Deloitte opens the 2025 Fast 50 awards, calling on Ireland’s most dynamic tech companies to showcase their growth
- New entrants will join the ranks of unicorns such as Wayflyer and Tines, celebrated alumni of the Deloitte Technology Fast 50.
- The awards offer an objective benchmark of a tech company’s performance, ranking businesses solely on percentage revenue growth over the last four years.
- The Rising Star Award recognises a business with a strong growth trajectory and the potential to earn a place in the Deloitte Fast 50 rankings in future years.
Deloitte Ireland is inviting the country’s fastest-growing and most innovative technology companies to apply to be part of the prestigious Deloitte Fast 50 awards. The programme, which celebrates home-grown entrepreneurship, ranks the 50 fastest growing indigenous technology companies based on revenue growth over the last four years.
The list features both private and public listed technology companies that have demonstrated creative strategies, sound management practices and marketplace vision, driving them to achieve the status of high-growth leaders.
The dynamic shifts in the macroeconomic landscape since the 2024 awards have intensified businesses focus on resilience and upholding the highest standards of quality across their organisations,
explains James Toomey, partner and Fast 50 programme lead at Deloitte.
The changes in our current trading environment have shifted our focus here at home in Ireland. More than ever, we realise we need to invest and support indigenous businesses to insulate Ireland and keep us an innovative and exciting place to work and live. It’s why I’m passionate about the Deloitte Fast 50 awards, because every year, for 26 years, we celebrate the 50 fastest growing tech companies on the island of Ireland. Each business is a real-life example of the incredible indigenous companies that are being talked about so much.
For any company considering applying, previous ranking companies have included unicorns Wayflyer and Tines,
continues Toomey.
That shows the calibre of our winners. The rankings are trusted, respected and purely quantitative based, solely looking at growth, so it’s an objective ranking. We hear from previous participants how this has helped them when looking for external investment. In this environment, when investors are being sharper and smarter with their money, this is invaluable. I look forward to seeing which companies apply and seeing many of them at our awards ceremony in November.
This year’s awards programme will include several award categories that companies can enter in addition to the overall ranking. 2024 winners ofthese awards include Catagen for the Impact Award in association with Meta.
- Growing New Technology Award in association with Google: This
award recognises a company that has created or introduced a new or
innovative product or service to international markets, which helped grow their business over the last four years. - Impact Award in association with Meta: This award recognises a company that has made a significant impact within the current year.
- Women in Technology Advocate Award in association with NetSuite: This award will be presented to an individual who has demonstrated through their actions that they are an advocate for increasing participation by, and promotion of, women in the technology sector.
- Scale Up Award in association with Scale Ireland: This award recognises a company that has demonstrated an impressive ability to scale up/expand overseas over the last four years.
- Financial Services Innovation Award in association with Financial Services Ireland: This award recognises a company with an innovative product or service that is having a disruptive impact within the financial services industry.
- The Rising Star award in association with Enterprise Ireland: This award will recognise a company that has demonstrated a promising growth trajectory and the potential for inclusion in the Fast 50 rankings in years to come. Companies being considered for this award must have operating revenues accounting for a minimum of 2 years and less than 4 years.
2024 rankings
11 of the 50 ranked companies in 2024’s awards were first time winners.
Wayflyer, a company that provides financing to consumer brands and
became a unicorn in 2022, ranked as the fastest growing technology company.
Fibrus, Tines, Buymedia and Catagen all ranked in the top five.
Eoin Hinchy, founder and CEO, of Tines, an intelligent workflows platform, said:
After working in cybersecurity for more than a decade, Thomas Kinsella, my co-founder and I saw an opportunity to build a company like we have with Tines. That was seven years ago and the past year in particular has been a special one for us, having achieved unicorn status and ranking in the top five of the Deloitte 2024 Fast 50 awards. None of it would be possible without the trust and support of our customers, investors and team, and the globally-recognised Fast 50 rankings are not only a recognition of our exponential growth, but also a moment for all of us to celebrate and meet with like-minded tech companies.
Susan Crawford, Group CFO of Catagen, which develops new technologies in net zero technologies, said:
The Deloitte Fast 50 awards stand out from other programmes because of their objectivity. When a company is ranked, it’s based on its numbers. For our team at CATAGEN, a Net Zero Technologies company, the Fast 50 has been a trusted reference point in our scaling journey—recognised numerous times, including three top 5 placements. We’re ambitious about how technology can help tackle climate change, and the Fast 50’s global reputation supports us as we continue to grow and scale.
Application details and further information about the programme can be found here: https://www.deloitte.com/ie/en/Industries/tmt/technology-fast-50-awards.html
The closing date for entries is 19 September 2025 and the winners will be announced at a ceremony in Dublin on 27 November 2025.
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