About me

I'm Finn Murphy, 32, have been living in New York City for the past few years. Prior to that I'd lived in Ireland most of my life bar stints in Rhode Island, Washington DC, Mayo, the Canary Islands & London.

Academically & career wise I've done a few different shifts too. I studied Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering at Trinity College Dublin which came with an added degree in Mathematics. Took time out of college to run for elected office and effectively organise trips, parties and protests for a year, finishing that run with a summer working for a US Senator.

Once political aspirations had been left aside I got stuck into making things and went down the startup path. First with my own software company, then rolling into a consumer fintech, only to end up taking a job in VC. A decision I was warned would be hard to unravel.

Now 6 or so years later I'm running my own Venture Firm, Nebular. Nebular is a $30m Solo Fund inspired to back the next wave of innovative ideas and people coming from places where people might not expect them. I am very fortunate, love my job and get to work with some of the most interesting people on the planet.

Alongside Nebular, I also founded and have been working on a company in the Quantum Computing space, Project Eleven.

I like learning about things and usually start from a place of ignorance, mostly barely scraping much past there, just trying to stay slightly ahead of where the crowd is going.

Currently Interested In (investing)

Healthcare administration tools, computer vision applications, quantum computing as applied to cryptography + potentially soon quantum computing input chain companies, edge compute in the LLM era, almost comically small vertical niches of applied AI, vertical tooling and applications of robotics, space stuff (but extremely sparingly), procurement arbitrages, speculative behaviours & dinosaur bones.

Currently Reading

Softwar - Larry Ellison Biography

Currently Lurking

Mostly NYC but in SF last week in Feb & first week in March.

Currently Trying

To figure out how to have positive impact in the messy state of affairs the world finds itself in.

Contact

If you're trying to contact me please go via email (finn@nebular.vc) or twitter - I have a linkedin but am not on top of the messages