Top 20 Video Games Startup Investors in Ireland (October 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.
• 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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• 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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• 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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• Halla — Halla Intelligence is a digital solution that leverages over 100 billion shopper and product data points to recommend and promote what grocery items.
• Simply Good Jars — Simply Good Jars is a B-Corp company that delivers healthy meals in reusable + returnable packaging through use of smart refrigerated kiosks placed in offices, transit centers, universities and health-systems. Driven by purpose to change that way people think about consumption, SGJ introduces sustainable business practices into their everydayoperations with a zero-waste goal. For every jar returned back to the company for reuse, they will help feed someone in need and ensure that no packaging materials end up in landfills.
• Verdex Technologies — Verdex Technologies is an advanced materials platform technology that uses nanofibers to disrupt industries. Verdex doesn't just compete, it innovates and disrupts.

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• VaultN — VaultN's smart distribution platform enables automated self-service distribution of game keys, digital assets, and more. Unlock efficiency, secure revenue, and scale with confidence.
• Rule — Rule is a fintech startup building a ‘save-to-win’ mobile game to combat the ‘ADHD tax’.
• Minit Games — Thousands of games in one feed, new ones every day. Tap one and you're playing.

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• 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
• BeCertain — BeCertain revolutionizes dental diagnostics with AI-powered tools for X-ray analysis, improving precision and reducing diagnostic errors.

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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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• Umba — With an Umba account, you have everything you need from your bank. Spend, pay bills, get loans, and cashback all from your phone.
• Vela Games — We are an ambitious and independent development studio, creating engaging, co-operative games that put players first. We strive to create service based games for enthusiast gamers that deliver genre-defining experiences. Based in Dublin and made up of industry veterans and passionate gamers, we are in the early phases of our first unannouncedoriginal IP project in the multiplayer space. Vela is a constellation in the Southern Hemisphere that forms the sails of Argo Navis, the legendary ship that carried Jason and the Argonauts on their journey to retrieve the Golden Fleece. For us it represents the astronomical journey they are on, but more importantly it reminds us how they can build extraordinary things and forge legends by coming together. Whether it’s stars in the night sky, a team working to create something new, or players overcoming epic challenges, together they can shine brighter.At Vela they love games of every type, but they know that multiplayer, when done well, has a special ability to bring people together. Unforgettable moments are created through the power of playing together. It allows players to keep in touch with old friends regardless of distance, and to forge new friendships that will last lifetimes. Vela was created with these moments in mind, and their focus every day is thinking about how they can create impactful gaming experiences that inspire gamers around the world to play and win together.
• GAN — SEGA SAMMY CREATION is a gaming machine manufacturer that utilizes its wealth of creativity, entertainment experience and technology to produce products that offer new and exciting experiences. With these products we look to surpass anything seen thus far and breathe new life into the global gaming market.

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• GameX — GameX is an award winning recommendation engine for the gaming industry.GameX is the first company to connect the data of the 4 segments of the gaming industry - Mobile, Console, Handheld and PC.By doing this, GameX.io can learn exactly what type of game a gamer should play next. This is done by the GameX recommendation engine analysingthings such as previous game achievements, in game time spent, money spent on games, social media interaction and even hardware requirements.Combining these and hundreds of other factors. GameX can guarantee that the recommendations provided are the best out there.GameX can even cross recommend. This means that it can look at a console history and recommend mobile games, or an xbox history and recommend PC games. This has never been done before.GameX can also recommend the best gamers to connect with, the most interested developers to follow. It even gives personal analytics into the gamers own personal persona.Releasing the open alpha on the 22/09/2016. GameX has already seen over 50,000 signups for its alpha in the space of 8 weeks.
• Skmmp — SKMMP is a centralised digital wholesale platform enabling RTW Fashion Designers and Brands transact their wholesale orders with high end global Retailers. We offer retailers a 24/7 showroom for brand discovery, fashion week appointment scheduling, order documentation and realtime data on inventory orders and deliveries. For designers SKMMPoffers a 24/7 showroom enabling remote access to view, browse collections and place orders, buyer visibility via SKMMP's 20 years industry relations and efficiency for more established brands scaling sales volume into existing and new territories.
• KinetikIQ — KinetikIQ specializes in advanced motion capture systems that focus on athletic performance and health monitoring. Their products provide real-time analysis of movement, allowing athletes and coaches to understand biomechanics and improve training. KinetikIQ's motion capture solutions track and analyze movements with precision, offeringinsights into performance metrics. The platform includes data analysis tools that help users identify strengths and weaknesses, facilitating the creation of personalized training programs. Additionally, KinetikIQ offers training solutions that incorporate motion capture data into practice sessions to support skill development and injury prevention. Their technology also provides health insights to help athletes monitor their physical condition and recovery. KinetikIQ aims to support athletes in various sports with data-driven insights and training methodologies.

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• Blade Bridge — Blade Bridge offers a suite of tools that accelerate data projects for SI's and product vendors.
• Travella — Travella is a peer-to-peer logistics platform which reduces logistics cost for SMEs leveraging a registered network of individual travelers.Our platform leverages a registered and verified network of travelers to help businesses and individuals send packages across a long distance at a low-cost. Travella makes cheap and same day deliverypossible by matching travelers heading to a destination with packages that are meant to be delivered to the same destination. We are making low costs possible by creating a competitive bidding and bargain system for travelers to pickup packages that are heading to the same destination as theirs.This innovative approach has made it possible for us to have a mobile application that serves the logistic need of package senders and also create the possibility for individual travelers to make extra cash while traveling.
• Silvermine Studios — A new Games Dev/Creative Media service provider studio, based in Cork, Ireland.

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• Fly.io — Build fast. Run any code fearlessly.
• Biolevate — Elevate human : Accelerating life sciences, empowering people
• Flow Engineering — Flow is the agentic systems engineering platform for the companies building the physical world. Next-gen hardware teams use Flow as their default platform to design, build, and iterate on hardware faster without sacrificing engineering rigor. Today, thousands of engineers at companies including Rivian, Stoke Space, Joby, Astranis, and Radiant are building on Flow. Flow gives these teams a living system of record that connects requirements, CAD, simulation, code, and test. On top of this system of record, Flow's agents continuously analyze engineering changes, identify downstream impact, and verify requirements and test coverage — so work stays aligned across the tools engineers already use.

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• Hop Aero — Hop Aero develops hypersonic rocket cargo systems that provide rapid point-to-point delivery across long distances. The company focuses on rocket cargo vehicles designed to transport supplies to austere and contested locations within minutes. Its systems aim to support logistics operations that require fast response times and resilient supply chains. Hop Aero positions its technology as part of a broader physical internet concept, enabling high-speed movement of physical goods similar to data on the internet. The company targets users that need time-critical delivery capabilities in challenging operational environments.
• Wayco — Wayco offers AI software that automates client intake and case workflows for law firms using voice and referral intelligence processing.
• Edgerun — Edgerun Industries builds military exoskeletons. Backed by Y Combinator with active development across the U.S. and international partners.

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• dimply — The experience & engagement platform for financial enterprises.
• Kinzen — Kinzen's blend of human skill and scalable technology enables trust and safety professionals and policy makers to get ahead of emerging threats, detect policy violations faster and take the proportionate and appropriate action.
• Cohort — Cohort helps its users find the people they need through the people they already know through social media. Cohort is an Ireland-based company that was founded in 2015 by Eamon Leonard.

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• Numan — Convenient care, tailored to you. Offering treatments for weight loss, diagnostics, erectile dysfunction, hair loss, and more.
• Nord Security — Nord Security is the leader in the field of online privacy and security. Our security tools have earned praise from respected experts and tech outlets.
• Steel City Interactive — Steel City Interactive develops gaming.

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• Cometh — Embedded Account Abtraction wallets, NFT checkout, marketplace: Web3 is Made Simple & Secure with Cometh
• Gadsme — Gadsme enables brands to reach gaming audiences through immersive in-game advertising integrated directly into gameplay across mobile, PC and console games.
• Sequence — Sequence is the modular crypto infrastructure stack that unifies wallets, 1-click cross-chain payments, and real-time data layers across EVMs.

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• Almetra — We use computer vision and AI analytics to provide insights into manual assembly processes - our platform supports process engineers in driving productivity and quality of assembly processes
• Embedd — Chips modelled as digital twins. Software, tests and simulations generated for any target.
• Veridion — Veridion is a living digital replica of the business world. Decision-grade data for enterprise scale systems

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• Outlier Games — Outlier is an independent video games development studio, creators of Kitman, Mars Attracts and This Means Warp

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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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• Novus Diagnostics — Sepsis causing pathogen diagnostics under 15 minutes
• Deciphex — Deciphex - Transforming Digital Pathology - we are focussed on the development of applications for clinical and veterinary pathology that improve productivity
• Vertigenius — Vertigenius designs and deploys customized exercises using an easy-to-use clinician portal and even uses a Vertigenius head sensor to consult and manage patients with dizziness and imbalance.

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• Movetru — Movetru a wearable device that aims to reduce injury and enhance rehabilitation.
• Glitch Ads — GlitchAds intends to democratize advertising by "leveraging" adverts and artificial intelligence.
• Change by Degrees — Change by Degrees is closed. While our purpose is to give every person on the planet sustainability as a superpower, policy changes at European level and