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Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Ireland (June 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
59 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $494k–$12M
Kernel Capital
VC Fund
17 Ireland, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $531k–$9M
NDRC
VC Fund
14 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Act Venture Capital
VC Fund
13 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $823k–$13M
Delta Partners
VC Fund
13 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $795k–$6.6M
Elkstone Capital Partners
VC Fund
10 Ireland, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $610k–$20M
Sure Valley Ventures
VC Fund
9 United Kingdom, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $823k–$6.2M
Frontline Ventures
VC Fund
9 United States, Ireland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $110k–$16M
AIB Seed Capital Fund
VC Fund
7 Ireland, United States, Jersey Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Medical $549k–$8.1M
SOSV
VC Fund
7 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Atlantic Bridge
VC Fund
7 United States, Ireland, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $4.5M–$62M
Enterprise Equity
VC Fund
6 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Health Care $549k–$7.5M
Development Capital
VC Fund
4 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Private Equity Manufacturing, Telecommunications, VoIP
Finch Capital
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Ireland Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $252k–$55M
Business Venture Partners
VC Fund
3 Ireland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands Seed, Series A Health Care, Information Technology, Medical $658k–$12M
HBAN
VC Fund
3 Ireland, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Health Care, Software, Medical Device $625k–$8.8M
Anamcara Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Germany, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.4M–$22M
Molten Ventures
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $3.2M–$60M
Gareth Lambe
Angel
3 Ireland Seed, Angel Tourism, Payments, Software $494k–$1.6M
Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity fund
VC Fund
3 Ireland Seed, Series A Software, Photography, Solar $384k–$1.1M
Tapestry VC
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, Ireland Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Internet $2.6M–$70M
Western Development Commission
VC Fund
3 Ireland, United States Seed, Series A Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology $642k–$11M
Enzo Ventures
VC Fund
3 Spain, United States, Sweden Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence $176k–$7.5M
Atlantic Bridge University Fund
VC Fund
2 Ireland, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Medical Device, Health Care, Big Data $823k–$80M
Northstar Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, E-Commerce $39k–$9.7M
Barry Lunn
Angel
2 Ireland Seed, Angel Sensor, Software, Aerospace $1.4M–$6.2M
SVG Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Ireland Pre-Seed, Seed AgTech, Agriculture, Farming $50k–$4.7M
Growing Capital
VC Fund
2 Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Analytics, Health Care $3k–$1.9M
Amaranthine
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Internet, Information Technology $2.2M–$57M
Marc McCabe
Angel
2 United States, Canada, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Big Data $1.3M–$7.9M
LVP
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Finland Seed, Series A Gaming, Video Games, Mobile $1.3M–$17M
Draper Associates
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Information Technology $1M–$50M
Michael Dwyer
Angel
2 Ireland Seed, Angel Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality $878k–$1.6M
ff Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Poland, Canada Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1M–$12M
Celtic House Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Series B, Series A Software, Semiconductor, Manufacturing $3.4M–$22M
Unpopular Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $500k–$69M
Focus Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 Ireland, United Kingdom Seed Software, Solar, Water
Innovation Ulster
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Ireland Seed, Series A Health Care, Biotechnology, iOS $105k–$4.3M
Balderton Capital
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Series B, Series C Software, FinTech, Financial Services
EdgeStone Partners
VC Fund
2 Canada, Ireland Series B, Series A Software, Computer, Information Technology
TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Mobile, Information Technology $1.9M–$13M
Rocktop Partners
VC Fund
2 Ireland Seed, Series A Computer, Software, Machine Learning
PROTOCOL — by GETTYLAB
VC Fund
2 United States, France, Germany Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $125k–$10M
Techstart Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Ireland, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $183k–$3.5M
Brian Caulfield
Angel
2 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Mobile, Apps $110k–$6.8M
Summit Bridge Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Ireland Series D, Series E Mobile, Software, Internet
Ulster Bank Diageo Venture Fund
VC Fund
2 Ireland, United States Seed, Series A Software, Mobile, Advertising $1.6M–$2.2M
Dynamo
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Logistics, Supply Chain Management $370k–$25M
Nigel Byrne
Angel
2 Ireland Seed Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality $878k–$1.6M
New Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 United States, Ireland, Australia Series A, Series B Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology $2.4M–$33M
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Enterprise Ireland
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 59 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, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 506
  • Round size: Seed $494k–$3.3M; Series A $2.2M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Tirlan — Tirlan is an agricultural company that supplies agri-food and farm input materials to the framing sector.
  • 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.
  • Lakeland Dairies — Lakeland Dairies, a major dairy processing co-operative, operates within a fifteen county catchment area across the northern half of the island of Ireland. The Group processes about one billion litres of quality milk annually into a range of value added dairy foodservice products and functional dairy food ingredients.
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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, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 91
  • Round size: Seed $531k–$4.4M; Series A $1.4M–$9M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $34M in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • Cirdan — Cirdan provides highly reliable, innovative LIS & imaging solutions for the acceleration & enhancement of diagnosis, optimized for pathology & clinical lab.
  • 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.
  • Pilot Photonics — Welcome to Pilot Photonics, a laser product development company in Dublin, Ireland. We provide optical frequency combs and tunable lasers.
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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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Act Venture Capital
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 13 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, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 154
  • Round size: Seed $823k–$5M; Series A $2.3M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $164M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Deciphex — Deciphex - Transforming Digital Pathology - we are focussed on the development of applications for clinical and veterinary pathology that improve productivity
  • Engage-EHS — EcoOnline's easy-to-use software system is helping companies to transform their approach to health & safety, chemical safety & learning data reporting.
  • SilverCloud Health — SilverCloud Health is the trusted on-demand virtual mental health platform - Delivering proven clinical outcomes at scale. Virtual therapy and care
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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: 110
  • Round size: Seed $795k–$2.7M; Series A $1.6M–$6.6M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $82M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Kayna — Enhance your SaaS platform's value by integrating Kayna's insurance solutions. Drive additional revenue and offer more to your users with every policy sold.
  • 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.
  • Digit Game Studios — Founded in 2012, DIGIT is a cross-platform game developer based in Dublin, Ireland. We are the largest game developer in the country with an international team of experienced, passionate game-makers. Our first game, Kings of the Realm, was launched in September 2014 and is available on browser, iOS, Android and Windows.
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Elkstone Capital Partners
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 10 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

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
  • Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $610k–$5M; Series A $5.5M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $110M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Danalto — Simple, cost-effective, high-accuracy Location Services for large open environments, both indoor and outdoor. Asset Tracking made simple!
  • MEG — MEG is a powerful end-to-end Quality Management System for healthcare. Manage quality, patient safety, compliance and accreditation processes all from one place.
  • Retrograde — Retrograde is a Software Development company.
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Sure Valley Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 9 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

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
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 55
  • Round size: Seed $823k–$5.9M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $35M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Ambisense — Since 2014 Ambisense has been driving innovation within the environmental space. Their technology platform optimizes the delivery of environmental risk assessment on some of the world’s largest infrastructure projects across industrial, O&G and waste verticals. Ambilytics encompasses both IoT and ML solutions, combining information fromremotely deployed field devices with contextual data sources such as weather, satellite, geophysical and operational data to build machine learning models. These models identify the relationships, patterns, and drivers hidden within the data and allow our customers to forecast and predict the behaviour of targeted environmental pollutants.
  • Smarttech247 — Human-led, AI-enhanced Managed Detection & Response. 24/7 SOC monitoring, incident response, and cyber resilience for critical infrastructure.
  • Getvisibility — Attain swift and comprehensive visibility and context for all your data, whether in motion or at rest, encompassing both on-premises and cloud environments. This empowers your teams to take proactive measures in identifying, prioritising, assigning ownership, remediating, and preventing risks that could impact your business, ensuring the utmost security across all aspects of your operations.
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Frontline Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 9 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, Ireland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 186
  • Round size: Seed $796k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $110k–$3M; Series A $3.3M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $82M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Linked Finance — LinkedFinance offers a new and painless way for Irish businesses to borrow money from a large group of real people, including their own customers. Crowd Funding is the new way for companies to borrow, bankers get bypassed, the wheels of business keep turning and everyone wins!Person to Person (P2P) lending or Crowd Funding is simple. Peoplewith money to lend can lend it directly to people who need it. With LinkedFinance lenders can lend directly to small businesses looking for funding. Crowd Funding provides complete transparency to both the lender and borrower and it brings lending back to basics where a lender simply deposits funds and when there are enough funds available loans can be made to credit worthy borrowers.How it Works - Businesses looking for a loan can apply at Linkedfinance.com for funding. The loan required and full details of the business are posted in their market. Potential Lenders can participate in an auction process where they bid on how much of the loan they are prepared to fund and the interest rate they require. The lowest rate bids are accepted so the borrower secures the best interest rate possible.
  • Nostos Genomics — Our genetic variant interpretation platform enables genetic testing labs to give more people with genetic diseases a clear and fast diagnosis.
  • Overwatch Research — Generate accurate in vivo study data as a part of your efficient, connected R&D.
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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–$3.3M; 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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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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Atlantic Bridge
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 7 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, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Ireland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 138
  • Round size: Series A $4.5M–$26M; Series B $10M–$62M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $88M 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.
  • Elisity — Elisity Cognitive Trust delivers identity-based segmentation and least privilege access without the need to reconfigure networks and micromanage hardware.
  • Luminate Medical — Luminate Medical is developing LILY, the world's first pain-free and portable solution to prevent hair loss caused by chemotherapy.
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Enterprise Equity
VC Fund · Dundalk, Louth, Ireland · 6 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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Development Capital
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 4 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: Manufacturing, Telecommunications, VoIP
  • Stage:Seed, Private Equity
  • Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $88M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Nomadic Dairy — Nomadic Dairy is a growing, premium branded yogurt manufacturer. The company supplies multiple products across the UK and Republic of Ireland.
  • 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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Finch Capital
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 3 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: 76
  • 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

  • Fixico — The digital car repair management platform helping you find the best repair solution, always.
  • Better.co.uk — Join thousands of homeowners with mortgage advice you can trust. Rated 4.9 on Trustpilot from over 9,000 reviews. We are your leading free online mortgage broker.
  • Goodlord — Goodlord is the award-winning lettings platform that works alongside your CRM to manage the entire tenancy process in one place.
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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, Luxembourg, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $658k–$4.7M; Series A $2.3M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FoodMarble — Your personal breath tester to identify food intolerances and reduce digestive symptoms. Ideal for managing IBS and SIBO, all from the comfort of home.
  • HealthBeacon — Quality adherence support for your medication needs, contact our HealthBeacon team to discover what service we can provide you and your patients.
  • P3 Hotel Software — P3 provides high-converting & custom booking solutions to help hotels maximise efficiency, conversion rate, and direct revenue. Integration with Oracle OPERA.
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HBAN
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 3 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, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Round size: Seed $625k–$3.5M; Series A $1.2M–$8.8M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Glitch Ads — Launch AI Powered Google Ad Campaigns in Minutes. Think of us like an agency in a box. Built for speed. Priced for scaling companies. Powered by AI.
  • SeeMeHired — SeeMeHired is a cloud-based platform to automate much of the recruitment process, including engaging, selecting, and hiring job candidates.
  • Mountain Technologies — Mountain Technologies is an innovative Northern Ireland-based startup that transforms mountain resort operational management.
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Anamcara Capital
VC Fund · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · 3 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: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$7.7M; Pre-Seed $2M–$5.5M; Series A $16M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Paygentic — Purpose-built payments & billing for AI agents and agentic software. Flexible pricing models, real-time billing, no fixed fees. Start monetizing in days, not months.
  • 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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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, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 221
  • Round size: Series A $3.2M–$30M; Series B $7.9M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $6.1M in 2011

Portfolio highlights

  • Ledger — Secure your crypto assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Monero, and more. Give yourself peace of mind by knowing that your cryptocurrencies are safe
  • MAIA Technology — MAIA is a front-to-back asset management technology suite born out of an established asset management business with the pedigree of a decade of development and refinement.
  • Freetrade — Invest in stocks and ETFs without commission when buying and selling shares. Instant online stock trading. Awarded best online trading app 3 years in a row.
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Gareth Lambe
Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 3 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

Gareth Lambe is the Chief Executive Officer of Medihive. He previously worked at Meta as a Board Of Directors. Gareth Lambe attended the University College Dublin.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Tourism, Payments, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $878k–$1.6M; Angel $494k–$1.2M
  • 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.
  • CleverCards — The Platform for Contactless Cards. The CleverGift real-time payment platform offers gift cards, expenses, employee incentives, and travel foreign exchange.
  • 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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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, Solar
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $384k–$1.1M
  • 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 there to help you from first sale to scale! Our leading software solution is everything you need to run & grow a successful business. It's easy to use, affordable, and integrates powerful tools for bookings, payments, and communication!
  • 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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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, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $2.6M–$8.8M; Series A $10M–$40M; Series B $15M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ladder — Get stronger & workout more. Free 7 day trial, no credit card needed!
  • nMachine — A Low-Code solution for creating extraordinary Day 2 Operations platforms - called nMachines - for your existing Kubernetes-based applications, that can be shared inside and outside your organization.
  • 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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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, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $642k–$3.7M; Series A $2.2M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% 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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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, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $293k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $176k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $23M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Remuner — Say goodbye to spreadsheets. Remuner is the sales compensation software that automate your commissions and drive performance.
  • Orbio — Orbio is an AI native system firm that aids companies to create dynamic talent, eliminate repetitive work and deliver business impact.
  • Emblematic — The first AI-driven Agentic Automation platform, designed to fully automate and enhance the accuracy of Finance Operations, including Bookkeeping, IFRS/GAAP Compliance, Reconciliations, and more.
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Atlantic Bridge University Fund
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

We invest in entrepreneurs with the ambition to create world-class companies of scale.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical Device, Health Care, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $823k–$3.8M; Series A $3.1M–$12M; Series B $16M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AYLIEN — Aylien is an artificial intelligence startup that focuses on creating technologies that help machines understand human languages better. The firm provides Text Analysis and News API's that allow users to make sense of human-generated content at scale. AYLIEN also provides a range of content analysis solutions to developers, data scientists,marketers and academics. Their core offerings include packages of information retrieval, machine learning, natural language processing and image recognition APIs.
  • Siren — Siren is a software company that provides an Investigative Intelligence platform to complex organizations and derive business value. The platform provides a unique combination of search, business intelligence, big data, link analysis and knowledge representation which advances the way organizations address some of the world’s most importantdata-driven problems.Siren makes it easier to use the data you collect to answer questions and make links, find patterns and relationships. It also uniquely enables this in real-time at a scale that companies and government organizations require. it easy to leverages and deploy data directly on backends such as Elasticsearch, relational databases, virtual data warehouses, and graph databases.Siren was awarded the Technology Innovation of the Year and Enterprise of the Year (SME) at the Information Technology Association of Galway (ITAG) Excellence Awards and also was named the Irish Startup of the Year at Ireland’s National Tech Excellence Awards.Siren was founded in 2014 and is based in Galyway, Ireland.
  • ProVerum Medical — The ProVee stent from Proverum Medical uses 3-D geometry which mirrors and engages with the anatomy of the prostate. The system alleviates Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) by opening the prostatic urethra, applying radial force to the prostatic lobes.
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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: 190
  • Round size: Seed $39k–$1.8M; Series A $851k–$9.7M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively 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.
  • CellRev — high expertise in the designing and testing of self-assembling peptides providing different benefits when culturing adherent cells in vitro.
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Barry Lunn
Angel · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

  • 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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SVG Ventures
VC Fund · Los Gatos, California, United States · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

We are a Venture & Innovation Platform Advancing the Food & Agriculture Industries We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the food and agriculture industries.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 129
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4.7M; Pre-Seed $50k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OneCup AI — OneCup AI is Automated Precision Ranching for cattle, sheep and horses using Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision.
  • AdvancedAG — AdvancedAG is a biotechnology research company that cultivates specialized bacteria to improve soil and crop health.
  • Cellar Insights — Maximize the value of your potato crop with smart remote monitoring. Monitor storage conditions and prevent crop loss with Cellar Insights.
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Growing Capital
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 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, Analytics, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $549k–$1.9M; Pre-Seed $3k–$549k
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lua Health — We believe the future of well-being is in prevention and early detection. Getting the right help, at the right time.
  • 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+ — Slick+ is a SaaS B2B Video-Based platform designed for enhance learning and collaboration in hybrid and remote working environment. By enabling teams to create, share, and discuss short, engaging knowledge videos, Slick+ fosters a culture of continuous learning and innovation. The platform makes it easy for employees to capture and preserveessential expertise, share best practices, and implement new ideas, all seamlessly integrated into their daily workflows. With a focus on bite-sized content, Slick+ empowers organizations to boost productivity, enhance team communication, and stay agile in a rapidly evolving work environment. Ideal for L&D and HR managers, Slick+ is the go-to solution for companies looking to optimize their onboarding, training, and knowledge-sharing processes in both hybrid and remote work setups.
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Amaranthine
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

We connect, support and invest in the world's top technologists.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$5M; Series A $9.5M–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • EqualTo — EqualTo is the NO CODE sales commission operating system for high-growth sales teams.
  • Hour One — Hour One AI is a next-generation video creation and management platform uniquely built for the world of work. Hour One harnesses computer-generated AI people in photo-real quality to digitize and optimize the traditional video production process, enabling a novel - and fully scalable - means of creating and deploying live-action video forprofessional use cases, the first of which is presenter-led video. All of Hour One’s video creation is located in the cloud, making it possible for any business to create and use high-quality presenter videos at a fraction of the cost, in minutes, in any language, self-serve, and at high scale. Hour One counts global market-leading companies as its customers and is backed by leading venture capital funds. Hour One is headquartered in New York City and Tel Aviv.
  • Cloudsmith — Cloudsmith is the only universal, cloud-native solution for software artifact management and software supply chain security. Start your free trial today.
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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–$7.9M; 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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LVP
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

LVP is a venture capital seed fund with a difference - they're operating experts in the games sector, and they only ever invest in the games ecosystem. That means they bring real experience and deep understanding. They speak the same language, share the same references, understand the same challenges - and they believe in the same vision.They know instinctively where the opportunities lie; where there are strengths to be harnessed and exposures to be covered. In fine-grain, no-hiding, straight-talking detail. They know when to bide time, when to iterate and when to go wide. And how.They invest in people. That means founders with the potential to build the best in the world; teams with terrific, creative games development skills, or fantastic ideas for revolutionary games technology or services… and a vision that sets them apart.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$4.5M; Series A $2M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $80M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • BetaDwarf — BetaDwarf is an ambitious venture company where they push the boundaries of co-op games to create lifelong friendships all around and across the world.
  • Vela Games — Subscribe to receive future updates on Project-V from Vela Games!
  • Superkind — Robin Games brings you life, styled. Our first lifestyle game debuts on iOS and Android in 2021.
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Draper Associates
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

Draper Associates, founded in 1985, is a seed-stage venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs to drive their businesses to greatness. We understand that a great company takes time to build and we'd like to ensure that entrepreneurs are in for the long haul.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 373
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.5M; Series A $2.3M–$21M; Series B $5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Packlane — Packlane makes it easy and affordable for small businesses to design and order custom boxes and packaging online. Through Packlane's online store, customers can apply their own branding and artwork to various packaging styles, get an instant quote, and preview their box designs in full 3D.
  • CryptoMove — Buy a perfect domain name from Sudos.com. Discover thousands of domain names available for sale. Sudos.com keeps you safe.
  • Finless Foods — Discover sustainable, cell-cultured seafood alternatives like bluefin tuna at Finless Foods, committed to ocean health and responsible food innovation.
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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 $878k–$1.6M
  • 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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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
  • Geography: United States, Poland, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 290
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4.3M; Series A $1.3M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $66M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Moveline — Moveline provides multiple moving quotes from quality moving companies, all from one form. Get up to four quotes now.
  • Waldo — Waldo is an AI-powered strategy engine for agencies & brands. Get audience insights, industry trends, and competitive intelligence in one powerful platform.
  • PilotGo — Developer platform for secure data sharing with multiple partners powered by Digital Twins.
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Celtic House Venture Partners
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

Celtic House Venture Partners is an independent Canadian investment firm.Since 1994, Celtic House has been one of Canada’s most active investors in technology and innovation. Capitalizing on the deep domain expertise of its partners, Celtic House has consistently provided superior financial returns to its investors. Celtic House has collaboratedwith management teams and repeat entrepreneurs to develop technology companies from the inception phase through to exit, generating 25 initial public offerings and successful acquisitions.Celtic House has collaborated with management teams and repeat entrepreneurs to develop technology companies from the inception phase through to exit, generating 25 initial public offerings and successful acquisitions.From offices in Toronto and Ottawa, Celtic House manages in excess of $425 million across three funds. Celtic House is currently making new investments out of Celtic House Venture Partners Fund IV, which closed in 2012.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Semiconductor, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 108
  • Round size: Series A $3.4M–$14M; Series B $5.6M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Nuvyyo — Tablo is your portal to free TV. Watch and record broadcast TV from your antenna and free streaming channels via the Tablo app on any device in your home including smartphones, tablets, streaming devices, and smart TVs.
  • Quadshift — Quadshift provides software solutions to thousands of businesses in a variety of vertical markets by acquiring and building great B2B software companies and holding them for the long term.
  • Snappy — Snappy provides technology to run your restaurant efficiently. Increase sales, streamline customer operations and bring your guests back faster with Snappy.
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Unpopular Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

The best companies, off the beaten path.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 253
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.5M; Series A $6.8M–$69M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DRUO — DRUO provides online payment gateway for businesses.
  • Golioth — Golioth helps developers to build IoT devices, secure your IoT, pipe device data from the edge to the cloud, and manage your IoT fleet from anywhere.
  • Sourcepulse — Sourcepulse is the internal status page for software delivery, alerting teams before costly delays. We collect anonymous feedback from project members to identify exactly what to fix, just like how Sentry captures system details for production errors.
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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, Solar, Water
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Solgari — Turn Microsoft Teams or Dynamics 365 into your AI-powered, omnichannel contact center. Live in hours, not months.
  • 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.
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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 $105k–$781k; Series A $3.1M–$4.3M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ilimex — Ilimex designs air purification and sterilisation units.
  • PulseAI — PulseAI is an medical technology startup that uses AI to detection heart disease.
  • RETìníZE — RETìníZE is an AR, VR, multi-screen installations, and software development.
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Balderton Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 350
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Lyst — Lyst is a global fashion search platform used by 70 million shoppers every year. Offering over 4 million fashion products from 11,000 of the world’s leading fashion brands and stores, Lyst brings together the widest inventory in luxury and contemporary fashion online. The company has raised $60 million to date, and is backed by range of all-starinvestors including 14W (Moda Operandi, Reformation), Accel Partners (Facebook, Spotify), Balderton (Yoox Net-A-Porter Group), Draper Esprit, part of the Draper Venture Network (Hotmail, Skype), and the teams behind LVMH, Michael Kors, Oscar de la Renta, and Tory Burch.
  • Depop — Designer. Preloved. Vintage. Streetwear. Sneakers. Whatever your style. Find it on Depop.
  • VOI Technology — VOI is a micro-mobility startup that provides electric scooters for last-mile transportation. Douglas Stark, Filip Lindvall, and Fredrik Hjelm founded it in 2018. Its headquarters is located in Stockholm in Sweden.VOI Technology is aiming to create a system of electrically powered scooters around urban centers to provide an affordable,sustainable, and exhilarating way to commute while helping people to reduce their carbon footprint and cities to have a more sustainable transportation network.
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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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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

TLcom Capital, is an Africa focused tech VC, with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London. TLcom had been investing since 1999 in Tech, Media, Mobil and Internet companies across Europe, US and Africa, which is the exclusive focus of its most recent TLcom TIDE Africa funds. TLcom manages total commitments of approximately 300 million USD in thesesectors via a series of dedicated investment vehicles. Our investment strategy is to identify, back and assist world class entrepreneurs and management teams with disruptive technologies and business models, compelling intellectual property and deep market knowledge. We primarily target companies focused on Africa as a prime market, in the following investment themes: Access to Data Service; Financial Services; eCommerce; B2C applications (including but not limited to: health, education, energy, media and entertainment); and Software solutions to corporates and SMEs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.5M; Series A $3.8M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Hub2.Io — Welcome to HUB2, the leading FINTECH startup in interoperability and payment infrastructure in Francophone Africa. We are proud to work with all financial industry players in Africa who need stable and high-performing infrastructure, and contribute to their success.
  • Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
  • HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
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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: Computer, Software, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% 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.
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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: 37
  • 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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Techstart Ventures
VC Fund · Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

Techstart Ventures is a first-cheque investor for extraordinary founders pursuing uncapped global opportunities.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 153
  • Round size: Seed $183k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $410k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Biomage — Cellenics is a single cell data analysis software. It starts with a 10X Chromium count matrix produced by Cell Ranger. Unlike Loupe, the Cellenics platform is an end-to-end tool, which allows you to perform single cell RNA-seq data processing, multiple sample data integration, visualisation, differe
  • Heysummit — Build beautiful virtual events, conferences, courses, and more to engage with your audience and grow your community through events-based marketing.
  • BrainWaveBank — BrainWaveBank has developed a first-in-class wearable electroencephalography (EEG) device to conveniently and non-invasively measure the mechanisms that underpin neurological disorders and therapies. Our platform can securely gather, store and analyse data from many thousands of users, building neurocognitive profiles of individuals and populationsor demographic groups. This easy-to-scale and distributable approach will help clinical professionals to transform our understanding of brain health and develop the next generation of treatments.BrainWaveBank was founded in January 2015 and has offices in Belfast , Northern Ireland and Dublin, Ireland.
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Brian Caulfield
Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

Brian Caulfield is based out of Dublin, Dublin and is the Venture Partner at Molten Ventures and also serves as the Chairman at Barespace. Brian previously worked at Graphcore as Board Oberver. Brian Caulfield attended Trinity College Dublin. Brian has received the Irish Software Association's "Technology Person of the Year" award.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $110k–$6.8M; Angel $1.1M–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ChangeX — <p>Find and start ideas that will transform your community. ChangeX provides everything you need to jumpstart projects you are passionate about!</p>
  • PutPlace — PutPlace puts intelligence around your files in the cloud and lets you store the files anywhere you want. That includes storing it with with PutPlace's storage service itself, on Amazon S3, or your own cloud storage service.
  • Cicero Networks — Cicero Networks is at the forefront of the wireless Internet revolution, developing solutions for the delivery of Voice over Wireless IP. Cicero’s mission is to harness the power of VoIP to enable the delivery of wireless voice services while maintaining mobility and flexibility for end users at a lower cost.Cicero Networks has focused onbuilding platform-independent solutions which offer operators and service providers a means of delivering high-quality voice services over both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth networks. Its innovative use of wireless technology enables operators to terminate calls to fixed-line or hotspot locations at least cost to subscribers.Cicero Networks was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. Cicero Networks is a privately held company.
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Summit Bridge Capital
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

Summit Bridge Capital is a growth technology fund co-managed by Atlantic Bridge Capital and WestSummit Capital. The Fund targets fast growing technology companies with a presence or strategic interest in Ireland and China.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Series D, Series E
  • Geography: United States, Ireland

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Movidius — Movidius is a vision processor company that designs compact, high-performance, ultralow power, computational imaging and vision processing chips, software, development tools and reference designs. Movidius’ architecture delivers a new wave of intelligent and contextually aware experiences for consumers in mobile and wearable devices, and otherconsumer and industrial camera applications. Movidius is headquartered in San Mateo, California.Movidius is a venture-backed start-up with investors including: AIB Seed Capital Fund, Atlantic Bridge, Capital-E, DFJ Esprit and Robert Bosch Venture Capital.
  • Swrve — Swrve is the world's leading mobile marketing automation platform, pioneering the fast-growing mobile engagement marketing space.We are also proud to be the first mobile marketing company to combine predictive analytics with messaging for mobile apps in our Predictive Marketing Suite, which employs a continuously updated behavioralalgorithm that determines an app user’s propensity for action or inaction. Swrve combines class-leading analytics, segmentation, AB testing and in-app messaging in a unified application that allows marketing managers to continually test their applications by tracking user behavior, targeting specific user segments, tuning in-app elements, and talking to users via in-app messages. In the first half of 2015, Swrve signed more than 40 new clients in a wide range of industries from retail, travel, hospitality, banking and insurance to sports, media, entertainment, games, and lifestyle. Among the notable customer wins were The Guardian, Condé Nast, Glamsquad, Warner Brothers, Microsoft, and Backflip. As a result, our global bookings in the second quarter of 2015 increased 33% over the previous quarter and 153% over Q4 2014.In 2015, Swrve also ranked #420 in Inc. magazine’s 34th annual Inc. 500, an exclusive ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California and was founded by Hugh Reynolds and Steven Collins in 2010.
  • Accuris Networks — Accuris Networks is a leading provider of convergence, roaming and interworking solutions . The AccuROAM platform is designed to enable Communication Service Providers to have integrated and disruptive solutions by connecting current and emerging mobile broadband networks such as GSM CDMA, LTE and Wi-Fi , which includes smartphone client software,access server/gateway technology and billing integration.This gives their subscribers a seamless and secure user experience for data, voice and messaging services on all of these technologies both internationally and domestically.
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Ulster Bank Diageo Venture Fund
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

Based in Dublin, Ulster Bank Diageo Venture Fund supports management teams that need capital to expand their businesses into new markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Advertising
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$2.2M
  • Lead/follow: 88% lead, 12% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • StitcherAds — Kargo Commerce's retail and eCommerce-centric platform is designed to drive performance with ease across Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat, and TikTok.
  • Gridstore — Gridstore™ is the leader in HyperConverged All-Flash Infrastructure for the Microsoft Cloud-Inspired Data Center. Our customers gain a 10X performance improvement over traditional storage as we put all-flash as close to the workload as possible. They realize 4X lower TCO by consolidation of three layers of infrastructure into one scalable layerbuilt on X86 hardware and 10X less management effort due to less management points and less infrastructure to manage. Gridstore's HyperConverged Appliances include both compute and storage in a single system, and provide external storage and work with any Windows servers and the HyperConverged Appliance, all driven by Gridstore's patented software. Gridstore software architecture delivers native Windows integration, per-VM I/O control, and elastic and independent scaling of resources. Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, CA. and its products and services are available through a global network of value-added resellers.
  • SilverCloud Health — SilverCloud Health is the trusted on-demand virtual mental health platform - Delivering proven clinical outcomes at scale. Virtual therapy and care
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Dynamo
VC Fund · Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

We invest in extraordinary founders building startups in supply chain and mobility. We are equipped to support founders through the seed stage in their effort to transform global trade and commerce.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 91
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $370k–$4M; Series A $6.4M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Vizion — Vizion integrates and estimates data and observes tracking and monitoring for ocean freight, logistics, and supply chain industry. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
  • Sennder — sennder is a digital road freight forwarder in continental Europe, linking large commercial shippers with small freight carriers. With its in-house-developed platform, sennder provides a new level of automation, transparency, and efficiency to the European €300 billion road freight market, which until now has been dependent on paper, phone, and faxand characterized by multi-layer subcontracting. sennder’s digital connection to over 10,000 vehicles in all segments allows for almost unlimited capacities, no matter what time of the day. sennder digitalizes the truckload-shipping ecosystem by providing mobile apps to drivers, fleet management tools to carrier managers, and logistics management solutions to shippers. Real-time booking, a designated contact person always on hand, as well as precise live tracking, bring full transparency to any logistics supply chain. By integrating directly with the shippers’ Transport Management and Freight Management Systems via APIs and by cutting the multiple middlemen, sennder increases efficiency and reduces cost for all stakeholders.
  • Solvento — The smart factoring solution for truckers.
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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 $878k–$1.6M
  • 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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New Venture Partners
VC Fund · Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, United States · 2 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 B
  • Geography: United States, Ireland, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Series A $2.4M–$33M; Series B $4.5M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

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.
  • EverSpin Technologies — Everspin Technologies develops and manufactures integrated magnetic products It was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Chandler, Arizona.
  • 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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Hardware Investor funding in Ireland at a glance

Stats across 316 deals from 307 investors.

307
investors
in Ireland Hardware startups
316
deals
in Ireland Hardware startups
$3M
median round
in Ireland Hardware startups
45%
lead investors
lead at least one round
27%
Seed
most common funding stage
88/12
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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