Who We Are Resolve Partners

We have worked as inventors, investors and innovators from startup to Fortune 500. Our team has 20+ years experience at the forefront of innovation. We supported 500+ startups accelerate their business; we have guided scaleups to a growth strategy and watched their revenue grow exponentially; we have invested in businesses and prepared businesses for investment.

We have led innovation in a Fortune 500 setting and assisted corporates in keeping abreast of trends, technologies and disruptive innovation in their industries. Collectively, have raised over €50m startup capital, driven >€100m corporate R&D and led talented innovation teams. Having experience across an extensive variety of industry sectors, we are sustainability-focused across all.

Our Values

Our aim is to enable and empower others through connectivity and learning. We are future-focused and work with innovative leaders and visionaries to create new paths. Specifically we activate innovation for climate impact at the intersection between venture, investment and corporate strategy.

Leadership

Growth-oriented

Guidance

Innovation

Our Team

Angela Duffy

Director

Angela is a strategic adviser to businesses. She has provided investment and mentoring support to hundreds of ventures. In the US she worked as a global product marketing manager for Medtronic, and in Ireland led innovation activities for the company. She has led international and cross-functional teams and global projects in market research and customer insights. Angela held academic positions in both NUIG and RCSI. She has a PhD, MBA and various certifications across leadership, innovation, marketing and strategy. She 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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