Top 5 Art VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Ireland in May 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

Software, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Ireland, United Kingdom

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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.
RETìníZE — RETìníZE is an AR, VR, multi-screen installations, and software development.
Mirror Security — Mirror Security is at the forefront of GenAI security, AI Data Security, Secure Vector Databases, Zero Trust LLM, Automated Red Teaming & AI Agent Security

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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

Investment focus

Art, Software, 3D Technology
Funding Round
Ireland

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Artomatix — Create ultra-realistic materials using AI-assisted artistry to accelerate your workflow. Windows OS required.

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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

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

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Tirlan — Tirlan is an agricultural company that supplies agri-food and farm input materials to the framing sector.
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.
Touchtech Payments — At Touchtech Payments, believe in making industry changing and innovative technology.

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

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!

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