Monday 2nd September 2024
From AI and fintech to ecommerce, medtech and retail, Ireland's growing entrepreneurial landscape boasts a dynamic mix of startups.
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This listing is by no means exhaustive but merely a roundup of those startups that have crossed our radar in the past year and whose ambitions will carry them into 2025 and beyond.
It is indicative of the kind of businesses from all corners of Ireland that have their eye on a global prize and the kind of leadership driving them forward.
Ciara Flood, Jonathan Legge and Mark Legge founded &Open in 2017 to fix corporate gifting by delivering better gifts at scale. Active in 120+ countries, &Open helps brands curate highquality, designled, 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 OnDemand 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.
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 PreSeed Start Fund (PSSF) to commercialise Assiduous' AI native advisory engine over the coming six months. – pic
Queen's University Belfast spinout Amply Discovery was established in 2021 to commercialise a drug discovery platform developed by the university's School of Biological Science. The business is focused on the global health threat of antimicrobial resistance and is using artificial intelligence and machine learning to discover new anti infective products. Earlier this year it raised £1.4m in grant funding to develop its drug discovery platform.
Galway medtech AuriGen aims to provide governments and private healthcare insurers with an alternative to the existing expensive multiprocedure therapies which are currently required to treat challenging heart failure/arrhythmia patients. To address these challenges, AuriGen Medical has created the first device to integrate stroke prevention, heart failure monitoring and arrhythmia management in a single 30minute day case procedure. AuriGen's devices will include smart sensors which detect changes in the heart in realtime, resulting in earlier and more accurate data. This patient data is transferred live from their handheld receiver at home to the secure cloud which is instantly accessible by their doctor, helping them to intervene faster, preventing hospitalisations, while improving quality and length of life. Founded by Dr John Thompson, Siora MacClean and Tony O'Halloran, the business recently launched a €750,000 crowdfunding campaign and also recently raised €1.75m from institutional investors in Ireland, bringing total funding to over €15m.
Beyondbmi, which is headquartered at NovaUCD in Dublin, offers a unique approach to addressing obesity through personalised medical interventions, community support, and cuttingedge technology. A UCD School of Medicine spinout Beyondbmi was founded by medical doctor Dr Harriet Treacy and product designer Peter Lumley with support from senior team members including worldleading obesity scientists and clinicians, Professor Carel Le Roux and Dr Werd AlNajim, UCD School of Medicine and UCD Conway Institute and Professor Alex Miras, Ulster University. The business recently raised €1m in a seed funding round led by private investors and Enterprise Ireland.
Bluedrop Medical 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. In 2021, 645 of those amputations took place in Ireland, an increase of 45% over the previous decade. The business recently
raised €10.5m in a funding round that will enable it to create 25 new jobs.
Dublin startup 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 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 cofounder and CEO Fergal O'Connor.
The Galway business recently revealed plans to create 100 jobs over the next four years.
Galwaybased Ceroflo has developed a disruptive technology to revolutionise the treatment of intracranial atherosclerotic disease (ICAD), a leading cause of stroke. Ceroflo brings together a stellar team from the Irish medical device industry, including cofounder and chair Eamon Brady; cofounder John O'Dea, CEO Chloe Brown, CTO Brendan Casey and advisor John O'Shaughnessy. The Ceroflo SubMaxT Stent represents a gamechanger in the treatment of ICAD as its shape and structure has been developed to suit the unique challenges of this disease. It is designed to gently increase vital blood flow to the brain while reducing the risks associated with first generation devices, including haemorrhage and stroke. – pic
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. The round also included all existing investors following including Irelandia Investments, the Western Development Commission and ACT Venture Capital with the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF). 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.
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.
Winner of the 2024 NovaUCD Student Enterprise Competition's Sustainability Prize, Clia is developing softwareas aservice which plugs into existing cardiac rehabilitation services to improve support and treatment for people at risk of cardiac disease. Using wearable health data Clia aims to track and provide insights in heart health, offering links to structured exercise services and give checkups with cardiac specialist physiotherapists.
Corkbased Climeaction is a multiawardwinning 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.
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. The CosmoTec team is comprised of experienced project managers, software developers, innovation experts and business leaders driven by solving business problems with technology solutions. – pic
Coroflo is a medtech company that monitors breastfeeding to know how much baby is getting, real time data tracked on your phone. Led by CEO Rosanne Longmore, the business recently opened a new headquarters at DCU Alpha in Dublin following a successful funding round of €3m that brought total investment to date to more than €6m.
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.
The CX Academy is the industry standard for professional accreditation in Customer Experience learning. The business recently raised €1.5m in funding from the EIIS Innovation Fund.
Cytidel is an Irishbased SaaS Security and Business Intelligence company that transforms how organisations identify, triage and remediate their cyber risks. Matthew Conlon (exAccenture and Workhuman) and Conor Flannery (exIntegrity360 and Accenture) cofounded Cytidel in 2021 after spending a decade in cyber security across IT, finance and policing. Having witnessed firsthand how cyber security teams are overwhelmed with the quantity of cyber risks, the pair developed Cytidel. Cytidel works with bluechip 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. – pic
Dimply helps financial services firms to 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.
Founded by Shane Curran, Evervault is creating a data privacy toolkit that developers can “bake in” into new products. The company in 2022 raised $16m in a Series A round led by Index Ventures. In 2019 when Curran was just 19, the company raised $3.2m in seed funding in a round led by venerable Silicon Valley venture capital firm Sequoia Capital along with Kleiner Perkins, Frontline, and SV angel along with some unnamed tech innovators and investors. In May it emerged that Evervault is entering the payments space with an independent payments security platform that will give fintechs, banks and merchants total control over their payment stack without compromising compliance or security.
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 worldclass team of experts in benefits, insurance and financial advice, helping businesses navigate the complex options available to them.
Spiddalbased medtech FeelTect was cofounded in 2019 by CEO Dr Andrew Cameron after he took part in BioInnovate Ireland, a clinical immersion scheme in Irish and US hospital systems. It was during this period that Dr Cameron identified an unmet need for safe, effective, and consistent application of compression therapy, which is the primary treatment for millions of people with venous leg ulcers (VLUs) globally. The company claims Tight Alright, its flagship connectedhealth technology, is the first of its kind. Comprising a wearable device with multiple pressure sensors that wirelessly connects with a digital platform, the device allows care providers to measure and remotely monitor subbandage pressure applied during compression therapy, significantly reducing healing times and treatment costs, as well as leading to better quality of life for patients. The business recently raised €1.5m from investors including the Western Development Commission, bringing funding to date to €2.7m.
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 endtoend client lifecycle processes.
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. – pic
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 wellknown gig economy apps provide drivers with adhoc 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.
Gym+Coffee was started in 2017 by founders Niall Horgan, Karl Swaine and Diarmuid McSweeney as an online only store selling hoodies and active wear. The popular athleisure brand has expanded its retail footprint in Ireland to 12 stores over the past three years and now employs more than 200 people. Last year the business raised
€17m in funding. With this milestone investment, Gym+Coffee will be able to not only make strides in the UK market to develop relationships with sports organisations, athletes and health and wellness leaders, but also develop sustainability initiatives.
Green Rebel provides a full range of survey and data services to the offshore renewable energy industry. Cork
born business Green Rebel recently revealed how it is expanding to Limerick and has revealed plans to create 75 new jobs. Green Rebel was established by Irish entrepreneur Pearse Flynn in 2020 and specialises in acquiring, processing and analysing marine, aerial and metocean data using survey boats and aircraft as well as LiDAR buoys and innovative technologies that are designed and assembled in Limerick. Green Rebel has live and upcoming projects in Ireland, Scotland and off the coast of mainland Europe. There are also a number of potential projects in international markets such as the United States and Australia. – pic
Giyst is using AI and machine learning to reshape the global video content repurposing industry. Giyst, a University College Dublin (UCD) spinout company which is based in Cork, has already secured €525,000 from angel investors and Enterprise Ireland as part of a seed round. It intends to bring this up to to €750,000 via a crowdfunding round. Giyst automates the process of editing longform videos into engaging, shorter clips and summaries suitable for social media, marketing, education, and digital platforms.
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 zerocarbon future. In April the Dublinheadquartered tech firm closed a €52.2m Series C financing round led by Alantra's energy transition fund Kilma.
Combining Ireland's best teachers with cuttingedge AI technology and an innovative hybrid model, Grinds 360 looks to democratise grind education, ensuring access to students not restricted by geography or finances.
Founded by experienced secondary school grinds teacher Ronan Murdock and serial entrepreneur Brendan Kavanagh, Grinds 360 was born out of a desire to address gaps in the traditional grinds system and transform the current education landscape. The platform provides personalised, highquality education with affordable pricing options, making exceptional grinds accessible nationwide. The business recently secured €3.2m in funding from investors that include rugby stars Brian O'Driscoll, Caelan Doris, Jordan Larmour, Sean Cunningham from Brass Monkey New York, Shane Glynn of Lexas Technologies, Stephen Langan, and Kilkenny hurler Walter Walsh.
Belfastfounded HALO is a body cam and cloudbased digital asset management. It is a complete safety solution that utilises innovation to stay ahead of threats and decrease risk. The business raised $20m in February in a Series A found from Volition Capital.
Meathbased Irish augmented reality technology startup HoloToyz recently took home the coveted prize for its ‘outstandingly innovative' Paw Patrol Tattoos and Stickers at Spielwarenmesse, the world's biggest toy fair. The business was founded by Kate Scott and Declan Fahy. With the HoloToyz technology augmented reality tattoos and stickers come to life in a whole new way, providing kids with an interactive and immersive play experience like never before. Kids can watch as their favourite Paw Patrol characters come to life right before their eyes, thanks to the magic of augmented reality. For the first time, they can also place their favourite pups in their room and capture them on camera. – pic
Lahinch, Co Clarebased HRLocker is a cloudbased HR software service that digitally transforms people management and recruitment. HRLocker's SaaS solution makes the management of officebased, remote, and distributive workforces possible. HRLocker is a Deliberately Developmental Organisation (DDO) with adult development at the heart of everything they do. Led by founder and CEO Adam Coleman, HRLocker is planning to hire 50 new staff over the next two years after raising €2m in funding.
IDPal enables businesses to verify the identity of customers in realtime 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.
Sandra Healy's Inclusio has ambitions to be Ireland's first femalefounded 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 spunout 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.
Ronan and Conor Burke cofounded 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 yearover year increase in recurring revenue and a 4x yearoveryear increase in monthly usage.
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 startups through a unique talent accelerator and initial funding.
Jamango, the Dublin based developers of a browserbased game creation platform earlier this year raised $2.5m to accelerate development ahead of launching globally later this year. The preseed funding round was coled by Elkstone and Delta Partners with additional funding from notable angel investors including Brian Caulfield (Chair of Scale Ireland), Brendan O'Driscoll (VP of Product at Figma), and Conor Sheahan (Founder of CKS Finance) who joins as chair. Jamango, which was founded by serial entrepreneurs Adam Dalton, Richard Whelan and Jeremy Klarenbeek, empowers users to instantly create and play usergenerated games online.
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 endtoend transaction reports and complete transparency for employees and customers.
UCC spinout company Keelvar's technology addresses inefficiencies in the global trilliondollar 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.
Dublin startup Kerno has reimagined the entire cloud troubleshooting experience, empowering engineers to solve problems within minutes. Kerno was founded in 2022 by Sean Madigan, Karim Traiaia, Anibel Ambertin, Maxi Delo and Vlad Romanov, who all have extensive engineering backgrounds and have faced the very issues Kerno now solves. The business last year raised €1.69m in a seed round led by Elkstone Ventures.
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 cofounders 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 subscriptionbased 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 inhouse resources and skill sets that buyers and suppliers in the food and beverage industry lack when researching new business opportunities.
Medtech startup LaNua will represent Ireland at the Pegasus Startup World Cup in San Francisco later this year after being presented with the Big Ideas Award at the Enterprise Ireland Startup Day 2024. LaNua Medical which is an Enterprise Ireland commercialisation funded project approaching spinout, is developing solutions for problems in embolization, a minimallyinvasive procedure that can be used to treat internal bleeding or cause tumournecrosis. Its GateKeeper device blocks blood flow to select tissue, while enabling targeted therapeutic delivery with reduced risk of side effects.
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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 5star ratings across all review sites.
Founded in 2019 by Ryan O' Neill, Gearoid Collins and Ian O' Sullivan, LegitFit provides gyms, studios and independent fitness professionals with business management software that saves its customers up to €10,000 per year. Its core mission is to empower fitness entrepreneurs, to optimise their time so they can focus on what really matters to them – be that inside or outside the business. The business raised €1m in a seed funding round led by Delta Partners in 2022.
Galwaybased Loci Orthopaedics has developed an innovative orthopaedic implant for the treatment of thumb base arthritis. In July the business raised €12.8m to expand its clinical programmes and drive the commercialisation of its technology.
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.
The Dublin based market intelligence platform MarketSizer recently closed preseed 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 realtime intelligence, helping businesses identify highprobability targets, optimise sales, improve marketing efforts and increase customer retention.
Galwaybased space tech business Mbryonics is at the forefront of transforming satellite communications,
datacoms, and 5G wireless sectors through cuttingedge wireless optical transport and Coherent PhotonicOptical (CPO) transceiver technologies, ensuring highspeed, secure communication infrastructures in space, air, and on land. Led by CEO John Mackey, the business recently raised €17.5m from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator. The €17.5m investment will allow the company establish a significant manufacturing, assembly, and testing facility for optics and photonics in the west of Ireland over the next five years. – pic
This TU Dublin spinout player is revolutionising rapid animal health testing using AI. With a cumulative funding of
€5m to date, the spinout is dedicated to revolutionising rapid animal health testing through the innovative use of artificial intelligence technology in its Micron Kit. Founded by Daniel Izquierdo, Tara McElligott and Sean Smith in 2019, the Micron Kit allows veterinarians to conduct onsite, rapid parasite testing on animals using their mobile phones, delivering results in minutes.
MyGug is at the forefront of innovation in food waste management with a pioneering system that turns food waste into energy. In March it emerged that the young West Cork business MyGug has raised €900,000 in a funding round led by BVP with participation from Enterprise Ireland. MyGug harnesses the natural process of anaerobic digestion and provides a technology that brings this sustainable zerowaste solution to a new market. MyGug founders Kieran Coffey and Fiona Kelleher were named Business People of the Month by The Irish Times in November 2023, in association with Bank of Ireland.
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.
Cork startup NeuroBell has developed an AIpowered medical device to accurately detect seizures in newborns, which can reduce the risk of longterm brain injury. Founded by Dr Mark O'Sullivan, Dr Alison O'Shea and Colm Murphy, and a spinout from University College Cork and the Irish Centre for Maternal and Child Health Research (INFANT), NeuroBell aims to address a critical gap in the availability and accuracy of current technologies used to detect seizures in newborns admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Early detection of seizures is crucial for enabling early intervention that will help reduce seizure burden, which can cause lifechanging conditions such as epilepsy and cerebral palsy. Earlier this year the UCC spinout closed a €2.1m investment round led by Furthr VC, Atlantic Bridge and the HBAN MedTech Syndicate as well as Enterprise Ireland and various private investors.
Dublinbased Nevo is on a mission to accelerate the transition to electric motoring in Ireland by educating motorists. Launched in 2022, Nevo is Ireland's first dedicated EV platform, offering a comprehensive range of services catering towards those who want to become informed on electric vehicle ownership, and also to those who are ready to make the switch to electric motoring. The business is also the creator of the Electric Vehicle Show which was soldout earlier this year, promoting a return of the event to the RDS in Dublin on 10 November. – pic
Neurent Medical pioneers treatments for chronic inflammatory sinonasal diseases. The Galway business raised $25m in January in a Series B round.
AIpowered financial automation platform Numra recently raised €1.5m in funding in a round led by Elkstone, which has also backed successful Irish startups 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 (cofounder of Peblo acquired by Wayflyer) and Conor Digan (exWonder, GerYourGuide).
Limerickbased edtech startup Nurture helps teachers to provide feedback to their students using AI using a custombuilt tool that works with Microsoft Teams. It identifies knowledge gaps in students' work.
The business, founded by Limerick natives David Neville, Padraic Hogan, and Dublin man Daniel Paul, was recently selected by the Education Authority of Northern Ireland to roll out its AI teaching assistant to over 1,100 schools across Northern Ireland.
This will see Nurture's technology used by more than 20,000 teachers and 345,000 students.
Oblivious AI has developed pioneering privacy enhancing technologies to help organisations keep sensitive data safe while creating insight opportunities for the data owners. Oblivious AI recently secured $1.05m in an initial seed funding round from investors that include Atlantic Bridge, Act Venture Capital, Hustle Fund and a group of angel investors. The NovaUCDheadquartered company, which was cofounded in 2020 by Robert Pisarczyk (pictured) and Jack Fitzsimons, will use the funding to build out its core team, further develop its initial product offering, and continue to work closely with its early customer base.
Launched in 2022 by John Tuohy following the sale of his Nightline courier business and its locker arm ParcelMotel, OOHPod parcel lockers are designed with sustainability, convenience, and security in mind. Earlier this year the business raised €5.4m in new funding which brings total funding raised to date to €8.5m.
Orgo – Named One to Watch in the NovaUCD Student Enterprise Competition, Orgo is developing a mobile e learning platform focused on Organic Chemistry to enable students across the academic spectrum to become comfortable with the subject. The mobile app will help students with bitesize lessons and revision questions to ensure success throughout their college careers.
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 cofounder, 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 bookkeepers 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.”
Output Sports provides an allinone solution for testing, monitoring, and optimising athletic performance. Its
technology featured strongly in the recent Olympics in Paris supporting athletes and coaches. Output Sports was
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