Dermot Berkery

Dermot Berkery is one of the longest-serving venture capitalists in Europe, with more than twenty years' experience evaluating new business ideas. His company has reviewed more than 7,000 business plans submitted by entrepreneurs and has invested in more than 120 startups. He is director or board member of many of them, including Gigable.com, VisionR, Davra, SiriusXT, Luzern eCommerce, and KidStart. He is a former board member of StitcherAds (sold to Kargo Global), Altocloud (sold to Genesys),...See more

Dermot Berkery is one of the longest-serving venture capitalists in Europe, with more than twenty years' experience evaluating new business ideas. His company has reviewed more than 7,000 business plans submitted by entrepreneurs and has invested in more than 120 startups. He is director or board member of many of them, including Gigable.com, VisionR, Davra, SiriusXT, Luzern eCommerce, and KidStart. He is a former board member of StitcherAds (sold to Kargo Global), Altocloud (sold to Genesys), SensL (sold to ON Semiconductor), Clavis Insight (sold to Ascential), ElectroRoute (sold to Mitsubishi), and See Why Software (sold to SAP). Prior to his career in venture capital, Berkery worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Co. and earned his Master of Business Administration degree at Harvard University. See less