Top 15 Local Startup Investors in Ireland (November 2026)

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• Ubotica — Ubotica delivers live maritime intelligence powered by Orbital AI, using satellites and sensors to predict risk, confirm threats and deliver actionable evidence.
• Entity — Entity's purpose is shape the future of web gaming by leveraging emerging technologies and maximizing the browser's capabilities. Our next-generation gaming hub, scheduled to arrive in 2027, will be a global place for players to discover, connect, and play together.
• Fresco — Fresco powers connected cooking experiences for appliance brands, enabling faster launches, lower R&D costs, and continuous innovation.

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• Foodcloud — We connect businesses that have surplus food with Charities and Community Groups that need it.
• Amethyst Care — Amethyst Care is a startup that creates an AI-powered voice assistant for those with mobility difficulties.
• EstateMin — EstateMin provides software for law firms handling estate planning, trust administration, probate, and estate administration. Its platform supports client intake, case workflows, document organization, asset and liability tracking, and case progress visibility through a centralized dashboard. A client portal lets clients and executors submit information and documents. The platform also offers AI-supported case review and integrates with Clio.

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• Splab — Invite participants and let them request and confirm 1:1 meetings. Set up the event in the console and publish the same day, no onboarding.
• Nitra — Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products.
• Pierrot Company — Pierrot Company is a Korea-based circular commerce company focused on extending the lifecycle of IT devices through subscription, asset recovery, and cross-border trade. The company operates phoneGO, a device subscription service for consumers and businesses, and reGO, a service that helps organizations recover and monetize idle IT assets.Building on these operating data and supply networks, Pierrot Company is also developing reGO Trade, a global infrastructure layer for used IT device pricing, discovery, and transaction enablement. The company aims to improve transparency, liquidity, and reuse in the fragmented secondary market for electronics while reducing unnecessary e-waste.By combining operational know-how, market data, and international buyer networks, Pierrot Company is building a more efficient and scalable circular economy for IT assets.

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• Saccharo — Saccharo is a biotech start-up in the immuno-oncology space that develops therapeutic products for the treatment of cancer and other novel diseases. Saccharo discovered a polysaccharide that surrounds human cancer cells. The Sacchario approach has a mechanism of action that allows drugs to have multiple killing effects, a predicted safety profile,a broad therapeutic window, and applications to many cancers.
• Hyalex Orthopaedics — Hyalex Orthopaedics is a Lexington, MA medical device company advancing new products that feature HYALEX™ materials technology, a polymer that is designed to mimic cartilage. Unlike other polymers, synthetic HYALEX material has the unique capability of maintaining low friction and low wear under the high loads encountered in human joints. HyalexOrthopaedics' products are in the development stage and have not been approved for use in humans by any regulatory agency.
• Front Range Biosciences — Front Range Biosciences brings modern agriculture to cannabis and hemp to improve reliability, efficiency, and safety for cultivators and consumers. They provide advanced agricultural science services to plant growers.

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• Arro — Discover the shared daily operating system that helps you get more from life and work. Get to Day Zero together.
• Surfboard — Get Dialpad Workforce Management (WFM) software for accurate forecasting, demand-driven scheduling, fair shift planning, and more.
• Supernormal Greens — Supernormal Greens uses vertical cultivation powered by 100 percent renewable energy and LED lighting, enabling year-round production without pesticides. The company grows plants hydroponically in water, anchored by sterile coconut-fiber pods, and circulates nutrients in response to plant needs. Its system recycles water to achieve significantreductions in water use, and it applies data-driven optimization via AI and machine learning to improve its processes.

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• Roomex — Want to make business travel easier? Search, book, manage, and pay for all your business hotel bookings in one place.
• Coindrum — Coindrum provides coin machines to spend your coin jars. No more manual counting, sorting or bagging!
• LikeWhere — LikeWhere's service helps travel brands identify the individual interests of their customers, so they can personalise their digital engagement, generating more revenues. LikeWhere utilises ‘affinity-marketing’ techniques deployed by brands including Amazon, Spotify & Netflix (‘others like you also liked this’), enabling travel brands tooptimise their retail strategy.

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• Fin — Perfect customer experiences made possible with Fin. Over 12,000 of the world's most forward looking brands use Fin across the entire customer journey.
• Roomex — Want to make business travel easier? Search, book, manage, and pay for all your business hotel bookings in one place.
• 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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• Quilt — Quilt is a new kind of social wellness space to connect, share, and learn with others through daily conversations. They believe that community is the greatest form of self-care. Because journaling and meditation alone can only do so much. They believe the best way to create healthy rituals is through spontaneity and play. They use technology to dojust that.
• Arro — Discover the shared daily operating system that helps you get more from life and work. Get to Day Zero together.
• PlushCare — PlushCare provides online doctor care for primary, urgent care, mental health and therapy. Affordable, convenient teleheath visits and same day online doctor appointments available now.

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• Movetru — Movetru a wearable device that aims to reduce injury and enhance rehabilitation.
• Glitch Ads — GlitchAds intends to democratize advertising by "leveraging" adverts and artificial intelligence.
• Change by Degrees — Change by Degrees is closed. While our purpose is to give every person on the planet sustainability as a superpower, policy changes at European level and

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• Soundwave — The Global Premium Domain SoundWave.com + @SoundWave Twitter (X) Handle is currently available for acquisition. Contact us now for details.
• Concept Art House — Concept Art House powers Web3 projects for the biggest brands and IP in the World.

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• Umba — With an Umba account, you have everything you need from your bank. Spend, pay bills, get loans, and cashback all from your phone.
• Payslip — Payslip is a Global Payroll Management Platform, leveraging AI-powered automation to harmonize payroll operations for multinational organizations.
• Iconic Translation Machines — Iconic Translation Machines is a language technology software company. Iconic specialises in developing best-in-class Neural Machine Translation solutions.

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• Squid — --The arts are a manifestation of our emotions --
• Babaliste — Babaliste is a mobile flea market that enables individuals to buy and sell clothing, accessories, electronics, and home furnishing.
• DIB Travel — Business Travel Management Software - Easily manage your corporate travels by booking hotel, flight and train all in one place. DIB Travel

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• dbTwang — dbTwang is building the web’s favourite community for those who share a passion for guitars. dbTwang will provide a trusted place on the web where guitar players and collectors can keep important information about their instruments securely and in complete confidence. dbTwang will also provides a unique platform that will enables members toshare information selectively in a trusted and safe environment with fellow members and to complete secure trades by mutual consent. We will watch, develop and support the community and earn revenues by charging members a small subscription each month for premium services such as being part of a trusted network, guitar valuations and group insurance as well as relevant premium content.
• Axe — AI phone agents that handle millions of calls. Build and manage voice, email, and chat agents.
• LikeWhere — LikeWhere's service helps travel brands identify the individual interests of their customers, so they can personalise their digital engagement, generating more revenues. LikeWhere utilises ‘affinity-marketing’ techniques deployed by brands including Amazon, Spotify & Netflix (‘others like you also liked this’), enabling travel brands tooptimise their retail strategy.

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• Halla — Halla Intelligence is a digital solution that leverages over 100 billion shopper and product data points to recommend and promote what grocery items.
• Verdex Technologies — Verdex Technologies is an advanced materials platform technology that uses nanofibers to disrupt industries. Verdex doesn't just compete, it innovates and disrupts.
• Samphire Neuroscience — Samphire Neuroscience builds clinically validated neurotechnology to support women across their lives. Our wearable devices, Nettle™ and Lutea™, are built on the same underlying brain-stimulation technology, targeting neural pathways involved in pain, mood, stress, and sleep regulation. - Lutea™ is available globally as a wellness device. Itstimulates the same regions of the brain to support stress regulation, sleep, and recovery - key drivers of readiness and long-term performance - allowing athletes and teams to move beyond wellbeing education alone to practical, evidence-based intervention. - Nettle™ is a CE-marked (EU and UK regulated), drug- and hormone-free device that has been clinically shown to improve pain, mood, functionality, and the ability to train during the menstrual cycle, with measurable benefits after one month of use - supporting athletes to maintain training intensity and movement quality during their period. - The Samphire App is the platform controlling all Samphire hardware products with the use of CycleSync™ AI technology: the only one of its kind to support personalized neurotechnology use for women.

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• Soundwave — The Global Premium Domain SoundWave.com + @SoundWave Twitter (X) Handle is currently available for acquisition. Contact us now for details.