Top 10 Restaurants Startup Investors in Ireland

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 10 angel investors and VC 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 10 Restaurants Startup Investors in Ireland

Investor	Restaurants Ireland investments
NDRC	2
Cavalry Ventures	2
First Analysis	2
Playfair Capital	2
Oyster Capital Partners	2
Bill McCabe	1
LEGO Innovation Investment Fund	1
Id4 ventures	1
Capstone Partners	1
Enterprise Ireland	1

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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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hiiker — Find 1000s of the best backpacking and hiking adventures, with reviews, photos, and great places to stay.
Legitify — Legitify is an AI powered solution using audio-video authentication that allows customers to notarize documents online remotely from anywhere, without the hassle of visiting a notary public in person.
Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.

Cavalry is an early-stage venture capital investor focused on European technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Empion — EMPiON – The Robo Advisor for Cultural FitEmpion is a data-based job platform that matches companies and applicants based on company culture, values and skills. Using an AI-based Robo Advisor, Empion quantifies company culture and implements automated headhunting.Every second employee is currently thinking about a job change. The 5 mostimportant factors for job satisfaction have to do with company culture and values. And yet, company culture remains largely ignored on customary job portals. The results for companies and applicants are inefficient hiring processes and high employee turnover.Our vision is bringing company culture to every hire in the world.For more information visit www.empion.de
Charm — We build tools to make the command line glamorous.
Aleph Alpha — Aleph Alpha develops AI systems for modern security challenges.

Venture capital investor and transaction adviser for fast-growing B2B technology companies

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Series C
United States, Germany, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

EdgeIQ — EdgeIQ is a device management software for connected products. Provision, monitor, and update any device on any network, with rich service orchestration. It provides the missing management tools that the key stakeholders on your team, and your customer's organizations, need for complete connected device lifecycle management success.It wasfounded in 2012 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
CoolR Group — CoolR provides advanced, end-to-end, IoT-based visual AI solutions for CPG brands and retailers.
Stamus Networks — Stamus Networks believes in a world where defenders are heroes, and a future where those they protect remain safe. As defenders face an onslaught of threats from well-funded adversaries, we relentlessly pursue solutions that make the defender’s job easier and more impactful. A global provider of high-performance network-based threat detection andhunting systems, Stamus Networks helps enterprise security teams accelerate their response to critical threats with solutions that uncover urgent and acute risk from network activity. Our Scirius Security Platform is an advanced network detection and response (NDR) solution that exposes threats to critical assets and empowers rapid response.

Playfair Capital is an early-stage fund that commits to companies early and with conviction. Based in London, Playfair combines the best aspects of angel investing with a focused fund, to invest in truly ambitious founders, wherever they are in the world. Playfair takes a sector-agnostic approach and investments span deep tech, SaaS, marketplacesand B2B companies. We’ve backed the founders of more than 60 companies including Mapillary (acq. Facebook), CryptoFacilities (acq. Kraken), Omnipresent, Orca AI, Ravelin, sprout.ai, Thought Machine, Trouva and Vinehealth.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

StackOne — Accelerate your SaaS growth with our unified API solution for HRIS, ATS, and CRM. Say "yes" to customers, build advanced integrations quickly, and experienced the best data privacy controls in the market.
Spotted Zebra — Spotted Zebra's skills cloud powers skills-based organisations. Our platform ensures skills are the centre of every decision made about people. Whether talent acquisition, talent development or internal mobility, Spotted Zebra focuses people on skills.
Continuum Industries — Continuum Industries is a developer of Optioneer, the leading software for linear infrastructure optioneering.

Oyster Capital Partners, an Irish private equity firm, specializes in the energy technology, IT, and healthcare sectors.

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 — The service platform to get premium tech products for you, your business and your employees
&Open — For businesses that gift to give back, share joy, or show they care. All you need is an email.

Bill McCabe

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Mobile Apps
Funding Round
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

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.

LEGO Innovation Investment Fund is an investment firm.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Mobile Apps
Funding Round
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
France, United Kingdom, Latvia

Portfolio highlights

Gensyn — The Gensyn protocol provides hyperscale, cost efficient, compute capacity for all deep learning workloads.
Amalia.io — Streamline Sales Compensation. Incentive & Compensation Management platform that accelerates your business while uniting your team.
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.

Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage companies operating in the Information technology, wireless technology, architecture, pharmaceutical, internet, online game, software, solid state disk, and IP television sectors. It primarily invests in China and South Korea, with a focus in Seoul and Gyeonggi province. Thefirm prefers to exit its investments through a trade sale. Capstone Partners was founded in 2008 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas. Capstone Partners values the funds of union investors better than our own, working for the interests of investors and following the objective of the investments.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Gaming
Series A, Seed, Series B
South Korea, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Aniai — Need robots that can cook some REAL BURGERS, follow your recipe to the letter, and help you to make it even better?
Doongji — Doongji is a small building PM company providing commercial property maintenance and management services.
GlucoFit — GlucoFit offers meals that induce blood sugar rises and helps to regulate blood sugar more effectively and healthily.

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.