Best AdTech Companies in Ireland
The 32 best AdTech companies in Ireland in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Trustev.
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Ranked: Best AdTech companies in Ireland
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trustev Provider of the fraud management solution for the retail industry | $8M | 144 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2012 | Windows ServerMicrosoft ASP.NETAzure+9 | — |
| 2 | HeyStaks Targeted advertising based on search and browsing activities | $4M | 135 mo ago | Seed | Barry Smyth Co-Founder / Chief Scientist / Chairman of the Board | 2008 | — | — |
| 3 | Axonista Interactive video platform | $486K | 115 mo ago | Seed | — | 2010 | — | — |
| 4 | PageFair Anti-adblocking company | $400K | 151 mo ago | Acquired | Sean Blanchfield CEO | 2012 | — | — |
| 5 | FoneSense Audio advertising on phones | $53K | 157 mo ago | Deadpooled | Christian Ryder Founder | 2012 | — | — |
| 6 | Snigel Platform offering SSP software | — | 45 mo ago | Seed | Christopher Krischnig Co-Founder & Advisor | 2012 | WordPressMySQLPHP+17 | — |
| 7 | Ad4Game Advertising network for game developers/publishers | — | — | Unfunded | Saad Ayouch CEO | 2008 | PHPBootstrapGSAP+11 | — |
| 8 | Adapptise In-game advertising platform | — | — | Deadpooled | Anthony McCarthy CEO | 2014 | — | — |
Top 6 AdTech companies in Ireland
#1
Acquired · Cork, Munster · founded 2012 · 41 employees$7.8Mraised▾
Provider of the fraud management solution for the retail industry. It provides real time online identity verification using its proprietary social fingerprinting technology. It Analyses behavioral, transactional and social data points and provides an automated real time score on the authenticity of the customer. Combines machine learning with a decision matrix based on analysis of data points like customer behavior and onsite history, device, analysis of network, proxy, geolocation using IP, email, phone, etc for the detection of fraud which improves over iteration.
- Nov 2014Series A$4M
- Dec 2013Seed$500K
- Oct 2013Seed$3M
- Feb 2013Angel$300K
#2
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2008 · 4 employees$4.1Mraised▾
HeyStack provides a product called Retina platform which is used to analyse users' search and browsing activities and identify like minded people. Adds context to user profile with time, location, device and identifies people with expertise on certain search and browsing topic. Collects the user data from mobile operators and enables the operators to monetize the data using targeted advertisement.
- Jul 2015Seed$1.7M
- Oct 2013Seed$1.1M
- Oct 2010Seed$1.4M
#3
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2010 · 45 employees$485.6Kraised▾
Axonista offers management and distribution platform for video-based interactive digital experiences. Product includes Ediflo Library which offers Digital asset management, Metadata management, Content collections, Transcoding; Ediflo Live which offers Live streaming, Linear scheduling and Realtime content synchronization and Remoco which offers Multi-platform native SDK and Interactive overlays.
- Apr 2017Grant (prize money)$1.8M
- Mar 2017Grant (prize money)$1.8M
- Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$1.8M
- 2014Seed$485.6K
#4
Acquired · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2012 · 14 employees$400Kraised▾
PageFair provides free measurement tool to publishers to determine how many visitors block ads, supplementary advertising system that displays adverts to adblockers only. Websites use the supplemental ads to ask visitors to turn off ad blocking software.
- Mar 2014Seed$400K
#5
Deadpooled · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2012 · 11 employees$53.2Kraised▾
FoneSense provides an app which user can install and choose the audio ads from the listings. User chooses audio advert to use as their ringtone and each time the ad is played via call, the phone owner gets a reward in their account which they can exchange for cash or coupons. Advertisers can manage campaigns in real time, select the target audience, budget, duration, audio file etc. Provides consumer insights via statistical analysis.
- Sep 2013Seed$53.2K
#6
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2012 · 33 employees—raised▾
Platform offering SSP software. It helps publishers to increase their ad revenue through ad optimization and yield management. The platform offers a header bidding solution that helps to increase revenue. It offers a native video ad solution that enables publishers to display content to users and generate ad revenue. The platform provides a dashboard for real-time performance monitoring.
- Jan 2023Seed—
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