Top 40 Travel Startup Investors in Ireland (August 2026)

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• Oncomark — OncoMark is a UCD spin-out that develops companion diagnostic tests to support cancer drug development. Companion diagnostics allow pharmaceutical companies to select patients for which a drug may be particularly effective (patient stratification).The test can also be used during clinical trials to help reduce the numbers of patients required tocomplete a clinical trial and its duration, while also increasing the likelihood that the trial will be successful. The end result is improved outcome for cancer patients.The company has a portfolio of diagnostic tests in development, covering some of the key cancer types (breast, colorectal, prostate, melanoma), supported by €3.9m in EU R&D funding. There are currently 12 employees funded through 6 grants.The company was founded by Prof. William Gallagher in UCD and is led by Dr. Mairin Rafferty, the CEO/COO. The company has a strong advisory board, which includes Prof. John Crown and Prof. Bryan Hennessy.
• Foodcloud — We connect businesses that have surplus food with Charities and Community Groups that need it.
• Finovation Limited — Finovation Limited

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• Meili — Meili is an ancillary revenue technology company that enables airlines, hotels, and mobility providers to integrate directly through a single, cloud-based platform.
• UrbanFox — UrbanFox protects online retailers against new forms of stealth fraud by analysing and learning from existing legitimate and fraudulent customer behavioural patterns.
• GREYSCOUT — Need brand protection? Our best brand protection software monitors & removes unauthorized listings, helping businesses fight online counterfeiting.

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• Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
• Astronomer — Astronomer’s mission is to help organizations realize the potential of Apache Airflow. Building on the foundation of Astronomer Cloud, the market-leading Airflow as a Service offering, Astronomer is developing new standards of scale, performance, and reliability and leading the way to enterprise-grade Airflow.
• Linked Finance — LinkedFinance offers a new and painless way for Irish businesses to borrow money from a large group of real people, including their own customers. Crowd Funding is the new way for companies to borrow, bankers get bypassed, the wheels of business keep turning and everyone wins!Person to Person (P2P) lending or Crowd Funding is simple. Peoplewith money to lend can lend it directly to people who need it. With LinkedFinance lenders can lend directly to small businesses looking for funding. Crowd Funding provides complete transparency to both the lender and borrower and it brings lending back to basics where a lender simply deposits funds and when there are enough funds available loans can be made to credit worthy borrowers.How it Works - Businesses looking for a loan can apply at Linkedfinance.com for funding. The loan required and full details of the business are posted in their market. Potential Lenders can participate in an auction process where they bid on how much of the loan they are prepared to fund and the interest rate they require. The lowest rate bids are accepted so the borrower secures the best interest rate possible.

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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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• WrxFlo — WrxFlo deliver real time data insights and software solutions to allow business achieve greater levels of supply chain efficiencies
• Danalto — Simple, cost-effective, high-accuracy Location Services for large open environments, both indoor and outdoor. Asset Tracking made simple!
• Neurobell — NeuroBell develop novel EEG medical devices for early detection and monitoring of neonatal seizures.

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• CroíValve — CroíValve is a developed a safe, effective, easy to use, percutaneous solution for treating all patients with severe Tricuspid Regurgitation
• PlasmaBound — PlasmaBound provides a step-change technology, termed Controlled Plasma Ablation (CPA), which facilitates the structural adhesive joining of lightweight materials, namely carbon and glass fibre reinforced composites. CPA technology will accelerate the use of these lightweight composite materials into multi-material structural assemblies, byenabling reliable adhesive joining which is stronger than the composite structures themselves.
• ProVerum Medical — The ProVee stent from Proverum Medical uses 3-D geometry which mirrors and engages with the anatomy of the prostate. The system alleviates Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) by opening the prostatic urethra, applying radial force to the prostatic lobes.

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• Perkbox — Discover a global employee benefits and rewards platform. Perkbox delivers perks, wellbeing, and engagement tools to help your teams thrive worldwide.
• MAIA Technology — MAIA is a front-to-back asset management technology suite born out of an established asset management business with the pedigree of a decade of development and refinement.
• Mobile Travel Technologies — Mobile Travel Technologies (MTT) is the leading mobile travel technology specialist for airlines, hotels and travel intermediaries with an extensive customer base across the global travel industry.MTT’s advanced mobile travel platform powers some of the most successful and highest revenue generating mobile channels in the travel industry. As apioneer in this space having first launched mobile bookings for airlines in 2006, MTT has remained a first mover in mobile travel and has picked up many awards along the way for its successful, customer focused travel apps & mobile sites. MTT offers its clients unrivalled travel industry expertise, world-class mobile development, creative design, mobile usability expertise and a sophisticated mobile travel platform. MTT clients include Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia), the flag carrier for Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, LAN Airlines in Chile and TAM Airlines in Brazil (the LATAM Airlines Group), easyJet, transavia.com of the Air France KLM Group, Flybe, Jumeirah Group and Atlantis The Palm, Dubai.

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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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• Moneybox — Moneybox is the simple way to save, invest, buy your first home, and combine your old pensions - all with one award-winning app. Download now.
• CameraMatics — Digitize fleet management to optimize performance. Onboard sensors, smart cameras, & apps to mitigate risk, manage safety & achieve sustainability goals.
• Modern Milkman — Modern Milkman is a Yorkshire-based milk delivery company.

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• 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.
• 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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• Meili — Meili is an ancillary revenue technology company that enables airlines, hotels, and mobility providers to integrate directly through a single, cloud-based platform.
• PageFair — PageFair’s mission is to sustain the open web by re-establishing a fair deal between users and content creators. The company does this by helping website owners and publishers detect and measure adblock, and protecting advertising inventory from being blocked.The company has two products: 1) PageFair Analytics, which is used by thousands ofpublishers for free, and measures adblock on over 11 billion pageviews per month, and 2) PageFair Ads, which serves advertising in a manner that adblockers are unable to circumvent, and solves the speed, privacy, and UX issues that cause adblocking in the first place.PageFair's founders personally experienced the damage adblocking can do to a website. While they recognize that visitors need to defend themselves from distracting, intrusive, inappropriate, disingenuous or malicious advertising, the rise of adblocking is now leading to the death of quality free websites.PageFair is an international startup based in Dublin, Ireland. Founded in 2012, the company was initially funded by its founders with additional seed capital from Tribal Ventures, Frontline Ventures, and Enterprise Ireland. Thoudands of publishers now use PageFair to measure the extent to which they are affected by adblocking and to display advertising to adblockers.PageFair is the global authority on adblocking trends, cited in The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Economist, Advertising Age, and others.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Advise — Advise Freemium is a ground-breaking automated data analytics for CPG solution. Discover how Advise can assist your Revenue Growth Management.
• HealthBeacon — Quality adherence support for your medication needs, contact our HealthBeacon team to discover what service we can provide you and your patients.
• 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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• IDOVEN — Idoven has developed the world’s first AI cardiologist -Willem- that augments both a cardiologist’s and non-cardiology expert clinician’s ability to identify, triage and diagnose patients at scale through APIs. The company counts clients such as AstraZeneca, Abbott, Novartis, GE Healthcare, FIFPRO, Google, Santander and Real Madrid Foundation.Idoven is backed by top-tier investors and business angels including Insight Partners, Northzone and Wayra (Telefónica), Iker Casillas, Pau Gasol, the Accel Starters program, EIC Accelerator, Horizon 2020, ERC and EIT Health. The company has been awarded with numerous distinctions for its AI technology in Europe and the US, including the the European Seal of Excellence 3x from the European Commission, granted by Horizon 2020, European Research Council ERC 2x (RIA) Europe’s most prestigious research grant, supporting excellent researchers in carrying out ground-breaking, high-risk, high-gain, frontier research projects, EIC Accelerator, and EIT Health. Idoven was ranked #1 Spanish HealthTech company in 2020 by NEOTEC. Idoven has been Google for Startups Resident at Google Campus Madrid and part of the Google for Startups Global Alumni Program. The company has won the prize Emprendedor XXI from CaixaBank, the Healthy Longevity Catalyst Award from the U.S. National Academy of Medicine, and has been awarded at South Summit 2021 as the Most Disruptive Startup, and Best Health and Wellbeing Startup. Selected by CB Insights as one of the top 150 global companies in Digital Health for 2022, and top 50 global companies in Digital Health for 2023. Idoven was recognized by TIME Magazine as one of the World's Top HealthTech Companies of 2025.
• Noah Labs — A breakthrough for heart failure: Noah Labs Ark is a Class IIa Medical Device Software with AI-driven detection of early cardiac decompensation through voice.
• Trak — Trak is a software tool for healthcare professional to provide AI-based tele-rehabilitation services like physiotherapy and others.

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• 15toGO — 15toGO is a social travel app that allows users to find like-minded people according to the interests that they share. Together, they can book organized trips directly through the app’s marketplace. One of the first 15 people to book certain promo trips (called GO Deals) can go on them for free.

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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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• KEWAZO — The Startup KEWAZO offers LIFTBOT, a robotic material hoist which transports scaffolding parts on construction and industrial sites.
• Carecubes — Carecubes develops medical-grade isolation technology that helps caregivers respond to pandemics in a calm and caring manner.
• Manna Air Delivery — Drone delivery made simple

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• Fin — Fin is the Customer Agent company delivering perfect customer experiences.
• Boxever — Learn about how a CDP can increase conversion rates and improve customer loyalty.
• MicksGarage — MicksGarage.com is the largest online retailer with over 10 million of car parts and car accessories listed for any car make or model. From braking parts to car care, service parts, roof racks, to...

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• PRM Assist — PRM Assist provides tools to book and organize airport assistance services

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• Rove — Rove has developed a cloud-based software platform that allows consumers to book adventure travel experiences and facilitates industry partners in growing ancillary revenues from tourism activities.

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• Coras — Coras is changing the way tickets are sold online. Our platform lets customers buy tickets for any event or activity, through websites they already use.

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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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• TripAdmit — Boost tips and reviews with TipDirect by TripAdmit, a digital tipping software for cashless tips and seamless review collection.

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• Astronome AI — Astronome AI is a company that provides streamlined IT management for SMEs, powered by AI.
• Electric Sheep — Electric Sheep offers an AI-powered agentic video editor and VFX platform, streamlining content creation and post-production. Generate, edit, and enhance videos with advanced AI tools for filmmakers and creators.
• NeuWave Technologies — NeuWave Technologies delivers environmental analysis for floating offshore wind farm development and operational management.

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• Umba — With an Umba account, you have everything you need from your bank. Spend, pay bills, get loans, and cashback all from your phone.
• Payslip — Payslip is a Global Payroll Management Platform, leveraging AI-powered automation to harmonize payroll operations for multinational organizations.
• Iconic Translation Machines — Iconic Translation Machines is a language technology software company. Iconic specialises in developing best-in-class Neural Machine Translation solutions.

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• Payhawk — Payhawk is a spending software that simplifies expenses, payments, and card spending for growing businesses. The company's platform enables financial officers and business owners to manage the entire spending lifecycle end-to-end. It collects and analyzes receipts, invoices, and card transactions to help stay in control of the budget with nopaperwork for the employees. With its paperless corporate card linked to an automated expense management, Payhawk provides a product on top of existing banks.Payhawk was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in London, England.
• Reloyalty — We turn every bank card in Europe into a loyalty card. Reloyalty is a fully automated and personalised loyalty platform on top of card payments leveraging Open Banking / PSD2. We enable users to connect existing bank cards to Reloyalty and unlock 10-50% in reward value from their every day shopping. Participating retailers and banks can getaccess to data about their most valuable customers based on purchasing patterns and launch loyalty campaigns with measurable ROI.Reloyalty was founded with the goal of helping businesses identify their most passionate customers and helping those people get treated as such. They believe that the their relationship with the places where they shop, eat and meet with people are more than transactional.
• UPPER — Upper enables start-ups, businesses, and organizations to find and hire quality tech talent to work full-time, part-time, or hourly

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• Framer — Go from idea to launch with an agent that designs and builds on the canvas. Keep each change editable, with hosting, security, analytics, CMS, and SEO built in.
• CityMall — CityMall is a social e-commerce venture, backed by Elevation Capital, aiming to help the 200-300 million new to Internet users realize the power of Internet
• FirstClub — FirstClub's mission is to become a rapid commerce-first omnichannel retailer that uses offline experience stores to promote the quality of its items. FirstClub's goal is to create a platform that serves customers and offers brands a unique opportunity to connect with affluent homes.

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• The Freebird Club — The Freebird Club is a travel-based social network for older adults. It will operate as a peer-to-peer social travel and homestay club which offers a whole new way of travelling for older adults, a means to unlock some of the asset value of their homes and earn an income, and a fun and accessible way to meet new people and enjoy social and culturalinteraction in later life.

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• 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

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• Edify Systems — The Human-First AI platform for multi-site food and beverage operators. Tighter margins, less waste, more time on the floor.
• Grateful — Grateful provides cashless tipping and trunk management software that integrates QR/NFC, EPOS systems, and compliance reporting.
• Resurrect Bio — Resurrect Bio is a disease resistance trait discovery company. Using AI and our high-throughput in planta screening platform we provide traits for breeders.

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• CropBiome — CropBiome is an agricultural biotechnology company. It specializes in developing beneficial microbial products to support sustainable and regenerative
• TripAdmit — Boost tips and reviews with TipDirect by TripAdmit, a digital tipping software for cashless tips and seamless review collection.
• 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.

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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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• Axe — AI phone agents that handle millions of calls. Build and manage voice, email, and chat agents.
• 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.
• Pundit Arena — Pundit Arena has created one of Europe's fastest growing sports publishing platforms that allows the mass creation of quality content across all sports throughout the world.Pundit Arena is revenue generating, and enables sports bloggers, writers and fans to monetise their work through Pundit Arena's unique revenue sharing model. The‘pundits’ write about topics and sports they are passionate about and publish their content through our web platform.This results in Pundit Arena ('PA') delivering unique and thought-provoking content to sports fans. Pundit Arena is essentially an online sports broadsheet powered by the sporting public.PA enables writers to earn money for their content through the revenue generated from both advertising and content syndication. Payment is issued to the site’s top writers in each category according to the highest performing articles in a unique Paid User Generated Media (PUGM) system. titled the ‘Hit List’.

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• Lob — Lob provides direct mail and address verification APIs that allow businesses to send timely, personalized, automated offline communications to their customers.
• Jibe — ICIMS is a leading talent acquisition platform offering AI-powered applicant tracking, candidate engagement, onboarding, employer branding, and career site software to help organizations hire top talent at scale.
• Partnerware — Partnerware maximizes speed-to-market™ for channel-focused companies with the leading B2B Partner Relationship Management (PRM) solution, delivering measurable channel results in Internet time. As a multi-channel sales approach becomes critical in delivering value-added solutions to the marketplace, the need for PRM has grown dramatically.Partnerware provides distinct benefits for companies looking to leverage the power of indirect - Faster channel execution (from channel recruiting to product launches)- Measurable results from partner programs, channel marketing funds, and partner sales efforts- Increased market responsiveness to leap frog and stay ahead of competition- Easy implementation by deploying Web-based Partner Relationship Management solutions in Internet time

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• Tixr — More than ticketing. An experiential commerce partner leveraging unique technology to redefine the fan experience and evolve the way large-scale event creators do business.
• Ballers — Ballers is a wellness and fitness company.
• Vend Park — Unlock the true value of your parking asset with a fully digital parking access and revenue control system

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• BiaSol — Family-owned food start-up driven by the need for innovative food solutions. Our goal is simple: create taste, reduce waste. @biasolfoods -Ireland's 30 Under 30
• 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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• Boxever — Learn about how a CDP can increase conversion rates and improve customer loyalty.
• PropelAd — PropelAd is an e-commerce marketing automation solution that shows how shoppers behave and convert that knowledge into increased sales. It uses web and emails first-party data to power lifecycle remarketing campaigns for brands and online retailers. Target browsers who abandoned carts, engaged visitors, unengaged visitors, specific product viewersor nurture your current customers with ease. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

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• Meeow — Meeow is an AI-powered video networking platform.
• Rove — Rove has developed a cloud-based software platform that allows consumers to book adventure travel experiences and facilitates industry partners in growing ancillary revenues from tourism activities.
• Simply Get Results — Simply gives you user-friendly tools to identify the skills you need, the skills you have, close skill gaps and future-proof your workforce.