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.
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.
Ranked: Best Semiconductors companies in Dublin
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Intune Networks Telecom switching design | $84M | 179 mo ago | 200 | — | — | 43 patents Advanced optical network control, burst switching, and fast laser wavelength tuning | — |
| 2 | Navitas Manufacturer of gallium nitride power ICs and silicon carbide devices | $50M | 11 mo ago | 230 | Dan Kinzer Cofounder | WordPressDrupalMySQL+30 | — | — |
| 3 | Decawave Manufacturing ICs with Ultra wide band technology | $48M | 104 mo ago | 25 | — | Windows ServerMicrosoft ASP.NETIIS+2 | 148 patents Ultra‑wideband radio for precise ranging, angle‑of‑arrival and indoor positioning systems | — |
| 4 | Straatum Processware Real-time fault detection and classification solutions for semiconductor industry | $17M | 261 mo ago | 8 | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | S3Group Silicon Product & Service provider for semiconductor & health industries | $12M | 250 mo ago | 85 | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | Eblana Photonics Manufacturer of laser diodes | $8M | 46 mo ago | 27 | Jim Somers Co-Founder & CEO | WordPressPleskMySQL+15 | 20 patents Semiconductor lasers and integrated photonic devices, including waveguide absorption engineering. | — |
| 7 | Pilot Photonics Provider of optical networking transmission solutions and diode lasers | $5M | 31 mo ago | 18 | Frank Smyth Co-Founder and CTO | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | 17 patents Integrated photonic modulators, frequency comb spectroscopy, and optical signal processing solutions. | — |
| 8 | InfoMotion Wearable Technology to measure muscle memory development | $5M | 156 mo ago | — | Michael Crowley Founder | — | — | — |
| 9 | Nines Photovoltaic Manufacturer of dry etching tools for solar cell production | $4M | 101 mo ago | 5 | — | — | — | — |
| 10 | LirOptic Developer of solid-state tunable lenses for applications across multiple industries | $3M | 20 mo ago | — | Joe Keeffe Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 11 | Innalabs Develops inertial sensors for industrial purposes | $2M | 118 mo ago | 54 | — | HubSpot CMS HubAmazon Web ServicesLodash+14 | 50 patents High‑precision vibratory and force‑rebalance gyroscope technologies for inertial navigation systems. | — |
| 12 | Ikon Semiconductor Innovative LED driver IC solutions | $1M | 133 mo ago | 11 | Conor McAuliffe Founder and CEO | — | 11 patents Design and control of constant‑current switched‑mode power supply converters | — |
| 13 | Cellix Manufacturer of microfluidics, biochips, high-throughput cell membrane and gene editing technology | $1M | 94 mo ago | 7 | — | Cart FunctionalityWix eCommerceWix+18 | 44 patents Microfluidic devices for cell transfection and high‑throughput flow cytometry analysis | — |
| 14 | Lightly Technologies Provider of LED light source modules | $620K | 102 mo ago | — | Brian Charman Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 15 | PEARlabs Developer of photonic & optical chips and related materials | $112K | 84 mo ago | 2 | Dominic Zerulla Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
Top 12 Semiconductors companies in Dublin
#1
Public · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2014 · 230 employees$49.6Mraised▾
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.
- Nov 2025Post IPO$100M
- Jan 2020Series B$7M
- Mar 2018Series B$27.5M
- Jul 2015Series A$15.1M
#2
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2020$3.1Mraised▾
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.
- Feb 2025Seed$3.1M
- Jul 2024Seed—
#3
Seed · Dublin, County Dublin · founded 2011 · 18 employees$4.8Mraised▾
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.
- Mar 2024Grant (prize money)$2.7M
- Mar 2022Seed$2.4M
- Sep 2020Grant (prize money)—
- Jan 2020Grant (prize money)$1.9M
#4
Series C · Dublin, Leinster · founded 1999 · 200 employees$83.8Mraised▾
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.
- Nov 2011Series C$23.6M
- May 2011Series C$3.6M
- Mar 2011Grant (prize money)$279K
- Jul 2010Series B$3.7M
#5
Series B · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2001 · 27 employees$7.9Mraised▾
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.
- Jan 2023Grant (prize money)$165.1K
- Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$315.9K
- Nov 2014Grant (prize money)$62.6K
- Feb 2003Series B$4.5M
#6
Acquired · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2004 · 25 employees$47.7Mraised▾
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.
- Feb 2018Series B$30M
- Jun 2015Angel$4.5M
- Mar 2012Series A$8M
- Nov 2010Series A$2.8M
#7
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
#8
Acquired · Dublin, Leinster · founded 1986 · 85 employees$11.8Mraised▾
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.
#9
Series A · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2010 · 5 employees$3.9Mraised▾
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.
- May 2018Series A$3.5M
- Apr 2014Grant (prize money)$1.1M
- Sep 2013Seed$373K
#10
Deadpooled · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2008$4.8Mraised▾
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.
- Nov 2013Seed$4.2M
- May 2010Seed$200K
- Nov 2009Angel$316K
#11
Acquired · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2006 · 7 employees$1.1Mraised▾
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.
- Dec 2018Grant (prize money)$1.3M
- Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$1.2M
- Feb 2015Grant (prize money)$712.3K
- Feb 2007Seed$1.1M
#12
Funding Raised · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2011 · 54 employees$1.8Mraised▾
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.
- Dec 2016Grant (prize money)$1.8M
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What Dublin researches in semiconductors
- Trinity College Dublin14
- Dublin City University8
- University College Dublin6
- Technological University Dublin2