Top 35 Retail Startup Investors in Ireland (November 2026)

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• Foodcloud — We connect businesses that have surplus food with Charities and Community Groups that need it.
• Amethyst Care — Amethyst Care is a startup that creates an AI-powered voice assistant for those with mobility difficulties.
• EstateMin — EstateMin provides software for law firms handling estate planning, trust administration, probate, and estate administration. Its platform supports client intake, case workflows, document organization, asset and liability tracking, and case progress visibility through a centralized dashboard. A client portal lets clients and executors submit information and documents. The platform also offers AI-supported case review and integrates with Clio.

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• Devengo — Light-speed transfers. Our Instant Payments API enables seamless integration to automate payouts to your customers in Europe and the UK.
• LuxQuanta — Quantum Key Distribution or Quantum Cryptography provides long-term and future-proof data protection.
• Quantum Bridge — Quantum Bridge is a pioneer in Distributed Symmetric Key Establishment (DSKE) technology. It offers quantum-safe cybersecurity products and services.

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• Freedom Holding — Freedom Holding is a US-based corporation that owns several operating subsidiaries that engage in the securities industry in Central Asia.
• TryFit Technologies — Try.fit is the best fit footwear for confident shopping & high conversion rate omnichannel retail. Try.fit automatically identifies the best dimensionally 3D fitting footwear for all types of a shopper’s formal, casual and athletic activities by analyzing digitally simulated foot-footwear activity, related 3D transformations and theirgeometric and physical collisions

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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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• Coindrum — Coindrum provides coin machines to spend your coin jars. No more manual counting, sorting or bagging!
• Barespace — Barespace provides end-to-end solutions that manage, market, and grow your beauty business.
• MARC — MARC is an AI startup dedicated to real estate asset management.

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• Tochka — Tochka provides banking services to SMEs and entrepreneurs.
• Nival — Nival is an independent game developer focused on strategy games. The company was founded in 1996 by games industry veteran Sergey Orlovskiy, who currently serves as company CEO. Nival began to self-publish it's own games in 2005.Nival strives to bring innovations to traditional game genres. Altering the borders, Nival aims to createsupreme experience for its players through a mix of a gameplay types and our signature art style.Nival's track record includes the best-selling Heroes of Might and Magic V, Blitzkrieg, Silent Storm and Etherlords game series. Our core development studios are currently working on the World War II real-time strategy Blitzkrieg 3, an award-winning MOBA Prime World and the collectable tower defense Defenders 2.With offices in Limassol, Cyprus, St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia and Minsk, Belarus, Nival currently has more than a hundred employees across four development studios.
• TryFit Technologies — Try.fit is the best fit footwear for confident shopping & high conversion rate omnichannel retail. Try.fit automatically identifies the best dimensionally 3D fitting footwear for all types of a shopper’s formal, casual and athletic activities by analyzing digitally simulated foot-footwear activity, related 3D transformations and theirgeometric and physical collisions

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• Entity — Entity's purpose is shape the future of web gaming by leveraging emerging technologies and maximizing the browser's capabilities. Our next-generation gaming hub, scheduled to arrive in 2027, will be a global place for players to discover, connect, and play together.
• ZeroRisk.io — ZeroRisk.io's Merchant Management Platform delivers advanced compliance and cybersecurity solutions. Gain insights, mitigate risks, and drive revenue. Book a demo today.
• 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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• 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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• Ubotica — Ubotica delivers live maritime intelligence powered by Orbital AI, using satellites and sensors to predict risk, confirm threats and deliver actionable evidence.
• Entity — Entity's purpose is shape the future of web gaming by leveraging emerging technologies and maximizing the browser's capabilities. Our next-generation gaming hub, scheduled to arrive in 2027, will be a global place for players to discover, connect, and play together.
• Fresco — Fresco powers connected cooking experiences for appliance brands, enabling faster launches, lower R&D costs, and continuous innovation.

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• 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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• Coindrum — Coindrum provides coin machines to spend your coin jars. No more manual counting, sorting or bagging!

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• CleverCards — The Platform for Contactless Cards. The CleverGift real-time payment platform offers gift cards, expenses, employee incentives, and travel foreign exchange.
• Bloomberg PolarLake — Streamline the acquisition, management and distribution of instrument, pricing, index, legal and ratings data from multiple delivery channels.
• 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.

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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.
• Alma Air — Alma Air provides passenger air travel services, connecting destinations in Colombia and the Caribbean.
• Skyports — Skyports Infrastructure develops and operates vertiports and heliports around the world.

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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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• 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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• O Brother Brewing — Award-winning Wicklow craft brewery in Greystones. Taproom, brewery tours, tastings & beer garden. Top things to do in Wicklow.

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• NTR plc — With almost five decades of experience in investing in and managing infrastructure assets, NTR is a specialist renewable energy asset manager.
• McAleer & Rushe — McAleer and Rushe is a design and construction company that provides full services in delivering high-quality buildings to its clients.
• Mater Private hospital — Mater Private are proud to offer some of the most technologically advanced treatment options in the country and have pioneered many major developments in the delivery of healthcare in Ireland.Their team of over 300 leading consultants bring their patients from all over the country to their facilities with the highest confidence in the standard ofcare they can offer.

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• 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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• Tiny Explorers — Discover Tiny Explorers' eco-friendly baby equipment rental across the UK Convenient, sustainable & hassle-free solutions for busy families!
• Little's Coffee — Little's Coffee is a food and beverage company that produces and supplies instant and ground coffee.
• Brainspark Games — Brainspark Games creates educational games and revision apps for kids of all ages. Find out more about our products, services and mission for revolutionising education.

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• WrxFlo — Optimise your supply chain with WrxFlo digitalisation platform. Unlock data-driven insights, automate compliance, and drive supply chain sustainability.
• Trustap — Learn how we make buying & selling online safe & secure, every time. Create an account for free today!
• Neurobell — NeuroBell develop novel EEG medical devices for early detection and monitoring of neonatal seizures.

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• Oyl — Oyl offers customers access to the latest trading tools in a single application. Oyl additionally provides an eponymous browser-based wallet enabling inscription swapping within the wallet.
• 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 — Trade better on WOO X with low fees and deep liquidity. Buy, sell and earn on your crypto on a secure and trusted platform with live proof of reserves.

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• Swaay — Swaay prints beverage cans. Traditional offset can printing needs metal plates and orders in the hundreds of thousands, so a new design takes months. Swaay prints digitally instead, so there are no plates and no big minimum order. Brands can print anywhere from 1,000 cans up. Swaay runs this through a network of local printing hubs, so a design can go from artwork to shelf in weeks rather than quarters.
• Oranda Therapeutics — Oranda Therapeutics: ensuring sustainable, affordable access to rare disease medicines across Europe through high-quality established treatments.
• The Corporate Governance Institute — Diploma Certification for Board Directors. University accredited Courses for existing and aspiring Directors. Qualify as a Director.

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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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• TryFit Technologies — Try.fit is the best fit footwear for confident shopping & high conversion rate omnichannel retail. Try.fit automatically identifies the best dimensionally 3D fitting footwear for all types of a shopper’s formal, casual and athletic activities by analyzing digitally simulated foot-footwear activity, related 3D transformations and theirgeometric and physical collisions

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• Hullbot — Hullbot offers an autonomous, frequent cleaning service for vessel hulls and propellers using specialized underwater robotics technology. This proactive cleaning prevents biofouling buildup, which reduces drag and results in fuel savings and increased fleet performance for operators. The robotics system is designed to work with all hull coatingsand provides routine inspections, asset intelligence, and real-time analytics on vessel performance without requiring divers.
• Wetpaint — Wetpaint is a technology platform company that uses its proprietary state-of-the-art technology and expertise in social media to build and monetize audiences for digital publishers. Wetpaint’s own online property, Wetpaint Entertainment, an entertainment news site that attracts more than 12 million unique visitors monthly and has over 2 millionFacebook fans, is a proof point to the company’s success in building and engaging audiences. Media companies can license Wetpaint’s platform which includes a dynamic playbook tailored to their individual needs and comprehensive training. Founded by Internet pioneer Ben Elowitz, and with offices in New York and Seattle, Wetpaint is backed by Accel Partners, the investors behind Facebook.
• Speedera Networks — As of June 13, 2005, Speedera Networks, Inc. was acquired by Akamai Technologies Inc. Speedera Networks, Inc. provides distributed application hosting and content delivery services for organizations in both industry and government sectors. Its family of on-demand services solves the performance, scalability, availability, and security problems ofdistributed applications and Web sites. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

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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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• BiaSol — BiaSol creates food products from upcycled brewers' spent grains, offering granola and baking mixes focused on nutrition and sustainability.
• Movetru — Movetru a wearable device that aims to reduce injury and enhance rehabilitation.
• EVE — EVE offers software that specializes in the company's fleet management. Dashboards, drivers, and transactions are all part of the company's software. It allows fleet managers and managers to keep track of their EV drivers' off-site charging transactions from anywhere. EVE was founded by Sarah-Marie Rust and Oana Rosca in 2020 and isbased in Dublin, Ireland.

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• fina — heyfina is offering an investment experience that is inclusive, educational and fun.
• Kindora — Kindora buys, sells, and rents premium pre-owned items – from cots and strollers to nursery furniture – after a deep clean.
• 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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• Kindora — Kindora buys, sells, and rents premium pre-owned items – from cots and strollers to nursery furniture – after a deep clean.
• NocoMed — Reduce supply chain emissions, identify cost and energy savings, and demonstrate your healthcare sustainability credentials.
• inspeq ai — Explore how Inspeq.ai transforms inspections with AI-powered solutions, delivering real-time insights, enhanced efficiency, and smarter decision-making.

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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.

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• qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
• Worldover — Cosmetic compliance made simple
• SuperFi — SuperFi Finance is a financial application that provides personalized debt support. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in London, England.

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• Sibstar — Empowering vulnerable people to spend safely, free from scams, overspending and addiction relapse
• Tiny Explorers — Discover Tiny Explorers' eco-friendly baby equipment rental across the UK Convenient, sustainable & hassle-free solutions for busy families!
• Brainspark Games — Brainspark Games creates educational games and revision apps for kids of all ages. Find out more about our products, services and mission for revolutionising education.

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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!
• VT Networks — VT Networks has set up a cellular network in Ireland very similar to that of a Vodafone or Meteor network. Unlike those networks, which are used to handling vast amounts of 3G and 4G data traffic, the VT Networks’ Sigfox network is designed to handle tiny amounts of data coming from electricity meters, kettles, washing machines, oil tanks and evendoorbells.

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• Symbe — Build business cases, collaborate with buyers, and track realized customer value. Symbe helps revenue teams sell and prove value throughout the customer journey.
• Souk — Coco is an AI partnerships manager: she finds partners, activates them, and handles agreements, attribution and payouts.
• Nettle — The AI workspace for Loss Control

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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.