Martin Cass

Director, Camino Capital | Family Office Advisory

📍 Greater Dublin, Ireland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2022𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 Ireland
8
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3
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1
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6y
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Portfolio

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Investor
Dec 2022
Lifes too short for waiting. Get your stuff from the sky instead. Manna delivers food, essentials, and more – minus the roads, traffic, and waiting. Just tap what you need and look up. Your order arrives in just 3 minutes.
Investor
Oct 2022
SoapBox Labs’ speech recognition caters to the idiosyncrasies and unique speech patterns of childrens speech. Our voice engine is unique, proprietary and built from the ground up for kids voices specifically, ages 2 and up. SoapBox powers Prek-12 literacy, language and math assessment and instruction tools for kids of every accent, dialect and stage of development. We are an equity and privacy first company, and the first AI company in the world to earn a certification for "Prioritizing Racial Bias in AI Design" from Digital Promise. In November 2023, SoapBox Labs was acquired by leading US education company, Curriculum Associates (CA). Over the coming months and years, SoapBox will voice-enable CAs award winning portfolio of literacy and math learning tools, and continue our mission to make teaching and learning easier, and to improve educational outcomes for every child in every classroom.
Investor
Jul 2022
Packworks vision is to give back to the mom and pop stores called "sari-sari" stores that Filipinos were raised with by bringing them opportunities to change their lives through inclusive technology. We provide mobile ERP solutions for the 1.1million manual and unbanked sari-sari stores. For the doors that we touch, we have shown an increase of 35% in monthly sales across the board.
Investor
Aug 2021
Dfns is a leading Wallets-as-a-Service (WaaS) platform that helps fintechs, institutions, and enterprises worldwide simplify digital asset management and securely bring users into crypto. Our secure wallet APIs include Wallet Entitlement Management (WEM) for workflow governance and a Key Deployment Service (KDS) to manage multiple keys from one platform, ensuring global security, compliance, and regulatory standards. Our API-first approach has made Dfns the most popular developer platform to configure, automate and orchestrate digital asset applications and operations at scale. Powered by advanced security and cryptography, Dfns serves as the reliable multichain wallet backend for top players in banking, payments, trading, lending, and tokenization. Trusted by clients like ABN AMRO, Fidelity, Zodia Custody, Bridge, Stripe, and more than 100 financial applications, Dfns has created over 10 million wallets and secured $5 billion in transactions — zero hacks or lost keys. Incubated by Techstars and Station F, Dfns has raised $28M from investors like White Star Capital, Motive Partners, Bpifrance, Coinbase, Semantic, Wintermute, Figment, Motier, Hashed, 6MV, Susquehanna, and others.
Investor
Apr 2021
Umba is an African digital bank, offering bank accounts and financial services to our customers. We provide an ecosystem of connected financial services that allows the customer complete control of their finances all in one App. At Umba, we believe in the power of financial inclusion to drive economic growth. As a leading digital bank, we are committed to providing innovative solutions that empower both employers and employees to achieve financial stability and reach their full potential. Umba launched in Nigeria in January 2021, and in Kenya in April 2023, via the acquisition of an existing Microfinance bank. Our digital platform offers seamless access to a wide range of banking services, including account management, payments, loans, savings, and more. We leverage technology and data-driven insights to streamline processes and make banking faster, smarter, and more convenient than ever before. But we are not just a bank. We are a partner, a trusted advisor, and a catalyst for growth. Our team of talented professionals is passionate about our mission, and we work tirelessly to deliver personalized service and tailored solutions to our customers. With our extensive network and expertise, we are well-positioned to support our customers at every stage of their journey. Join us at Umba, and be part of a dynamic team that is reshaping the future of banking. Together, we can unlock the potential of businesses, transform lives, and drive sustainable economic development. Connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram to learn more about our innovative solutions and the exciting opportunities that await you at Umba.
Investor and Advisory Board Member
Sep 2020
Cachet is an ecosystem of services that leverages unique cross-market data on the usage of assets or work schedules of the platform workers. By analyzing this data, we offer more personalized and flexible insurance coverage based on the gig workers real work hours.
early stageInsurance
Investor
Aug 2020
Offr is revolutionising the global real estate market. The firm has secured significant investment and support from major international groups such as Barclays (UK), the National Association of Realtors (USA), The European Investment Fund (EU), AIB and Bank of Ireland. As a proptech start-up, Offr was built with a clear and simple goal in mind; to facilitate faster, more transparent, and more enjoyable property transactions for every stakeholder involved. Offr is focused on rapidly scaling internationally and transforming the end-to-end process of buying and renting residential and commercial property through seamless digitised transactions, giving agents time to do what they do best – managing and advising. At its core, Offr is driven by a team of passionate property and technology insiders, with longstanding experience in real estate, as well as engineering experts who work together to develop cutting-edge technology and shape the future of the industry. With a strong people-centric approach to business, Offr is looking to continue expanding their team and bring together world-class talent to continue to collaborate, innovate, and disrupt the market. Now people the world over can buy a property as easily as booking a flight.
early stageReal Estate
Investor
Jul 2020
StructureFlow helps legal, finance and corporate teams create professional, data-rich structure diagrams. As an award-winning UK legaltech company, we’re proud to partner with leading law firms across the world. Currently on the Founders Factory program, previous winners of Slaughter and May’s Collaborate programme and participants in Allen & Overy’s Fuse, we are creating a new category of technology in a thriving legaltech industry. Our mission is to help users think, communicate and collaborate more efficiently, by visualising transactions and matters using our secure software. Founded in 2017 by Tim Follett, a corporate lawyer by background, StructureFlow is now being used by some of the world’s largest and most prestigious professional services firms and in-house teams. If you’d like to demo our visualisation software, or partner with us, contact us at: info@structureflow.co
Experience · 12 entries
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Investments (8)
2024
Director
Sep 2024
Camino Capital is an experienced advisor providing independent investment supervision. Camino’s clients are typically individuals or families without the requisite time or experience to manage their wealth. Camino seeks to add value in the areas of: 1. Costs: Investors often incur many hidden costs when their wealth is professionally managed. These costs have a very significant bearing on investment performance in the long term. Camino identifies and eliminates cost with an objective to reduce average portfolio holding costs by over 50%. 2. Tax: In many cases the tax implications of various investment strategies are only considered after the fact. Camino works with the clients’ tax advisors to understand the clients tax profile to ensure that investment returns are viewed net of taxes (and not gross!). 3. Risk: Understanding risk across the full spectrum of a client’s investment portfolio, especially when multiple wealth managers are employed, is essential to successful long term investment returns. Camino measures the clients’ exposures in aggregate and provides simple guidance on managing risks. 4. Behaviour: Investors are prone to make changes in response to negative market movements. Camino works with clients to focus on long term plans and to keep changes to a minimum. Inaction is not the same thing as inertia. 5. Education: Camino develops long term relationships with multiple family members so that more than one person is aware of the investment strategies employed by the family. Camino does not • Manage client funds • Make specific investment recommendations • Have access to client funds • Receive any reward, commission or remuneration from investment providers Camino’s fees are fixed and in most cases are significantly less than cost savings.
2022
Investor
Dec 2022
Lifes too short for waiting. Get your stuff from the sky instead. Manna delivers food, essentials, and more – minus the roads, traffic, and waiting. Just tap what you need and look up. Your order arrives in just 3 minutes.
Investor
Oct 2022
SoapBox Labs’ speech recognition caters to the idiosyncrasies and unique speech patterns of childrens speech. Our voice engine is unique, proprietary and built from the ground up for kids voices specifically, ages 2 and up. SoapBox powers Prek-12 literacy, language and math assessment and instruction tools for kids of every accent, dialect and stage of development. We are an equity and privacy first company, and the first AI company in the world to earn a certification for "Prioritizing Racial Bias in AI Design" from Digital Promise. In November 2023, SoapBox Labs was acquired by leading US education company, Curriculum Associates (CA). Over the coming months and years, SoapBox will voice-enable CAs award winning portfolio of literacy and math learning tools, and continue our mission to make teaching and learning easier, and to improve educational outcomes for every child in every classroom.
Investor
Jul 2022
Packworks vision is to give back to the mom and pop stores called "sari-sari" stores that Filipinos were raised with by bringing them opportunities to change their lives through inclusive technology. We provide mobile ERP solutions for the 1.1million manual and unbanked sari-sari stores. For the doors that we touch, we have shown an increase of 35% in monthly sales across the board.
Venture Partner
May 2022
Founded in 2011, Elkstone, Irelands Private Market Specialists, offers a gateway to diversified wealth expansion. We provide unique access to global and local investment opportunities, specialising in non-traditional market investments such as real estate, venture, private equity, private credit and global hedge funds. Our Client business helps build wealth whilst reducing risk for high-net-worth individuals, corporations and institutions. Elkstone Real Estate is focused on partnerships and developments that deliver on living accommodation such as Purpose-Built Student accommodation and Private Rented Sectors. Elkstone Venture, supported by the Irish Strategic Investment Fund and Enterprise Ireland, has established itself as the Irish venture ecosystem champion and is recognised as the leading early-stage venture investor in Ireland. Elkstone as a group has a special focus on enabling deserving investments across the Island of Ireland and is recognised as Irelands Family Office connecting the Irish diaspora back home to support Irish culture and invest in the Ireland of tomorrow.
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