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Conor Twomey
Conor Twomey is the co-founder and CEO of AI One, a New York-based enterprise AI startup he launched in 2024 with Fergus Keenan to close the 'context gap' that stalls corporate AI projects. An Irish national with a background in computational finance, he spent seven years at data-analytics company KX, rising to Head of AI Strategy and Managing Director for North America before leaving to build software that plugs AI into systems like Salesforce and Workday without costly data migrations. AI One raised $11 million, including a $7 million Series A led by Vestigo Ventures.
Daragh Murphy
Daragh Murphy is the Irish-born co-founder and CEO of Imprint, a New York fintech that builds co-branded credit card and loyalty programs for consumer brands like Rakuten, Booking.com, Turkish Airlines and H-E-B. A former corporate lawyer and WeWork operator, he started Imprint in 2020 and grew it to unicorn status, reaching a $1.2 billion valuation in a $150 million Series D in December 2025.
Shane Curran
Shane Curran is the founder and CEO of Evervault, an encryption infrastructure company he started in 2018 after dropping out of University College Dublin three days into a business and law degree. A year earlier, at 16, he had won the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition with a post-quantum encrypted storage project called qCrypt. Evervault sells developer-facing tools that keep sensitive data - card numbers, health records, keys - encrypted while still being processed, running inside AWS Nitro Enclaves. The company has raised $46 million from Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, most recently a $25M Series B in March 2026.