Noel Ruane

European Venture Partner with Polaris Partners. Looking to partner with exceptional founders and teams from across Europe seeking an investment partner to enter and scale in the US. Stage Focus: Early (Series A). Areas of Interest: Smart Technical Founders & Indomain Experts. Lead Investor and Board Member @logentries (now Rapid7), @Boxever, @Profitero, @Voysis. Investor @Newswhip, @Pointy. Previously EIR at Polaris Partners. Established Dogpatch Labs Europe in Dublin. Created and managed LaunchPad, Ireland's first tech accelerator programme inspired by Ycombinator. Founder and CEO of Brandmail Solutions (now part of Iconix) - developer of DKIM based email authentication tools for both transactional and promotional email. VP Business Development for IDA Ireland in Mountain View, California. Overseas officer responsible for bringing marquee tech companies to Ireland including, Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Ebay and Paypal. Graduate of Trinity College Dublin and Dublin Institute of Technology.