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Top 50 Hardware VC Funds & Investors in Ireland (October 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Ireland Hardware startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Ireland Hardware startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Enterprise Ireland
VC Fund
82 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant Software, Health Care, Information Technology $16k–$8.3M
Kernel Capital
VC Fund
17 Ireland, United Kingdom, France Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Health Care $531k–$12M
Act Venture Capital
VC Fund
16 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1M–$13M
NDRC
VC Fund
14 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Delta Partners
VC Fund
13 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $812k–$6.6M
Elkstone Capital Partners
VC Fund
13 Ireland, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $797k–$18M
Sure Valley Ventures
VC Fund
9 United Kingdom, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $889k–$57M
Atlantic Bridge
VC Fund
8 United States, Ireland, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.1M–$62M
Frontline Ventures
VC Fund
8 United States, United Kingdom, Ireland Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $405k–$17M
SOSV
VC Fund
7 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Enterprise Equity
VC Fund
7 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Health Care $549k–$7.5M
AIB Seed Capital Fund
VC Fund
7 Ireland, United States, Jersey Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Medical $549k–$8.1M
HBAN
VC Fund
7 Ireland, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Software, Medical Device $375k–$7.3M
Unpopular Ventures
VC Fund
6 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services $500k–$34M
Furthr VC
VC Fund
5 Ireland Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Medical Device, Medical $753k–$17M
Anamcara Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Financial Services $1.3M–$22M
Finch Capital
VC Fund
4 United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Ireland Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $252k–$55M
Growing Capital
VC Fund
3 Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $3.2k–$1.9M
New Venture Partners
VC Fund
3 United States, Ireland, Australia Series A, Series C Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology $2.5M–$33M
Molten Ventures
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $3.2M–$200M
Wayra
VC Fund
3 Spain, United Kingdom, Brazil Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $40k–$5.8M
NDRC LaunchPad
VC Fund
3 Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Augmented Reality, Energy
Development Capital
VC Fund
3 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Software, Manufacturing, Telecommunications $3.5M–$11M
Accel
VC Fund
3 United States, India, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1.3M–$75M
COSIMO Ventures
VC Fund
3 Ireland, United States, Japan Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech $1M–$5M
Tapestry VC
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, Ireland Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2.6M–$70M
Enzo Ventures
VC Fund
3 Spain, United States, Italy Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence $269k–$21M
Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity fund
VC Fund
3 Ireland Seed, Series A Software, Photography, SaaS $384k–$1M
Western Development Commission
VC Fund
3 Ireland, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology $702k–$17M
Business Venture Partners
VC Fund
3 Ireland, The Netherlands, Luxembourg Seed, Series A Health Care, Information Technology, Medical $665k–$12M
Intel Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, China, Israel Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
CDP Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $483k–$23M
Greylock
VC Fund
2 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.2M–$62M
Balderton Capital
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Series B, Series C Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Celtic House Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Series B, Series A Software, Semiconductor, Manufacturing $3.4M–$21M
Focus Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 Ireland, United Kingdom Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Software, Fuel, Solar $3.6M–$33M
Dynamo
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Logistics, Software, Supply Chain Management $370k–$25M
EIT Urban Mobility
VC Fund
2 Spain, Sweden, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Transportation, Information Technology
Techstart Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $197k–$5.7M
GAN Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Ireland, Kenya Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Information Technology, Health Care $100k–$4.9M
Draper Associates
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain $750k–$41M
Claret Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Post-IPO Debt Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $1.6M–$165M
ff Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Poland, Canada Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $305k–$12M
LVP
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Finland Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Gaming, Video Games, Mobile $1.4M–$19M
Ulster Bank Diageo Venture Fund
VC Fund
2 Ireland, United States Seed, Series A Software, Mobile, Advertising $1.6M–$2.2M
TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Mobile, Information Technology $1.9M–$20M
Innovation Ulster
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Ireland Seed, Series A Health Care, Biotechnology, iOS $106k–$4.3M
Team Ignite Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS $300k–$25M
PROTOCOL — by GETTYLAB
VC Fund
2 United States, France, Germany Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $125k–$10M
CircleRock Capital
VC Fund
2 Ireland, United Kingdom, United States Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech $1.5M–$24M
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Enterprise Ireland
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 82 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

Enterprise Ireland is the government agency responsible for the development and funding of the indigenous business sector. Their mission is to accelerate the development of companies to achieve strong positions in global markets resulting in increased national and regional prosperity. It was founded in 1998 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 890
  • Round size: Seed $399k–$3.2M; Grant $16k–$5.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $560k–$8.3M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.2M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Foodcloud — We connect businesses that have surplus food with Charities and Community Groups that need it.
  • Amethyst Care — Amethyst Care is a startup that creates an AI-powered voice assistant for those with mobility difficulties.
  • Full Health Medical — Full Health Medical patient empowerment tools that improve prevention healthcare are part of the healthcare ecosystem. FHM provides reliable digital innovation, designed by healthcare professionals that are keen to help patients live a healthy life, in response to a national scarcity of healthcare providers, the development of chronic disease, anda lack of transparency at the patient level. People provide lifetime access to preventive care healthcare across screening, diagnostics, education, treatment, and a record of their journey driven technology provides lifetime access to preventative healthcare custom designed at every step screening, diagnostics, education, and action plans that motivate individuals to address risks before they develop health problems.
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Kernel Capital
VC Fund · Cork, Cork, Ireland · 17 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Ubotica — AI-powered maritime surveillance and intelligence that predicts risk, tasks satellites and delivers verified insights to protect critical infrastructure and detect dark vessels.
  • Entity — Entity's purpose is shape the future of web gaming by leveraging emerging technologies and maximizing the browser's capabilities. Our next-generation gaming hub, scheduled to arrive in 2027, will be a global place for players to discover, connect, and play together.
  • Fresco — Fresco powers connected cooking experiences for appliance brands, enabling faster launches, lower R&D costs, and continuous innovation.
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NDRC
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 14 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Nory AI — Revolutionise your restaurant with Nory's restaurant management software. Streamline operations, boost profits, and enhance decision-making in one platform.
  • Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.
  • Ceartas DMCA — Ceartas is the leader in piracy protection for creators, brands & enterprise. Powered by AI, we have the highest removal rate in the industry
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Delta Partners
VC Fund · Leopardstown, Dublin, Ireland · 13 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • CleverCards — The Platform for Contactless Cards. The CleverGift real-time payment platform offers gift cards, expenses, employee incentives, and travel foreign exchange.
  • Bloomberg PolarLake — Streamline the acquisition, management and distribution of instrument, pricing, index, legal and ratings data from multiple delivery channels.
  • WhatClinic.com — WhatClinic.com helps patients find, compare and book the right clinics for them, in more than 135 countries. They provide detailed listings for over 120,000 clinics on their site. These include doctors, dentists, beauty and cosmetic surgery, physiotherapy, fertility, holistics and a lot more. They believe that every patient is an empoweredconsumer.
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Elkstone Capital Partners
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 13 investments in Ireland Hardware startups, 11 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Entity — Entity's purpose is shape the future of web gaming by leveraging emerging technologies and maximizing the browser's capabilities. Our next-generation gaming hub, scheduled to arrive in 2027, will be a global place for players to discover, connect, and play together.
  • ZeroRisk.io — https://t.co/Aukldsyhoy is the end-to-end merchant portfolio risk and compliance management system designed to make the payments ecosystem safer.
  • Full Health Medical — Full Health Medical patient empowerment tools that improve prevention healthcare are part of the healthcare ecosystem. FHM provides reliable digital innovation, designed by healthcare professionals that are keen to help patients live a healthy life, in response to a national scarcity of healthcare providers, the development of chronic disease, anda lack of transparency at the patient level. People provide lifetime access to preventive care healthcare across screening, diagnostics, education, treatment, and a record of their journey driven technology provides lifetime access to preventative healthcare custom designed at every step screening, diagnostics, education, and action plans that motivate individuals to address risks before they develop health problems.
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Sure Valley Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 9 investments in Ireland Hardware startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Sure Valley Ventures is an entrepreneur-led Venture Capital Fund that invests in early-stage software companies. Working in partnership with Shard Capital, a specialist broker and asset manager based in the City of London, Sure Valley Ventures specializes in investing in Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), Financial Technology(FinTech), and the Internet of Things (IoT) Sectors.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $889k–$5.9M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$4.1M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $32M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Souk — Coco is an AI partnerships manager: she finds partners, activates them, and handles agreements, attribution and payouts.
  • Xylo — Xylo offers higher quality processes with full officer oversight, reducing planning uncertainty and boosting UK housing delivery.
  • BeCertain — BeCertain revolutionizes dental diagnostics with AI-powered tools for X-ray analysis, improving precision and reducing diagnostic errors.
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Atlantic Bridge
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 8 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • GloNav — GloNav develops global positioning system and satellite navigation technologies and products for the wireless handset and mobile consumer electronics device markets. It offers global positioning system radio frequency integrated circuits and single chip assisted-global positioning systems, which are used for low dropout tracking and cellularhandset integration. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Newport Beach, California. It has locations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Taiwan. As of January 2008, GloNav, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of NXP B.V.
  • Mindgard — Mindgard is the leading provider of AI Red Teaming solutions.
  • Neurobell — NeuroBell develop novel EEG medical devices for early detection and monitoring of neonatal seizures.
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Frontline Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 8 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

Frontline is the venture firm for globally ambitious B2B companies on both sides of the Atlantic. Frontline Seed speeds up ideas at inception across Europe. Frontline X is a growth-stage fund, for fast and frictionless US-Europe expansion.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
  • Stanhope AI — Stanhope AI is a deep-tech startup based in London with a strong background in neuroscience, robotics and fintech. We are bringing Active Inference to market as a novel framework for autonomous decision-making. To contend with the challenges of contemporary AIs, our distinct approach aims to offer
  • HelmGuard AI — HelmGuard develops an AI-driven trust infrastructure platform for security, compliance, and third-party risk management. The company provides an operational risk infrastructure layer that centralizes fragmented security, compliance, and vendor data into a structured repository. Its platform coordinates autonomous, domain-specific AI agents thatperform continuous data indexing, compliance mapping, automated vendor assessments, and real-time security tracking. HelmGuard includes a risk operating system, a zero-knowledge verification engine for selective disclosure and cryptographic-style proofs, and persona-specific risk intelligence reporting. These capabilities support first-party, third-party, and customer-facing workflows across sectors such as financial services, SaaS, and healthcare. The platform is used by security, risk, and compliance teams to maintain continuous oversight of internal controls, vendor posture, and regulatory obligations while generating tailored, natural-language reports for business stakeholders.
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SOSV
VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 7 investments in Ireland Hardware startups, 75 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Phorest — Join 8000+ spas, barbers, hair, beauty and nail salon owners using the #1 management, scheduling, POS and appointment booking system. Try Phorest now!
  • SurgaColl — SurgaColl Technologies is a medical device company developing novel tissue regeneration products for the surgical treatment of diseases of the bone, cartilage and other human tissue. Based on technology developed at the Tissue Engineering Research Group (TERG) of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), headed by Professor Fergal O’Brien,the company aims to become a leader in the field of regenerative medical devices.
  • Metabolomic Diagnostics — Metabolomic Diagnostics is a deep-tech company specialized in the development of novel biomarker based diagnostic solutions for complex diseases. The company has developed an effective pipeline to firstly identify diagnostic biomarker panels and then translate these panels into clinical assays ready for application in the clinical laboratory.Thispipeline combines the biomarker multiplexing capabilities of Mass Spectrometry, a powerful analytical technology, with the company’s own informatics and statistics solutions to deliver diagnostic innovation. This is reflected in Metabolomic Diagnostics’ strong and versatile IP portfolio of technical innovations and biomarkers.Our VisionMetabolomic Diagnostics’ primary vision is to develop a portfolio of diagnostic solutions which can determine, early in a woman’s pregnancy,her risk of developing major complications much later in her pregnancy and thus enabling personalized care, adapted to each woman’s individual needs. Pregnancy complications like preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, preterm birth, and in-uterine growth restriction, all have the potential to severely impact on the well-being of mother and child.The company’s innovative diagnostic solutions will assist clinicians in re-imagining how these conditions are managed: our novel risk assessment tools are specifically developed in conjunction with prenatal care providers to ensure they make a difference that really matters. This in turn will enable clinicians to improve pregnancy outcomes globally.Our solutions will empower pregnant women: accurate pregnancy risk information will allow a pregnant woman, in partnership with her care provider, to determine what prenatal care is best for her pregnancy.
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AIB Seed Capital Fund
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 7 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

The AIB Seed Capital Fund was established in 2007 to provide venture capital for companies at the seed and early stages of development across a range of sectors throughout the Republic of Ireland. The Fund was established under the Enterprise Ireland Seed and Venture Capital Programme 2007-2012.The Fund has a total of €30m under managementwith AIB and Enterprise Ireland both committing €15m. It is managed by experienced managers with extensive expertise in making seed and early stage investments, adding value and facilitating business success.The Fund managers are empowered to make seed investments of up to approximately €500,000. Furthermore, the Fund has the capacity to make investments in later rounds to support the continued growth of investee companies.The Fund will be managed by Enterprise Equity Venture Capital and the Dublin Business Innovation Centre. This unique partnership brings together extensive regional and investment expertise.Enterprise Equity will evaluate and manage all investments outside the city and county of Dublin, as well as investments that require in excess of €250,000 from the fund within the city and county of Dublin.Dublin Business Innovation Centre (DBIC) will evaluate and manage all investments within the city and county of Dublin when the initial investment amount required from the Fund does not exceed €250,000.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • NewsWhip — NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.
  • Offr — Offr is the new way to buy and sell property, quickly and transparently.
  • Metabolomic Diagnostics — Metabolomic Diagnostics is a deep-tech company specialized in the development of novel biomarker based diagnostic solutions for complex diseases. The company has developed an effective pipeline to firstly identify diagnostic biomarker panels and then translate these panels into clinical assays ready for application in the clinical laboratory.Thispipeline combines the biomarker multiplexing capabilities of Mass Spectrometry, a powerful analytical technology, with the company’s own informatics and statistics solutions to deliver diagnostic innovation. This is reflected in Metabolomic Diagnostics’ strong and versatile IP portfolio of technical innovations and biomarkers.Our VisionMetabolomic Diagnostics’ primary vision is to develop a portfolio of diagnostic solutions which can determine, early in a woman’s pregnancy,her risk of developing major complications much later in her pregnancy and thus enabling personalized care, adapted to each woman’s individual needs. Pregnancy complications like preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, preterm birth, and in-uterine growth restriction, all have the potential to severely impact on the well-being of mother and child.The company’s innovative diagnostic solutions will assist clinicians in re-imagining how these conditions are managed: our novel risk assessment tools are specifically developed in conjunction with prenatal care providers to ensure they make a difference that really matters. This in turn will enable clinicians to improve pregnancy outcomes globally.Our solutions will empower pregnant women: accurate pregnancy risk information will allow a pregnant woman, in partnership with her care provider, to determine what prenatal care is best for her pregnancy.
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HBAN
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 7 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

The best companies, off the beaten path.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Persuva AI — Grow your dropshipping store to 7 figures fast with the #1 marketing tool for dropshippers
  • Protostars — Protostars is a regulatory technology business. It is the creator of a cyber risk and compliance program meant for secure code reports on audits.
  • Slick+ — The Same Best Practice. Every Worker. Every Shift. Make critical know-how easy to find, follow and prove. Speak to an expert Get a Demo Trusted by global teams About Us Point-of-need learning, from warehouse to last mile Slick+ enables frontline teams capture and apply process know-how without leaving the flow of work - speeding onboarding, absense
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New Venture Partners
VC Fund · Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, United States · 3 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Zartis — Zartis is a global technology consulting partner specialising in AI transformation and advanced engineering. We help organisations integrate AI across their teams, systems, and products - turning ambition into practical, production-ready capability.
  • IP Telecom — Ireland's most competitive SME & Enterprise VoIP provider. We are Ireland's leading VoIP Phone Systems Provider. Connect your business to the technology of today.
  • Spotlight Oral Care — Spotlight Oral Care aims to create the best oral health products, to educate and promote oral care, empowering people to engage with true customised preventative oral care.
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Accel
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 3 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Ovagen — Ovagen is a biotechnology company that has developed the process of producing germ free (GF) chicken eggs and GF birds in commercial quantities for use primarily in the pharmaceutical industry. Ovagen can also provide a Contract Research Service and has extensive expertise in SPF poultry & rodent housing & husbandry, in specific poultry& rodent research technologies to GMP standards and in avian transgenics.
  • Peroptyx — Peroptyx is a platform that provides managed solutions for machine learning. At Peroptyx, they have assembled and pre-screened a qualified network of data evaluators across the globe. They strategically match ideal evaluators with each product to ensure authentic experiences through consistency and appropriate real-world contexts.
  • Galway Biomedical — Galway Biomedical partners with global medical device companies to bring complex braided devices from early concept through to full-scale production.
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Business Venture Partners
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 3 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Advise — Advise Freemium is a ground-breaking automated data analytics for CPG solution. Discover how Advise can assist your Revenue Growth Management.
  • Oranda Therapeutics — Oranda Therapeutics: ensuring sustainable, affordable access to rare disease medicines across Europe through high-quality established treatments.
  • The Corporate Governance Institute — Diploma Certification for Board Directors. University accredited Courses for existing and aspiring Directors. Qualify as a Director.
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Intel Capital
VC Fund · Santa Clara, California, United States · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups, 23 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

CDP Venture Capital Sgr - National Innovation Fund aims to make venture capital a cornerstone of the country's economic development and innovation, creating the conditions for an overall and sustainable growth of the venture capital ecosystem.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 295
  • Round size: Seed $483k–$7.7M; Series A $3.3M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $197M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Evja — Evja supports growers in optimizing the management and monitoring of irrigation, nutrition and protection of their crops through the use of OPI, the most advanced system for precision agriculture .
  • Mopso — Discover Mopso's anti money laundering detection system. Visit our website and try a 30 minutes free demo with one of our experts.
  • ALLSIDES — Covision Media specializes in creating high-quality, relightable 3D models using their industrial 3D scanners. These scanners capture detailed surface information and PBR textures, and are designed for easy integration into virtual environments.
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Greylock
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

Greylock Partners is a leading venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. We are early partners of remarkable teams building companies that matter.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 951
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$12M; Series A $5.5M–$40M; Series B $11M–$62M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $1.5B in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • BountyJobs — One platform for ALL your third-party recruiting needs. Supporting contingent and direct-hires, for one job or many, in the US and abroad.
  • Snorkel AI — Snorkel AI builds specialized training data, benchmarks, and evaluation environments that help frontier models and agents perform in high-stakes domains.
  • Lightfield — CRM that builds a world model of your business.
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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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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: 113
  • Round size: Series A $3.4M–$14M; Series B $5.6M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • UniUni — Explore our shipping Universe. Our mission is to be your first-choice for last-mile delivery.
  • 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.
  • Raven Connected — Raven Connected offers vehicle tracking and driver monitoring system services, enhancing safety and efficiency in transportation operations.
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Focus Capital Partners
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Xunison — Our mission is to empower homeowners to streamline their lifestyle by creating a market-leading, fully connected and secure smart home, Home - xunison
  • Elgin Energy — Elgin Energy is an international and independent solar development platform. Established in 2009, Elgin Energy has extensive experience in delivering projects from initial landowner engagement to project completion with a 98% success rate in obtaining planning permission. To date, only one project has not achieved planning permission.
  • Focus Scientific Solutions — Focus Scientific Solutions provides an extensive range of specialist and general laboratory equipment.
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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: Logistics, Software, Supply Chain Management
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6.1M; Pre-Seed $370k–$4M; Series A $6.4M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $54M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • UNIT AI — Simplify ecommerce fulfillment with AI-powered robotic inventory systems. 12x cheaper, plug-and-play, <12 month ROI. Transform single-item logistics.
  • Lux Aeterna — New Album Echoes From Silence out September 2013
  • AI Hospitality Group — AI Hospitality Group is an AI-powered hotel management platform that runs the back office operations, including staffing, and scheduling.
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EIT Urban Mobility
VC Fund · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Smart Point — We are entering the age of convenience and immediacy. A Smart Point automates the reception of any product you shop online, and any service available in your city, from pharmaceuticals, to flowers and dry cleaning. All delivered in 1 hour and available to pick up at your convenience.
  • Parabol — As Parabol, we use our innovative power for smart mobility systems and traffic safety all over the world.
  • Fastlane — Discover seamless logistics control with our cutting-edge transport management software. Streamline operations, optimize routes, and enhance efficiency effortlessly. Try our solution for comprehensive control today!
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Techstart Ventures
VC Fund · Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 209
  • Round size: Seed $233k–$4M; Pre-Seed $197k–$1.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $477k–$5.7M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Go Swag — Branded gifts for people you work with
  • Saltroad — Get matched with an experienced HCPC Speech and Language Therapist based on your child's needs, your budget and your schedule. Loved by parents & children.
  • Foresight — Foresight turns regulatory change into confident action. Compliance-critical teams see every change that affects their products across chemicals, sustainability, product safety, ESG, and HSE, with the evidence to act.
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GAN Ventures
VC Fund · Denver, Colorado, United States · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

GAN Ventures is the investment arm of the Global Accelerator Network

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Mesh++ — Mesh++ is a solar-powered routers developer. Mesh++ uses mobile processing power to deliver a high-speed WiFi connection to outdoors and public places.
  • Stax — Royal Reels Casino reviewed for Aussie players: how login and sign-up work, the pokies line-up, current bonus terms and AUD deposits and withdrawals.
  • Icon Source — This is Icon Source: Your portal into the world of powerful athletic endorsements.
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Draper Associates
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups, 39 in the past 12 months

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, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 514
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$7.2M; Series A $2.5M–$28M; Series B $5M–$41M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $200M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • heXem bio — heXem bio specializes in recording solutions for the early development of humans for longevity.
  • Cloverleaf Bio — Cloverleaf Bio | Developing a new class of RNA therapeutics to revolutionize cancer therapy.
  • Poseidon Aerospace — Poseidon Aerospace is developing unmanned cargo aircraft for regional commercial air freight and contested defense logistics.
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Claret Capital Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups, 7 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$5.4M; Series A $2M–$17M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.4M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $80M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • VaultN — VaultN's smart distribution platform enables automated self-service distribution of game keys, digital assets, and more. Unlock efficiency, secure revenue, and scale with confidence.
  • Rule — Rule is a fintech startup building a ‘save-to-win’ mobile game to combat the ‘ADHD tax’.
  • Minit Games — Thousands of games in one feed, new ones every day. Tap one and you're playing.
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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 — Reach consumers through premium media, breakthrough creative, retail media, and AI-powered advertising solutions built to drive results.
  • 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.
  • 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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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

TLCOM finds and funds exceptional founders building technology companies across Africa. Seed to Series C. Lagos, Nairobi, London.

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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: 77
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.5M; Series A $3.8M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Myka.Insure — Myka is a insurance sales platform that enables individuals to sell insurance policies to their family, friends, colleagues, and community while earning income . It operates as a micro-entrepreneurship program where anyone (students, gadget sellers, car dealers, parents, retirees) can start their own insurance business with zero investment,flexible hours, and free training . The company is licensed by the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria and provides instant payouts to its partners .
  • LittleFish — Full stack enterprise platform that extends your infrastructure, instead of replacing it.
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Innovation Ulster
VC Fund · Newtownabbey, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Ilimex — Ilimex designs air purification and sterilisation units.
  • PulseAI — A.I. powered heart screening. #ai #ecg #cardiotwitter
  • Neurovalens — Neurovalens delivers innovative solutions in the field of neuroscience, bioscience and neurophysiology.Neurovalens has received support from Invest NI under the European Union’s Investment for Growth and Jobs Programme. The project, recorded on the ERDF beneficiaries’ website, will be implemented over the next one year, undertaking research anddevelopment activities aimed at improving the competitiveness of the business.
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Team Ignite Ventures
VC Fund · California City, California, United States · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups, 28 in the past 12 months

We're experienced operators helping to ignite and scale startups

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 297
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6.3M; Pre-Seed $300k–$1.5M; Series A $17M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $760k in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • JustAI — An AI-first modern enterprise marketing stack that sets you in an always-on, set-and-forget motion. Increase your experimentation velocity and keep your team lean! Say goodbye to manual campaign management.
  • Resolv — AI for the trades that follows through: one number for customer calls and texts, connected to organized jobs, proposals, rebates, permits, and warranties.
  • Herd Security — HerdAI is the agentic training platform that turns your policies and live threats into microlessons in minutes, delivered in Slack and Teams. GRC and security leaders hit 100% audit-ready without chasing completions.
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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, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, France, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$10M; Pre-Seed $125k–$750k
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Exosonic — Fly Supersonic Everywhere By Muting the Sonic Boom
  • Pelicargo — Pelicargo is a new digital air cargo marketplace developed at MIT.
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CircleRock Capital
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in Ireland Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

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Hardware VC funding in Ireland at a glance

Stats across 464 deals from 359 investors.

359
investors
in Ireland Hardware startups
464
deals
in Ireland Hardware startups
$2.3M
median round
in Ireland Hardware startups
48%
lead investors
lead at least one round
24%
Seed
most common funding stage

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