Top 5 Oil and Gas Startup Investors in Ireland (October 2026)

Enterprise Ireland is the government agency responsible for the development and funding of the indigenous business sector. Their mission is to accelerate the development of companies to achieve strong positions in global markets resulting in increased national and regional prosperity. It was founded in 1998 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant
Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 890
Round size: Seed $399k–$3.2M; Grant $16k–$5.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $560k–$8.3M
Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.2M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

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.
Full Health Medical — Full Health Medical patient empowerment tools that improve prevention healthcare are part of the healthcare ecosystem. FHM provides reliable digital innovation, designed by healthcare professionals that are keen to help patients live a healthy life, in response to a national scarcity of healthcare providers, the development of chronic disease, anda lack of transparency at the patient level. People provide lifetime access to preventive care healthcare across screening, diagnostics, education, treatment, and a record of their journey driven technology provides lifetime access to preventative healthcare custom designed at every step screening, diagnostics, education, and action plans that motivate individuals to address risks before they develop health problems.

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BGF is the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, providing long-term, minority investment to growing companies.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Series A
Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 605
Round size: Series A $4.1M–$21M; Private Equity $6.4M–$22M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.4M–$16M
Lead/follow: 86% lead, 14% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $97M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

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Boost Juice Bars UK — Boost Juice Bars UK offer a range of smoothies and freshly squeezed juice products.
Thames Card Technology —

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Sure Valley Ventures is an entrepreneur-led Venture Capital Fund that invests in early-stage software companies. Working in partnership with Shard Capital, a specialist broker and asset manager based in the City of London, Sure Valley Ventures specializes in investing in Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), Financial Technology(FinTech), and the Internet of Things (IoT) Sectors.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland

Investor stats

Total investments: 61
Round size: Seed $889k–$5.9M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$4.1M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$57M
Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $32M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

Souk — Coco is an AI partnerships manager: she finds partners, activates them, and handles agreements, attribution and payouts.
Xylo — Xylo offers higher quality processes with full officer oversight, reducing planning uncertainty and boosting UK housing delivery.
BeCertain — BeCertain revolutionizes dental diagnostics with AI-powered tools for X-ray analysis, improving precision and reducing diagnostic errors.

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Atlantic Bridge is a Growth Equity Firm with a Cross Border Value Add strategy. We invest in deep technology companies in Europe and the US. Our team is made up of successful entrepreneurs and senior technology industry executives and we invest in strong ambitious entrepreneurs and management teams that have the passion and drive to scale up andexploit major growth opportunities. We help our portfolio companies expand and grow internationally through our global platform with our team and offices in London, Dublin, Munich, Paris and Palo Alto.Atlantic Bridge brings together a unique team of technology entrepreneurs, experienced managers, finance professionals, and investment experts. The team contains a wealth of international business experience across Europe, the UK and the US. They have worked together in various capacities for the last 30 years, bringing a true partnership approach to their firm and their investments. Its investors include the founders, leading institutional investors, and private investors with a track record of investment in successful technology companies.Atlantic Bridge has developed a unique and differentiated strategy that focuses on specific technology themes and the implementation of the “Atlantic Bridge Model” for scaling companies internationally. The “Bridge Model” accelerates the scale-up of technology companies in Europe and the US. This approach is highly differentiated and has delivered strong performance results to date.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
Geography: United States, Ireland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 154
Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.5M; Series A $5M–$26M; Series B $10M–$62M
Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $97M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

GloNav — GloNav develops global positioning system and satellite navigation technologies and products for the wireless handset and mobile consumer electronics device markets. It offers global positioning system radio frequency integrated circuits and single chip assisted-global positioning systems, which are used for low dropout tracking and cellularhandset integration. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Newport Beach, California. It has locations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Taiwan. As of January 2008, GloNav, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of NXP B.V.
Mindgard — Mindgard is the leading provider of AI Red Teaming solutions.
Neurobell — NeuroBell develop novel EEG medical devices for early detection and monitoring of neonatal seizures.

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