National Enterprise Awards 2026 - Lets Meet our Finalists

LEO Dublin City – ExamRevision


ExamRevision was founded by three secondary school teachers to extend highly- effective, technology-enabled learning beyond the classroom. It is an internationally scalable SaaS platform providing curriculum-aligned resources, interactive tools and progress tracking. Trusted by one in three secondary schools, independent research shows measurable improvements in students’ academic performance and confidence.

Founder Names: Áine Devlin, Keith Walsh and Patrick Ward  E: aine@examrevision.ie  W:Examrevision.ie






LEO Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown -  Snugabugz


Snugabugz is an award-winning Irish baby brand born from a simple frustration—socks that won’t stay on.
Founded by mum-of-three Dervla Arthurs, it creates innovative babywear that actually stays on, combining patented design, organic materials and premium gifting appeal, with rapid growth across domestic retail and international markets.

Founder Name(s): Dervla Arthurs  E: dervla@snugabugz.com  W: snugabugz.com

LEO Fingal – Now Coco

Now Coco is a fast-growing Irish wellness beverage brand redefining coconut water with clean-label, naturally sourced ingredients. With a growing retail footprint and international expansion underway, the brand blends innovation, lifestyle-led marketing, and a strong commitment to health, community, and sustainability

Founder Name: Marti Nulty  E: marti@nowjuice.ie  W:drinknowcoco.ie

LEO South Dublin - The Smooth Company

The Smooth Company founded in 2022 by Áine Kennedy, The Smooth Company began with one hero: The Smooth Stick™. Now a global sensation with over 150 million views, it has become one of the fastest-growing beauty brands, loved for its innovative formulas and trusted by celebrity hairstylists and customers in 92+ countries.

Founder Name(s): Aine Kennedy  E:aine@thesmoothcompany.com  W:www.thesmoothcompany.com

LEO Clare - Óir Tonics

Óir Tonics blends traditional Irish seaweed practices and modern whole-food wellness with Moss Boss Tonic, Ireland’s first liquid seaweed food supplement. Óir Tonics champions whole food ingredients, sustainability, and Irish suppliers. Óir Tonics is available through over 300 retailers nationwide, is selling direct-to-consumer online and locally at The Óir House, Ballyvaughan.

Founder Name(s):Edel Breslin  E:info@oirtonics.com  W:www.oirtonics.com

LEO Kerry - KK Hydraulics Ltd

KK Hydraulics Ltd is a long-established, family-run engineering business based in Tralee, Co. Kerry. The company specialises in the manufacture of recycling equipment, hydraulic components, and also provide maintenance services.

Founder Name: Jakes Kelly & William Kelly  E: info@kkhydraulics.ie  W: www.kkhydraulics.ie

LEO Limerick – Eventmaster

Eventmaster is an Irish technology company providing an integrated platform for ticketing, fundraising and membership management. Founded in Limerick, the platform supports sports organisations, charities and event organisers across Ireland and internationally, helping them manage events, engage communities, and raise millions of Euro for good causes.

Founder Name: John Cleary  E:    W:Eventmaster.ie

LEO Tipperary – I Left You A Note

I Left You A Note is an Irish AI- powered platform helping hotels fix guest issues before they become damaging reviews. By turning in-stay feedback into real-time action and revenue opportunities, it protects reputation, drives upsells, reduces admin and gives hotels a measurable competitive edge.

Founder Name(s): Stephen O’Sullivan  E:stephen@ileftyouanote.com  W:www.ileftyouanote.com

LEO Kildare – Equi-Ed Ltd

Equi-Ed Ltd is a leading provider of science-based equine education, delivering innovative online courses and professional certifications to horse owners and industry professionals. Through advanced training, digital learning, and industry partnerships, Equi-Ed is raising standards in equine welfare, performance, and professional development on an international scale.

Founder Names: Theresa Murphy  E: Therese Murphy  W:equid.com=

LEO Laois – Le Skinny Chef

Le Skinny Chef produces award-winning, chef-developed, plant-based pesto, sauces and concentrated soups for retail and food service markets. Founded by French Chef Aymar Gourdet, the company combines Irish ingredients with French culinary expertise. Supplying over 80 stores, the business is expanding rapidly into export markets, including the UK and Europe.

Founder Name(s): Aymar Gourdet  E: leskinnychef@hotmail.com  W: www.leskinnychef.com

LEO Offaly - Photo Experience


Photo Experience is a technology company that transforms how attractions capture and monetise guest memories. It takes a simple photo, powers it with technology, and turns it into revenue.
The platform automates photo capture, delivers images instantly to guests’ phones, and increases conversion across theme parks, zoos, and visitor attractions.

Founder Name: Dean Kelly  E:dean@wearephotoexperience.com  W:wearephotoexperience.com

LEO Westmeath - Sugar Plum Sweetery

Sugar Plum Sweetery is an Irish premium chocolate manufacturer producing innovative, handmade chocolate products for the gifting, retail/wholesale and direct-to-consumer markets. Innovation is at the core, with a rapid, trend-led product development model that allows Sugar Plum to identify, launch and scale products at pace for national and international growth.

Founder Names: Denise Buckley, David Quirke  E: hello@sugarplumsweetery.ie  W:sugarplumsweetery.ie

LEO Cork City – Blarney Brewing Company

Blarney Brewing Company is leading the way in sustainable brewing, supplying a range of high quality craft beers to Irish and export markets. Blarney Brewing Company aims to operate an off-grid zero waste production facility by 2029, producing the world’s most sustainably produced beer.


Founder Name(s): Pat Falvey, Duncan Blair, Ronan Russell  E:pat@blarneybrewing.ie  W:blarneybrewing.ie

LEO Cork North & West – The Cultured Food Company

The Cultured Food Company is an Irish producer specialising in fermented vegetables. Renowned for innovation and quality, it creates healthy products such as kimchi and sauerkraut, while scaling through automation, export growth, and partnerships with leading retailers and food brands.

Founder Name(s): Hayley Milthorpe  E:info@culturedfoodco.ie  T: 086 1922696

LEO South Cork - Halroy Ltd


Halroy Ltd specialises in the design, manufacture and servicing of custom, high pressure washing systems. They include premium, mobile hot water pressure washers, trailer-mounted fire hose foam systems and trailers equipped with mixing, spraying and foaming capabilities. The company specialises in supplying the Middle-East market with cleaning and sanitisation equipment for industrial scale poultry farm houses.

Founder Name(s): Kevin Murphy  E:kevin@eurojet.ie  W: www.eurojet.ie

LEO Waterford - Pawpear

Pawpear is an Irish design-led paper stationery brand founded by illustrator Kim Whyte. Inspired by Ireland’s landscapes, language and heritage, Pawpear creates illustrated stationery and art prints, produced in Ireland and stocked by over 80 retailers at home and internationally. Pawpear is expanding through collaborations, export growth and cultural partnerships.

Founder Name(s): Kim Whyte  E: kim@pawpear.ie  W: pawpear.ie

LEO Carlow - Seed Golf


Seed Golf designs and sells high-performance golf balls and equipment direct to consumers globally. Developed in Ireland through SETU-led R&D, Seed Golf delivers tour-level performance at a significantly lower price. The company serves customers across Ireland, UK, USA and Australia, with continued international expansion underway.

Founder Name: Dean Klatt Email: dean@seedgolf.com Web: seedgolf.com

LEO Kilkenny – Huwmo 

Huwmo helps independent hotels reduce dependency on online travel agencies by sending discounted deals to its Guest Community when low demand is detected. Hotels earn commission when guests they onboard to the community book at other partner hotels. Currently serving hotels across Ireland, Huwmo is on track to achieve a record-breaking 80,000 Guest Community sign-ups in year one.

Founder Name(s): Shane Doherty & Micheál Dunne  E: shane.doherty@huwmo.com  W:www.huwmo.com  The Guest Community — Exclusive Hotel Deals in Ireland



LEO Wexford – EcoKinly


EcoKinly is an award-winning, Wexford-based brand designing a range of reusable nappies, period products, and accessories, including a patent-pending design. The company operates through e-commerce, serving domestic and international customers. EcoKinly is expanding through retail partnerships across Ireland and developing a new reusable category for sale in-store.

Founder Name: Kate Doyle  E:hello@ecokinli.ie  W: Ecokinly.com

LEO Wicklow - SiSú


SiSú a family owned business offering a range of better-for-you products from cold-pressed juices to wellness shots, organic kombucha, plant-based milks and overnight oats. All SiSú products have originated in their family kitchen and they are now selling more than 2 million products annually. SiSú’s USP includes great taste, quality, functionality clean label. SiSú products are available nationwide, with exports to NI in place and plans for the EU and UK in 2026.

Founder name: Brian McGann  E: aisling.mcgann@sisu.ie  W: sisu.ie

LEO Donegal - Niche SSP


Niche SSP is a Donegal-based 100% export-oriented recruitment business that supplies the largest Construction companies in the US with the Top 10% of Preconstruction Talent. Niche SSP focuses exclusively on Preconstruction & Estimating, using its AI based CRM, Preconstruction Podcast and best-in-class training to better connect employers to high-quality Estimators.

Founder Name(s): Ciara and Gareth McGlynn  E:ciara.mcglynn@nichessp.com  W:www.nichessp.com

LEO Leitrim - LegalMoov


LegalMoov is an Irish B2B legal technology platform that helps individuals and SMEs understand their legal position and connect with the right lawyer more efficiently. Using AI-enabled triage and structured digital onboarding, the platform improves access to legal services, while reducing customer acquisition costs and administrative workload for legal professionals.

Founder Names: Joanna Frivet  E: joanna@legalmoov.org  W: legalmoov.io

LEO Longford – Dial a Chef


Dial a Chef is a hands-on catering company producing fresh, high-quality meals at scale without losing attention to detail. From large events to daily services, Dial a Chef focuses on consistency, efficiency and food that genuinely tastes good. Dial a Chef takes pride in doing things properly and delivering meals they are proud of, every time.

Founder Name: Eilish McLoughlin  E: dialachefcatering@gmail.com  W: www.dialachef.ie/

LEO Sligo – GerTEK 


GerTEK Project Management and Technical Services Ltd is Ireland's premier engineering consultancy, delivering technical project management, commissioning, quality and staffing services to global leaders in Life Sciences, Data Centres and Semiconductors. Founded in Sligo in 2019, GerTEK has 51 professionals across three continents generating EUR 5M+ revenue with clients including AWS, Microsoft, AbbVie and Abbott.

Founder Names: Gerry McGowan  E: gmcgowan@gerteksolutions.com  W: gerteksolutions.com

LEO Cavan -  I/O Agri


I/O Agri develops sustainable agri tech solutions that reduce agricultural odours and emissions. Their technology supports greener, more productive farming through innovative systems for ventilation, heating, milling, feed management, and on farm data monitoring to help farmers meet environmental and ESG targets.

Founders: Shane O'Reilly & Sandra Thompson  Email: Sandra@ioagri.ie  W: ioagri.ie Decarbonising Agriculture By Capturing Livestock Emissions IO Agri

LEO Louth –  Caroline Duffy Designs


Caroline Duffy Designs is a luxury, sustainable fashion and lifestyle brand creating unique, nature inspired pieces that bring colour, joy, and wellbeing. Caroline’s mission is to wrap the world in floral energy, connecting people with nature and uplifting their spirit through vibrant products and transformative, heart opening creative experiences.

Founder Names: Caroline Duffy  E:info@carolineduffydesigns.com  W:carolineduffydesigns.com

LEO Meath - RYSE Chocolate

RYSE Chocolate is an Irish caffeinated chocolate energy bar, designed to combine real chocolate with a smooth, long lasting caffeine boost. Each bar contains 80 mg of steady release caffeine along with vitamins B6 and B12, offering energy and focus without the crash typical of fast release alternatives, all made without artificial additives or E numbers.

Founder name: Ian O’Rourke, David Stone  E:Ian@rysechocolate.com  W: rysechocolate.com

LEO Monaghan - The Rug Rack Company

The Rug Rack Company designs and manufactures innovative, patent-pending equestrian storage solutions that protect horse rugs, optimise stable space, and improve hygiene. Based in Monaghan, the company serves customers across Ireland, the UK, Europe, and North America, combining premium design with practical functionality for horse owners worldwide.


Founder Names: Padraic and Kathy Nolan  E:Info@therugrack.ie  W:Therudgrack.ie

LEO Galway – Celtic Dynamics Group


Celtic Dynamics Group is an energy engineering company providing energy audits, energy services, ESG reporting and turnkey efficiency projects for businesses and multi site organisations.
They support energy intensive sectors with technical expertise, regulatory compliance and practical implementation pathways. Ireland is the parent company base and centre of excellence hub, supporting UK and Mexico subsidiaries.

Founder Name: Dylan Walsh  E-mail: sales@celticdynamics.com  Website: Celtic Dynamics - Comprehensive Energy Audit Services

LEO Mayo – ACT

ACT is a pioneering social enterprise reimagining the built environment through a regenerative lens. As a non-profit company limited by guarantee, ACT operates at the intersection of architecture, digital innovation and policy, reinvesting all surpluses into climate-focused research to deliver scalable, nature-positive solutions for Ireland’s green transition.


Founder Name(s): James McConville, Kevin Loftus, Tom Lindsay  E:hello@act-studio.com  W: www.act-studio.com

LEO Roscommon – Tully Forge

Tully Forge is a Roscommon-based engineering and contract manufacturing company specialising in mechanical sub-assemblies, modular systems, and precision welding. With a strong reputation for quality and reliability, the company supports the industrial and agricultural sectors through innovative, high-quality manufacturing solutions.

Founder Name(s): Gerard Mulrennan & Thomas Mulrennan  E: info@tullyforge.ie   W:www.tullyforge.ie