Top 20 Hospitality VC Funds & Investors in Ireland (July 2026)

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• CloudRanger — Enterprise Cloud Backup and data management across edge, on-premises and cloud workloads
• Adama Innovations — Adama Innovations have a disruptive technology for advanced manufacturing. The company have developed a simple process for creating patterns, on a scale invisible to the human eye, on ultra-hard materials.The micro patterns can be applied to injection molds and forming dies used for the fabrication of medical devices, improving theircapability and reducing the cost of manufacture. Other applications include labelling and anti-counterfeiting technology.The company's first product is a nano-scale probe fabricated in diamond, for metrology applications in high-tech manufacturing.The company is a spin-out from CRANN, the flagship nanotechnology institute in Trinity College Dublin.
• Finovation Limited — Finovation Limited

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• Wassist — Wassist is a platform for building AI-powered WhatsApp agents that help businesses automate sales, customer support, and marketing directly inside WhatsApp.
• Astral Systems — Our compact multi-state fusion reactors offer high particle flux and exceptional lifetime performance, unlocking a wide variety of critical medical, industrial, and research applications today.
• Passionfruit — Join hundreds of the best startups around the world and use Passionfruit to hire freelance marketing specialists on-demand.

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• Embat — Keep your cash flows, cash accounts, debt positions and forecasts monitored and automated real time.
• Veremark — A leading online background checking platform that is scalable, secure and fast. Featured Checks - Criminal Record Check, Reference Check, Employment Check.
• Punto — Punto is a Madrid-based B2B startup founded in 2025 that leverages generative AI to automate bureaucratic processes and compliance tasks with public administrations.

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

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Neubond — Neubond develops wearable devices for stroke mobility rehabilitation. These devices provide autonomous assistance and therapy during daily activities, integrating rehabilitation into the patient's daily life regardless of their motor capabilities. Neubond's solutions are designed to be intuitive and effective, aiming to improve thequality of life for individuals undergoing rehabilitation.
• Sages — Biodegradeable, non-polluting, low-impact and vibrant dyes extracted from food waste.
• Traknova — Traknova provides an AI-powered fleet management platform that helps companies track, manage, and protect vehicles and mobile assets. The platform offers real-time GPS tracking, live monitoring, and telematics data to give operators constant visibility over fleet movements and status. Users can access an intuitive dashboard with historical tripinformation, engine status, and alerts for events such as geofence breaches or unauthorized use. Traknova also supports integrated hardware, including tracking devices and online cameras, to strengthen asset security and streamline recovery when issues arise. The system is designed for fleets across industries, such as service businesses and vehicle rental operators, that need clearer scheduling, better time management, and improved operational control. By consolidating these tools into one platform, Traknova enables data-led fleet planning and day-to-day decision-making.

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• Augnet — Augnet brings quality and credibility to the SMS and messaging industry.
• 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.
• The Electric Car Scheme — Salary sacrifice lets employees pay for an electric car from their gross salary before tax. It's basically the Cycle to Work scheme but for electric cars.

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

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• 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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• 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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• Low Carbon — Low Carbon focuses on large-scale renewable energy investments embracing proven technologies including solar, wind, waste to energy and battery storage.
• Zeus Packaging Group — Zeus Packaging Group is constantly focused on our customers and work with our strategic partners to develop new innovative products.

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• 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.

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• MetraTech — MetraTech Corp. simplifies and enables global commerce innovation, while helping businesses respond to an ever changing customer and partner relationship landscape. They empower businesses to embrace change through a unique agreements-based billing, commerce and compensation solution that models and supports fluid, personalized, multi-partyagreements for customers, partners and suppliers. They automate business processes and business models to address rapidly changing or complex business strategies. Their products are deployed globally, and their customers use MetraTech to innovatively create and securely collect revenue, provide settlement to partners and manage their customer lifecycle in 12 languages, 28 currencies and 90 countries. Customers include Arkadin, Bell, Concur, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), CETIP, The City of Chicago, GRU Sao Paulo International Airport, GXS, Intercall, LifeLock, Microsoft, PGi, Telia Sonera, Telus, and Telmore. The company is headquartered in Boston, with offices in London, Paris and Rio de Janeiro. MetraTech is a venture-backed, privately held company whose investors include Accel Partners, Meritech Capital and Vesbridge Partners.
• Simplivity — Simplify and accelerate your IT with the AI-driven intelligence and exceptional data efficiency of HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure.
• Shift Technology — Shift Technology delivers AI-native decision automation and optimization solutions built specifically for the global insurance industry. Addressing several critical processes across the insurance policy lifecycle, Shift helps insurers achieve faster, more accurate claims and policy resolutions. Shift has analyzed billions of insurance transactionsto date and was presented Frost & Sullivan’s 2020 Global Claims Solutions for Insurance Market Leadership Award.

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• 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.
• Inventiva Pharma — Inventiva Pharma is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of oral small molecule therapies for the treatment of patients with significant unmet medical needs in the areas of fibrosis, lysosomal storage disorders and oncology.They have built a pipeline backed by a discovery engine with an extensive library ofproprietary molecules, a wholly-owned research and development facility and a team with significant expertise and deep experience in the development of compounds that target nuclear receptors, transcription factors and epigenetic modulation. Leveraging these assets and expertise, they are advancing two clinical candidates in three indications, as well as a deep pipeline of earlier stage programs.

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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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• 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 —

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• Pulsate — Pulsate enables direct communication with customers based on their location, context, interests and behaviours. Pulsate allows you to design and push rich media content directly to customers devices. Deepen the relationship by establishing a customer dialogue. Allow users to reply to your campaigns, provide feedback and keep complaints outside ofsocial media. Maximize foot traffic by targeting street level or competitor locations. Combine with segmentation for optimal results. iBeacons:tm: enable you to understand indoor customer location and context with incredible accuracy. Easily manage deployment and configuration of iBeacons:tm: with the Pulsate cloud platform. Gain a deeper understanding of your mobile customers and a comprehensive view of each mobile campaign.
• LegitFit — LegitFit is there to help you from first sale to scale! Our leading software solution is everything you need to run & grow a successful business. It's easy to use, affordable, and integrates powerful tools for bookings, payments, and communication!
• Certification Europe — Achieve and maintain compliance with the most in-demand standards with Amtivo. We help organisations reach their true potential.