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Top 50 Angel Investors in Portugal in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in startups based in Portugal. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Portugal. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Angel Investors in Portugal in January 2025

Investor	Portugal investments
Ideias Glaciares	5
Miguel Santo Amaro	3
Alex Vassiliev	3
Alexis Bonte	2
Leonid Dovladbegyan	2
Mario Götze	2
Omar Fonseca	2
David Apple	2
Dmitry Shklyar	2
Ryan Petersen	2
Nicolas Julia	2
Andrey Tsytsenko	2
Arthur Hayes	2
Alex Morgan	1
Stephen Nash	1
Humberto Ayres Pereira	1
Tim Vieira	1
Young Guo	1
Crypto Dog	1
Ash Crypto	1
Marc de Jong	1
Vânia Fernandes	1
Hugo Arevalo	1
Serena Williams	1
Paulo Alexandre Lopes	1
Alex Atallah	1
Andrés Alcalá	1
Larry Fitzgerald	1
James Fitzgerald	1
Niall Curran	1
Simon Brandhof	1
Vasco Lopes da Silva	1
José Manuel Pinto	1
Kirk Posmantur	1
Pankaj Chaddah	1
Rui Pereira	1
Kevin Rose	1
Roy Bhasin	1
Nuno Sebastiao	1
Adeyemi Ajao	1
Tiago Monteiro	1
Joaquim Sérvulo Rodrigues	1
Vasco de Mello	1
Jose A. Santos	1
Cleo Sham	1
David Blitzer	1
Bruno Cardoso	1
João Penedones	1
Maria João Souto	1
Ralf Herbrich	1

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Ideias Glaciares

Investment focus

Wellness, SaaS, Mobile Apps
Pre-Seed, Seed
Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

Replai — Without data, creative choices are just guesswork. Replai helps you understand the difference between a creative that your audience acts on and one that is just another scroll.
sheerME — SheerME is Revolutionising the way people find, book, and pay for their Wellness and Beauty services powered by a benefit-based walletOur approach is based on Discovery, Transaction & Reward to create more online visibility, reach, conversion into new business, loyalty, and frequency through our wallet and cashback ecosystem, to all ourpartners in the beauty and wellness sectors.This made us a fresh and different option in this sector where there are mainly SaaS players, and we bring marketplace with no monthly fee, only a commission for business sent through our owned and partner channels.
MIGHTY — MIGHTY is a maker of healthy food fridges for the workplace. Their healthy food fridges use a software platform that organizes and coordinates logistics with local storage and distribution partners.

Miguel is a tech entrepreneur (Coverflex, StudentFinance, and Uniplaces) and an early-stage tech investor via Shilling (new early-stage €30M Shilling Founders Fund).Miguel is the co-founder & CEO of Coverflex.com. The way we work is changing, but compensation — salary, bonus, equity, and benefits — has not evolved for decades. The currentrigid, one-size-fits-all approach is outdated and fails to satisfy the needs of the modern workforce. Coverflex is changing that. This all-in-one tech-enabled platform enables all companies — regardless of their size — to design, consolidate and personalise their compensation offers beyond salary. Companies can supercharge their employee benefits while saving both time and money. Coverflex calls this “Compensation as a Service”. Miguel is also the founder of Studentfinance.com (edtech startup promoting Income-Share -Agreements (“ISA”) to help increase educational opportunity and empower people to access high-impact careers) & Uniplaces.com (consumer marketplace to mid-to-long term rentals).Miguel is also a Partner, since 2017, in the most active pre-seed and seed VC in Portugal - Shilling.vc - as well as a lead mentor role in Techstars. Since then, Miguel led angel investments in more than 30 early-stage companies in Europe.Miguel is passionate about startups and entrepreneurship and serves as an advisor to a number of early-stage companies around Europe. Since 2017 he is an EO Portugal Founding Member, a peer-to-peer organisation that supports high-impact entrepreneurs across the world. He is married to Flávia and together they have baby Camila.

Investment focus

Communities, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Spain, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

EatTasty — Fresh food delivery service in Lisbon. Easy to choose and order. Free delivery. Discover our delicious lunches and dinners!
Luca — Luca's learning platform provides learning programs for primary and secondary school students. The learning platform offers pre-recorded K12 videos, gamified content and AI powered personalized study paths, covering the entire official academic curriculum and national exams prep. Luca is a VC backed startup with HQ in Madrid & MexicoCity

Alex Vassiliev is a Founder and CEO at Elixir Fine Foods.

Investment focus

Apps, Baby, EdTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bairro Direct — Produtos em minutos
Buddy.ai — Buddy lets children practice spoken English by talking with a virtual AI-powered cartoon character in a mobile app. With its engaging virtual character, speech technology, and adaptive learning, Buddy is making speaking practice affordable for 500 million children around the globe by automating the mundane part of tutoring work at a fraction ofthe cost. This enables teachers and parents to give kids unlimited speaking practice, essential for mastering English.
Elixir Fine Foods — Elixir Fine Foods is an innovative startup company bringing the highest quality European products to China, using the power of social commerce.Flagship brand in Elixir's portfolio is Healthy Eva - baby food brand with products in different categories including fruit, vegetable, meat and fish purees, baby biscuits, baby porridges etcdistributed through e-commerce and social commerce in China, including e-commerce platforms like Tmall Global or live-streaming serices such as Taobao Live, Kuaishou etc.

Alexis is a Venture Partner at Atomico advising on new investments in France, Spain & Portugal and Eastern Europe as well as sourcing and accelerating growth in the games, blockchain and travels vertical. He is passionate about high-impact, purpose-driven companies, and he currently serves on the boards of Bossa Studios and OhBiBi, Atomico’slatest game investment. He splits his time between London, Paris, Bucharest, Stockholm and Madrid.Alexis is co-founder and CEO of games company eRepublik Labs (eRepublik.com, Age of Lords, World at War, War and Peace) a “free-to-play” pioneer that he sold in June of 2017 to Stillfront Group. Alexis remains the company’s CEO, and is also the Group COO for Stillfront, giving him a unique mix of investor as well as operational expertise. Prior to Erepublik Labs, Alexis was part of the first wave of internet start ups and was with lastminute.com for six years right up to its $1.1B trade sale to Sabre in 2005.Alexis has numerous angel investments, mainly in Europe, and has been active in supporting the development of the European digital ecosystem through events and associations.Alexis is fluent in French, Spanish, Portuguese, English, Italian and understands basic Romanian if pushed. A long time ago he was a national sailing champion in Portugal, but now he prefers to stay dry and play chess with one of his three children.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Software
Seed, Series A, Angel
Finland, Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

AudioMob — Monetizing mobile games non-intrusively using audio ads! AudioMob are the creators of Audio Enhanced Banners & Rewarded Audio
Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
StageZero Technologies — StageZero inserts in-app ‘MicroTasks’ into mobile games; bite-sized activities that users can complete in exchange for rewards and perks, including coins and extra lives.

Leonid Dovladbegyan is a general director of online hypermarket Vprok.ru.

Investment focus

Grocery, Food Delivery, Delivery Service
Seed, Pre-Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Bairro Direct — Produtos em minutos

Mario Götze is a professional footballer.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mietz — The first fully automized all-in-one renting platform for tenants and landlords.
Plato — Plato operates as a sales intelligence platform for wholesale.
AllFocal Optics — AllFocal Optics revolutionizes display technology through groundbreaking nanophotonic solutions.

Omar da Fonseca is the Ex-player.

Investment focus

Soccer, Sports
Seed, Pre-Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

ScorePlay — ScorePlay is an AI-powered media asset manager dedicated to sports. The MAM centralizes assets in a single media workspace, with AI-tagging. Distribute to athletes and sponsors automatically through app. Amplify your brand.

David Apple is the CBO of ScorePlay, on the Board of the CMTA, and an active Angel Investor and Start-up Advisor.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
France, Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

Rayon — Built for Speed. Designed for Teams.
Mentra — Mentra tackles systemic inequality by economically empowering underserved communities. We’re erasing the stigma around Disability Hiring with our recruiting platform that matches neurodiverse talent with inclusive employers.Our mission is to bring neurodiversity to the workplace - providing employers with thought diversity & job seekers witheconomic opportunity
Cycle App — Cycle is a horizontal platform made of flexible building blocks that you can use in customizable workflows. Your way of working shouldn't depend on your tools, they built Cycle so that product teams could ship the way that works for them.

Dmitry Shklyar is the founder of JobTop. Dmitry Shklyar attended Saint Petersburg State University of Finance and Economics in 2002.

Investment focus

Finance, Grocery, Crowdfunding
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Portugal, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Bairro Direct — Produtos em minutos
JetLend — JetLend is a crowdfunding platform through which private investors lend to small businesses.
Geeek club — Learn without realizing. Unique DIY bots and models. Made of PCB.

Ryan Petersen is the CEO and Founder of Flexport. Prior to starting Flexport to fix the user experience in global trade, Ryan was co-founder and CEO of ImportGenius.com, a data-as-a-service business for global shipping. He holds a degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia University.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Better Stack — Delightful observability tools that turn your logs & monitoring into a secret weapon for shipping better software faster.
TruckSmarter — Our mission is to empower truck drivers lives across the US through technology and grit.
Teleport — Teleport is ridesharing reimagined as a protocol. By distributing ownership and governance of the network, riders get cars cheaper and faster, drivers earn more, and entrepreneurs can innovate on top.

Nicolas Julia is a Blockchain entrepreneur. He is the CEO at Sorare, the leading platform to collect and play with officially licensed football Crypto-goodsNicolas dedicated his career to Blockchain in 2015, and was previously running operations at Stratumn, a $8M VC-backed blockchain company.Nicolas hosts the meetup Crypto-goods Club, theplace of expression for all Crypto-goods enthusiasts.He believes Crypto-goods will pave the way for a new era of digital ownership and change the internet.

Investment focus

FinTech, Gaming, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, Israel, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

cubzh — Welcome to Cubzh, a universe of user-built avatars, hangouts and games.
Sekai Studio — Creating mind blowing official entertainment anime fans have been dreaming about
Tweed — Tweed provides a plug & play white-label wallet solution that includes compliant self-custodial key management, comprehensive wallet features and payment infrastructure all in one SDK. With Tweed, platforms and brands can onboard mainstream users seamlessly and create frictionless web3 experiences which increase the overall activity and saleson platform. Tweed’s architecture is built as a true self-custodial solution, and passes regular legal audits to ensure your platform can offload the regulatory burden and offer a fully compliant web3 experience.The company is still currently in stealth mode.

Andrew Tsytsenko is a CEO/Co-founder – Motify App. He attended Université Paris Dauphine - PSL.

Investment focus

Grocery, Software, Food Delivery
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Portugal, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Bairro Direct — Produtos em minutos
Geeek club — Learn without realizing. Unique DIY bots and models. Made of PCB.
Skipp — Hire Top Software Developers, UX/UI Designers, Product managers, DevOps, No-code Developers And Other Tech Talents

After graduating with a degree in economics from the Wharton School of Business, Arthur lived in Hong Kong as an equity derivatives trader. He was the market-maker for Deutsche Bank and Citibank’s Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) businesses. He also has extensive experience trading equity index futures, forwards, and swaps as well as non-deliverable FXforwards. Arthur brings a deep understanding of how to structure and trade financial derivatives.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Cytonic — Cytonic is a multi-virtual-machine blockchain. Cytonic is compatible with blockchains such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana.
Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
Infinit — Infinit is the DeFi Abstraction Layer that removes the enormous friction associated with creating and scaling DeFi ecosystems.

Alexandra Patricia Morgan Carrasco is an American soccer player, Olympic gold medalist, and FIFA Women's World Cup champion. She is a forward for Orlando Pride in the National Women's Soccer League and the United States national team.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Sports, Medical Device
Seed, Series B, Series C
United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Soccer Post — Now fully stocked with the latest 2022 FIFA World Cup Jerseys! Shop soccer balls, goalkeeper gloves, jerseys, cleats & more online or in store today. America's largest soccer store staffed by the Soccer Experts.
TMRW Sports — TMRW is a sports company that focuses on progressive approaches to sports, media, and technology. Using advances in technology, the company launches golf leagues and holds a series of stadium events to provide people with growing approaches to sports and entertainment.
Equip Health — Virtual eating disorder treatment that works. Built for everyone struggling.

Stephen John "Steve" Nash, OC, OBC is a Canadian-British retired professional basketball player who formerly played for the Dallas Mavericks, Phoenix Suns, and Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association.

Investment focus

Sports, Basketball, Apps
Seed, Funding Round
Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

TMRW Sports — TMRW is a sports company that focuses on progressive approaches to sports, media, and technology. Using advances in technology, the company launches golf leagues and holds a series of stadium events to provide people with growing approaches to sports and entertainment.
Unrivaled — Unrivaled operates as a professional women's basketball league.
HomeCourt — HomeCourt is a mobile app that uses AI to record and track basketball shots, makes, misses, and location.

Humberto Ayres Pereira - Founder & CEO @ Rows

Investment focus

SaaS, Pet, Video
Pre-Seed, Seed
United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Replai — Without data, creative choices are just guesswork. Replai helps you understand the difference between a creative that your audience acts on and one that is just another scroll.
Maven Pet — The Maven Pet Smart Collar & Cat/Dog Activity Tracker monitors your pet 24/7, detecting health issues early and helping increase their life quality and span.
MyCareforce — The platform that connects nurses to available shifts.

Tim Vieira - Investor, Advisor @ Lapa Studio

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology
Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Lapa Studio —
Portal da Queixa —
OurSupport — OurSupport is an online platform that connects individuals or businesses seeking IT support with local IT support professionals. The platform streamlines the connection between companies or users of technological devices in need of IT support and nearby IT experts, facilitating on-site assistance or at very minimum remote support from a local I.Tsupport person that speaks the same language and same cultures. Currently, our platform serves large multinational companies, whereby OurSupport simplifies the traditional approach to seeking IT support individuals or companies by eliminating time-consuming processes and searches for local IT companies, negotiations of contracts, and discrepancies in payment terms and operating formats.OurSupport enables a unique simplified global agreement, allowing our clients to access IT support worldwide. The focus is on computer and technological device users, addressing the current challenge of global coverage for local support for businesses.OurSupport empowers businesses of all sizes and users to expand operations without worries about depending own technology, by ensuring fast remote or on-site IT assistance in the current era of remote work and technology dependence.

Prior to joining IDG Capital, Young was a member of the Soros Fund Management in New York from 1996 to 1999, where he was involved in managing a $3 billion private equity fund. In 1996, Young worked for Salomon Brothers in New York, where he participated in securities trading. He worked at W.R. Grace & Co. in Maryland from 1990 to 1995, wherehe led product development and was granted five U.S. patents. Young holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, a Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and a B.S. in Applied Chemistry from Shanghai Jiaotong University.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, B2B, Automotive
Seed, Series A
Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

Pony.ai — Pony.ai is a startup that builds full-stack autonomous driving solutions. It is a pioneer in autonomous mobility technologies and services across the US and China, spearheading public-facing Robotaxi pilots in both markets. Pony.ai is committed to creating a safe and sustainable mobility future by delivering autonomous mobility everywhere.Thecompany was founded by James Peng and Tiancheng Lou in 2016 and is headquartered in Fremont, California, United States.
Unbabel — Unbabel offers multilingual translation services in more than 30 languages to enhance your customer service experiences. Learn more about our language operation solutions!

The Crypto Dog is an angle investor.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Bitcoin
Seed, Funding Round
United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Botanix Labs — Botanix Labs is a fully Ethereum-equivalent second-layer virtual machine built on top of Bitcoin. It unites Bitcoin's market cap with Ethereum's dApp ecosystem to meet its diverse applications, igniting a new frontier.
Nametag — Nametag is a digital collector lens to search the internet for collectors, view their NFTs and Nokens, and badges.
Pichi Finance — Pichi Finance Points are typically stored off-chain and linked to wallet addresses, limiting their tradability on the open market.

Ash Crypto is a crypto trader.

Investment focus

Gaming, Web Apps, Blockchain
Seed
Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

XSwap — XSwap is a cross-chain swaps protocol that provide protocols and end-users with secure, reliable, and simple cross-chain payments, all supported by Chainlink CCIP.
GoPlus Security — GoPlus Security is an open, permissionless, user-driven security service platform for all types of blockchain users.
Lava Foundation — Lava Foundation is a newly founded non-profit dedicated to the development of the modular blockchain network. It is the entity that sells tokens and decides on the network's roadmap.

Marc de Jong has had an extremely successful career with Phillips where he was previously a member of the Royal Philips Group Management Committee. He was CEO of various divisions within Philips and CEO of the automotive and identification businesses of NXP Semiconductors before beginning his own management consultancy. Marc de Jong holds aMasters in Physics and Mathematics from the Free University of Amsterdam, further qualifications in Economics and two MBA’s, one from the University of Rochester in the United States and another from the Erasmus University, Rotterdam.

Investment focus

Sensor, Software, Wind Energy
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Fibersail — Fibersail redefines the knowledge on wind farms, through a reliable and cost-efficient shape sensor able to monitor each deflection.

Vânia Fernandes

Investment focus

Consulting, Machine Learning, Professional Services
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

DeepNeuronic — DeepNeuronic is a tech startup that specializes in building machine learning-based products to resolve and automate daily problems.

Hugo Arévalo is co-founder of Buytheface , Bright & Sharp , and Albau Ventures . In addition, he has invested in: Jobandtalent , Cabify , Ontruck and Deporvillage : and has led the 50M € round of Hawkers . One of its criteria is the qualification of management. Lately, it is focused on investing in marketplace, fintech and ecommerce, althoughit is open to any sector. Among his exits, Tuenti and Buytheface stand out .

Investment focus

Software, Mobile Apps, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Spain, Canada, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Chift — Offer native integrations within your software. Your clients connect your software to their tools in one click. Connect easily to Accounting, POS, Invoicing, e-commerce, etc.
Embat — Keep your cash flows, cash accounts, debt positions and forecasts monitored and automated real time.
Imperia — We provide to our clients tools for managing and optimizing their processes in the area of operations through an innovative, advanced and user-friendly software solution. Analytics Demand Planning (ADP) is a complete solution to support the demand forecasting process, based on two key pillars: 1. Easy-to-use: the solution is fully integrated inExcel, providing great ease of use and minimum implementation times. “If you know how to use Excel, you know how to use ADP”. 2. Collaborative planning: the tool is developed under a collaborative environment in which all members of the organization can be involved in the process, improving the decision-making process.Furthermore, it has great computing power based on statistical models and a wide range of advanced functionalities that add extra value to the product. Such as reference segmentation, intelligent cleaning of historical data series and integrated dashboards for sales and forecast analytics.

Serena Williams is an American professional tennis player who is currently ranked No. 1 in women's singles tennis. The Women's Tennis Association has ranked her World No. 1 in singles on six separate occasions. Widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time, she became the World No. 1 for the first time on July 8, 2002,and regained this ranking for the sixth time on February 18, 2013, becoming the oldest world no. 1 player in WTA's history. Williams is also the reigning French Open, US Open, WTA Tour Championships and Olympic ladies singles champion.In 2008 Williams helped to fund the construction of the Serena Williams Secondary School in Matooni, Kenya. She received a Celebrity Role Model Award from Avon Foundation in 2003 for work in breast cancer. Williams has also been involved in a number of clinics at schools and community centers, particularly those which have programs focusing on at-risk youth; she has also won the "Young Heroes Award" from Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater L.A. and Inland (2003) and the "Family Circle and Prudential Financial Player Who Makes a Difference Award" (2004). In response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Williams, along with other ATP and WTA stars decided to forgo their final day of preparation for the 2010 Australian Open to form a charity event in which all proceeds will go to the Haiti earthquake victims.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Shares — Shares is a social investment platform that gives everyone access to the stock market and improves the investment experience.
TMRW Sports — TMRW is a sports company that focuses on progressive approaches to sports, media, and technology. Using advances in technology, the company launches golf leagues and holds a series of stadium events to provide people with growing approaches to sports and entertainment.
Lifeforce — Lifeforce operates as a clinically integrated health optimization platform.

Paulo Alexandre Lopes is the Managing Director at oddsgate. Paulo Alexandre Lopes attended IPAM.

Investment focus

SaaS, Boating, Gambling
Pre-Seed
Brazil, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

ODDSGATE — With an open, API based platform and built in a modular way, allowing for stability, scalability, and flexibility. Our founding team with more than 15 years of experience in out-of-the-box solutions, or products like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), we are stepping into the Igaming industry with the goal to deliver a cutting edge and competitiveiGaming platform, focused on the regulated markets.
Espadarte Group — Espadarte is working on a new product that will transform the Brazilian nautical market. It is founded in 2021 and the Yachts yard is based in Curitiba, Parana, Brazil.

Alex Atallah is a Co-Founder of OpenSea. Attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

METAMORPH — Blockchain gaming company

Andrés Alcalá

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Ubirider — Ubirider generates value for both mobility providers and riders by seamlessly moving people, information and payments.

Larry Fitzgerald is an American football wide receiver for the Arizona Cardinals of the NFL. Larry played college football at Pittsburgh, where he earned unanimous All-America honors. He was drafted by the Cardinals third overall in the 2004 NFL Draft.He is second in NFL career receiving yards, second in career receptions, and sixth in receivingtouchdowns.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Sports, FinTech
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Brazil, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Instawork — Instawork connects local businesses with proven hourly workers for temp, temp-to-hire shift work.
Oxygen — Oxygen is a digital banking platform. It is the first and only challenger in the US that offers both personal and business banking. The bank of the 21st-century economy, serving consumers, small businesses, and freelancers.Available on iOS and Android, Oxygen users enjoy no monthly fees, no paperwork, early direct deposit, simple transfers,cashback rewards, savings accounts, as well as retail and travel benefits. Businesses can easily control their finances with solutions that are elegant, simple, and secure.
Whoosh — Modern golf operations software for private golf clubs that streamlines your workflows to improve member experiences and reduce revenue loss.

James Fitzgerald

Investment focus

EdTech, Education
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Magikbee — Unlock your child's potential with our suite of safe and educational apps & games. Discover how play learning can be fun and rewarding.

Niall Curran is the Chairman at COPA90.

Investment focus

iOS, Gaming, Android
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Volt Games — Volt Games primarily focuses on crafting mobile games for android and ios.

Simon Brandhof is an Associate at Time for the Planet.

Investment focus

SaaS, Developer Tools
Pre-Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Reviewpad — We help developers push their code changes faster and safely.Code reviews are a crucial communication mechanism between developers. Reviewpad’s platform combines multiple artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, including integration with ChatGPT to summarise and review pull requests. The platform leaves only essential tasks to thedevelopers, reducing the merge time of code changes by 50 percent.

Vasco Lopes da Silva

Investment focus

Health Care, Human Resources
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

MyCareforce — The platform that connects nurses to available shifts.

José Manuel Pinto

Investment focus

Marketing Automation, Predictive Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Full Venue — Sports and Events organizations generate a huge amount of data, but how can we use it to give a personalized experience to convert more sales?Our solution: Full Venue is an AI platform that can predict the exact likelihood of a fan to make purchases, like tickets to events, merchandise and other products at an accuracy of up to 95%. Full Venueallows organizations to segment their audience and target marketing spend on those most likely to convert.

Kirk Posmantur is the Chairman & Founder of Axcess Worldwide, a partnership development company that creates inspired ideas and connects extraordinary brands and people. With over 20 years of experience generating hundreds of millions of dollars in contracted revenue for many of the world’s top brands in the luxury and lifestyle, consumermass, and hospitality and travel sectors, Kirk is widely recognized as the pioneer and innovator of partnership development. Axcess currently represents over 50 of the world’s leading brands.Kirk is greatly involved in multiple charities and has served as the Chairman of the Board for the Atlanta chapter of After School All-Stars since 2000, raising over $20 million for his charity’s chapter.Kirk earned his undergraduate degree at the William F. Harrah College of Hotel Management at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Investment focus

Mobile, Sports, Distillery
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Onda — Onda is a spirits brand for a new generation of drinkers. Onda’s first product is a line of canned sparkling tequila beverages, made with blanco tequila and real, legit fruit. Onda’s beverages are all 5% ABV, 100 calories, zero sugar, zero carbs and naturally gluten free. Onda’s brand is inspired by the surf style of the ‘90s.
mPath — m›Path is a mobile development platform that helps individuals create and manage applications without writing a single line of code. It is founded by the former CTO & CIO of Salesforce, Claus Moldt and Trae Chancellor.
TMRW Sports — TMRW is a sports company that focuses on progressive approaches to sports, media, and technology. Using advances in technology, the company launches golf leagues and holds a series of stadium events to provide people with growing approaches to sports and entertainment.

Pankaj Chaddah is the Co-Founder of Shyft. Pankaj graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering from IIT Delhi in 2007.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fitness, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, France, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

sheerME — SheerME is Revolutionising the way people find, book, and pay for their Wellness and Beauty services powered by a benefit-based walletOur approach is based on Discovery, Transaction & Reward to create more online visibility, reach, conversion into new business, loyalty, and frequency through our wallet and cashback ecosystem, to all ourpartners in the beauty and wellness sectors.This made us a fresh and different option in this sector where there are mainly SaaS players, and we bring marketplace with no monthly fee, only a commission for business sent through our owned and partner channels.
Yoho — Yoho manufactures orthopaedic lightweight footwear.
Clean Electric — Clean Electric builds Lithium-Ion Batteries with Liquid Immersion Cooling. Fast Charge. Long Life. Unparalleled Safety.

Rui Pereira is a co-founder and Vice President at OutSystems. Currently runs Professional Services, Technical Support and the IT groups. Before starting OutSystems, Pereira was a partner at WeDo Consulting, worked in various positions at Oracle in the US and Europe and Unilever. Has studied Computer Science, Business Management and Marketing.

Investment focus

iOS, Gaming, Android
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Volt Games — Volt Games primarily focuses on crafting mobile games for android and ios.

Kevin Rose is the Co-Founder and CEO of PROOF. He previously worked at HODINKEE as a Board Of Directors. Kevin Rose attended the University of Nevada Las Vegas.

Investment focus

Mobile, Internet, iOS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

ClayStack — Multichain liquid staking platform that allows users to stake their assets, mint staking derivatives, and participate in DeFi.
Magic Spoon — Magic Spoon cereal is high-protein, low-sugar, keto-friendly, and gluten-free. Available in Cocoa, Frosted, Fruity, Blueberry, Peanut Butter, and Cinnamon.
Universe XYZ — Universe XYZ is an NFT platform that provides blockchain technology and cryptocurrency solutions for creating and distributing tokens.

Zeneca is a Writer, collector,Trader and Angel Investor

Investment focus

Gaming, Finance, Web Apps
Seed, Funding Round
Canada, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

nftperp — First perpetual futures dex for NFTs
GAM3S.GG — Your home of web3 gaming offering game discovery, reviews, guides, news & quests for a full experience.
Anomaly — Anomaly is an AI-enabled gaming app chain that focuses on gaming and layer 3 blockchain innovation.

Prior to starting Feedzai, Nuno was an engineer for the European Space Agency, and worked closely with several successful technology startups.In 2011, Nuno, along with his fellow co-founders Paulo Marques and Pedro Bizarro, established Feedzai to fight financial fraud with advanced machine learning technology.Fast forward to today, Nuno hasbeen named the Entrepreneur of the Year by London Business School, shared a stage with tech leaders such as Stephen Hawking and Steve Wozniak, and has been the driving force of Feedzai’s global growth.Under Nuno’s leadership, Feedzai has raised more than $282 million in venture funding, surpassed 500 employees, and continues to keep commerce safe for many of the leading banks, retailers, and payment processors around the globe.Nuno has an MBA from the London Business School.

Investment focus

FinTech, Banking, Finance
Seed, Series A
United States, Spain, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Synctera — Making it easier for community banks and FinTechs to find their perfect match and work together. Welcome to the new FinTech frontier.
Coverflex — Coverflex is on a mission to improve the way companies compensate their people, making it more transparent, flexible and easier for everyone to make the most of what they get. Through a fully digital solution, Coverflex helps companies manage every part of compensation beyond salary — benefits, insurance, meal allowance and exclusive discounts —while empowering people to spend on what suits them best.
Dragonboat — Dragonboat is the #1 product operations platform that enables product leaders to maximize business impact through effective product and portfolio management.

Adeyemi (“Ade”) is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Base10 Partners. Before Base10, Ade had a successful career as an entrepreneur and investor.Ade was the co-founder and CEO of Tuenti (The “Spanish Facebook” which was acquired by Telefonica in 2010 for $100M), co-founder and CEO of Identified (“AI for HR” acquired by Workday in 2014) and afounding investor of Cabify (the largest ridesharing company in Latin America currently valued at over $1B). While at Workday, Ade led launch to Workday Ventures, the first fund focused on Applied AI for Enterprise Software and was VP of Technology Strategy.Ade is originally from Spain and half Nigerian. He holds an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He also holds a J.D. in Law and a M.S in Economics from Icade University in Spain and studied a certificate on Machine Learning at Stanford.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Spain, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Dropbox DocSend — Try our secure document sharing platform for free. Instantly know when documents are opened & what pages are read. Easy-to-use eSignatures.
StockGro — Learn stock market trading and investing from industry experts. Use our virtual trading platform to build your social trading circle and understand the stock market.
Job&Talent — Jobandtalent is an on-demand staffing marketplace that aims to make the labor market much more liquid and transparent, helping companies to hire in a more flexible way and with the mission of being part of the reduction of unemployment in the world. The labor market has evolved from a very structured state into an extremely flexible one. Companiesare demanding flexibility which has resulted in the growth of liquidity in the market. However, the flexible state of the labor market is also leaving the workers in a vulnerable and unprotected employment situation. Jobandtalent has created a Workforce as a Service (WaaS) platform in order to make this labor flexibility beneficial for both companies and workers alike.The company has offices in the UK, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Mexico, and Colombia, and has plans for further expansion to France and Italy by the end of the year.

Tiago Monteiro is a former F1 driver

Investment focus

Marketing Automation, Predictive Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Full Venue — Sports and Events organizations generate a huge amount of data, but how can we use it to give a personalized experience to convert more sales?Our solution: Full Venue is an AI platform that can predict the exact likelihood of a fan to make purchases, like tickets to events, merchandise and other products at an accuracy of up to 95%. Full Venueallows organizations to segment their audience and target marketing spend on those most likely to convert.

Joaquim Sérvulo Rodrigues has a BSc and an MSc in Electrotechnical Engineering from IST (Portugal), and an MBA from INSEAD (France). From 1983 to 1995 he was Assistant Professor at IST and Research Project Leader of INESC. From 1997 to 2000 he was the General Manager of the Direct Channels Department of BES. From 2004 to 2006, he was CEO ofCrediflash SA, the card business unit of the BES Group, and General Manager of the BES Consumer Credits Department. From the very beginning, back in 2000, Joaquim has put his vast experience at the service of many of our global portfolio companies, both from a technical standpoint – drawing on his electrical engineering background and work as a teacher at IST (Lisbon) and as a researcher at INESC (a reference Portuguese research institute) – and from a management standpoint – putting to use his seasoned business skills and sense, built on his curriculum at INSEAD and his long experience developing businesses in the Banco Espírito Santo Group. A reference in the Venture Capital community, as CEO of Espírito Santo Ventures, Joaquim challenges the strategy and oversees the globality of our entire portfolio while remaining personally involved in many of the companies we invest in, and his door is always open to advise the team on all of them.

Investment focus

Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
Series A, Series B, Seed
Portugal, United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Neuraspace — Focus on fewer alerts with more time to manoeuver, with a scalable AI/ML solution from Neuraspace
Bling Energy — Bling Energy is a startup that focuses on providing more efficient and sustainable energy solutions, mostly through solar panels.
Miles in the Sky — Embark on a journey with Miles to upgrade your learning experiences. Our unique model provides a better way to increase learner engagement and improve knowledge retention.

Vasco de Mello is Chairman and CEO of BRISA – AUTO-ESTRADAS DE PORTUGAL, S.A. A manager by training, with a bachelor’s degree from the American College of Switzerland (1978), and the attendance of the “Training Program” at Citicorp, in New York, and Banco Crefisul de Investimentos, in S. Paulo, Brazil (1978-1979), Vasco de Mello has held numerousexecutive positions in companies of the José de Mello Group (1980-1991) and was Chairman of Banco Mello and Companhia de Seguros Império (1992-2000).

Investment focus

Energy, Energy Efficiency
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Bling Energy — Bling Energy is a startup that focuses on providing more efficient and sustainable energy solutions, mostly through solar panels.

Jose A. Santos

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Ubirider — Ubirider generates value for both mobility providers and riders by seamlessly moving people, information and payments.

Cleo is Spotahome’s Chief Operating Officer. She oversees Spotahome’s global performance, delivery and expansion, and leads operations and customer experience, which covers Spotahome’s unique selling proposition -the Homecheckers, property listings, landlord management, regional development and the tenant experience. Prior to Spotahome, Cleo wasHead of Uber’s Regional Operations EMEA, where she was responsible for ridesharing operations in 45 countries after moving from Director of Operations, China. There she helped to turn Guangzhou, home to 12 million people in southern China, into Uber’s busiest city globally in little more than two years. Prior to Uber, she had worked at Mckinsey, Merrill Lynch and had launched a number of her own startups. Cleo is the first woman to join the Spotahome C-Suite. Cleo is a strong ambassador for women in business and LGBTQ+ inclusivity, recognised by her participation in leading events Women in Technology, EUROUT and Feminin Pluriel. She holds an MBA from Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League institution, where she was a Joseph Wharton Fellow, and graduated from Rice University with a triple-major in Economics, Managerial Studies and Sports Management. In her spare time, Cleo has a passion for sports, especially surfing and tennis. She speaks English, Cantonese, Mandarin, German and Spanish.

Investment focus

mHealth, Wellness, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Spain, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Kitch — Centralize all your delivery apps or create your own delivery channel for your restaurant with Kitch. Join for free!
Yayem — Yayem is an experiential members club and digital platform changing the nature of work and play. We are building the world’s first lifestyle brand for the new age of hybrid worker.
Pourwell — Introducing the world's first subscription club for premium alcohol free spirits

David Blitzer joined HBSE Ventures as Founder.

Investment focus

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Sporting Goods
Funding Round, Series A
Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

SlamBall — SlamBall is a global sports league association. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
TMRW Sports — TMRW is a sports company that focuses on progressive approaches to sports, media, and technology. Using advances in technology, the company launches golf leagues and holds a series of stadium events to provide people with growing approaches to sports and entertainment.

Bruno Cardoso

Investment focus

Consulting, Machine Learning, Professional Services
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

DeepNeuronic — DeepNeuronic is a tech startup that specializes in building machine learning-based products to resolve and automate daily problems.

João Penedones

Investment focus

Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Inductiva Research Labs — Inductiva operates as a Portuguese startup company that develops an integrated computing platform. Inductiva aims to empower scientists, engineers, and businesses to simulate, predict and optimize physical processes in a variety of industries.

Maria João Souto

Investment focus

Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Inductiva Research Labs — Inductiva operates as a Portuguese startup company that develops an integrated computing platform. Inductiva aims to empower scientists, engineers, and businesses to simulate, predict and optimize physical processes in a variety of industries.

Ralf Herbrich is the SVP Builder Platform and AI at Zalando. He attended Technical University of Berlin.

Investment focus

Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Inductiva Research Labs — Inductiva operates as a Portuguese startup company that develops an integrated computing platform. Inductiva aims to empower scientists, engineers, and businesses to simulate, predict and optimize physical processes in a variety of industries.

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