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.
Prior to joining Molten Ventures, Brian was a partner at Trinity Venture Capital where his investments included AePONA (sold to Intel – NASDAQ: INTC), ChangingWorlds (Amdocs – NYSE: DOX), CR2, SteelTrace (Compuware – NASDAQ: CPWR) and APT (CSR – LSE:CSR.L).
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 and Clavis Insight (Ascential – LSE: ASCL). Brian was a member of the senior management team that successfully IPOed Molten Ventures in June 2016.
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.