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Best Semiconductors Companies in Dublin, Ireland

The 32 best Semiconductors companies in Dublin, Ireland in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Intune Networks.

32companies tracked
$238.8Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
16have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · SEMICONDUCTORS × DUBLIN

Our analysis of 219 Semiconductors companies

$47.9b in tracked funding; 70% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.

219companies analysed
70%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
13unicorns
2017median founding year
151kcombined LinkedIn audience
90%of audience held by top 3

Ranked: Best Semiconductors companies in Dublin

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundEmployeesFounderTech stackPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1Intune Networks
Telecom switching design
$84M179 mo ago200——43 patents
Advanced optical network control, burst switching, and fast laser wavelength tuning
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2Navitas
Manufacturer of gallium nitride power ICs and silicon carbide devices
$50M11 mo ago230Dan Kinzer
Cofounder
WordPressDrupalMySQL+30——
3Decawave
Manufacturing ICs with Ultra wide band technology
$48M104 mo ago25—Windows ServerMicrosoft ASP.NETIIS+2148 patents
Ultra‑wideband radio for precise ranging, angle‑of‑arrival and indoor positioning systems
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4Straatum Processware
Real-time fault detection and classification solutions for semiconductor industry
$17M261 mo ago8————
5S3Group Silicon
Product & Service provider for semiconductor & health industries
$12M250 mo ago85————
6Eblana Photonics
Manufacturer of laser diodes
$8M46 mo ago27Jim Somers
Co-Founder & CEO
WordPressPleskMySQL+1520 patents
Semiconductor lasers and integrated photonic devices, including waveguide absorption engineering.
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7Pilot Photonics
Provider of optical networking transmission solutions and diode lasers
$5M31 mo ago18Frank Smyth
Co-Founder and CTO
WordPressMySQLPHP+2217 patents
Integrated photonic modulators, frequency comb spectroscopy, and optical signal processing solutions.
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8InfoMotion
Wearable Technology to measure muscle memory development
$5M156 mo ago—Michael Crowley
Founder
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9Nines Photovoltaic
Manufacturer of dry etching tools for solar cell production
$4M101 mo ago5————
10LirOptic
Developer of solid-state tunable lenses for applications across multiple industries
$3M20 mo ago—Joe Keeffe
Co-Founder
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11Innalabs
Develops inertial sensors for industrial purposes
$2M118 mo ago54—HubSpot CMS HubAmazon Web ServicesLodash+1450 patents
High‑precision vibratory and force‑rebalance gyroscope technologies for inertial navigation systems.
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12Ikon Semiconductor
Innovative LED driver IC solutions
$1M133 mo ago11Conor McAuliffe
Founder and CEO
—11 patents
Design and control of constant‑current switched‑mode power supply converters
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13Cellix
Manufacturer of microfluidics, biochips, high-throughput cell membrane and gene editing technology
$1M94 mo ago7—Cart FunctionalityWix eCommerceWix+1844 patents
Microfluidic devices for cell transfection and high‑throughput flow cytometry analysis
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14Lightly Technologies
Provider of LED light source modules
$620K102 mo ago—Brian Charman
Co-Founder
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15PEARlabs
Developer of photonic & optical chips and related materials
$112K84 mo ago2Dominic Zerulla
Founder & CEO
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Top 12 Semiconductors companies in Dublin

#1
Public · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2014 · 230 employees
$49.6Mraised
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Manufacturer of gallium nitride power ICs and silicon carbide devices. The company provides integrated circuits, gallium nitride power integrated circuits, silicon carbide power MOSFETs, and Schottky MPS diodes. These products deliver performance, ruggedness, and quality. The company's integrated circuits are building blocks that enable faster switching speeds while increasing energy savings.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 31k LinkedIn followers — 20.3% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 product launches · 1 partnerships (incl. AlpSemi) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2025Post IPO$100M
  • Jan 2020Series B$7M
  • Mar 2018Series B$27.5M
  • Jul 2015Series A$15.1M
Founders & team
Dan KinzerCofounderNick FichtenbaumCo-Founder
Investors
Ausvic Capital, Mesh Ventures, Atlantic Bridge, Synaro Capital, A&E Investments
Tech stack
Acquia Cloud PlatformAcquia Cloud Site FactoryAdobe AnalyticsAdobe Experience Platform Identity ServiceAdobe Experience Platform LaunchAkamai
#2
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2020
$3.1Mraised
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Developer of solid-state tunable lenses for applications across multiple industries. The company’s adjustable lens technology offers precision, reliability, and compactness. It enables miniaturization of medical imaging devices and improvement of cell phone imaging systems. The technology also meets demands of extended reality, space, and automotive applications. The lenses offer surface precision, fast reaction times, and high power efficiency.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 200 LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Feb 2025Seed$3.1M
  • Jul 2024Seed—
Founders & team
Joe KeeffeCo-FounderDominic ZerullaCo-Founder & CTOSimon ForsythCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Enterprise Ireland
#3
Seed · Dublin, County Dublin · founded 2011 · 18 employees
$4.8Mraised
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Provider of optical networking transmission solutions and diode lasers. The platform develops and licenses comb source laser solutions for the communication and IoT industry. Its patented product is optical comb source subsystems. It claims that the features of its products are highly stable, low line-width, phase-matched wavelength combs. These products are suitable for multicarrier optical transmission systems.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. MBRYONICS) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Mar 2024Grant (prize money)$2.7M
  • Mar 2022Seed$2.4M
  • Sep 2020Grant (prize money)—
  • Jan 2020Grant (prize money)$1.9M
Founders & team
Frank SmythCo-Founder and CTO
Investors
Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Kernel Capital, Dublin Business Innovation Centre, Enterprise Ireland, Europa, AIB Seed Capital Fund
#4
Series C · Dublin, Leinster · founded 1999 · 200 employees
$83.8Mraised
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Intune Networks develops optical Ethernet switch fabrics for switching packets over long distances. The technology uses tuneable LASERs to switch packets using the OBS (Optical Burst Switching) standard and a distributed system that virtualises connectivity at layers 0-2 reducing the number of network components and creating a pool of non-blocking connectivity that is available to any port. Entered receivership and bankruptcy in January 2014.

Funding rounds
  • Nov 2011Series C$23.6M
  • May 2011Series C$3.6M
  • Mar 2011Grant (prize money)$279K
  • Jul 2010Series B$3.7M
Investors
Enterprise Ireland, Invest Northern Ireland, Balderton Capital, Amadeus Capital, Spark Capital, Kernel Capital
#5
Series B · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2001 · 27 employees
$7.9Mraised
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Manufacturer of laser diodes. It designs and manufactures single wavelength lasers. Its products portfolio include discrete and high power discrete mode laser diodes, narrow linewidth laser, and Fabry-Pérot laser diodes. It also provides laser packaging solutions and custom laser diodes. Its applications include fibre-optic communication, optical sensing and measurement, gas spectroscopy, and aerospace.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2023Grant (prize money)$165.1K
  • Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$315.9K
  • Nov 2014Grant (prize money)$62.6K
  • Feb 2003Series B$4.5M
Founders & team
Jim SomersCo-Founder & CEOChris HerbertCo-Founder & COO
Investors
Europa, TLcom, Enterprise Ireland, Act Venture Capital
#6
Acquired · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2004 · 25 employees
$47.7Mraised
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DecaWave is a fabless semiconductor company which develops semiconductor hardware, software, modules, and reference designs for micro-location solutions. It offers single-chip CMOS ultra-wideband (UWB) based ICs which can deliver centimeter accuracy for precise location and connectivity applications that can identify the specific location of any object. Also provides software packages including embedded networking stacks, location engines, and reference designs for Android/Linux app and sensor integration. Its products have applications in areas such as agriculture, manufacturing, healthcare, lighting, security, transport, inventory, and supply chain management.

Funding rounds
  • Feb 2018Series B$30M
  • Jun 2015Angel$4.5M
  • Mar 2012Series A$8M
  • Nov 2010Series A$2.8M
Investors
Atlantic Bridge, LG, STMicroelectronics, Summit Bridge Capital, Act Venture Capital, Kernel Capital
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesAws Certificate ManagerGoogle WorkspaceIisMicrosoft Asp.NetWindows Server
#7
Acqui-Hired · Dublin, Leinster · founded 1998 · 8 employees
$16.8Mraised
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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.

Funding rounds
  • Jan 2005Series A$5.7M
  • 2001Series A$9.1M
Investors
Vision Capital, Intel Capital, Act Venture Capital, Kernel Capital, Endeavour Vision
#8
Acquired · Dublin, Leinster · founded 1986 · 85 employees
$11.8Mraised
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S3 Group provides products, solutions and professional services to Connected Health and Semiconductor industries.For the semiconductor industry,the company has product Mixed Signal IP for sensing & communications and provides custom ASIC solutions to its customer for product innovation.The company uses the combination of IP, system-on-chip, analogue and system engineering expertise to develop these solutions. Its solutions are used in a wide range of applications including satellite communications, energy systems, consumer electronic devices, industrial controls and wireless networking products.Its clients include Intel ,Micronas, Samsung, Qualcomm, Iridium, Movidius, Merck Serono, Cochlear and others.Accenture acquired its TV Technology unit in 2015. S3 Group is an ISO9001 certified company.

Investors
Act Venture Capital, ASK, Madan Parque
#9
Series A · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2010 · 5 employees
$3.9Mraised
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Manufacturer of dry etching tools for solar cell production. It offers a unique, low-cost, gas-phase etching process for the photovoltaic industry. This process eliminates the need for high-cost vacuum pumps and plasma modules, resulting in superior efficiencies, etch rates, and process control. The technology is scalable for large-scale manufacturing and compatible with various silicon wafer types and advanced cell architectures. The company also develops advanced single-side nano-texturing processes for high-efficiency monocrystalline cells. The etching gas used is environmentally friendly, reducing water consumption and environmental impact.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 885 LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • May 2018Series A$3.5M
  • Apr 2014Grant (prize money)$1.1M
  • Sep 2013Seed$373K
Investors
Europa, Enterprise Ireland, Kernel Capital, BVP, EIT InnoEnergy, Mianach Venture Capital
#10
Deadpooled · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2008
$4.8Mraised
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InfoMotion is developing motion sensor technology to measure muscle memory development for high-intensity team sports applications. For sports like soccer, basketball, hockey, volleyball and many others, muscle memory skills are the basis of the success in the game, and repetition, or perfect repetition is what develops these skills quickly.

Funding rounds
  • Nov 2013Seed$4.2M
  • May 2010Seed$200K
  • Nov 2009Angel$316K
Founders & team
Michael CrowleyFounder Kevin KingCo-Founder
Investors
Rev1 Ventures
#11
Acquired · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2006 · 7 employees
$1.1Mraised
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Cellix is the manufacturer of microfluidics, biochips, high-throughput cell membrane and gene-editing technology. The company offers software solutions for cell-based assays, cell sorting, and analysis technology and have multiple application in food & beverage, biotech and agri-biotech, and health & personalized medicine, therapeutic research areas like thrombosis, oncology, biofilm culture, stem cell research, sickle cell disease, asthma, and others.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 1k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2018Grant (prize money)$1.3M
  • Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$1.2M
  • Feb 2015Grant (prize money)$712.3K
  • Feb 2007Seed$1.1M
Investors
Europa, EIC Fund, Enterprise Ireland, OTC Agregator, Investec
Tech stack
Wix EcommerceCart FunctionalityWixReactPolyfillLodash
#12
Funding Raised · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2011 · 54 employees
$1.8Mraised
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Innalabs is the developer of inertial sensors which include accelerometers and gyroscopes. The sensors are used for industrial and tactical purposes. Their accelerometers employ quartz servo technology that provide high repeatability and stability. The gyroscopes are based on solid state sensing and are hence more robust and ideal for use in aerospace market. Owing to the robustness, the sensors can be used in various sectors such as aerospace, land, marine, space, etc.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 6k LinkedIn followers — 4.1% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2016Grant (prize money)$1.8M
Investors
Genezis Technology Capital, RVC USA
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsGoogle Font ApiHstsHttp/3

Funding & investor landscape

$238.8Mtotal disclosed funding
15companies funded
45disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Enterprise Ireland7 rounds
Kernel Capital6 rounds
Europa5 rounds
Act Venture Capital4 rounds
Atlantic Bridge3 rounds
EIC Fund3 rounds
BVP2 rounds
Dublin Business Innovation Centre2 rounds
NDRC2 rounds
Vision Capital2 rounds

Notable founders

Dan Kinzer
Cofounder · Navitas
Nick Fichtenbaum
Co-Founder · Navitas
Joe Keeffe
Co-Founder · LirOptic
Dominic Zerulla
Co-Founder & CTO · LirOptic
Frank Smyth
Co-Founder and CTO · Pilot Photonics
Jim Somers
Co-Founder & CEO · Eblana Photonics
Chris Herbert
Co-Founder & COO · Eblana Photonics
Michael Crowley
Founder · InfoMotion
Kevin King
Co-Founder · InfoMotion
Conor McAuliffe
Founder and CEO · Ikon Semiconductor
Brian Charman
Co-Founder · Lightly Technologies
Silviu Preoteasa
Founder & CEO · Advanced Radio Mapping
Prism market signals · Ireland · country-scoped Prism corpus, 700,314 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Semiconductors coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding flat · growth flat

RESEARCH FROM Dublin · institutions

What Dublin researches in semiconductors

29 papersstance +0.5468% breakthrough20% concern
breakthrough · advancement · concern
local research themes
Photonic and Optical DevicesNanowire Synthesis and ApplicationsGaN-based semiconductor devices and materialsRadio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design2D Materials and Applications3D IC and TSV technologies
top institutions
  • Trinity College Dublin14
  • Dublin City University8
  • University College Dublin6
  • Technological University Dublin2

Common questions

How many Semiconductors companies are there in Dublin, Ireland?
Radar tracks 32 indexable Semiconductors companies headquartered in Dublin, Ireland that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Semiconductors companies in Dublin, Ireland?
The Semiconductors companies in Dublin, Ireland on this list have raised a combined $238.8M in disclosed equity funding across 15 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Semiconductors company in Dublin, Ireland?
Intune Networks is the highest-funded Semiconductors company in Dublin, Ireland, with $83.8M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Semiconductors companies in Dublin, Ireland are funded?
15 of the 32 Semiconductors companies in Dublin, Ireland on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Semiconductors unicorns are there in Dublin, Ireland?
None of the Semiconductors companies in Dublin, Ireland on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Dublin, Ireland Semiconductors companies?
The most active investors in Dublin, Ireland Semiconductors companies on this list include Enterprise Ireland, Kernel Capital, Europa, Act Venture Capital, Atlantic Bridge.
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