I build at the seam of systems and souls.
Founder and investor by trade, artist and writer by necessity. I build companies in the sectors I believe in, back the founders chasing the same, and write and paint my way toward the rest.
My life has been stranger, and more beautiful, than fiction.
Louise Ireland is the founder and former president of Batuta, a B2B cybersecurity company built primarily across Latin America, where she led product and built the commercial, financial, and organizational infrastructure that carried the company from early stage to global scale. Prior to her illness, she was on YPO’s Security and Compliance board and a World Economic Forum Global Innovator, contributing to their Center for Cybersecurity.
Before Batuta, she was an investor at IVP, where she evaluated and backed growth-stage technology companies, deploying over $140 million. She began her career in investment banking at J.P. Morgan, focused on specialty finance. She graduated from Brown University with Honors, and rowed Division I crew.
The Live Now Club
I write about love, life, cancer, and the miraculous thrill of being alive. My philosophical inquiry drives me down frequent rabbit holes, and occasionally, back up with something useful. Sometimes I write poems. Sometimes books. Sometimes I paint my words instead.
Read here →Trees
My art explores the natural world and our relation to it. I work primarily at a large scale in wood, pyrography, charcoal, and oil paints. I am fascinated by the idea of destruction being a creative force, with my forests emerging through fire. I believe nothing is wasted in life and death, and focus on repurposing or bringing life back into fallen objects.
“You can’t choose the circumstance, but you get to choose the meaning.”