Ireland startup ecosystem
Ireland's combination of an English-speaking workforce, favourable tax regime, and deep ties to the US tech sector have made Dublin a European headquarters for many global tech companies. The resulting talent pool and corporate partnerships create a fertile environment for B2B SaaS, fintech, and enterprise startups, supported by Enterprise Ireland's active grant programs. The directory currently lists 90 organisations across 9 cities.
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Frontline Ventures
Frontline Ventures is a Dublin- and London-based venture firm founded in 2012 by Shay Garvey, Will Prendergast and William McQuillan, focused exclusively on B2B software companies building across the Atlantic. It runs two complementary funds: Frontline Seed backs European pre-seed and seed founders with €0.5–2M cheques from a ~$100M fund, while Frontline Growth co-invests $1–5M in US B2B companies preparing to expand into Europe. Together the funds represent over $500M raised across vintages since 2012, backed by the European Investment Fund, the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund and AIB. The firm's transatlantic thesis is its edge, with offices in Dublin, London, New York and Palo Alto helping European founders time and execute US go-to-market and US companies enter Europe. Frontline's record spans 130+ companies and several landmark exits, including Navan (Nasdaq IPO, 2025), Brightflag (acquired by Wolters Kluwer for €425M, 2025), Workvivo (Zoom, 2023) and Pointy (Google, 2020); Intercom, an early Irish investment, grew to unicorn status. Sector focus spans enterprise AI, developer tools, fintech, legal tech, HR tech and compliance.
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Furthr VC
Furthr VC (rebranded from DBIC Ventures in 2022) is a Dublin-based early-stage fund investing EUR 100K-500K at pre-seed and seed in Irish software, deep tech, and sustainability startups. The firm manages the DBIC fund with backing from Enterprise Ireland and focuses on IP-rich companies emerging from Irish universities and research centers. Portfolio includes companies in SaaS, climate tech, and medtech. Furthr provides hands-on mentoring and leverages its base at the Digital Hub in Dublin's Liberties.
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Future Health Summit 2026
A two-day summit at the Dublin Royal Convention Centre joining clinicians, hospital managers, pharma, health-tech firms, and policy people. Relevant for digital-health and medtech founders seeking healthcare buyers and partners.
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GridBeyond
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.
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Hartnett Enterprise Acceleration Centre
The Hartnett Enterprise Acceleration Centre is a business incubation centre at the Technological University of the Shannon (TUS) in Limerick, Ireland. It provides workspace, mentoring and support programmes for early-stage entrepreneurs and university spin-outs, helping them develop and grow new businesses in Ireland's mid-west region.
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Hatch Blue
Specialized accelerator (since 2018) for aquaculture and alternative seafood startups with ~USD 100K investment, mentorship, and pilot opportunities in global aquaculture facilities. Programs run in Ireland, Norway, and Hawaii. Scope: International.
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Holafly
Holafly is an eSIM travel connectivity company that sells unlimited mobile data eSIMs for travellers, letting customers get online in a destination country instantly without a physical SIM card or roaming charges. Its website's terms of use identify the operating company as Holafly Limited, registered in Dublin, Ireland.
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Innovation Arena 2026
Enterprise Ireland's flagship agritech showcase at the National Ploughing Championships in Screggan, Tullamore. Features Start-Up Innovator of the Year (€10,000 prize) and Green Impact awards in front of 240,000+ visitors.
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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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Keelvar
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.
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Kernel Capital
Founded in 2002, Kernel Capital manages the Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Venture Funds, one of Ireland's largest venture fund series with over EUR 350M under management. The firm invests EUR 0.5-5M at seed and early growth in ICT, engineering, medtech, and university spin-outs across all regions of Ireland. Notable portfolio companies include Metabolomic Diagnostics, Lincor Solutions, and Aylien (acquired by Quantexa). Kernel is co-funded by Enterprise Ireland and focuses on turning Irish research into scalable enterprises.
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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.
