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Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Ireland (October 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Ireland Hardware startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Ireland Hardware startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Enterprise Ireland
VC Fund
82 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant Software, Health Care, Information Technology $16k–$8.3M
Kernel Capital
VC Fund
17 Ireland, United Kingdom, France Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Health Care $531k–$12M
Act Venture Capital
VC Fund
16 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1M–$13M
NDRC
VC Fund
14 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Delta Partners
VC Fund
13 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $812k–$6.6M
Elkstone Capital Partners
VC Fund
13 Ireland, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $797k–$18M
Sure Valley Ventures
VC Fund
9 United Kingdom, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $889k–$57M
Frontline Ventures
VC Fund
8 United States, United Kingdom, Ireland Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $405k–$17M
Atlantic Bridge
VC Fund
8 United States, Ireland, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.1M–$62M
SOSV
VC Fund
7 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Enterprise Equity
VC Fund
7 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Health Care $549k–$7.5M
AIB Seed Capital Fund
VC Fund
7 Ireland, United States, Jersey Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Medical $549k–$8.1M
HBAN
VC Fund
7 Ireland, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Software, Medical Device $375k–$7.3M
Unpopular Ventures
VC Fund
6 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services $500k–$34M
Furthr VC
VC Fund
5 Ireland Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Medical Device, Medical $753k–$17M
Anamcara Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Financial Services $1.3M–$22M
Finch Capital
VC Fund
4 United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Ireland Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $252k–$55M
Business Venture Partners
VC Fund
3 Ireland, The Netherlands, Luxembourg Seed, Series A Health Care, Information Technology, Medical $665k–$12M
Growing Capital
VC Fund
3 Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $3.2k–$1.9M
Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity fund
VC Fund
3 Ireland Seed, Series A Software, Photography, SaaS $384k–$1M
Accel
VC Fund
3 United States, India, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1.3M–$75M
NDRC LaunchPad
VC Fund
3 Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Augmented Reality, Energy
Tapestry VC
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, Ireland Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2.6M–$70M
New Venture Partners
VC Fund
3 United States, Ireland, Australia Series A, Series C Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology $2.5M–$33M
COSIMO Ventures
VC Fund
3 Ireland, United States, Japan Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech $1M–$5M
Enzo Ventures
VC Fund
3 Spain, United States, Italy Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence $269k–$21M
Wayra
VC Fund
3 Spain, United Kingdom, Brazil Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $40k–$5.8M
Western Development Commission
VC Fund
3 Ireland, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology $702k–$17M
Molten Ventures
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $3.2M–$200M
Development Capital
VC Fund
3 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Software, Manufacturing, Telecommunications $3.5M–$11M
Barry Lunn
Angel
2 Ireland Seed, Angel Sensor, Software, Aerospace $1.4M–$6.2M
Claret Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Post-IPO Debt Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $1.6M–$165M
Innovation Ulster
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Ireland Seed, Series A Health Care, Biotechnology, iOS $106k–$4.3M
Infinity Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Ireland, Canada Series B, Series D, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Semiconductor $4M–$50M
EdgeStone Partners
VC Fund
2 Canada, Ireland Series B, Series A Software, Computer, Information Technology
Nigel Byrne
Angel
2 Ireland Seed Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality $847k–$1.7M
PROTOCOL — by GETTYLAB
VC Fund
2 United States, France, Germany Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $125k–$10M
CircleRock Capital
VC Fund
2 Ireland, United Kingdom, United States Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech $1.5M–$24M
EIT Urban Mobility
VC Fund
2 Spain, Sweden, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Transportation, Information Technology
Intel Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, China, Israel Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
SVG Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Ireland Pre-Seed, Seed AgTech, Agriculture, Farming
GAN Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Ireland, Kenya Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Information Technology, Health Care $100k–$4.9M
Focus Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 Ireland, United Kingdom Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Software, Fuel, Solar $3.6M–$33M
Rocktop Partners
VC Fund
2 Ireland, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Rental, Computer, Software
Northstar Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, E-Commerce $39k–$10M
Michael Dwyer
Angel
2 Ireland Seed, Angel Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality $847k–$1.7M
Chris Murphy
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $450k–$35M
Marc McCabe
Angel
2 United States, Canada, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Big Data $1.3M–$8.1M
ff Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Poland, Canada Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $305k–$12M
Amici Ventures
VC Fund
2 Ireland Seed, Series A Internet, Analytics, E-Commerce
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Enterprise Ireland
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 82 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 890
  • Round size: Seed $399k–$3.2M; Grant $16k–$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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Kernel Capital
VC Fund · Cork, Cork, Ireland · 17 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

Kernel Capital is the independent manager of The Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Venture Funds, one of the largest and most active sources of equity finance on the island of Ireland. Kernel leverage their extensive network to enable their portfolio companies recruit the highest caliber people, to break into new international markets and to generaterevenues of scale. It is the only investment firm with venture capital Funds dedicated to both jurisdictions on the Island. Kernel have raised over €210M from investors which including their strategic partner Bank of Ireland, Invest NI, Enterprise Ireland, Galway University Foundation, The University of Limerick Foundation, The New York State Common Retirement Fund and undisclosed Family Offices. Consistently delivering strong financial returns for their investors Kernel have led more than 20 substantial trade sales to NASDAQ, NYSE, and LSE listed corporations.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 96
  • Round size: Seed $531k–$2M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.2M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $40M in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • Cirdan — Cirdan provides highly reliable, innovative LIS & imaging solutions for the acceleration & enhancement of diagnosis, optimized for pathology & clinical lab.
  • preico — Preico Network empowers Web2 and Web3 developers to create, own, and monetize crypto-native AI models on a decentralized platform
  • Pretto — Pretto is the only truly transparent online real estate price comparator.Pretto accompanies you until the signing of your loan, free of charge and without commitment.
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Act Venture Capital
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 16 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 165
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $2.3M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $146M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Ubotica — AI-powered maritime surveillance and intelligence that predicts risk, tasks satellites and delivers verified insights to protect critical infrastructure and detect 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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NDRC
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 14 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 110
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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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Delta Partners
VC Fund · Leopardstown, Dublin, Ireland · 13 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 116
  • Round size: Seed $812k–$3M; Series A $1.6M–$6.6M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $76M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Elkstone Capital Partners
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 13 investments in Ireland Hardware startups, 11 in the past 12 months

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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 98
  • Round size: Seed $797k–$5.8M; Series A $5.5M–$18M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$7.8M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $108M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • 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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Sure Valley Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 9 investments in Ireland Hardware startups, 11 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $889k–$5.9M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$4.1M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% 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.
  • Xylo — Xylo offers higher quality processes with full officer oversight, reducing planning uncertainty and boosting UK housing delivery.
  • BeCertain — BeCertain revolutionizes dental diagnostics with AI-powered tools for X-ray analysis, improving precision and reducing diagnostic errors.
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Frontline Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 8 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 210
  • Round size: Seed $796k–$5.7M; Pre-Seed $405k–$2.6M; Series A $3.7M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $82M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
  • Stanhope AI — Stanhope AI is a deep-tech startup based in London with a strong background in neuroscience, robotics and fintech. We are bringing Active Inference to market as a novel framework for autonomous decision-making. To contend with the challenges of contemporary AIs, our distinct approach aims to offer
  • HelmGuard AI — HelmGuard develops an AI-driven trust infrastructure platform for security, compliance, and third-party risk management. The company provides an operational risk infrastructure layer that centralizes fragmented security, compliance, and vendor data into a structured repository. Its platform coordinates autonomous, domain-specific AI agents thatperform continuous data indexing, compliance mapping, automated vendor assessments, and real-time security tracking. HelmGuard includes a risk operating system, a zero-knowledge verification engine for selective disclosure and cryptographic-style proofs, and persona-specific risk intelligence reporting. These capabilities support first-party, third-party, and customer-facing workflows across sectors such as financial services, SaaS, and healthcare. The platform is used by security, risk, and compliance teams to maintain continuous oversight of internal controls, vendor posture, and regulatory obligations while generating tailored, natural-language reports for business stakeholders.
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Atlantic Bridge
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 8 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

Atlantic Bridge is a Growth Equity Firm with a Cross Border Value Add strategy. We invest in deep technology companies in Europe and the US. Our team is made up of successful entrepreneurs and senior technology industry executives and we invest in strong ambitious entrepreneurs and management teams that have the passion and drive to scale up andexploit major growth opportunities. We help our portfolio companies expand and grow internationally through our global platform with our team and offices in London, Dublin, Munich, Paris and Palo Alto.Atlantic Bridge brings together a unique team of technology entrepreneurs, experienced managers, finance professionals, and investment experts. The team contains a wealth of international business experience across Europe, the UK and the US. They have worked together in various capacities for the last 30 years, bringing a true partnership approach to their firm and their investments. Its investors include the founders, leading institutional investors, and private investors with a track record of investment in successful technology companies.Atlantic Bridge has developed a unique and differentiated strategy that focuses on specific technology themes and the implementation of the “Atlantic Bridge Model” for scaling companies internationally. The “Bridge Model” accelerates the scale-up of technology companies in Europe and the US. This approach is highly differentiated and has delivered strong performance results to date.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Ireland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 154
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.5M; Series A $5M–$26M; Series B $10M–$62M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $97M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • GloNav — GloNav develops global positioning system and satellite navigation technologies and products for the wireless handset and mobile consumer electronics device markets. It offers global positioning system radio frequency integrated circuits and single chip assisted-global positioning systems, which are used for low dropout tracking and cellularhandset integration. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Newport Beach, California. It has locations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Taiwan. As of January 2008, GloNav, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of NXP B.V.
  • Mindgard — Mindgard is the leading provider of AI Red Teaming solutions.
  • Neurobell — NeuroBell develop novel EEG medical devices for early detection and monitoring of neonatal seizures.
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SOSV
VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 7 investments in Ireland Hardware startups, 75 in the past 12 months

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1482
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
  • unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
  • Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
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Enterprise Equity
VC Fund · Dundalk, Louth, Ireland · 7 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

Enterprise Equity (or EEVC) is an excellent for providing capital to early stage and expanding business throughout Ireland.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $549k–$2.2M; Series B $2.6M–$7.5M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Phorest — Join 8000+ spas, barbers, hair, beauty and nail salon owners using the #1 management, scheduling, POS and appointment booking system. Try Phorest now!
  • SurgaColl — SurgaColl Technologies is a medical device company developing novel tissue regeneration products for the surgical treatment of diseases of the bone, cartilage and other human tissue. Based on technology developed at the Tissue Engineering Research Group (TERG) of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), headed by Professor Fergal O’Brien,the company aims to become a leader in the field of regenerative medical devices.
  • 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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AIB Seed Capital Fund
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 7 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, United States, Jersey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $549k–$3.6M; Series A $1.1M–$8.1M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

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.
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HBAN
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 7 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

HBAN is dedicated to raising the profile of business angel investment as an asset class on the island of Ireland and to promote the creation of business angel syndicates.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Medical Device
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 74
  • Round size: Seed $623k–$3.6M; Venture - Series Unknown $375k–$7.3M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $11M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Movetru — Movetru a wearable device that aims to reduce injury and enhance rehabilitation.
  • Glitch Ads — GlitchAds intends to democratize advertising by "leveraging" adverts and artificial intelligence.
  • Change by Degrees — Change by degrees supports individuals and organizations in developing sustainable competencies and gaining self-assurance to achieve sustainability goals, expand their businesses, and adhere to legal requirements.
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Unpopular Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

The best companies, off the beaten path.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 622
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$8M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.6M; Series A $6M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $13k in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Sourcepulse — Your early warning system for software delivery (YC S23)
  • Morphic — The Sovereign AI platform for organizations to own their tribal knowledge
  • NORDA Dynamics — NORDA Dynamics is an autonomous UAV piloting system for carrying out missions in areas with limited connectivity.
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Furthr VC
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 5 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

We are a relationship driven early stage VC investor. We invest in and form close partnerships with the founders we back.We make initial investments at Seed to Series A stage in highly ambitious, born global Irish software and medtech companies. We are hands-on and support teams across key strategic areas to accelerate growth.In addition toproviding institutional investment at an early stage, we reserve significant capital for following on in subsequent rounds. We go the journey with founders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Medical Device, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $797k–$6.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $753k–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $36M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • WrxFlo — WrxFlo deliver real time data insights and software solutions to allow business achieve greater levels of supply chain efficiencies
  • Trustap — Learn how we make buying & selling online safe & secure, every time. Create an account for free today!
  • Neurobell — NeuroBell develop novel EEG medical devices for early detection and monitoring of neonatal seizures.
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Anamcara Capital
VC Fund · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · 4 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

Anamcara invests in B2B software enabling small and medium-sized businesses, leading the next revolution of commerce.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $3.2M–$7.6M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$5.2M; Series A $16M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $11M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Prolo — Prolo is an AI powered procurement experts for construction. Streamline material orders, get market-tested pricing from 185+ brands, and protect your margins.
  • Omniscient — Omniscient is a decision intelligence platform for senior corporate leadership. Omniscient platform is to aggregate and synthesize external and internal data into a centralized management cockpit.
  • Omniscient — Omniscient is a Paris-based AI-powered decision intelligence platform designed for boards and C-suite executives. It aggregates data from over 100,000 sources like media, social channels, and internal systems to deliver real-time, contextualized insights on corporate reputation, geopolitical risks, narrative strategy, and more.
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Finch Capital
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 4 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

Backing entrepreneurs to build Financial Technology market leaders in Europe and South East Asia. Finch Capital invests in financial services, real estate tech, insurance tech, etc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $252k–$5.5M; Series A $2.7M–$16M; Series B $5M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $159M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Ayoconnect — API pulsa, token listrik, e-money, dan PPOB terlengkap. Ayoconnect menghubungkan 50+ platform ke 3.000 produk digital.
  • in3 — in3 is a Dutch FinTech, founded in 2018 at the heart of Eindhoven's innovative top technology region with one goal: creating ease of payment for online shoppers. We offer BNPL to consumers to pay in 3 instalments at 0% interest. At the same time, we take over the potential risks of the webshop. We are a social responsible BNPL solution whichdoes not make money out people who pay late or don't pay but out of succesfull payments. We don't charge late fees and with our state of the art credit check we offer consuments a spending limit that doesn't get them in debts.The former company name Capayable B.V., founded in 2013, which offered Pay Later and Pay in 3 instalments is officially rebranded into in3.
  • APEXX — The APEXX payment gateway consolidates global payment providers into a single integration point, optimising the cost of complex payment ecosystems.
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Business Venture Partners
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 3 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

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

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, The Netherlands, Luxembourg

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $665k–$4.7M; Series A $2.3M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Growing Capital
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 3 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

Growing Capital is an early-stage investment firm specialized in supporting startups with their roots in Ireland.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $272k–$1.9M; Pre-Seed $3.2k–$541k
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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
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Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity fund
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 3 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

The Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity fund is a joint fund built with contributions from the Bank of Ireland, the University of Limerick Foundation, and government-backed The seed fund will invest in export-oriented high potential firms that operate in the technology, food and financial services sectors, inaddition to supporting patent and patent pending projects within Irish universities, targeting investments between EUR 100K-500K. The new fund comprises of a €17 million investment by Bank of Ireland, along with funding of €8 million from Enterprise Ireland and € 1million by the University of Limerick Foundation. It will be managed by

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Photography, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $384k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $40M in 2011

Portfolio highlights

  • Pulsate — Pulsate enables direct communication with customers based on their location, context, interests and behaviours. Pulsate allows you to design and push rich media content directly to customers devices. Deepen the relationship by establishing a customer dialogue. Allow users to reply to your campaigns, provide feedback and keep complaints outside ofsocial media. Maximize foot traffic by targeting street level or competitor locations. Combine with segmentation for optimal results. iBeacons:tm: enable you to understand indoor customer location and context with incredible accuracy. Easily manage deployment and configuration of iBeacons:tm: with the Pulsate cloud platform. Gain a deeper understanding of your mobile customers and a comprehensive view of each mobile campaign.
  • LegitFit — LegitFit is the operating system empowering gym/studio owners to succeed by automating their workflows, reducing cancellations and maximising their customers’ experience. We believe that those who help people achieve their health goals deserve to be empowered to manage less and earn more.
  • Certification Europe — Achieve and maintain compliance with the most in-demand standards with Amtivo. We help organisations reach their true potential.
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Accel
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 3 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2492
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$10M; Series A $4.3M–$40M; Series B $10M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $750M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Vectra AI — Vectra AI, the cybersecurity AI company that protects modern networks from modern attacks.
  • MobStac — Developer of a cloud-based mobile marketing platform designed to connect the digital and physical worlds through the use of innovative technology. The company's platform is based on the principals of proximity marketing and engage customers in a personalized, context-aware way that leverages indoor location and proximity, enabling businessesand brands to leverage BLE beacon technology to deliver context-rich experiences to their end users.
  • Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
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NDRC LaunchPad
VC Fund · 3 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Augmented Reality, Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GameX — GameX is an award winning recommendation engine for the gaming industry.GameX is the first company to connect the data of the 4 segments of the gaming industry - Mobile, Console, Handheld and PC.By doing this, GameX.io can learn exactly what type of game a gamer should play next. This is done by the GameX recommendation engine analysingthings such as previous game achievements, in game time spent, money spent on games, social media interaction and even hardware requirements.Combining these and hundreds of other factors. GameX can guarantee that the recommendations provided are the best out there.GameX can even cross recommend. This means that it can look at a console history and recommend mobile games, or an xbox history and recommend PC games. This has never been done before.GameX can also recommend the best gamers to connect with, the most interested developers to follow. It even gives personal analytics into the gamers own personal persona.Releasing the open alpha on the 22/09/2016. GameX has already seen over 50,000 signups for its alpha in the space of 8 weeks.
  • Skmmp — SKMMP is a centralised digital wholesale platform enabling RTW Fashion Designers and Brands transact their wholesale orders with high end global Retailers. We offer retailers a 24/7 showroom for brand discovery, fashion week appointment scheduling, order documentation and realtime data on inventory orders and deliveries. For designers SKMMPoffers a 24/7 showroom enabling remote access to view, browse collections and place orders, buyer visibility via SKMMP's 20 years industry relations and efficiency for more established brands scaling sales volume into existing and new territories.
  • KinetikIQ — KinetikIQ specializes in advanced motion capture systems that focus on athletic performance and health monitoring. Their products provide real-time analysis of movement, allowing athletes and coaches to understand biomechanics and improve training. KinetikIQ's motion capture solutions track and analyze movements with precision, offeringinsights into performance metrics. The platform includes data analysis tools that help users identify strengths and weaknesses, facilitating the creation of personalized training programs. Additionally, KinetikIQ offers training solutions that incorporate motion capture data into practice sessions to support skill development and injury prevention. Their technology also provides health insights to help athletes monitor their physical condition and recovery. KinetikIQ aims to support athletes in various sports with data-driven insights and training methodologies.
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Tapestry VC
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

Investing in technical and repeat founders across Europe & US. Seed and early investors in Hopin, Pitch, MetaMap, Manna, Zapp, Crossbeam, Nothing, Standard and more.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 80
  • Round size: Seed $2.6M–$8.8M; Series A $10M–$40M; Series B $15M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $80M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Requesty — The AI gateway. One API for 600+ models, routed intelligently. Built for teams shipping AI to production.
  • Tracebit — Tracebit generates and maintains bespoke decoy resources in your cloud environments, closing gaps beyond stock protection without time- and cost-intensive detection engineering
  • Seapoint — Business accounts, treasury and expense automation - built to scale with you. Join our beta programme and get your unfair financial advantage.
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New Venture Partners
VC Fund · Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, United States · 3 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

New Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in corporate spinouts. It focuses on incubation, seed, and early stage investments. The firm invests in underleveraged or underutilized corporate assets; technology or concept ready for commercial product development that is not seeking capital for additional research; product andunderlying technology that is meaningfully differentiated along dimensions that matter to potential customers; and where preliminary research suggesting there are customers willing to pay for the product or service. It seeks to commercialize corporate technologies through the creation of independent ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Ireland, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Series A $2.5M–$33M; Series C $6M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $275M in 2006

Portfolio highlights

  • ISPSoft — ISPSoft offers the only highly scalable architecture and products to expand ISP (including broadband ISP) operations and services while reducing operational costs. ISPSoft's products solve multi-level user needs, scaling from 1000's to tens of millions of users. As a result, the breadth of ISPSoft's customers include regional ISPs tonational carriers making ISPSoft's products an industry standard. ISPSoft's core technology, the NetSOP Internet provisioner, addresses the immediate needs of ISPs and ASPs, as well as the needs of the emerging broadband ISP/CLEC industry. Their unique patent-pending technology provides service activation, scalable to over 25 million users.
  • NVMdurance — NVMdurance delivers via software, a set of NAND Flash optimization techniques developed over the past 13 years by our technical co-founders Joe Sullivan and Conor Ryan.
  • Brisbane Materials Technology — Brisbane Materials aims to be the leading supplier of anti-reflective and anti-soiling coatings for solar and other applications. Born out of the University of Queensland in 2005, Brisbane Materials builds on six years and significant investment in technology and application experience. Longer term, Brisbane Materials will extend its unique roomtemperature and atmospheric pressure synthesis of glass and ceramic coatings to a wide variety of materials systems and applications.
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COSIMO Ventures
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 3 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

COSIMO digital, previously COSIMO Ventures, is a pioneering digital asset management firm offering asset management, advisory, custody, broker-dealer, and blockchain and Web3 development services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$3M; Series A $1.4M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • IXS — The Regulated AI Agentic RWA Settlement Layer for Tokenized RWAs. Powering humans + autonomous AI agents with licensed infrastructure. https://t.co/wpwjymDTOB
  • ICHI — Grow any token with low-slippage, on-chain liquidity
  • BEASY — BEASY Wallet & Forge makes it easy for collectors and creators to mint, buy, sell, trade, and manage their own NFTs. No crypto knowledge required!
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Enzo Ventures
VC Fund · Madrid, Madrid, Spain · 3 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

We are an early-stage VC fund investing in tech companies that meet future generation needs

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Spain, United States, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $551k–$13M; Pre-Seed $269k–$2.2M; Series A $5.4M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $23M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Opereit — Opereit believes that their AI agents can become a vital tool for logistics operators, transforming a neglected area of loss into a source of recovered revenue.
  • Complaion — Complaion is a compliance technology company that provides software services for regulatory compliance and management system certifications.
  • Orbio — Orbio AI is your AI-powered HR team. Automate hiring, improve match quality, engage talent across channels, and understand your organization. Built for companies that employ at scale. Giving HR leaders time and data to drive true organizational impact.
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Wayra
VC Fund · Madrid, Madrid, Spain · 3 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world. We currently operate in 10 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with drivenentrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant
  • Geography: Spain, United Kingdom, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 531
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$2.4M; Grant $40k–$387k; Venture - Series Unknown $150k–$5.8M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • 1DOC3 — 1doc3 is a e-health platform that connects 490 million of Spanish speaking people with licensed and trusted doctors. Users find personalized answers to their health related questions. Doctors build their online reputation, find new patients and create the biggest health related questions and answers curated database in Spanish. The Platform isavailable via web, App, SMS and USSD, allowing the entire population to have access to a Doctor no matter where they are, or even if they don't have internet access.
  • Devengo — Light-speed transfers. Our Instant Payments API enables seamless integration to automate payouts to your customers in Europe and the UK.
  • Quantum Bridge — Quantum Bridge is a pioneer in Distributed Symmetric Key Exchange (DSKE) technology. It offers quantum-safe cybersecurity products and services. Quantum-safe product and services, Quantum-safe roadmap and quantum-safe solutions implementation.
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Western Development Commission
VC Fund · Ballaghaderreen, Roscommon, Ireland · 3 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

Supporting communities to grow, investing in businesses to scale and planning for the future of the western region.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $702k–$3.9M; Series A $2.2M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $753k–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

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 partners with global medical device companies to bring complex braided devices from early concept through to full-scale production.
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Molten Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

Molten Ventures is a leading British venture capital firm backing Europe’s highest-growth private technology companies. Our expert investment team stay ahead of the curve, identifying transformative trends and next-generation companies before they break through. We combine multiple pools of capital to invest at all stages of the businesslifecycle—from seed and early stage to growth and late stage—focusing on disruptive sectors like Spacetech, Fintech, and AI. Our strategy is simple: back bold ideas, scale them with capital and expertise, and unlock high-value exits—whether through strategic acquisitions, trade buy-outs, or IPOs. Since our 2016 IPO, we’ve delivered strong realised returns, reinvesting into the next wave of innovation—creating a virtuous cycle of growth and value.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 232
  • Round size: Series A $3.2M–$31M; Series B $7.9M–$60M; Series C $11M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $7M in 2011

Portfolio highlights

  • XMOS — In 2005, a small team assembled to create a fast and flexible microcontroller that would enable designers to respond quickly to diversifying market demand. The first (XS1) and second (xcore-200) generation processors put unprecedented I/O capability (available through software for the first time) alongside significant DSP and controlprocessing – establishing XMOS as a name in the audio sector.The vision quickly shifted towards AI. Caught between two very different technical and commercial models, Graphcore was formed to focus on server-side AI, and XMOS continued the quest towards low-cost embedded intelligence (edge-AI). Most recently XMOS enabled voice to become mainstream, releasing the XVF3510 – a disruptive high-performance, low cost far-field 2-mic voice interface. This was followed up with xcore.ai – a new crossover processor for the AIoT that brings AI, DSP, control and I/O together in a single device.
  • MAIA Technology — MAIA is a cloud native, API-first platform that unifies mission-critical data, Portfolio Management, Trading & Compliance, Risk & Performance, IBOR and Middle Office workflows into one architecture.
  • Mobile Travel Technologies — Mobile Travel Technologies (MTT) is the leading mobile travel technology specialist for airlines, hotels and travel intermediaries with an extensive customer base across the global travel industry.MTT’s advanced mobile travel platform powers some of the most successful and highest revenue generating mobile channels in the travel industry. As apioneer in this space having first launched mobile bookings for airlines in 2006, MTT has remained a first mover in mobile travel and has picked up many awards along the way for its successful, customer focused travel apps & mobile sites. MTT offers its clients unrivalled travel industry expertise, world-class mobile development, creative design, mobile usability expertise and a sophisticated mobile travel platform. MTT clients include Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia), the flag carrier for Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, LAN Airlines in Chile and TAM Airlines in Brazil (the LATAM Airlines Group), easyJet, transavia.com of the Air France KLM Group, Flybe, Jumeirah Group and Atlantis The Palm, Dubai.
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Development Capital
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 3 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

At Development Capital, they are aware of the significant growth opportunities available to mid-sized companies and understand the management teams’ unique requirement for not only finance, but also for a funding partner who will bring experience, expertise and international reach to assist secure and maximise the business growth opportunity.Development Capital provides investee companies with a unique and unprecedented partnership approach which will maximise the growth opportunity in the most prompt and efficient manner. In addition to their experienced Investment Directors, their partners include:High profile and experienced Industry Experts who will provide direction and support to investee companies; andMajor Irish Corporates who have committed not only funding but also their international experience.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Telecommunications
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Venture - Series Unknown $3.5M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $103M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Zartis — Zartis is a global technology consulting partner specialising in AI transformation and advanced engineering. We help organisations integrate AI across their teams, systems, and products - turning ambition into practical, production-ready capability.
  • IP Telecom — Ireland's most competitive SME & Enterprise VoIP provider. We are Ireland's leading VoIP Phone Systems Provider. Connect your business to the technology of today.
  • Spotlight Oral Care — Spotlight Oral Care aims to create the best oral health products, to educate and promote oral care, empowering people to engage with true customised preventative oral care.
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Barry Lunn
Angel · Limerick, Limerick, Ireland · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

Barry Lunn is based out of Limerick, Limerick and is the Founder & CEO of Provizio. Barry previously worked at Arralis as a Founder & Group CEO. Barry Lunn attended the University of Limerick. Barry Lunn has received Deloitte FAST 50 - Rising Star and High Potential Exporter Award in their career.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sensor, Software, Aerospace
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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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Claret Capital Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Claret Capital provides specialty debt financing to European growth businesses, predominantly in the technology, life sciences and environmental sectors. Typical loan sizes range from €1M-€40M with the flexibility to do larger transactions opportunistically.They look for investment opportunities in high growth business with proven managementteams in need of capital to fuel organic growth, acquisitions, equipment purchases, bridge loans and various forms of recapitalization.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 119
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $5.5M–$165M; Debt Financing $1.9M–$29M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.6M–$95M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $410M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Open Cosmos — Open Cosmos design, build and operate space missions, providing straightforward access to high quality satellite data and insights on a global scale.
  • Neurent Medical — Discover NEUROMARK, a minimally invasive solution for Chronic Rhinitis that targets the posterior nasal nerve to provide lasting symptom relief.
  • Affluent Medical — Affluent Medical develops innovative new-generation mini-invasive implants to restore essential physiological functions in these areas: - Kardiozis aims to prevent endoleaks and risks of recurrence of the abdominal aortic aneurysm allowing patients to live more serenely facing an unpredictable risk of breakage; - Kalios and Epygon aim to providemore physiological surgical treatments for the repair or replacement of the mitral valve of the heart. Kalios can treat residual post-operative leakage and recurrent mitral insufficiency without having to reoperate patients. Epygon is today the only developing transcatheter valve to restore natural blood flow and safeguard the left ventricle. - Finally, Artus is the first electronically activatable artificial sphincter to treat stress urinary incontinence in men and women.
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Innovation Ulster
VC Fund · Newtownabbey, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

The wholly owned knowledge and technology venturing company of Ulster University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, iOS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $106k–$781k; Series A $3.1M–$4.3M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ilimex — Ilimex designs air purification and sterilisation units.
  • PulseAI — A.I. powered heart screening. #ai #ecg #cardiotwitter
  • Neurovalens — Neurovalens delivers innovative solutions in the field of neuroscience, bioscience and neurophysiology.Neurovalens has received support from Invest NI under the European Union’s Investment for Growth and Jobs Programme. The project, recorded on the ERDF beneficiaries’ website, will be implemented over the next one year, undertaking research anddevelopment activities aimed at improving the competitiveness of the business.
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Infinity Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

Infinity Capital are hypothesis-driven investors - constantly calibrating ideas through a Silicon Valley/technology network that they've been building for over two decades. Their extensive technology and operating backgrounds, combined with over a dozen years each of successful startup investing, have been essential in buildingcredibility and a reputation that resonates with entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Semiconductor
  • Stage:Series B, Series D, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Ireland, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Series A $5.4M–$24M; Series B $9M–$50M; Series D $4M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.4M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • AltraTech — Next Generation Molecular Detection Discover Altratech Next Generation Molecular Detection Discover Altratech At Altratech, our mission is to enable next generation molecular detection.
  • BioSapien — BioSapien is a pre-clinical biotech company developing novel biodegradable implantable products that deliver active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for oncology indications with reduced systemic side effects. The applications for this technology are currently under investigation for pancreatic cancer and lung cancer. The intended pipeline ofindications is expected to expand into other cancers such as colorectal, breast, and stomach cancers. BioSapien's 3D-printed MediChip delivers FDA-approved toxic high-dose systemic therapies in a localized slow-release biodegradable mesh which is able to target tissues while improving patients' quality of care and life.
  • Core Starters — Core Starters services startups and investors through blockchain-based decentralized services to solve real problems.
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EdgeStone Partners
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

EdgeStone Partners is a private equity and venture capital arm of GMP Securities, specializing in direct investments and fund of funds investments. It seeks to make private equity, mezzanine, and venture capital investments in middle market, seed/startup, early venture, mid venture, late venture, industry consolidation, recapitalizations,roll-up strategy, management buy-in or buy-out, divestiture of non-core business and growth capital stages Within direct investments. EdgeStone Partners seeks to invest in venture capital funds and private equity funds within fund of fund investments. It specializes in investments in venture capital and buyout funds through its fund of funds. EdgeStone Partners manages and invests through its funds, Later Stage Equity (EdgeStone Capital Equity Fund); Mezzanine Debt; Energy Capital (EdgeStone Capital Energy Fund), and Venture Capital (EdgeStone Capital Venture Fund) funds. It prefers to invest in light manufacturing, business, and consumer and financial services. EdgeStone Partners seeks to invest in companies based in North America with a focus on Canada. It seeks to invest in Canada and focuses on primary investments, with a limited amount of capital allocated to secondary investments. It typically invests between $5 million and $15 million. EdgeStone Partners seeks to invest in companies with EBITDA range of $10- $50 million and Enterprise Value range of $50- $250 million. It seeks to invest in equity and equity related securities, and prefers majority ownership/control positions and active board involvement in its portfolio companies and targets an IRR of 20 percent to 25 percent per year. EdgeStone Partners exits an investment within a period of three to seven years. It preferred exit options include: sale to a strategic or financial buyer; share re-purchase by the company; initial or secondary public offering; and financial restructuring and targets an IRR of 40 percent. It prefers to invest between Cdn $25 million ($22.14 million) and Cdn $60 million ($53.15 million) and more through the Later Stage fund. EdgeStone Partners seeks to make subordinated debt, preferred share, and related equity investments in buyouts, going private transactions, growth capital financings, expansion capital, and acquisitions of middle market and later stage private and public companies through the Mezzanine Debt fund (EdgeStone Capital Mezzanine Fund). It seeks to invest in companies based in North America through the mezzanine fund. EdgeStone Partners typically invests between Cdn $10 million ($8.85 million) and Cdn $40 million ($35.43 million) in its portfolio companies and also considers higher investments. It seeks an IRR between 15 percent and 20 percent and exits its investment within a period of three to seven years. The fund also prefers to take a seat on the Board of Observers of its portfolio companies. Through its Energy Capital (EdgeStone Capital Energy Fund), the firm makes acquisition and organic growth investments in small and mid-sized public and private companies. The firm seeks to make equity and equity related investments in the exploration, production, and service sectors of the energy industry, oil and gas, and other energy-related sectors through the Energy Capital fund. EdgeStone Partners primarily invests in companies based in Western Canada. It prefers to invest $5 million to $10 million per transaction. EdgeStone Partners seeks to invest in common equity or equity-related securities, such as preferred shares or convertible debt. It seeks to exit its investments in three to five years; has an Observer attend at all the board meetings of portfolio companies. EdgeStone Partners seeks to invest in early and mid- stage technology companies through its Venture Capital fund (EdgeStone Capital Venture Fund). It seeks to invest in companies that sell technology solutions to the enterprise and where the intellectual property resides in the software. EdgeStone Partners typically invests between Cdn $3 million ($2.59 million) and Cdn $10 million ($8.65 million) in its portfolio companies. It typically holds its investments for three to five years, targets an IRR of 40%, and it also makes co-investments. EdgeStone Partners also seeks membership on the Board of Directors of its portfolio companies. It seeks to invest in the telecommunications and other high technology sectors. EdgeStone Partners began operation in February 1999. It has its headquarters in Toronto in Canada with additional offices in Montréal and Calgary in the same country.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Computer, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Work.com — Ryple is a web-based social performance management platform that helps managers and employees improve performance through continuous coaching, real-time feedback and meaningful recognition.Designed to build a transparent, results-driven work culture, Rypple replaces the traditional performance review with an easy, social and collaborativeapproach so people know where they stand and are accountable for achieving their goals.Unlike top-down enterprise performance management software, which sits on the shelf until annual review time, Rypple's quick set-up, intuitive Facebook-like interface and social environment make it easy and fun to use. Thousands of high-performing organizations use Rypple, including Facebook, Gilt Groupe, Kobo, Mozilla and Rackspace.
  • Densify — See how Densify optimizes your cloud and container resources and ensures app and workload performance is optimal.
  • Redmere Technology — RedMere develops active cable semiconductor solutions. The company offers EyeWire, a low power signal conditioning active chip technology, which is embedded within the cable to create smart HDMI active cables for consumer multimedia, gaming, home theater, mobile phone, digital video cameras or digital video still cameras, and PC markets; andVerifEye, an active cable manufacturing test platform that enables the rapid testing of active cable solutions based on EyeWire chip technology. RedMere was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Balbriggan, Ireland.
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Nigel Byrne
Angel · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

Nigel Byrne is an angel Investor and a former group CTO of Ooredoo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $847k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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PROTOCOL — by GETTYLAB
VC Fund · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

Backing engineers building awe, wonder, speed.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, France, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$10M; Pre-Seed $125k–$900k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pelicargo — Pelicargo is a new digital air cargo marketplace developed at MIT.
  • Forta — Forta delivers personalized, in-home ABA therapy so your child can thrive. Get connected with our therapy team and start your family's learning journey today.
  • AcousticaBio — AcousticaBio is changing the delivery of drugs one drop at a time.
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CircleRock Capital
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

CircleRock Capital aim to be the leading European, multi-stage co-investor of choice for exceptional technology companies, investing primarily in Seed, Series A and Series B opportunities.We invest alongside the leading global VC firms, so that founders can have both a leading VC and us on their cap table. We don’t lead deals and we don’t takeboard seats.Our ticket sizes range from €500k to €5 million +.Our LP’s include exited entrepreneurs, leaders at global tech companies, venture-backed founders, family offices, leading angels, CEO’s & board members of public companies.We fight to win allocation based on our reputation for fundraising expertise and our valuable network – consisting of both commercial customers and access to our global network of industry leaders.CircleRock Capital have a successful history as both Investors and Operators. Conor was previously nominated for both UK Angel Investor of the Year and Exit of the Year. Barry built FCA regulated fintech Clear Treasury from inception to a multi-million pound turnover business, with over 2,500 clients across all industry sectors, exiting in 2020.Offices in Dublin and London.Are you an Angel Investor or Family Office? Sign up here to receive our curated deal flow:https://www.circlerockcapital.com/investor-registration

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$8M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$3M; Series A $13M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NetFoundry — NetFoundry provides a software-defined networking platform focused on zero trust architecture. Its solutions enable organizations to create secure, microsegmented overlay networks, known as AppNets, that operate independently of traditional network infrastructure. The platform includes components such as Ziti Fabric for virtual overlays, Ziti Edgefor endpoint connectivity, and Ziti Console for network orchestration. NetFoundry offers deployment options across cloud, on-premise, and hybrid environments, supporting integration with major cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Developers can embed zero trust networking directly into applications using available SDKs, facilitating secure communication for various use cases, including DevOps, IIoT, and remote management. The platform emphasizes identity-based access controls, end-to-end encryption, and the elimination of inbound firewall ports to reduce attack surfaces.oud administrators, container orchestration engineers, DevOps, DevSecOps, network admins, etc.
  • SimpleStudy — Learn smarter with revision notes, past papers, quizzes, and expert tools for major Irish academic exams. Join SimpleStudy Ireland and boost your grades today.
  • Scaleup Finance — Improve your financial management
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EIT Urban Mobility
VC Fund · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

EIT Urban Mobility is an initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union. Europe’s leading community for impact-driven start-ups and scale-ups in urban mobilityWe want to move cities toward a more sustainable future by partnering up with start-ups and scale-ups like yours. Our Impact Venturesdivision gives you access to funding and support channels to deliver financial, environmental and social impact on the urban landscapes around us. Our tools are: Funding through grants and equity investments, Knowledge and training through partner-led programmes, networking and introductions through dedicated support to our equity portfolio companiesOur investments provide you with a boost on your growth journey, and our network connects you with the right stakeholders in the public policy sector — on a regional, national and European-wide scale — to put your company on the map and bring your urban mobility services to the people who need it the most.If you’re like us and have a drive to shape the cities of our future, join our community of engaged and esteemed impactful ventures by applying for one of the many different programs we offer.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Transportation, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Spain, Sweden, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Smart Point — We are entering the age of convenience and immediacy. A Smart Point automates the reception of any product you shop online, and any service available in your city, from pharmaceuticals, to flowers and dry cleaning. All delivered in 1 hour and available to pick up at your convenience.
  • Parabol — As Parabol, we use our innovative power for smart mobility systems and traffic safety all over the world.
  • Fastlane — Discover seamless logistics control with our cutting-edge transport management software. Streamline operations, optimize routes, and enhance efficiency effortlessly. Try our solution for comprehensive control today!
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Intel Capital
VC Fund · Santa Clara, California, United States · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups, 23 in the past 12 months

Intel Capital invests in innovative startups targeting cloud and AI infrastructure, edge, 5G, autonomy, cybersecurity, client & gaming, enterprise applications, silicon design and manufacturing, and a wide range of other disruptive technologies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, China, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 878
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • TrueFoundry — TrueFoundry provides Data Scientists and ML Engineers with the fastest framework for Post Model Pipeline. Using best DevOps practices, we enable instant monitored endpoints for models in 15 minutes!
  • Baya Systems — Baya Systems is a pioneer in chipset-based semiconductor technology for high-performance, modular systems, improving intelligent computing across varied applications.
  • Moderne — Manage dependencies, update frameworks, and improve code quality in minutes, not months. Request a demo or join Beta.
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SVG Ventures
VC Fund · Los Gatos, California, United States · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the agtech and foodtech industries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: AgTech, Agriculture, Farming
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 86
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • FarmWise — FarmWise provides technology-based services that allow farmers to streamline farm operations and increase food production efficiency.
  • Napigen — We are the genome editing company specialized for mitochondrial engineering. We address unmet needs of future food supplies by creating hybrid crop plants to boost their yields to an unprecedented level. The company’s technology creates robust male sterile lines that are ideal over conventional lines because of their stability and elitebackgrounds. This allows the production of non-GM hybrid seeds in crop plants that are currently mostly non-hybrid such as wheat. Our technology solution is expected to fulfill the highest level of public acceptance and aspiration.
  • Iamus Technologies — Iamus Technologies Limited is an Artificial Intelligence & Robotics company based in Ireland that has developed poultry specific robotic technology that empowers poultry farmers to make better and safer production decisions. Over the last 2 years we have been working globally with poultry processors in identifying KPIs that our robots cancontinuously gather on the ground in poultry sheds and feedback instantly to both producer and the relevant personnel back at the processing plant. Results to date are impressive with automatic and accurate data recovery from the birds on every part of the floor and analysis with real-time intervention now possible. These factors are key in addressing the growing demands of modern, intensive broiler production with the Iamus robot & platform meeting these requirements.
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GAN Ventures
VC Fund · Denver, Colorado, United States · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

GAN Ventures is the investment arm of the Global Accelerator Network

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Ireland, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4.9M; Series A $3.4M–$4.4M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Mesh++ — Mesh++ is a solar-powered routers developer. Mesh++ uses mobile processing power to deliver a high-speed WiFi connection to outdoors and public places.
  • Stax — Royal Reels Casino reviewed for Aussie players: how login and sign-up work, the pokies line-up, current bonus terms and AUD deposits and withdrawals.
  • Icon Source — This is Icon Source: Your portal into the world of powerful athletic endorsements.
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Focus Capital Partners
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

Focus Capital Partners We are a highly committed outcome-focused group of professionals. We bring to each project a powerful combination of deep technical and financial expertise, extensive commercial experience, strong networks and an entrepreneurial attitude. Learn More About Us International Network

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Fuel, Solar
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Venture - Series Unknown $3.6M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Xunison — Our mission is to empower homeowners to streamline their lifestyle by creating a market-leading, fully connected and secure smart home, Home - xunison
  • Elgin Energy — Elgin Energy is an international and independent solar development platform. Established in 2009, Elgin Energy has extensive experience in delivering projects from initial landowner engagement to project completion with a 98% success rate in obtaining planning permission. To date, only one project has not achieved planning permission.
  • Focus Scientific Solutions — Focus Scientific Solutions provides an extensive range of specialist and general laboratory equipment.
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Rocktop Partners
VC Fund · Irving, Texas, United States · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

Rocktop Partners is an alternative investment manager that specializes in distressed consumer credit markets, in particular, the acquisition of large pools of performing and nonperforming first lien residential mortgage loans with title defects, compliance issues, or other collateral defeciences. Rocktop has advised the Rocktop Funds in connectionwith the investment of over $3 billion in more than twenty-eight portfolio loan pool acquisitions. Rocktop is managed by a team of mortgage professionals with decades of trading, legal and servicing experience in the consumer debt and residential mortgage markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Rental, Computer, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Altada — We deliver world class AI solutions that empowers your data driven decision making and increases automation in your company. Learn more about our custom built AI Driven platforms.
  • SparkOffer — SparkOffer is a digital offer platform that gives agents the ability to offer their customers a modern online offer experience. SparkOffer is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and was founded in 2018.
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Northstar Ventures
VC Fund · Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

Northstar Ventures invests venture capital in early and later stage, high growth companies tackling global challenges, focusing on climate tech and healthy ageing.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 208
  • Round size: Seed $39k–$2.1M; Series A $295k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • H2CHP — H2CHP's Free Piston Engine Technology enables your transition to green energy with the reliability & confidence of fuel flexibility.
  • NunaBio — NunaBio operates as a privately-owned specialist DNA development company. NunaBio engaged in CRO (Contract Research Organizations) and CDMO (Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisation) activities.
  • Advanced Electric Machines — Our magnet free motors help manufacturers build more sustainable vehicles and products. See how we can help you today.
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Michael Dwyer
Angel · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

Michael Dwyer is a founder of Pigsback.com.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $847k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
  • 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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Chris Murphy
Angel · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

Chris Murphy is a Venture Partner at MS&AD Ventures. He previously cofounded SaaStock and was an early Web Summit employee.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$10M; Pre-Seed $450k–$3.4M; Series A $7.5M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jack & Jill AI — Jack helps candidates find the perfect job and Jill helps companies find the perfect candidate.
  • SimpleStudy — Learn smarter with revision notes, past papers, quizzes, and expert tools for major Irish academic exams. Join SimpleStudy Ireland and boost your grades today.
  • Jentic — Jentic is a sovereign agent operating system. Your people and your agents work side by side, and the knowledge they create compounds into something you own.
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Marc McCabe
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

Marc McCabe is a Scout at Sequoia Capital and General Partner at Nomad Capital. Prior to this role, Marc was a Business Development Lead and before that, a Team Member of Business and Corporate Development. Previously, Marc was a Partner at SV Angel and an Online Media Associate at Google.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8.1M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Noloco — Noloco is a no-code platform for teams to instantly create apps powered by their business data. Easily turn Airtable bases and spreadsheets into customer portals or internal tools without code.
  • Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
  • Practice — Sell your expertise online, and manage your business, all in one place.
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ff Venture Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

ff Venture Capital (ffVC) is a technology venture capital firm investing in some of the strongest growth areas to date, including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, drones, enterprise cloud software, and crowdfunding. The firm identifies and invests in technology and technology-enabled companies at its inception acrossgeographies and emerging industries. With three partners and an acceleration team of 20+ investment and operations professionals, ffVC actively participates with founders to develop products, target markets, and accelerate growth. Since 2008, ffVC has invested in over 100 companies and has helped to create companies with an aggregate market value exceeding $6 billion.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: United States, Poland, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 334
  • Round size: Seed $974k–$4.4M; Series A $1.5M–$12M; Convertible Note $305k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $65M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Pstryk — Pstryk is a mobile app that tracks expenditures in real time to help you make budget-conscious decisions about energy consumption.
  • DefendEye — World’s first fully Autonomous Drone, powered by AI, requires no human pilot, no setup, no programming, handling everything from Takeoff & Landing to Aerial Reconnaissance & Navigation. Launch-Tube can be in a backpack, or installed on a fence. It’s very simple to install, and it’s low cost. The drone searches & navigates to humans. AIDetects humans faster & more accurate than humans can.
  • FlyFocus — We specialize in the design and production of unmanned aerial vehicles for the civilian market and law enforcement.
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Amici Ventures
VC Fund · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

Amici Ventures is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Analytics, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • VisionR — Glimpse empowers 'bricks-and-mortar' retailers with the same level of shopper data as their online counterparts, driving revenues with data.
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Hardware Investor funding in Ireland at a glance

Stats across 477 deals from 407 investors.

407
investors
in Ireland Hardware startups
477
deals
in Ireland Hardware startups
$2.3M
median round
in Ireland Hardware startups
44%
lead investors
lead at least one round
25%
Seed
most common funding stage
88/12
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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