Best Sports Tech Companies in Ireland
The 84 best Sports Tech companies in Ireland in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Orreco.
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Our analysis of 50 Sports Tech companies
$7.8b in tracked funding; 96% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Sports Tech companies in Ireland
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beoball Provider of a web-based platform for team management | — | — | — | Mark Quinn Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 2 | BetDash Social sports betting platform | — | — | — | Robert Shedd Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 3 | Big Fan Developer of an NFT-based sports collectables marketplace | — | — | 4 | Eugene Brien CEO | — | — | — |
| 4 | Bookapitch Cloud-based sports facility management and booking solutions | — | — | — | Craig Bewley Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 5 | Champion's Mind App based training for athletes | — | — | — | Jim Afremow Founder | YouTubeGitHub PagesHubSpot+15 | Top 50M | — |
| 6 | Check Hook Boxing Online community for boxing enthusiasts | — | — | — | Shane Kearney Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 7 | Clubaly Cloud-based fundraising platform for nonprofit organizations | — | — | — | David Hardson Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 8 | Clubforce Provider of a sports club management platform | — | — | 40 | Warren Healy CEO | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+28 | Top 5M | 1 partnership |
Top 12 Sports Tech companies in Ireland
#1
Series A · Galway, Connaught · founded 2010 · 38 employees$8.2Mraised▾
Orreco provides sports analytics solutions for professional athletes to make better decisions for their performance and training. The platform uses blood bio-markers along with data from sources such as GPS, wearables, etc., to generate personalized 'Readiness to perform Index'. The performance data are analyzed using proprietary statistical analysis & predictive modeling tools to optimize the athlete's performance. Other features provided by the platform include sleep analysis, recovery protocols, nutrition analysis, training load optimization, and more.
- Dec 2025Series A$4M
- Jan 2021Series A$3.6M
- Apr 2019Series A$1.5M
- Feb 2017Series A$2M
#2
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2018 · 36 employees$1.4Mraised▾
Output Sports offers wearable sensors for athlete performance optimization. The core technology involves advanced signal processing and machine learning techniques, for an end-to-end solution that can test multiple components of athletic performance and track training programmes. The strength coaches, rehab professionals and athletes avail exercise analysis information through a connected app. The company has been awarded "Best Young Entrepreneur" in 2019.
- Jan 2025Seed$4.8M
- Mar 2020Seed$1.4M
#3
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
#4
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2019 · 15 employees$1Mraised▾
Developer of a fantasy sports platform for multiple sports. It provides users with fantasy sports-related reality trading and creating a sporting portfolio. Its features include match rewards, buying and selling platforms, and sports knowledge.
- Sep 2022Seed$1M
#5
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2010 · 1 employees$1Mraised▾
BragBet is a social betting platform. It allows groups of friends or colleagues to discuss sporting events and decide which events are worth a bet. Anyone can create a group and invite their friends to join them. Each member of the group adds a set amount of money to a group betting fund. Then each week a different member of the team becomes the fund manager. Users can discuss their tips and how their previous bets performed. They provide a leader board which shows team performance and also provide statistics about the best fund managers and tipsters.
- Apr 2015Grant (prize money)$38K
- May 2014Seed$338K
- Sep 2013Grant (prize money)$150K
- Aug 2013Seed$420K
#6
Seed · Galway, Connaught · founded 2017 · 8 employees$700Kraised▾
Provider of multi-sports training services
- Jun 2020Seed$700K
#7
Seed · Castlebar, County Mayo · founded 2007 · 24 employees$840.5Kraised▾
SportLoMo provides sports tournament management software. It automates all the league administrative work. Tournament manager can schedule matches, allocate referees, notify teams, collect and update live results, update their league website etc. It operates as Sportsmanager in Ireland. Users can get pricing quotation by contacting them from their platform.
- Jun 2016Angel$303K
- Jan 2016Seed$537.5K
#8
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2012 · 3 employees$956Kraised▾
Elivar develops sports nutrition products exclusively for middle-aged endurance athletes. It helps in improving their performance while providing longer term health benefits that support their continued participation in sport. It provides chocolate and orange-mango flavored products for muscle mass, energy, immune system, bones, and energy release benefits. They sell their product online through their platform and through many offline stockists and listed all of them on their platform. As of February 2014, their main markets were the UK and Ireland, from where 90% of their sales emanate. They also export to Germany, France, Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands etc.
- Feb 2014Seed$956K
#9
Seed · Cork, Munster · founded 2013 · 17 employees$829.7Kraised▾
Pundit Arena is a crowdsourced sports media platform. It provide sports news and article provided by fans, aspiring and established journalists. It allows anyone to write about topics and sports of interest and to publish on their website. They also share the revenue generated from article with its fans. They are PUGM (PAID User Generated Media) company. They pay to site’s top writers in each category according to the highest performing articles. Incubated by IGNITE Graduate Business Incubation Programme.
- Feb 2016Seed$703K
- Dec 2014Angel$126.7K
#10
Seed · Kilkenny, County Kilkenny · founded 2018 · 3 employees$361.3Kraised▾
Developer of an electronic device designed to improve performance and safety for the rider. The company has created a device that is attached to an off-road motorcycle, gives accurate lap-timing at every track, and sends notifications on what work is needed as per the OEM recommendation, enabling riders to concentrate fully on the joy of riding.
- Mar 2021Seed$361.3K
#11
Funding Raised · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2018$46.2Kraised▾
Provider of solutions for managing sports teams. It offers solutions for attendance management, injury management, players management, third-party platform integrations, and more. Their app is available on the Android and IOS platforms.
- Nov 2023Grant (prize money)$46.2K
#12
Deadpooled · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2005 · 2 employees$541.3Kraised▾
Oddsfutures is a sports odds binary derivative marketplace. Based in Dublin, Ireland; the company runs an online exchange that allows party and counter-party to take positions against each other. The exchange allows customers to decide which direction sports prices are going to go and “bet on the betting”. The difference over a regular betting exchange is that customers can play on on the exchange without the risk associated with owning a bet. The company has various proprietary and patented processes and is not classed as gambling in the USA.
- Aug 2011Angel$288.1K
- Jan 2010Seed$253.2K
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Sports Tech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding flat · growth rising
How research on Sports Technology is moving in Ireland
A read on the academic research around Sports Technology — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 18 Ireland-affiliated papers.
- University of Limerick4
- Dublin City University3
- Shannon Applied Biotechnology Centre3
- University College Dublin2
- Trinity College Dublin2
- Wearable computer2
- Human–computer interaction2
- Textile1
- Clothing1
- Wearable technology1
- Exoskeleton1
- Structural engineering1
- Bending1
- Compression (physics)1
- Biomechanics1
- Athletes2
- Narrative review2
- Physical therapy2
- Cognition2
- Context (archaeology)2
Where sports tech 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
Sweetie watches where the money and the users are piling in. She covers sector wealth and momentum — the install curves and revenue pools that show which corners of the market are quietly on fire.