Best Native AI Companies in Dublin, Ireland
The 41 best Native AI companies in Dublin, Ireland in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Afiniti.
Our analysis of 150 Native AI companies
$80.7b in tracked funding; 94% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Native AI companies in Dublin
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Afiniti 🦄 Call center behavioural pairing solution | $104M | 73 mo ago | Series D | 279 | Jerome Kapelus Chief Executive Officer | WordPressMySQLPHP+21 | 82 patents AI-powered contact‑center routing, agent state management, and coordinated teleconferencing systems. | 1 partnership |
| 2 | Deciphex Network of pathologists providing digital diagnostic services for medical testing | $25M | 11 mo ago | Series C | 119 | Donal O’Shea Co-Founder & CEO | WebflowGSAPLenis+14 | 8 patents AI-powered automated clustering and screening of histopathology tissue images for anomalies | — |
| 3 | Sweepr Software platform for providing autonomous capabilities to connected homes | $16M | 33 mo ago | Acquired | 23 | Alan Coleman Founder & CEO | WordPress Block EditorWordPressPlesk+15 | — | — |
| 4 | Soapbox Labs Provider of cloud-based speech recognition platform for kids | $10M | 37 mo ago | Acquired | 41 | — | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+20 | 20 patents Speech detection and audio signal processing technologies for speech recognition systems. | — |
| 5 | Voysis Platform providing speech-based NLP solutions | $8M | 114 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | 35 | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | AmbiSense Provider of AI-based autonomous gas monitoring technology | $6M | 60 mo ago | Deadpooled | 20 | — | — | 13 patents Environmental gas sensing and air‑quality monitoring, focusing on ground‑gas concentration and flow measurement. | — |
| 7 | Ubotica Developer of AI-powered platform for real-time Earth observation and intelligence | $5M | 32 mo ago | Seed | 29 | Fintan Buckley Co-Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | — | — |
| 8 | Outmin Cloud-based accounting and bookkeeping software for businesses | $4M | 15 mo ago | Series A | 42 | Ross Hunt Founder & CEO | WebflowGSAPSwiper+22 | — | — |
| 9 | AutoEntry Automatic scanning technology for bills, statements and expenses. | $3M | 113 mo ago | Acquired | 200 | — | WebflowSalesforceIntercom+22 | — | — |
| 10 | Volograms Developer of AI-powered platform for creating and sharing 3D volumetric holograms | $3M | 71 mo ago | Series A | 16 | Konstantinos Amplianitis Co-Founder | Webflow EcommerceWebflowReact+24 | 3 patents 3D volumetric imaging and holographic capture technologies | — |
| 11 | Mirror Security Provider of AI security solutions specializing in data encryption and threat detection | $2M | 9 mo ago | Seed | — | Aditya K Co-Founder | Framer SitesReactstyled-components+10 | — | 1 launch |
| 12 | Intouch Provider of an AI-driven platform for personalized in-store media and advertising | $2M | 34 mo ago | Series A | 48 | — | WebflowHubSpotcore-js+18 | — | — |
| 13 | Axe Provider of AI & SaaS-enabled automated purchasing workflow management solutions for businesses | $2M | 15 mo ago | Seed | — | James Mcelroy Founder | — | — | — |
| 14 | Solidroad AI based conversational training platform for businesses | $1M | 5 mo ago | Series A | — | Mark Hughes Co-Founder & CEO | Framer SitesApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+17 | — | — |
| 15 | Inspeq AI AI platform for evaluating AI applications | $1M | 27 mo ago | Seed | — | Ramanujam Vijayakumar Co-Founder | HubSpot CMS HubReactstyled-components+15 | — | — |
| 16 | Inferex Platform offering AI application development software | $1M | 62 mo ago | Seed | 6 | Greg Tarr CEO | — | — | — |
| 17 | Luna Developer of vision-based Advanced Rider Assistance Systems for powered two-wheelers | $477K | 7 mo ago | Seed | 14 | Ronan Furlong Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+12 | — | — |
| 18 | Unravel Tool for testing web apps using machine learning | $458K | 120 mo ago | Deadpooled | 7 | Santina Doherty Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
Top 12 Native AI companies in Dublin
#1
Series C · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2017 · 119 employees$24.5Mraised▾
Network of pathologists providing digital diagnostic services for medical testing. These services utilize artificial intelligence to assist in the analysis of tissue samples and clinical slides. The platform integrates with existing healthcare systems to facilitate remote review of diagnostic data. By digitizing workflows, the system supports the assessment of biological samples for clinical and research purposes. The technology assists in identifying lesions and evaluating diagnostic findings to support medical decision making.
- Oct 2025Venture Debt$17.6M
- Jan 2025Series C$32.1M
- Oct 2023Venture Debt$10.5M
- Jan 2023Series B$4.2M
#2
Series A · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2023$1.2Mraised▾
AI based conversational training platform for businesses. It allows users to practice AI-powered conversations and receive personalized performance feedback. It provides customized performance feedback and coaching points.
- Mar 2026Series A$32M
- 2025Seed$500K
- Jun 2025Seed$6.5M
- Jul 2024Seed$1.2M
#3
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2024$2.5Mraised▾
Provider of AI security solutions specializing in data encryption and threat detection. The company offers fully homomorphic encryption technology optimized for AI workloads, ensuring data remains encrypted during processing. It provides tools for encrypted AI memory, model protection, and zero-knowledge guarantees. The company's offerings include real-time threat detection, behavioral anomaly alerts, and automated alerts for AI agents.
- Dec 2025Seed$2.5M
#4
Series A · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2020 · 42 employees$4.4Mraised▾
Cloud-based accounting and bookkeeping software for businesses. It features an AI-driven solution for payroll management, accounting management, bookkeeping, tax compliance, R&D tax credit management, company secretarial & formation, CFO services, and more. The pricing is available on the monthly subscription plan.
- May 2025Series A$4.5M
- Jun 2023Seed$2.1M
- Sep 2022Seed$1.5M
#5
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2019 · 14 employees$476.5Kraised▾
Developer of vision-based Advanced Rider Assistance Systems for powered two-wheelers. The company delivers in-ride proximity warnings and post-ride analytics. It offers camera hardware, giving OEMs options to bring ARAS to their riders. The company provides solutions to help riders learn how to maneuver in high risk scenarios, providing reaction time for riders to maneuver to safety.
- Jan 2026Seed$1.7M
- Apr 2022Grant (prize money)$54.3K
- Mar 2021Seed$476.5K
#6
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2023$1.7Mraised▾
Provider of AI & SaaS-enabled automated purchasing workflow management solutions for businesses. The solution helps in controlling purchasing processes like approvals, invoice matching, custom supplier portal, real-time budgeting, and more.
- May 2025Seed$1.7M
#7
Acquired · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2010 · 23 employees$15.9Mraised▾
Software platform for providing autonomous capabilities to connected homes. It uses a cloud-based engine to gather context, supports homeowner interactions, and provides a layer for application and voice skills to build multi-modal user interactions. The company provides SDKs that gather diagnostic data from the users connected devices and services in real-time and come with source code for reference applications showing the appropriate use of APIs to enable rapid prototyping.
- Nov 2023Series A$4M
- Sep 2019Series A$9M
- 2018Seed$2.9M
#8
Afiniti 🦄Series D · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2006 · 279 employees$104.3Mraised▾
Afiniti offers an AI-based customer interaction analytics solution for businesses. This solution analyzes customer interactions and on the basis of their behavioral traits, it pairs customers and support agents. Whenever a customer reaches out to a customer support team through chat, email, or other media, it provides a unique customer identification number and starts the data chaining process which can be used to assign appropriate support agents to the customer. This process reduces customer turn around time and improves the efficiency of their works. Clients include Sky, Virgin Media, Casers, and AXA Direct.
- Jul 2020Conventional Debt$150M
- Oct 2018Conventional Debt$60M
- Oct 2016Series D$77.8M
- Jul 2014Series C$26.5M
#9
Acquired · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2015 · 41 employees$10.4Mraised▾
Provider of cloud-based speech recognition platform for kids. Its products enable speech assessment for reading, English learning, language learning, and voice commands for gaming, and entertainment. Developers can access its technology using an API to build voice-enabled device interactions for building education apps, interactive toys, wearables, and more.
- Jul 2023Series A—
- Apr 2020Series A$6.6M
- Feb 2020Grant (prize money)$1.6M
- Mar 2018Grant (prize money)$1.8M
#10
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
#11
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2023$1.1Mraised▾
AI platform for evaluating AI applications. It offers a platform for evaluating AI applications, focusing on performance and reliability of large language model applications. It provides an AI Ops platform that covers multiple aspects of AI development and production, including testing, evaluation, monitoring, and performance optimization.
- May 2024Seed$1.1M
#12
Series A · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2015 · 48 employees$2.3Mraised▾
Provider of an AI-driven platform for personalized in-store media and advertising. The platform enables retailers to display relevant advertisements to potential customers in real-time. It allows for increased product sales and brand awareness through targeted in-store advertisements. The system integrates with retailers' POS systems to provide insights about campaign effectiveness.
- Oct 2023Series A$1.6M
- Oct 2018Seed$685.2K
- Jul 2018Seed—
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How research on Artificial Intelligence in Dublin is moving
A read on the academic research around Artificial Intelligence in Dublin — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 58 papers.
- Trinity College Dublin18
- University College Dublin18
- Dublin City University15
- Technological University Dublin11
- Feature (linguistics)4
- Reinforcement learning3
- Limiting3
- Pattern recognition (psychology)3
- Bayesian probability2
- Pattern recognition (psychology)5
- Sensitivity (control systems)4
- Feature (linguistics)3
- Electroencephalography3
- Situation awareness3
- Tongue2
- Modality (human–computer interaction)2
- Inversion (geology)2
- Perception2
- Speech sound2
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