Best Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech Companies in Ireland
The 55 best Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech companies in Ireland in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Manna.
Ireland's Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech sector doesn't get the unicorn headlines, but the 55 companies we track here tell a more interesting story than that. This directory ranks the best Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech companies in Ireland by disclosed equity funding and recent funding momentum, and the $124M total across those 55 firms is a real number worth sitting with. Manna leads at $41M, Mbryonics follows at $21M, and Boxever has pulled in $27M, meaning those three alone account for the majority of the pool. Backers like Enterprise Ireland and Atlantic Bridge are showing up consistently, which tells you something about institutional conviction here.
The global market sits at roughly $1076.6B and is growing at a 5.9% CAGR, driven by geopolitical alliances and rising defense investment, two themes you'll recognize in almost every pitch deck coming out of this space right now. So what's actually moving? Median app install growth across maritime, defense, and aviation categories is running at roughly 15% year-on-year, a quiet signal that end-user adoption is climbing even where the funding rounds stay modest. Coverage across the sector is thickening, next-generation platforms are drawing attention, and Ireland's cluster is positioned closer to the action than most people realize.
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Our analysis of 50 Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech companies
$31.9b in tracked funding; 90% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2021.
Ranked: Best Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech companies in Ireland
| # | Company | Last round | Disclosed funding | Employees | Founded | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aero Transport Engineering Consulting Provider of aircraft maintenance software. The company provides integrated and flexible maintenance, repair… | — | — | 34 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | Aeronet Provider of Wi-Fi connectivity for maritime industry | — | — | 6 | 2011 | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | aerospace software developments Aerospace Software Developments offers software designed for the aerospace and aviation market sectors. | — | — | — | 2004 | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | Arconics Provider of Airline Software platform for managing flight data as well as in-flight entertainment. | — | — | 30 | 2010 | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | Armac Systems Inventory planning and optimization solution for MRO | — | — | 23 | 2003 | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | ASTech Learning management and exam software for the aviation industry | — | — | — | 1991 | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | DataManager Offers cloud-based software solutions for MRO operators | — | — | — | 2019 | Ashley Stevens Chief Executive Officer | — | — | — |
| 8 | Deepseek AI Develops drone-based software for SAR operations | — | — | — | 2019 | Niall Mulcahy Co-Founder | Radix UIReact RouterReact+10 | — | — |
Top 12 Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech companies in Ireland
#1
Series B · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2019 · 120 employees$40.7Mraised▾
Operator of air delivery services for medical equipment and food. The company provides delivery of medical supplies and food items. It focuses on offering quiet, regulated, and private services. The business model supports local businesses and aims to create more jobs.
- Apr 2026Series B$50M
- Mar 2025Series A$30M
- Mar 2023Series A—
- Nov 2022Grant (prize money)—
#2
Series A · Galway, Galway · founded 2014 · 75 employees$13.7Mraised▾
Siren is a data intelligence platform for finance, life sciences, law enforcement, cybersecurity and other sectors. It enables businesses to integrate data from various platforms, find relationships across the datasets, explore data using search, dashboards and knowledge graphs and send real-time alerts. It could be integrated with SQL/NoSQL systems and big data frameworks and infrastructures such as Hadoop, Spark, Solr, Elasticsearch and others.
- Dec 2025Series A—
- Feb 2023Venture Debt$12.8M
- Nov 2019Series A$10M
- Feb 2018Seed$3.7M
#3
Funding Raised · Galway, Connaught · founded 2014$20.5Mraised▾
Developer of space communication solutions. It provides users with a company specializing in photonics and optical communications. They develop advanced optical systems for telecommunications, Earth observation, and science missions, providing sensing, imaging, and laser ranging solutions.
- Mar 2024Grant (prize money)$19M
- Dec 2023Grant (prize money)$726.2K
- Oct 2022Grant (prize money)$686.4K
- Oct 2017Grant (prize money)$58.1K
#4
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2016 · 29 employees$5.3Mraised▾
Developer of AI-powered platform for real-time Earth observation and intelligence. The platform transforms satellites into autonomous surveillance assets through on-orbit data fusion. It enables detection, classification, and tracking using optical, SAR, and hyperspectral data. The company provides solutions for maritime situational awareness, exposing threats and enabling critical decisions. The platform is flight-proven and power efficient.
- Dec 2023Grant (prize money)—
- May 2022Seed$4.2M
- Dec 2018Seed$1.1M
#5
Acqui-Hired · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2011 · 76 employees$27.1Mraised▾
Boxever offers cloud-based customer Customer data platform and personalization engine. The company's cloud-based application combines master data management, customer relationship management, decision making, and analytics into a tightly integrated marketing platform, enabling retailers to capture, analyze and act on large volumes of customer data in real-time. Some of its clients include Emirates, Viva Air Group, and Allied Irish Bank.
- Nov 2017Series B$8.1M
- Nov 2017Series B$8.2M
- Jan 2016Venture Debt—
- Jan 2016Series B$12M
#6
Public · Dublin, Leinster · founded 1985 · 11 employees$6.6Mraised▾
AI and web-enabled flight ancillary distribution and pricing engine solution provider. The company connects airlines with various distribution channels. The company also provides technology solutions such as pricing engines and non-airline eCommerce.
#7
Seed · Limerick, County Limerick · founded 2013 · 10 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Aviation management solution for airline and aircraft lessors. It provides solutions that include end-to-end asset management platform, document management for aircraft, aircraft transition solutions, and more.
- Jun 2023Seed$1.5M
#8
Deadpooled · Mayo, County Mayo · founded 2016 · 4 employees$2.2Mraised▾
Developer of electric racing and cruising sailors. It is involved in boat building business. The company has developed a renewable energy production racing and cruising yacht that can be transported on a trailer.
- Feb 2020Grant (prize money)$1.8M
- Mar 2018Grant (prize money)$397.2K
#9
Seed · Naas, County Kildare · founded 2009 · 39 employees$3Mraised▾
Cathx Ocean is a developer of lighting, imaging, and machine vision tools for subsea imaging. It uses subsea technology to carry on measurement, survey, construction, exploration, and production operations of a ship. It also provides a subsea camera and machine vision systems. It can be used in pipeline inspection, environmental and area-based surveys, 3D structure inspection, and precision measurement automation.
- Nov 2016Seed$3M
#10
Funding Raised · Dublin, Leinster · founded 1997$1.8Mraised▾
Provider of space technology and insurance services
- May 2015Grant (prize money)$54.9K
- Dec 2014Grant (prize money)$62.3K
- May 2014Grant (prize money)$1.7M
#11
Funding Raised · Tralee, County Kerry · founded 2001$488.7Kraised▾
Develops robots for military with manipulation capabilities. It offers multiple kinds of robotic platforms and platforms for deployable surveillance. The RDP allows engineers to integrate sensors and other tools on the platform and build a customized robot for their needs.
- Jul 2016Grant (prize money)$488.7K
#12
Funding Raised · Dún Laoghaire, Dublin · founded 1998$364.4Kraised▾
Developer of air traffic management telecommunication software and test equipment. The company provides operational and test data link solutions for aviation safety. It serves air navigation service providers, avionics manufacturers, and communication service providers. Maintenance, repair, and overhaul organizations also utilize the software. The company's solutions facilitate aircraft connection to the air traffic control network.
- Apr 2018Grant (prize money)$364.4K
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How research on Launch Vehicles is moving in Ireland
A read on the academic research around Launch Vehicles — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 6 Ireland-affiliated papers.
- Schlumberger2
- University College Dublin2
- National University of Ireland, Maynooth1
- Institute of Technology Carlow1
- South East Technological University1
- Propulsion1
- In-space propulsion technologies1
- Spacecraft1
- Thrust1
- Space exploration1
- CubeSat1
- Spacecraft1
- Test plan1
- Systems engineering1
- Test (biology)1
- Telemetry1
- Instrumentation (computer programming)1
- Payload (computing)1
- Measure (data warehouse)1
- Bandwidth (computing)1
Where launch vehicles is researched across Ireland
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.