Top 25 Hospitality Startup Investors in Ireland (June 2026)

Portfolio highlights

• Tirlan — Tirlan is an agricultural company that supplies agri-food and farm input materials to the framing sector.
• Pulsate — Pulsate enables direct communication with customers based on their location, context, interests and behaviours. Pulsate allows you to design and push rich media content directly to customers devices. Deepen the relationship by establishing a customer dialogue. Allow users to reply to your campaigns, provide feedback and keep complaints outside ofsocial media. Maximize foot traffic by targeting street level or competitor locations. Combine with segmentation for optimal results. iBeacons:tm: enable you to understand indoor customer location and context with incredible accuracy. Easily manage deployment and configuration of iBeacons:tm: with the Pulsate cloud platform. Gain a deeper understanding of your mobile customers and a comprehensive view of each mobile campaign.
• Lakeland Dairies — Lakeland Dairies, a major dairy processing co-operative, operates within a fifteen county catchment area across the northern half of the island of Ireland. The Group processes about one billion litres of quality milk annually into a range of value added dairy foodservice products and functional dairy food ingredients.

Portfolio highlights

• Nory — Revolutionise your restaurant with Nory's restaurant management software. Streamline operations, boost profits, and enhance decision-making in one platform.
• Protex AI — Protex AI develops an AI-powered proactive health and safety technology that enables an injury-free industrial workplace. The company allows EHS teams to adopt proactive safety cultures and in doing so realize an injury-free workplace.
• Passionfruit — Join hundreds of the best startups around the world and use Passionfruit to hire freelance marketing specialists on-demand.

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

Portfolio highlights

• AMPECO — AMPECO enables large-scale EV charging providers to launch and scale their business operations under their own brand. The company offers a white-label and hardware-agnostic EV charging management platform to cover all business cases - public, private, and home charging. Advanced energy management, flexible billing and subscription management,automatic maintenance algorithms, and inter-operator roaming are some of the platform’s key components. With security and scalability at its core, the platform allows large-scale operators like energy companies, oil and gas, fleets, hardware manufacturers and installers to achieve quick go-to-market in a few months with a ready-made platform combined with unmatched flexibility and extensibility via APIs. AMPECO supports more than 110 charging network operators in over 45 markets and has been globally recognized by Frost & Sullivan for its superior technological innovation and strategic development with the 2022 Global Product Leadership Award.
• UniteLabs — UniteLabs provides the foundational operating system for AI-driven lab automation in life science. It accelerates scientific discovery by closing the loop with a unified data and automation infrastructure, seamless integration, and intelligent control. Our platform empowers ambitious biotech companies, big pharma, integrators, and hardware vendorsby offering bidirectional connectors for diverse lab equipment, a scalable cloud platform with an open API, and a powerful workflow engine with an integrated compute environment. This allows for the creation of sophisticated, modular workflows, and enables rapid automation development through our Lab-as-Code environment, featuring a dynamic Python SDK and application-specific libraries.
• beSirius — beSirius transforms ESG chaos into clarity - connecting your data to spot trends, reveal revenue signals, and answer any stakeholder in minutes. Smarter decisions, faster deals, zero admin drain.

Portfolio highlights

• Paygentic — Purpose-built payments & billing for AI agents and agentic software. Flexible pricing models, real-time billing, no fixed fees. Start monetizing in days, not months.
• Omniscient — Omniscient is a decision intelligence platform for senior corporate leadership. Omniscient platform is to aggregate and synthesize external and internal data into a centralized management cockpit.
• Omniscient — Omniscient is a Paris-based AI-powered decision intelligence platform designed for boards and C-suite executives. It aggregates data from over 100,000 sources like media, social channels, and internal systems to deliver real-time, contextualized insights on corporate reputation, geopolitical risks, narrative strategy, and more.

Portfolio highlights

• Kayna — Enhance your SaaS platform's value by integrating Kayna's insurance solutions. Drive additional revenue and offer more to your users with every policy sold.
• WhatClinic.com — WhatClinic.com helps patients find, compare and book the right clinics for them, in more than 135 countries. They provide detailed listings for over 120,000 clinics on their site. These include doctors, dentists, beauty and cosmetic surgery, physiotherapy, fertility, holistics and a lot more. They believe that every patient is an empoweredconsumer.
• Digit Game Studios — Founded in 2012, DIGIT is a cross-platform game developer based in Dublin, Ireland. We are the largest game developer in the country with an international team of experienced, passionate game-makers. Our first game, Kings of the Realm, was launched in September 2014 and is available on browser, iOS, Android and Windows.

Portfolio highlights

• Dcycle — Dcycle develops environmental intelligence tool.
• Caravelo — Caravelo provides travel subscription solutions that increase revenue & market share, reduce seasonality, and create better customer experiences.
• Enginy — Instantly aggregate real-time B2B data from 30+ sources and enrichment tools, and scale personalised outreach using our AI sales agent.

Portfolio highlights

• Nory — Revolutionise your restaurant with Nory's restaurant management software. Streamline operations, boost profits, and enhance decision-making in one platform.
• emma — Some meta description
• Yonder — A modern lifestyle credit card packed with rewards, no foreign exchange fees, and loads more. Apply without needing a UK credit score.

Portfolio highlights

• Konfir — Konfir is a B2B SaaS platform that provides instant employment and income verifications for UK-based workers.
• Nory — Revolutionise your restaurant with Nory's restaurant management software. Streamline operations, boost profits, and enhance decision-making in one platform.
• Crowd Data Systems — Crowd Data Systems (CDS) offers a new approach to treasury management. CDS has developed an ‘app by app’ Treasury Management System which is built upon cloud infrastructure, offering everything from cash to exposure management in modular parts.

Portfolio highlights

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

Portfolio highlights

• 15toGO — 15toGO is a social travel app that allows users to find like-minded people according to the interests that they share. Together, they can book organized trips directly through the app’s marketplace. One of the first 15 people to book certain promo trips (called GO Deals) can go on them for free.

Portfolio highlights

• Deciphex — Deciphex - Transforming Digital Pathology - we are focussed on the development of applications for clinical and veterinary pathology that improve productivity
• Engage-EHS — EcoOnline's easy-to-use software system is helping companies to transform their approach to health & safety, chemical safety & learning data reporting.
• SilverCloud Health — SilverCloud Health is the trusted on-demand virtual mental health platform - Delivering proven clinical outcomes at scale. Virtual therapy and care

Portfolio highlights

• Paysend — PaySend is a financial technology platform that solves the universal problem to securely enable any bank card (Visa or MasterCard) to send and receive money worldwide. It is a next-generation money transfer platform allowing its users to send funds from card to card from 40 to over 60 countries.
• Wellster Healthtech Group — Wellster empowers everyone to enjoy the health outcomes they desire by creating effortless access to health care.
• Cinclus Pharma — A Swedish pharma company bringing relief to the world with the clinical stage drug candidate linaprazan glurate for gastric acid related diseases.

Portfolio highlights

• NTR plc —
• Low Carbon — Low Carbon focuses on large-scale renewable energy investments embracing proven technologies including solar, wind, waste to energy and battery storage.
• Hostelworld —

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.

Portfolio highlights

• EmbodyX — EmbodyX builds Physical AI that powers the industrial world
• ThinkSono — ThinkSono Guidance enables any non-ultrasound trained healthcare professional to scan for blood clots (DVT). It reduces waiting times, negative DVT cases and can be used at the point of care.
• Orbital Paradigm —

Portfolio highlights

• Payhawk — Payhawk is a spending software that simplifies expenses, payments, and card spending for growing businesses. The company's platform enables financial officers and business owners to manage the entire spending lifecycle end-to-end. It collects and analyzes receipts, invoices, and card transactions to help stay in control of the budget with nopaperwork for the employees. With its paperless corporate card linked to an automated expense management, Payhawk provides a product on top of existing banks.Payhawk was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in London, England.
• Reloyalty — We turn every bank card in Europe into a loyalty card. Reloyalty is a fully automated and personalised loyalty platform on top of card payments leveraging Open Banking / PSD2. We enable users to connect existing bank cards to Reloyalty and unlock 10-50% in reward value from their every day shopping. Participating retailers and banks can getaccess to data about their most valuable customers based on purchasing patterns and launch loyalty campaigns with measurable ROI.Reloyalty was founded with the goal of helping businesses identify their most passionate customers and helping those people get treated as such. They believe that the their relationship with the places where they shop, eat and meet with people are more than transactional.
• UPPER — Upper enables start-ups, businesses, and organizations to find and hire quality tech talent to work full-time, part-time, or hourly

Portfolio highlights

• ONDO Smart Farming Solutions — Precise drip irrigation management and control, precise plant nutrition and climate control for various crops - ONDO Smart Farming solutions.
• Releva — Releva predicts customer lifetime value, personalizes every touchpoint, and automates across email, SMS, WhatsApp, push, web, and app. 250+ B2C brands, 15+ countries. 80% prediction accuracy, 7.7x CLV.
• Biodit Global Technology JSC — Biodit Global Technology is a tech company that specializes in development of state-of-the-art biometric security systems.BIODIT means innovation, comfort, design but above all, it means the highest level of SECURITY. Endless areas of application - healthcare industry, business and office centers, commercial and residential buildings,hospitality, banking and automotive industries.The areas of application of our unique biometric technology for access control, time attendance monitoring and management of operations, just to name a few, are endless - healthcare industry, business and office centres, commercial and residential buildings, hospitality industry, university centres, banking industry, automotive industry, security companies etc.

Portfolio highlights

• JustTip — JustTip provides full-suite contactless tipping systems for the hospitality business. Sign up today to streamline your tipping system.

Portfolio highlights

• Yodlee — Yodlee is a provider of financial applications that aims to make online banking more profitable. Yodlee's personal financial management, payments, and customer acquisition solutions unify all personal financial account information to deliver centralized way for users to manage their financial tasks.
• Solda.AI — Fully automated sales departments for b2c
• Higgsfield — The ultimate AI-powered camera control for creators by creators

Portfolio highlights

• Gigable — Join the fastest growing delivery network. Signup as a business to access freelancers or signup as a freelancer to earn additional income.
• Coindrum — Coindrum provides coin machines to spend your coin jars. No more manual counting, sorting or bagging!
• VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.

Portfolio highlights

• Elaitra — Elaitra’s breast cancer platform includes a Generative LLM for voice-based patient engagement, and a unique AI reading tool that helps doctors read 3D X-Rays. Operating in USA & UK. FDA 510(k) and UK regulator approved.
• Sages — Biodegradeable, non-polluting, low-impact and vibrant dyes extracted from food waste.
• WeFindFlats — Live and work anywhere, without housing worries.

Portfolio highlights

• Sulmara — Innovation for a sustainable energy future | Sulmara
• Besseges — ValvesTubesFittings.com launched in 2015 as the online arm of Besseges VTF and has become one of the leading online pipeline suppliers.
• Miracle Design & Play — Miracle Design & Play specializes in designing and installing playgrounds for children.

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.

Portfolio highlights

• CLEATUS — CLEATUS is an AI-powered platform that helps government contractors discover contract opportunities, manage capture pipelines, and write winning proposals. We make government contracting accessible to any business, with AI that automates everything from finding opportunities to submitting winning proposals.Empowering government contractors withagentic AI for every stage of the contracting lifecycle. Effortlessly discover new opportunities, craft winning proposals, manage pursuits and win more work within a single, purpose-built platform designed for organizations of any size.
• TransCrypts — We all have that file box where we throw all our important documents. Our goal at TransCrypts is to make that box digital and have all the documents secured through the blockchain. We currently offer industry leading privacy and security standards on our file storage and sharing platform and have solutions for individuals all the way to enterprises.
• Firestorm — Democratizing deterrence through the use of radically affordable, mission-adaptable unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and answering the call for future-proofed systems with open system architectures.