Top 40 Payments VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Ireland in October 2023

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• Oblivious — Oblivious builds tools to allow you to use your sensitive data with internal and external partners while keeping it private and secure.
• Everyangle — Everyangle facilitates business in computer vision applications based on cisco meraki MV smart cameras across retail and industrial firms.
• Spectrum Life — Spectrum.Life's comprehensive solution enables organisations to provide a workplace wellbeing programme that can have a substantially positive impact on their health and wellness, as well as on the culture and performance of the company.

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• Hiiker — Find 1000s of the best backpacking and hiking adventures, with reviews, photos, and great places to stay.
• Legitify — Legitify is an AI powered solution using audio-video authentication that allows customers to notarize documents online remotely from anywhere, without the hassle of visiting a notary public in person.
• Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.

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• CergenX — CergenX produces cutting-edge technology for the analysis of baby brain waves that can be used to identify brain injuries early in the newborn period.
• Tailr — Redefining production for the clothing industry.
• Recruitroo — Recruitroo is a international recruitment agency that uses technologies to streamline and improve the international recruitment process for both companies and candidates.

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• JOKR — Grocery shopping is easier now with JOKR, your instant delivery app. Order your groceries and favorite products in our online supermarket and get them instantly at your door. Download the app now and make your first grocery order on us. Available in IOs and Android. Access www.jokr.com for more info
• Vera — Vera develops an assessment platform to identify and address risks in artificial intelligence and machine learning models. It engages key stakeholders across teams to create data-driven assessments and use data science tools to investigate AI and ML models, helping organizations navigate through uncertainty and protecting companies and individualsfrom risky artificial intelligence systems.
• Nextdata — Nextdata offers an operating system for decentralized data at scale on an AI platform.

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• Anome — Anome is a Web3 UGC game platform, dedicated to creating a more open, fair, transparent, and free Web3 game world through user creation, sharing, and games.
• greenworkx — greenworkx is a new climate EdTech startup tackling the green skills crisis and constructing a net-zero workforce.
• K Health — We pair clinicians with advanced AI to provide data-driven, personalized care around the clock. Chat with your medical team today.

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• Kayna — Kayna is an insurance distribution company that collaborates with vertical SaaS platforms and utilises data to offer insurance services.
• Tailr — Redefining production for the clothing industry.
• Recruitroo — Recruitroo is a international recruitment agency that uses technologies to streamline and improve the international recruitment process for both companies and candidates.

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• Docbot Labs — Scattered and unfindable information is a productivity nightmare. dot puts an end to the chaos and helps you find, organise, and share resources with your team seamlessly.
• Nolea Health — As a clinician with Nolea you can set your own schedule, work with as many healthcare companies as you want, hold all of your credentials in one single sharable wallet, access new educational resources, and receive community feedback.
• ClimateAligned — AI-driven platform for a climate view on financial products

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• Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
• Quench.ai — Quench is a tech infrastructure for video creators to deliver exclusive content, engage and reward their true fans.
• Statement — Find the right card machine for your business, with good rates and the best features. Search the top providers in minutes, including Worldpay, Barclaycard, Tyl and Teya.

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• D3 — D3 - DNS Domains for Web3
• jiritsu.network — Jiritsu is a decentralized protocol enabling verifiable compute.
• Mythic Protocol — Mythic Protocol is an entertainment company that develops games, media and platforms.

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• WingRiders — WingRiders is a top tier AMM decentralized exchange on top of the eUTxO model. Fully Cardano native and super fast platform.

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• Splink — Splink's white-label fintech infrastructure offers secure plug-and-play fintech solutions, allowing brands to innovate and sell their services to existing and prospective clients. Splink's solution simplifies payment by offering partners a portfolio of payment industry options to choose from.

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• IYK — IYK inspires people to live in the moment by bridging immersive physical and digital experiences.
• 1Kin Labs — Get early access to in-development games, claim rewards, and take your digital assets with you wherever you go - all with a single sign-on.
• Fluree — Fluree is an open-source, blockchain-backed Data Management Platform for Web3 apps. Fluree empowers connected, trusted, and intelligent data ecosystems. Fluree is built on W3C semantic web standards in order to facilitate trusted data interoperability.

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• 360hyper — The groceries marketplace where you can find everthing you need. Buy online groceries as fast as in 4 hours with personalized picking.
• Musiversal — Record your music in real time with world-class session musicians, vocalists, producers and audio engineers
• Brands&Ninjas — SaaS to control the performance of physical marketing campaigns on retail.

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• InfluxData — Manage all types of time series data in a single, purpose-built database. Optimized for speed in any environment in the cloud, on-premises, or at the edge.
• Pivo — Pivo is an all-in-one financial services platform for businesses in the supply chain. Set up accounts, access credit and manage your finances in one simple application.
• Brightside — Brightside goes beyond financial wellness with holistic financial care to resolve the unique financial challenges of your employees.

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• Argent — Argent gives you the best of Ethereum for a fraction of the cost. Easily buy, earn, stake and invest crypto.
• Elo Health — Get nutrition supplements uniquely formulated for your body and goals, based on at-home biomarker testing. No trends, just science and pure ingredients.
• Five Lives — Five Lives, your brain health coach. Take the risk assessment and start improving your brain health today!

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• Guardz — Ultimate cybersecurity solution built for MSPs, IT pros, & business owners. Protect your clients & business with an all-in-one security & monitoring solution.
• CoinScan — Fastest trading history in the industry for any ETH token along with seeing pending transactions. One-of-a-kind Airdrops and Holders distribution for quick analysis and much more.
• Nest Genomics (YC W22) — Nest Genomics is a lab-agnostic, comprehensive software solution for implementing genomic programs at scale.

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• FarmWise — FarmWise provides technology-based services that allow farmers to streamline farm operations and increase food production efficiency.
• Food4All — With the F4A App, you can explore discounted close-to-expiry products at your favourite supermarkets. Act now - save money and say no to food waste.
• Napigen — We are the genome editing company specialized for mitochondrial engineering. We address unmet needs of future food supplies by creating hybrid crop plants to boost their yields to an unprecedented level. The company’s technology creates robust male sterile lines that are ideal over conventional lines because of their stability and elitebackgrounds. This allows the production of non-GM hybrid seeds in crop plants that are currently mostly non-hybrid such as wheat. Our technology solution is expected to fulfill the highest level of public acceptance and aspiration.

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• Cortical Labs — Cortical Labs are creators of the dishbrain that fuses living brain cells onto computing devices to create machines with biological intelligence
• Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.
• High Earth Orbit Robotics — HEO Robotics provides on-orbit inspection services for satellites, using a network of space-based sensors. The high quality image data and insights allow satellite operators to conduct predictive maintenance and diagnose issues with their assets

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• Chupi — Chupi is a multi award-winning fine jeweller making solid gold, diamond and precious gemstone jewellery in the heart of Dublin, Ireland.
• PlasmaBound — PlasmaBound provides a step-change technology, termed Controlled Plasma Ablation (CPA), which facilitates the structural adhesive joining of lightweight materials, namely carbon and glass fibre reinforced composites. CPA technology will accelerate the use of these lightweight composite materials into multi-material structural assemblies, byenabling reliable adhesive joining which is stronger than the composite structures themselves.
• Zeus Scooters — ZEUS is an Irish company deploying the World’s FIRST 3-wheeled electric scooter for the urban mobility sharing market. Our unique scooters with state-of-the-art technology and reliability that will ensure our users always enjoy the safest, smoothest and most stable ride.

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• Rand — Rand is a fintech firm that offers banking services, savings, deposits, and account opening.
• Moova — Moova is a technological platform that captures idle last mile logistic capacity and transforms it into high efficiency and low cost shipping solutions. The platform connects E-Commerce and retail businesses with a fleet of "Moovers" who complete deliveries on their bicycle, motorcycle, car or van to generate an additional source ofincome. Through route optimization software, real-time traceability, flexible warehousing, and analytics, Moova is propelling the nascent E-Commerce industry in Latin America by reimagining the last mile for a sustainable world.
• AORA — Aora is a complete digital solution for home services. Headquartered in Equador.

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• Thala Labs — Unleash the liquidity of your assets with our Stablecoin, AMM, and Launchpad
• Liqwid Labs — Liqwid Labs is an on-chain lending protocol on Cardano.
• LI.FI — Swap and move any crypto asset across any blockchain ecosystem.

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• Wayflyer — Wayflyer offers growth financing to eCommerce companies like yours. Sign up, connect your store and analytics, and receive funding offer today.
• HanTangxu — HanTangxu is a brand that supplies Chinese-style milk tea and also offers refreshments in national style. It is a brand owned by Yunnan Gaoligong Brand Management Co., Ltd.
• Zaggle — Zaggle is an award-winning digital payments, cashback and analytics company. The company help corporates and individuals enjoy gifts and experiences across multiple channels everyday; in the form of employee rewards and recognition, channel partner incentives, employee benefits, online shopping cash back and restaurant cash back.

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• Brine.fi — The best onchain spot trading crypto exchange
• Gleen AI — Delight your customers. Get Gleen, the world's most accurate & capable generative AI-based chatbot. Trustworthy answers. Automatic actions. Unify knowledge.
• Catalyst — Contributing to Catalyst, the permissionless liquidity layer for modular chains.

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• Cerby — Collaborate without chaos. Cerby helps your team be productive while protecting your brand. Secure unmanageable applications. Only with Cerby.
• NomuPay — NomuPay's Unified Payments Platform provides local acceptance and payouts in Southeast Asia, Europe and Turkey via a single system integration.
• Anvilogic — The Anvilogic detection automation platform helps unify and automate security operations across people, processes, and technology enabling security teams to reduce time, manual effort, complexity, and expertise needed for building detections and managing your overall SOC

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• FarmWise — FarmWise provides technology-based services that allow farmers to streamline farm operations and increase food production efficiency.
• Napigen — We are the genome editing company specialized for mitochondrial engineering. We address unmet needs of future food supplies by creating hybrid crop plants to boost their yields to an unprecedented level. The company’s technology creates robust male sterile lines that are ideal over conventional lines because of their stability and elitebackgrounds. This allows the production of non-GM hybrid seeds in crop plants that are currently mostly non-hybrid such as wheat. Our technology solution is expected to fulfill the highest level of public acceptance and aspiration.
• Muddy Machines — Muddy Machines is working on field robots to help farms manage labor-intensive crops by completing the fieldwork.

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• Evertas — Evertas brings this unchanging approach to the new space of crypto assets. Our goal is to help crypto realize its full potential, for everyone.
• Ethos — Your home base for web3 on Sui. Easy to integrate in-dapp Sui wallet. Best way to onboard new crypto-curious users.
• Sentiment — Sentiment is a decentralized finance company that provides chainless, undercollateralized borrowing.

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• AdaSwap — The next-gen DEX based on Cardano! Swap, bridge & trade between Cardano-based tokens, NFTs and stablecoins within seconds.
• Polemos — Polemos is a news, content and game asset platform focussed on that latest developments in game tech. We believe blockchain technology will usher in a new era of gaming based on real ownership of in-game assets.
• WingRiders — WingRiders is a top tier AMM decentralized exchange on top of the eUTxO model. Fully Cardano native and super fast platform.

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• eflow — Regulatory Compliance solutions for Market Abuse, Best Execution and Regulatory Reporting. Trade Surveillance, Regulatory Reporting and Trade Lifecycle Management.
• NomuPay — NomuPay's Unified Payments Platform provides local acceptance and payouts in Southeast Asia, Europe and Turkey via a single system integration.
• Fourthline — Comply with KYC and AML regulations throughout the customer lifecycle with Fourthline's bank-grade identity platform.

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• Automata — Automata is a deep-tech company that creates products that empower people to automate physical work. The company's product, Eva, is a lightweight and affordable robot arm built for professionals in a production line, in a lab, a home workshop or even in a classroom. People don't need to be technical experts to communicate with robots. Theweb-based software platform can be programmed by anyone, anywhere, any time, from any device, making it easy to reconfigure for a wide range of different tasks.Automata was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.
• Awell Health — Ollie is a vast library of over 100 interface blocks with complete Webflow CMS integration. Build beautiful websites in less time than ever.
• Pencil Biosciences — Next Generation Genome Editing Tool

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• My Lock Up — My Lockup Operate Self Storage Units Across The North East, Yorkshire & Lincolnshire. Providing Self Storage Facilities For Households & Businesses.
• Kennedy Wilson — Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc. is a vertically integrated global real estate investment and services company. The Company has approximately 24 offices throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain and Japan. It focuses on adding value for its shareholders through opportunistic investing and strategic asset management. Its businessoperations include two core units: KW Investments and KW Services. KW Investments invests its capital in real estate-related assets. KW Services provides a full array of real estate-related services to owners and lenders, with a focus on financial institution based clients. In May 2014, it purchased apartments, 203-unit apartment community in Tacoma, Washington. In July 2014, it acquired multifamily portfolio consisted of three properties located across southern submarkets of Seattle, Washington. Portfolio consists of 1,212 units.
• Lightsource bp — Lightsource bp is a global solar leader working with utilities, businesses, local communities and governments to help meet the demand for sustainable energy.

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• WingRiders — WingRiders is a top tier AMM decentralized exchange on top of the eUTxO model. Fully Cardano native and super fast platform.
• Liqwid Labs — Liqwid Labs is an on-chain lending protocol on Cardano.

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• Mitiga — Mitiga proactively stores and enhances forensic data so our experts can start incident investigations fast to get you back to business as usual
• Oblivious — Oblivious builds tools to allow you to use your sensitive data with internal and external partners while keeping it private and secure.
• Bluedrop Medical — Thermal and visual assessment in a single scan. Award winning, patented design.

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• Clozer — Sell experiences & run gamified giveaways to grow your music streams
• move.ai — Move.ai provides motion capture platforms and tools to enable augmented and extended reality productions using AI and computer vision.
• SupraOracles — We're supercharging oracles to provide blockchains better, faster, accurate, and more secure off-chain data.

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• Dmail — Dmail Network is a decentralized mailbox that provides a safe and private environment for users' communication, storage, tokens, and NFTs. The company was founded by Mittal S. and Lucas L. in 2021.
• Range Protocol — Permissionless Infrastructure for Smart Money Management. We are the leading gateway to smart on-chain money managers, bringing maximised yields and optimal capital efficiency to users of different risk profiles.
• The Animal Age — Animal-based metaverse that brings together animal lovers and animal clubs worldwide.

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• Fenergo — Client Lifecycle Management Technology Developed in Collaboration with 60+ Global Banks. Home.
• StitcherAds — Kargo Commerce's retail and eCommerce-centric platform is designed to drive performance with ease across Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat, and TikTok.
• HeyStaks — Based in NovaUCD, Co. Dublin, HeyStaks Technologies Ltd was founded in 2008 by Professor Barry Smyth, Dr Maurice Coyle and Dr Peter Briggs.HeyStaks patented intent analytics platform analyses web usage data to build rich, accurate profiles that capture a person's intent and interests. It does this in a privacy-enhanced way and is sensitiveto context signals such as location and time to create a dynamic view of customer intent. For mobile operators, HeyStaks helps them know their customer and unlock entirely new revenue streams by delivering superior user experiences, advertisements and offers that are timely and relevant.

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• Outmin — Outmin is an online accountant offering financial services for businesses, eliminating the need for salaries and management. Our automated solution handles all your finance, tax, and accounting needs.
• Kayna — Kayna is an insurance distribution company that collaborates with vertical SaaS platforms and utilises data to offer insurance services.
• One Trading — Discover an unrivalled trading experience with One Trading. We believe regulation powers user experience, not breaks it. Crypto - But regulated. Buy crypto now, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, DOGE, Solana, Cardano and more.

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• Adumo — We are your expert partner in payments, enabling you to seamlessly and securely accept payments in-store and online with our true omni-channel experience. Never miss a sale with South Africa's largest independent payments processor.
• Hecate Energy — Hecate Energy is a developer of solar, wind, and energy storage projects.
• Pulse Clean Energy — Pulse Clean Energy builds and operates power stations. We deliver power into the UK’s network when it is most needed.

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• HypeLabs — HypeLabs is the company that created the Hype SDK, an interoperable mesh networking software that improves connectivity on all kinds of devices, from mobile to desktop to IoT, allowing them to connect even when there is no internet. The software works by intelligently connecting devices in local mesh networks using existing connectivitytechnologies, such as Bluetooth, WiFi, LoRa and others. This network enables content to securely hop between devices, until it reaches a destination or an Internet exit point, improving range and deliverability.Founded in 2016, the company is located in San Francisco (USA), Porto (Portugal), London (UK) and Krakow (Poland). AngelPad #10 (Spring '16) alumni & Deutsche Telekom WARP alumni.
• Musiversal — Record your music in real time with world-class session musicians, vocalists, producers and audio engineers
• Sensefinity — Sensefinity The Blockchain IoT Transformation Company Building the Internet of Cargo Where Assets autonomously connect to processes

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• Pretto — Pretto is the only truly transparent online real estate price comparator.Pretto accompanies you until the signing of your loan, free of charge and without commitment.
• Pilot Photonics — Welcome to Pilot Photonics, a laser product development company in Dublin, Ireland. We provide optical frequency combs and tunable lasers.
• Causeway Sensors — The Affinity, is a compact, bench-top Biosensor providing accurate real-time analysis at an accessible price. The Affinity biosensor and accompanying Access Chip incorporate the latest advancements in Nanotechnology, providing the biochemistry researcher the perfect platform to explore the complex world of biomolecular interactions.

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• Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
• EigenLayer — EigenLayer a platform to leverage Ethereum security through the innovative method of restaking.
• Liqwid Labs — Liqwid Labs is an on-chain lending protocol on Cardano.