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Helen McBreen

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Atlantic Bridge’s March22,2025 published directory identifies Helen McBreen as Partner. This is a dated published affiliation; current tenure is not independently confirmed by the redesigned live site. Helen joined Atlantic Bridge in 2015 on our University Bridge Fund. At Atlantic Bridge, Helen leads investing in early stage deeptech companies. With a strong track record built over 15 years, Helen has successfully sourced and financed over 40 deep tech ventures including notable Irish companies: Neurent Medical, Equal1, Siren, Output Sports, Proverum Medical, Plasmabound and Manna. Companies from Atlantic Bridge’s early stage portfolio have to date raised over €700m and continue to grow and scale globally. Helen is on the board of many venture backed companies and chairs the Governance Committee of IPIC , a Science Foundation Ireland Centre for photonics. Helen is both mentor and advisor to organisations including Knowledge Transfer Ireland, IVCA, UCD VentureLaunch, Start100 and is a prior VP at TechTour. Passionate about encouraging young people’s involvement in STEM, Helen is board member of the education focused non-profit, Kinia, and is a judge at the BT Young Scientist and Technology Competition. Helen is listed as one of the Top 100 Women in STEM in Ireland and is a Kauffman Fellow. Helen was awarded a 1st Class Hons. Electronic Engineering Degree (UCD) and a PhD (The University of Edinburgh) in the area of AI based conversational agents and multimodal interfaces.