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Top 15 Restaurants VC Funds in Ireland

Last updated: Jul 2024 A list of 15 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 15 Restaurants VC Funds in Ireland

Investor	Restaurants Ireland investments
Playfair Capital	3
Anamcara Capital	3
NDRC	3
Cavalry Ventures	3
First Analysis	2
Enterprise Ireland	2
Triple Point Ventures	2
CircleRock Capital	2
Samaipata	2
Oyster Capital Partners	2
Id4 ventures	1
Bord Iascaigh Mhara	1
Accel	1
Capstone Partners	1
LEGO Innovation Investment Fund	1

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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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Orca AI — Orca AI innovates the marine navigation sphere, providing an intelligent technological solution for collision avoidance in maritime transport.
Nory AI — All of your restaurant operations managed in one platform, powered by AI. Tools that fuel better decision making and fatter profit margins.
Qureight — Pioneering data curation to solve complex diseases

Anamcara invests in B2B software enabling small and medium-sized businesses, leading the next revolution of commerce.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Germany, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Anterior — Lead your plan into the future.
Nory AI — All of your restaurant operations managed in one platform, powered by AI. Tools that fuel better decision making and fatter profit margins.
Pivot — Pivot operates as a fintech company.

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

Nory AI — All of your restaurant operations managed in one platform, powered by AI. Tools that fuel better decision making and fatter profit margins.
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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Nory AI — All of your restaurant operations managed in one platform, powered by AI. Tools that fuel better decision making and fatter profit margins.
Aleph Alpha — Aleph Alpha develops AI systems for modern security challenges.
Companion.energy — Software to manage industrial energy flexibility in the age of renewables.

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

CoolR Group — CoolR provides advanced, end-to-end, IoT-based visual AI solutions for CPG brands and retailers.
Dina — Dina provides benefits and care coordination solutions to support health plans and providers as they extend care management into the home.
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.

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

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Xocean — Using unmanned surface vessels (USVs), XOCEAN offers turnkey data collection services to Surveyors, Companies and Agencies.
Lua Health — We believe the future of well-being is in prevention and early detection. Getting the right help, at the right time.
MarketSizer — MarketSizer offers subscription-based competitive intelligence and market insights for SaaS vendors who want to strategically grow their business.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Nory AI — All of your restaurant operations managed in one platform, powered by AI. Tools that fuel better decision making and fatter profit margins.
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.
Tuza — Find the right card machine for your business, with good rates and the best features. Search the top providers in minutes, including Worldpay, Barclaycard, Tyl and Teya.

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

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Nory AI — All of your restaurant operations managed in one platform, powered by AI. Tools that fuel better decision making and fatter profit margins.
Griffin — Griffin is making a bank you can build on. They provide banking-as-a-service solutions for companies that want to offer financial services products. The company is currently seeking regulatory approval from the PRA and FCA to become the UK's first platform bank. It was founded in 2017 and based in London, England.
Scaleup Finance — Improve your financial management

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Real Estate, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
Spain, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Nory AI — All of your restaurant operations managed in one platform, powered by AI. Tools that fuel better decision making and fatter profit margins.
Veremark — A leading online background checking platform that is scalable, secure and fast. Featured Checks - Criminal Record Check, Reference Check, Employment Check.
Imperia — We provide to our clients tools for managing and optimizing their processes in the area of operations through an innovative, advanced and user-friendly software solution. Analytics Demand Planning (ADP) is a complete solution to support the demand forecasting process, based on two key pillars: 1. Easy-to-use: the solution is fully integrated inExcel, providing great ease of use and minimum implementation times. “If you know how to use Excel, you know how to use ADP”. 2. Collaborative planning: the tool is developed under a collaborative environment in which all members of the organization can be involved in the process, improving the decision-making process.Furthermore, it has great computing power based on statistical models and a wide range of advanced functionalities that add extra value to the product. Such as reference segmentation, intelligent cleaning of historical data series and integrated dashboards for sales and forecast analytics.

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.

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, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

NannyML — Open Source Library for post deployment data science
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.

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.

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.

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tracebit — Tracebit generates and maintains bespoke decoy resources in your cloud environments, closing gaps beyond stock protection without time- and cost-intensive detection engineering
CData Software — CData provides real-time data access across enterprise apps & infrastructure with the industry's most comprehensive connectivity platform. Get started today!
Rainforest — Rainforest focuses on providing software platforms for payment processing. Rainforest is headquartered in Atlanta, United States.

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

Doongji — Doongji is a small building PM company providing commercial property maintenance and management services.
Rapeech — Rapeech is an AI voice technology company that provides product development services.
DeepSmartech — Innovative thin film coating Process, Equipment, Recipe, Turn-key provider

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.

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