While the overall venture capital market is challenging, promising young companies are still attracting investor interest.
In recent weeks we looked at some of the Irish tech titans that have raised mega rounds. This week we are looking at some of the early-stage players who will eventually be the next crop of tech titans to follow.
Ireland’s start-up ecosystem continues to produce ambitious companies tackling challenges in AI, healthcare, climate technology, accessibility and fintech. While venture capital markets remain challenging, investors are still backing founders with strong technologies, clear market opportunities and international growth ambitions.
Across Ireland, entrepreneurs are emerging from universities, research centres and industry to develop solutions that address real-world problems. Many are already attracting investment, securing customers and expanding overseas.
The companies featured here represent some of the most promising early-stage disruptors on the island of Ireland, offering a snapshot of the innovations and founders shaping the next generation of Irish business success.
AICertified
AI Certified was founded by Ian Dodson, the education entrepreneur who co-created the Digital Marketing Institute in 2008 and helped turn it into an international certification standard adopted across more than 80 countries.
Dodson, who authored The Art of Digital Marketing, has been a prominent voice on digital skills development and the evolving role of education in the workplace. He remained on the board of the Digital Marketing Institute following its 2017 acquisition by Spectrum Equity until its sale to BPP Education Group in 2023.
The new venture aims to apply a similar model to artificial intelligence by creating a university-accredited and industry-validated framework aligned with the European Qualifications Framework.
In January 2026 the business raised €1 million in seed funding, backed by Oyster Capital with support from Enterprise Ireland.
AMPLY Discovery
AMPLY Discovery is a Queen’s University Belfast spin-out using AI to accelerate antimicrobial drug discovery.
Founded by computational biology scientists Dr Ben Thomas, Dermot Tierney and Prof Chris Creevey, AMPLY RAISED $1.75mthis year to accelerate the development of its discovery programmes through the pre-clinical stage.
Its AMPLYfolio platform mines natural genomic diversity, applies machine learning to identify therapeutic candidates, and validates molecules for use in cancer, antimicrobial resistance and other high-impact diseases. The company raised $1.75m in seed funding in 2025 and secured €1.6m in Innovate UK grants for antimicrobial and oncology research.
ArrayPatch
ArrayPatch is a spin-out from UCC that develops next-generation microneedle-based therapeutics and was shortlisted as a national finalist for the 2026 KPMG Global Tech Innovator competition.
A €1.6 million funding round supports the clinical advancement of its minimally-invasive delivery system, which treats localised conditions, such as fungal nail and skin infections, with greater efficacy and minimal systemic side effects.
A new collaboration between Research Ireland’s Rinn Pharma & Biopharma (RP&B) and Cork-based biotech spin-out ArrayPatch will focus on developing a novel skin cancer treatment using a patented dissolvable microneedle platform.
Arigna Fuels
Roscommon-based Arigna Fuels develops advanced clean-energy and biochar products by converting sustainable biomass into renewable, smokeless domestic and industrial solid fuels.
Backed by €800k in development funding from the Western Development Commission and private co-investors, the business has successfully transitioned away from traditional coal, commercialising sustainable torrefied biomass alternatives that lower carbon emissions and sequester carbon through agricultural biochar solutions.
Last year the business secured a €1.2 million deal with Aldi Ireland to stock its Harvest Flame product across 165 stores nationwide.
Assiduous
In April Dublin fintech Assiduous secured €1m in funding as it launched its Corporate Finance Autopilot platform.
NovaUCD-based Assiduous, operating since 2023, is a team of capital markets professionals and technologists dedicated to helping business owners progressively build valuable businesses and achieve financial independence.
Its Corporate Finance Autopilot is a virtual corporate finance service-as-a-software solution, enabled by the latest AI advances, bridges the gap between business owners and capital markets. The platform supports small and medium sized companies preparing for strategic, financing and liquidity transactions with a whole of lifecycle approach.
Assiduous was founded by experienced investment bankers Fergal Meegan and Barry Murphy and is headquartered at NovaUCD in Dublin.
Barespace
Last year Dublin-based software company Barespace has secured €2.9m in seed funding to accelerate the rollout of its AI-powered operating system for salons and barbershops across the UK and continental Europe.
Barespace was founded in 2022 by Conor Moules and Glenn McGoldrick, both of whom began their careers in the beauty industry.
Moules started as a teenage apprentice in a Dublin salon, while McGoldrick spent over a decade scaling a men’s hairdressing brand across seven countries. Their experience led them to develop a platform designed to help salons grow sustainably by streamlining operations and improving profitability.
Barespace provides an integrated software platform for the beauty industry, combining scheduling, payments, resource planning, marketing and analytics. The company says its system saves salon owners approximately 10 hours of manual work per week and eliminates third-party transaction fees through built-in payment processing.
Bluedrop Medical
Earlier this year, Bluedrop Medical secured $1.2 million in funding from Enterprise Ireland. The business previously raised $12.4 million in 2023.
Bluedrop has developed a device which diabetic patients use to scan their feet at home. This scan is then uploaded to the cloud and checked by AI to see if they are at risk of developing a diabetic foot ulcer, which if left unchecked can lead to amputation. Amputations caused by this have increased in Ireland by 45% in the last decade.
Bluedrop Medical was founded by Chris Murphy and Simon Kiersey in 2015 to reduce the rate of preventable amputations for people afflicted with diabetes. Across the US and Europe, more than 250,000 amputations associated with diabetes occur each year, resulting in healthcare costs of over €30bn.
Biomarx
Biomarx is a Belfast-based biotech start-up that is developing automated, low-cost, genomic testing platforms for rapid cancer diagnostics, starting with non-small cell lung cancer.
Founded in 2025 by Sean Macfarlane, the business secured £700,000 in pre-seed funding from SFC Capital and Clarendon Fund Managers, with support from Techstart Ventures, the University of Strathclyde, angel investors and the InterTradeIreland Seedcorn competition.
The goal is to transition from a proof-of-concept to a commercial product, pursue iSO 13485 medical device accreditation and run preliminary clinical studies.
ByoWave
Galway-based ByoWave raised €1.5 million in 2024 in a round backed by the Western Development Commission and the Halo Business Angel Network (HBAN), bringing funding raised over multiple rounds to approximately €4.5 million.
The business has engineered customisable controller kits with interchangeable components that enable users to build bespoke controller layouts tailored to their specific mobility needs across PC and console gaming platforms.
The business was founded in 2020 by Brandon Blacoe, an electronics hardware engineer, and Eibhlin O’Riordan, a game designer.
Change by Degrees
In March sustainability skills platform Change by Degrees closed a €700,000 seed funding round.
Change by Degrees was founded by Dr Tara Shine and Madeleine Murray in 2018 and grew over time into a B2B SaaS business. Per-Fredrik Hagermark joined the business in 2024 bringing over 10 years’ experience in sales and online learning from LinkedIn Learning.
“Change by Degrees is committed to building the skills every employee needs to do their job differently and contribute to the sustainability goals of their organisation,” said Dr Tara Shine.
“Sustainability is not the job of one person or department – it requires skills across all functions, from the board to the factory floor, to deliver real change and remain competitive. Our interactive content and tools make it affordable, accessible and fun to upskill everyone.”
DevAlly
DevAlly, a Dublin-based start-up focused on digital accessibility compliance, last year raised €2m in pre-seed funding to expand its team and accelerate its entry into the US market.
Founded in 2024 by Cormac Chisholm (CEO), Patrick Guiney (CRO), and Darren Britton (CTO), DevAlly offers a platform that enables businesses to identify and resolve accessibility issues in digital products without requiring specialist expertise.
The solution integrates directly into developer workflows, providing automated issue detection and step-by-step guidance to ensure compliance with accessibility standards.
DevAlly’s platform is designed to help companies meet new standards like the European Accessibility Act efficiently. It enables rapid auditing and remediation of accessibility issues, reducing the need for costly external audits and allowing teams to maintain compliance throughout the product lifecycle.
FeelTect
Spiddal-based FeelTect is transforming wound care with its “Tight Alright” connected-health technology.
The wearable device monitors sub-bandage pressure during compression therapy for venous leg ulcers (VLUs), improving healing outcomes and reducing treatment costs.
Founded by Dr. Andrew Cameron in 2019, the company recently secured €1.5m in funding from medtech syndicates and the Western Development Commission. This follows a €1.2m round in 2022. The funds will support clinical validation and commercial launch in the US and Europe.
FotoNation
In May Galway-based AI semiconductor company FotoNation closed a Pre-A funding round led by Enterprise Ireland and venture capital firm Silicon Gardens, with participation from a group of angel investors.
The new capital will support the continued development of FotoNation’s TriSilica product, an ultra-low-power perception-AI chip designed for edge devices.
The chip is intended to deliver on-device perception and sensor processing while significantly reducing power consumption and data transfer requirements.
FotoNation was re-established in the third quarter of 2024, bringing together many members of its original engineering and leadership team.
Since then, the company has secured a number of design wins and re-entered the market with a focus on ultra-low-power perceptual AI solutions. The company says the investor support reflects rising demand for dedicated hardware that can process sensor data efficiently at the edge.
GoChallenge
In May, innovative workplace wellness start-up GoChallenge successfully closed an oversubscribed €500,000 pre-seed funding round.
Founded in 2023 by John Barron and Dr Caitriona Mooney, GoChallenge has already gained significant traction with major employers including Three, Red Hat, Gartner, the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU), SIRO, and American Pan.
The company specialises in delivering inclusive, engaging wellness programs designed to energise teams and foster stronger connections in today’s diverse work environments.
Lumenstream
Belfast-based Lumenstream raised €1.4 million in 2025 in a round backed by a local angel investor syndicate as well as Clarendon Fund Managers and Techstart Ventures.
The business has developed a commercial LED lighting-as-a-service model that eliminates upfront capital expenditure for businesses.
The company is led by CEO Alistair Brown and has secured several high-profile customers, including Siemens, Wickes, Oxfam and Ryobi.
Luna Systems
In January this year Luna Systems raised €1.5 million to bring its AI camera safety hardware to the bike market.
Founded in Ireland in 2020 and led by CEO Andrew Fleury and COO Maria Diviney, Luna Systems is a unique blend of 40 years of telematic and smart dash-cam technology experience and PhD-Level computer vision talent.
Its vision is to power e-mobility with the kind of situational awareness tools riders need to feel confident to leave their cars at home.
Luna has until now concentrated on Vision AI safety software for the two-wheeler market. The new funding will support the commercialisation of its Advanced Rider Assistance Systems, which are designed to mirror for bikes the collision-warning and blind-spot detection technologies already common in modern cars.
MARC
Founded by 22 year-old Aaron Devitt, MARC is an Irish artificial intelligence start-up that raised $1 million for its property technology platform.
The business, which was created in 2024 by Devitt, after he set out to build a system that could act as a single source of truth for large landlords who often lack visibility over thousands of service agreements, licences and recurring charges.
MARC has begun securing institutional real estate clients across the United States and Canada as it expands a software platform that automates the management of property contracts and expenses.
MARC’s software deploys AI agents that plug into existing document stores, including email inboxes and SharePoint, to locate and read every vendor contract across an organisation.
The system extracts essential information such as renewal dates, termination rights and fee structures and then compares those terms against monthly invoices. Devitt said this reduces manual work that often takes months to a matter of seconds.
The business has expanded rapidly since launch. What began with Irish property managers handling about 40 units now includes institutional operators in more than 20 US states that each manage between 5,000 and 35,000 residential units. MARC’s customers represent more than $75 billion in combined assets under management.
Mirror Security
Mirror Security, a cybersecurity start-up spun out of University College Dublin, last year raised $2.5 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate development of its encryption platform designed to protect artificial intelligence systems.
Founded by Pankaj Thapa and Dr Aditya Narayana K, the Dublin-based company is tackling one of the most pressing challenges in enterprise AI adoption: safeguarding proprietary data during model training and inference.
Its core technology, VectaX, uses fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) to allow AI systems to process sensitive information without ever decrypting it.
Mirror also announced a multi-million-dollar strategic agreement with Inception AI, part of Abu Dhabi-based G42, to deploy its security stack across Inception’s enterprise and government platforms. Additional partnerships include Intel, MongoDB, Qdrant, SiSys AI and Accops.
Meta-Flux
Dublin-based biotech startup Meta-Flux last year raised $2m in seed funding to expand its AI-powered decision-support platform aimed at improving preclinical drug development.
Meta-Flux, founded by Lee Sherlock and Brendan Martin, is developing a platform that applies biological reasoning to artificial intelligence, integrating data from genes, proteins, and metabolic pathways to help researchers better understand how biological systems function.
The company’s goal is to reduce early-stage drug failure rates by guiding developers toward more targeted and effective applications.
Movetru
Belfast-based Movetru raised €1.4 million in 2025 in a pre-seed funding round from IAG Capital Partners, HBAN, Angel Academe, AwakenAngels, and international angel investors.
The business, which is led by Naomi McGregor, has developed an AI-powered wearable technology that provides real-time biomechanical movement analysis and injury prevention insights to improve athlete performance and rehabilitation.
Neurobell
In June this year Neurobell raised €4.8 million to launch its AI-powered neonatal brain monitor in the US.
NeuroBell was co‑founded by Dr Alison O’Shea, Dr Mark O’Sullivan and Colm Murphy, in 2023. It is focused on developing AI‑enabled neonatal brain monitoring technology.
Neurobell is a medtech company developing neonatal monitoring solutions to detect critical neurological events early, particularly seizures that are difficult to recognize clinically. Its technology aims to provide automated, reliable detection at the cot‑side, enabling faster intervention and improved outcomes. Neurobell collaborates with clinicians to validate accuracy and usability, focusing on integrating into neonatal workflows with minimal disruption.
Mark O’Sullivan, was named Enterprise Ireland’s High Potential Start-Up (HPSU) Founder of the Year for 2025.
Nexus Inclusion
In May Irish tech start-up Nexus Inclusion launched a new digital accessibility platform designed to help organisations improve compliance and better serve users with disabilities, supported by €3.5 million in private investment.
Nexus Inclusion was founded in 2025 by Kyran O’Mahoney, a vision-impaired entrepreneur with a background in senior technology roles at organisations including Ryanair, Dunnes Stores, Vision Ireland and AIB. The company initially secured €2 million in funding and has since raised a further €1.5 million from private investors.
O’Mahoney said the company’s approach focuses on helping organisations not only identify accessibility gaps but also resolve them in a practical way.
Nurture
Nurture is a Limerick-based edtech company founded in 2021 by the team behind JumpAgrade. It provides a digital platform that helps teachers deliver assessments and feedback efficiently. The company raised €1.3 million in seed funding by 2025 and secured a major education deal in Northern Ireland. Nurture embeds pedagogical research into its tools, aiming to improve learning outcomes and teacher workflows. It continues to expand across Ireland and the UK.
Nocomed
Nocomed was co‑founded by Rosemary Durcan and Dónal Adams to help healthcare and life‑sciences organisations measure, report, and reduce supply‑chain emissions.
Built from Dogpatch Labs’ Founders Talent programme, the platform automates data collection and aligns with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol.
With €650k seed funding, Nocomed enables suppliers to build auditable baselines and take practical steps toward meaningful emissions reduction.
ODOS
On a mission to drive sustainability in agri-food, ODOS last year closed a €680,000 funding round led by Capsa Food (Grupo Central Lechera Asturiana), with participation from TTAF by CLAVE and Angels, the investment company of Juan Roig that forms part of Marina de Empresas.
The Dublin-based company is driving climate action in the agri-food sector by simplifying data collection and providing profitable strategies for companies to take action without compromising productivity.
Co-founded by Alejandro Vergara and Cian White, both former researchers, ODOS is a joint University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin spin-out company supported by the knowledge transfer teams at both universities.
Outmin
Last year Outmin, an Irish intelligent bookkeeping start-up that automates financial data production and eliminates manual data entry, raised €4m in a funding round led by Praetura Ventures. Outmin also confirmed the appointment of Feargal O’Rourke, current IDA chair and former managing partner of PwC Ireland, as chair of the board.
Outmin’s AI Bookkeeper automates key financial workflows, including document collection, invoice processing, reconciliation, and reporting. It combines automation with expert oversight to deliver accurate, up-to-date books without increasing headcount.
According to the company, hundreds of businesses currently use the platform, and Outmin has established partnerships with a number of accounting practices.
Output Sports
Last year UCD spin-out Output Sports closed a $4.8m (€4.6m) pre-A funding round as it accelerates its US expansion.
Output Sports was co-founded in 2020 by Dr Martin O’Reilly, Dr Darragh Whelan, Julian Eberle and Professor Brian Caulfield, and currently provides more than 800 sports organisations, including over half of all English Premier League clubs, with the insights needed to make more informed, data-backed decisions to improve athletic performance.
Overpath
Founded in 2025 by Dermot O’Connor and Ross Keating, Dublin-based Overpath is building an AI sales execution platform for revenue teams that spans sales enablement, revenue operations and coaching.
In January 2026 the business raised €1.6 million in a round led by Elkstone and that included AI-focused investment firm Sure Valley Ventures.
Pilot Path Group
Founded by former airline managers including CEO Craig Lancaster, Pilot Path is a Dublin-based start-up that helps student pilots to pay for flight training through flexible payment plans and financing.
An Enterprise Ireland client, it recently raised €410,000 in funding to support an international expansion.
Based at the Guinness Enterprise Centre in Dublin, the business teams up with flight schools to offer students instalment options.
Plate Up
In June Belfast-based recipe technology start-up Plate Up raised close to £500,000 in an oversubscribed funding round, surpassing its original £400,000 target within six weeks.
The company, founded by Bangor native Conor Boyle, aims to simplify home cooking by linking recipes directly to supermarket shopping. Boyle, 42, left a career as a project finance lawyer in 2021 to build the business and initially self-funded its early development.
Plate Up has built up a user base of more than 50,000 registered customers, with over 10,000 monthly active users. The company reports steady growth, with new users joining the platform each month and increasing levels of revenue generation.
Positive Carbon
Founded by Aisling Kirwan and Mark Kirwan, Positive Carbon was founded in 2020 and recently secured investment and support from German venture capital firm APX.
The Roscommon business provides fully automated food waste monitoring for hotels, restaurants and cities.
Through the use of their patent-pending food waste sensors and food detection artificial intelligence, Positive Carbon provides high quality food waste reporting tools to hotels, restaurants and cities to enable them to develop advanced waste reduction strategies which increase their food operations gross profits by 2% to 8%.
PRM Assist
PRM Assist, the Dublin-based aviation technology company that builds software for airport passenger‑assistance operations, earlier this year raised €500,000 in fresh investment to accelerate expansion into new markets and support further product development. The funding round was backed by Enterprise Ireland and tech investor Paul McKeon.
Conor Halpin, co‑founder and director of business development, said the investment marked “a major milestone” for the business.
PRM Assist’s system is designed to replace the manual processes used by airports to manage services for passengers with reduced mobility. Its tools coordinate live tasking, track passenger flows and generate regulatory compliance reports.
The technology is already in use at 15 airports across Europe and the Middle East, and the company is also partnering with airlines to strengthen accessible‑aviation workflows.
Founded in 2021, PRM Assist employs ten people between Dublin and Dubai and plans to increase headcount to fifteen by the end of next year as demand from operators and carriers grows.
Quantum Sports Data (QSD)
Earlier this year QSD raised more than €700,000 in a funding round led by SportsContentCo to target the US sports betting market.
Founded in 2024 by former quant trader and Ryder Cup analyst Dylan Beirne, its core product is advanced hole-level golf analytics.
The business plans to integrate its golf betting products with US operators to coincide with the PGA Tour Season.
Reso Health
An Irish life sciences and health tech start-up based in Waterford, Reso Health is focused on reimagining precision nutrition and employee wellbeing in the workplace.
Co-founded by Ken O’Shea and Dermot O’Riordan, the company is developing proprietary dispensing devices that prepare personalised science-backed supplement drinks based on individual user needs.
The company completed a seed funding round and is supported by Enterprise Ireland and Food Works.
Seapoint
Earlier this year Seapoint, a Dublin fintech founded by former Stripe executives, raised €7.5m in seed funding as it formally launches its product to founders across the UK and Ireland.
Seapoint is an AI powered financial operations platform for venture-backed start-ups.
The raise brings total funding to €10m in just over a year and was led by London based fintech investor 13books, with participation from Frontline Ventures, Tapestry VC and more than 40 angel investors.
Seapoint was founded in January 2025 by Sean Mullaney, former European CIO of Stripe, alongside a team that includes a significant number of Stripe and Tide alumni.
Using AI, Seapoint connects to a company’s existing bank accounts, email and accounting systems to automate tasks such as bookkeeping, expense management, payroll and reporting.
It also offers embedded financial products including multi-currency accounts, payments, cards, treasury and foreign exchange, allowing teams to manage day to day financial operations in one place.
Silicate Carbon
Silicate is an Irish climate tech and Agritech start-up founded in 2021 by Maurice Bryson.
With roots in Sligo and operations in Dublin, the start-up harnesses enhanced rock weathering by returning crushed surplus concrete and mineral dust to agricultural land by forming a stable bicarbonate. This bicarbonate safely washes through the soil into groundwater aquifers and eventually reaches the ocean, locking the carbon away for roughly 100,000 years
The business has raised €1.3 million in funding to date and expects to secure up to €15 million in a major funding round.
Smile Genius Dental
Nipun Kathuria and Dr Mark-Anthony Shepherd co-founded Smile Genius Dental in 2021, a platform for streamlining dental workflows for clinics, DSOs and clear aligner companies, offering a one stop digital solution for the dental industry.
In October 2023 the digital platform for dental treatment Smile Genius Dental raised €200,000 in investment from Enterprise Ireland and private investment company Growing Capital.
This has since grown to €700,000 in seed backing. The start-up helps dental clinics and manufacturing laboratories to collaborate seamlessly, reducing clinical turnaround times and improve patient compliance through integrated digital consultation and tracking tools.
Source
Co-founded by 18-year-old Liam Fuller, Source has developed a platform that streamlines stock purchasing for retailers using agentic AI.
The company recently secured €1.2m in pre-seed funding, led by Australian venture capital firm Square Peg, with participation from former Stripe CTO David Singleton and the Xtripe angel syndicate.
Fuller’s vision for Source was sparked by the outdated procurement practices he observed in retail, and his rapid execution has already drawn praise from seasoned investors for its technical and commercial maturity.
The system integrates seamlessly with tools like Excel, email, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, enabling retail buyers to make smarter, faster purchasing decisions.
At its core, Source analyses inventory levels and historical sales data to forecast demand and generate purchase orders. These AI-generated suggestions can be reviewed and approved by humans with a single click, significantly reducing the manual workload and inefficiencies associated with traditional procurement methods.
With its innovative approach and ambitious roadmap, Source is poised to become a key player in the future of retail operations.
Sports Impact Technologies
Sports Impact Technologies, a Dublin-based start-up developing wearable technology to detect head impacts in real time, last year secured €650,000 in pre-seed funding.
The funding will accelerate the roll-out of the company’s beta product, a compact sensor worn behind the ear that monitors head accelerations during sports activity. The device transmits real-time data and alerts via an app to coaches, medical staff, or safety officials, enabling timely decisions to remove players from play for concussion assessment.
Founded in 2022 by Eóin Tuohy and headquartered at NovaUCD, Sports Impact Technologies aims to address the widespread issue of undetected concussions in sport.
TensorX
In June a new Irish AI infrastructure business called TensorX launched with an €8m seed funding round led by Darius Cubed Ventures.
The business was founded by entrepreneur Shane Morton and is building a privacy-first AI inference platform designed to keep sensitive enterprise data within European jurisdiction.
With zero data retention and hardware on EU-sovereign infrastructure in Dublin and Helsinki, TensorX enables regulated industries to deploy advanced AI in full compliance with GDPR and the EU AI Act. The company supports 33+ open-source models.
WasteStart
Founded by former AMCS executives Austin Ryan and John Wallace, WasteStart raised €1.56 million in funding in December 2025 in a round led by Tribal VC, Conor Stanley and Barry Mulligan’s venture fund, and Tom Kennedy, co-founder of Hostelworld.
The funding is to be used to accelerate the development of a dedicated ERP platform for waste and recycling operators.
The business provides smart waste management technology that uses internet of things (IoT) sensors and data analytic to optimise commercial collection routes and waste container capacities. The cleantech venture helps municipal operators and corporate clients cut collection costs, reduce fuel emissions, and drive operational efficiency across commercial waste streams.
Valentia Island Vermouth
Valentia Island Vermouth is a craft vermouth company founded by Anna and Orla Snook O’Carroll on Valentia Island, off the coast of County Kerry. Inspired by the island’s unique flora, fauna and natural beauty, the wife and wife team set out to create Ireland’s first vermouth.
Orla, whose father was a beekeeper from Co Kerry, visited Valentia as a child, and it was there she learnt about the local plants and making of vermouth through her father’s knowledge. Valentia Island Vermouth uses foraged herbs, flowers and fruits from the island’s rich landscape to craft a distinctive, artisanal product that reflects the essence of its surroundings.
An early-stage food and beverage disruptor supported by South Kerry BIC, the company blends traditional winemaking heritage with distinctive Irish terroir to scale national distribution and target overseas craft spirits markets.
Vertigenius
In April Irish medtech Vertigenius raised €2.55m in a new funding round that will support its expansion into the United States on the heels of early commercial traction after its US market launch late last year.
The investment – which follows a €2.1m fundraising round in 2024 – was led by Atlantic Bridge and supported by Enterprise Ireland, MedTech Syndicate, IRRUS Investments, Xcendra Ventures, Ascentifi and others.
Vertigenius transforms the delivery of care for vertigo patients by enabling remote monitoring for the first time. The wearable head sensor medical device allows clinicians to track patients’ at-home treatment remotely, monitor progress and adjust prescribed treatment accordingly.
With FDA registration complete, Vertigenius launched in the US market in October 2025. Already, 20 clinics across 11 US states are now using the Vertigenius medical device and 3,000 patients have been treated.
Vox Talk AI
Dublin-based Vox Talk AI raised €1.35 million in a pre-seed funding round in April this year that was co-led by Delta Partners and Act Venture Capital as well as Enterprise Ireland and investor Mairead Roche.
Founded in 2025 by Mark Harkin, the business builds and deploys AI operators that work alongside human staff in monitoring centres.
The start-up uses advanced natural language processing and ultra-low latency voice synthesis to handle inbound inquiries seamlessly, allowing companies to scale front line customer operations 24/7 without degrading service quality.]
Zellor
In April Irish e-commerce company Zellor has secured €850,000 in investment from backers that include Enterprise Ireland and angel investors.
Zellor, which up until now has been entirely funded by its founders, plans to accelerate product development, grow its engineering and commercial teams and drive an international go-to-market push.
Founded in Dublin, Zellor develops AI-powered video commerce tools designed to help online retailers to replicate the expertise of an in-store assistant.
At the helm is CEO Niall O’Sullivan, a serial entrepreneur who has built companies through every major technology wave of the past two decades. The investment announcement coincides with the commercial rollout of Zellor’s AI Shopping Assistant.
ZeroRisk
Dublin software business ZeroRisk last year raised €3.8m in a funding round led by Elkstone.
Founded in 2023 by Francesco Consiglio, Gary Nolan and Marco Borza to redefine compliance and cybersecurity, ZeroRisk transforms end-to-end merchant management for leading financial institutions across the globe. The business is led by
Its technology streamlines payment card industry compliance and delivers real-time data insights for acquiring banks, payment service providers, digital sellers, and other financial institutions to manage complex portfolios.
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