Not many people have crisscrossed from being a reality television star on Made in Chelsea to venture capital. Meathman Cillian Hilliard, a director at London firm Kennet Partners, has, however. At the start of the week, Kennet Partners, an experienced technology growth fund investor, invested €25 million in a Cork software company along with New York-based Federated Hermes Private Equity. Hilliard tells me on a video call from his office in London that this is the first of what he hopes will be many more investments by Kennet in Ireland. From UCD to London Cillian Hilliard joined Kennet Partners three…

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