Donal Ryan

Investment Director at Finistere Ventures

Donal works as part of the Finistere Ventures E.U. office based in Dublin, Ireland. He brings range of experience from multinational biopharma companies through to early-stage renewables and animal genomics startups. He started his career working with Pfizer and CH2M Hill on the design, commissioning and qualification of multi-billion dollar complex biologics facilities in Ireland and Spain. Following this, Donal was co-founding CEO of Equinome, a university spin-out focused on the development of predictive animal genomic tests that he led through international growth to a successful exit. He has also worked with a range of Irish and European early-stage agtech companies on business model development and early-stage financing.

Donal has a degree in Chemical Engineering from University College Dublin, Ireland and an MBA from the Smurfit Business School in Dublin.

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Finistere Ventures

Finistere Ventures is a pioneering venture capital firm in the Agriculture sector, with offices in the Bay Area and San Diego with presence through their global venture partner network in Israel, Australia, New Zealand, the Gulf states and South East Asia. Their team combines deep technical knowledge with domain operating experiences to help entrepreneurs build the leading Ag tech companies powering the next Green Revolution. Finistere Ventures' philosophy is to work hand in hand with the leaders of their portfolio companies to build game-changing technology companies in Agriculture.


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