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Mike Brennan
Partner at Finch Capital
County Dublin
Overview
Mike Brennan is a Partner at Finch Capital, specializing in European growth investments in business and financial technology. Notable highlights of his career include serving on the boards of AccountsIQ and Webio, as well as investing in companies like AYLIEN at Series A stage.
Currently, Mike Brennan leverages his expertise in start-ups, business strategy, and entrepreneurship to support and invest in emerging companies in sectors such as Security, IoT, AI, SaaS, and FinTech through his role at Finch Capital.
Work Experience
Partner
2019 - Current
Finch Capital is a growth investor that partners with ambitious teams in Business & Financial technology. Founded in 2013, Finch manages over €450m in AUM and backs Technology companies in 7 primary sectors: Accounting & Tax, Legal, Regulatory & Compliance, HR & Payroll, Business Process, Payments, Insurance and Banking & Wealth. Finch has backed over 50 companies including AccountsIQ, Fourthline, Grab, Goodlord, In3, NomuPay, Twinco and Zopa.
Board Member
2021
AccountsIQ is a cloud based financial management system that simplifies how multi-entity businesses capture, process and report their results. It provides anytime-anywhere access to dynamic businesses, growing via subsidiaries, branches, SPVs or through a franchise model. Its unique architecture allows it to consolidate thousands of entities in a group and its open API allows integration with numerous third party software and services.
Board Member
2021
Webio is transforming the credit, collections and payments sector by leveraging conversational AI, it is leading the industry in a new direction where customer engagement across the debt cycle is a positive experience.
Board Member
2023
NomuPay provides payment solutions to help its clients accelerate growth in Asia, Turkey and the Middle East region.
Member of The Supervisory Board
2024
Board Observer
2024
Board Member
2023
Mentor
2022
Techstars is an accelerator that provides pre-seed investment and mentoring for various early stage startups.
Raised $108,919,999.00 from SVB Financial Group and Foundry Group.
VC In Residence at WeWork Labs Dublin
2019
WeWork Labs is a global innovation platform within WeWork focused on powering the growth of early-stage startups. At WeWork Labs Dublin, Finch Capital has the opportunity to meet, support and work with great company builders and high potential scaling startups.
A WeWork-backed fund investing in the future of work.
Board Member/Observer
2020 - 2024
Brytlyt is the world's most advanced GPU Database & Analytics Platform. Brytlyt is the first to combine AI and one of the world's most popular open source relational databases (PostgreSQL) to allow for GPU-powered data analytics orders of magnitude faster than existing tools. Its flagship product, the SpotLyt visualisation tool, is designed for a responsive user experience on complex queries involving large data sets. Key use cases include fraud prevention, customer acquisition and retention, network performance optimisation and risk management.
Education
Master's Degree
1997 - 2002
Post Graduate
2004 - 2005
Post Graduate
2003 - 2004
Investments
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