Top 5 Art Startup Investors in Ireland in September 2025
A list of 5 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Art startups based in Ireland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Art companies from Ireland. We update this investor list every month.Top 5 Art Startup Investors in Ireland in September 2025
Investor | Art Ireland investments |
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Sure Valley Ventures | 2 |
Graham Stirling | 1 |
Boost Heroes | 1 |
Enterprise Ireland | 1 |
Manifold Partners | 1 |
Sure Valley Ventures is an entrepreneur-led Venture Capital Fund that invests in early-stage software companies. Working in partnership with Shard Capital, a specialist broker and asset manager based in the City of London, Sure Valley Ventures specializes in investing in Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), Financial Technology(FinTech), and the Internet of Things (IoT) Sectors.
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Investment focus
- Software, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Ireland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Momntum — Momntum is a fintech company that provides embedded point-of-sale consumer financing.
- Capably AI — Capably empowers professionals to automate complex tasks with AI in minutes, regardless of their level of technical expertise. Operating autonomously in the background, Capably acts as an extension of the teams it supports, driving greater productivity and efficiency. Anyone in the company can use Capably to automate back-office tasks like dataentry and processing, generate insights and reports, manage projects, and more—all while the organisation maintains complete control and visibility over how and when employees delegate work to AI.
- Literal Labs — Literal Labs is transforming artificial intelligence with a breakthrough, logic-based architecture that is vastly faster, inherently explainable, and dramatically more energy-efficient than conventional neural networks.Originating from years of academic research and spun out of Newcastle University, Literal Labs replaces the power-hungry matrixmultipliers of traditional AI with a radically different approach: logic-based networks founded on propositional logic, Tsetlin machines, and full binarisation. This enables models to achieve inference speeds up to 250x faster than XGBoost, 54x faster than neural networks, consume 52x less energy, and offer built-in explainability—without sacrificing performance.The company is led by former Arm VP Noel Hurley and was established by two world-leading experts in logic-based AI, Dr. Alex Yakovlev and Dr. Rishad Shafik. Together, they are pioneering a new standard for intelligent systems: efficient, transparent, and engineered for real-world constraints.Literal Labs is dedicated to building the most computationally efficient and energy-conscious AI architecture on the market.
Graham Stirling is the Manager - Investments at Veddis.
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Investment focus
- Art, RFID, Mobile
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Ticket ABC — Ticket ABC is a white label ticketing software and venue management solution used by over 120 venues, promoters, artists in 4 countries. Brand your account to have the same look and feel as your website, better understand your sales and customers with their graphical reporting tool and integrate with social media to sell tickets within anyFacebook page. Fanalytics (Ticket ABC's customer analytics tool) transforms all the customer data generated from selling tickets into a snapshot of your business so you know who your top customers are, where they are from and the ability to communicate and reward them for their loyalty.
Boost Heroes is an Italy-based holding company focusing on seed and early stage investments.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Apps
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Italy, United States, Hong Kong
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- Cosaporto — Cosaporto is a home delivery service bringing users goods from upmarket and premium shops in Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence, and London. The startup carefully selects the best independent shops, producers and artisans, delivered directly to the user’s doorstep within hours of ordering. The service can be used to send beautiful gifts, or forevents, as well as surprises. Currently, Cosaporto operates in several Italian cities, including Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence and last year it launched a London branch of the business.
- Ricehouse — Ricehouse uses organic residues, such as rice straw, husk and chaff, from the rice industry and creates natural construction materials.
- Babaco Market — Babaco Market is a subscription with which you receive out-of-the-ordinary fruit and vegetables at home. Products that do not exceed the beauty contests organized by traditional channels and which risk being wasted. We deliver them to your home, in a box. Bring all the goodness of nature to the table and reduce food waste!
Enterprise Ireland is the government agency responsible for the development and funding of the indigenous business sector. Their mission is to accelerate the development of companies to achieve strong positions in global markets resulting in increased national and regional prosperity.
It was founded in 1998 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
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- Axe — Axe provides modern logistics solutions for businesses of all sizes. Streamline your logistics process with our innovative platform.
- Assiduous — The AI-enabled platform to do the heavy-lifting for business owners seeking finance for their aspiring growth company.
- Galway Biomedical — Galway Biomedical is your trusted Original Design Manufacturing (ODM) partner for biomaterial based medical devices & implant products.
Manifold Partners is a Systematic Asset Manager. They use prediction science, AI, and ML, applied in a proprietary manner, to predict equity prices for mid and large cap equity in nine countries. Today, their primary product is EMN. Their science can be applied to long only and to other products for which ‘big data’ is available. Their goal in eachof their strategies is superior, risk-adjusted returns from diversified portfolios that are not correlated to any style
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Investment focus
- Art, Software, 3D Technology
- Funding Round
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Artomatix — Create ultra-realistic materials using AI-assisted artistry to accelerate your workflow. Windows OS required.
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