Top 25 Hospitality Startup Investors in Ireland in May 2026

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• Tirlan — Tirlan is an agricultural company that supplies agri-food and farm input materials to the framing sector.
• 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.
• Touchtech Payments — At Touchtech Payments, believe in making industry changing and innovative technology.

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• Imvizar — Transform your buildings, office spaces, visitor attractions, and parks with an immersive and visual storytelling experience using augmented reality. Discover unique ways to tell your story at Imvizar.
• ZeroMission — Fleets save money on their operations with eXo Fleets. TCO and Sustainability compliance in a Fleet-specific ERP. DATA | INSIGHTS | SAVINGS
• MarketSizer — MarketSizer offers subscription-based competitive intelligence and market insights for SaaS vendors who want to strategically grow their business.

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• Belidor — Belidor Helps preconstruction teams win more bids with AI bid leveling and bid management tools.
• Cauldron — Cauldron aim is to create a Worldbuilding is the art form that is foundational to everything at Cauldron. We want people to truly feel they can not only escape into our worlds, but through the advances of Web3, be a part of them.
• Recycleye — Recycleye offers ground-breaking AI robotics for innovative waste and materials management. See how automation can optimise your operations.

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• 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.

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• 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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• PraxiPal — PraxiPal is building an AI-driven healthcare workforce to tackle the increasing shortage of healthcare staff.
• 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.
• Ameba — Capture, organise and analyse your existing supply chain data from any communication channel or system through an AI layer of intelligence

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• Scurri — Scurri is next generation delivery management software that puts retailers back in control. Explore our delivery management software today.
• Momntum — Momntum is a fintech company that provides embedded point-of-sale consumer financing.
• Bounce Insights — Bounce Insights is a digital consumer research platform. It provides a direct link between brands and any consumer they needed to speak to by maintaining a community of active, engaged respondents on their mobile app.

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

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• Yonder — A modern lifestyle credit card packed with rewards, no foreign exchange fees, and loads more. Apply without needing a UK credit score.
• PLATFORM Golf — PLATFORM Golf is a pioneering golf technology firm focusing on transforming the sport of golf.

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• Scan.com — Use scan.com to find the best medical imaging centers near you Find an MRI scan, CT scan, X-ray Scan, or other diagnostic imaging scan with scan.com.
• Kafoodle — Kafoodle is an award-winning food tech company on a mission to improve health globally by connecting people with the food they need.Kafoodle launched in 2016 with a cloud-based B2B SaaS platform to help Hospitality clients digitise their recipes and menus to comply with new EU food allergen information legislation. Additional functionality wasreleased enabling clients to analyse the nutritional make-up of their food, and communicate digitally with end customers.In Jan 2018, following an Innovate UK funded project, Kafoodle launched targeted Healthcare modules aimed at helping care homes and hospitals optimise patient and resident nutrition, by enabling them to provide food offerings based on allergies, preferences, dietary requirements and health conditions.Today Kafoodle is an integrated suite of easy-to-use food allergen and nutrition management solutions for commercial caterers, with sector-specific features and benefits for Healthcare, Food Retail, Contract Catering and Education clients.
• Paloma Health — A technology-enabled provider of children's mental health services, starting with autism assessments.

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• VIVLA — We make exclusive second homes in top European locations accessible to everyone. Buy shares of your home without having to buy the whole property.
• PropHero — Invest wisely in real estate There is an easier way to invest in real estate. Whether you are just getting started or already on your investment journey, at Pro
• Genesy AI — Instantly aggregate real-time B2B data from 30+ sources and enrichment tools, and scale personalised outreach using our AI sales agent.

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• Algolia — 18,000+ organizations trust Algolia to build intuitive, adaptive, high-performing experiences with a unified AI search & retrieval platform spanning agentic, generative, and search.
• depthfirst — An AI-native security platform that understands your code, business logic, and infrastructure to find more vulnerabilities, slash false positives, and give developers actionable fixes in their workflow.
• Cinder Technologies — Cinder provides businesses everything they need to orchestrate and automate safety at scale with industry leading tools for content moderation, AI safety, and data compliance.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Abivax — Abivax recently presented impressive 9-month interim extension data from studies of ABX464 in ulcerative colitis during an oral presentation at DDW 2019, demonstrating a continued duration of beneficial effect in patients after 11-months of treatment. View the conference presentation, here:
• Bitwala — Own Bitcoin Easy. Backup and Recovery with Passkeys. Get Your Free Bitcoin Credit Card. Be Your Own Bank - not your keys, not your coins.
• Cardiac Dimensions — Cardiac Dimensions, Inc. is a medical device company developing novel interventional tools for the treatment of heart failure and the related condition of mitral valve regurgitation. Our product, the Carillon® Mitral Contour System®, is a groundbreaking, non-surgical device developed to treat functional mitral valve regurgitation. Our system uses acatheter based approach to reshape the mitral valve and reduce mitral regurgitation.

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• 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.

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• MagicDoor — MagicDoor is disrupting the property management world with the industry's first AI native property management software platform, specifically designed to tackle the everyday challenges property managers face. Using cutting-edge AI technology, MagicDoor offers a comprehensive all in one solution that streamlines everything from vacancies tomaintenance to communication, boosting productivity by up to 5X and decreasing costs by up to 60%. By using AI to maximize efficiencies in the platform and automate and streamline property manager tasks, we offer a simple and transparent pricing model, with no additional fees, no onboarding costs and no minimums.MagicDoor was founded by Kasper Sogaard, a seasoned FAANG Engineer with specialization in AI and also a property owner and manager. Motivated by his inability to find a cost-effective and efficient software solution for his own properties, Sogaard started MagicDoor with a mission to revolutionize property management through AI integration. Everything in MagicDoor has been designed from the perspective of a property manager, which makes it intuitive and user friendly—but behind the scenes we’ve used the most current technology, including the power of AI, to make the property manager’s job as efficient as possible At the heart of the MagicDoor product philosophy lies a straightforward concept: leverage AI to simplify, streamline, and optimize the traditionally labor-intensive tasks associated with property management. MagicDoor isn't just a service provider; we're a growth partner for property managers looking to leverage technology for a competitive edge. With MagicDoor, property management is not only about managing assets but also about unlocking potential.
• Swivel — PilotDesk advances ad operations by automating tedious processes, allowing humans to concentrate on strategy and creativity.
• ALT Sports Data — Real Time Alternative Sports Betting Data.

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• 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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• Kennedy Wilson — Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc. is a vertically integrated global real estate investment and services company. The Company has approximately 24 offices throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain and Japan. It focuses on adding value for its shareholders through opportunistic investing and strategic asset management. Its businessoperations include two core units: KW Investments and KW Services. KW Investments invests its capital in real estate-related assets. KW Services provides a full array of real estate-related services to owners and lenders, with a focus on financial institution based clients. In May 2014, it purchased apartments, 203-unit apartment community in Tacoma, Washington. In July 2014, it acquired multifamily portfolio consisted of three properties located across southern submarkets of Seattle, Washington. Portfolio consists of 1,212 units.
• Lightsource bp — Lightsource bp is a leading global developer, constructor and operator of onshore renewables and energy storage solutions.
• Power Capital Renewable Energy — Power Capital Renewable Energy specialize in developing large scale photovoltaic solar farms. The company began by acquiring and asset managing utility scale solar parks.

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• 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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• Querio — Querio is an AI native Business Intelligence platform that meets everyone at their technical level. From fully automated queries and visualizations, to co-pilot jupyter notebooks.
• 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.
• Northbound — We are building the dynamic decision engine that translates real-time data into operational excellence & stakeholder transparency. All at the intersection of warehouse and transport logistics.

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• 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

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• Cirdan — Cirdan provides highly reliable, innovative LIS & imaging solutions for the acceleration & enhancement of diagnosis, optimized for pathology & clinical lab.
• Pretto — Pretto is the only truly transparent online real estate price comparator.Pretto accompanies you until the signing of your loan, free of charge and without commitment.
• Pilot Photonics — Welcome to Pilot Photonics, a laser product development company in Dublin, Ireland. We provide optical frequency combs and tunable lasers.

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• Framer — Framer is a tool to design interactive high-fidelity prototypes for iOS, Android, desktop, or the web. It enables users to turn static mockups into interactive prototypes and to experiment quickly with dynamic, native-feeling animations and interactions.Framer integrates with design tools, exports smoothly to mobile devices, and is powered bythe language of the modern web, Javascript. The company was founded by Jorn Dijk and Koen Bok.
• CityMall — CityMall is a social e-commerce venture, backed by Elevation Capital, aiming to help the 200-300 million new to Internet users realize the power of Internet
• FirstClub — FirstClub's mission is to become a rapid commerce-first omnichannel retailer that uses offline experience stores to promote the quality of its items. FirstClub's goal is to create a platform that serves customers and offers brands a unique opportunity to connect with affluent homes.

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• 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.