Top 20 Recruiting Startup Investors in Ireland (September 2026)

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• Foodcloud — We connect businesses that have surplus food with Charities and Community Groups that need it.
• Adama Innovations — Sharp Conductive Single Crystal Diamond AFM Probes
• 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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• 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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• Bioptimus — Our mission is to build the first universal AI foundation model for biology to fuel breakthrough discoveries and accelerate innovations in biomedicine and beyond.
• Pesto — Pesto is a fintech startup that offers Pesto Mastercard, an asset-backed secured credit card. Pesto Mastercard is making credit more affordable, even if you don’t have an excellent credit history or a good credit score.
• Evolv AI — Evolv AI is the first AI-led experience optimization platform that recommends, builds, deploys and optimizes testing ideas for you.

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• Jobbio — Jobbio makes it easy to find and apply for jobs. We are a marketplace that enables Talent and Companies connect directly with each other and show off exactly what makes them special. So, when the right opportunities arise, the right people know about it. The result? More people doing what they love. More effective companies. And a more delightfulway of getting there.Talent can simply build a brilliant bio in seconds then apply privately and directly to hundreds of Companies with a click. Online and on your mobile.

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• Jobbio — Jobbio makes it easy to find and apply for jobs. We are a marketplace that enables Talent and Companies connect directly with each other and show off exactly what makes them special. So, when the right opportunities arise, the right people know about it. The result? More people doing what they love. More effective companies. And a more delightfulway of getting there.Talent can simply build a brilliant bio in seconds then apply privately and directly to hundreds of Companies with a click. Online and on your mobile.

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• Socowave — Get full access to this domain. Easy, seamless transactions. Zero percent financing available.
• Wayve — Wayve are pioneering an AI-centric approach to self-driving, inspired by our vision of a smarter, safer and more sustainable world.
• GitGuardian — GitGuardian provides a platform for detecting and managing sensitive digital credentials and machine identities within software development environments. The company’s solutions scan source code repositories, cloud infrastructure configurations, and other development tools to identify exposed secrets such as API keys, security tokens, andcertificates that could be inadvertently committed. Its offerings include internal monitoring tools that help organizations observe secrets within private codebases and public monitoring capabilities to uncover leaks that occur in publicly accessible repositories. GitGuardian also supports governance over non‑human identities by maintaining inventories of machine accounts and associated credentials while offering contextual insights and workflows to assist security teams in prioritizing and addressing potential risks. The platform integrates with a variety of developer and security tools to bring visibility into hidden credentials across a technology stack and to support collaborative remediation activities. GitGuardian delivers automated detection paired with incident tracking features that assist in classifying exposures and guiding corrective actions throughout the software development lifecycle. The company’s technology targets security, DevOps, and compliance functions that aim to strengthen credential hygiene and reduce chances of unauthorized access within organizational systems.

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• eyko — eyko is the one-stop platform for data preparation, enabling data blending and data streaming that brings everyone together.
• Jobbio — Jobbio makes it easy to find and apply for jobs. We are a marketplace that enables Talent and Companies connect directly with each other and show off exactly what makes them special. So, when the right opportunities arise, the right people know about it. The result? More people doing what they love. More effective companies. And a more delightfulway of getting there.Talent can simply build a brilliant bio in seconds then apply privately and directly to hundreds of Companies with a click. Online and on your mobile.

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• Jobbio — Jobbio makes it easy to find and apply for jobs. We are a marketplace that enables Talent and Companies connect directly with each other and show off exactly what makes them special. So, when the right opportunities arise, the right people know about it. The result? More people doing what they love. More effective companies. And a more delightfulway of getting there.Talent can simply build a brilliant bio in seconds then apply privately and directly to hundreds of Companies with a click. Online and on your mobile.

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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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• Swyg — Swyg is on a mission to eliminate bias from recruitment and to make interviewing fair for all. The Swyg platform helps companies make better hiring decisions by making the face-to-face interviewing process available for all candidates. Through our platform, candidates interview each other while an AI moderates and corrects for bias. Swyg creates abetter candidate experience by giving feedback to every candidate and makes companies more competitive in the search for talent by giving them deep insight into their candidate pool.
• Deligo Vision Technologies — Simple and effective automation of checkout in contract catering.

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• Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
• Stanhope AI — Stanhope AI is a deep-tech startup based in London with a strong background in neuroscience, robotics and fintech. We are bringing Active Inference to market as a novel framework for autonomous decision-making. To contend with the challenges of contemporary AIs, our distinct approach aims to offer
• Linked Finance — LinkedFinance offers a new and painless way for Irish businesses to borrow money from a large group of real people, including their own customers. Crowd Funding is the new way for companies to borrow, bankers get bypassed, the wheels of business keep turning and everyone wins!Person to Person (P2P) lending or Crowd Funding is simple. Peoplewith money to lend can lend it directly to people who need it. With LinkedFinance lenders can lend directly to small businesses looking for funding. Crowd Funding provides complete transparency to both the lender and borrower and it brings lending back to basics where a lender simply deposits funds and when there are enough funds available loans can be made to credit worthy borrowers.How it Works - Businesses looking for a loan can apply at Linkedfinance.com for funding. The loan required and full details of the business are posted in their market. Potential Lenders can participate in an auction process where they bid on how much of the loan they are prepared to fund and the interest rate they require. The lowest rate bids are accepted so the borrower secures the best interest rate possible.

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• Immedis — UKG One View centralizes global payroll data, ensures compliant payroll processing in 160+ countries, and delivers a consistent employee experience.
• Gradguide — Gradguide is a mentorship and events platform that bridges the employment gap for recent graduates to the world's fastest-growing companies.

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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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• Meeow — Meeow is an AI-powered video networking platform.
• Rove — Rove has developed a cloud-based software platform that allows consumers to book adventure travel experiences and facilitates industry partners in growing ancillary revenues from tourism activities.
• Simply Get Results — Simply gives you user-friendly tools to identify the skills you need, the skills you have, close skill gaps and future-proof your workforce.

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• Yard — The community for organisers rebuilding their local tech community
• Urbanwinebox — Urbanwinebox offers a peer-to-peer marketplace where wine lovers, enthusiasts, and professionals are buying and selling wine. UrbanWineBox has opened an outstanding wine cellar in the heart of Carlsberg Town, where anyone can buy unique bottles, get inspiration and free mature your collection under ideal conditions.

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• Yard — The community for organisers rebuilding their local tech community

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• Tialis — Essential IT services supporting the full life cycle of devices, laptops, desktops, mobiles and peripherals, joiners movers & leavers JML
• Pact — Pact is a fintech platform that offers deep liquidity and low transaction fees. With accessible smart contract functionality, transactions on Pact are available to users of all levels of wealth and experience. It provides integration of financial assets on a non-custodial, decentralized platform intended to be the home of liquidity on Algorand.Pact was launched in 2021.
• Apricot Finance — Next-gen lending protocol on SOLANA. Apricot helps you maximize yield & minimize risk with Apricot Lend, X-Farm and Apricot Assist.

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• Talivest — Talivest optimises an intelligent ecosystem for hi-tech, high-growth companies by gathering insights throughout the employee lifecycle. Talivest’s solution uses machine learning and predictive analytics to help companies measure, build and maintain high performance.
• Solidroad — Better customer support starts with better training. Realistic AI-powered simulations that make every agent, and every interaction, better.
• SISU Aesthetic Clinic — SISU is a collection of doctor-led, patient-centric aesthetic medical clinics.

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• Vendis.ai — A CRM that actually understands you. Your intelligent AI sales companion. Conversation in, pipeline out. Zero forms.
• Baserow — Discover Baserow, the open-source no-code platform for building databases and applications. No code or technical skills needed. Start creating for free today!
• Breyta — Gather all your qualitative data and our AI assistant transcribes, analyses and delivers you accurate product insights and patterns at scale in seconds.

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• Meili — Meili is an ancillary revenue technology company that enables airlines, hotels, and mobility providers to integrate directly through a single, cloud-based platform.
• UrbanFox — UrbanFox protects online retailers against new forms of stealth fraud by analysing and learning from existing legitimate and fraudulent customer behavioural patterns.
• GREYSCOUT — Brand protection software that finds unverified sellers and counterfeit listings across marketplaces, verifies each one and enforces removal. 95% success rate.