Who We Are Resolve Partners

At Resolve Partners, we bring over 20 years of experience as inventors, investors, and innovators—supporting companies from early-stage start-ups to global corporates. We’ve accelerated over 750 start-ups, guided scale-ups through high-growth strategies, and prepared businesses for successful investment rounds.

Our team has led innovation within Fortune 500 environments and partnered with corporates to stay ahead of emerging trends, technologies, and disruptive shifts. Collectively, we’ve raised over €50 million in start-up capital, driven more than €100 million in corporate R&D, and led high-performing innovation teams across diverse sectors—with sustainability at the core of everything we do.

Our Values

Our mission is to empower others through meaningful connection and continuous learning. With a future-focused mindset, we collaborate with visionary leaders to forge new paths forward. We activate innovation for climate impact at the intersection of venture building, investment, and corporate strategy.

Leadership

Growth-oriented

Guidance

Innovation

Leadership Team

Angela Duffy

Director

Angela is a strategic advisor with deep experience supporting hundreds of ventures through investment and mentorship. She previously served as Global Product Manager at Medtronic in the US and led the company’s innovation efforts in Ireland. With a track record of leading international, cross-functional teams and driving global projects in market research and customer insights, Angela brings both strategic depth and operational excellence. She has held academic positions at NUIG and RCSI, holds a PhD and MBA, and is certified in leadership, innovation, marketing, and strategy. Angela is an educator on MIT’s DesignX Accelerator.

Alan Costello

Director

Alan sources and develops investment opportunities, and supports their global scaling strategy development. He has previously founded a professional services company in strategy and investment consultancy, working with funders, state agencies, international development bodies and private clients from startup to multinational corporate. He is an internationally rated expert in these areas, leading supports for Horizon2020, the Czech Innovation Agency and accelerator development in the Middle East. Original background in science commercialisation, he now has a strong interest in convergent technologies across sectors, particularly Climatetech.

David Scanlon

Director

David has been involved with digital technology and start-ups throughout his career. He spent over a decade working for Enterprise Ireland across a variety of distinct roles, most recently involved with the innovative Start in Ireland programme, designed to attract HPSU companies to Ireland from overseas. David was the Dublin Chapter Director for Startup Grind, the global entrepreneurship community. Alongside running monthly Startup Grind events for four years, he has also hosted and moderated a wide-variety of events aimed at educating entrepreneurs and developing innovation ecosystems, including Dublin Web Summit, InspireFest, TCD LaunchBox, and multiple Startup Weekend events. David writes extensively on Sustainability, Impact Investment, and Innovation, and was recently invited to join Scale Ireland’s sustainability working group.

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