Top 10 Digital Media VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Ireland in September 2025
A list of 10 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Digital media startups based in Ireland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Digital media companies from Ireland. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Digital Media VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Ireland in September 2025
Investor | Digital Media Ireland investments |
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Enterprise Ireland | 8 |
Act Venture Capital | 5 |
Frontline Ventures | 4 |
Tribal.vc | 4 |
NDRC | 2 |
Business Venture Partners | 2 |
Tribal Ventures | 1 |
Western Development Commission | 1 |
AIB Seed Capital Fund | 1 |
Furthr | 1 |
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
- Axe — Axe provides modern logistics solutions for businesses of all sizes. Streamline your logistics process with our innovative platform.
- Assiduous — The AI-enabled platform to do the heavy-lifting for business owners seeking finance for their aspiring growth company.
- Galway Biomedical — Galway Biomedical is your trusted Original Design Manufacturing (ODM) partner for biomaterial based medical devices & implant products.
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
- Momntum — Momntum is a fintech company that provides embedded point-of-sale consumer financing.
- Trustap — Learn how we make buying & selling online safe & secure, every time. Create an account for free today!
- Advise — Advise Freemium is a ground-breaking automated data analytics for CPG solution. Discover how Advise can assist your Revenue Growth Management.
Frontline is the venture firm for globally ambitious B2B companies on both sides of the Atlantic. Frontline Seed speeds up ideas at inception across Europe. Frontline X is a growth-stage fund, for fast and frictionless US-Europe expansion.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Ireland, United Kingdom
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- Hydrolix — Hydrolix is an early-stage startup with an ambition to change the economics of high density data. The company develops a query service technology intended to process petabyte-scale time series data.Hydrolix's cloud-based query service utilizes proprietary compression and indexing technology, allowing customers to process sub-secondinteractive queries at a fraction of the cost of other existing services.
- Kota — Replace your tools, brokers and outdated processes with the only platform that handles the entire employee benefits journey.
- Cloudsmith — Cloudsmith is the only universal, cloud-native solution for software artifact management and software supply chain security. Start your free trial today.
Tribal.vc is a leading Venture Capital firm investing in the next generation of transformative companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Conjura — The eCommerce Analytics platform
- GREYSCOUT — Need brand protection? Our best brand protection software monitors & removes unauthorized listings, helping businesses fight online counterfeiting.
- &Open — For businesses that gift to give back, share joy, or show they care. All you need is an email.
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
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.
Tribal Ventures is an early stage investment fund based in New York City and Princeton, NJ. Tribal Ventures makes selective investments, focused on opportunities where their deep industry knowledge can meaningfully help entrepreneurs take their businesses to the next level.The Tribal team has senior level operational experience in Adtech, mobileand TV technology, sales & marketing strategy/execution, revenue generation and product development.
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Investment focus
- Software, Analytics, Advertising
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Meili — Meili is a built technology that allows mobility company to interact with travel partners offering a frictionless consumer experience.
- PageFair — PageFair’s mission is to sustain the open web by re-establishing a fair deal between users and content creators. The company does this by helping website owners and publishers detect and measure adblock, and protecting advertising inventory from being blocked.The company has two products: 1) PageFair Analytics, which is used by thousands ofpublishers for free, and measures adblock on over 11 billion pageviews per month, and 2) PageFair Ads, which serves advertising in a manner that adblockers are unable to circumvent, and solves the speed, privacy, and UX issues that cause adblocking in the first place.PageFair's founders personally experienced the damage adblocking can do to a website. While they recognize that visitors need to defend themselves from distracting, intrusive, inappropriate, disingenuous or malicious advertising, the rise of adblocking is now leading to the death of quality free websites.PageFair is an international startup based in Dublin, Ireland. Founded in 2012, the company was initially funded by its founders with additional seed capital from Tribal Ventures, Frontline Ventures, and Enterprise Ireland. Thoudands of publishers now use PageFair to measure the extent to which they are affected by adblocking and to display advertising to adblockers.PageFair is the global authority on adblocking trends, cited in The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Economist, Advertising Age, and others.
Supporting communities to grow, investing in businesses to scale and planning for the future of the western region.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Ovagen — Ovagen is a biotechnology company that has developed the process of producing germ free (GF) chicken eggs and GF birds in commercial quantities for use primarily in the pharmaceutical industry. Ovagen can also provide a Contract Research Service and has extensive expertise in SPF poultry & rodent housing & husbandry, in specific poultry& rodent research technologies to GMP standards and in avian transgenics.
- Peroptyx — Peroptyx is a platform that provides managed solutions for machine learning. At Peroptyx, they have assembled and pre-screened a qualified network of data evaluators across the globe. They strategically match ideal evaluators with each product to ensure authentic experiences through consistency and appropriate real-world contexts.
- Galway Biomedical — Galway Biomedical is your trusted Original Design Manufacturing (ODM) partner for biomaterial based medical devices & implant products.
The AIB Seed Capital Fund was established in 2007 to provide venture capital for companies at the seed and early stages of development across a range of sectors throughout the Republic of Ireland. The Fund was established under the Enterprise Ireland Seed and Venture Capital Programme 2007-2012.The Fund has a total of €30m under managementwith AIB and Enterprise Ireland both committing €15m. It is managed by experienced managers with extensive expertise in making seed and early stage investments, adding value and facilitating business success.The Fund managers are empowered to make seed investments of up to approximately €500,000. Furthermore, the Fund has the capacity to make investments in later rounds to support the continued growth of investee companies.The Fund will be managed by Enterprise Equity Venture Capital and the Dublin Business Innovation Centre. This unique partnership brings together extensive regional and investment expertise.Enterprise Equity will evaluate and manage all investments outside the city and county of Dublin, as well as investments that require in excess of €250,000 from the fund within the city and county of Dublin.Dublin Business Innovation Centre (DBIC) will evaluate and manage all investments within the city and county of Dublin when the initial investment amount required from the Fund does not exceed €250,000.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Medical
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Ireland, United States, Jersey
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Dublin Business Innovation Centre (DBIC) was established in 1988 with private, public, educational and EU support.
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Investment focus
- Software, Web Development, Analytics
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Ireland, United States, Luxembourg
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- CroíValve — CroíValve is a developed a safe, effective, easy to use, percutaneous solution for treating all patients with severe Tricuspid Regurgitation
- VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.
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