Best Industrial Goods and Manufacturing Companies in Ireland
The 105 best Industrial Goods and Manufacturing companies in Ireland in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Protex AI.
Ireland's Industrial Goods and Manufacturing sector is what this directory maps, ranking 105 tracked companies by disclosed equity funding and recent funding momentum. Total disclosed funding sits at $53M across the cohort. No unicorns yet, but the funding concentration tells you something: Protex AI leads at $18M, Straatum Processware follows at $17M, and those two alone account for well over half the capital in the room.
So what's the trend pulling investment here? Fire compartmentalization, fire propagation, and industrial safety controls are emerging as genuinely hot themes this quarter, which I find more telling than a headline funding round. Enterprise Ireland and Act Venture Capital are the most active backers, and median app install growth of roughly +19% year-on-year across 552 related consumer and industrial goods apps signals that end-user demand is moving too, not just institutional money. Perigord and Automsoft, sitting at $6M and $5M respectively, round out a mid-tier that's quietly building. The $53M total is modest by global standards, but the thematic coherence around industrial safety and process automation suggests this cohort is compressing a real trend, not just chasing one.
Our analysis of 431 Industrial Goods and Manufacturing companies
$22.6b in tracked funding; 74% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Industrial Goods and Manufacturing companies in Ireland
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Protex AI Provider of AI-powered platform for industrial workplace safety and efficiency | $18M | 16 mo ago | Series B | Dan Hobbs Co-Founder & CEO | 2021 | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+26 | 1 job opening · 1 launch |
| 2 | Straatum Processware Real-time fault detection and classification solutions for semiconductor industry | $17M | 257 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | — | 1998 | — | — |
| 3 | Perigord Provider of pharmaceutical labeling, consulting, and software services for the life sciences industry | $6M | 106 mo ago | Acquired | — | 1976 | DudaQuillNginx+22 | 3 job openings · 1 launch |
| 4 | Automsoft Big data based predictive analytics solutions provider | $5M | 290 mo ago | Series A | Paraic O'Toole CEO | 1997 | — | — |
| 5 | IPL Manufacturer of container and injection-molded packaging products | $2M | 108 mo ago | Acquired | Serge Bragdon CEO | 1939 | Progress SitefinityApple iCloud MailMicrosoft ASP.NET+14 | — |
| 6 | Mavarick AI interfaced production monitoring solutions | $1M | 25 mo ago | Seed | Koen Jasper COO & Co-Founder | 2023 | WordPressMySQLPHP+34 | — |
| 7 | UtilityAR AR smart glasses software for industrial applications | $1M | 78 mo ago | Seed | — | 2017 | — | — |
| 8 | Emex Cloud-based suite solutions for corporate | $828K | 56 mo ago | Funding Raised | Simon Kelly Co-Founder | 2010 | WordPressPleskMySQL+19 | — |
| 9 | Lios Developer of products for eradicating noise pollution and avoidable hearing damage | $782K | 80 mo ago | Seed | Rhona Togher Co-Founder & CEO | 2009 | WordPressMySQLPHP+25 | — |
| 10 | Better Futures AI assistant & platform for manufacturing and engineering | $535K | 1 mo ago | Seed | Anthony Loughlin Founder & CEO | 2023 | AlgoliaNode.jsanime.js+18 | 1 award |
| 11 | SmartFactory SmartFactory We Understand Manufacturing | $105K | 71 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2016 | Cart FunctionalityWooCommerceWordPress+35 | — |
Top 12 Industrial Goods and Manufacturing companies in Ireland
#1
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2023$534.5Kraised▾
AI assistant & platform for manufacturing and engineering. The platform leverages large language models and the GPT technology to deploy AI assistants that can access relevant data and knowledge across organizations.
- May 2026Seed$697.2K
- Jun 2024Seed$534.5K
#2
Series B · Limerick, County Limerick · founded 2021 · 36 employees$18.1Mraised▾
Provider of AI-powered platform for industrial workplace safety and efficiency. The platform uses existing CCTV infrastructure to process data and identify unsafe behaviors. It offers customizable safety rules, reporting capabilities, and corrective action features. The platform provides predictive analytics, reporting, and integrations with CCTV, EHS, and BI systems.
- Jan 2025Series B$36M
- Aug 2022Series A$18M
- Sep 2021Seed$125K
#3
Seed · Limerick, County Limerick · founded 2023$1.4Mraised▾
AI interfaced production monitoring solutions. It provides manufacturing management software that analyses production processes, machine performance, and downtime errors.
- May 2024Seed$1.4M
- 2023Grant (prize money)$107K
#4
Acqui-Hired · Dublin, Leinster · founded 1998 · 8 employees$16.8Mraised▾
Straatum Processware Limited designs and develops fault detection and classification software and hardware solutions to the semiconductor sector. The Company offers products that helps to detect real-time tool and process excursions, as well as identify the root cause of the excursion. The company was acquired by Lam Research Ireland in 2009.
- Jan 2005Series A$5.7M
- 2001Series A$9.1M
#5
Acquired · Dublin, Leinster · founded 1976 · 275 employees$6.3Mraised▾
Provider of pharmaceutical labeling, consulting, and software services for the life sciences industry. Its other services include artwork production & management, project management, and strategic outsourcing.
#6
Series A · Dublin, Leinster · founded 1997 · 44 employees$5.3Mraised▾
Automsoft is a bigdata based predictive analytics solutions provider. The company is involved in the collection of data from industrial equipment in oil & gas, power & utilities, smart grids, and others. Offerings include RAPID, which collects, stores and analyses data to enable decision-making for customers. Used in utilities, life sciences, oil & gas, food & beverage, mining, and pulp & paper.
- Apr 2002Series A$5.3M
#7
Funding Raised · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2010 · 23 employees$828.4Kraised▾
Cloud-based suite solutions for corporate. The platform specializes in providing Environmental, Health, and Safety software to aggregate EHS data in a single, auditable database for efficient analysis and reporting. They manage processes such as risk and audit management, incident and event management, equipment and asset management, behavioural safety, and the full spectrum of environmental tracking and reporting. Customers are from the oil and gas, mining, logistics, food, and manufacturing industries.
- Oct 2021Grant (prize money)$828.4K
#8
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2017 · 1 employees$1.1Mraised▾
UtilityAR develops augmented reality smart glasses software for industrial and utility applications. Has features that allow technicians to view the surroundings as well as see instructions and even diagrams on a screen of the glasses. A remote advisor can see what the technician is seeing and guide them through the processes and procedures. Also has a feature known as asset management which has the ability to activate 3D pop-ups with information about an asset including maintenance instruction by scanning a QR code with the AR glasses. Helps in providing handsfree maintenance, servicing, and repairs.
- Dec 2019Seed$661K
- 2018Seed$28.6K
- 2018Seed$419.1K
#9
Acquired · Dublin, County Dublin · founded 1939 · 587 employees$1.6Mraised▾
Manufacturer of container and injection-molded packaging products
#10
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2009 · 15 employees$781.8Kraised▾
Developer of a sound therapy device designed to eradicate noise pollution and avoidable hearing damage. The company's device utilizes patented technology and offers advanced acoustic materials that help in reducing noise more effectively, It offers improvement in noise reduction at low frequencies with volume reduction its design can be customized for various applications, enabling industries to reduce production costs, component sizes, and noise emissions.
#11
Funding Raised · Ireland · founded 2016 · 9 employees$104.5Kraised▾
SmartFactory add intelligence into the manufacturing process to drive continuous improvement, knowledge transfer and data-based decision making.
- Jul 2020Grant (prize money)$104.5K
#12
Funding Raised · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2014—raised▾
Provider of manufacturing and automation research, training and consulting services
Funding & investor landscape
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Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Industrial Goods and Manufacturing coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding flat · growth flat
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