MEET THE PITCH ’26 FINALISTS

AH WINES
Founded by Irish actress, writer and broadcaster Amy Huberman, Ah Wines launched in 2025 with a simple idea: wine should be fun, accessible and made for everyday moments. Inspired by Amy’s love of Cava and Rose, the range was developed with winemakers in Spain and France, combining quality and flavour with a relaxed, approachable attitude. Closely involved in its development, Amy created Ah Wines to take the pretension out of wine and celebrate good wine, good company and life’s little moments.

FÍOR JEWELLERY
Established in Limerick in 2022, Fíor is a contemporary Irish jewellery brand grounded in a passion for Ireland, the Irish language and the connection to home. Founded by Seán, a fluent Irish speaker, Fíor was inspired by time spent abroad and a desire to create something meaningful to connect people with their homeland, wherever in the world they may be. Through modern jewellery design, inspired by the Irish language, culture and heritage, Fíor creates unique pieces that celebrate identity, belonging and connection. Designed to be worn every day and treasured, each piece carries a meaningful story of home. Fíor translates to ‘true’ or ‘real’ reflecting the authenticity at the heart of the brand and its mission to allow customers to wear a piece of Ireland, wherever life’s journey may take them.

HEY DARLO
Founded by hairdresser and salon owner Katrina Kelly, Hey Darlo is an Irish hair styling brand created to make salon-worthy results easier to achieve at home. Its debut product, Darlo Bounce, is a range of thermal hair rollers designed to create volume, bounce and long-lasting curls across different hair types and lengths. After selling out three times through Katrina’s salon, Hey Darlo is now expanding its range with ambitions to grow in Ireland and internationally.

PILATES & CREAM
Pilates & Cream is a fashion wellness brand. Founded by Hannah Moran Jackson. An Irish fashion designer turned pilates instructor on a mission to make grip socks the must have fashion accessory. Reimagining the traditional grip sock through a fashion first lens. We design pieces that are functional for the studio, but styled for every step of your day. From Pilates and matcha runs, to office fits and dinner with the girls.
Beyond the product, Pilates & Cream creates unique creative wellness experiences and community events that bring together movement, fashion and connection.
Fashion you can move in. Wellness you can wear.

KAZCLOPS
Kazclops is a designer-led crochet brand positioned at the intersection of fashion, art, and craft. Founded in 2020, Kazclops began with sculptural headwear that challenged what crochet could be. The work quickly gained a cult following, garnering celebrity customers including Doja Cat, Kehlani, Rico Nasty and Zara Larsson, and featured in British Vogue and Japanese Vogue. Today, Kazclops exists beyond the headpiece. At its centre is the Kazm, a strange parallel world inhabited by creatures whose skins become the yarn used to create Kazclops objects in our world. As portals between the two worlds begin to open, more of these creatures are finding themselves in our world. The Kazclops Crochet Kit is an invitation to enter this world yourself. Designed for absolute beginners, each kit combines high-quality materials, step-by-step teaching and storytelling to make learning crochet feel less like following a craft pattern and more like discovering a new creative universe. Kazclops is about taking crochet somewhere unexpected: from traditional craft to contemporary art, fashion, character and world-building.
