Kerry Group is a prominent international food corporation that specializes in producing added value brands and customer-branded chilled foods for the consumer market. Originating as a small dairy company in southwest Ireland, Kerry has evolved into a global multinational within a span of 40 years. The company has significantly influenced the food industry through its innovative approaches, aimed at enhancing consumer well-being and dietary choices. Kerry's commitment to quality and innovation has allowed it to play a key role in shaping the global food landscape.
MyGug is a manufacturer of innovative food waste treatment systems designed to promote sustainability. The company specializes in micro-scale anaerobic digesters that can be installed in various settings, including gardens, yards, and businesses. These digesters efficiently process both raw and cooked food waste, converting it into biogas. This biogas serves as a reliable and environmentally friendly cooking gas, providing users with a renewable energy source for cooking and gardening. Through its technology, MyGug aims to contribute to a sustainable future by addressing food waste and promoting renewable energy solutions.
RialtoLabs
Pre Seed Round in 2024
RialtoLabs is a technology company focused on advancing sustainability in the food and agriculture sectors through innovative solutions in spectroscopy and data analytics. By combining expertise in advanced data assessment with a commitment to promoting green chemistry, the company aims to address key challenges such as resource optimization, food waste reduction, and climate change mitigation. RialtoLabs specializes in optical sensing technology that provides near real-time analysis of soil organic carbon, enabling organizations to verify and enhance the effectiveness of their carbon offsetting initiatives. The company strives to become a leading provider of customized spectroscopic solutions, facilitating the transition toward a climate-neutral and digitally connected world.
Positive Carbon
Seed Round in 2023
Positive Carbon is a company that specializes in automated food waste monitoring systems aimed at enhancing food waste management for hotels, restaurants, and healthcare facilities. Utilizing patented food waste sensors and advanced food detection AI, Positive Carbon provides high-quality reporting tools that empower businesses to develop effective waste reduction strategies. By implementing these tools, clients can significantly decrease their food waste, ultimately improving their gross profits by 2-8%. The company's mission is to enable organizations to make a positive environmental impact while optimizing their food operations.
FoodCloud is a social enterprise that connects food businesses with surplus food to local charities and community groups, addressing food waste and food insecurity. By providing a user-friendly platform, FoodCloud facilitates the donation of surplus food from businesses, allowing charities to access this food easily. This not only helps reduce the environmental impact of food waste but also enables charities to lower their food costs and allocate resources to assist disadvantaged individuals. Since its inception, FoodCloud has successfully donated over 1.5 million meals to charities across Ireland and the UK, collaborating with more than 150 retail stores and over 350 charities. The organization aims to expand its operations internationally, enhancing its impact on communities facing food shortages.
Gino's Gelato
Grant in 2023
Gino's Gelato is a food manufacturing company that offers authentic Italian gelato and coffee, Belgian waffles and crepes.
Dairygold Co-Operative Society
Grant in 2023
Dairygold CoOperative Society is Ireland's leading farmer owned Agri business and the country's second largest dairy processor.
Ingredient Solutions
Grant in 2023
Ingredient Solutions is a quality cheese supplier established in 2000, specializing in innovative cheese ingredients for the food industry. The company primarily serves large food manufacturers of ready meals and snack foods, as well as food service companies across Ireland, the UK, and Europe. Its diverse product range includes block, grated, crumbed, and vegan cheese, along with butter, butter blends, dairy powders, and powder blends. Ingredient Solutions offers a fully integrated service that encompasses consultancy, product design, prototype development, and full service production, ensuring that customers receive comprehensive support throughout the entire process of cheese utilization.
Dew Valley Foods
Grant in 2023
Dew Valley Foods is a quality-focused firm that uses cutting-edge technology and pioneering innovation to produce top-grade bacon products and provide a wide range of market solutions for our customers.
Queally Pig Slaughtering
Grant in 2023
Queally Pig Slaughtering provides high-quality pork from carefully selected and sustainable livestock supplied locally. The state-of-the-art facility is fully tailored to process and deliver goods that meet a wide variety of customer criteria.
Kildare Chilling Company
Grant in 2023
Kildare Chilling Company is a food and beverage enterprise based in County Kildare, Ireland, specializing in the processing and supply of quality beef and lamb products. The company is dedicated to maintaining high standards of food safety and quality, ensuring that its meat offerings originate from livestock raised in lush pastures within an unspoiled environment. Kildare Chilling Company prides itself on delivering fast and professional service to its customers, effectively catering to various food and meat markets.
Lakeland Dairies
Grant in 2023
Lakeland Dairies is a prominent dairy processing co-operative based in the northern half of the island of Ireland, covering a fifteen-county area. The co-operative processes approximately one billion litres of high-quality milk each year, transforming it into various value-added dairy foodservice products and functional dairy food ingredients. This extensive operation not only contributes to the local economy but also supports the agricultural community by sourcing milk from local farmers.
Dansko Foods
Grant in 2023
Dansko Foods is a food manufacturing company that specializes in manufacturing a wide range of dairy products.
Staunton Foods
Grant in 2023
Staunton Foods has been selling high-quality pork and bacon products to domestic and international markets.
AltraTech
Venture Round in 2021
AltraTech Limited, incorporated in 2013 and based in Shannon, Ireland, specializes in the design of biosensors and semiconductor chips for DNA testing, particularly focused on food traceability in the agricultural sector. The company develops advanced devices that utilize innovative enrichment and semiconductor techniques to enhance molecular detection. These devices are capable of achieving the sensitivity and specificity comparable to traditional PCR methods, all while maintaining a compact, portable size. This capability allows for rapid and accurate measurement and quantification of viral RNA, DNA, antigens, or antibodies, facilitating precise diagnostics in various applications.
T.E. Laboratories (TelLab)
Grant in 2018
TelLab provides custom chemicals for pharmaceutical manufacturers, own-label chemical distributors, food and beverage companies, electronics and technology firms, industrial manufacturers, regulatory agencies, hospitals, and hospital labs.
Irish Bioeconomy Foundation
Grant in 2018
Irish Bioeconomy Foundation provides a range of support services such as life cycle analysis, the development of new product concepts, market analysis, and industry insights. They produce food, feed, materials, and energy using renewable resources from forestry, agriculture, and the marine.
Nuritas Ltd., established in 2012 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, is a biotechnology company specializing in the discovery of bioactive peptides from food sources using artificial intelligence and genomics. The company's proprietary platform combines computational biology with nutritional science to identify and extract health-benefiting components hidden within food, enabling it to create functional foods and cosmetics. Nuritas collaborates with industry partners to co-develop new ingredients, with applications in human and animal nutrition, beverages, dietary supplements, and cosmetics.
Blanco Nino
Venture Round in 2017
Blanco Nino is a company based in Ireland that specializes in producing authentic Mexican food products, focusing on high-quality corn tortillas and related items. The company offers a range of products including corn tortillas, nacho chips, masa harina, tacos, and quesadillas, all made using the traditional nixtamalization process. This method not only enhances the flavor but also provides customers with healthier and organic options. Blanco Nino is dedicated to sustainability and collaborates with passionate growers to source non-GM maize, ensuring that their offerings reflect the rich and diverse food culture of Mexico. Through their commitment to authenticity and quality, Blanco Nino aims to bring the true taste of Mexican cuisine to a broader audience.
CBL Equipment
Venture Round in 2017
CBL Equipment are pleased to announce the introduction of a newly patented waterless chafing dish the Castle Chafer, that out performs traditional chafing dishes while reducing fuel cost to under €0.25 / Hour. Their countertop insulated chafing dish for the food service industry is designed to hold food at the appropriate serving temperature needed to offer your food at its best for longer. The Castle Chafer is ideal for holding pre-cooked foods, soups and sauces at a perfect temperature prior to serving. Making it ideal for high-end food service, catering, outdoor events, and other food environments.
Oculer
Venture Round in 2017
Oculer is a microbiology laboratory focused on the rapid detection of thermoduric bacteria and spoilage microorganisms in milk and dairy products. The company has developed a patented automated platform that offers a low-cost and user-friendly solution for detecting bacteria, yeast, and mold with enhanced sensitivity and specificity compared to traditional microbiological testing methods. This innovative system allows food and beverage manufacturers to quickly and accurately identify microbial contamination in both products and manufacturing processes. By enabling faster detection, Oculer helps its customers reduce inventory holding costs and mitigate the risks associated with product recalls, ultimately improving food safety and quality in the industry.
Kinsale Gourmet
Venture Round in 2016
Kinsale Gourmet is a new range of Chilled Restaurant Quality Convenience Meals.We do they prep, you cook it up!
Nuritas
Seed Round in 2015
Nuritas Ltd., established in 2012 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, is a biotechnology company specializing in the discovery of bioactive peptides from food sources using artificial intelligence and genomics. The company's proprietary platform combines computational biology with nutritional science to identify and extract health-benefiting components hidden within food, enabling it to create functional foods and cosmetics. Nuritas collaborates with industry partners to co-develop new ingredients, with applications in human and animal nutrition, beverages, dietary supplements, and cosmetics.
AltraTech
Seed Round in 2014
AltraTech Limited, incorporated in 2013 and based in Shannon, Ireland, specializes in the design of biosensors and semiconductor chips for DNA testing, particularly focused on food traceability in the agricultural sector. The company develops advanced devices that utilize innovative enrichment and semiconductor techniques to enhance molecular detection. These devices are capable of achieving the sensitivity and specificity comparable to traditional PCR methods, all while maintaining a compact, portable size. This capability allows for rapid and accurate measurement and quantification of viral RNA, DNA, antigens, or antibodies, facilitating precise diagnostics in various applications.
Biosensia
Venture Round in 2011
Biosensia Ltd. is a Dublin-based company specializing in point-of-care in-vitro diagnostics. It has developed RapiPlex, an innovative diagnostic system designed to deliver both quantitative and qualitative laboratory test results. This system features a disposable assay cartridge and a compact tabletop instrument, allowing for the transition of complex immunoassays from centralized laboratories to doctors' offices or patients' bedsides. RapiPlex facilitates near-patient care by providing rapid and practical testing solutions across various applications, including theranostic identification and monitoring, as well as veterinary and food safety testing. The platform is compatible with multiple biological sample types, such as whole blood, plasma, serum, urine, saliva, and milk. Founded in 2000 and previously known as NanoComms Ltd., Biosensia Ltd. rebranded in 2006 and currently operates as a subsidiary of Kypha Inc.
Biosensia
Venture Round in 2008
Biosensia Ltd. is a Dublin-based company specializing in point-of-care in-vitro diagnostics. It has developed RapiPlex, an innovative diagnostic system designed to deliver both quantitative and qualitative laboratory test results. This system features a disposable assay cartridge and a compact tabletop instrument, allowing for the transition of complex immunoassays from centralized laboratories to doctors' offices or patients' bedsides. RapiPlex facilitates near-patient care by providing rapid and practical testing solutions across various applications, including theranostic identification and monitoring, as well as veterinary and food safety testing. The platform is compatible with multiple biological sample types, such as whole blood, plasma, serum, urine, saliva, and milk. Founded in 2000 and previously known as NanoComms Ltd., Biosensia Ltd. rebranded in 2006 and currently operates as a subsidiary of Kypha Inc.