Top 45 Payments VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Ireland in May 2026

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• Scurri — Scurri is next generation delivery management software that puts retailers back in control. Explore our delivery management software today.
• Momntum — Momntum is a fintech company that provides embedded point-of-sale consumer financing.
• Bounce Insights — Bounce Insights is a digital consumer research platform. It provides a direct link between brands and any consumer they needed to speak to by maintaining a community of active, engaged respondents on their mobile app.

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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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• 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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• Bird.i — Discover Zonda's complete homebuilding data solutions: Enterprise, Research & Advisory consulting services. Unlock the data trusted by leading builders.
• EndoGene.Bio — Endogene.bio was founded to solve the lack of molecular data that keeps endometriosis a clinical black box. By analyzing key cells in menstrual blood, the company delivers tissue-level insights with the convenience of a liquid biopsy. Its platform integrates a proprietary database of single-cell epigenetics, transcriptomics with omics ML advancedalgorithms to enable earlier diagnosis, patient stratification, and targeted drug discovery. With proprietary datasets, clinical validation, and pharma interest, endogene.bio is unlocking molecular medicine in a €180B+ women’s health market.
• WiseBee Hive — WiseBee is building the future of autonomous cybersecurity. Powered by AI agents, WiseBee helps companies monitor their attack surface, assess third-party risk, and fix vulnerabilities - automatically. Designed for mid-market and fintech organizations, WiseBee replaces fragmented tools with a unified, intelligent security platform that saves teamstime, reduces costs, and improves security outcomes.

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• Pacaso — Pacaso offers luxury vacation homes for co-ownership. It's the modern way to buy and own a vacation home.
• Bamboo — Bamboo is a digital investment platform that provides real-time access to buy, hold, or sell stocks. The investment platform is accessible on both computers and mobile phones.
• Elevate — Elevate is a modern platform that makes benefits better for employees and easier for employers.

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• SOC Prime — SOC Prime is the only Threat Detection Marketplace where researchers monetize their content to help security teams defend against attacks faster and more efficiently than ever. Powered by its Detection as Code platform, SOC Prime curates the most up-to-date Sigma-based threat detection content from over 300 researchers and natively delivers it viasubscription to 20+ SIEM and XDR platforms at more than 6,000 enterprises, governments and MDRs worldwide.
• Output Sports — Discover Output's portable and affordable athlete testing and tracking device. Measure strength, power and speed in minutes giving accurate and reliable data.
• Luminate Medical — Luminate Medical is developing LILY, the world's first pain-free and portable solution to prevent hair loss caused by chemotherapy.

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• Exoticca — Exoticca develops an online platform intended to facilitate travel booking. The company's platform offers holiday packages which includes flights, accommodation, meals, guides and private transports, for exotic locations all around the world, enabling travelers to book travel packages online at competitive prices.
• K Health — We pair clinicians with advanced AI to provide data-driven, personalized care around the clock. Chat with your medical team today.
• Brain.space — Brain.space is a brain-mapping data company that is on a mission to provide researchers, medical practitioners and software developers the underlying foundation to interpret, analyze, and build brain activity products and services. The end-to-end technology stack aims to power products, services, and apps that access and interpret brain activitydata.

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• Fundcraft — The fundcraft team has created a platform that centralizes, coordinates, and gradually automates all fund activities, including transfer agency, accounting, portfolio and risk management, and compliance, among others.
• 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.
• Cloud Capital — CloudCapital manages cloud costs and invests in tech companies using AI and ML.

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• Imvizar — Transform your buildings, office spaces, visitor attractions, and parks with an immersive and visual storytelling experience using augmented reality. Discover unique ways to tell your story at Imvizar.
• ZeroMission — Fleets save money on their operations with eXo Fleets. TCO and Sustainability compliance in a Fleet-specific ERP. DATA | INSIGHTS | SAVINGS
• MarketSizer — MarketSizer offers subscription-based competitive intelligence and market insights for SaaS vendors who want to strategically grow their business.

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• scoutlabs — We're building the world's densest digital trap network to accurately gauge insect pest pressure. This helps millions of farmers in precisely combating crop-eating insects, accelerating a transition to more sustainable methods. Good for the farmer, the environment and for our food security
• Heritable Agriculture — Revolutionary agricultural biotechnology that enables precise genetic programming of plants. Transform how the world grows food through cutting-edge synthetic biology.
• Brilliant Harvest — Brilliant Harvest is the Most Powerful AI Helpdesk For Equipment Dealers.

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• AdaSwap — The next-gen DEX based on Cardano! Swap, bridge & trade between Cardano-based tokens, NFTs and stablecoins within seconds.
• Polemos — Enter the Polemos Forge - the first decentralized GameFi platform for asset lending, Play and Earn Blockchain Game University, scholarships, staking, & more!
• COTI AI Agents — COTI AI Agents is an AI Agent platform on the COTI network that focuses on privacy and ease of use. Users can launch, train, and trade AI agents with just one click. Co-own agents to earn revenue share while enjoying personalized tools, fun interactions, and rewards.COTI AI Agents is the first grantee of MomentumX Accelerator - The #1 acceleratorfor startups exploring Web3 privacy, backed by COTI network & Poolz.

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• Recast — Recast enable media owners to quickly generate revenue at scale and capture meaningful data from new and existing audiences without acquisition costs, while consumers enjoy seamless and affordable access to content via a universal micropayment-wallet.
• Splink — Splink's white-label fintech infrastructure offers secure plug-and-play fintech solutions, allowing brands to innovate and sell their services to existing and prospective clients. Splink's solution simplifies payment by offering partners a portfolio of payment industry options to choose from.

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• Wild Moose — Wild Moose helps on-call developers more quickly identify the source of production incidents, by providing a conversational AI trained on their environment. This allows developers to delegate the search through logs and metrics to lightning-fast AI.
• Lava Network — Lava Network aims to be a marketplace for blockchain data.
• Alliance Games — Build Beyond Limits. Multiplayer for the Next, Decentralized Era.

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• FINDIQ — FINDIQ is a young company based in the heart of the Ostwestfalen-Lippe industrial zone. We have developed a novel strategy as a software producer to intelligently integrate knowledge management and help solutions for machine service. FINDIQ develops its service solution with the industry, whether for machine makers, operators, or service providers.
• Protex AI — Protex AI develops an AI-powered proactive health and safety technology that enables an injury-free industrial workplace. The company allows EHS teams to adopt proactive safety cultures and in doing so realize an injury-free workplace.
• Bound — Bound helps SME's protect themselves from currency risk, whilst using technology to simplify the process. We aim to help the 78% of SME's who are at risk of losing money everyday

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• Retirable — Retirable is the first-of-its-kind retirement planning, investing and spending solution with the ongoing care of a fiduciary advisor.
• Delos Insurance — An insurance company which uses advanced technology and artificial intelligence to protect California homeowners from wildfires.
• Summit — Summit provides the best Commercial Insurance, Liability, Business, Tech & Cyber Insurance in Canada. We are specialized in custom insurance Solutions.

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• FlatPeak — Access actual energy tariff at any customer address
• UnitPlus — Investiere dein Geld smart per App - in Tagesgeld, Festgeld oder ETFs. Einfach, flexibel und transparent - alles in einer Anwendung.
• Jove Insurance — Professional business insurance for UK SMEs and self-employed. Liability, property, directors & officers cover. Instant quotes, competitive rates. FCA regulated.

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• OOHPod — OOHPod, your new Out Of Home Flexible Address, will revolutionise the way you send and receive parcels
• Advise — Advise Freemium is a ground-breaking automated data analytics for CPG solution. Discover how Advise can assist your Revenue Growth Management.
• Positive Carbon — Positive Carbon provides an innovative solution for businesses to track, manage, and reduce food waste. With real-time analytics, CO2 calculation, and a comprehensive learning platform, we help you save costs and achieve sustainability goals. Request a demo today to start making a positive environmental impact.

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• Ready — Join over 2 million Argent users and get the best of Ethereum at a fraction of the cost. Easily buy, earn, stake and invest in crypto on Starknet.
• Elo Health — Elo develops a precision nutrition service that uses biomarkers to deliver nutrition for optimal health and aging with confidence.
• Five Lives — Five Lives, your brain health coach. Take the risk assessment and start improving your brain health today!

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• EigenLabs — Eigen Labs is an engineering and research organization that contributes to protocols like EigenLayer and EigenDA
• Liqwid Labs — Liqwid is a non-custodial liquidity market protocol for lending and borrowing on Cardano, offering fast, affordable, and transparent liquidity solutions.
• Colossal Biosciences — The science of genetics. The business of discovery.

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• Kapkap — Kapkap is a web3 platform that uses AI for attention based value distribution in gaming.
• BullPerks — BullPerks is a community of like-minded individuals who want to leverage their power and invest together in the best projects on equal terms with VCs.
• Mythic Protocol — The Central Hub for Mythic Operatives to conduct their operations

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• WingRiders — WingRiders is a top tier AMM decentralized exchange on top of the eUTxO model. Fully Cardano native and super fast platform.
• Liqwid Labs — Liqwid is a non-custodial liquidity market protocol for lending and borrowing on Cardano, offering fast, affordable, and transparent liquidity solutions.
• Redacted Coin — Redacted is a Web3 entertainment and gaming platform.

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• Trustap — Learn how we make buying & selling online safe & secure, every time. Create an account for free today!

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• Baselime — Use logs, metrics, distributed tracing and wide-events to detect, diagnose and resolve issues before they impact your users.
• OLIX — OLIX designs and manufactures optical processors that use light-based circuits to accelerate artificial intelligence workloads. The company develops Optical Tensor Processing Units that execute matrix and tensor operations for training and running inference on large-scale machine learning models. Its hardware aims to increase performance and reducepower consumption relative to conventional electronic accelerators by processing data in the optical domain. Flux Computing focuses on infrastructure for generative AI and advanced neural networks, targeting data centers and organizations that require intensive model computation. The product stack centers on custom optical chips integrated with supporting electronics, control software, and tools that link into existing AI frameworks. Sales and partnerships primarily address customers building large AI clusters, research environments, and emerging applications that benefit from high-throughput, low-energy computation.
• Connectome Health — Connectome is a cognitive intelligence platform that measures and understands how the brain changes over time using transparent, science-backed data people and organisations can trust.

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• CELL Studio — A blockchain software development company with a dedicated focus on the BTC ecosystem, committed to advancing the Nervos BTCKB initiative
• Avalon Finance — Institutional Bitcoin-backed lending, borrowing, earning, and liquidity. Fully on-chain and regulatory-compliant.
• Stoneblade Entertainment — Stoneblade Entertainment operates as a publisher of strategy games.

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• Evolv — Evolv is equipping brands with the technology to create immersive experiences for their customers.
• Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
• Ignite Tournaments — Ready to take your mobile games to the next level? Join Ignite Tournaments and compete in real money esports tournaments. Download our app now and win big!

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• Cleanwatts — We simplify, amplify and accelerate energy decarbonization for companies and communities around the world. Our clients call upon us to improve their energy efficiency performance and to increase their access to affordable clean energy. Join Cleanwatts today.
• Musiversal — Record your music in real time with world-class session musicians, vocalists, producers and audio engineers
• Brands&Ninjas — SaaS to control the performance of physical marketing campaigns on retail.

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• Jamango — Create and play for free in Jamango! Play with our block-based tools to make anything or explore a library of games and worlds instantly. No downloads.
• Barespace — Barespace provides end-to-end solutions that manage, market, and grow your beauty business.
• TrialView Ltd — TrialView's dispute resolution software streamlines case preparation, management and presentation to give you a competitive advantage in and out of court. The AI-driven solution enhances litigation processes, including document analysis, automated creation of hyperlinked and court-compliant bundles, intelligent search, integrated real-timetranscriptions, and video conferencing. By automating time-consuming tasks and leveraging AI, TrialView significantly boosts efficiency and strengthens cases.

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• Cirdan — Cirdan provides highly reliable, innovative LIS & imaging solutions for the acceleration & enhancement of diagnosis, optimized for pathology & clinical lab.
• 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.
• Pilot Photonics — Welcome to Pilot Photonics, a laser product development company in Dublin, Ireland. We provide optical frequency combs and tunable lasers.

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• eflow — Regulatory Compliance solutions for Market Abuse, Best Execution and Regulatory Reporting. Trade Surveillance, Regulatory Reporting and Trade Lifecycle Management.
• Webio — Webio's customer engagement solution uses conversational AI to understand customer intent, blend chatbot / live agent conversations in messaging channels.
• big xyt — Learn how xyt's trading data solutions help firms turn complex market data into insights that drive smarter decisions across the globe.

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• HypeLabs — HypeLabs is the company that created the Hype SDK, an interoperable mesh networking software that improves connectivity on all kinds of devices, from mobile to desktop to IoT, allowing them to connect even when there is no internet. The software works by intelligently connecting devices in local mesh networks using existing connectivitytechnologies, such as Bluetooth, WiFi, LoRa and others. This network enables content to securely hop between devices, until it reaches a destination or an Internet exit point, improving range and deliverability.Founded in 2016, the company is located in San Francisco (USA), Porto (Portugal), London (UK) and Krakow (Poland). AngelPad #10 (Spring '16) alumni & Deutsche Telekom WARP alumni.
• Musiversal — Record your music in real time with world-class session musicians, vocalists, producers and audio engineers
• Sensefinity — Sensefinity The Blockchain IoT Transformation Company Building the Internet of Cargo Where Assets autonomously connect to processes

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• Lyfegen — Lyfegen is the first of its kind, a company making value-based healthcare contracting for high-cost therapies a reality for all healthcare stakeholders.
• Trustap — Learn how we make buying & selling online safe & secure, every time. Create an account for free today!
• Particula — At Particula, we're at the forefront of the digital asset ecosystem. We've launched the first rating and data platform for tokenized real-world assets, focusing on alternative investments.

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• FarmWise — FarmWise provides technology-based services that allow farmers to streamline farm operations and increase food production efficiency.
• Napigen — We are the genome editing company specialized for mitochondrial engineering. We address unmet needs of future food supplies by creating hybrid crop plants to boost their yields to an unprecedented level. The company’s technology creates robust male sterile lines that are ideal over conventional lines because of their stability and elitebackgrounds. This allows the production of non-GM hybrid seeds in crop plants that are currently mostly non-hybrid such as wheat. Our technology solution is expected to fulfill the highest level of public acceptance and aspiration.
• Iamus Technologies — Iamus Technologies Limited is an Artificial Intelligence & Robotics company based in Ireland that has developed poultry specific robotic technology that empowers poultry farmers to make better and safer production decisions. Over the last 2 years we have been working globally with poultry processors in identifying KPIs that our robots cancontinuously gather on the ground in poultry sheds and feedback instantly to both producer and the relevant personnel back at the processing plant. Results to date are impressive with automatic and accurate data recovery from the birds on every part of the floor and analysis with real-time intervention now possible. These factors are key in addressing the growing demands of modern, intensive broiler production with the Iamus robot & platform meeting these requirements.

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• Kennedy Wilson — Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc. is a vertically integrated global real estate investment and services company. The Company has approximately 24 offices throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain and Japan. It focuses on adding value for its shareholders through opportunistic investing and strategic asset management. Its businessoperations include two core units: KW Investments and KW Services. KW Investments invests its capital in real estate-related assets. KW Services provides a full array of real estate-related services to owners and lenders, with a focus on financial institution based clients. In May 2014, it purchased apartments, 203-unit apartment community in Tacoma, Washington. In July 2014, it acquired multifamily portfolio consisted of three properties located across southern submarkets of Seattle, Washington. Portfolio consists of 1,212 units.
• Lightsource bp — Lightsource bp is a leading global developer, constructor and operator of onshore renewables and energy storage solutions.
• Power Capital Renewable Energy — Power Capital Renewable Energy specialize in developing large scale photovoltaic solar farms. The company began by acquiring and asset managing utility scale solar parks.

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• Addi — Addi is a technology company that provides credit and banking solutions. Addi is headquartered in Bogota, Colombia.
• Glim — At Glim believe that crypto will revolutionize the financial service industry and that Latin America is a perfect place for that disruption to start. Glim has created a platform that, through a B2B2C model, will allow employers to offer very valuable financial benefits such as multi-currency salary collection, yield generation, a debit card withautomatic exchange and settlement in fiat and crypto currency, financial education and others, all available in Glim’s mobile app.
• Omnix Corp — Omnix connects to all customer systems, managing their information and triggering actions when there are operational failures. Currently our clients are large companies in the Retail and Telco sector, where our solution allows complete visibility and traceability of inventory.

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• StitcherAds — Kargo Commerce's retail and eCommerce-centric platform is designed to drive performance with ease across Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat, and TikTok.
• HeyStaks — Mobile operators and online publishers can earn massive revenues from their first-party data with HeyStaks AI Marketing Platform.
• Accuris Networks — Accuris Networks is a leading provider of convergence, roaming and interworking solutions . The AccuROAM platform is designed to enable Communication Service Providers to have integrated and disruptive solutions by connecting current and emerging mobile broadband networks such as GSM CDMA, LTE and Wi-Fi , which includes smartphone client software,access server/gateway technology and billing integration.This gives their subscribers a seamless and secure user experience for data, voice and messaging services on all of these technologies both internationally and domestically.

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• Opsera — Opsera automates any CI/CD toolchain, enables declarative pipelines, and provides unified insights across your entire software delivery process.
• Baton Systems — Baton Systems is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of payments, clearing, settlement, technology, fintech, and shared ledger. It features a clearing and settlement platform that brings a new level of efficiency to the payments infrastructure across the capital markets.The company was founded in 2016 andheadquartered in Fremont, California.
• Weights & Biases — Weights & Biases, developer tools for machine learning

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• Wellola — Portasana powered by Wellola is an Integrated digital care pathways for modern healthcare, empowering patients and supporting providers...

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• Nomad — Nomad is a novel approach to blockchain interoperability that leverages an optimistic mechanism to increase the security of cross-chain communication.
• Maestro — Advanced UTxO-indexing data layer to supercharge Defi on Bitcoin, Cardano & Dogecoin.
• Criptonite Asset Management — Criptonite Asset Management's exists to offer qualified & institutional investors a tailored, liquid and proven approach to cryptocurrency investments.

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• Skate — Skate is a universal application layer that empowers apps to run on thousands of chains in one state. Skate uses the first and only line of code. This line of code is awesome and helps developers integrate quickly and easily.
• DeepSafe — DeepSafe is a decentralized AI trusted verification network designed to ensure transparency, security, and reliability in the development and deployment of artificial intelligence systems.
• SecondLive — SecondLive is a diversified metaverse focused on building social networks and supporting creator economic activities.

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• Cart.com — Cart.com's end-to-end solution provides brands with the software, infrastructure, and expertise of the world's largest online retailers.
• Tala — A money app for the majority. Tala bridges digital and cash ecosystems to help customers seamlessly manage their financial lives, all in one app.
• Nord Anglia Education — Nord Anglia Education is a premium schools organisation. They are a global family of 42 international schools educating over 32,000 students from pre-school to the end of secondary education. Their schools deliver a high quality education through a personalised approach enhanced with unique global opportunities to enable every student to succeed,academically, socially and personally. They are amongst the most respected international schools in their locations and they are committed to ensuring that they remain the first choice for parents around the world.

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• Trustap — Learn how we make buying & selling online safe & secure, every time. Create an account for free today!
• LaNua Medical — At LaNua Medical it is our mission to develop disruptive image-guided technologies providing safe and effective endovascular solutions.
• STRATxAI — STRATxAI is a WealthTech Company based in Dublin, Ireland. Specialising in AI-driven model portfolios, combining decades of expertise with proprietary AI to serve Advisors and Institutional Investors. STRATxAI Model Portfolios are built to navigate market complexity and deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns. Through close collaboration withclients, we create bespoke portfolios tailored to their unique needs, preferences and risk profiles. Alana, our proprietary engine leverages advanced machine learning algorithms to streamline the implementation and management of adaptive. multi factor strategies.

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• CLST — Buy & sell Bitcoin and cryptos with our easy and seamless Uncollateralized lending. Tust the world's finest crypto borrowing, trading or exchange platform
• Solana — Solana is the high performance network powering internet capital markets, payments, and crypto applications. Fast. Decentralized. Scalable. Energy efficient. Solana can power thousands of transactions per second.
• Perion — Win Crypto Questing in AAA Games.

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• Cortical Labs — Cortical Labs are creators of the dishbrain that fuses living brain cells onto computing devices to create machines with biological intelligence
• Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.
• High Earth Orbit Robotics — HEO Robotics provides on-orbit inspection services for satellites, using a network of space-based sensors. The high quality image data and insights allow satellite operators to conduct predictive maintenance and diagnose issues with their assets

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• OX.FUN — Trade Bitcoin, Ethereum and trending altcoin derivatives on the most FUN exchange around. Join OX.FUN today and earn up to 200% yield. Moo.
• Farcana — Experience fast-paced 4v4 PvP battles in a futuristic sci-fi landscape. Compete as one of 24 Stars with unique abilities to dominate the arena.
• Access Protocol — Publish written content. Mint NFTs. Build communities on Discord & Telegram. All under a single subscription.

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• Qwello — Qwello is an Electric Vehicle charge point developer and operator with operations in Europe. Qwello deploys charging infrastructure across major European cities by partnering with local municipalities through public concession contracts, providing both infrastructure and charging services.
• Voltera — Voltera’s customers are companies that have a pressing need to power EVs at scale. They are challenged by the fact that charging infrastructure does not exist in the right place, at the right time, or of the right type necessary to support planned EV deployments. They're also challenged by the complexity of siting, building, owning, andoperating EV charging infrastructure without disrupting operations or investing significant time and upfront capital.
• Onyx Renewable Partners — Onyx guides your every step toward a cleaner future. Established in 2014, Onyx offers clean energy, solar, and decarbonization solutions throughout the United States.