Top 15 Automotive Startup Investors in Ireland (September 2026)

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• Foodcloud — We connect businesses that have surplus food with Charities and Community Groups that need it.
• Entity — Entity's purpose is shape the future of web gaming by leveraging emerging technologies and maximizing the browser's capabilities. Our next-generation gaming hub, scheduled to arrive in 2027, will be a global place for players to discover, connect, and play together.
• Adama Innovations — Sharp Conductive Single Crystal Diamond AFM Probes

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• WrxFlo — WrxFlo deliver real time data insights and software solutions to allow business achieve greater levels of supply chain efficiencies
• Entity — Entity's purpose is shape the future of web gaming by leveraging emerging technologies and maximizing the browser's capabilities. Our next-generation gaming hub, scheduled to arrive in 2027, will be a global place for players to discover, connect, and play together.
• ZeroRisk.io — https://t.co/Aukldsyhoy is the end-to-end merchant portfolio risk and compliance management system designed to make the payments ecosystem safer.

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• Winfooz — Winfooz is the one-stop-shop Dealer-to-Dealer Marketplace to buy and sell automobiles online.

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• Parkpnp — Parkpnp is the parking app that lets people and businesses find or rent underutilized parking spaces in seconds. Their car park technology helps all property owners increase revenue & automation of their parking assets.Parkpnp is modernising the €30bn European parking industry, where change has been slow due to fragmented ownership of parkingspace owners. Their solution connects all types of car park owners seamlessly with drivers looking to park faster, easier and more conveniently. Parkpnp allows people to list, advertise and then generate income from their unused or under utilized parking spaces. Through Parkpnp users can rent these listed spaces at an average saving of 50%.
• Zeus Scooters — ZEUS is an Irish company deploying the World’s FIRST 3-wheeled electric scooter for the urban mobility sharing market. Our unique scooters with state-of-the-art technology and reliability that will ensure our users always enjoy the safest, smoothest and most stable ride.

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• Provizio — Imagine an affordable system that gives every driver 360-degree insights in all weather conditions and paves a true path to autonomy.
• Velocity Robotics — Measure Once - Cut Once. Our IoT-connected positioning system makes measuring and cutting fast and accurate.

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• CleverCards — The Platform for Contactless Cards. The CleverGift real-time payment platform offers gift cards, expenses, employee incentives, and travel foreign exchange.
• Bloomberg PolarLake — Streamline the acquisition, management and distribution of instrument, pricing, index, legal and ratings data from multiple delivery channels.
• WhatClinic.com — WhatClinic.com helps patients find, compare and book the right clinics for them, in more than 135 countries. They provide detailed listings for over 120,000 clinics on their site. These include doctors, dentists, beauty and cosmetic surgery, physiotherapy, fertility, holistics and a lot more. They believe that every patient is an empoweredconsumer.

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• Fin — Fin is the Customer Agent company delivering perfect customer experiences.
• Boxever — Learn about how a CDP can increase conversion rates and improve customer loyalty.
• MicksGarage — MicksGarage.com is the largest online retailer with over 10 million of car parts and car accessories listed for any car make or model. From braking parts to car care, service parts, roof racks, to...

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• Ubotica — Live Maritime Intelligence (LMI) predicts risk, tasks satellites, and delivers verified intelligence to protect critical infrastructure and expose dark vessels.
• Entity — Entity's purpose is shape the future of web gaming by leveraging emerging technologies and maximizing the browser's capabilities. Our next-generation gaming hub, scheduled to arrive in 2027, will be a global place for players to discover, connect, and play together.
• Fresco — Fresco powers connected cooking experiences for appliance brands, enabling faster launches, lower R&D costs, and continuous innovation.

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• Arralis — Arralis is a rapidly scaling technology company, providing world leading expertise in RF, micro, and millimetre-wave technology. It excels in Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMICs), packaged component modules, proprietary antenna technology, and integrated Radar and Communications front-end platforms. Its products, which are theultimate in precision and innovation, are used in both global and space environments where accuracy and reliability are critical. its also creates partnerships with other leading technology providers to build bespoke high performance, cutting-edge solutions. Arralis provides added value through advanced, research, and innovation aligning its solutions with its client’s strategic objectives.
• Cohort — Cohort helps its users find the people they need through the people they already know through social media. Cohort is an Ireland-based company that was founded in 2015 by Eamon Leonard.
• Provizio — Imagine an affordable system that gives every driver 360-degree insights in all weather conditions and paves a true path to autonomy.

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• Advise — Advise Freemium is a ground-breaking automated data analytics for CPG solution. Discover how Advise can assist your Revenue Growth Management.
• Oranda Therapeutics — Oranda Therapeutics: ensuring sustainable, affordable access to rare disease medicines across Europe through high-quality established treatments.
• The Corporate Governance Institute — Diploma Certification for Board Directors. University accredited Courses for existing and aspiring Directors. Qualify as a Director.

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• FOTOhub — FOTOhub AI | Unified Generative AI Infrastructure for Modern Agencies & CreatorsFOTOhub AI is the core intelligence layer behind FOTOhub, providing a unified Generative AI infrastructure that replaces fragmented creative workflows with one automated system. It enables teams to move from a brief to fully produced content within minutes.Designed for agencies, studios, and developers, FOTOhub AI coordinates a proprietary stack of image, video, and audio models through Flows FH™, an automation engine that connects multiple AI models into one-click pipelines. Teams can generate localized campaigns from a single brief, including translation, dubbing, video variations, and final asset delivery.What FOTOhub AI delivers Model Stack A curated set of proprietary and third-party models optimized for creative production, covering image enhancement, generative video, dubbing, and design. All models operate within one platform, eliminating the need to manage separate tools or vendors. Flows FH™ Automation A no-code and low-code workflow builder for combining AI models into reusable pipelines such as translation, dubbing, rendering, and delivery. Non-technical teams use visual controls, while developers get full API access.Multimodal Studio A browser-based workspace that integrates: video editing and AI video generation, neural audio (voice cloning, dubbing, music), advanced design tools for social content, ads, and branding. All powered directly by the FOTOhub AI engine. Developer-First Platform A native API and CLI (npm install fotohub) enable programmatic media generation and workflow orchestration. Engineers can run the same pipelines used in the Studio from code, CI/CD systems, or internal tools.GPU Cloud and Storage Infrastructure A serverless, edge-based architecture running on Google Cloud with enterprise GPUs (RTX, A100, H100). Provides fast rendering at scale with integrated cloud storage directly connected to generation workflows.Traction A unified AI platform adopted by creators, agencies, and teams to manage the full content lifecycle from ideation to delivery. Early growth metrics indicate strong demand for consolidated AI infrastructure over isolated point solutions.Mission To establish FOTOhub AI as the operating system for modern agencies, providing a central AI layer for creation, automation, and secure content delivery across every channel.
• Ednition — Our product, RosterStream, makes rostering awesome. Edtech rostering as a service platform.
• Forlex — Forlex (formerly Intelijus) is pioneering a revolution in legal technology by transforming our platform into a powerful legal agentic ecosystem. At the core of our innovation is LIVIA—a dynamic legal agent that seamlessly integrates advanced AI workflows with robust agentic flows to redefine legal operations.LIVIA goes beyond traditionalautomation. It is engineered to serve as a strategic legal agent, optimizing complex operational processes while delivering precise, data-driven insights. Our cutting-edge generative AI and natural language processing capabilities empower legal professionals to shift their focus from administrative tasks to what truly matters: championing justice.We envision a future where legal services are not only efficient but universally accessible. By establishing our technology as the cornerstone of global legal decision-making, Forlex is setting new industry standards for accuracy, efficiency, and transformative impact. Join us as we lead the charge toward a new era in legal innovation.

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• Nory AI — Revolutionise your restaurant with Nory's restaurant management software. Streamline operations, boost profits, and enhance decision-making in one platform.
• Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.
• Ceartas DMCA — Ceartas is the leader in piracy protection for creators, brands & enterprise. Powered by AI, we have the highest removal rate in the industry

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• NewsWhip — NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.
• Offr — Offr is the new way to buy and sell property, quickly and transparently.
• Metabolomic Diagnostics — Metabolomic Diagnostics is a deep-tech company specialized in the development of novel biomarker based diagnostic solutions for complex diseases. The company has developed an effective pipeline to firstly identify diagnostic biomarker panels and then translate these panels into clinical assays ready for application in the clinical laboratory.Thispipeline combines the biomarker multiplexing capabilities of Mass Spectrometry, a powerful analytical technology, with the company’s own informatics and statistics solutions to deliver diagnostic innovation. This is reflected in Metabolomic Diagnostics’ strong and versatile IP portfolio of technical innovations and biomarkers.Our VisionMetabolomic Diagnostics’ primary vision is to develop a portfolio of diagnostic solutions which can determine, early in a woman’s pregnancy,her risk of developing major complications much later in her pregnancy and thus enabling personalized care, adapted to each woman’s individual needs. Pregnancy complications like preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, preterm birth, and in-uterine growth restriction, all have the potential to severely impact on the well-being of mother and child.The company’s innovative diagnostic solutions will assist clinicians in re-imagining how these conditions are managed: our novel risk assessment tools are specifically developed in conjunction with prenatal care providers to ensure they make a difference that really matters. This in turn will enable clinicians to improve pregnancy outcomes globally.Our solutions will empower pregnant women: accurate pregnancy risk information will allow a pregnant woman, in partnership with her care provider, to determine what prenatal care is best for her pregnancy.

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• Future Intelligence — Vision Intelligence is a AI smart hardware company that manufactures and sells interactive intelligence based electronic consumer products.
• Xunlian Technology — Xunlian Technology is a manufacturer of measuring, control, communication, and navigation devices. Xunlian Technology provides measurement and control communication equipment and services for drones, satellites, rockets, and so on. Satellite navigation core electrical equipment.
• BioTroy Therapeutics — BioTroy Therapeutics is engaged in tumor immunity and is used for multi-omics tumor analysis, receptor-ligand discovery, research on target signal transduction pathways, antibody discovery and engineering, drug efficacy and large animal translational medicine, biomarkers, and precision medicine.

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• Persuva AI — Grow your dropshipping store to 7 figures fast with the #1 marketing tool for dropshippers
• Protostars — Protostars is a regulatory technology business. It is the creator of a cyber risk and compliance program meant for secure code reports on audits.
• Slick+ — The Same Best Practice. Every Worker. Every Shift. Make critical know-how easy to find, follow and prove. Speak to an expert Get a Demo Trusted by global teams About Us Point-of-need learning, from warehouse to last mile Slick+ enables frontline teams capture and apply process know-how without leaving the flow of work - speeding onboarding, absense