Best Payments Companies in Ireland
The 78 best Payments companies in Ireland in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: TransferMate.
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Our analysis of 150 Payments companies
$44.9b in tracked funding; 96% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2021.
Ranked: Best Payments companies in Ireland
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TransferMate 🦄 International B2B payments and receivables transactions | $130M | 49 mo ago | 2 | Sinead Fitzmaurice CEO | WebflowSentryApple iCloud Mail+20 | Top 5M | — | 1 launch · 2 partnerships · 2 awards |
| 2 | NomuPay International payment receiving and invoicing solutions for businesses | $54M | 12 mo ago | 84 | Peter Burridge Group Chief Executive Officer | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+27 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 3 | BOI Payment Acceptance Provides payment processing solutions. | $49M | 30 mo ago | 127 | Brian Cleary CEO & MD | SitecoreMediaElement.jsBootstrap+33 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 4 | CleverCards Online gifting platform for digital greeting cards | $38M | 24 mo ago | 30 | Kealan Lennon Founder & CEO | SanityCart FunctionalityNode.js+25 | Top 5M | — | 1 award |
| 5 | Plynk Provider of lottery result information and related services | $29M | 108 mo ago | 8 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | Evervault Data encryption solution provider | $22M | 3 mo ago | 28 | Shane Curran Founder & CEO | TurbopackSentryNode.js+24 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 7 | Orbiscom Dummy card number generator | $18M | 296 mo ago | — | Ajay Banga CEO | — | — | 3 patents Card payment transaction processing and network interoperability solutions | — |
| 8 | Alpha Fintech Omnichannel payment solution access platform | $12M | 115 mo ago | 50 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 9 | Zamano Provider of fluoropolymer coatings, linings, and chemical processing equipment | $11M | 199 mo ago | 22 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 10 | SH Group Real estate appraisal and consulting firm providing valuation, consulting, and litigation support services | $10M | 49 mo ago | 14 | Kevin Neuschatz Co-Founder | WordPress Block EditorElementorWordPress+16 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 11 | Trustap Provider of secure transaction management platform for marketplaces and e-commerce | $9M | 23 mo ago | 32 | Conor Lyden CEO & Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+31 | Top 5M | — | 1 partnership |
| 12 | Trustev Provider of the fraud management solution for the retail industry | $8M | 139 mo ago | 41 | — | Windows ServerMicrosoft ASP.NETAzure+9 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 13 | WhenThen Payment gateway solutions for businesses | $6M | 59 mo ago | 30 | Kirk Donohoe Founder and CEO (Acquired by Advent International) | — | — | — | — |
| 14 | NoFrixion Platform for online payments for businesses | $4M | 44 mo ago | 21 | Feargal Brady Co-Founder & CEO | Framer SitesReactMicrosoft Clarity+11 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 15 | Strikepay Cashless tipping company | $2M | 51 mo ago | 15 | Oli Cavanagh Co-Founder & CEO | WebflowBootstrapAmazon Web Services+20 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 16 | Cluey Provider of semiconductor fabrication services and analytical solutions | $1M | 159 mo ago | 11 | Fergus Lynch CEO & Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 17 | Cambrist FX rate optimisation platform | $982K | 95 mo ago | 12 | Jacob Claflin Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 18 | payByMobile Mobile wallet for online shopping | $825K | 197 mo ago | — | Liam Lowe Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 19 | PayMins Gumroad on mobile | $185K | 155 mo ago | — | Patrick Walsh Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 Payments companies in Ireland
#1
Series B · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2019 · 28 employees$22.2Mraised▾
Data encryption solutions provider. It provides an encryption infrastructure for developers that allow them to store and process encrypted data. It offers developer tools and APIs that allow companies to process personal data without storing. It also provides a solution that deploys applications in a hardware-secured environment to keep information encrypted at all times. Platform encrypts sensitive payment information, such as cardholder data and personal identifiable information. The platform allows businesses to tokenize card data, which means that actual card numbers are replaced with unique identifiers (tokens) that can be used for transactions without exposing the original data.
- Mar 2026Series B$25M
- May 2020Series A$16.4M
- Oct 2019Seed$3.2M
#2
Series B · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2021 · 84 employees$53.6Mraised▾
International payment receiving and invoicing solutions for businesses. Provides unified omnichannel payment acceptance for merchants. Provides unified APIs for digital payments, payment administration, and reconciliation solutions.
- Jun 2025Series B$40M
- Jan 2025Series B$37M
- May 2023Series A$53.6M
#3
Series B · Dublin, County Dublin · founded 2011 · 30 employees$38.3Mraised▾
Online gifting platform for digital greeting cards. It allows the users to customize cards using facebook photos and share with friends either digitally or via postal mail. Its app is available for android and iOS users. It also provides photo gift products, like photo calendars, holiday card packs, and customizable gift cards from retailers.
- Jun 2024Series B$8.6M
- May 2021Series B$12.2M
- Apr 2016Series A$2.7M
- Jan 2014Series A$6M
#4
Series A · Cork, Munster · founded 2017 · 32 employees$8.9Mraised▾
Provider of secure transaction management platform for marketplaces and e-commerce. The platform offers payment acceptance, shipping and fulfilment tracking, and dispute management. It also provides onboarding and compliance for sellers, along with account management tools. The platform delivers transactional data for tax reporting and insights to monitor trends.
- Jul 2024Series A$5.5M
- Apr 2022Seed$3.4M
#5
Series C · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2014 · 127 employees$49.1Mraised▾
BOI Payment Acceptance (BOIPA) is an alliance between the Bank of Ireland and EVO Payments International offering a full range of payment acceptance solutions. Its product offerings include PoS machine (sourced from Ingenico), Payment gateway (API based, for online stores) and wireless PoS terminals (sourced from Ingenico).
- Nov 2023Series C$41.5M
- Sep 2023Series A$7.6M
#6
Series B · Kilkenny, County Kilkenny · founded 2010 · 2 employees$130Mraised▾
International B2B payments and receivables transactions. It offers global payment APIs that can integrate with third parties globally. It enables banks, financial institutions, and businesses to send and receive money globally, automate the cross-border payment solution for the end customers, and more.
- May 2022Series B$70M
- Jul 2018Series A$24.5M
- Nov 2017Series A$35.4M
#7
Series A · Dublin, County Dublin · founded 2020 · 14 employees$10Mraised▾
The Stanhope Group is a real estate appraisal and consulting firm that provides appraisal valuation, consulting, and litigation support services. Established in 1967, the company has a team with over 200 years of combined experience in the financial sector.
- May 2022Series A$10M
#8
Deadpooled · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2015 · 8 employees$29Mraised▾
Provider of lottery result information and related services. It publishes results for various state lotteries, offering timely updates on winning numbers and prize details. The service also provides information on lottery rules, ticket purchasing, and claim procedures. It acts as a central hub for accessing lottery-related data, assisting users in understanding the process and accessing results. Additional services may include FAQs and contact information for relevant lottery authorities.
- Jun 2017Series A$28.2M
- Oct 2016Seed$795.2K
- Angel$21.8K
#9
Series A · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2020 · 21 employees$3.5Mraised▾
Platform for online payments for businesses. It offers electronic money management and payment services, often known as programmable money. The services are provided via a number of Internet channels, including a web-based API, and are aimed at commercial customers.
- Oct 2022Series A$3.5M
#10
Acquired · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2000$17.5Mraised▾
Orbiscom’s primary objective is to facilitate enhanced payments to the payments industry via the card networks. Its unique card number generator masks the real card details of the users thereby making it difficult for the fraudsters to steal card details. It also offers companies the ability to place limits on individual corporate credit card users by either transaction size or type.
- Sep 2001PE$17.5M
#11
Acquired · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2020 · 30 employees$6Mraised▾
Payment gateway solutions for businesses. It provides tools for collecting, processing, and managing online payments. It provides payment gateway solutions for usage billing, recurring payments, marketplace, wallets, eCommerce, and more.
- Jul 2021Seed$6M
#12
Acquired · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2011 · 50 employees$12Mraised▾
Alpha Fintech offers an omnichannel payment solution access platform. Provides AlphaHub which is an end-to-end middleware, connecting the merchant buyer and vendor supplier across the payments, risk, and commerce spectrum through API and UI. Supports eCommerce, mPOS, and POS payments. Provides payment processing, merchant acquiring, e-wallets, payment gateway, subscription billing services.
- Oct 2016Series A—
- Jun 2016Seed—
- May 2013Seed$12M
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Payments coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding flat · growth rising
How research on Digital Payments is moving in Ireland
A read on the academic research around Digital Payments — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 20 Ireland-affiliated papers.
- University College Cork4
- University College Dublin3
- Department of Health2
- Trinity College Dublin2
- Munster Technological University1
- Electronic cash2
- Virtual currency2
- Currency2
- Electronic money1
- Cryptocurrency1
- Mobile payment3
- Reputation1
- Technology acceptance model1
- Affect (linguistics)1
- Internet privacy1
- Mobile payment8
- Payment system3
- Currency2
- Transactional leadership2
- Value (mathematics)2
Where digital payments 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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