allowing you to offer more to customers and deliver it more easily, with fewer issues, Scurri dramatically enhances your customer experience in a frictionless way. By supporting our uniquely configurable rules engine with easy implementation and category-leading customer service, Scurri has a dramatic impact on your experience of delivery management too. Website: scurri.com/control
Board Observer
Mar 2013
Sláinte Healthcare has rebranded to Vitro Software. Visit our new LinkedIn Page https://www.linkedin.com/company/vitro-software-international for company updates, news and Insights...
Board Member
Jan 2013
Knowledge Transfer Ireland (KTI) is the national office that helps business to benefit from access to Irish expertise and technology by making it simple to connect and engage with the research base in Ireland. KTI enables companies to innovate their business by signposting to novel technology and research expertise in Ireland and by providing best practice guidance to simplify the process of accessing this rich source of opportunity. KTI provides practical resources to support research and development collaboration, consultancy and licensing. It helps companies and investors navigate the expertise and intellectual property available within the publicly funded research base and guides them to the right contacts and information on funding supports available to assist innovation. The KTI web portal provides a range of tools to support industry working with research organisations in Ireland. These tools include searchable databases of research and expertise, practical reference guides and template agreements to make the process of engagement and contracting simple to understand. KTI is a partnership between Enterprise Ireland and the Irish Universities Association.
early stageResearch
Board Observer
Apr 2011
Founded by Irish journalists as the first social media newswire, Storyful was created out of the need to break the news faster and utilize social content to add context to reporting. Acquired by News Corp in 2013, Storyful has evolved into a premium service for media, brands and communications. We are the leaders in social media contextualization and verification. Powered by a unique ability to gather and streamline data from all corners of an increasingly complex media landscape, our team of journalists and researchers deliver clarity in a world of confusion. Our mission is to dig deeper into the nuance inherent in social media to establish context, verify the truth and, ultimately, to help our partners make sense of the world.
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2019
Board Observer
Mar 2019
Deciphex is focused on the development of software applications for preclinical/toxicologic pathology that improve productivity and help pathologists focus on the critical content. The pathology industry is beset with increasing caseload and diagnostic complexity, against a globally declining number of pathologists to service the workload. We believe that digital pathology combined with computer aided diagnostic tools will help make pathologists work more efficiently in the future, and offers a solution to the pending crisis in supply/demand in pathology services.
2018
Board Observer
Oct 2018
Toothpic is a world leader in dental technology. We’re on a mission to radically transform patient’s oral health by enabling a new era of dental care based on a personalized, better, smart dental experience that helps prevent disease. Toothpic was founded in 2012 and based in Brooklyn, New York and Dublin, Ireland. Toothpic connects patients with a licensed dentist via their smartphone at any time, from anywhere. By answering a few simple questions and capturing high-resolution images through our app, patients receive a bespoke, comprehensive dental health report with diagnosis, advice and recommended next steps within 24 hours. Toothpic’s Smart Dental service connects patients and dentists through software that fully integrates with the ecosystem of oral companies and benefit providers. We partner with industry leading companies to expand access to care, increase quality and improve oral health outcomes for individuals. These partnerships include Philips, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and Stanford University dental plan. Smart Dental: Smart Dental is the application of new technologies to the provision of oral care. This includes techniques such as Teledentistry, 3D teeth mapping/imaging, connected toothbrushes and augmented reality. These combine under the category term of Smart Dental to provide a vastly improved experience for the patient, the potential to shift from treatment to prevention and the enablement of new diagnostic approaches such as AI pattern matching to guide dentists’ diagnoses, treatment, prevention and home care. Smart Dental was originally enabled through societal and technical innovations such as high-resolution cameras that are now ubiquitous on smartphones and through widespread high-speed connectivity.
Board Observer
May 2018
Swrve is the only enterprise-grade marketing and customer engagement platform on the market helping brands connect with their customers with relevant messages, in real-time, and at scale. By combining messaging across channels like push, in-app messaging, and email, with real-time data streaming, marketers can leverage real-time relevance to make a real impact on their bottom line.
2017
Board Observer
Sep 2017
Happiness is the best driver of success. beqom’s mission is to create a happy, high-performing workforce by transforming and unifying your compensation and performance processes. With beqom’s continuous performance and total rewards solution, you can offer personalized rewards that align with real-time performance data, peer feedback, skills, behaviors, and goals. beqom unifies and simplifies all reward processes on a single platform and empowers a vibrant culture of feedback and coaching, resulting in fair and effective compensation aligned with performance outcomes. Meaningful rewards combined with employee ownership of their performance journey engage your people and provide a sense of purpose. Thus, beqom supports an energized workforce, a strong employer brand, improved retention, and a high-performance culture, while ensuring continuous improvement, optimized costs, transparency, fairness, compliance, and better business results.
Board Observer
Sep 2017
Feedback that inspires. Tandem is moving beyond performance management so that you can optimize the potential of your people. We provide crowdsourced, real time feedback that energizes your people to achieve more. Managers & employees see their feedback in real time. They can identify their own strengths & weaknesses and take practical steps to improve themselves. Our insightful analytics allow HR to build and measure a performance culture that inspires. We provide meaningful data HR need to influence business strategy.
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