Dublin startup directory
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Inspirefest 2026
Ireland's international sci-tech festival organized by Silicon Republic, known for its strong focus on diversity and inclusion in tech. Attracts 3,000+ attendees with programming across AI, biotech, space, and social innovation. Features a fringe festival with arts and culture alongside the main conference.
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Intercom
Intercom is the Dublin-founded customer-messaging and support platform that effectively invented the in-app chat widget category in the early 2010s and has since evolved into one of the most widely deployed AI customer-service products in B2B SaaS. The company was started in 2011 by four Trinity College Dublin graduates — Eoghan McCabe, Des Traynor, Ciaran Lee, and David Barrett — who combined messaging, user segmentation, and lifecycle marketing into a single pane of glass at a time when enterprise support software was still dominated by ticket queues. Intercom's current product centers on Fin, its LLM-backed support agent that answers customer questions autonomously against a company's knowledge base, and it has become one of the clearest commercial examples of a pre-AI SaaS incumbent successfully retooling its core product around generative AI. The company is now headquartered in San Francisco but maintains a very large Dublin engineering and product office, and together with Stripe it is one of the canonical 'Irish mafia' software stories.
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International AI Summit 2026
Hosted by Ireland under its 2026 EU Council Presidency at the RDS, Dublin, launching European AI Innovation Month and gathering EU and global leaders, CEOs, investors, and innovators. A high-signal policy-and-investment event for AI founders.
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John Flynn
Managing Partner of ACT Venture Capital, Ireland's most established venture firm, which he joined in 1996. A former chairman of the Irish Venture Capital Association, he has led ACT through six funds and exits including the sale of Decawave to Qorvo and SoftBank's investment in Cubic Telecom.
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John O'Sullivan
General Partner at ACT Venture Capital, focused on early-stage software and enterprise technology. He brings operating experience from Misys and Enterprise Ireland and leads investments from seed through Series A across the Irish and UK ecosystems.
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Justin Lynch
Partner and co-founder of Fountain Healthcare Partners, where he leads medical-device investments. He brings operating and finance experience to the firm's medtech portfolio, supporting companies through clinical development, regulatory milestones and exits.
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Kota
Kota is a Dublin-based platform building API-driven infrastructure for employee benefits and insurance. It enables companies to offer and manage health insurance, life insurance and pension benefits, syncing with existing HR tools such as Personio, HiBob, BambooHR and Workday. Regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland, Kota partners with providers including Irish Life, Allianz Partners and Smart Pension. Founded in 2022 by Luke Mackey, Patrick O'Boyle and Deepak Baliga, the company raised a $14.5 million Series A in May 2025 led by Eurazeo, bringing total funding to nearly $23 million.
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LetsGetChecked
LetsGetChecked is a Dublin-founded at-home diagnostics and virtual care company that ships regulated lab tests directly to consumers, processes samples through its own CLIA-certified laboratories, and wraps the results in physician review, prescribing, and follow-up care where appropriate. Founded in 2015 by Peter Foley, the company rode the pandemic-era shift toward home testing to a USD 1 billion Series D in 2021 and has since positioned itself as a full virtual-care platform covering sexual health, men's and women's health, wellness, colorectal screening, and medication adherence, selling both direct-to-consumer and as a corporate health benefit. It is one of the few European health-tech unicorns to successfully run end-to-end clinical infrastructure — labs, logistics, telehealth, and pharmacy — in the US market, and together with Kerecis and Sidekick Health it rounds out the directory's picture of how Irish and Icelandic health companies are building internationally regulated care businesses.
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Mainstay Medical
Medical device company commercializing ReActiv8, an implantable restorative neurostimulation system that treats disabling mechanical chronic low back pain by stimulating the lumbar multifidus muscle. HQ in Dublin.
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Manna
Manna is Europe's largest drone delivery operator, having completed over 250,000 regulated commercial UAV deliveries across Dublin, Cork, and expanding US and European markets. Founded in 2018 and built entirely in Ireland, the company raised a $50 million Series B in April 2026 from investors including ARK Invest, ISIF, and Coca-Cola HBC, bringing total funding to $110 million. Manna is expanding to 40 new US bases and has partnered with Uber Eats for European aerial delivery markets.
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Manus Rogan
Managing Partner and co-founder of Fountain Healthcare Partners, Ireland's largest dedicated life-sciences fund, which he established in 2008 after a career at Elan and GlaxoSmithKline. He has led biotech investments behind exits including Inflazome (Roche) and Calypso Biotech (Novartis).
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Mastercard Start Path
Mastercard Start Path is Mastercard's flagship global startup engagement programme, launched in 2014 to connect high-growth fintechs with Mastercard's commercial network, mentorship and co-innovation resources. Unlike traditional equity accelerators it takes no equity and charges no fees; selected startups gain access to Mastercard's ecosystem of 150M+ merchants, thousands of banking partners and billions of cards. Dublin — Mastercard's sole European Technology Hub, with 2,000+ staff — anchors the programme's European engagement. The programme runs rolling cohorts of five to fifteen startups across specialised tracks including Emerging Fintech, Acceptance, Blockchain & Digital Assets, Open Finance, Small Business, Security Solutions and the newest Agentic Commerce track (added 2026). Since inception it has engaged more than 500 startups from 60+ countries, whose alumni have raised over $25bn in follow-on capital. Notable alumni include unicorns Revolut and Thought Machine (UK), Razorpay and Zeta (India) and Airwallex, alongside European fintechs such as Doconomy (Sweden) and Irish fraud-prevention startup Urban Fox.
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NDRC
NDRC (National Digital Research Centre) was originally established in 2007 as an Irish state-backed digital research and accelerator body affiliated with a consortium of Irish universities. From 2020 it transitioned to a new operator — Dogpatch Labs and regional partners — under a contract worth up to €17 million, delivering pre-seed funding and mentorship-driven accelerator programmes across Dublin, Galway, Cork, and Kerry. The programme has been extended to the end of 2026, with Enterprise Ireland planning a successor National Accelerator Platform starting in 2026.
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Neuromod Devices
Medical-device company developing bimodal neuromodulation technology. Its flagship product Lenire is the first FDA-approved bimodal neuromodulation tinnitus treatment, available in 130+ clinics across the US and Europe. Founded 2010.
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NovaUCD
NovaUCD is the innovation and startup incubator of University College Dublin (UCD), one of Ireland’s premier research universities. Established in 2003 on UCD’s Belfield campus, NovaUCD provides a supportive environment for knowledge-intensive startups, particularly those arising from university research in life sciences, engineering, and ICT. The center offers modern incubation facilities, including lab space, prototype workshops, and offices set in a historic Georgian building refurbished for innovation. NovaUCD runs a 9-month VentureLaunch accelerator program to help researchers and students validate business ideas, build teams, and refine commercialization strategy. Startups benefit from UCD’s resources – access to faculty experts, graduate talent, and sometimes use of specialized equipment (for biotech, etc.). Over nearly two decades, NovaUCD has supported 450+ companies. Alumni include Evolution (Bio) – a UCD bioinformatics spin-out acquired by Evotec, Logentries (cloud logging, acquired by Rapid7 for $68M), and Equinome (equine genomics, acquired by Plusvital). These successes underscore NovaUCD’s strength in turning academic excellence into enterprise. A hallmark is its focus on knowledge transfer: NovaUCD works closely with UCD’s tech transfer office, so startups often license university patents or software as a basis. The incubator also facilitates seed funding through networks like Halo Business Angel Network (HBAN) and University Bridge Fund (a college-focused VC). The Irish government and Enterprise Ireland are key backers, aligning NovaUCD with national goals to foster high-tech industry. The incubator has expanded physically too – in 2022, it opened “AgTech UCD” on UCD’s Lyons farm for agri-tech startups, reflecting an effort to specialize. NovaUCD contributes hugely to Dublin’s startup scene, connecting academic founders with industry mentors and investors. Each year it hosts the UCD VentureLaunch Competition awarding cash prizes to the most promising spin-outs. Notably, NovaUCD companies have raised over €760M in capital and created thousands of jobs in Ireland. By offering an “on-campus home” for entrepreneurs, NovaUCD helps ensure that Ireland’s top research doesn’t just stay on paper, but translates into impactful businesses – from lifesaving medical devices to groundbreaking software – driving innovation and economic growth.
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Nuitée
Nuitée is a travel technology company providing API infrastructure for hotel connectivity and distribution, acting as a link between accommodation providers and demand partners. Headquartered in Dublin, with additional offices in Spain, Morocco, the UK and the US, it offers product families spanning distribution and booking solutions, APIs and whitelabel services, and hotel data mapping. Its platform enables hotels, airlines, travel agencies and app developers to build travel and booking solutions, including AI-driven workflows for booking, pricing and distribution. The company was founded by Med Benmansour (CEO), Said Rkaibi and Olivier Dheur, and raised a $48 million Series A round led by Accel.
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SaaStock 2026
Europe's leading SaaS conference in Dublin, bringing 4,000+ SaaS founders, operators, and investors to the RDS. Deep-dive content on product-led growth, pricing, expansion revenue, and go-to-market strategy, with a dedicated Founder+ track and investor meetups. One of the best places to meet European B2B SaaS buyers and operators. Tickets EUR 500-1,500.
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Seroba Life Sciences
Seroba Life Sciences is a Dublin-based healthcare venture capital firm founded in 2002, investing in biotech, medical devices, and diagnostics across Europe with a focus on companies emerging from strong clinical and scientific foundations. The firm manages over EUR 300M and typically invests EUR 2-10M at Series A and B, taking board seats and providing strategic guidance on regulatory strategy and commercialization. Seroba has backed companies including Mainstay Medical, Aerogen, and Fire1, leveraging Ireland's deep life sciences talent pool and its proximity to major pharma and medtech multinationals headquartered in the country.
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Shay Garvey
Co-founder of Frontline Ventures and one of Ireland's most experienced technology investors. A veteran of the Irish venture scene, he has backed B2B software companies across multiple fund cycles and now serves the firm as a Partner Emeritus.
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SREcon26 EMEA 2026
USENIX's SREcon Europe/Middle East/Africa is held at the Convention Centre Dublin for site reliability and production engineers. The conference features interactive learning sessions, demonstrations, keynotes and panels on building and operating large-scale, reliable systems.
