Lorcan Delaney

Lorcan is a computer scientist, operator, banker and musician turned venture capitalist.

He leads investments in applied and infrastructure AI, developer tools, fintech, and industrial automation.

Lorcan joined firstminute from Morgan Stanley, where he worked in the Technology Investment Banking Division focusing on M&A, IPOs, private placements, and refinancings for software, internet, and semiconductor companies. Previously, he was an early employee at Selina Advance (digital lender specialising in home equity products; raised a $150m Series B in equity and debt in February 2022), joining close to inception. Lorcan holds an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Oxford and a BEng in Electronic & Electrical Engineering from UCL, both with distinction (4.0 GPA). His academic work focused on advanced machine learning methods, with a particular focus on optimisation and Bayesian inference frameworks.

He works closely with Protex AI (computer vision platform for health and safety), Engflow (software builds and testing acceleration), and has led investments into Mistral (AI frontier lab focused on open-source models), R2 Robotics (one-shot multimodal learning interface for robots), Rootline (enterprise payments platform for complex money flows), Capi Money (international payments for importers in Africa), Lupa (AI-native practice management software), ClaimSorted (AI-native third-party administrator), Understory (business-in-a-box solution for experience creators), Scalera (AI-based tender assistant for medium and enterprise construction companies), Restate (open-source framework to write resilient workflows, event-driven applications, and async tasks), Agemo (building software with natural language), ClarityCare (AI for utilization management within healthcare payors), Intropy (AI-powered ERP for physical industries), Portia AI (open-source library for multi-agent, stateful, authenticated workflows), Vocca (multimodal AI for specialist healthcare clinics), Corvera YC W26 (AI digital workers that autonomously run supply chain and finance workflows), Zymbly YC W26 (AI for heavy-asset maintenance workflows), Neno (full-stack AI financial services company), Truvo (autonomous consumer insurance broker), Rectify (dark automated factories for manufacturing parts), Volume (OS for money transfer operators).