Biography
Dr Helen McBreen is a Partner at Atlantic Bridge, one of Europe's leading deep tech investment firms, where she founded and leads the EIF-backed University Fund platform of funds, ranked among the top five collaborative funds globally, and has backed 45 deep-tech companies that have raised over €1.5 billion in co-investment. With over twenty years' experience she has backed seed-stage ventures across artificial intelligence, quantum, semiconductors, healthtech, cybersecurity and space, with expertise in bridging companies from research to market. She holds a PhD in Engineering from the University of Edinburgh and a first-class honours degree from University College Dublin. Helen brings governance experience across institutional funds, investment committees and several deep tech company boards and as Chair of Research Ireland's photonics research centre. A founding member of European Women in VC and a Kauffman Fellow, she is a committed advocate for responsible investing and to strengthening Europe's equity capital markets for deep tech, ensuring world-class research can access the scaling capital needed to build sovereign, category-defining companies.