St Patrick’s Day 2025: 10 Startups Boosting Business in Ireland

Today is St. Patrick’s Day, a festive day of Irish pride. Once started as a religious holiday to commemorate the patron saint of Ireland, St Patrick’s Day has become a modern celebration of Irish Culture.

Whilst some countries will turn buildings and even rivers (yes Chicago, we’re looking at you!) green, here at TechRound we like to celebrate Ireland by spotlighting some of its most exciting up-and-coming startups.

 

How Has Ireland Grown As A Startup Hub?

 

A lot of tech companies moved their operations to Ireland due to its favourable tax environment, which charges just 12.5% corporate tax on business profits. This caused a massive surge in tech and startup growth, with big tech companies like Google, Microsoft, Intel, Apple and Facebook all setting up operations there.

The government has also done a lot of work boosting research and development, by offering up tax benefits for businesses that drive it. These factors, as well as the country’s location between Europe and America and the highly educated population, have drawn in tech companies from far and wide.

So, which Irish startups are changing the game?

Let’s take a look at them.

 

inspeq ai

 

 

Based in Dublin, inspeq are on a mission to make AI safer and more ethical.

The company, which has partnered with huge names like Salesforce, is designed to help businesses with AI risk management. This not only makes them safer, but also ensures they are using AI more ethically.

 

Gigable

 

 

Gigable, based in Dublin, exists to help connect businesses with gig-economy workers – making it easier to find and manage them.

The platform helps by reducing the costs that come with recruitment fees by offering companies a database of people to choose from. Then, it manages the entire payment process, cutting down on admin time. By helping companies manage last minute shifts and find the workers they need, Gigable are fuelling the gig economy in Ireland and beyond.

 

 

MyGug

 

 

MyGug is a company that helps people cut down on food waste by turning it info fertiliser. Their machine, the MyGug biodigester works anywhere, transforming up to 90% of food waste into a useful resource.

By giving companies, restaurants, schools and homes easier ways to battle food waste, MyGug is helping to fuel a circular economy.

 

Kota

 

 

Kota is an employee insurance and retirement platform designed to make it easier for companies to manage their benefit systems.

Based in Dublin, the company is looking to modernise the employee benefits industry, by allowing businesses to manage everything in one place. That way, companies can spend less time worrying about HR and more time building their empires.

 

eppione

 

 

Eppione is another employee benefits platform, designed to help build happy and healthy workforces. The platform allows employees to view and choose the benefits that suit them, meaning businesses no longer have to adopt a ‘one size fits all’ approach.

With an easy to use platform and a lot of flexibility, eppione is making HR easy again.

 

FeelTect

 

 

FeelTect is a medtech company that has designed smart bandages for compression therapy. These bandages are designed to reduce the risk of leg ulcers, which appear as a result of poor circulation and cause stress and anxiety in patients.

By creating a smart wearable bandage that can sense and adjust pressures, the technology has already reduced treatment costs, equivalent to €4,300 per patient.

 

CleverCards

 

 

CleverCards have created tax free employment benefits cards that allow employees to use their benefits whenever and wherever they want.

The digital prepaid Mastercards are sent instantly via email, and can be used for expenses, benefits, travel and more. This not only helps companies keep on top of expenses, it also gives employees more flexible benefits.

 

giyst

 

 

Giyst is helping businesses change hours of footage into bite-sized content without much editing required. Using AI, the company creates instant highlight summaries of videos, including snippets, transcripts and captions.

 

Kwayga

 

 

Based in Cork, Kwayga is on a mission to disrupt the supply chain industry by automatically matching buyers with suppliers that best suit their needs.

Through Kwayga, companies can better cut sourcing times, improve margins and explore a whole list of new suppliers. With over 200 companies already using it, Kwayga is helping businesses supercharge their productivity.

 

La Nua

 

 

LaNua is a medtech company that is developing image-guided technologies to help with endovascular procedures.

With their flagship device, ECORE™, doctors are able to block blood flow to certain tissues, reducing the risk of internal bleeding and preventing blood flow to tumours.

By making this technology safer and more effective, La Nua is changing how doctors are able to control blood flow in their patients.