Top 5 Art Startup Investors in Ireland (June 2026)

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.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland

Investor stats

Total investments: 55
Round size: Seed $823k–$5.9M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$6.2M
Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $35M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

Ambisense — Since 2014 Ambisense has been driving innovation within the environmental space. Their technology platform optimizes the delivery of environmental risk assessment on some of the world’s largest infrastructure projects across industrial, O&G and waste verticals. Ambilytics encompasses both IoT and ML solutions, combining information fromremotely deployed field devices with contextual data sources such as weather, satellite, geophysical and operational data to build machine learning models. These models identify the relationships, patterns, and drivers hidden within the data and allow our customers to forecast and predict the behaviour of targeted environmental pollutants.
Smarttech247 — Human-led, AI-enhanced Managed Detection & Response. 24/7 SOC monitoring, incident response, and cyber resilience for critical infrastructure.
Getvisibility — Attain swift and comprehensive visibility and context for all your data, whether in motion or at rest, encompassing both on-premises and cloud environments. This empowers your teams to take proactive measures in identifying, prioritising, assigning ownership, remediating, and preventing risks that could impact your business, ensuring the utmost security across all aspects of your operations.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 506
Round size: Seed $494k–$3.3M; Series A $2.2M–$12M
Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

Tirlan — Tirlan is an agricultural company that supplies agri-food and farm input materials to the framing sector.
Pulsate — Pulsate enables direct communication with customers based on their location, context, interests and behaviours. Pulsate allows you to design and push rich media content directly to customers devices. Deepen the relationship by establishing a customer dialogue. Allow users to reply to your campaigns, provide feedback and keep complaints outside ofsocial media. Maximize foot traffic by targeting street level or competitor locations. Combine with segmentation for optimal results. iBeacons:tm: enable you to understand indoor customer location and context with incredible accuracy. Easily manage deployment and configuration of iBeacons:tm: with the Pulsate cloud platform. Gain a deeper understanding of your mobile customers and a comprehensive view of each mobile campaign.
Lakeland Dairies — Lakeland Dairies, a major dairy processing co-operative, operates within a fifteen county catchment area across the northern half of the island of Ireland. The Group processes about one billion litres of quality milk annually into a range of value added dairy foodservice products and functional dairy food ingredients.

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Graham Stirling is the Manager - Investments at Veddis.

Investment focus

Industry: Art, RFID, Mobile
Stage:Seed
Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.

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Boost Heroes is an Italy-based holding company focusing on seed and early stage investments.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Apps
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Italy, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

Total investments: 54
Round size: Seed $219k–$1.9M; Series A $6M–$7.7M
Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015

Portfolio highlights

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!

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