VRAI is a content creation company specializing in virtual reality production, focused on delivering immersive and engaging experiences. By leveraging techniques from narrative cinema, visual effects, exhibition design, gaming, and brand management, VRAI crafts unique stories through the medium of virtual reality. The company also operates in the realm of simulation training, providing authentic virtual training environments that incorporate advanced data capture and analytics. This dual focus allows VRAI to serve organizations engaged in risky, remote, or rare activities, enabling them to train in more memorable and measurable ways. Through these innovative approaches, VRAI aims to enhance the storytelling and training capabilities of its clients.
Slick+
Pre Seed Round in 2024
Slick+ is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company that specializes in a video-based platform for businesses. Its core offering is a tool that facilitates the creation, sharing, and discussion of short, engaging knowledge videos among teams, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation. The platform is designed to capture and preserve essential expertise, share best practices, and implement new ideas, all integrated into daily workflows. By focusing on bite-sized content, Slick+ helps organizations enhance productivity, communication, and agility in hybrid and remote work environments. It is particularly useful for Learning & Development (L&D) and Human Resources (HR) managers seeking to optimize onboarding, training, and knowledge-sharing processes.
Imvizar
Seed Round in 2024
Imvizar is a Dublin-based company that specializes in creating life-size, location-based augmented reality experiences. Founded by Michael Guerin, Imvizar enables users to immerse themselves in historical events and interact with renowned individuals, all through their mobile devices. The company operates a global platform designed to enhance visitor experiences by delivering engaging narratives in collaboration with tourist attractions, artists, influencers, and educational institutions. By leveraging augmented reality technology, Imvizar helps brands enrich their offerings, boost audience engagement, and create new revenue opportunities.
Contenseo
Pre Seed Round in 2024
Contenseo operates a digital platform facilitating the licensing of copyrighted content. It connects copyright holders with users seeking to reuse their work, streamlining the licensing process through a single dashboard and AI-assisted guidance, enabling businesses to efficiently manage and monetize their creative assets.
Musicmaker provides acoustic guitars, bass guitars, strings and accessories, hearing-protection, musicminder, amps, drums, keys-synths, studio-live, and more.
Imvizar
Seed Round in 2023
Imvizar is a Dublin-based company that specializes in creating life-size, location-based augmented reality experiences. Founded by Michael Guerin, Imvizar enables users to immerse themselves in historical events and interact with renowned individuals, all through their mobile devices. The company operates a global platform designed to enhance visitor experiences by delivering engaging narratives in collaboration with tourist attractions, artists, influencers, and educational institutions. By leveraging augmented reality technology, Imvizar helps brands enrich their offerings, boost audience engagement, and create new revenue opportunities.
Kinzen Ltd is a technology company based in Dublin, Ireland, founded in 2017 by Áine Kerr, Mark Little, and Paul Watson. The company develops news applications that empower individuals and publishers by providing personalized access to news and information. Kinzen's platform is designed to help citizens engage meaningfully with content while safeguarding conversations from disinformation and harmful content. By leveraging technology, Kinzen enables online communities to manage information risks without relying solely on human editors. Additionally, the company is working on a publisher-focused version of its platform, supported by the Google Digital News Initiative, to enhance the experience for news organizations.
VRAI is a content creation company specializing in virtual reality production, focused on delivering immersive and engaging experiences. By leveraging techniques from narrative cinema, visual effects, exhibition design, gaming, and brand management, VRAI crafts unique stories through the medium of virtual reality. The company also operates in the realm of simulation training, providing authentic virtual training environments that incorporate advanced data capture and analytics. This dual focus allows VRAI to serve organizations engaged in risky, remote, or rare activities, enabling them to train in more memorable and measurable ways. Through these innovative approaches, VRAI aims to enhance the storytelling and training capabilities of its clients.
Deciphex Limited, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, specializes in developing digital pathology software applications that leverage artificial intelligence to enhance diagnostic workflows. The company offers two primary platforms: Diagnexia, which facilitates rapid diagnostics by connecting global subspecialty pathologists to address backlogs, and Patholytix Preclinical, designed for optimizing preclinical safety assessments in pharmaceutical research. By automating routine tasks and triaging high-volume, low-complexity samples, Deciphex enables pathologists to concentrate on more complex cases, ultimately improving productivity and patient outcomes. Through its innovative approach, Deciphex is committed to advancing healthcare delivery and therapeutic development.
4D Sight
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Native video monetization platform
VRAI is a content creation company specializing in virtual reality production, focused on delivering immersive and engaging experiences. By leveraging techniques from narrative cinema, visual effects, exhibition design, gaming, and brand management, VRAI crafts unique stories through the medium of virtual reality. The company also operates in the realm of simulation training, providing authentic virtual training environments that incorporate advanced data capture and analytics. This dual focus allows VRAI to serve organizations engaged in risky, remote, or rare activities, enabling them to train in more memorable and measurable ways. Through these innovative approaches, VRAI aims to enhance the storytelling and training capabilities of its clients.
VideoElephant
Series A in 2019
VideoElephant Limited is a video content solutions provider that caters to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers globally. Established in 2011 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, the company operates an online marketplace that offers a diverse library of video content, including both short and long-form videos such as TV shows, movies, and documentaries. VideoElephant's platform allows users to select between a content-only solution or a comprehensive package that includes a video player, premium content, content delivery network (CDN), and monetization services. The company streamlines the content sourcing process by enabling users to access and license video content from multiple providers under a single contract. VideoElephant also has additional offices in London, Berlin, New York, and Los Angeles.
Kinzen Ltd is a technology company based in Dublin, Ireland, founded in 2017 by Áine Kerr, Mark Little, and Paul Watson. The company develops news applications that empower individuals and publishers by providing personalized access to news and information. Kinzen's platform is designed to help citizens engage meaningfully with content while safeguarding conversations from disinformation and harmful content. By leveraging technology, Kinzen enables online communities to manage information risks without relying solely on human editors. Additionally, the company is working on a publisher-focused version of its platform, supported by the Google Digital News Initiative, to enhance the experience for news organizations.
Deciphex
Venture Round in 2019
Deciphex Limited, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, specializes in developing digital pathology software applications that leverage artificial intelligence to enhance diagnostic workflows. The company offers two primary platforms: Diagnexia, which facilitates rapid diagnostics by connecting global subspecialty pathologists to address backlogs, and Patholytix Preclinical, designed for optimizing preclinical safety assessments in pharmaceutical research. By automating routine tasks and triaging high-volume, low-complexity samples, Deciphex enables pathologists to concentrate on more complex cases, ultimately improving productivity and patient outcomes. Through its innovative approach, Deciphex is committed to advancing healthcare delivery and therapeutic development.
Usheru is a technology platform that facilitates direct ticketing and marketing data insights for film distributors. By integrating cinema point-of-sale systems with film websites, Usheru allows consumers to easily book tickets while providing film distributors with crucial tools for tracking marketing spend and connecting it to actual ticket purchases. The company offers an insights platform, Usheru Analytics, which provides real-time visibility into the success of marketing campaigns. This enables distributors to understand consumer behavior and build a database of film enthusiasts. Usheru addresses the significant challenge of rising marketing costs in the film industry by offering data-driven solutions and a direct response advertising framework, ultimately fostering stronger connections between film distributors and their audiences.
RAID Studios
Grant in 2019
RAID Studios is a provider of publishing support services specializing in assisting video game developers and publishers. The company focuses on creating vibrant, active communities around various game titles, offering solutions that include creative collaborations, community management, and live broadcasting. RAID Studios collaborates with brands, such as Red Bull, to organize both in-person and online events within the gaming ecosystem. Its team is comprised of industry veterans from prominent organizations like Riot Games and traditional broadcast media, bringing a wealth of experience from successful startups to the table. Through its comprehensive support, RAID Studios empowers game developers to focus on creativity while enhancing their published efforts.
Socio Local
Venture Round in 2017
We are a digital marketing platform specifically designed for MLBs (multi-location brands) to reach more people by activating their locations' social media potential across multiple platforms in as few steps as possible and driving more sales in the physical locations.
Tr3Dent
Seed Round in 2017
Tr3Dent is a developer of a business ecosystem modeling platform that focuses on strategically managing the life-cycle of digital services business models and ecosystems. The platform is designed to enhance cross-organizational productivity and collaboration by organizing and visualizing composite information essential for delivering business services. Additionally, Tr3Dent offers training programs that support companies in accelerating their digital transformation efforts and defining their business ecosystems. Through its innovative solutions, Tr3Dent aims to facilitate the effective management of digital services, contributing to the overall efficiency and effectiveness of organizations.
Zulleon
Seed Round in 2017
Zulleon Ltd., founded in 2014 and based in Dublin, Ireland, is dedicated to creating and developing enriching play experiences for children. The company emphasizes a holistic approach, offering engaging activities that blend real-world and digital interactions, allowing children to explore their creativity and imagination. By collaborating with talented individuals from various disciplines, Zulleon strives to produce high-quality products that inspire fun and learning. Their mission is to nurture a lasting love for play and creativity among children, ensuring that each experience contributes positively to their development.
Integrated Facilities Solutions
Venture Round in 2017
Integrated Facilities Solutions are specialists in Digital Information for the whole asset lifecycle.
Dobiquity
Venture Round in 2017
Dobiquity is a mobile and web application development company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, specializing in solutions for the hospitality industry. Founded in 2014 by Enda Larkin, the company focuses on enhancing efficiency and reducing costs through its user-friendly applications. Dobiquity offers tools for managing on-the-job training, which streamline processes, minimize paperwork, and improve compliance. Additionally, it provides employee survey applications that assess satisfaction and engagement levels, as well as training feedback applications that collect and analyze participant responses to evaluate the effectiveness of training programs. By leveraging its suite of applications, Dobiquity enables businesses in the hospitality and tourism sectors to make informed decisions and optimize productivity.
Beats Medical
Venture Round in 2016
Beats Medical is a digital therapeutics company focused on developing technology solutions for chronic neurological disorders, particularly Parkinson's disease. The company offers an innovative app that empowers individuals with Parkinson's to manage their condition more effectively and enhance their quality of life. By utilizing metronome therapy and auditory cueing through a mobile platform, the app provides personalized treatment regimens that facilitate exercises aimed at improving mobility, speech, and dexterity. Designed by medical professionals, the app seeks to grant users greater independence and control over their symptoms. Operating clinics in Dublin and Harley Street in London, Beats Medical is committed to addressing the mobility challenges associated with Parkinson's disease, aiming to improve the overall well-being of patients and their families through tailored therapeutic solutions.
TVadSync
Venture Round in 2016
TVadSync is a technology company that specializes in enhancing the effectiveness of advertising through its innovative television data platform. By utilizing next-generation TV and digital ad delivery data, it helps marketers assess the impact of their advertising strategies and optimize their return on media investment. Collaborating with major broadcasters, multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs), and smart television manufacturers, TVadSync processes millions of TV viewing data points from households across the United States. This data is correlated with consumer actions and business outcomes, such as sales and store visits, both online and offline. The company's platform facilitates television synchronized second-screen advertising for cross-media campaigns, providing critical insights into how television content and advertisements influence consumer behavior. Ultimately, TVadSync enables advertisers to effectively convert viewers into customers by leveraging second-screen interactions in the living room.
Kong Digital
Venture Round in 2016
Kong Digital combines a digital marketing agency with the power of the most advanced digital marketing software solution on the market. It aims to bring the impact of your online marketing campaigns - social media, advertising and SEO – from incremental successes to monumental achievement.
VideoElephant
Seed Round in 2016
VideoElephant Limited is a video content solutions provider that caters to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers globally. Established in 2011 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, the company operates an online marketplace that offers a diverse library of video content, including both short and long-form videos such as TV shows, movies, and documentaries. VideoElephant's platform allows users to select between a content-only solution or a comprehensive package that includes a video player, premium content, content delivery network (CDN), and monetization services. The company streamlines the content sourcing process by enabling users to access and license video content from multiple providers under a single contract. VideoElephant also has additional offices in London, Berlin, New York, and Los Angeles.
Balls.ie
Venture Round in 2016
Balls.ie is a digital media company that specializes in enhancing social engagement during live sporting events. Founded in 2010 by Ger Gilroy, Brian Reynolds, and Donny Mahoney in Dublin, the company has developed a dynamic second screen platform that allows brands, sports associations, and media companies to engage audiences through live sports coverage, including live blogs, social media commentary, and on-street video reactions. With a significant growth trajectory, Balls.ie now attracts 1.7 million unique users each month, reflecting its success in curating viral sports content that both informs and entertains. The platform features a blend of the latest sports news and original content, and it has continuously evolved, with a redesigned website launched in 2015 that optimizes user experience across various devices. Currently, Balls.ie is expanding its offerings by establishing a podcast network and exploring live video output to further engage sports fans and grow its audience.
Mail Metrics
Venture Round in 2016
Mail Metrics, established in 2016 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, specializes in IT solutions for customer communication management. The company, founded by the team behind GreenLetterbox.com, leverages decades of experience in mail production and intelligent document creation to offer an innovative digital platform. This platform facilitates significant reductions in postal costs and time savings by enabling clients to streamline, automate, and digitize traditionally paper-driven processes, thereby improving digital adoption and compliance rates. Mail Metrics' solution allows clients to outsource and digitally transform their regulatory and customer communications efficiently.
Brandtone
Series D in 2015
Brandtone Limited is a mobile marketing solutions provider based in Dublin, Ireland, with additional offices in various countries, including South Africa, Brazil, China, Russia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Kenya, Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, and Hong Kong. Founded in 2009, the company specializes in delivering engagement through multiple channels such as SMS, voice response, email, and web, enabling brands to connect effectively with consumers. Brandtone's agile platform integrates various digital formats, including social media, messaging apps, and QR codes, allowing marketers to enhance return on investment and foster relationships with consumers in real-time. The company's voice-based mobile platform is accessible on any handset and network, encouraging high participation rates in marketing campaigns. Brandtone aims to support businesses in achieving both short-term and long-term brand objectives, particularly in emerging markets characterized by a growing middle class. However, as of March 3, 2017, Brandtone Limited entered liquidation.
Axonista
Seed Round in 2015
Axonista is an award-winning technology company specializing in video solutions. It collaborates with innovative media companies and brands to create engaging digital video experiences. The company's platform enables interactive shopping experiences across web and OTT platforms, attracting publishers, retailers, and global media brands. By delivering interactive video streaming, Axonista helps its clients generate new commerce revenue streams through compelling video storytelling.
VideoElephant
Seed Round in 2014
VideoElephant Limited is a video content solutions provider that caters to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers globally. Established in 2011 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, the company operates an online marketplace that offers a diverse library of video content, including both short and long-form videos such as TV shows, movies, and documentaries. VideoElephant's platform allows users to select between a content-only solution or a comprehensive package that includes a video player, premium content, content delivery network (CDN), and monetization services. The company streamlines the content sourcing process by enabling users to access and license video content from multiple providers under a single contract. VideoElephant also has additional offices in London, Berlin, New York, and Los Angeles.
Tapastreet
Seed Round in 2013
Tapastreet is an SAAS platform that enables clients to discover and integrate high quality photo and video social content into their online platforms. The Tapastreet platform tracks what is happening anywhere in the world in real-time by topic or location via photos and videos uploaded to the social web. Tapastreet is available for Enterprise customers through a cloud platform and social gallery modules that can seamlessly integrate into their own web and digital platforms. A consumer service is also available for free on iPhone, iPad and Android.
Digit Game Studios
Series A in 2013
Digit Game Studios Limited, founded in 2012 and based in Dublin, Ireland, is a leading developer and publisher of cross-platform games. As the largest game developer in the country, the company boasts an international team of experienced game-makers dedicated to creating engaging gaming experiences. Digit Game Studios specializes in free-to-play multiplayer strategy and role-playing games, ensuring accessibility across multiple devices, including Android, iOS, and Windows. Their first notable release, "Kings of the Realm," launched in September 2014, exemplifies their commitment to delivering high-quality gaming experiences to a diverse audience. As of 2019, Digit operates as a subsidiary of Scopely, Inc.
VideoElephant
Seed Round in 2012
VideoElephant Limited is a video content solutions provider that caters to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers globally. Established in 2011 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, the company operates an online marketplace that offers a diverse library of video content, including both short and long-form videos such as TV shows, movies, and documentaries. VideoElephant's platform allows users to select between a content-only solution or a comprehensive package that includes a video player, premium content, content delivery network (CDN), and monetization services. The company streamlines the content sourcing process by enabling users to access and license video content from multiple providers under a single contract. VideoElephant also has additional offices in London, Berlin, New York, and Los Angeles.
Soundwave
Seed Round in 2012
Soundwave Analytics Limited is a music discovery application that enables users to view in real-time the songs being played by others around them. Founded in 2012 in Dublin, Ireland, by Brendan O’Driscoll, Aidan Sliney, and Craig Watson, the app allows users to create charts based on specific locations, social circles, and preferences while filtering by time and genre. Before its acquisition by Spotify in January 2016, Soundwave attracted over 1.5 million users across 190 countries and tracked more than 150 million song plays. The app has received recognition for its innovation, being named "Best Innovation in Music" by Apple and featured in Google’s Android "Editors Choice" section. Soundwave's unique capability to track music listening habits in real-time has positioned it as a notable player in the music streaming industry.
Wavebreak Media
Venture Round in 2012
Wavebreak Media is an Irish company based in Cork City, founded in 2006, specializing in the production and distribution of high-quality visual content. The company offers an extensive online library of stock video footage, photography, images, customizable templates, graphic designs, slow motion videos, 3D animations, and after effects projects. All materials are royalty-free, broadcast quality, and available in high definition. Wavebreak Media caters to industry professionals such as film production companies, web designers, graphic artists, art directors, and corporate marketing teams, providing them with instant access to a wide range of visual content for use in various media productions. The company employs a team of artists, producers, and technical experts to maintain the quality and diversity of its offerings.
Brandtone
Venture Round in 2011
Brandtone Limited is a mobile marketing solutions provider based in Dublin, Ireland, with additional offices in various countries, including South Africa, Brazil, China, Russia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Kenya, Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, and Hong Kong. Founded in 2009, the company specializes in delivering engagement through multiple channels such as SMS, voice response, email, and web, enabling brands to connect effectively with consumers. Brandtone's agile platform integrates various digital formats, including social media, messaging apps, and QR codes, allowing marketers to enhance return on investment and foster relationships with consumers in real-time. The company's voice-based mobile platform is accessible on any handset and network, encouraging high participation rates in marketing campaigns. Brandtone aims to support businesses in achieving both short-term and long-term brand objectives, particularly in emerging markets characterized by a growing middle class. However, as of March 3, 2017, Brandtone Limited entered liquidation.
Wavebreak Media
Venture Round in 2010
Wavebreak Media is an Irish company based in Cork City, founded in 2006, specializing in the production and distribution of high-quality visual content. The company offers an extensive online library of stock video footage, photography, images, customizable templates, graphic designs, slow motion videos, 3D animations, and after effects projects. All materials are royalty-free, broadcast quality, and available in high definition. Wavebreak Media caters to industry professionals such as film production companies, web designers, graphic artists, art directors, and corporate marketing teams, providing them with instant access to a wide range of visual content for use in various media productions. The company employs a team of artists, producers, and technical experts to maintain the quality and diversity of its offerings.
nooked delivers shopping deals direct to consumers' desktop, Myspace, Facebook, home page, and mobile phones. The nooked approach is to provide an open platform enabling "sell side advertising"—whereby shopping widgets restore the balance between consumers, publishers, and advertisers. Retailers use the nooked platform so consumers can easily find and promote their products, and nooked provides the reporting services to track sales and referrals through the network of shopping widgets. nooked also provides a full suite of tools and APIs for developers to build shopping widgets. In April 2008 nooked launched their feedcommerce platform, building on the success of their initial RSS/widget product set. Leading retailers in the UK such as Ryanair, Superbreak, Koodos and many others use the nooked platform. In August 2008 they soft-launched a Shopping Widget advertising network to to enable shoppers to promote their favorite products and retailers.
PutPlace
Angel Round in 2008
PutPlace is a digital content management company that provides an online platform for organizing and storing various types of digital files, including photos, documents, emails, music, and videos. The platform allows users to securely back up their files and access them from multiple locations, whether through PutPlace's own storage service, Amazon S3, or other cloud storage solutions. By centralizing digital content, PutPlace enables users to efficiently manage their files and enhance their access to important information across different devices.
Spoiled Milk
Series A in 2005
Spoiled Milk is a digital cross-media agency founded in 2005, with studios located in Copenhagen, Zurich, and Belgrade. The company specializes in creating engaging online experiences by leveraging a talented team of creative, technical, and strategic professionals. Spoiled Milk offers a range of services, including digital consultancy, social media strategy, and cross-platform app development for various operating systems such as iOS, Android, and Windows Mobile. Through its expertise, Spoiled Milk aims to enhance brand presence and user engagement in the digital landscape.
Digisoft.tv
Venture Round in 2005
Digisoft.tv Limited specializes in developing software solutions for set-top boxes across the global cable, satellite, terrestrial, and telecommunications industries. The company is known for its Iris OS, a Linux-based operating system designed for set-top devices, and Iris Multiscreen, a suite of applications that enhance user interaction with digital content through playback, recording, search, and navigation features. Additionally, Digisoft.tv offers the Iris Server Service Delivery Platform, which integrates various management systems for billing and subscriber services, providing clients with streamlined access to essential functions. The company also provides comprehensive support services, including system integration, technical assistance, consultancy, managed services for proactive system monitoring, and training programs. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Cork, Ireland, Digisoft.tv maintains sales offices internationally, catering to a diverse range of clients in the media and telecommunications sectors.