Global Tech Innovator 2026 - Meet the Finalists and Judges

We are delighted announce the shortlisted companies that will compete in the Ireland final of the KPMG Global Tech Innovator competition 2026.

The competition, now in its sixth year, provides a platform to showcase the best of Ireland’s emerging tech innovators across diverse sectors.

The finalists were selected after evaluating a high volume of exceptional entries and will pitch their innovations and growth ambitions to an esteemed panel of judges: Cyril McGuire, Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist, CEO, Infinity Capital; Colin Goulding, Vice President, Trust and Safety, Google; Caroline Gaynor, Partner, Lightstone Ventures and current Chair of the IVCA; Conor Stanley, Founder, Tribal.vc and Anna Scally, Global Head of Technology, Media, and Telecommunications, KPMG.

Anna Scally

Partner, Global Head of Technology, Media, and Telecommunications

KPMG in Ireland

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The finalists

The shortlisted companies from Cork, Dublin, Galway, Louth and Monaghan are innovating in a broad range of areas including:

a technology platform to manage childcare,
an AI based platform that makes technology accessible,
menopause and hormonal care,
cardiac health monitoring,
AI governance and assurance,
AI agent middleware,
AI-powered patient engagement and
biotech drug delivery.

The Ireland finalists for Global Tech Innovator 2026 are:

DevAlly

DevAlly is an AI-powered accessibility compliance platform that helps software teams build and maintain compliant, inclusive digital products.

It combines site-wide scanning, real user workflow auditing (via its Chrome extension), and automated compliance reporting in one tool. By focusing on real user journeys rather than static checks, it embeds continuous accessibility into everyday product development.

Whether starting or scaling an accessibility compliance program, DevAlly helps product teams automate and streamline compliance under EAA, ADA and Section 508.

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ArrayPatch Ltd

ArrayPatch Ltd is an Irish biotechnology company developing next-generation microneedle drug delivery systems that enable painless, targeted, and self-administered delivery of medicines.

The company's proprietary platform uses drug-only, polymer-free microneedles to improve drug loading, dosing precision, and patient convenience.

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öogo

"öogo is the global infrastructure layer for childcare. We connect parents, caregivers, employers and hospitality partners on one intelligent platform.

We match families with trusted, vetted Minders using a proprietary algorithm built on years of expert concierge matching.

We are post-revenue with enterprise recurring contracts, and we are building the system that makes childcare work the way everything else in the modern economy works.

We are building the global platform that brings the childcare industry in line with all other industries."

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The MenoPal

The MenoPal is the central intelligence layer for menopause health, transforming fragmented symptom, wearable and clinical data into structured, predictive insights that power personalised care, clinical research and the future of women’s health innovation.

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Galenband

Galenband is a Galway-based MedTech startup developing an upper-arm wearable to capture up to 90 days of continuous ECG data without adhesives, daily charging, or apps.

The company is initially focused on improving detection of silent atrial fibrillation after stroke, where longer monitoring could help clinicians more effectively apply treatments that prevent stroke recurrence.

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Disseqt

Disseqt is the Assurance Layer for Enterprise AI Operations. AI agents hallucinate, drift, and go off-script at runtime, and most enterprises can't see it happening.

Disseqt gives IT teams one platform to test & detect, protect & enforce, prove & comply across the full agent lifecycle, meeting frameworks like the EU AI Act and ISO 42001

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Jentic

Jentic connects AI safely to enterprise APIs and platforms. AI transformation programs are stuck on integration, reliability, security, compliance and maintainability.

Jentic provides a platform and a comprehensive agentic process that automates AI-ready API modernisation, proves agent ROI in a sandbox environment, and scales into production with a unified governed execution layer.

AI-native, platform neutral and enterprise-first, Jentic has already established a leadership over relevant standards, is selling to Fortune 500s, and was one of 40 companies in the 2025 AWS Global AI Accelerator.

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SPRYT

SPRYT is an AI-powered patient engagement and care orchestration platform built to close the gap between booked care and delivered care.

At its core is Asa, an AI medical receptionist that lives on WhatsApp, SMS, and RCS, allowing patients to book, reschedule, cancel, pay, ask questions, and manage appointments in over 140 languages, 24/7, without downloading an app.

SPRYT uses predictive AI to identify no-shows and cancellations with up to 90% accuracy helping providers reduce wasted capacity, improve utilisation, and intervene before care is missed.

Beyond scheduling, SPRYT orchestrates the full care journey, from reminders and preparation to transport, directions, check-in, follow-up, and patient feedback.

SPRYT is now deployed across 70+ clinics in the US and has delivered strong results in NHS pilots, including a 160% increase in booking conversion, a 30% reduction in communication costs, and over 8 hours of admin time saved per practice each week.

Its growing footprint includes partnerships and programmes across the NHS, the US, and the Mayo Clinic innovation ecosystem.

SPRYT’s mission is simple: make healthcare easier to access, easier to manage, and more likely to happen.

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