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Top 10 Automotive Startup Investors in Ireland in May 2026

A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Automotive startups based in Ireland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Automotive companies from Ireland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Automotive Startup Investors in Ireland in May 2026

Investor Automotive Ireland investments
Enterprise Ireland 5
Act Venture Capital 2
Elkstone Capital Partners 2
Delta Partners 1
NDRC 1
Bobby Hambrick 1
Barry Lunn 1
Amazon Web Services 1
Business Venture Partners 1
Colm Menton 1

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Enterprise Ireland
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

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

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Act Venture Capital
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Technology-focused, investing capital and expertise to fuel growth in the most promising ideas and companies. Raised c.€600m across multiple funds and invest from seed to growth.We look for companies with potentially cutting-edge, category-defining businesses in markets including application software, IT infrastructure, communications, Internetand mobile. We help founders create and scale businesses globally. We work as a small team with diverse strengths accessing a community of over 200 founders. The teams and companies we back scale their investor base as they scale their business execution and ambition. We work closely with them in this process. Over the past 25 years have built a broad network of US and European investors and founders that share our vision and approach.Act is based in Dublin, Ireland.Our most recent funds are supported by the European Investment Fund.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Scurri — Scurri is next generation delivery management software that puts retailers back in control. Explore our delivery management software today.
  • Momntum — Momntum is a fintech company that provides embedded point-of-sale consumer financing.
  • Bounce Insights — Bounce Insights is a digital consumer research platform. It provides a direct link between brands and any consumer they needed to speak to by maintaining a community of active, engaged respondents on their mobile app.
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Elkstone Capital Partners
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Elkstone is an investment firm, focusing on entrepreneurs, senior executives, institutional LPs, the venture community, and the Irish diaspora.The objective of the organization is to boost the economic value and overall well-being of the island of Ireland by expanding a network, facilitating deserving investments, and delivering excellentinvestment performance.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Health Care, Medical
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Ireland, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Jamango — Create and play for free in Jamango! Play with our block-based tools to make anything or explore a library of games and worlds instantly. No downloads.
  • Barespace — Barespace provides end-to-end solutions that manage, market, and grow your beauty business.
  • TrialView Ltd — TrialView's dispute resolution software streamlines case preparation, management and presentation to give you a competitive advantage in and out of court. The AI-driven solution enhances litigation processes, including document analysis, automated creation of hyperlinked and court-compliant bundles, intelligent search, integrated real-timetranscriptions, and video conferencing. By automating time-consuming tasks and leveraging AI, TrialView significantly boosts efficiency and strengthens cases.
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Delta Partners
VC Fund · Leopardstown, Dublin, Ireland

Early stage VC investments and funding for start-ups / founders in Ireland.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Imvizar — Transform your buildings, office spaces, visitor attractions, and parks with an immersive and visual storytelling experience using augmented reality. Discover unique ways to tell your story at Imvizar.
  • ZeroMission — Fleets save money on their operations with eXo Fleets. TCO and Sustainability compliance in a Fleet-specific ERP. DATA | INSIGHTS | SAVINGS
  • MarketSizer — MarketSizer offers subscription-based competitive intelligence and market insights for SaaS vendors who want to strategically grow their business.
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NDRC
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in the past 12 months

NDRC builds high-impact new ventures. By providing the people, time, space and investment needed at the earliest stages of dedicated commercialisation work, NDRC is creating companies worthy of commercial investment and with the ability to scale. The NDRC team has the breadth of knowledge and expertise in technology and markets. NDRC worksside-by-side with researchers, entrepreneurs and venture teams to turn great ideas into successful new ventures.By the end of 2014, NDRC’s portfolio of startup ventures had secured a cumulative €88m in follow-on investment from commercial investors, with a combined market capitalisation of approx. €220m.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Bobby Hambrick
Angel · Morton, Illinois, United States

Bobby Hambrick

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Investment focus

  • Sensor, Software, Automotive
  • Seed
  • Ireland

Portfolio highlights

  • 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
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Barry Lunn
Angel

Barry Lunn, the founder and CEO of Provizio (previously founder and CEO of Arralis) takes a design led approach to tech entrepreneurship. Barry’s approach to solving difficult technology problems is as much artistic as it is actual physics.

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Investment focus

  • Sensor, Software, Aerospace
  • Seed, Angel
  • Ireland

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Amazon Web Services
VC Fund · Seattle, Washington, United States

Amazon Web Services offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. Free to join, pay only for what you use.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Grant, Funding Round, Seed
  • United States, Brazil, Lebanon

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Upstage — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.
  • The Alignment Project — The Alignment Project is dedicated to accelerating progress in AI alignment research. TAP aim is to promote the development of advanced AI systems that are safe, reliable, and beneficial to society.
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Business Venture Partners
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Business Venture Partners was founded in 2004 as a corporate finance adviser for SME/owner managed businesses. The investment team is comprised of Elliott Griffin, Ronan Smith, Edel Coen and Mark Ruane and the team skills combine deep industry knowledge with experience in venture investing, corporate finance and international expansion. Theteam works on behalf of its clients buying and selling companies, raising finances, working with start-ups and advising on strategic growth, business succession and owner exits.Since 2007, BVP has successfully raised and managed 10 Simple Green BES and EII Funds. They have invested, on behalf of their investors, in some of Ireland’s most innovative companies such as Celtic Bioenergy, EFT Controls, and UrbanVolt. Our investment strategy is to spread investments over project finance and a portfolio of high potential companies. Their philosophy is to work hard with each investment to deliver valuable support for the company promoters and build shareholder value for their investors.In 2016 BVP launched The 10th BVP Green EII Fund. The fund provides eligible investors with the opportunity to avail of up to 40% income tax relief and provides the investor access to a portfolio of cleantech companies and renewable energy projects. The 11th Green Fund will be launched in Q4 2017.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Information Technology, Medical
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Ireland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

  • OOHPod — OOHPod, your new Out Of Home Flexible Address, will revolutionise the way you send and receive parcels
  • Advise — Advise Freemium is a ground-breaking automated data analytics for CPG solution. Discover how Advise can assist your Revenue Growth Management.
  • Positive Carbon — Positive Carbon provides an innovative solution for businesses to track, manage, and reduce food waste. With real-time analytics, CO2 calculation, and a comprehensive learning platform, we help you save costs and achieve sustainability goals. Request a demo today to start making a positive environmental impact.
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Colm Menton
Angel

Europcar Ireland, CEO, Colm Menton

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Parking, Automotive
  • Seed, Corporate Round
  • Ireland

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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