Top 25 Hospitality VC Funds & Investors in Ireland (August 2026)

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• Oncomark — OncoMark is a UCD spin-out that develops companion diagnostic tests to support cancer drug development. Companion diagnostics allow pharmaceutical companies to select patients for which a drug may be particularly effective (patient stratification).The test can also be used during clinical trials to help reduce the numbers of patients required tocomplete a clinical trial and its duration, while also increasing the likelihood that the trial will be successful. The end result is improved outcome for cancer patients.The company has a portfolio of diagnostic tests in development, covering some of the key cancer types (breast, colorectal, prostate, melanoma), supported by €3.9m in EU R&D funding. There are currently 12 employees funded through 6 grants.The company was founded by Prof. William Gallagher in UCD and is led by Dr. Mairin Rafferty, the CEO/COO. The company has a strong advisory board, which includes Prof. John Crown and Prof. Bryan Hennessy.
• Foodcloud — We connect businesses that have surplus food with Charities and Community Groups that need it.
• Finovation Limited — Finovation Limited

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• Wassist — Launch your AI sales agent on WhatsApp for Shopify in under 60 seconds. Recover 30-50% of abandoned carts and increase conversions by 3x.
• 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.
• Exclaim Robotics — Autonomous mobile robots for the AI data center.

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• Embat — Embat develops cloud-based treasury management software designed to help finance teams manage cash flow, banking operations, and financial forecasting in real time. The company provides a platform that connects bank accounts, enterprise resource planning systems, and payment systems to centralize visibility of cash positions across multipleentities and currencies. Its software supports automated reconciliation, payment execution, liquidity forecasting, and financial reporting through a unified interface. The platform also includes AI-driven features that assist with transaction matching, anomaly detection, and cash flow prediction to reduce manual finance operations. Embat works with mid-sized and large enterprises to streamline treasury workflows, improve liquidity management, and support financial decision-making. The company integrates with a wide network of financial institutions and enterprise systems to enable continuous financial data synchronization and operational control.The platform uses automation and AI features to reduce manual treasury tasks, including transaction matching, accounting entries, and financial reporting workflows. It integrates with a wide range of banking systems and corporate ERPs to synchronize financial data continuously. Embat also enables centralized payment management, allowing finance teams to initiate, approve, and track transactions across multiple banking relationships. Its tools support cash visibility, debt monitoring, and financial scenario planning for operational decision-making.
• 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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• 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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• 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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• Almetra — We use computer vision and AI analytics to provide insights into manual assembly processes - our platform supports process engineers in driving productivity and quality of assembly processes
• Zalera — Zelara is an AI lifecycle system that works on top of your CRM stack to increase customer activation, retention, and lifetime value.
• SPREAD AI — SPREAD AI develops engineering intelligence software that enables organizations to unify, analyze, and act on complex product data across the entire product lifecycle. The company provides a platform that aggregates structured and unstructured data from systems such as engineering tools, production systems, and documentation into a single,connected data layer. Its core technology creates a “product twin,” a graph-based representation that models how mechanical, electrical, and software components interact within a product. This allows engineering teams to understand dependencies, assess the impact of changes, and make informed decisions based on a complete view of product behavior.SPREAD AI integrates with existing enterprise systems rather than replacing them, acting as a layer that connects data sources and enables real-time analysis and workflow automation. It also provides customizable applications and low-code tools that allow teams to build domain-specific solutions tailored to their engineering needs. The platform incorporates artificial intelligence and automation capabilities, including AI agents that assist with tasks such as data mapping, validation, troubleshooting, and requirements analysis. These tools help reduce manual work and enable faster resolution of engineering issues across development, production, and aftersales processes.

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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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• Keylr — Services partner for property managers. Book reliable, top-rated professionals for your properties with e-props.
• Furbnow — Furbnow - Your companion for home improvements for the future
• Checkboard — Complete your identity verification and payments without the paperwork. Checkboard handles your ID, open banking, and payments from one app.

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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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• Otel AI — Otel reads your PMS, RMS, rate shopper, payroll and F&B as one hotel, and does the work that used to eat your people's days. One hotel, across the systems you already run. Live in days.
• Oratomic — Oratomic is a Pasadena-based quantum computing company building fault-tolerant quantum computers with neutral atoms.
• Starcloud — Starcloud is building a network of megawatt-scale data centers in space, scaleable to gigawatt capacity. Falling launch costs allow Starcloud to take advantage of the abundant energy, passive cooling, and high-speed connectivity in space.

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• Plend — Fair, ethical loans for a brighter future. Plend powers transparent and affordable financing to empower the UK. Start your journey today.
• Augnet — Augnet brings quality and credibility to the SMS and messaging industry.
• 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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• 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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• Modeinspect — acreom is the integrated markdown knowledge base with tasks. Your personal daily driver for your dev workflow.
• Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
• Squid — Squid offers a workspace for planning, modeling, and testing power grid networks with tools for network analysis and simulation.

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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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• 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 — Orbital Paradigm builds reusable vehicles that carry cargo to space and bring it back. Dedicated missions, any orbit, on your schedule. Based in Madrid.

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• JustTip — Ireland's trusted cashless tipping platform for hospitality. Stay compliant with the Tips Act 2022, cut payroll costs, and pay staff weekly, automatically.

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• Framer — Go from idea to launch with an agent that designs and builds on the canvas. Keep each change editable, with hosting, security, analytics, CMS, and SEO built in.
• 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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• 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.
• 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.
• 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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• 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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• Bidbus — List and sell your car to over 1,000 certified dealers in a 2-hour live auction. Our network of dealers compete to give you their best price. It's fast, easy and free to list
• KredosAI — Our human centered AI platform drives real engagement with consumers leading to positive payment outcomes for enterprises.
• EdVisorly — EdVisorly is a revolutionary platform, boosting community college to university student transfer success. EdVisorly empowers community college students with the tools to discover transfer friendly 4 year universities, directly engage with university transfer counselors and admissions teams, and build accurate course roadmaps for admissions to theirtarget bachelor's degree programs.

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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 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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• 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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• TMT ID — A leading provider of global mobile and device intelligence. We power leading identity providers, A2P SMS messaging companies and financial organisations.
• UK Flooring Direct — Transform your home with UK Flooring Direct. Shop wood, laminate, & vinyl flooring at great prices with fast UK delivery & expert advice.
• Thames Card Technology —

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• NTR plc — With almost five decades of experience in investing in and managing infrastructure assets, NTR is a specialist renewable energy asset manager.
• McAleer & Rushe — Specialist Design & Build Contractors delivering high quality buildings across Offices, Hotels, Student Accommodation and Residential in the UK & Ireland.
• Zeus Packaging Group — Leading specialist distribution and manufacturing group, supplying a diverse range of products and supply solutions to a wide range of customer markets.

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• 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