Top 20 Wellness Startup Investors in Ireland in January 2026
A list of 20 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Wellness startups based in Ireland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Wellness companies from Ireland. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Wellness Startup Investors in Ireland in January 2026
| Investor | Wellness Ireland investments |
|---|---|
| SOSV | 3 |
| Enterprise Ireland | 3 |
| Venturewave Capital | 2 |
| Delta Partners | 2 |
| E15 VC | 2 |
| Business Venture Partners | 1 |
| Touker Suleyman | 1 |
| Atlantic Bridge | 1 |
| NDRC | 1 |
| Sara Davies | 1 |
| ResMed | 1 |
| Dan Ryan | 1 |
| Chris Russell | 1 |
| Danny Hughes | 1 |
| HBAN | 1 |
| Con Lehane | 1 |
| Tej Lalvani | 1 |
| Meg Lustman | 1 |
| Ascentifi | 1 |
| Kernel Capital | 1 |
SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates.
HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
- unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
- Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
Enterprise Ireland is the government agency responsible for the development and funding of the indigenous business sector. Their mission is to accelerate the development of companies to achieve strong positions in global markets resulting in increased national and regional prosperity.
It was founded in 1998 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Orreco — Orreco Their mission is to deliver a cutting edge biomarker program to optimise player performance, recovery and welfare. A tailored biomarker program can optimise player health and welfare and use sports science resources to target key or “at risk” players which will lead to increased player availability. Tailoring of recovery and playermanagement strategies to individuals’ own biomarker profiles backs up decision making processes with data giving your team an informed recovery strategy.
- Scurri — Scurri is next generation delivery management software that puts retailers back in control. Explore our delivery management software today.
- Leapifai — Boost productivity and minimise compliance risks with Leapifai tax assistant. Try it today!
VentureWave Capital is an actively managed private equity group that invests in and builds great companies.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Education, E-Commerce
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Ireland, Egypt, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- XOCEAN — Using unmanned surface vessels (USVs), XOCEAN offers turnkey data collection services to Surveyors, Companies and Agencies.
- Funderbeam — Funderbeam is a funding and trading platform that connects companies and investors to buy and sell equity stakes. The platform allows the founders to gain exposure, legal support, a funding manager, or an investor network. It also allows the investors to take control of their investments and trade anytime they want.The company was founded in 2013as a global data platform for startup companies.
- iSchool — iSchool is teaching kids from 6 to 18 years old coding and artificial intelligence using STEM-based curriculums.
Early stage VC investments and funding for start-ups / founders in Ireland.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Imvizar — Transform your buildings, office spaces, visitor attractions, and parks with an immersive and visual storytelling experience using augmented reality. Discover unique ways to tell your story at Imvizar.
- ZeroMission — ZeroMission is an electromobility and lead innovator in software development, and power-energy infrastructure.ZeroMission offers fleet management software to businesses that own and operate fleets of commercial electric vehicles (EVs).
- MarketSizer — MarketSizer offers subscription-based competitive intelligence and market insights for SaaS vendors who want to strategically grow their business.
E15 VC is a Hong Kong-based venture capital firm specializing in global deep-tech investments.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Medical, Robotics
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Fluent Metal — Fluent Metal is a company that makes metal 3D printing economical, efficient, and safe.
- Frankie Health — Unmind is the leading workplace wellbeing platform, on a mission to create mentally healthy workplaces where employees can flourish.
- Eikon Therapeutics — Eikon Therapeutics is a drug discovery and development company that leverages super-resolution microscopy as well as the latest advances in biology, chemistry, engineering, and automation toward the goal of discovering and inventing innovative therapies that will improve and extend life.
Business Venture Partners was founded in 2004 as a corporate finance adviser for SME/owner managed businesses. The investment team is comprised of Elliott Griffin, Ronan Smith, Edel Coen and Mark Ruane and the team skills combine deep industry knowledge with experience in venture investing, corporate finance and international expansion. Theteam works on behalf of its clients buying and selling companies, raising finances, working with start-ups and advising on strategic growth, business succession and owner exits.Since 2007, BVP has successfully raised and managed 10 Simple Green BES and EII Funds. They have invested, on behalf of their investors, in some of Ireland’s most innovative companies such as Celtic Bioenergy, EFT Controls, and UrbanVolt. Our investment strategy is to spread investments over project finance and a portfolio of high potential companies. Their philosophy is to work hard with each investment to deliver valuable support for the company promoters and build shareholder value for their investors.In 2016 BVP launched The 10th BVP Green EII Fund. The fund provides eligible investors with the opportunity to avail of up to 40% income tax relief and provides the investor access to a portfolio of cleantech companies and renewable energy projects. The 11th Green Fund will be launched in Q4 2017.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Information Technology, Medical
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Ireland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- OOHPod — OOHPod, your new Out Of Home Flexible Address, will revolutionise the way you send and receive parcels
- Advise — Advise Freemium is a ground-breaking automated data analytics for CPG solution. Discover how Advise can assist your Revenue Growth Management.
- Positive Carbon — Positive Carbon provides an innovative solution for businesses to track, manage, and reduce food waste. With real-time analytics, CO2 calculation, and a comprehensive learning platform, we help you save costs and achieve sustainability goals. Request a demo today to start making a positive environmental impact.
Touker Suleyman is a multi-millionaire Turkish Cypriot fashion retail entrepreneur and investor. In 2001, his company Low Profile Group purchased UK shirt maker Hawes & Curtis, and in 2008 he purchased UK fashion label Ghost. More recently, he has invested in a number of start-up companies including Bikesoup and Huxley & Cox.
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Investment focus
- CRM, Digital Media, Advertising Platforms
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Mood Bears — Mood Bears provides comfort, connection, and care through designed bears, each symbolizing an emotion or mood to promote mental health.
- Tiny Explorers — Discover Tiny Explorers' eco-friendly baby equipment rental across the UK Convenient, sustainable & hassle-free solutions for busy families!
Atlantic Bridge is a Growth Equity Firm with a Cross Border Value Add strategy. We invest in deep technology companies in Europe and the US. Our team is made up of successful entrepreneurs and senior technology industry executives and we invest in strong ambitious entrepreneurs and management teams that have the passion and drive to scale up andexploit major growth opportunities. We help our portfolio companies expand and grow internationally through our global platform with our team and offices in London, Dublin, Munich, Paris and Palo Alto.Atlantic Bridge brings together a unique team of technology entrepreneurs, experienced managers, finance professionals, and investment experts. The team contains a wealth of international business experience across Europe, the UK and the US. They have worked together in various capacities for the last 30 years, bringing a true partnership approach to their firm and their investments. Its investors include the founders, leading institutional investors, and private investors with a track record of investment in successful technology companies.Atlantic Bridge has developed a unique and differentiated strategy that focuses on specific technology themes and the implementation of the “Atlantic Bridge Model” for scaling companies internationally. The “Bridge Model” accelerates the scale-up of technology companies in Europe and the US. This approach is highly differentiated and has delivered strong performance results to date.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- United States, Ireland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- SOC Prime — SOC Prime is the only Threat Detection Marketplace where researchers monetize their content to help security teams defend against attacks faster and more efficiently than ever. Powered by its Detection as Code platform, SOC Prime curates the most up-to-date Sigma-based threat detection content from over 300 researchers and natively delivers it viasubscription to 20+ SIEM and XDR platforms at more than 6,000 enterprises, governments and MDRs worldwide.
- Insight Terra — Insight Terra supports data driven risk management in critical situations where business operations, people and the environment all come together.
- Output Sports — Discover Output's portable and affordable athlete testing and tracking device. Measure strength, power and speed in minutes giving accurate and reliable data.
NDRC builds high-impact new ventures. By providing the people, time, space and investment needed at the earliest stages of dedicated commercialisation work, NDRC is creating companies worthy of commercial investment and with the ability to scale. The NDRC team has the breadth of knowledge and expertise in technology and markets. NDRC worksside-by-side with researchers, entrepreneurs and venture teams to turn great ideas into successful new ventures.By the end of 2014, NDRC’s portfolio of startup ventures had secured a cumulative €88m in follow-on investment from commercial investors, with a combined market capitalisation of approx. €220m.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 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
Sara Davies
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Investment focus
- Retail, Fashion, FinTech
- Angel
- Ireland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Sibstar — Empowering vulnerable people to spend safely, free from scams, overspending and addiction relapse
- Mood Bears — Mood Bears provides comfort, connection, and care through designed bears, each symbolizing an emotion or mood to promote mental health.
- Tiny Explorers — Discover Tiny Explorers' eco-friendly baby equipment rental across the UK Convenient, sustainable & hassle-free solutions for busy families!
At ResMed we pioneer innovative solutions that treat and keep people out of the hospital, empowering them to live healthier, higher-quality lives. Our digital health technologies and cloud-connected medical devices transform care for people with sleep apnea, COPD, and other chronic diseases. Our comprehensive out-of-hospital software platformssupport the professionals and caregivers who help people stay healthy in the home or care setting of their choice. By enabling better care, we improve quality of life, reduce the impact of chronic disease, and lower costs for consumers and healthcare systems in more than 140 countries.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
- Funding Round, Seed, Grant
- United States, Ireland, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Medihive — Medihive offers digital healthcare solutions designed to enhance patient care, streamline healthcare operations, and improve outcomes.
- curie ai — We are a virtual respiratory practice that makes it easy to provide personalized disease management and life-saving care, all while reducing costs.
- Noctrix Health — Noctrix Health is an early-stage medical device company that focuses on developing a revolutionary therapy for a chronic illness.
Dan Ryan is the Chief Operating Officer of Kokoro Zenwear and Commercial Director at Peachylean.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Fashion, Fitness
- Angel
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Chris Russell, CEO of the Waterford-based marketing company Thimba.
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Investment focus
- Wellness, Health Care, Therapeutics
- Pre-Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Fettle — Fettle connects qualified therapists to those seeking professional counseling for issues such as anxiety, grief, and trauma.
Danny Hughes is the Group Chief Executive Officer of Fastway Ireland. Danny attended UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School.
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- Software, Wellness, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
HBAN is dedicated to raising the profile of business angel investment as an asset class on the island of Ireland and to promote the creation of business angel syndicates.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Medical Device
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
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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.
- Movetru — Movetru a wearable device that aims to reduce injury and enhance rehabilitation.
- Change by Degrees — Change by degrees supports individuals and organizations in developing sustainable competencies and gaining self-assurance to achieve sustainability goals, expand their businesses, and adhere to legal requirements.
Con Lehane, CEO, Zevas Communications Inc.
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Investment focus
- Wellness, Health Care, Therapeutics
- Pre-Seed
- Ireland
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- Fettle — Fettle connects qualified therapists to those seeking professional counseling for issues such as anxiety, grief, and trauma.
Tej Lalvani is the CEO of Vitabiotics.
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- Fashion, Advertising, Beauty
- Angel, Seed
- India, Ireland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Meg Lustman is the former chief executive of Hobbs London.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Fashion, Fitness
- Angel
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- 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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- Medical, Health Care, Medical Device
- Funding Round, Series A
- Ireland
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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
- Vertigenius — Enhance patient care and treatment options for vertigo and dizziness with Vertigenius, enabling effective management and improved outcomes for your patients.
- X-BOLT Orthapaedics — X-Bolt Trauma Solutions for osteoporotic bone fixation. FDA 510(k) approved. Clinical studies include the WHITE One (n=100) and WHITE Four (n=1,140) randomized control trials.
Kernel Capital is the independent manager of The Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Venture Funds, one of the largest and most active sources of equity finance on the island of Ireland. Kernel leverage their extensive network to enable their portfolio companies recruit the highest caliber people, to break into new international markets and to generaterevenues of scale. It is the only investment firm with venture capital Funds dedicated to both jurisdictions on the Island. Kernel have raised over €210M from investors which including their strategic partner Bank of Ireland, Invest NI, Enterprise Ireland, Galway University Foundation, The University of Limerick Foundation, The New York State Common Retirement Fund and undisclosed Family Offices. Consistently delivering strong financial returns for their investors Kernel have led more than 20 substantial trade sales to NASDAQ, NYSE, and LSE listed corporations.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Ireland, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Cirdan — Cirdan provides highly reliable, innovative LIS & imaging solutions for the acceleration & enhancement of diagnosis, optimized for pathology & clinical lab.
- Pretto — Pretto is the only truly transparent online real estate price comparator.Pretto accompanies you until the signing of your loan, free of charge and without commitment.
- Pilot Photonics — Welcome to Pilot Photonics, a laser product development company in Dublin, Ireland. We provide optical frequency combs and tunable lasers.
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