Barry Downes is managing partner at Sure Valley Ventures, a seed stage investor that recently announced the first close of a new Irish-focused €50 million fund. Prior to this, Barry co-founded Pluto Digital, which was acquired in a £96m reverse takeover last year. He also co-founded Feed Henry, acquired by Red Hat in an $82m deal in 2014, and was chief executive of the TSSG Gateway, now known as the Walton Institute