Ciarán Hynes is a founder and managing partner at COSIMO Ventures, a deep tech investment firm with offices in Boston and Dublin. He also sits on the boards of emerging technology companies, including the leading Fintech company Gecko Governance, a blockchain-based regulation and compliance platform for the funds industry, and Matr, an innovative augmented reality solution.

He is also a director of Oneiro, which built the world’s first buoyant virtual currency, NDAU. He has helped many companies navigate and develop their U.S. infrastructure and expand into the U.S. market. He has over 13 years of deep tech market experience and leverages his extensive network of investors, advisors, government agencies, and business leaders throughout the U.S. to bring strategic benefits to these organizations.

Ciarán was born in Dublin but has lived in Boston for the past eleven years with his wife, Amanda. He has three children, Elle, Jess, and Nathan. His father is from Louth, his mother is from Kerry, and his grandparents hailed from those counties as well as Kilkenny.