Top 100 Hot Start-Ups

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CRAOI

Ireland
CRAOI is an Irish wellness and impact solution platform that integrates employee wellbeing, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability into a single gamified, data-driven ecosystem. Based in Cork, Ireland, the small but specialized team of six delivers a mobile-first application enabling employees to engage in wellbeing activities, community initiatives, and planet-positive actions while providing HR and leadership teams with automated Impact Dashboard insights for ESG compliance and reporting. The platform supports organizations across Ireland, United Kingdom, Netherlands, and United Arab Emirates in improving employee retention, preventing burnout through science-backed content, strengthening workplace culture and belonging through social engagement, and driving measurable sustainability impact including carbon offsetting and tree planting. CRAOI's multi-award-winning solution simplifies complex ESG measurement and reporting requirements including Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and B Corporation (BCorp) compliance, transforming employee engagement into quantifiable organizational impact while fostering purpose-driven workplace cultures.
  • Technology & Software Development
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  • English
Year founded
2019
No of Employees
2-10
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Hexis

Ireland
Hexis is an intelligent personalized nutrition platform that revolutionizes athlete performance through proprietary Carb CodingTM technology. Founded by three PhD experts in physiology, exercise metabolism, and sports nutrition, Hexis translates real-time workout data and wearable analytics into dynamically tailored fueling strategies for individual athletes across 89+ sports. The Dublin-based company delivers 1800x practitioner efficiency improvements by automating personalized nutrition planning, replacing static manual templates with predictive intelligence that adapts recovery and fueling strategies based on actual training demands, GPS tracking, and performance data. Trusted by professional and Olympic sporting bodies globally, Hexis combines peer-reviewed research, behavioral science, and advanced algorithms to provide 24/7 personalized nutrition support that shifts sports teams from retrospective logging to evidence-based predictive planning.
  • AI, Data, & Security
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Year founded
2018
No of Employees
2-10
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Quantmatix

Ireland
Quantmatix is an AI-native investment technology firm headquartered in County Dublin, Ireland, with a four-year performance track record serving hedge funds, family offices, and high-net-worth investors. The company's quantitative machine learning systems and algorithmic trading models drive investment precision through systematic momentum and trend identification across equities, rates, foreign exchange, cryptocurrencies, commodities, and multi-asset derivatives. Quantmatix delivers bespoke AI-powered investment strategies that identify high-conviction trades, optimize portfolio construction, and enhance risk-adjusted returns while minimizing emotional bias through objective data-driven decision-making. The company's QM Star Funds have demonstrated 70% win rates and 25% annualized returns, outperforming major benchmarks including the S&P 500, Stoxx 600, and FTSE 350. With a moderately sized team of 25 professionals, Quantmatix operates as both a data intelligence provider and strategic partner, having launched high-conviction hedge funds with Blackwell Global and Noviscient while securing expansion funding from HBAN and Enterprise Ireland to accelerate growth across the United States, Middle East, and Asia markets.
  • Finance & Investment
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Year founded
2021
No of Employees
1-50
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BackAwareBelt

Ireland
BackAware Belt is an innovative wearable technology company based in Kilkenny County, Kilkenny, Ireland, specializing in real-time posture feedback and back pain prevention. Founded in 2022, the small team of eight develops intelligent wearable devices designed to monitor spinal alignment, reduce back injuries, and optimize exercise technique through continuous biometric sensing and adaptive feedback mechanisms. The BackAware Belt integrates with comprehensive wellness programs including Back Care, Pilates, and Gym Programs, delivering end-to-end solutions for individual athletes, corporate wellness initiatives, and clinical rehabilitation settings. The technology is trusted by surgeons, physiotherapists, and elite sports teams seeking evidence-based approaches to injury prevention, movement quality, and occupational health optimization. BackAware Belt transforms how organizations and individuals approach posture management, exercise safety, and long-term musculoskeletal wellness through wearable-enabled behavioral change and real-time performance monitoring.
  • Health & Medical Technology
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Year founded
2022
No of Employees
3-14
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Capella

Ireland and 1 other(s)
Capella delivers intelligent workspace management solutions combining predictive analytics, business intelligence, and real-time occupancy insights for facilities and real estate teams. The platform transforms raw workplace data into actionable intelligence, enabling organizations to optimize space utilization, reduce operational costs, and improve employee experience through data-driven decision-making. Capella's workspace analytics engine processes behavioral patterns and utilization metrics, providing facilities managers with predictive forecasting capabilities that anticipate space demand, occupancy trends, and resource allocation needs. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with operations in New York, United States, Capella serves mid-market and enterprise organizations seeking intelligent workspace solutions that deliver immediate platform deployment with customizable configurations tailored to specific real estate and facilities management requirements.
  • Corporate Services & Solutions
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  • English
Year founded
2020
No of Employees
10-50
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Glitch

Ireland
Glitch is an artificial intelligence-powered marketing platform built in Dublin, Ireland, that transforms how B2B companies create, launch, and optimize advertising campaigns across Google, Meta, LinkedIn, and additional channels. Founded in 2024 by Aisling Browne and Kingsley Kelly, Glitch employs a small, focused team of five experts who combine deep artificial intelligence expertise with marketing strategy and data engineering capabilities. The platform acts as an intelligent marketing agent, converting complex campaign management into a simple, conversational experience that enables businesses to launch and optimize campaigns in minutes rather than days. Glitch's core philosophy centers on collaborative artificial intelligence that amplifies human creativity and decision-making rather than replacing it. The platform continuously learns from every campaign using real-time data and reinforcement learning, improving performance metrics and delivering stronger return on investment over time for B2B organizations seeking to reduce advertising complexity while increasing campaign effectiveness and business growth.
  • AI, Data, & Security
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  • English
Year founded
2024
No of Employees
1-10
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Kopper Kreation

Ireland
At Kopper Kreation, we transform reclaimed copper and industrial materials into beautifully handcrafted homewares. Every piece is sustainably made in Ireland, blending modern design with a commitment to circular living. We're not just creating products — we're crafting a more conscious, creative future
  • Consumer Goods & Retail
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Year founded
2018
No of Employees
1-1
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NoFrixion

Ireland
NoFrixion is an Irish-founded financial technology company authorized as an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) and registered as a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) by the Central Bank of Ireland. The company specializes in automating the last-mile payment processes through its MoneyMoov Application Programming Interface (API), addressing payment identification, reconciliation, and programmatic money movement automation. NoFrixion's platform integrates Open Banking capabilities to eliminate manual intervention in Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable workflows, enabling medium to enterprise-sized businesses across financial services, lending, crowdfunding, insurance, and professional services sectors to streamline complex payment operations. Based in Dublin, Ireland, with a focused team of eleven professionals, NoFrixion serves customers across the United Kingdom and European markets, including notable clients in real estate, charity fundraising, insurance, and accounting software sectors. The company's growth-stage momentum since 2020 reflects its commitment to customizable payment solutions that automate secondary workflows and enable businesses to operate efficiently in the instant economy.
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  • English
Year founded
2020
No of Employees
2-20
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Slick Plus

Ireland
Slick Plus is a human-centred HR technology platform that revolutionizes workplace knowledge capture and distribution through short-form employee-created video combined with artificial intelligence. Founded in Galway, Ireland in 2023, the seven-person team at Slick Plus has developed a transformative approach to converting tacit knowledge—the unwritten, implicit expertise that defines organizational culture—into a living, searchable knowledge library accessible across hybrid and distributed teams. The platform bridges learning and performance management by enabling employees to create authentic, contextual video content that accelerates onboarding, prevents critical expertise loss during transitions, and fosters continuous learning cultures. By transforming tacit workplace knowledge into measurable business assets with built-in analytics and reporting capabilities, Slick Plus helps enterprises including the World Health Organization, Ibec, and Atha Tú University (ATU) drive digital transformation while building private, structured datasets that serve as strategic AI context layers for future in-house large language model deployment.
  • Education & Training
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  • English
Year founded
2023
No of Employees
5-10
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GoodBrew

Ireland
GoodBrew is a disruptive, gut-friendly functional cold brew coffee brand shaking up ‘Big Caffeine’. Our delicious, flavoured cold brew lattes are made with a unique oat and cashew base and fortified with immune-boosting vitamins and gut-friendly prebiotic fibre - for an iced coffee experience that makes you feel as great as it tastes!
  • Consumer Goods & Retail
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Year founded
2022
No of Employees
4-4
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