Isabelle O'Keeffe

Isabelle joined SVV in 2018 and was involved in building out the fund in Ireland and the UK. She has built relationships with founding teams innovating in immersive tech, e-sports, Metaverse, Enterprise AI and cybersecurity. She’s led our investments into Landvault, Virtex Stadium, Ambisense and Captur and has supported the rest of the portfolio on fundraising, building out business processes and introductions to important stakeholders.

Isabelle is also Head of Origination at SVV where she has refined our investment process and also defined and implemented our approach to data driven origination – helping to take us to the next level as a team and partner to our founders.

Isabelle’s previous experience has been working across the telco, technology and media sectors in London, Madrid and the Nordics. She brings 12 years of experience from M&A/Corporate Development at Telefonica, NBC Universal and Schibsted Media Group. Isabelle has also worked at Techstars and now mentors on their various programmes.

She is a Certified Director as part of the Institute of Directors of UK and Ireland, a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and holds an MSc from the Cass Business School a Bachelors degree in Commerce and Spanish from University College Dublin.

About Sure Valley Ventures

Sure Valley Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage AI software companies in the UK and Ireland. We are a seed stage investor that helps exceptional founders of disruptive software companies to achieve rapid scale up. We have been investing in cutting-edge AI since 2017.