Best Manufacturing Tech Companies in Ireland
The 33 best Manufacturing Tech companies in Ireland in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Protex AI.
Our analysis of 50 Manufacturing Tech companies
$5.6b in tracked funding; 95% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Manufacturing Tech 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 | 21 mo ago | Series B | Dan Hobbs Co-Founder & CEO | 2021 | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+26 | — |
| 2 | Straatum Processware Real-time fault detection and classification solutions for semiconductor industry | $17M | 261 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | — | 1998 | — | — |
| 3 | Automsoft Big data based predictive analytics solutions provider | $5M | 294 mo ago | Series A | Paraic O'Toole CEO | 1997 | — | — |
| 4 | Mavarick AI interfaced production monitoring solutions | $1M | 29 mo ago | Seed | Koen Jasper COO & Co-Founder | 2023 | WordPressMySQLPHP+34 | — |
| 5 | UtilityAR AR smart glasses software for industrial applications | $1M | 83 mo ago | Seed | — | 2017 | — | — |
| 6 | Emex Cloud-based suite solutions for corporate | $828K | 60 mo ago | Funding Raised | Simon Kelly Co-Founder | 2010 | WordPressPleskMySQL+19 | — |
| 7 | Biome Environmental management software | — | — | Acquired | Gary Morgan Co-Founder & CEO | 2016 | — | — |
| 8 | CGA Technology Occupational health and safety management software | — | — | Unfunded | George Curley CEO | 2011 | — | — |
Top 6 Manufacturing Tech companies in Ireland
#1
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
#2
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
#3
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
#4
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
#5
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
#6
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
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Manufacturing Tech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
Common questions
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