Brian Caulfield

Biography

Brian Caulfield is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist.  He is a Venture Partner and former Managing Partner at Molten Ventures (fka Draper Esprit), the leading European venture capital firm.

Previously, Brian co-founded both Exceptis Technologies – sold to Trintech Group (NASDAQ: TTPA) in November 2000 and Similarity Systems, a data quality management software company that was acquired by Informatica (NASDAQ: INFA) in January 2006.

Brian’s Molten Ventures investments include Movidius (sold to Intel – NASDAQ: INTC), Datahug (Callidus Software – NASDAQ: CALD), RhodeCode, Mobile Travel Technologies (Travelport – NYSE: TVPT), Graphcore (Softbank – NASDAQ: SFTBY) and Clavis Insight (Ascential – LSE: ASCL).

Brian is a Computer Engineering graduate of Trinity College Dublin. He was the 2007 recipient of the Irish Software Association’s “Technology Person of the Year” award; has been inducted into the Irish Internet Association’s Hall of Fame; and in 2010 received the Halo Business Angel Network’s “Business Angel of the Year” award.

Brian is a former Chairman of the Irish Venture Capital Association and director of the Irish Times, Ireland’s leading news organisation. He currently chairs Scale Ireland, the representative organisation for Irish innovation-driven enterprises and TechIreland, a non-profit open access database of Irish innovation. He is a private investor in/advisor to several early-stage technology companies.

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