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Irish software companies in the EU Horizon programme
Which Irish software and digital-technology companies appear in the European Commission CORDIS participant data - structured, source-cited, and verified against the CRO register.
Updated 2026-06-26 - CORDIS source
Summary
22 Irish software and digital-technology companies appear in the CORDIS Horizon participant data for the digital and AI research vertical. 17 are verified as active companies on the CRO (Companies Registration Office) register. 14 are classified as SMEs by the European Commission. Amounts and project years are not available in the org-level CORDIS feed - see the full project dataset for project-level figures.
Source: European Commission CORDIS database (CC-BY-4.0) + CRO Open Data (CC-BY-4.0)
CRO-verified companies
17 companies matched by name to an active record on the CRO register. CRO number and registration date shown where resolved.
Assentian Europe Limited
Brivant Limited
Deciphex Limited
Emc Information Systems International Unlimited Company
Enterasense Limited
Erinn Innovation Limited
F6s Network Ireland Limited
Ibm Ireland Limited
Inventya Ventures (Eu) Limited
Konnecta Systems Limited
L.M. Ericsson Limited
Redzinc Services Limited
Security Labs Consulting Limited
Servicenow Ireland Limited
Synopsys International Limited
Trilateral Research Limited
Ubotica Technologies Limited
Pending CRO verification
5 companies appear in the CORDIS data but could not be matched to an active CRO record by name. These are included for completeness but the CRO match is unconfirmed.
Alana Ai Sa Limited
Facebook Ireland Limited
Human Dx Eu, Ltd
Konree Innovation Limited
Pilot Photonics Ltd
Frequently asked questions
Which Irish software companies have received EU Horizon funding?
22 Irish software and digital-technology companies appear in the CORDIS Horizon participant data for the digital and AI research vertical. 17 of these are verified as active companies on the Irish Companies Registration Office (CRO) register. The data covers the EU Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe framework programmes and is sourced directly from the European Commission CORDIS database (CC-BY-4.0).
What is the EU Horizon programme?
Horizon is the European Commission's research and innovation framework programme. Horizon 2020 ran from 2014 to 2020 with a budget of EUR 77 billion. Horizon Europe succeeded it from 2021 to 2027 with a EUR 95.5 billion budget. Both programmes fund private companies, universities, and research bodies across the EU and associated countries. Irish companies, both SMEs and large technology firms, have participated as project partners across the digital and AI verticals.
How many Irish SMEs are in the EU Horizon programme?
Of the 22 Irish software and digital-technology companies identified in the CORDIS Horizon digital-AI participant data, 14 are classified as SMEs (small and medium enterprises) by the European Commission. 11 of those SMEs are verified as active on the CRO register.
Where does this data come from?
The participant data is sourced from the European Commission CORDIS database, published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0) licence. Company registration data is from the Companies Registration Office (CRO) open data bulk snapshot, also CC-BY-4.0. No data has been invented or inferred. Amounts and years are omitted where not present in the machine-readable source.
Is Vendors.ie affiliated with Enterprise Ireland or the IDA?
No. Vendors.ie is an independent Irish SME software intelligence platform. This funded-companies surface is editorial market data drawn from public open-data sources. It has no commercial or referral relationship with Enterprise Ireland, the IDA, or the European Commission.
How this data is compiled
Participant data is drawn from the European Commission CORDIS Horizon projects database, filtered to Irish organisations (country=IE) in the digital and AI research verticals, private-company participants only (activity_type=PRC). Non-software organisations have been removed via a documented editorial filter. CRO verification uses the CRO open-data bulk snapshot published under CC-BY-4.0 at opendata.cro.ie. No amounts or project years are included because these are not available in the org-level feed - the full project-level dataset at cordis.europa.eu is the authoritative source for those figures.
Source: European Commission CORDIS database (CC-BY-4.0) - CRO Open Data (CC-BY-4.0, opendata.cro.ie)