Dublin, Ireland · Startup Aerska is a Dublin-based RNA medicines biotech company that uses proprietary brain shuttle technology to overcome the blood-brain barrier and deliver RNAi therapies for neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Founded in 2025 by Jack O'Meara, Dave Hardwicke, and Stu Milstein, the company emerged from stealth in October 2025 with a $21 million seed round, then closed a $39 million Series A in February 2026 led by EQT Dementia Fund and age1, bringing total funding to $60 million.
Startup Series A BiotechDeep TechDigital Health
Dublin, Ireland · Startup Axonista is a Dublin-based interactive video commerce platform that enables global broadcasters, retailers, and brands to build shoppable and interactive TV experiences across streaming devices and the web. Founded in 2010 by Claire McHugh and Daragh Ward, the company powers video commerce for QVC, HSN, WaterBear, and Oxfam, and in 2024 attributed over $750 million in shoppable revenue through its platform. Axonista has made the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Ireland for three consecutive years and partnered with Vizbee to deliver synced CTV and mobile shoppable experiences.
Startup Growth MarTechSaaSAdTechSoftware
Dublin, Ireland · Startup AI-powered enterprise legal management platform for corporate legal teams covering legal spend, matter management, invoicing and outside-counsel collaboration. Founded 2014; acquired by Wolters Kluwer in 2025.
Startup Growth AISaaSEnterprise Software
Dublin, Ireland · Startup eCommerce intelligence platform that makes brands' products shoppable across retailers via 'Where to Buy' technology, shoppable media and digital shelf analytics. Clients include Philips and Coca-Cola. Founded 2013.
Startup Series B SaaSAIMarketplaceEnterprise Software
Dublin, Ireland · Startup Circit is a Dublin-based fintech that provides an independent verification layer for the global audit and financial services industry, connecting auditors directly with banks, financial institutions, and counterparties to validate financial data at source. Founded in 2017, the platform is used by all top 20 global audit networks and spans a verification network of over 30,000 banks and evidence providers. In February 2026, Circit secured $22 million in growth equity led by Ten Coves Capital, bringing total funding to over $31 million.
Startup Growth FintechRegTechSaaSEnterprise Tech
Galway, Ireland · Startup CitySwift is a Galway-based AI and big data platform that optimises public transport networks, helping operators plan routes, schedules, and resource allocation in real time. Founded in 2016 by Alan Farrelly and Brian O'Rourke, the company's SaaS platform processes over 1 billion passenger journeys per year. Having raised €14.5 million in total funding, CitySwift serves major transport networks across London, Manchester, Birmingham, Belfast, Wales, New York, and is expanding into APAC markets.
Startup Series B Big DataAIMobilitySaaS
Dublin, Ireland · Startup Cubic Telecom, which rebranded to Cubic³ in April 2025, is a Dublin-based provider of software-defined vehicle connectivity. It supplies internet-connected software and a global connectivity platform that gives vehicles and other IoT assets compliant, built-in cellular connectivity across many markets, using agreements with mobile network operators worldwide. It serves automotive, agriculture and transportation OEMs, with named customers including Volkswagen, Audi and General Motors. In December 2023 SoftBank Corp. agreed to acquire a 51 percent majority stake for €473 million, valuing the company above €900 million.
Startup Growth IoTMobilitySaaSEnterprise Software
Dublin, Ireland · Startup AI-powered digital pathology company pairing artificial intelligence with a global network of expert pathologists. Its Diagnexia (clinical) and Patholytix (preclinical) platforms speed diagnosis and ease the pathologist shortage. Founded 2017.
Startup Series C AIHealthTechMedTechSaaS
Dublin, Ireland · Startup Equal1 is a University College Dublin spin-out that builds rack-mounted, silicon-spin quantum computers using standard semiconductor manufacturing processes, making quantum computing practical for data centres without cryogenic infrastructure. Its Bell-1 server, named after Belfast physicist John Stewart Bell, is already deployed by the European Space Agency. The company raised $60 million in January 2026, led by Ireland Strategic Investment Fund and Atlantic Bridge, bringing total funding to $85 million. Equal1 has also partnered with NVIDIA to develop quantum-classical hybrid solutions.
Startup Growth Deep TechSoftwareInnovation
Dublin, Ireland · Startup Developer-first encryption infrastructure that lets businesses collect, tokenize and orchestrate sensitive payment and card data without handling it in plaintext, cutting PCI DSS compliance cost and time. Founded in Dublin, 2019.
Startup Series B CybersecurityFintechDeveloper Tools
Dublin, Ireland · Startup Fenergo is a Dublin-based provider of AI-powered client lifecycle management (CLM), Know Your Customer (KYC), and anti-money laundering (AML) software for global financial institutions. Founded in 2009, the company automates client onboarding and regulatory compliance workflows for banks, asset managers, and capital markets firms. Recognised as a category leader in the 2026 Celent KYC CDD / CLM Report, Fenergo serves major institutions including DNB Bank and Gen II Fund Services, with over 850 employees worldwide.
Startup Scale RegTechFintechSaaSEnterprise Tech
Dublin, Ireland · Startup FIRE1 is a Dublin-based medtech company developing the NORM heart failure management system, a remote monitoring implant designed to enable patients to control their fluid volume at home, similar to how continuous glucose monitors transformed diabetes care. The device received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation and has been successfully implanted in the first Irish patient at University Hospital Galway. FIRE1 has raised $210 million in total funding, including a $120 million round led by Polaris Partners and Elevage Medical Technologies.
Startup Growth HealthTechDigital HealthDeep Tech
Dublin, Ireland · Startup Flipdish is a Dublin-founded hospitality technology company that gives restaurants, cafes, and takeaways their own branded ordering channels — web, mobile, kiosk, QR, and direct — as an alternative to handing 25-35 percent of every order to third-party delivery marketplaces. Founded in 2015 by brothers Conor and James McCarthy, the company raised a USD 100 million Series C led by Tiger Global in 2022 at a unicorn valuation and serves tens of thousands of restaurant locations across Europe, North America, and Australia. Beyond online ordering, Flipdish has moved into in-store self-order kiosks, loyalty, CRM, and analytics, effectively positioning itself as the POS-adjacent software layer that independent operators need to run a multi-channel business without betting their margin on Uber Eats or Just Eat. It is one of the most commercially meaningful Irish vertical-SaaS exits of the 2020s cohort.
Startup Growth HospitalityVertical SaaSFood OrderingPOS
Dublin, Ireland · Startup Dublin-based AI tax operating system for global businesses covering the full indirect tax lifecycle: ID validation, real-time determination, e-invoicing, and returns across 190+ jurisdictions processing over a billion transactions annually. Clients include Uber, Netflix, and Canva. Raised €94.4M Series C in 2026 and acquired PwC's tax platform.
Startup Series C FintechAIB2B SaaSRegTech
Dublin, Ireland · Startup AI-driven energy optimisation platform managing distributed and flexible energy resources (battery storage, renewables, EVs, industrial loads) and connecting them to electricity markets across multiple jurisdictions. Founded 2010.
Startup Growth AIClimate TechEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Dublin, Ireland · Startup 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.
Startup Growth Customer SupportAIB2B SaaSMessaging
Cork, Ireland · Startup AI-native agentic sourcing and procurement-optimization platform that automates enterprise sourcing events end-to-end, optimizing over $100bn in annual spend. Customers include Mars and Coca-Cola. Founded 2012.
Startup Series B AIEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Dublin, Ireland · Startup 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.
Startup Series A InsurTechHR TechB2B SaaS
Dublin, Ireland · Startup 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.
Startup Growth HealthTechDiagnosticsTelehealthConsumer Health
Dublin, Ireland · Startup 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.
Startup Growth MedTechHealthTechHardware
Dublin, Ireland · Startup 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.
Startup Series B LogisticsTechRoboticsDeep TechMobility
Galway, Ireland · Startup Neurent Medical is a Galway-based medtech company developing the NEUROMARK device, which uses proprietary Impedance Controlled Radiofrequency technology to target overactive posterior nasal nerves and treat chronic rhinitis — a condition affecting over 500 million people globally. Founded in 2015, the company closed an oversubscribed €62.5 million Series C in February 2026, led by MVM Partners with participation from Sofinnova Partners, EQT Life Sciences, Atlantic Bridge, and Enterprise Ireland, bringing total funding to over €100 million.
Startup Series C HealthTechDeep TechBiotech
Dublin, Ireland · Startup 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.
Startup Growth MedTechHealthTechHardware
Dublin, Ireland · Startup 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.
Startup Series A TravelTechB2B SaaSDeveloper Tools
Limerick, Ireland · Startup Develops AI radar-perception software (Software Defined Radar, 5D Perception) for automotive safety and autonomous driving, offering a LiDAR-free ADAS alternative plus off-road, smart-city and drone-detection uses. Founded 2019.
Startup Seed AIMobilityDeep TechHardware
Dublin, Ireland · Startup Tines is a Dublin-founded enterprise software company building workflow automation for security, IT, and operations teams. The product became well known in cybersecurity because it gives frontline analysts a low-code way to automate repetitive response tasks without needing to maintain brittle custom scripts. Teams can connect alerts, ticketing tools, identity systems, cloud platforms, and communication apps into visual workflows that investigate incidents, enrich context, trigger approvals, and execute remediation steps automatically. That lowers manual workload while preserving auditability and human control over higher-risk actions. Over time, Tines has expanded beyond pure security orchestration into broader internal operations, making the platform useful anywhere a company needs reliable API-based workflow execution across multiple tools. Its traction reflects a larger shift in enterprise software toward operator-owned automation rather than centralized engineering bottlenecks. In the European ecosystem, Tines is also a strong example of an Irish infrastructure startup that scaled into a global category while staying connected to the region's talent and capital networks.
Startup Growth CybersecurityEnterprise SaaSAutomation
Kilkenny, Ireland · Startup TransferMate is a B2B cross-border payments infrastructure company headquartered in Kilkenny, Ireland. It provides payments-infrastructure-as-a-service and embedded payments technology that lets businesses send and receive international payments, positioning itself as a faster, lower-cost alternative to the traditional correspondent-banking model by enabling local pay-in and pay-out. The company runs a large global payments-licensing network, is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland as an Electronic Money Institution, and reached a valuation above $1 billion in May 2022, becoming an Irish fintech unicorn.
Startup Growth FintechPaymentsB2B SaaSEnterprise Software
Dublin, Ireland · Startup Wayflyer is a Dublin-based revenue-based financing platform that provides non-dilutive working capital to e-commerce and consumer brands, using their store, payments, and marketing data to underwrite advances in days rather than weeks. Founded in 2019 by Aidan Corbett and Jack Pierse, the company became one of the fastest Irish startups ever to reach unicorn status after raising a Series B at a USD 1.6 billion valuation in 2022, off the back of explosive demand from DTC brands that needed alternatives to equity and bank debt during the post-pandemic inventory crunch. Wayflyer's technical edge is its underwriting model, which ingests Shopify, Amazon, Facebook Ads, and bank data to produce forward revenue forecasts and risk-adjusted offers, and it has expanded from pure cash advances into a broader financial-operations product for e-commerce merchants. In the European ecosystem it is the clearest example of fintech built specifically around the growth capital needs of modern digital brands.
Startup Growth FintechE-commerceRevenue-Based FinancingB2B
Dublin, Ireland · Startup Wia is a Dublin-based IoT cloud platform that helps businesses monitor occupancy, air quality, and energy consumption in real time to create smarter and more sustainable environments. Founded in 2015 by Conall Laverty, the platform is used by over 10,000 clients across 100 countries. Backed by Suir Valley Ventures and Enterprise Ireland, Wia has raised approximately €1 million in venture capital and its founder was named in Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe. The company positions itself as an accessible developer-friendly IoT infrastructure layer.
Startup Seed IoTSaaSCleanTechSustainability
Dublin, Ireland · Startup Workhuman operates a cloud-based employee recognition and continuous performance management platform used by over 7.5 million employees across 180 countries. Founded as Globoforce in Dublin in 1999 and rebranded in 2019, the company enables peer-to-peer recognition moments that drive engagement, culture, and retention at enterprise scale. Headquartered in both Dublin and Massachusetts, Workhuman employs over 600 staff in Ireland and has attained unicorn status, with clients including LinkedIn, Cisco, and Procter & Gamble.
Startup Scale HR TechSaaSEnterprise TechB2B SaaS
Cork, Ireland · Startup Employee experience and internal communications platform unifying intranet, engagement, comms and AI-powered search into one app. Founded 2017 in Cork; acquired by Zoom in 2023 and still operates from Cork.
Startup Growth SaaSAIEnterprise Software