Members of Fintech Ireland's ecosystem in the media
Here is a summary of certain media coverage of Irish fintechs and fintechs founded by Irish folk.
- 22/05/2026: US fintech Payoneer paid $13m to acquire Irish employment firm Boundless. Read more HERE.
- 14/06/2026: Niall Dennehy's NestiFi raises seed round for AI family co-investing platform: Read more at: Article 1 and Article 2. Congratulations on the fundraise Team Nestifi and also the new look website! As Niall says - "Let's talk family wealth".
- 01/10/2026: James Hannigan's Sligo firm FacePOS hailed as ‘holy grail of payment systems’ after double nomination at Open Banking Expo Awards in London. Read more HERE. Congratulations Team FacePOS as you continue your journey as "Europe’s first fully integrated Pay by Bank solution - faster, safer, and completely free."
- 02/10/2026: Susan O'Neill's Paygentic hits Money20/20 USA this October 2026. Read more HERE. Paygentic is we're building the future of billing and payments for the agentic economy. Around this time in 2025 Paygentic announced that it had raised USD2mn in a pre-seed round. Read more HERE.
- 03/09/2026: Irish fintech CleverCards included as only one of "Seven Irish firms among Europe’s fastest-growing startups – find out who’s made the cut". CleverCards was named in the Sifted 250 for the second year in a row. The firm – which offers digital payment cards to more than 20,000 companies – was ranked 148th and had a CAGR of 160 per cent. Kealan Lennon, founder and chief executive, said the recognition was a “fantastic validation of the hard work and dedication of our team”. Great news to read Team CleverCards! Read more HERE.
- 09/09/2026: First Derivative creating 100 jobs with new AI and fintech centre, Charlie Taylor (Business Post). Read more HERE.
- 09/09/2026: Irish fintech ZeroRisk (Gary Nolan, CEO & CoFounder) raises €8.6m to expand payment risk platform, Charlie Taylor (Business Post). Read more HERE.
- 21/04/2026: Sean Mullaney's Seapoint raises €7.5m as ‘financial home’ to start-ups, Ann O’Dea (Silicon Republic). Seapoint is a full financial control for startups. Read more HERE.
- 08/09/2026: Ronan Burke and Conor Burke: ‘Suddenly, every financial institution needed a solution to a problem we had spent years preparing to solve’. Read more HERE. [NB: Inscribe is an AI-powered document fraud detection platform purpose built for financial institutions. The platform detects forged, fabricated and AI-generated financial documents (including deepfake bank statements, manipulated pay stubs and synthetic tax forms) in seconds, giving risk teams the clarity they need to stop fraud without slowing approvals.].