Aoife Kavanagh

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Partner, Evergreen Growth - board work · due diligence · venture capital

Evergreen Growth
Dublin, Ireland · GMT (UTC+0)
16+ years experience
Trinity College Dublin
English
Investing
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Overview

Partner at Evergreen Growth, backing fintech companies. Sit on 6 boards. Before that: Accenture and Bank of Ireland. Most at home with due diligence and venture capital. Learning Japanese, slowly.

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Skills
due diligenceboard workventure capital
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 8 weeks

Writing $250k cheques into seed fintech in the US

Cheque size
$250k
Stages
Pre-seed, Seed
Sectors
Payments infrastructure
Geographies
US and Europe
Lead or follow
Lead
Decision time
About two weeks
How I help
Intros to operators in our network

Happy to follow a strong lead. Decisions within 2 weeks.

Dublin, Irelandboard workdue diligenceventure capital
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Experience

  1. Partner
    Aug 2023 - Present
    Evergreen Growth · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
    • Built the experimentation framework 6 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Shipped 10 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.
    • Brought on-call pages for payments platform down from 18 a week to 4.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Aug 2020 - May 2023
    Accenture · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
    • Took payment success rates from 91.3% to 97.4%.
    • Designed the reconciliation system that matches 3 million transactions a day.
  3. Director of Engineering
    Mar 2017 - Jun 2020
    Bank of Ireland · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
    • Grew the payments platform team from 4 to 28 engineers.
    • Led the migration of 78 services to board work.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Mar 2014 - Mar 2017
    Ocado · 3 yr · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
    • Mentored 12 engineers through their first promotion.
  5. Engineering Manager
    Jun 2010 - Mar 2014
    BAE Systems · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
    • Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 810ms to 66ms.

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Education

  1. Trinity College Dublin
    BA, Finance
    2001 - 2004

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