Top 5 Art VC Funds &amp; Investors in Ireland (October 2026)

SVV is a UK and Ireland focused VC Firm that since 2017 has invested in high potential, AI software companies. The team are former Founders turned Investors, bringing their decades of entrepreneurial experience to bear on finding the very best company founders to invest in. SVV invests in software companies that use foundational core AI technologies to solve real-world industry problems.

Investment focus

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

Investor stats

Total investments: 62
Round size: Seed $889k–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$4.1M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$57M
Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $32M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

Souk — Coco is an AI partnerships manager: she finds partners, activates them, and handles agreements, attribution and payouts.
Nettle — The AI workspace for Loss Control
BeCertain — BeCertain revolutionizes dental diagnostics with AI-powered tools for X-ray analysis, improving precision and reducing diagnostic errors.

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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, Health Care, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant
Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 894
Round size: Seed $394k–$3.2M; Grant $26k–$5.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $560k–$8.3M
Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.2M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

Foodcloud — We connect businesses that have surplus food with Charities and Community Groups that need it.
Amethyst Care — Amethyst Care is a startup that creates an AI-powered voice assistant for those with mobility difficulties.
Full Health Medical — Full Health Medical patient empowerment tools that improve prevention healthcare are part of the healthcare ecosystem. FHM provides reliable digital innovation, designed by healthcare professionals that are keen to help patients live a healthy life, in response to a national scarcity of healthcare providers, the development of chronic disease, anda lack of transparency at the patient level. People provide lifetime access to preventive care healthcare across screening, diagnostics, education, treatment, and a record of their journey driven technology provides lifetime access to preventative healthcare custom designed at every step screening, diagnostics, education, and action plans that motivate individuals to address risks before they develop health problems.

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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, Internet
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Italy, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

Total investments: 58
Round size: Seed $291k–$2.8M; Series A $6M–$7.9M
Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% 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 creates sustainable construction materials from organic waste from the rice industry to create natural building materials such as rice straws, husks, and chaff. Their products include insulating panels, base plasters, screeds and subfloors, cladding systems, and vertical matt-closing components. The goal of Ricehouse is to construct ahouse made entirely of rice and everything that houses humans, from the smallest to the largest scales.
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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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

Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Art
Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

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