Frontline Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 2012. The firm was founded by Shay Garvey, William Prendergast, and William McQuillan. The firm operates from two locations: London, United Kingdom, and Dublin, Ireland. As of February 2019, the firm is managing 35 companies in its portfolio and has sold off its shares in seven companies. Its most recent investment is in December 2018 for AQMetrics, a company providing risk and regulatory reporting platform for fund management companies or firms.
Funding
Frontline Ventures focuses on investing in companies that are based in Europe and helping companies in their portfolio to expand to the U.S. The firm provides funding for companies in various stages of developments, from pre-seed stages to Series A. It seeks to finance companies that are operating in the big data, cloud services, internet and mobile industries. As of February 2019, the firm has managed to amass €110 million with its most recent funding round held in February 2017.
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Funded Companies
Countingup is a business current account & online accounting software.
Astronomer helps organizations adopt Apache Airflow, an open-source data workflow orchestration platform that helps organizations get their data in motion..
Signal AI is a Brooklyn-based artificial intelligence company founded in 2013.
People
Carolina Küng
Head of Platform
Laura McNally
Chief Financial Officer
Shay Garvey
Founder/Partner
Stephen McIntyre
Partner
William McQuillan
Founder/Partner
William Prendergast
Founder/Partner
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