Brian Kinane co-founded FeedHenry and stayed close to the company as a seed shareholder and board director through its acquisition by Red Hat, giving him firsthand experience building and scaling a tech company rather than just investing in one. He also holds a first-class computer science degree from Trinity College Dublin, worked in senior product and corporate venturing roles at Ericsson and Telenor across the broadband and mobile sectors, and later added MBAs from both Columbia Business School and London Business School, pairing that technical and telecom background with experience in structured and venture debt financing.
About their Fund
Sure Valley Ventures
Sectors
AI, Cybersecurity, Gaming / VR, Enterprise, SaaS
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Pre-Seed - Series A
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Up to £1.5M
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Sure Valley Ventures was founded by former startup builders, including Barry Downes, who sold his company FeedHenry to Red Hat, and it started investing in AI back in 2017, well before most funds cared about it, focusing on the overlap between AI, immersive tech like AR/VR, and security software, with early bets like Landvault, VividQ, and Admix, and offices spread across places like Manchester, Dublin, Cork, and Waterford instead of just London. The fund also built its own database to find AI startups early, created a GPT tool to help founders negotiate term sheets even against Sure Valley itself, and is backed by both the UK's British Business Bank and Ireland's Enterprise Ireland.
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