Top 25 Retail Startup Investors in Ireland (June 2026)

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• Tirlan — Tirlan is an agricultural company that supplies agri-food and farm input materials to the framing sector.
• Pulsate — Pulsate enables direct communication with customers based on their location, context, interests and behaviours. Pulsate allows you to design and push rich media content directly to customers devices. Deepen the relationship by establishing a customer dialogue. Allow users to reply to your campaigns, provide feedback and keep complaints outside ofsocial media. Maximize foot traffic by targeting street level or competitor locations. Combine with segmentation for optimal results. iBeacons:tm: enable you to understand indoor customer location and context with incredible accuracy. Easily manage deployment and configuration of iBeacons:tm: with the Pulsate cloud platform. Gain a deeper understanding of your mobile customers and a comprehensive view of each mobile campaign.
• 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.

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• Deciphex — Deciphex - Transforming Digital Pathology - we are focussed on the development of applications for clinical and veterinary pathology that improve productivity
• Engage-EHS — EcoOnline's easy-to-use software system is helping companies to transform their approach to health & safety, chemical safety & learning data reporting.
• SilverCloud Health — SilverCloud Health is the trusted on-demand virtual mental health platform - Delivering proven clinical outcomes at scale. Virtual therapy and care

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• Ovagen — Ovagen is a biotechnology company that has developed the process of producing germ free (GF) chicken eggs and GF birds in commercial quantities for use primarily in the pharmaceutical industry. Ovagen can also provide a Contract Research Service and has extensive expertise in SPF poultry & rodent housing & husbandry, in specific poultry& rodent research technologies to GMP standards and in avian transgenics.
• Peroptyx — Peroptyx is a platform that provides managed solutions for machine learning. At Peroptyx, they have assembled and pre-screened a qualified network of data evaluators across the globe. They strategically match ideal evaluators with each product to ensure authentic experiences through consistency and appropriate real-world contexts.
• Galway Biomedical — Galway Biomedical partners with global medical device companies to bring complex braided devices from early concept through to full-scale production.

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• MEG — MEG is a powerful end-to-end Quality Management System for healthcare. Manage quality, patient safety, compliance and accreditation processes all from one place.
• Soapbox Labs — Welcome to AI Labs, Curriculum Associates' research hub creating responsible AI tools for educators. Learn about our SoapBox Speech Engine and ethical approach to AI in education.
• 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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• Kindora — Kindora buys, sells, and rents premium pre-owned items – from cots and strollers to nursery furniture – after a deep clean.
• Remi — Add mood-sharing and icebreakers to async check-ins and meetings. Stay connected and build trust on your remote team every day.
• LiSA — Offer shoppable live video streams to all your online audiences in ONE highly engaging and conversion-boosting experience. Live Stream Shopping Software tailored to all your needs.

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• Ambisense — Since 2014 Ambisense has been driving innovation within the environmental space. Their technology platform optimizes the delivery of environmental risk assessment on some of the world’s largest infrastructure projects across industrial, O&G and waste verticals. Ambilytics encompasses both IoT and ML solutions, combining information fromremotely deployed field devices with contextual data sources such as weather, satellite, geophysical and operational data to build machine learning models. These models identify the relationships, patterns, and drivers hidden within the data and allow our customers to forecast and predict the behaviour of targeted environmental pollutants.
• Vortex IQ — Vortex IQ employs proprietary AI algorithms to detect and analyze data for merchants. It removes the guesswork from data analysis by delivering actionable recommendations and safely implementing it on a staging site, allowing businesses to test before going live.
• CameraMatics — Digitize fleet management to optimize performance. Onboard sensors, smart cameras, & apps to mitigate risk, manage safety & achieve sustainability goals.

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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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• Oyl — Trade Alkanes tokens, swap on Bitcoin Layer 1, and access DeFi directly on Bitcoin. Non-custodial wallet optimized for Bitcoin smart contracts.
• Q Platform — Q Platform is a First globally connected fintech- multi-banking platform in Russia and CIS.Its platform for banks provides access to the whole ecosystem of fintech solutions available on the market with detailed analysis; allowing quick integration and management. The platform for Fintechs allows to enter new markets and works with new audiencesin different countries using interbank distribution model.The company was founded in 2017 and based in Moscow, Russia
• Woo X — Woo X is a high-performance crypto trading platform.

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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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• Gilion — Gilion (Formerly known as Ark Kapital) is creating custom growth loans that helps founders protect equity. Because founders who remain in control, are hard to overtake.
• Juno — Meet Juno, a workplace wellbeing programme that you control.
• Superlayer — Superlayer drives better performance for sales teams, leveraging and automating best practices to close more deals in less time.

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• IP Telecom — Ireland's most competitive SME & Enterprise VoIP provider. We are Ireland's leading VoIP Phone Systems Provider. Connect your business to the technology of today.
• Nomadic Dairy — Nomadic Dairy is a growing, premium branded yogurt manufacturer. The company supplies multiple products across the UK and Republic of Ireland.
• Spotlight Oral Care — Spotlight Oral Care aims to create the best oral health products, to educate and promote oral care, empowering people to engage with true customised preventative oral care.

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• Aepona — Aepona Ltd. provides application-led products and services to telecommunications operators worldwide. Its Universal Service Platform allows service creation and implementation to be carried out within the service network from underlying network resources. Aepona, Ltd. serves customers in Europe, North America, and South East Asia. The companywas founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Belfast, United Kingdom. Aepona Ltd. is a former subsidiary of ApiON Ltd.
• PlayFirst — PlayFirst is the global leader in mobile games for family and friends.PlayFirst develops great mobile games for family and friends, and tens of millions of fans worldwide have played our hit titles. PlayFirst's portfolio of games includes the DASH® series (Diner Dash®, Wedding Dash®, Cooking Dash®, Hotel Dash®, SpongeBob Diner Dash® andHotel Transylvania Dash®) and Stars series (Mall Stars™).
• Gatsby — Gatsby is a React-based open source framework with performance, scalability and security built-in. Collaborate, build and deploy 1000x faster on Netlify.

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• Kayna — Enhance your SaaS platform's value by integrating Kayna's insurance solutions. Drive additional revenue and offer more to your users with every policy sold.
• WhatClinic.com — WhatClinic.com helps patients find, compare and book the right clinics for them, in more than 135 countries. They provide detailed listings for over 120,000 clinics on their site. These include doctors, dentists, beauty and cosmetic surgery, physiotherapy, fertility, holistics and a lot more. They believe that every patient is an empoweredconsumer.
• Digit Game Studios — Founded in 2012, DIGIT is a cross-platform game developer based in Dublin, Ireland. We are the largest game developer in the country with an international team of experienced, passionate game-makers. Our first game, Kings of the Realm, was launched in September 2014 and is available on browser, iOS, Android and Windows.

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• POPxo — POPxo is India's online community for women that deals everything from fashion, beauty, lifestyle, work, and etc.Reaching 9 million users every month with over 102 million monthly engaged content views. POPxo provides text and video content in an accessible manner, and reach them where they live their lives: on social media and on mobile.It focuses on reaching a highly targeted audience - the millions of young urban women in India who are growing in confidence, in independence and in spending power, it monetises by working across formats (native ads, social posts, events) with brands who want to reach this important and influential consumer base.I was launch in March 2014 it's become the go-to lifestyle resource for the female (18-34) demographic.
• Gener8 — We believe that the advertising industry needs more transparency and that people should be able to control their own data. Our technology gives people the control that is currently missing. And if people choose to share their data with advertisers, we reward them for it. Consequently, people trust us and 83% of them share their data with us.Meaning that we have an incredible understanding about these people and their online behaviour. We work with companies (and their media agencies) in the capacity of a media owner to do three things: 1. Provide premium media for you to reach this highly defined audience.2. Use our proprietary first party data to unveil actionable insights about your customers, eg. their purchase habits.3. To promote your brand and drive an action from your audience.
• Peachy Lean — Peachylean, is an Irish based athleisure business providing stylish, high quality, supportive, high waisted gym leggings. We want to support strong women who like to look good while working out in the gym.

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• Gigable — Join the fastest growing delivery network. Signup as a business to access freelancers or signup as a freelancer to earn additional income.
• Coindrum — Coindrum provides coin machines to spend your coin jars. No more manual counting, sorting or bagging!
• VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.

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• Waiv — We integrate the best of human and artificial intelligence to deliver better drugs and diagnostics at scale.
• 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.
• 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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• Ayenda Hotels — Ayenda is the fastest-growing hotel chain in Latin America, with a presence in Mexico, Colombia, and Peru. Ayenda franchises independent hotels in main cities to ensure quality on the basics needs for travelers.Ayenda is a tech-based company that enables run the chain by proprietary software in all areas, from hotel software, pricing algorithms,and user-facing experience.
• AERDRON — AERDRON is an innovative aerospace company that specializes in the development, and manufacturing of unmanned aerial vehicles. It specializes in designing prototypes, turnkey solutions, and finished commercial products to their clients requirements. They work with their clients through all stages of product development, and offer training and postsales support.AERDRON focuses on developing aerospace technology innovations for the unmanned aerial vehicle industry. They collaborate with both private, and public entities to further our R&D projects to the commercial market. AERDRON can also help other companies outsource development, and prototype manufacturing.
• Skyports — Connecting the world through our skies by owning and operating infrastructure for urban aviation and managing end to end drone deliveries.

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• Cablato — For the past 70 years broadcast TV advertising practices have remained fairly unchanged. The advent of data proliferation, technology advancements & shifting consumer behavior have created an opportunity for a seismic shift in how TV advertising is planned, targeted, purchased and measured - moving media dollars from traditional broadcasting toaddressable TV advertising.The next phase of broadcast and addressable TV evolution is the ability to personalize and serve dynamic video content and advertising, which aligns the content the consumer views to their interests, location, viewing habits or even the weather.Developing broadcast ready video personalization technology is extremely complex, with the technology needing to not only serve broadcast quality TV advertising, but also work seamlessly within the myriad of existing broadcast technologies, processes and regulations.Cablato has built the first technology solution that overcomes these challenges, enabling advertisers to create and serve highly engaging personalized video ads at scale, and to integrate into buy-side and broadcaster technology stacks that provide broadcasters with a new untapped revenue stream.Quantifiable KPIs / Business Performance Cablato has built the first video personalisation technology solution for OTT and addressable TV enabling advertisers to create and serve highly engaging personalized video ads at scale.Challenges we've had to solve in order to scale and get buy-in - Dynamic video creation and ad serving for both broadcaster managed & programmatic addressable TV - Cloud rendering and use of dynamic content within linear video files - Regulations, content approval and management - Buy-side technology integrations and use of data for personalisation - Sell-side technology integrations and use of data for personalisation
• Engyin —
• Peachy Lean — Peachylean, is an Irish based athleisure business providing stylish, high quality, supportive, high waisted gym leggings. We want to support strong women who like to look good while working out in the gym.

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• Kindora — Kindora buys, sells, and rents premium pre-owned items – from cots and strollers to nursery furniture – after a deep clean.
• inspeq ai — Explore how Inspeq.ai transforms inspections with AI-powered solutions, delivering real-time insights, enhanced efficiency, and smarter decision-making.
• Talio — Making complex insight tasks easy with AI powered automation

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• Roomex — Want to make business travel easier? Search, book, manage, and pay for all your business hotel bookings in one place.
• Coindrum — Coindrum provides coin machines to spend your coin jars. No more manual counting, sorting or bagging!
• LikeWhere — LikeWhere's service helps travel brands identify the individual interests of their customers, so they can personalise their digital engagement, generating more revenues. LikeWhere utilises ‘affinity-marketing’ techniques deployed by brands including Amazon, Spotify & Netflix (‘others like you also liked this’), enabling travel brands tooptimise their retail strategy.

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• Phorest — Join 8000+ spas, barbers, hair, beauty and nail salon owners using the #1 management, scheduling, POS and appointment booking system. Try Phorest now!
• SurgaColl — SurgaColl Technologies is a medical device company developing novel tissue regeneration products for the surgical treatment of diseases of the bone, cartilage and other human tissue. Based on technology developed at the Tissue Engineering Research Group (TERG) of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), headed by Professor Fergal O’Brien,the company aims to become a leader in the field of regenerative medical devices.
• 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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• Sibstar — Empowering vulnerable people to spend safely, free from scams, overspending and addiction relapse
• Peachy Lean — Peachylean, is an Irish based athleisure business providing stylish, high quality, supportive, high waisted gym leggings. We want to support strong women who like to look good while working out in the gym.
• Tiny Explorers — Discover Tiny Explorers' eco-friendly baby equipment rental across the UK Convenient, sustainable & hassle-free solutions for busy families!

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• Kindora — Kindora buys, sells, and rents premium pre-owned items – from cots and strollers to nursery furniture – after a deep clean.

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• Low Carbon — Low Carbon focuses on large-scale renewable energy investments embracing proven technologies including solar, wind, waste to energy and battery storage.
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• Future Intelligence — Vision Intelligence is a AI smart hardware company that manufactures and sells interactive intelligence based electronic consumer products.
• Xunlian Technology — Xunlian Technology is a manufacturer of measuring, control, communication, and navigation devices. Xunlian Technology provides measurement and control communication equipment and services for drones, satellites, rockets, and so on. Satellite navigation core electrical equipment.
• BioTroy Therapeutics — BioTroy Therapeutics is engaged in tumor immunity and is used for multi-omics tumor analysis, receptor-ligand discovery, research on target signal transduction pathways, antibody discovery and engineering, drug efficacy and large animal translational medicine, biomarkers, and precision medicine.