Top 10 Life Science 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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• 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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• 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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• Pure Ocean Algae — Pure Ocean Algae is a biotechnology company that integrates value chains from macro-algae and other marine resources. The company has over the winter of 2019/20 deployed its first trial lines of Palmaria palmata to sea, with initial results being extremely positive. It has also taken primary research in tank-based vegetative production andsucceeded in developing a pilot commercial plant that can produce commercial volumes of Palmaria palmata, at levels approaching 100% per week.

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• Proba — Unlock the value of your climate actions with Proba. Transform your efforts into tradable carbon certificates, connect with partners, and create new revenue streams for your business. Schedule a call now.
• Sundew — Targeting water-borne pests and diseases
• Produzindo Certo — Produzindo Certo focuses on providing solutions in the farming industry. The company offers a digital platform that automates agricultural processes, aiming to enhance efficiency and sustainability. It engages in projects that promote responsible farming practices, including carbon management and sustainable soybean production. The companycollaborates with ranchers and other stakeholders to implement pilot projects that transform social and environmental practices in agriculture.

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• 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.
• Nomadic Dairy — Nomadic Dairy is a growing, premium branded yogurt manufacturer. The company supplies multiple products across the UK and Republic of Ireland.
• 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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• 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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• FIRE1 — FIRE1 and is based in Dublin, Ireland, will focus on developing novel therapeutic devices.
• Aer Lingus — Aer Lingus is a national airline. They focus on aer lingus, business class, and aerClub.
• Vectra AI — Vectra is the world leader in AI threat detection and response. The Cognito platform uses AI to detect attackers in real time and perform conclusive investigations.

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• Absci — A better, faster path to new medicines. We translate ideas into drugs with an AI-powered approach to biologic drug discovery and cell line development.
• GlycoSeLect — GlycoSeLect Ltd specialises in the development and production of Recombinant Prokaryotic Lectins (RPLs).
• Comera Life Sciences — ReForm Biologics is an engineering superior biotherapeutic formulation for fragile patients. Its proprietary technology provides patented, FDA-friendly excipients for a wide range of therapeutic biologics. Using its platforms, drug companies can make life-saving medicines easier to administer, less immunogenic, more stable, and more efficient toproduce. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Woburn, Massachusetts.

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• G.I. Windows — G.I. Windows is a clinical-stage company developing the first fundamental breakthrough in surgical anastomotic technology. This technology will allow less invasive surgery and offer the capability of developing more procedures new to the world. The company is creating a new category in healthcare designed to create less invasive surgery and reducehealthcare costs.G.I. Windows is committed to innovation that helps improve the way diagnostic and interventional procedures impact the essential balance between both patients and the healthcare system. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, United States.
• HistoSonics — HistoSonics provides the Edison Platform, which uses advanced imaging and proprietary sensing technology to deliver non-invasive, personalized treatments with precision and control, and uses the science of histotripsy and focused sound energy to generate pressures to liquify and completely destroy targeted tissues at sub-cellular levels.
• Aro Biotherapeutics — Aro Biotherapeutics is a biotechnology company pioneering the development of tissue-targeted genetic medicines with a platform based on a proprietary protein technology called Centyrins.