Top 10 Agriculture (agtech) Startup Investors in Portugal in October 2024

Last updated: Oct 2024 A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Agriculture (agtech) startups based in Portugal. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Agriculture (agtech) companies from Portugal. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Agriculture (agtech) Startup Investors in Portugal in October 2024

Investor	Agriculture (agtech) Portugal investments
Portugal Ventures	8
SVG Ventures	3
HCapital Partners	2
Iberis Capital	1
EDP Ventures	1
Caixa Capital	1
European regional development fund (ERDF)	1
SVG Ventures	1
Instituição Financeira de Desenvolvimento	1
Lince Capital	1

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Verticals:Enterprise, SaaS, Security, Networks, AI, VR/AR, Marketplace, Blockchain, Internet of Things, New materials, Electronics, Robotics, Cleantech, Agrotech, Seatech, Therapeutics, Digital Health, Diagnostics, Innovative Accommodation, Tourist Entertainment Companies, Tour Operators, Wine, Nautical and Equestrian Tourism, Theme ParksMobile, Robotics Founded in 2012, Portugal Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Porto, Portugal. The firm is a part of the Banco Português de Fomento group. The firm seeks to invest in pre-seed, seed and series A stages

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Portugal, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Unlockit — Revolutionizing Real Estate Transaction Management. Streamline your processes and unlock success with Unlockit's advanced solutions
Tonic App — Tonic App is a B2C2B digital health company building a professional ecosystem for medical doctors. Tonic App helps medical doctors to diagnose and treat their patients by curating, for them, in a single mobile platform, the best professional resources from peers, publishers, regulatory bodies, recruiters, providers & the industry.
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We are a Venture & Innovation Platform Advancing the Food & Agriculture Industries We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the food and agriculture industries.

Investment focus

AgTech, Agriculture, Farming
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

scoutlabs — We're building the world's densest digital trap network to accurately gauge insect pest pressure. This helps millions of farmers in precisely combating crop-eating insects, accelerating a transition to more sustainable methods. Good for the farmer, the environment and for our food security
Cynomys — Soluzioni IOT di monitoraggio ambientale per allevamenti e aziende
Verdi Expeditions — Verdi is building the world's first truly scalable platform for farm automation. We work with the world's largest food brands to grow better and more sustainable crops.

We are an independent private equity firm, investing in a broad spectrum of companies through dedicated funds.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Portugal, Spain, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Libattion — Sustainable energy storage solutions for recycled batteries to bring a second life to used lithium batteries.
Routal — SmartMonkey provides learning AI software solutions for logistics services and field operations. SmartMonkey software learns from a company’s operational and logistics digital history, utilizing existing technology and knowledge as well as IoT methodologies to ensure accuracy in data poor environments.
Eneida — Operational Analytics LV Apps, software and smart sensor for LV Network Monitoring, Control, and Visibility

Iberis is an investment manager that operates a value-oriented investment management.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, B2B
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

FRVR — FRVR brings captivating games to billions of players instantly.
NeuralShift — NeuralShift is an early-stage AI startup that assists lawyers by incorporating AI into daily processes.NeuralShift solution, Affine, is intended to assist lawyers in finding and cross-referencing the most essential material for everyday work.
Connected — Connected is a startup that offers affordable connecting humans, unleashing a new wave of IoT-based business models and contributing to bridge the digital gap.

EDP Ventures is the venture capital arm of EDP. We invest in early-stage startups working in the energy space

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Energy
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Portugal, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Captura — Captura mission is globally scalable carbon capture to support a sustainable future for the climate.
Splight — Enhance Grid Performance
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Caixa Capital is the Private Equity and Venture Capital arm of banking Group Caixa Geral de Depósitos and has a track record spanning over two decades of activity, since the industry was created in Portugal. It is a leading investor in terms of funds under management, portfolio size and diversity.Caixa Capital´s mission is to invest in fundsand companies, led by highly qualified management teams, with high growth and valuation potential, that enable our funds to achieve an attractive risk adjusted return and for society at large to benefit sustainably from our activity.Currently with more than 700 million Euros under management and a portfolio of over 80 investments, Caixa Capital is a reference in this area with special links to the respective European sector associations.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Portugal, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

HiJiffy — Increase direct bookings and upselling with HiJiffy's AI-powered communication solutions for hospitality.
Probely — Probely is a web application and API vulnerability scanner for agile teams. Automate Security Testing by adding Probely into your SDLC and CI/CD pipelines.
Infraspeak — Infraspeak is an Intelligent CMMS Software that brings outstanding flexibility, connectivity and intelligence to your operations.

The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) aims to improve the European Union's economic, social, and territorial cohesion by resolving imbalances across its various regions. ERDF funds initiatives for which the European Commission and national and regional governments in member countries share responsibility. Each member state'sgovernment decides which initiatives to support and is responsible for their continued supervision.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Grant, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

Losanje — Losanje has a brand and an upcycling workshop that gives second-hand and unsold completed apparel and textiles a second life. Its goal is to create an innovative manufacturing chain that will allow for the first time the industrialization of upcycling, as well as to implement the most credible solution, both ecologically and economically.
PulmoBiomed — Pulmobiomed has developed a best-in-class exhaled breath condensate device, capable of capturing Covid-19 particles in as little as 5 seconds. Pulmobiomed a biotechnology company is working with industry leaders in integrating their diagnostic capabilities into our PBM-Hale device. Pulmobiomed techn
Knock Technology — The world's simplest video chat app: Improves mental health and boosts innovation. It's a secure, cost effective and peer-to-peer telecoms solution for everyone.

We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the agtech and foodtech industries.

Investment focus

AgTech, Agriculture, Farming
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

FarmWise — FarmWise provides technology-based services that allow farmers to streamline farm operations and increase food production efficiency.
Napigen — We are the genome editing company specialized for mitochondrial engineering. We address unmet needs of future food supplies by creating hybrid crop plants to boost their yields to an unprecedented level. The company’s technology creates robust male sterile lines that are ideal over conventional lines because of their stability and elitebackgrounds. This allows the production of non-GM hybrid seeds in crop plants that are currently mostly non-hybrid such as wheat. Our technology solution is expected to fulfill the highest level of public acceptance and aspiration.
Iamus Technologies — Iamus Technologies Limited is an Artificial Intelligence & Robotics company based in Ireland that has developed poultry specific robotic technology that empowers poultry farmers to make better and safer production decisions. Over the last 2 years we have been working globally with poultry processors in identifying KPIs that our robots cancontinuously gather on the ground in poultry sheds and feedback instantly to both producer and the relevant personnel back at the processing plant. Results to date are impressive with automatic and accurate data recovery from the birds on every part of the floor and analysis with real-time intervention now possible. These factors are key in addressing the growing demands of modern, intensive broiler production with the Iamus robot & platform meeting these requirements.

Instituição Financeira de Desenvolvimento (IFD), with headquarters in Porto, has as its main goal to direct public financial resources, preferentially leveraged by private co-financing, and in particular Financial Instruments (FI) of Equity / Quasi-Equity and Mid- to Long-Term Debt, so that “viable” SME may increase their equity capital andfinance their investments, while developing their activity in industries concerning tradable goods or services, in the start-up, growth or transfer of ownership stages. Created on the 21st of October of 2014 by the Decree-Law No. 155/2014, IFD is a State-owned financial company, registered with the Banco de Portugal under number 316, whose object is to perform operations to mitigate market failures in financing to small and medium enterprises (SME), through the management of investment funds, other autonomous sets of assets or instruments of a similar nature, co-financed by public funds to support the economy, and the performance of credit operations, including issuance of guarantees and other commitments.IFD’s Mission is to design, structure and operationalise financing solutions that address market failures in Portuguese SME access to finance, thus contributing to economic development and to the creation of wealth and employment, with growing volumes of added value.

Investment focus

AgTech, Internet, Software
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Agri Marketplace — A b2b digital marketplace where fair food trade is made easy, fast and transparent!

Lince Capital is an independent venture capital company. Lince Capital was born from the experience of a family group with over 30 years of experience in managing investment funds in various business areas, including real estate, infrastructure, agriculture, and telecommunications.Lince Capital is distinguished by its personalized and excellentsupport, close and direct relationship with each of its investors and business partners, and the dedication of an experienced and dynamic team.