Best SaaS Companies in Ireland
The 101 best SaaS companies in Ireland in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: mustard software.
Ireland's SaaS scene is smaller than the headlines suggest, but it's real and it's moving. This directory tracks 101 companies operating in that space, ranked by disclosed equity funding and recent momentum, with Mustard Software sitting alone at the top on $688,904 in disclosed capital while the rest of the field has yet to report.
Globally, the numbers dwarf that. The SaaS market was valued at roughly $143.8B in 2021 and forecast to hit $172.0B the following year, compounding at nearly 26% annually as cloud adoption accelerates across every vertical. So what does that mean for you if you're scanning this list? It means the Irish companies here are operating in a sector with serious tailwinds, even if local funding disclosures are thin. The hot themes right now are cloud-native firewalls, cloud security groups and SaaS security policies, a direct response to data security concerns that regulators are pushing harder each quarter. Consolidation is already picking up pace globally, and I'd expect that pressure to reach smaller markets like Ireland sooner than most founders assume.
Our analysis of 450 SaaS companies
$16.8b in tracked funding; 89% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2021.
Ranked: Best SaaS companies in Ireland
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Employees | Founded | Stage | Tech stack | Web popularity | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clanwilliam Group Developer of healthcare software intended to serve pharmacists, acute hospitals, care homes and private… | — | 1,000 | 1996 | Acquired | WordPressMySQLPHP+24 | Top 50M | 1 launch · 1 partnership · 1 award |
| 2 | CNG Travel Group Developer and marketer of travel related computer software. | — | 350 | 1999 | Acquired | — | — | — |
| 3 | Happy Scribe Happy Scribe an all-in-one platform for transcription, subtitles and translation. | — | 165 | 2017 | Private | — | — | 3 launchs |
| 4 | eLama Developer of an online advertising platform designed to make contextual advertising prompt and coherent. | — | 160 | 2009 | Private | — | — | — |
| 5 | blue tree systems Blue Tree provides world-class transportation management solutions. | — | 68 | 1995 | Acquired | — | — | — |
| 6 | careworks CareWorks has created Care Director, a social care management software that enables the public to direct… | — | 60 | 1997 | Acquired | — | — | — |
| 7 | FeedHenry Provider of a cloud-based mobile application platform. | — | 60 | 2008 | Acquired | — | — | — |
| 8 | Allfinanz Provider of web-based business processing and underwriting automation software intended to offer leading edge… | — | 58 | 1986 | Acquired | — | — | 1 job opening · 1 partnership · 1 expansion |
Top 1 SaaS companies in Ireland
#1
Deadpooled · Dublin, Dublin · founded 2014 · 6 employees$688.9Kraised▾
Developer of a recruitment platform designed to democratize recruitment technology. The company's platform connects tools and automates workflows, so that recruitment agencies can focus on important matters as well as create a powerful, custom automation for recruitment processes, enabling recruitment organizations to bring their ideas to life, without the need for large, costly, time-consuming engineering departments.
Funding & investor landscape
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of SaaS coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding flat · growth flat
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.