Brian Caulfield

Brian Caulfield is a Computer Engineering graduate of Trinity College Dublin who has become one of Ireland's leading figures in technology entrepreneurship and venture capital investment. 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.

Caulfield co-founded Exceptis Technologies, sold to Trintech Group in November 2000, and Similarity Systems, a data quality management software company acquired by Informatica in January 2006. He was subsequently a partner at Trinity Venture Capital where his investments included AePONA (sold to Intel – NASDAQ: INTC), ChangingWorlds (Amdocs – NYSE: DOX), SteelTrace (Compuware – NASDAQ: CPWR) and APT (CSR – LSE:CSR.L).

Career History

• Venture Partner and former Managing Partner at Molten Ventures (fka Draper Esprit), the leading European venture capital firm
• Partner at Trinity Venture Capital
• Co-founder of Similarity Systems (acquired by Informatica, January 2006)
• Co-founder of Exceptis Technologies (sold to Trintech Group, November 2000)

Caulfield's Molten Ventures investments include Movidius (sold to Intel – NASDAQ: INTC), Datahug (Callidus Software – NASDAQ: CALD), Mobile Travel Technologies (Travelport – NYSE: TVPT), Graphcore and Clavis Insight (Ascential – LSE: ASCL). He is a former Chairman of the Irish Venture Capital Association and director of the Irish Times, and currently chairs Scale Ireland, the representative organisation for Irish innovation-driven enterprises.

What Brian Caulfield could bring to his role as board director at TechIreland: With three decades of experience building and investing in technology companies, multiple successful exits, and extensive involvement in Ireland's venture ecosystem, Caulfield brings strategic vision and deep industry networks to guide TechIreland's mission as the independent data platform mapping Ireland's 14,500+ technology companies and supporting the nation's AI transformation.