When it comes to quality business software, software services and software-as-a-service platforms, Irish-born tech firms are leading the world.
&Open
Founded in 2027 and led by Ciara Flood and Jonathan Legge, &Open is on a mission to fix corporate gifting by delivering better gifts at scale. Active in 120+ countries, &Open helps brands curate high-quality, design-led, and responsibly-sourced gifts for customers around the world. &Open has already grown its team to more than 90 people with employees across Ireland, the UK, and the US, and plans to open an office in New York City in the next year. The launch of On-Demand in 2022 not only enables &Open to extend its offering to more companies around the world, but also provides a platform for emerging brands, local vendors, causes, and subscription services to reach new audiences. A $26m Series A round in 2022 brings &Open’s total capital raised to $33.2m.
Ardanis
The company’s expertise in AI, software development and digital technologies has positioned Ardanis as a trusted partner for some of the world’s largest companies worldwide.
Founded in 2016, and with offices in Dublin, London and Porto, the company employs 62 people.
Led by CEO Ivan Goor, Ardanis delivers innovative software solutions to progressive, digital organisations globally.
The company works closely with clients to create software systems that can evolve and adapt as customer needs change.
Ardanis’ clients span finance and fintech and other large enterprises such as pharma, technology, e-commerce and healthcare companies.
The business recently announced 30 new jobs to support its strategy to drive international growth through the delivery software and AI solutions and services.
Assiduous
Assiduous, headquartered at NovaUCD in Dublin, was founded by experienced investment bankers Fergal Meegan and Barry Murphy. The young business is embedding the latest AI methodologies in its proprietary workflows and is presently working with a small number of pilot customers to perfect its solution. The business recently secured a €500,000 funding package from EIT Digital together with an investment from Enterprise Ireland through the Pre-Seed Start Fund (PSSF) to commercialise Assiduous’ AI native advisory engine over the coming six months.
Bounce Insights
Dublin start-up Bounce Insights is transforming market research as we know it, enabling researchers to get answers directly from their target market. The young Dublin company is moving the dial on market research, changing the narrative from “we think” to “we know” directly from the Bounce Insights dashboard. Bounce Insights was founded by five Trinity College Students (now graduates), from both business and computer science backgrounds who started working as a team back in January 2019. The business recently opened an office in the UK to spearhead its European expansion.
BuyMedia
Buymedia is building a community of what it terms “advertising superheroes” by helping SMEs to grow through more effective advertising.
The company claims to have built a world’s first in terms of an online platform that helps SME advertisers to plan, purchase, manage and monitor their advertising across all media, both traditional and digital, to increase return on investment from advertising.
“We believe that SMEs are the real business superheroes – they work hard, the support their community, their lives are a constant struggle and they have to compete for customers with big brands who have better insights and data, greater resources and expertise,” said co-founder and CEO Fergal O’Connor.
The Galway business recently revealed plans to create 100 jobs over the next four years.
Catalyst
Originally known as i3PT, Irish business Catalyst is a global leader in the real estate and construction tech sectors.
The company’s expertise in ESG, technical advisory services and digital technologies has positioned Catalyst as a trusted partner for some of the world’s largest companies and real estate investors.
As regulatory shifts drive change towards better practices, the company aims to assist its clients in creating a greener, safer built environment.
Led by CEO Eoin Leonard, the business in 2023 revealed plans to create 100 jobs distributed across Catalyst’s European offices, with significant employment opportunities arising across Ireland, London, Edinburgh, Milan, and Barcelona, amongst other new locations.
Continuous Software
Continuous Software is headquartered in Dublin with offices in Istanbul, London, Riyadh, and Toronto.
The company, founded by Mark Dallimore and Levent Ozalp, says it is revolutionising how businesses approach strategic portfolio planning. Its flagship product, Aangine, is an AI-powered platform that enables organisations to align teams, budgets, programs, and projects with strategic goals and objectives.
Its data-driven decision-making platform optimises resource allocation, and enhances collaboration across diverse work management approaches, including both traditional and agile methodologies.
In November last year the business completed the first €1m phase of a €2.5m seed funding round.
The investment was led by Athens-based, publicly listed, Performance Technologies with participation from a group of investors including a major System Integrator and four Saudi Arabian businessmen.
With this new capital, Continuous Software plans to increase its workforce by 40% by the end of 2025, adding technical, support, and sales roles. The company will also build upon its existing partnerships with major technology players such as OpenText, Dell, and MongoDB.
CitySwift
CitySwift specialises in helping local bus networks run more efficiently through the use of predictive analytics and big data. Founded by Brian O’Rourke and Alan Farrelly, CitySwift is a data analytics business on the move.
The business recently raised €7m in a funding round led by Gresham House Ventures.
This was followed by the opening of CitySwift’s first office in the UK and plans to create 50 new jobs. Founded in 2016, CitySwift is a homegrown Galway headquartered company with a rapidly expanding team of 65 employees building an international roadmap.
A market leader working with all the leading UK operators and Public Sector Authorities, the business has consistently doubled recurring revenue over the last three years and is expanding globally into Europe, the United States, the Middle East, and South East Asia.
CleverCards
Since CleverCards’ official market launch in 2023 as a digital payments platform, the company has experienced substantial growth, onboarding over 10,000 businesses directly with 350,000 users in 92 countries. In June it emerged that CleverCards raised €8m in funding from Pluxee, a global player in Employee Benefits and Engagement, as well an additional investment from existing investors. Led by Kealan Lennon, CleverCards has already grown into one of the world’s leading digital payments platforms, enabling businesses and public sector organisations to configure digital Mastercard’s themselves and send them to anyone, anywhere, anytime to download instantly.
Dataships
Irish software business Dataships specialises in automating GDPR and CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) compliance for organisations.
The business was founded in 2019 by Michael Storan and Ryan McErlane, is co-located at NexusUCD in Dublin and in San Francisco, California, and currently employs 25 people.
According to co-founder and co-CEO Ryan McErlane Dataships was founded as a compliance tech company, but the team quickly realised that smarter compliance management is a massively untapped lever for growth.
In January 2025 the business closed a €6.8m Series A funding round led by Osage Venture Partners, with participation from Lavrock Ventures and the Urban Innovation Fund.
Climeaction
Cork-based Climeaction is a multi-award-winning climate action solutions provider that works with business clients to review and focus on their ESG performance. Its management team has more than 50 years’ experience working with high calibre clients.
A recent financing deal with Bank of Ireland has given the consulting firm the wind beneath its sales to pursue a recent MBO and expand into the US. Since the financing to enable the MBO from Leading Edge, its former parent firm, Climeaction has also secured a €2.3m investment from the Davy EIIS fund.
CreditLogic
CreditLogic is a B2B digital mortgage lending and SaaS platform enabling banks to provide new mortgages.
Founded in 2018 by Eddie Dillon, Gavin Bennett, Martin Scott and Mary Brennan, the business recently raised €3.5m to fund its European expansion.
Cytidel
Mayo-based Cytidel is an Irish-based SaaS Security and Business Intelligence company that transforms how organisations identify, triage and remediate their cyber risks. Matthew Conlon (ex-Accenture and Workhuman) and Conor Flannery (ex-Integrity360 and Accenture) co-founded Cytidel in 2021 after spending a decade in cyber security across IT, finance and policing.
Having witnessed first-hand how cyber security teams are overwhelmed with the quantity of cyber risks, the pair developed Cytidel. Cytidel works with blue-chip customers including An Post and Carne Group, enabling their security teams to operate with over 95% enhanced efficiency. The business last year secured €1.35m in a seed round led by Elkstone Ventures and Enterprise Ireland.
In November it won the Grand Prix award at the National Startup Awards.
Deciphex
Deciphex is a rapidly scaling player in the emerging pathology computer aided diagnostics sector that uses digital pathology and AI to accelerate pathology diagnostics, improving productivity and patient outcome.
The business recently signed a global agreement with pharma giant Novartis that will see both firms harnessing cutting-edge technology to develop a suite of AI tools that will improve the efficiency and accuracy of preclinical studies and accelerate the painstaking work of drug discovery and development.
Dimply
Dimply helps financial services firms to unlock the value of financial data and embed intelligent insurance, pension and wealth experiences and communicate better with their customers online.
The business was founded in 2020 by Alan Quinlan, Colm McLoughlin and Johnny Kane and is led by CEO Jackie Dunn. In March 2024 it raises €1.5m in funding.
Druid Software
Druid was founded 24 years ago by telecommunications veteran Liam Kenny in Bray.
The company now operates with offices in the US and in mission-critical deployments in over 35 countries and some of the most advanced enterprises in the world in healthcare, ports, manufacturing, warehouse and logistics, government, defence and Non-Terrestrial Networks.
Druid has benefited as advances in handheld computing, IoT and connected equipment are growing exponentially with the demand for AI, but cellular technology to enable this connectivity has struggled to keep pace.
Druid’s solutions are designed to address the challenges faced by enterprises in maintaining reliable and secure mobile communications, especially in environments where traditional systems may not suffice.
Its RAEMIS technology platform also allows customers to create multiple distinct network zones with varying levels of speed and bandwidth.
In recent months it emerged Druid raised $20m (€19.4m) in funding to help it to expand into new markets including shipping, defence and utilities.
Enterpryze
Enterpryze is a spin-off business from Milner Browne (formerly IIS) that traditionally focused on delivering solutions based on SAP Business One, one of the most popular ERP systems on the planet.
The Cherrywood-headquartered company has built a cloud-based ERP (enterprise resource planning) solution for SMEs all over the world.
Founder Morgan Browne acquired Take 5 Software in 2008 and built Milner Browne into one of SAP’s largest partners in northern Europe.
With Enterpryze, his vision is to be the go-to software vendor of choice for SMEs all over the world.
The business counts thousands of business customers in more than 30 countries worldwide.
Eppione
Eppione’s platform helps to boost employees’ engagement with their benefits package, while enabling employers to gain deep insights into uptake and drive informed decisions when changing their offerings. The People Analytics module creates automated reports into areas including gender pay gaps, workforce diversity and absence trends across the business. Founded in 2016 by three friends and benefits enthusiasts – David Kindlon, Neil Fallon and Ernest Legrand – today Eppione has a world-class team of experts in benefits, insurance and financial advice, helping businesses navigate the complex options available to them.
Fenergo
Led by CEO Marc Murphy, Fenergo’s SaaS platform provides solutions to the world’s largest and most complex financial institutions, helping to fight financial crime and to enhance customer journeys while being compliant every step of the way. Fenergo currently helps top financial institutions including ICBC Standard Bank, Santander, Mizuho, ABN AMRO and BNP Paribas to digitally transform their end-to-end client lifecycle processes.
FlowForma
Focused on the ‘no code’ software revolution, scaling Irish business FlowForma is dedicated to making intuitive, affordable process automation tools that empower business users to work smarter and quicker.
The company’s product has more than 200,000 users across more than 20 countries, with customers including Aon, Grant Thornton, Bouygues Group, NHS Trusts, and Trinity College Dublin.
Led by CEO Olivia Bush, the business recently embarked on a north American expansion and is focused on sectors like construction, healthcare and financial services for growth.
Galvia
Galvia is a decision intelligence platform that supports organisations to make better decisions through their data. The Galway business, led by founder and CEO John Clancy, has worked with some of the largest companies in the world including Nestlé and Atos as well as introducing an AI powered student engagement platform for NUI Galway.
Gigable
Dublin business Gigable provides gig workers with access to paid leave benefits. Founded by John Ryan, Gigable is a decentralised gig economy marketplace app, connecting businesses and drivers where they can post and accept gigs, communicate, invoice and be paid. While well-known gig economy apps provide drivers with ad-hoc work, Gigable’s key differentiator is that it provides its delivery driver community with full shifts, giving them more confidence to work independently. High profile customers include The Press Up Group, Bombay Pantry, Platform Pizza and Eddie Rockets.
Graphite-Note
Founded in 2020 by Hrvoje Smolic, CEO, and Vinnie Lynch, CRO, Graphite Note is a no-code machine learning platform that gives businesses around the globe access to actionable insights via unique analytics. The business recently closed a seed investment round of €1.2m. Graphite-Note looks to continue scaling a global business out of Kerry, and with this investment, the team hopes to create 25 local jobs over the next two years, in roles including operations, sales, marketing and technology.
GridBeyond
GridBeyond has developed its AI platform to help businesses unlock the full potential of energy assets, ensuring the sustainability, resilience, and affordability of energy as the world moves towards a zero-carbon future. In April the Dublin-headquartered tech firm closed a €52.2m Series C financing round led by Alantra’s energy transition fund Kilma.
ID-Pal
ID-Pal enables businesses to verify the identity of customers in real-time simply, securely and conveniently. The company was founded by James O’Toole and Colum Lyons and enables businesses to onboard and verify customers identity in seconds. Last year it raised €7m in a Series A round.
Inclusio
Sandra Healy’s Inclusio has ambitions to be Ireland’s first female-founded tech unicorn. Inclusio is the first digital platform to combine technology, behavioural science and psychology for organisations to use to help them drive improvements in Diversity and Inclusion within their workforce and deliver measurable improvements in their culture and business performance that should be realised as a direct result of these improvements in the employee lived experience. Inclusio spun-out from DCU as a private company in 2020. The company last year revealed plans to create 80 new jobs after raising €6.2m in funding.
Inscribe
Ronan and Conor Burke co-founded Inscribe in San Francisco along with Oisin Moran and James Eggers after graduating from university in 2017. Inscribe is an automated document fraud detection system that allows businesses to instantly verify their customers when they request proof of income, proof of address, or proof of expense information. In 2020 they were listed in Forbes 30 under 30 list and in 2021 revealed plans to create 30 Dublin jobs after raising $10.5m. Last year Inscribe raised $25m in a Series B round that brought the total amount of funding raised by the business to $38m. The funding came on the heels of the company seeing a 3x year-over-year increase in recurring revenue and a 4x year-over-year increase in monthly usage.
Inspeq AI
Dublin based AI company Inspeq AI recently raised $1.1m in funding. They are on a mission to help global companies deliver a safe, secure, and responsible AI Future. Specialist AI investment firm Sure Valley Ventures lead the funding round, with participation from Delta Partners. The company was founded by Apoorva Kumar and Ramanujam Macharla Vijayakumar, who previously worked at Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and LinkedIn in building and leading robust and scalable AI products, before leaving to found Inspeq AI in Ireland, as part of the Founders programme at Dogpatch Labs. Inspeq AI is also a recent graduate of Founders, a talent accelerator funded by NDRC, which supports start-ups through a unique talent accelerator and initial funding.
Integrity360
Chaired by Ian Brown, Dublin-headquartered Integrity360 is one of Europe’s leading cyber security specialists operating from office locations in Ireland, UK, Bulgaria, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Lithuania, and Ukraine with Four Secure Operation Centres (SOC) located in Dublin, Sofia, Stockholm and Naples.
The group employs around 500 cyber security experts and industry professionals and provides a comprehensive range of professional, support and managed cyber security services that identify and assess, protect and prevent, detect and analyse and respond and recover cyber risks and threats.
Integrity360 has been on something of an M&A spree in recent years, merging with Stockholm-based Netsecure and buying European tech firms Adscigo and Advantio as well as South Africa’s Nclose.
JustTip
On a mission to become the de facto tipping software platform for Europe, TU Dublin fintech spinout JustTip allows employers to help staff to earn more while keeping their businesses compliant with new legislation. Led by Ciara Walsh and James Fahy, the cashless tipping system prpvides a tipping platform separate to your business with end-to-end transaction reports and complete transparency for employees and customers.
Keelvar
UCC spin-out company Keelvar’s technology addresses inefficiencies in the global trillion-dollar procurement marketplace. Led by CEO and former UCC lecturer Alan Holland, its sourcing technology – which leverages AI, data science and smart sourcing bots that run on autopilot – empowers customers to make crucial supply chain decisions quickly and confidently amidst ongoing change and disruption.
Kwayga
Kwayga is on a mission to match B2B buyers and suppliers in the food industry at a rate never seen before. Kwayga was established by co-founders Martin Fitzgerald and Mike McGrath in 2021 and is based in Cork, Ireland. The company’s matching algorithm analyses business’ data to match buyers with suppliers, providing active high-quality shortlists in minutes instead of months. This is done on an ongoing basis, but also in the Kwayga Deal Centre where buyers post live requirements for suppliers to engage on. The subscription-based platform platform solves a range of challenges that B2B buyers and suppliers face on a daily basis when finding, verifying, connecting with and communicating in any language with new perfectly matched buyers or suppliers. It also fills the gap in in-house resources and skill sets that buyers and suppliers in the food and beverage industry lack when researching new business opportunities.
LaunchPad by Cozmotec
Cuty Gupta’s Dublin tech firm Cozmotec makes tech accessible and profitable for businesses. Gupta (pictured) has identified a gap in the market where SMEs are falling behind in terms of technology and are failing to make use of more efficient options.
As well as this Cozmotec has launched a new Launchpad by Cozmotec platform to help people who may not be tech experts to launch their own digital businesses. Services for entrepreneurs include tech feasibility consultation, the creation of tech scoping documentation, software development, techical testing (UX and UI) and ongoing consultancy and support.
The CozmoTec team is comprised of experienced project managers, software developers, innovation experts and business leaders driven by solving business problems with technology solutions.
LegitFit
Founded by Gearoid Collins, Ian O’ Sullivan and Ryan O’ Neill, Cork-born software business LegitFit is on a mission to empower fitness entrepreneurs all over the world.
LegitFit is a leading provider of management software for gyms and fitness studios. Since launching in 2019, the company has attracted customers across 15 countries and achieved 5-star ratings across all review sites.
In 2022 LegitFit closed a €1m seed funding round led by Delta Partners.
Mail Metrics
Mail Metrics has developed a technology solution to help organisations operating in highly regulated sectors to outsource & digitally transform their regulatory and customer communications.
Mail Metrics handles millions of business critical, regulatory and customer communications each year ranging from renewal notices, claims correspondence and billing information to general transactional customer communications.
Mail Metrics has achieved remarkable growth in recent years, with revenue growing from €1 million in 2019 to a projected £175m/€210m proforma in 2024.
The business was founded by CEO Nick Keegan in 2016. He was shortlisted for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2023.
Mail Metrics’ recent acquisition of Adare SEC, which operates from sites in Huddersfield, Leicester, and Glasgow, increases Mail Metrics’ workforce from 150 to 600 employees, and marks the company’s fourth acquisition in four years.
The acquisition builds on Mail Metrics’ proven track record of strategic growth, following its previous acquisitions of Persona (Ireland) and Forth Communications (UK) in 2021, and Dafil (Ireland) in 2023.
Intact Software
Louth-headquartered Intact Software works largely with merchant, wholesale and distribution businesses, providing perfect-fit business software and technology solutions, known as ERP systems (enterprise resource planning), that enable businesses to optimally manage, automate and scale their operations.
Led by Justin Lawless, Intact’s software is used across Ireland, the UK and parts of Europe, Australia and New Zealand by both large and small companies. While the business largely works directly with its customers, Intact also has a network of channel partners implementing software solutions, the largest of which is Micronet Systems, based in Australia and New Zealand.
Intact is targeting around 5,000 new users annually in its target verticals of product-focused distribution and wholesale businesses.
Manna
Bobby Healy, one of the brilliant minds behind the success of CarTrawler, is back with Manna.Aero, a fascinating new venture focused on using drones to deliver goods, starting with food. If he is successful Healy could be the author of a breakthrough in transport platform that could make much of the road transport of goods by road a thing of the past. Manna has already attracted backing from venture capital firms Elkstone Capital and Frontline Ventures. The company is trialling its drone technology in west Dublin, including 40,000 drone deliveries a week for a variety of food brands that include Boojum and Offbeat Donuts.
MarketSizer
The Dublin-based market intelligence platform MarketSizer recently closed pre-seed funding round, totalling €1m. The round was led by Delta Partners with additional support from Enterprise Ireland and angel investors. Founded in 2023 by Niall O’Gorman, MarketSizer aggregates millions of data points to deliver real-time intelligence, helping businesses identify high-probability targets, optimise sales, improve marketing efforts and increase customer retention.
NoFrixion
Focused on revolutionising business payments, NoFrixion is was founded by Feargal Brady and Aaron Clauson. With customers in Ireland, UK, Belgium and Portugal, the company is leading the charge towards a fully digital payments landscape, with large systems integrators already signing up as partners. The company two years ago raised €3.6m in a round led by Delta Partners, Middlegame Ventures and Furthr VC.
Numra
AI-powered financial automation platform Numra recently raised €1.5m in funding in a round led by Elkstone, which has also backed successful Irish start-ups such as Manna, Flipdish and LetsGetChecked. Numra – formerly known as Autonifai – provides finance and accounting teams with the tech infrastructure needed to scale. Powered by AI, the integrated and intuitive solution streamlines complex financial workflows to save time and eliminate errors to reduce costs. The business was founded in 2023, by David Kearney (co-founder of Peblo acquired by Wayflyer) and Conor Digan (ex-Wonder, GerYourGuide).
Outmin
Outmin provides outsourced accounting and bookkeeping services for small but scaling companies, leveraging AI and cloud technology to create a best in class experience. The business recently raised €1.5m in seed funding to tackle the distraction of admin, with an initial focus on accounts and bookkeeping. Outmin co-founder, Ross Hunt, said: “90pc of the world’s businesses are SMEs, but for a variety of reasons, SME professional services today do not reflect the modern world. We believe that tightly integrating accountants and book-keepers within a cutting-edge data science and machine learning platform is the first step to enable a revolution in SME professional services and our explosive growth to date has already validated our innovative approach.”
Overhaul
Overhaul has developed a software-based platform that gives organisation’s greater oversight and security of their supply chains. It is used by Fortune 100 companies across pharma, logistics, tech and food and beverage that move freight globally. Led by CEO Barry Conlon, it currently employs more than 600 people and is expected to track more than $1 trillion in total moving cargo this year. The business recently raised $73m in a funding round.
Payslip
Mayo business Payslip is scaling globally due to skyrocketing of demand for payroll services by multinationals that have postponed the return to the office. Payslip was founded in Westport, Mayo, in 2015 by Fidelma McGuirk. Payslip’s software-as-a-service platform empowers payroll professionals to streamline their global payroll processes. One of Ireland’s hottest start-ups Payslip is expanding its presence to more than 60 countries having seen a surge in demand for hybrid workforces as a result of the pandemic.
Prommt
When it comes to paying for big ticket items whether they are weddings, holidays, building supplies, clothing or even cars, many people put less emphasis on the security of the transaction over a phone call than they would if they were buying the same products or services online. Led by fintech veteran Donal McGuinness, Prommt describes itself as a “payment success platform.” The business blends secure e-commerce payments with online and offline e-commerce payments. The company, a spin-out from Dublin firm Puca, launched in 2019 after taking Puca’s Pay2Sender payments gateway platform and redeploying it as a way to enable businesses to allow customers to securely validate payments over the phone or online.
ProMotion Rewards
Young Irish business ProMotion Rewards helps brands to understand changes in the market right from the till. Founded by Trinity graduates and LaunchBox alumni Bidemi Afolabi and Lauren O’Reilly, allows consumers to photograph their receipts, complete surveys and enter competitions via a dedicated app, earning points when they participate. In 2022 the business raised €725,000 in a pre-seed investment round with participation from Delta Partners and Enterprise Ireland.
Recruitroo
Founded in April 2022, Recruitroo’s recruitment and migration platform uses AI and automation to streamline all aspects of international hiring for their enterprise clients in the construction & engineering, hospitality and healthcare industries. By linking companies and candidates around the globe through video-based profiles and digital skills assessments, Recruitroo breaks down contextual barriers. Founded by Shane Kiernan and Stephen MacCarthy, the business last year secured €1m in investment in a round led by Delta Partners with participation from Enterprise Ireland and several notable angel investors.
SAOL
The SAOL platform, which Olympian Derval O’Rourke has founded with her business partner Greg O’Gorman, brings employers and employees together and creates a supportive and inclusive community. A €200,000 investment from Enterprise Ireland is part of an initial seed funding round of €400,000 that will fund the cost of the business plan and internationalisation, and is projecting the creation of 26 full-time jobs by the end of 2026.
Shopbox AI
Shopbox AI is focused on bringing high end Artificial Intelligence to any size of online retailer in order to generate more revenue from online shoppers and compete in a highly competitive space. This is done through an easy to integrate AI product hyper-personalisation platform, already proven to work in over 50 online retailers. The basic issue online retail faces is extremely low margins driven by the ever increasing cost of ads. By “wrapping” the store around the customer, Shopbox clients typically see a 3x increase in conversion. The business was founded in 2020 by Alan Gormley (CEO) and Tariq Zaki (CTO).
Siren
Scaling Galway tech business Siren, which specialises in cyber intelligence and works with law enforcement agencies all over the world, last year raised €12m in backing from the European Investment Back to fight cybercrime. Its technology allows investigators to make complex searches, organise the results visually and create advanced reports to share findings with their teams. Led by seasoned tech leader John Randles, the platform is also used by large corporations to protect their assets and networks against fraud and cyber threats. The Galway firm has partnered with US based non-profit organisations like the Anti-Human Trafficking Intelligence Initiative (ATII) and the National Child Protection Task Force (NCPTF) who use its patented technology to solve complex intelligence problems, identify traffickers and reduce human trafficking. Siren was founded in Galway in 2014 by Giovanni Tummarello and Renaud Delbru as a spinout from Data Intensive Infrastructure, a Big Data research group at NUI Galway.
Spectrum.Life
Spectrum.Life has set itself apart from other mental health and wellbeing providers through its commitment to the fullness of support across the entire mental health journey. Led by CEO Stephen Costello, with its 24/7 access to unlimited mental health and wellbeing support, including a personal Mental Health Coach and Open-ended Therapy at the touch of a button, Spectrum.Life is well positioned to continue its rapid growth and make a lasting impact on the mental health and wellbeing of its users. The business recently raised €17m in a new funding round led by Act Venture Capital and existing investors.
Tekenable
Tekenable is an Irish technology and services company delivering AI and Digital Transformation to help companies build real business advantage.
The business was recently awarded by Microsoft ‘AI Partner of the Year’ and also was selected as one of four sustainability and digital transformation experts working in the Digital4Sustainability 2024-2026 consortium of EU organisations.
Established in 2002, by Nick Connors and Peter Rose, TEKenable is one of Ireland’s longest established software players and employs close to 200 people.
The business is astutely navigating the changing digital landscape through savvy acquisitions such as that of Salesforce expert Tether as well as calculated moves into areas like aviation, AI and ESG.
Tines
Tines is an enterprise automation platform designed to help security and ops teams automate manual workloads. The business was founded by Eoin Hinchy and Thomas Kinsella admittedly out of frustration with existing solutions in the market. Today the business is at more than 150 employees across four continents, 13 US states, 10 time zones and growing. The mission now is to simplify the steps involved in maintaining mission-critical workflows at speed and scale, reduce the time to detect suspicious activity and increase the scale and capacity for businesses using Tines to process hundreds of thousands of workflows per year using leaner teams.
Tines recently achieved unicorn status, reaching a $1.125bn valuation, after raising a massive $125m Series C funding round led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives with participation from new investors SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Activant and existing investors Accel, Felicis, CrowdStrike Falcon Fund, and Addition.
Unify Ordering
Unify Ordering was born out of Barry McNerney’s own experience in the restaurant industry as owner of Lotts & Co., Paulie’s Pizza, and Junior’s Deli and Café. Unify Ordering is shaking up the hospitality sector by replacing an antiquated and fragmented ordering process for Buyers and Suppliers on one mobile-friendly platform. Unify Ordering has over 2,000 suppliers and restaurant customers on its ordering platform.
VisionR
VisionR is a Phygital (physical-digital) SaaS Solution for bricks-and-mortar retailers that transforms real-world shoppers into online actionable data. The company, founded by Shane O’Sullivan and Oran Mulvey, has The company secured a partnership with Spar International that will see its technology rolled out across the retail giant’s 13,500 stores in 48 countries. In 2022 the company received €1.5m in backing from Delta Partners and Movidius co-founder Seán Mitchell.
Wayflyer
Dublin business Wayflyer joined the storied ranks of Ireland’s relatively young unicorn herd in early 2022 after raising $150m. The business, which was founded only in 2019 by Aidan Corbett and Jack Pierce provides revenue-based financing and marketing analytics for online firms. It then provides e-commerce stores with unsecured capital to secure advertising and inventory ahead of selling items. Wayflyer is understood to have advanced $500m to more than 800 companies globally last year. In mid-2022 it emerged that Wayflyer took on $300m in debt financing from JP Morgan.
Yonder
Yonder empowers employers to create packages in minutes and employees to secure local health and retirement benefits in just a few taps. Founded in 2022, by a team of serial entrepreneurs and engineers including CEO Luke Mackey, former Ireland Country Manager for ride-hailing unicorn Bolt and founder of food-tech app Bamboo, CTO Patrick O’Boyle, former CTO at Bamboo, and director of Engineering Deepak Baliga, former engineer at food-tech unicorn Flipdish. Yonder came from a shared frustration with the slow, siloed and paper-based processes of setting up employee benefits that didn’t resonate with them or their peers. The trio reunited and joined forces to modernise the entire process, and redefine how small businesses and their employees access health insurance and retirement benefits, globally. “Yonder is rebuilding the entire employee benefits experience.” said Luke Mackey, Co-Founder and CEO.
ZeroMission
ZeroMission, the Clonmel based leading provider of an EV fleet management platform for commercial electric vehicles (EV’s), recently secured $3m investment to continue its growth and expansion strategy. The round was led by Delta Partners and Greencode Ventures. The business was founded in 2022 by Leah O’Dwyer and Kevin Christopher who bring a combined 30 years’ experience in the electric vehicle (EV) space with global companies including ChargePoint, Siemens and ABM. ZeroMission’s vision is to accelerate zero-emission vehicle adoption with smart and practical software solutions.
Zerve
Zerve’s platform allows teams to collaborate and share their outputs more easily. Zerve’s cloud-based, serverless technology utilises a novel, stateful architecture to create a scalable, collaborative development environment. Zerve was co-founded in 2021, by college friends Phily Hayes (ex-LearnUpon and Deloitte) and Jason Hillary, PhD, Engineering, and later joined by Greg Michaelson, former Chief Customer Officer of DataRobot. Last year Zerve raised $3.8m in pre-seed funding to build a new architecture for data science and AI development.
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