These Are The 20 Most Exciting Startups in Ireland!

: October 16, 2019

These Are The 20 Most Exciting Startups in Ireland You Should Be Familiar With!

 

Ireland, one of the wealthiest country in the world, has been a home to many early-staged startups. Its capital Dublin, with over 2000 active startups is becoming a hotbed for startups. 

 

Here Is A List Of The 20 Most Exciting Startups in Ireland:

 

1. Future Finance:

A lender providing smart, fair and flexible student loans for students in Europe. Future Finance Loan provides student loans to undergraduate and postgraduate students in the United Kingdom. The company brings to bear over a decade of industry experience and insights to shape the nascent private student loan market in Europe and provide transformative education finance to millions.

 

Year Founded: 2013

Specialities: FinTech, Financial Services, Loans, Lending, Student Loans, Financial Exchanges

 

Future Finance was ranked #7 on the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Awards 2018, #34 in KPMG/H2 Fintech 100 for 2018', and #39 in KPMG/H2 Fintech 100 for 2017.

 

 

2. Nuritas:

A biotech company using data mining of molecules in food and food byproducts to identify supplements and new drugs. Nuritas combines artificial intelligence and genomics to discover and unlock natural Bioactive Peptides with extraordinary health benefits.

 

Year Founded: 2014

Specialities: BioTech, Molecules, Food Tech, AgTech, Drugs Development, AI, Genomics, Health Care, Health Tech, Bioinformatics

 

Nuritas was awarded New Innovation Support by InterTrade Ireland Fusion, in 2019. They were also a finalist in the AgFunder Innovation Awards for 2019.

 

 

3. Fenergo:

A leading provider of digital Client Lifecycle Management (CLM), AML/KYC Compliance and Client Data Management solutions for corporate, investment and private banks. Fenergo provides Client Lifecycle Management (CLM) software solutions for Financial Institutions including; Corporate & Institutional Banking, Commercial & Retail Banking, Asset Management, Private Banking & Wealth Management.

 

Year Founded: 2008

Specialities: Client Lifecycle, Compliance Management, FinTech, Top FinTech, Data Management, SaaS, Client Onboarding, APIs, Integration, Customer Due Diligence, Retail Banking, Wealth Management

 

Fenergo was the winner of Deloitte Financial Services Innovation Award, they were also recognised as the leader in RegTech, in 2019.

 

 

4. Pointy: 

A retail tech​ ​startup​ ​offering technology to help ​bricks and mortar​ ​retailers. Pointy lets ​local​ ​retailers put their stock online so that they can be discovered via search engines. It is the simple way for local shops to get online. It's easy and quick to set up.

 

Year Founded: 2014

Specialities: Internet, Retail Tech, E-Commerce, Search Engines, SaaS, POS, Barcode Scanner, Hardware, Online Visibility

 

Pointy has developed a hardware and cloud software solution that makes it easy to create a bespoke website as means of making local stock discoverable online. Specifically, the ​”Pointy​ ​box”​ hardware ​gadget connects to a store’s barcode scanner and automatically puts scanned items on a Pointy-powered website for the store.

 

 

5. Leveris:

A technology company that has built a full-service, modular, banking-as-a-platform (BaaP) solution for traditional banks, new market entrants, and consumer brands. Leveris is a fully integrated, back-end, middleware and front-end services and applications platform that is built on open-source components, using open standard formats, APIs and protocols so that new technology innovations are easily integrated, keeping any bank up to date with technology change.

 

Year Founded: 2014

Specialities: FinTech, Banking, SaaS, Retail Tech, BaaP, Modular Platform, Lending, APIs, Integration

 

Leveris's platform has two products integrated on one platform. (i) a full service, end-to-end digital retail bank and (ii) a full-spectrum lending solution. Leveris was ranked 73rd on the 2017 Fintech100 List by KPMG. It was also listed on The FinTech 50, 2018.

 

 

6. Boxever:

A market leading personalisation platform that uses data and AI to make every customer interaction smarter and revolutionise how brands engage tomorrow’s customer. Boxever solution enables customers like airlines and online travel agencies to capture, analyze, and act on large volumes of data about customer behavior in real time to create stronger, more profitable customer relationships.

 

Year Founded: 2011

Specialities: Analytics, Big Data, Visualizations, Consumer Insights, Travel Tech, AI, Customer Intelligence, Personalisation, Customer Data Management

 

Boxever was recognised by Gartner as a leading player in personalisation and ranked by Forbes alongside Google, Apple and Amazon as one of the most powerful examples of AI in use today.

 

 

7. Corlytics:

A risk focused financial intelligence technology company and is the world leader in regulatory risk intelligence. Corlytics provides relevant insight into the size, scope and root causes of regulatory risk, enabling the three lines of defence to better plan their compliance programs.

 

Year Founded: 2013

Specialities: FinTech, Financial Services, Risk Intelligence, Regulatory Compliance, AI, Advanced Analytics, Financial Risk, Risk Assessment

 

Corlytics works with global regulators., financial institutions and their advisors to provide data and analytics to inform future risk management. The company has partnership with regulators and eminent financial institutions globally. Corlytics operates as a trusted strategic partner to banks and financial institutions globally.

 

 

8. Poppulo:

A global leader in employee communications technology. Poppulo is pioneering software and expert advisory services are transforming internal communications, creating more connected, aligned and successful organizations all over the world.

 

Year Founded: 2012

Specialities: SaaS, Employee Communication, Employee Engagement, Workplace Solution, Messaging, Emails, Video Conferencing, Human Resources, Insights, Campaigns, Event Management, ROI, APIs, Integration

 

Poppulo works with many of the world’s biggest, most successful corporations and household brands, such as: GSK, Aon, Telefonica, Honda, CDK Global, Experian, Johnson Controls, Nestle, Boston Scientific and others.

 

 

9. AQMetrics:

A leading RegTech SaaS company focused on delivering regulatory risk and compliance solutions for financial firms. AQMetrics provides integrated compliance and risk management software to fund administrators, asset managers, investment managers and broker/dealer companies.

 

Year Founded: 2012

Specialities: FinTech, SaaS, RegTech, Risk Management, Compliance Solutions, AI, Market Surveillance, Regulatory Reporting, Data Analytics, Security Risk, Monitoring

 

AQMetrics listed on The FinTech50 2018, Named 'Best Regulatory Reporting Solution' at the 2019 HFM European Technology Awards ceremony on September 18, 2019, The American Financial Technology Awards (waterstechnology) etc.

 

 

10. Flender: 

A P2P Crowd Finance platform helping businesses raise​ growth finance very quickly. Flender allows businesses to access finance through institutional funds and the crowd quickly and without hassle.

 

Year Founded: 2015

Specialities: FinTech, Payments, Financial Services, Lending, P2P, SaaS, SMEs, Crowd Funding, Loans

 

Flender is on a mission to ensure that borrowers can get on with growing their business while our lenders enjoy attractive and reliable returns.

 

 

11. Sweepr: 

A tech startup that provides delightfully simple care for the connected home. Sweepr is developing what it calls a contextually adaptive care platform. Sweepr's voice-activated platform helps customers with their connected home. By using knowledge of a local network and connected devices’ diagnostic data, it’s able to deliver customized instructions via an app to help solve common technical problems.

 

Year Founded: 2018

Specialities: Consumer Services, Technical Support, Connected Home, IoT, AI, Voice Assistance, Behavioural Analytics, NLP, Mobile Apps

 

Sweepr makes it easier for customers to get help with their connected home, offering a voice-activated platform that is contextually adaptive and gives customers access to specific, relevant, customised help through instructions, pictures and video.

 

 

12. Neurent Medical: 

A medical device company specialising in the treatment of rhinitis. Neurent Medical offers devices for treatment of rhinitis which includes a runny nose, sneezing, and nasal itching and congestion.

 

Year Founded: 2015

Specialities: Health Care, Medical Devices, MedTech, Diseases, Treatment

 

Neurent Medical was awarded 2018 European New Product Innovation Award for developing a non-surgical, minimally invasive device that uses radio frequency (RF), by Frost & Sullivan in 2018. They were also the finalist on Irish Medtech Awards, in 2018.

 

 

13. AYLIEN:

An artificial intelligence startup focuses on creating technologies that help machines understand human languages better. AYLIEN leverages Artificial Intelligence to empower thousands of forward-thinking enterprises and developers to collect, analyze, and understand vast amounts of human-generated content.

 

Year Founded: 2012

Specialities: AI, ML, NLP, Text Analysis, Human Intelligence, Data Science, SaaS, APIs, Risk Intelligence, Risk Compliance, Media Screening

 

AYLIEN's core offerings include packages of Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing APIs. It provides Text Analysis & News API's that allow users to make sense of human-generated content at scale. AYLIEN also provides a range of content analysis solutions to businesses, developers, data scientists, marketers and academics.

 

 

14. Neuromod: 

A medical device company formed to advance the science of bi-modal neuromodulation. Neuromod is committed to delivering treatments that significantly reduce the suffering of underserved patient populations who live with chronic and debilitating conditions globally.

 

Year Founded: 2010

Specialities: Medical Devices, Clinical Trials, Neuromedicine, Neuromodulation, Designing, Manufacturing, MedTech

 

Neuromod has developed and patented a bi-modal neuromodulation technology that it is evaluating for neurological disorders including chronic tinnitus, a condition affecting 10% of the adult population and commonly known as 'ringing in the ears'​.

 

 

15. Voysis:

A complete conversational AI platform that enables third parties to integrate high quality voice and natural language capabilities into their products. Voysis focuses on creating general purpose AI voice technologies to suit any business purpose.

 

Year Founded: 2012

Specialities: Speech Recognition, Deep Learning, Text to Speech, ML, Voice AI, NLP, APIs, SaaS, IoT, Cloud Connectivity

 

Voysis utilizes speech recognition, natural language processing and understanding, deep learning, and text to speech capabilities, all of which were developed in-house. The company has developed ViEW - Voysis Embedded WaveNet. ViEW represents the next evolution of DeepMind's WaveNet technology making it available for use on any mobile device without needing cloud connectivity.

 

 

16. DataChemist:

A tech start-up focused on helping organizations turn data into true intelligence. The company aims to make data meaningful. DataChemist transforms big messy data sets in legacy sources into well-managed, fast graph databases with strong quality controls.

 

Year Founded: 2017

Specialities: Big Data, Analytics, BI, Database, AI, ML, Datasets, Data Management, Dashboards, Algorithms

 

DataChemist performs a four-step process to unlock the power of existing data - and reveal relationships and insights that conventional approaches simply cannot deliver.

 

 

17. Artomatix: 

An award winning software company that uses AI and neural nets to transform 3D artistic workflows in top studios worldwide. Artomatix makes it easy to create realistic, immersive 3D worlds by developing the first creative artificial intelligence that automatically generates 3D content.

 

Year Founded: 2014

Specialities: SaaS, AI, 3D Graphics, Content Creation, Material Processing, Video games, Movies, Visualization, VR

 

Artomatix's software has been used by 3D artists at AAA Studios around the globe, who took note when Nvidia awarded the firm $100,000 and the label of most promising start-up in 2015. The company reached the top 2.5% of TechCrunch Disrupt (2015) and the top 0.8% of Hello Tomorrow (2015).

 

 

18. Kastus:

A nanotechnology company specializes in patented visible light activated, photocatalytic, antimicrobial coatings. Kastus® creates next-generation antimicrobial surface coating technologies. Its patented solution is applied to glass or ceramic surfaces during manufacturing.

 

Year Founded: 2013

Specialities: Antimicrobial, Coatings, Ceramics, Glass, Tile, Glaze, innovation, Touchscreen Surface Coatings, Touchscreen Glass

 

Kastus was the double winner at the prestigious Irish Times Innovation Awards 2017, including Innovation of the year.

 

 

19. SoapBox Labs: 

A speech technology company specializing in children’s speech recognition. SoapBox Labs has developed child-specific speech technology that creates highly accurate, age-appropriate and safe voice-enabled experiences for children.

 

Year Founded: 2013

Specialities: Speech Recognition, ML, Deep Neural Networks, APIs, AI, TextToSpeech, Accessibility, Wearables, IoT

 

SoapBox Labs was selected as one of  Wired's hottest startups in Europe list 2019. SoapBox Labs speech technology solutions are available for online and offline use to voice-enable products for kids in the areas of smart toys, AR/VR, robotics, gaming, literacy and language learning.

 

 

20. Volograms: 

A technology startup with a mission to bring reality capture closer to everyone. Volograms' technology uses a set of videos taken from different viewpoints and transform them into volumetric holograms, volograms, that can be enjoyed in Virtual and Augmented Reality.

 

Year Founded: 2018

Specialities: Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Volumetric Holograms, Volograms, Social Media, Mobile Apps

 

Volograms' system works with different camera configurations, outdoor or indoor scenarios, and can even generate content with videos captured with handheld consumer devices.

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