Top 15 Restaurants Startup Investors in Ireland in April 2025
A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Restaurants startups based in Ireland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Restaurants companies from Ireland. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Restaurants Startup Investors in Ireland in April 2025
Investor | Restaurants Ireland investments |
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NDRC | 3 |
NAP | 3 |
Anamcara Capital | 3 |
Playfair Capital | 3 |
First Analysis | 2 |
Triple Point Ventures | 2 |
Oyster Capital Partners | 2 |
Samaipata | 2 |
Enterprise Ireland | 2 |
CircleRock Capital | 2 |
Bill McCabe | 1 |
Id4 ventures | 1 |
Lago Innovation Fund | 1 |
Accel | 1 |
Bord Iascaigh Mhara | 1 |
NDRC builds high-impact new ventures. By providing the people, time, space and investment needed at the earliest stages of dedicated commercialisation work, NDRC is creating companies worthy of commercial investment and with the ability to scale. The NDRC team has the breadth of knowledge and expertise in technology and markets. NDRC worksside-by-side with researchers, entrepreneurs and venture teams to turn great ideas into successful new ventures.By the end of 2014, NDRC’s portfolio of startup ventures had secured a cumulative €88m in follow-on investment from commercial investors, with a combined market capitalisation of approx. €220m.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 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
Cavalry is an early-stage venture capital investor focused on European technology companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United Kingdom, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- AMPECO — AMPECO enables large-scale EV charging providers to launch and scale their business operations under their own brand. The company offers a white-label and hardware-agnostic EV charging management platform to cover all business cases - public, private, and home charging. Advanced energy management, flexible billing and subscription management,automatic maintenance algorithms, and inter-operator roaming are some of the platform’s key components. With security and scalability at its core, the platform allows large-scale operators like energy companies, oil and gas, fleets, hardware manufacturers and installers to achieve quick go-to-market in a few months with a ready-made platform combined with unmatched flexibility and extensibility via APIs. AMPECO supports more than 110 charging network operators in over 45 markets and has been globally recognized by Frost & Sullivan for its superior technological innovation and strategic development with the 2022 Global Product Leadership Award.
- Nory AI — Revolutionise your restaurant with Nory's restaurant management software. Streamline operations, boost profits, and enhance decision-making in one platform.
- VoiceLine — VoiceLine is AI-powered field sales revenue intelligence. Document any customer interactions in seconds, get actionable insights and boost sales performance. Start today!
Anamcara invests in B2B software enabling small and medium-sized businesses, leading the next revolution of commerce.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, B2B
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Germany, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Nory AI — Revolutionise your restaurant with Nory's restaurant management software. Streamline operations, boost profits, and enhance decision-making in one platform.
- Ameba — Ameba is a supply chain management platform uses AI to enable real-time data aggregation and automation.
- trumpet — Create beautiful, personalised, trackable and interactive digital sales pods in a few clicks with trumpet
Playfair is a generalist VC fund with a contrarian approach to pre-seed technology investing. Based in London, Playfair invests across the UK and Europe with an intentionally high conviction, low volume approach: making 6-8 investments a year and preserving time, capital and resource to help companies post-investment. Playfair has backed 70+companies across two funds including Thought Machine, Andela, Mapillary, Recycleye and Orca AI.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, France
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- Refute — Refute identifies and addresses misinformation on behalf of there businesses.
- Astral Systems — Our compact multi-state fusion reactors offer high particle flux and exceptional lifetime performance, unlocking a wide variety of critical medical, industrial, and research applications today.
- NetFabric — NetFabric is developing a next-gen network observability platform
Venture capital investor and transaction adviser for fast-growing B2B technology companies
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Investment focus
- Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series A, Series C
- United States, Germany, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Sware — Sware will automate your validation enabling you to release more products, accelerate implementation, and ensure compliance. Discover the Res_Q platform.
- CSA Medical — RejuvenAir System aims to treat Chronic Bronchitis. The SPRAY-CB trial is evaluating the safety of the device and is currently recruiting in the USA.
- Dina — Dina provides benefits and care coordination solutions to support health plans and providers as they extend care management into the home.
Triple Point Ventures is an early stage VC based in London, investing in promising start-ups across multiple sectors including ecommerce, AI, platforms and wider tech. TP's team offers entrepreneurs something a bit different - a fusion of funding and operational expertise, helping investee companies fulfil their growth plans at speed whileensuring teams themselves reach their full potential as they expand.Triple Point has funded many companies, including Skin Analytics, LendInvest, Contis Group, Capital on Tap, Payment Sense, Flatfair and MWS Technology. Several TP-backed companies have featured in start-up charts such as The Sunday Times Tech Track 100. TP recently began raising its second £30 million venture fund to invest in early stage companies who are addressing identified challenges in the B2B or B2B2C world.Triple Point Ventures is the venture capital arm of the wider Triple Point Investment Management group. The Triple Point Group manages over £1.5 billion in assets across multiple strategies including debt, infrastructure, real estate and venture capital. The group was established in 2004 as a UK venture capital trust manager and has continued to provide strong risk-adjusted returns to investors throughout this time.
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- Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- trumpet — Create beautiful, personalised, trackable and interactive digital sales pods in a few clicks with trumpet
- Visibly — Visibly developing technology to bring about the change our built environment requires by providing businesses with the tools they need to reduce the industry's skills gap and ensure our infrastructure can meet the needs of the population.
- Paloma Health — A technology-enabled provider of children's mental health services, starting with autism assessments.
Oyster Capital Partners, an Irish private equity firm, specializes in the energy technology, IT, and healthcare sectors.
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Investment focus
- Software, Medical Device, Enterprise Software
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Inclusio — The inclusio diversity and inclusion platform is designed to measure and positively shift the culture of your organisation. Contact us for more information.
- Ooodles — Ooodles offers a complete IT procurement and management platform for companies looking to streamline hardware acquisition and scale effortlessly. Buy or Lease Laptops, Desktops, Monitors & Tablets for Office or Remote Workers. From laptops and monitors to tablets, our solution empowers businesses to procure, finance, manage, and optimize their IT needs in one place.
- &Open — For businesses that gift to give back, share joy, or show they care. All you need is an email.
Samaipata is a specialized and pan-European venture capital fund investing in digital platforms with network effects at the early stage across Europe. With over $160M of assets under management, we start with investments of $750k to $2.5m and reserve up to $10m for future rounds, from pre-seed to Se
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Spain, France, United Kingdom
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- Dcycle — Dcycle develops environmental intelligence tool.
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- Genesy AI — Instantly aggregate real-time B2B data from 30+ sources and enrichment tools, and scale personalised outreach using our AI sales agent.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
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- VRAI — First and foremost, they are a content creation company specialising in virtual reality production. They are visual storytellers embracing this new medium as a way of creating immersive, engaging content.Their pioneering methodology takes elements from our diverse background. We use techniques from narrative cinema, from visual effects, fromexhibition design, from gaming, from brand management and combine them in new exciting ways to help you tell your story.
- Advise — Advise Freemium is a ground-breaking automated data analytics for CPG solution. Discover how Advise can assist your Revenue Growth Management.
- LaNua Medical — At LaNua Medical it is our mission to develop disruptive image-guided technologies providing safe and effective endovascular solutions.
CircleRock Capital aim to be the leading European, multi-stage co-investor of choice for exceptional technology companies, investing primarily in Seed, Series A and Series B opportunities.We invest alongside the leading global VC firms, so that founders can have both a leading VC and us on their cap table. We don’t lead deals and we don’t takeboard seats.Our ticket sizes range from €500k to €5 million +.Our LP’s include exited entrepreneurs, leaders at global tech companies, venture-backed founders, family offices, leading angels, CEO’s & board members of public companies.We fight to win allocation based on our reputation for fundraising expertise and our valuable network – consisting of both commercial customers and access to our global network of industry leaders.CircleRock Capital have a successful history as both Investors and Operators. Conor was previously nominated for both UK Angel Investor of the Year and Exit of the Year. Barry built FCA regulated fintech Clear Treasury from inception to a multi-million pound turnover business, with over 2,500 clients across all industry sectors, exiting in 2020.Offices in Dublin and London.Are you an Angel Investor or Family Office? Sign up here to receive our curated deal flow:https://www.circlerockcapital.com/investor-registration
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain
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- Yonder — A modern lifestyle credit card packed with rewards, no foreign exchange fees, and loads more. Apply without needing a UK credit score.
- PLATFORM Golf — PLATFORM Golf is a pioneering golf technology firm focusing on transforming the sport of golf.
- Retrograde — Talent agency of the future. Get early access now.
Bill McCabe
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Mobile Apps
- Funding Round
- Ireland
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- SynergySuite — SynergySuite is an international provider of award winning, cloud based enterprise back office software to leading global restaurant chains. SynergySuite offers a modular solution covering all critical business areas including inventory & procurement, recipe management, food safety, scheduling, cash management, human resources, and businessintelligence. After using SynergySuite our customers add between 4% to 6% per location to their bottom line. SynergySuite has been in the industry since 2011 and works with top restaurant chains like KFC, Macaroni Grill, BrewDog, Hawthorne Leisure and many more across the US, UK, and Ireland.
Id4 is an asset manager, designed for family offices and private investors, committed to unearth valuable and outstanding tech opportunities in Europe
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- France, United Kingdom, Belgium
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- ThinkSono — ThinkSono is a company at the cutting edge of medicine and technology.
- Le Fourgon — Le Fourgon provides contained drinks for home delivery. They offer milk, water, beer, wine, fruit juice, and sodas. They allow customers to have their drinks delivered free of charge during the day.
- Northbound — We are building the dynamic decision engine that translates real-time data into operational excellence & stakeholder transparency. All at the intersection of warehouse and transport logistics.
Founded in 2019, LAGO Innovation stands at the forefront of growth-focused private credit investing. We are dedicated to achieving downside-protected, premium income returns, regardless of current market conditions.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Mobile Apps
- Funding Round
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Fernway — At Fernway, we believe cannabis makes the good life even better. Good music, good food, good company, good scenery: cannabis elevates it all.
- Happy Head — The strongest prescription hair growth medicine made with FDA-approved ingredients formulated by dermatologists.
- Attend — Attend captures the essence of connection, bringing people, moments, and memories together with one platform.
First partner to exceptional teams everywhere
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Spinny — Spinny is a tech-powered new-age used car buying platform enabling trustworthy and hassle-free transactions in used cars. It also brings absolute trust and simplicity to the Indian used car market. They follow a full-stack business model to offer value, transparency, and simplicity to their customers. Spinny's goal is to help our customersbuy a car that matches their aspirations. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana, India.
- ApnaMart — ApnaMart is a shop and online retail store.
- Swish Robotics — Embodied Intelligence for the Home
An Bord Iascaigh Mhara supports and enables the development of the Irish Seafood Industry by providing technical expertise, business support, funding, training and promoting responsible environmental practice.
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Investment focus
- Restaurants
- Corporate Round
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Misunderstood Heron — The Misunderstood Heron Food Truck is located in Connemara serving up fresh, local and tasty seafood, Meat, vegetarian and vegan meals with the spectacular views of Killary Fjord. A unique Food and Cafe Experience in County Galway.
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