Best Food & Beverage Products Companies in Ireland
The 122 best Food & Beverage Products companies in Ireland in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: The Naked Collective.
Here's something worth bookmarking if you're tracking Food & Beverage Products companies in Ireland: our directory ranks 122 of them by disclosed equity funding and recent momentum, and the concentration at the top is striking. The Naked Collective has pulled in $14M, Kerry Foodservice sits at $10M, and after that the numbers drop fast. Snack Farm at $302,758, Veronica's Snacks at $528,942, Vista Foods at $73,175. That gap tells you something real about how early-stage this funding pool still is, with total disclosed capital across all 122 companies sitting at just $26M. Enterprise Ireland and AIB Seed Capital Fund are the names showing up most as backers, which means a lot of this growth is still publicly catalyzed rather than purely private-market driven.
So what's actually moving the sector? Across 533 food, foodtech, and beverage apps, median install growth is running at roughly +19% year-on-year, which I'd argue is the clearest signal that consumer appetite (sorry) for this category isn't cooling. Good4U has found its footing at $1M raised, and you can see the health-forward positioning resonating. The honest read here is that Ireland's Food & Beverage Products scene is genuinely early, funded modestly but actively watched, and the companies that can translate consumer digital engagement into durable revenue are the ones worth following closely this quarter.
Our analysis of 150 Food & Beverage Products companies
$9.5b in tracked funding; 93% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2024.
Ranked: Best Food & Beverage Products companies in Ireland
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Naked Collective Brand of energy drinks | $14M | 57 mo ago | Series B | — | 2019 | — | — |
| 2 | Kerry Foodservice Internet-first brand offering coffee | $10M | 181 mo ago | Series A | — | 2003 | ShopifyAzureAccentuate Custom Fields+19 | 2 launchs |
| 3 | Good4U Healthy food products | $1M | 146 mo ago | Seed | — | 2005 | Cart FunctionalityShopifyShop Pay+26 | — |
| 4 | Veronica's Snacks Baked crisps snack company | $529K | 135 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2012 | — | — |
| 5 | Snack Farm Brand of nut & seed mixes | $303K | 66 mo ago | Seed | Mishka Staunton Founder | 2016 | — | — |
| 6 | Vista Foods Provider of premium hand prepared chicken products for the foodservice sector | $73K | 277 mo ago | Seed | — | 2003 | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | — |
| 7 | Coffee House Lane Coffee brand and company | $28K | 118 mo ago | Funding Raised | Mark Bergin Founder | 2014 | Cart FunctionalityWooCommerceWordPress+13 | — |
| 8 | Tirlan Manufacturer of consumer food products, agri-brands, and ingredient solutions | — | 38 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 1996 | JavaBootstrapApache HTTP Server+11 | — |
Top 12 Food & Beverage Products companies in Ireland
#1
Series B · Leixlip, County Kildare · founded 2019 · 31 employees$14.1Mraised▾
Brand of energy drinks
- Sep 2021Series B$7.3M
- 2020Series A$6.7M
#2
Series A · Naas, County Kildare · founded 2003$10Mraised▾
Internet-first brand offering coffee
- May 2011PE$5M
- Dec 2009Series A$10M
- Conventional Debt—
#3
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2016 · 2 employees$302.8Kraised▾
Brand of nut & seed mixes
- Dec 2020Angel$302.8K
#4
Seed · Sligo, County Sligo · founded 2005 · 28 employees$1.2Mraised▾
Good4U is a brand of healthy food products. Its catalog includes fresh sprouts, roasted seeds, etc. Their food processing plant is located in Northern Ireland in Loughry College Food Incubation Complex, where Good4U grows, packs and distributes their products to outlets throughout Ireland and the UK
- Apr 2014Seed$1.2M
#5
Deadpooled · Cork, Munster · founded 2012 · 3 employees$528.9Kraised▾
Veronica's Snacks offers a range of Baked Crisps. Claims to be gluten free,Organic and non GMO. Snacks are sold across United kingdom through retail channels such as TESCO, SPAR, SuperValu as of June, 2016.
- Feb 2015Seed$528.9K
#6
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2003$73.2Kraised▾
It is a leading supplier of hand-prepared chicken products in Ireland and the UK. They offer a wide range of premium quality chicken products that cater to various businesses. With a focus on value and choice, Vista Foods aims to continuously increase value for their customers in the perishable commodities market.
- Apr 2003Seed$73.2K
#7
Funding Raised · Waterford, Munster · founded 2014$27.8Kraised▾
Coffee House is a coffee brand. Their products include blend, fresh ground, aikenheads fresh ground, centenary blend fresh ground, ethiopian yirgacheffe and more. The products are sold through their own online platform and their own store in Ireland.
- Aug 2016Venture Debt$27.8K
#8
Funding Raised · Kilkenny, County Kilkenny · founded 1996 · 1145 employees—raised▾
Manufacturer of consumer food products, agri-brands, and ingredient solutions. They offer a diverse portfolio enjoyed internationally. The company provides tailored ingredients for various applications. They are committed to quality in dairy and grain production.
#9
Funding Raised · Dublin, Leinster · founded 1961 · 3000 employees—raised▾
Ornua procures and markets dairy products. The company uses milk from Irish grass-fed cows, processed and markets it. It markets its products under the brand names Kerrygold, Dubliner, Pilgrims Choice, Shannongold, Forto, and Beo. The company supplies its products to Ireland, UK, Germany, Europe, USA, Africa, Middle East and Asia.
#10
Deadpooled · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2016 · 2 employees—raised▾
Pow Cow is a yogurt brand. Their products include yogurt in the variety of flavours such as passion fruit & mango, chocolate, and cool coconut. The company sells the majority of their products in Ireland through stores and retailers.
- 2017Seed—
#11
Deadpooled · Cork, Munster · founded 2016 · 2 employees—raised▾
Operator of organic food company intended to provide probiotics for the dairy industry. The company develops probiotics that help to increase vitamin K12 content in milk and dairy products, enabling milk producers to increase the nutritional value of the milk.
- Jun 2016Seed—
#12
Acquired · Kildare, Leinster · founded 1992 · 120 employees—raised▾
Lily O Brien's is a producer and brand of chocolates. Their products include milk chocolates, dark chocolates, mint chocolates, toffees, caramel chocolates, fruity chocolates, nutty chocolates and more. The company claims that its products are vegan and doesn't contain any hydrogenated fats. The company sells its products online and independent grocers. The company sells chocolates including their best-sellers chocolate shoe box hampers, chocolate desserts collection, ultimate chocolate collection and more. The company claims that it sells its products in 16 countries including UK and Ireland.
- Jan 2014PE—
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Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
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Regulatory-risk over time rising
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funding flat · growth flat
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- Teagasc - The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority6
- University College Dublin6
- Munster Technological University4
- University College Cork3
- APC Microbiome Institute2
- Biodiversity1
- Sustainability1
- Production (economics)1
- Stewardship (theology)1
- Agriculture1
- Biotechnology4
- Food science3
- Biochemical engineering2
- Sustainability2
- Audit2
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