Best Gaming Companies in Ireland
The 64 best Gaming companies in Ireland in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Vela Games.
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Our analysis of 180 Gaming companies
$26.0b in tracked funding; 90% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2024.
Ranked: Best Gaming companies in Ireland
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vela Games Video game developer focusing on core games | $24M | 59 mo ago | Series A | Brian Kaiser Co-Founder | 2017 | DatoCMSTailwind CSSReact+14 | — |
| 2 | Hattrick Sports Group Betting software provider for the eSports gaming industry | $21M | 183 mo ago | Acquired | Jerko Saric Founder & President | 2010 | — | — |
| 3 | Touch Press Developer of casual games | $18M | 113 mo ago | Series A | Stephen Wolfram Founder | 2016 | — | — |
| 4 | Voysis Platform providing speech-based NLP solutions | $8M | 112 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | — | 2012 | — | — |
| 5 | DIGIT Game Studios Mobile game developer | $7M | 99 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2012 | — | — |
| 6 | Artomatix AI-based graphics tool development company | $7M | 84 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2014 | — | — |
| 7 | WarDucks Game development studio based in Ireland | $6M | 87 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2014 | — | — |
| 8 | Selatra Game Service Provider | $4M | 249 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | Fergal OCallaghan Co-Founder & CEO | 2002 | — | — |
| 9 | eRepublik Labs Mobile game developer focusing on casual games | $3M | 207 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2007 | BootstrapAmazon Web ServicesCloudflare Rocket Loader+5 | — |
| 10 | ByoWave Provider of customizable controller and phone app for gaming | $3M | 39 mo ago | Seed | — | 2021 | — | — |
| 11 | Jamango Provider of online gaming platform | $2M | 25 mo ago | Seed | Richard Whelan Co-Founder | 2022 | Three.jsTailwind CSSReact+7 | — |
| 12 | Maven Hut Web games developer | $641K | 163 mo ago | Seed | — | 2012 | — | — |
| 13 | Pewter Games Studios Indie game development studio based in Ireland | $461K | 106 mo ago | Funding Raised | Christopher Conlan Co-Founder | 2013 | — | — |
| 14 | Haunted Planet Developer of AR mobile games | $392K | 117 mo ago | Funding Raised | Mads Haahr Founder & CEO | 2010 | — | — |
| 15 | WYLDE Online esports gaming organization | $372K | 30 mo ago | Seed | David Cronin Co-Founder & Director | 2021 | Cart FunctionalityWooCommerceWordPress+26 | — |
| 16 | Tribal City Developer of original games for mobile and Windows Phone platforms | $188K | 112 mo ago | Funding Raised | Alan Duggan Founder | 2009 | — | — |
Top 12 Gaming companies in Ireland
#1
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2022$2.5Mraised▾
Provider of online gaming platform. It is a gaming platform that enables anyone to create, and play user-generated worlds. It offers various categories of games such as Cafe defence, bed wars, Onboarding Island, Climb to olympus, and more.
- May 2024Seed$2.5M
#2
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2021 · 5 employees$371.7Kraised▾
Online esports gaming organization. The company has developed a platform that enables gamers to connect and compete with other players. It can be used for gaming, entertainment, and competitive performance analysis.
#3
Seed · Galway, Connaught · founded 2021 · 5 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Developer of video game controller designed for disabled gamers. The company allows the user to build controller configurations online, and easily share them with the community, enabling gamers to build their own way to play.
#4
Series A · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2017 · 59 employees$24.2Mraised▾
Video game developer focusing on core games. The company develops games from various genres like MMO, FPS, AR, and VR-enabled games.
- Jun 2021Series A$17.3M
- Apr 2020Seed$3.1M
- Jul 2019Seed$3.8M
#5
Acquired · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2014 · 18 employees$6.5Mraised▾
Artomatix is an AI-based graphics tool development company. It has developed "ArtEngine" which is an AI-based software for the game development. The tool allows game developers to create 3D contents such as video games, movies, and special effects. Has won "Nvidia’s startup Contest 2015".
- Jun 2019Series A$1.2M
- Nov 2018Grant (prize money)$1.3M
- Oct 2018Series A$3.1M
- Mar 2017Seed$2.2M
#6
Series A · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2016 · 7 employees$18.4Mraised▾
Developer of casual games. The portfolio of games developed are Barbie Color Creations, Disney Coloring World, Marvel HQ Kids Super Hero Fun, Barbie Color Creations, Sesame Street Mecha Builders, and more. It develops games for mobile platform and is made available on playstore.
- 2017Series A$10M
- Jan 2017Series A$8.4M
#7
Acquired · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2010 · 501 employees$21.3Mraised▾
Hattrick Sports Group provides sports booking & sports betting software for the eSports gaming industry. Also provides on the ground operations, ongoing training, and support. The company also operates the gaming platform of network-based gaming terminals, retail gaming concepts and mobile betting application for gamers.
- Mar 2011Series B$4.8M
- May 2010Series B$16.5M
#8
Acquired · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2012 · 88 employees$6.7Mraised▾
Founded in 2012, Digit Game Studios is a game developer headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. The first game titled Kings of the Realm, is a MMO strategy game. Allows players to play the game on any device, including iOS, Android, browser and social platforms and move between devices. The company is working on the next game, announced to be released in 2016.
- Mar 2018Series A$1M
- Jan 2018Series A$500K
- Jun 2017Series A$2.7M
- May 2015Series A—
#9
Deadpooled · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2014 · 24 employees$5.9Mraised▾
War ducks is a web game development studio based in Ireland. The studio has developed multiple games including "Global Agents" - a strategy game, "Sneaky Bears" - an action-adventure VR game and "RollerCoaster Legends II: Thor's Hammer" - an adventure VR game. The games are available on the Steam, PlayStation Store, and Oculus store. It generates revenue through paid games.
- Mar 2019Series A$3.8M
- Sep 2017Seed$1.6M
- Oct 2015Seed$495.7K
#10
Acqui-Hired · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2012 · 35 employees$8Mraised▾
Voysis offers a platform for developers to develop speech-based solutions. Allows users to employ speech recognition, natural language processing and understanding, deep learning, and text-to-speech technologies to projects or products and train them. It enables machines to learn voices and languages automatically from data like entity names, categories, or descriptions. The solution is offered in the form of APIs, SDKs, or Javascript enabling users to push data through the cloud service to mobile, web, and other devices.
- Feb 2017Series A$8M
#11
Acqui-Hired · Cork, Munster · founded 2002 · 15 employees$4.2Mraised▾
Founded in 2002, Selatra provides a range of mobile games related services ranging from consulting, game distribution, game hosting and a fully managed games service for Mobile Network Operators. the company had raised a total of $4.2M in funding before being acquired by 24mas.com in May, 2011.
- Sep 2005Series A$2.2M
- Jul 2005Series A$2M
- Jul 2005Seed—
#12
Acquired · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2007 · 37 employees$2.8Mraised▾
Mobile game developer focusing on casual games. The company has developed games like Cannon Land, Twin Shooter - Invaders - an arcade-style shooter game, Age of Lords - a turn-based strategy game. The games are developed for Android and iOS users.
- Mar 2009Series A$2.8M
- Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Gaming coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding flat · growth rising
How research on Gaming Technology is moving in Ireland
A read on the academic research around Gaming Technology — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 12 Ireland-affiliated papers.
- Trinity College Dublin4
- University College Dublin3
- Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway2
- Technological University Dublin1
- Centre for Research in Engineering Surface Technology1
- Game engine5
- Rendering (computer graphics)4
- Computer graphics (images)2
- Real-time rendering2
- Virtual reality1
- Rendering (computer graphics)3
- Crowds1
- Global illumination1
- Computer vision1
- Fidelity1
- Animation1
- Computer facial animation1
- Character (mathematics)1
- Multimedia1
- Motion capture1
Where gaming tech 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
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