Top 50 Angel Investors in Portugal in October 2024
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 October 2024
Investor | Portugal investments |
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Ideias Glaciares | 5 |
Alex Vassiliev | 3 |
Miguel Santo Amaro | 3 |
Nicolas Julia | 2 |
Leonid Dovladbegyan | 2 |
Arthur Hayes | 2 |
Omar Fonseca | 2 |
David Apple | 2 |
Dmitry Shklyar | 2 |
Mario Götze | 2 |
Andrey Tsytsenko | 2 |
Alexis Bonte | 2 |
Ryan Petersen | 2 |
Freddy Mallet | 1 |
Tue Lumbye | 1 |
Larry Fitzgerald | 1 |
David Helgason | 1 |
Stephen Curry | 1 |
Diogo Mónica | 1 |
Balaji Srinivasan | 1 |
Rui Pereira | 1 |
Jayson Tatum | 1 |
Rob Emrich | 1 |
Dawn Hudson | 1 |
Chris Paul | 1 |
Marek Olszewski | 1 |
Nuno Job | 1 |
Paulo Alexandre Lopes | 1 |
Alex Atallah | 1 |
Kevin Rose | 1 |
Gabby Dizon | 1 |
Alexis Ohanian | 1 |
Renaud Visage | 1 |
James Fitzgerald | 1 |
Alex Morgan | 1 |
Niall Curran | 1 |
Chris Lee | 1 |
Stephen Nash | 1 |
Keith Willey | 1 |
Andre Iguodala | 1 |
Simon Brandhof | 1 |
Vitor Crespo | 1 |
Roy Bhasin | 1 |
Paul Heydon | 1 |
Vasco Lopes da Silva | 1 |
Nuno Sebastiao | 1 |
Ivan on Tech | 1 |
Adeyemi Ajao | 1 |
José Manuel Pinto | 1 |
Tiago Monteiro | 1 |
Ideias Glaciares
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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.
Alex Vassiliev is a Founder and CEO at Elixir Fine Foods.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Baby, EdTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Portugal, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bairro Direct — Bairro developed a mobile application that allows fast delivery of supermarket products, food, and essential goods in the heart of the Portuguese capital, available between 10 am to 12 pm, ensuring that the user experience is always of high quality, regardless of the type of product desired or delivery time.
- 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.
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.
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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
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.
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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.
Leonid Dovladbegyan is a general director of online hypermarket Vprok.ru.
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Investment focus
- Grocery, Food Delivery, Delivery Service
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Bairro Direct — Bairro developed a mobile application that allows fast delivery of supermarket products, food, and essential goods in the heart of the Portuguese capital, available between 10 am to 12 pm, ensuring that the user experience is always of high quality, regardless of the type of product desired or delivery time.
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.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Series A
- Singapore, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Khalani — Khalani has developed the world's first decentralized solver platform, which seeks to improve the web3 user experience through a multi-chain collaborative solution network. The platform significantly decreases the cost of creating and operating solvers.
- Ethena — Enabling the Internet Bond
- Infinit — Infinit is the DeFi Abstraction Layer that removes the enormous friction associated with creating and scaling DeFi ecosystems.
Omar da Fonseca is the Ex-player.
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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.
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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.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Grocery, Crowdfunding
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Portugal, Russian Federation
Portfolio highlights
- Bairro Direct — Bairro developed a mobile application that allows fast delivery of supermarket products, food, and essential goods in the heart of the Portuguese capital, available between 10 am to 12 pm, ensuring that the user experience is always of high quality, regardless of the type of product desired or delivery time.
- 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.
Mario Götze is a professional footballer.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Xaver — Xaver offers an advanced AI-driven B2B platform for investment and life insurance sales, boosting operational and sales efficiency of banks, insurers, and brokers by up to 65%, while introducing a new era of white-labeled private pension products.
- ZeKju — ZeKju provides Messenger Communication for Supply Chains. Leading shippers and logistics service providers rely on ZeKju for efficient transport execution, yard communication and fleet management. With ZeKju, drivers use their favorite messenger (e.g. WhatsApp or Telegram) for everyday tasks while benefiting from features such as auto-translation.
- encentive — encentive provides modular building to grid and consumer VPP solutions as a service for existing systems and infrastructure. We are the expert for cost efficient, scalable and fully automated micro-flexibility services!
Andrew Tsytsenko is a CEO/Co-founder – Motify App. He attended Université Paris Dauphine - PSL.
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Investment focus
- Grocery, Software, Food Delivery
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Portugal, Russian Federation
Portfolio highlights
- Bairro Direct — Bairro developed a mobile application that allows fast delivery of supermarket products, food, and essential goods in the heart of the Portuguese capital, available between 10 am to 12 pm, ensuring that the user experience is always of high quality, regardless of the type of product desired or delivery time.
- 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
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Freddy Mallet
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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.
Tue Lumbye is the Head of Danish Market at Better Collective. He attended Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern Denmark.
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Investment focus
- Sports, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Finland, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Betmarkets — Betmarkets is a web platform that allows bettors to invest in sports betting. Their platform is entirely automated to ensure that they have access to all the best prices and the maximum liquidity, bringing this benefit to all users in a split-second. They operate under an oath of service towards all their users, putting them as their firstpriority. They also prevent problem gambling by putting professionals in charge of the final decision and by ensuring that all behaviour is pre-defined, preventing users from increasing the number of bets and from chasing losses.
- Measurelet — Measurelets project a technological toilet for the healthcare sector.
- Attractive.ai — Attractive.ai analyse user experience by machine, and with a model that can scale to cover the whole of the web.
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.
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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.
David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.
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Investment focus
- Software, Gaming, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Denmark, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal registry and science platform
- TreesPlease Games — TreesPlease Games develops various computer and online games. The company is headquartered in London.
- Scriptic — Scriptic, interactive story games on mobile.
Stephen Curry currently works as the Founder and Partner at Unanimous Media. He previously worked at Slyce.io as co-founder. Stephen Curry attended Davidson College in 2006.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
- Series A, Series C, Series B
- United States, Canada, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Step — Step offers a free FDIC insured bank account and Visa card designed for the next generation. Start building your financial future today!
- Super.com — Through rich rewards and everyday savings, Super helps you access more of what you want at better prices, escape overspending, and level up life.
- 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.
Diogo Mónica is the Co-Founder and President of Anchorage Digital, the premier digital asset platform for institutions. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the Technical University of Lisbon, and has worked in software security for over 15 years. As an early employee at Square, he helped build security architecture that now moves $100Bannually. At Docker, he helped secure core infrastructure used in global banks, governments, and the three largest cloud providers.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Spain, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.
- Capsule Wallets — At Capsule, we thrive on challenging the design of products we use every day. In doing so, we hope to introduce you to a simpler way of living.
- Integral Treasury — The most powerful web3 financial stack ever created.
Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the co-founder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- 0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
- MeshMap — MeshMap is a decentralized 3D map developer focused on creating a decentralized 3D globe map and augmented reality (AR) content network.
- Fal.ai — fal.ai is the fastest way to run diffusion models with ready-to-use AI inference, training APIs, and UI Playgrounds
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.
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Investment focus
- iOS, Gaming, Android
- Seed
- Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Volt Games — Volt Games primarily focuses on crafting mobile games for android and ios.
Jayson Tatum
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Investment focus
- Sports, Information Technology, Fitness
- Funding Round, Seed, Series B
- Canada, 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.
- TheProgram.ai — Gamifying Wellness For Your Community Engage your community with Wellnify.ai, the all-in-one white-label wellness solution that uses the power of gamification and the science of behaviour change to foster healthier, happier communities. Engage your workforce, students, fans, athletes, or the general public effortlessly. Request Demo View Pricing (Coming Soon) Why Choose Wellnify? Wellnify leverages gamification
- League One Volleyball — One League. For Youth. For Pro. For Life.
Rob Emrich - Founder & CEO @ The Mobile Majority
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
- United States, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Unbabel — Unbabel offers multilingual translation services in more than 30 languages to enhance your customer service experiences. Learn more about our language operation solutions!
- MotionSavvy — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
- CoolChip Technologies — CoolChip specializes in Kinetic Cooling, a category based on disruptive technology transforming electronics cooling that is transforming the electronics cooling industry. Solutions Powered by Kinetic CoolingTM offer unprecedented performance across acoustics, form factor, and cooling. By partnering with CoolChip, consumer electronics andenterprise manufacturers have the opportunity to unleash innovation and deliver next-generation products for their customers. CoolChip was founded by MIT engineers in 2011 and is the exclusive provider of Kinetic CoolingTM technology. The company holds an extensive intellectual property portfolio and is based in Boston, MA.
Dawn Hudson is the Executive Vice President of the National Football League - (NFL) and a Consultant at NVIDIA. Dawn Hudson has served as Chief Marketing Officer for the National Football League since October 2014.Previously, she served from 2009 to 2014 as vice chairman of The Parthenon Group, an advisory firm focused on strategy consulting. Shewas president and chief executive officer of Pepsi-Cola North America, the beverage division of PepsiCo, Inc. for the U.S. and Canada, from 2005 to 2007 and president from 2002, and simultaneously served as chief executive officer of the foodservice division of PepsiCo, Inc. from 2005 to 2007.Previously, she spent 13 years in marketing, advertising and branding strategy, holding leadership positions at major agencies, such as D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles and Omnicom. She currently serves on the boards of directors of The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc., an advertising holding company, and Amplify Snack Brands, Inc., a snack food company.She was a director of P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, Inc., a restaurant chain, until 2012, of Allergan, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, until 2014, and of Lowes Companies, Inc., a home-improvement retailer, until May 2015.She holds a BA degree from Dartmouth College. She joined the NVIDIA board in July 2013.
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Investment focus
- Sports, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
- Funding Round
- Portugal
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.
Christopher Emmanuel Paul is an American professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Sports, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, France, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Scout - Make Money Moves — Our mission is to make investing fun, relatable, and safe. Scout is an investing platform that allows you to build investment portfolios aligned with your interests. Think: eco-friendly brands, Women-led companies, Bitcoin, and the most popular Gen Z stocks. With Scout, you choose what you invest in, and we risk-manage your portfolio so you caninvest safely.
- Buoy — Zero sugar liquid electrolytes and ionic trace minerals that blend with any beverage, even alcohol and coffee. No sugar, no stevia, no dextrose, no flavorings and no artificial ingredients. Gluten and major allergen free. Vegan and non-GMO.
- Mitchell & Ness — Mitchell & Ness Nostalgia manufactures and retails apparel and accessories for men and women. It focuses on offering consumers a range of licensed apparel from the NFL, NBA, NHL, and AFL; and non-licensed active wear. The company offers adjustables, banners and pennants, bottoms, buckets, fitted products, fleece products, jerseys, outerwear,shirts, slouch products, snapback products, and strapback products; and headwear, duffle bags, gloves, scarves, and socks.
Marek Olszewski is the President at Valora.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Software, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- United States, Portugal, Azerbaijan
Portfolio highlights
- Remox — Simplified and Collaborative Treasury Management for DAOs
- CyberBox — CyberBox is the first NFT Marketplace with ReFi integration on the Celo blockchain. Our vision is to build a marketplace to support every NFT collection and every ReFi project that looks to create impact with NFTs and build their communities around them and promote the value of sustainability and climate protection.
- Capsule Wallets — At Capsule, we thrive on challenging the design of products we use every day. In doing so, we hope to introduce you to a simpler way of living.
Nuno Job is the co-founder of Decipad.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Portugal, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Upstash — Upstash develops serverless data platform for developers of data-intensive applications using a consumption-based pricing model.
- Replicate — Run open-source machine learning models with a cloud API
- 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.
Paulo Alexandre Lopes is the Managing Director at oddsgate. Paulo Alexandre Lopes attended IPAM.
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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.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games
- Seed
- Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- METAMORPH — Blockchain gaming company
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.
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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 — Bintangslot77 merupakan turunan slot online paling gacor ternama di indonesia mudah menang tentunya anti rungkad bintang77 terbaru.
Gabby Dizon is the Chairman and co-founder of Alto.io, a Singapore-based game platform that connects games to the blockchain. He helped pioneer the Philippine game industry as part of the team that released the first Filipino-made game in 2003. Gabby is also CEO of game developer Altitude Games and former President of the Game DevelopersAssociation of the Philippines. Gabby helps champion the game development industry in Southeast Asia and is an active member of the Philippine startup community.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Australia, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Moku — Moku is a web3 gaming platform that enables players connect to gaming guilds, NFT casting pages, game strategy communities, and more.
- Clout Kitchen — Combining fandom and emerging technology, Clout Kitchen builds generational digital products with supercharged distribution. We help creators become icons that last.
- Nectar AI — Nectar AI is a virtual AI companion platform that offers users the ability to create and interact with the digital customized personalities and companions.
Alexis Ohanian is the President and Founder of 776 Foundation. He previously worked at reddit as an Executive Chair and Board Member. Alexis Ohanian attended the University of Virginia.
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Shef — Enter code FIRST10 at checkout and save $10 on your first order
- 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.
- Pulp Culture — Pulp Culture is hard pressed juice, enhanced by superfoods and adaptogens, that supports active, healthy lifestyles.
Building the world's largest event technnology company with Eventbrite (NYSE: EB).Helping start-ups scale with seed fund Point Nine Capital.Angel investing in bold and ambitious European and U.S. start-ups. Sample from 40+ portfolio companies:
- Sqreen (exited to Datadog)
- Meero ($290M in funding)
- Algolia ($184M)
- Alkemics ($54M)
-Builder ($29M)
- Verve ($28M)
- Fox Intelligence (€18M)
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United Kingdom, Germany
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- 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.
- finres — finres is a science-based firm that uses artificial intelligence, big data, and research to increase food system resilience in the face of climate change by making investment decision-making robust and quick, as well as providing a comprehensive algorithmic solution for recognizing and assessing climate risks in order to prioritize adaptationefforts.
- Sirona Technologies — Pioneering direct air capture (DAC) technology with a focus on speed, scalability and a low capex design.
James Fitzgerald
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- EdTech, Education
- Seed
- Portugal
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- Magikbee — Unlock your child's potential with our suite of safe and educational apps & games. Discover how play learning can be fun and rewarding.
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.
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- Biotechnology, Sports, Medical Device
- Seed, Series B, Series C
- United States, Portugal
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- 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.
Niall Curran is the Chairman at COPA90.
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- iOS, Gaming, Android
- Seed
- Portugal
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- Volt Games — Volt Games primarily focuses on crafting mobile games for android and ios.
Chris Lee is an investor in Gaming.
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- iOS, Gaming, Android
- Seed
- Portugal
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- Volt Games — Volt Games primarily focuses on crafting mobile games for android and ios.
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.
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- 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.
Keith is an associate professor of strategic and international management and entrepreneurship at London Business School as well as a senior lecturer at University College London. He also holds various non-executive directorships and advisory roles. His career has spanned academia, consulting, investing and hands-on operational roles withinindustry and the venture capital world.
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- Software, Media and Entertainment, Gaming
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal
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- 5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
- NumberEight — Privacy-friendly mobile app monetization and analytics for app publishers, ad suppliers and SSPs. Know your users with intelligent first party data: specialized mobex AI for contextual advertising.
- 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.
Andre Iguodala is an NBA Champion and Finals MVP currently signed with the Golden State Warriors. He advises Twice, a startup acquired by eBay in 2015.Andre Tyler Iguodala is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The swingman was an NBA All-Starin 2012 and has been named to the NBA All-Defensive Team twice. Iguodala won an NBA championship with the Warriors in 2015, when he was named the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP). He was also a member of the United States national team at the 2010 FIBA World Championship and 2012 Summer Olympics, winning the gold medal both times.Iguodala went to Lanphier High School in Springfield, Illinois before attending the University of Arizona. After completing two years, he declared for the 2004 NBA draft where he was drafted with the ninth overall pick by the Philadelphia 76ers. Iguodala played in Philadelphia until the summer of 2012, when he was traded to the Denver Nuggets in a four team trade. He was acquired by Golden State in 2013. In 2014–15, he became a reserve for the first time in his career, but captured the Finals MVP after he returned to the starting lineup in the middle of series.
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- Sports, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- United States, Canada, Portugal
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- Rye — Rye builds developer tools and APIs to build the next generation of eCommerce experiences.
- Shef — Enter code FIRST10 at checkout and save $10 on your first order
- 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.
Simon Brandhof is an Associate at Time for the Planet.
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- SaaS, Developer Tools
- Pre-Seed
- Portugal
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- 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.
Vitor Crespo is the Chief Executive Officer and Board Advisor at FastCompChem. He attended the University of Portugal (UPT) in 1993.
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- Consulting, Machine Learning, Professional Services
- Seed
- Portugal
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- DeepNeuronic — DeepNeuronic is a tech startup that specializes in building machine learning-based products to resolve and automate daily problems.
Zeneca is a Writer, collector,Trader and Angel Investor
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- Gaming, Finance, Web Apps
- Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, Portugal
30 years as a founder, operator, investor, and advisor. Previously Paul was a Co-Founder and General Partner at LVP. Paul has invested in Supercell (majority acquired by Tencent), Unity (NYSE:U), Matchmade, Radiant Entertainment (acquired by Riot Games), Boomlagoon (acquired by Wargaming), Peak (acquired by Hachette Livre), AppOnboard, FRVR,Starform, Gameclub, Coherence, Lucid Sight, Doppio Games, Capture, Flick, EvenPrime, Tellie & Litho and others. Previously, he was an investment banker at Avista Partners, Commerzbank Securities & ING Barings. He has both a HBA & MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at University of Western Ontario in Canada.
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- Software, Gaming, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Finland
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- Tellie — Create a free website/link-in-bio to market your art, release new music, increase your followers, sell merchandise, and share your portfolio/resume/EPK. Token Gate all.
- Coherence — Unlock your multiplayer possibilities
- Glean AI — Glean AI is the only Accounts Payable solution that combines smart automation with spend intelligence and powers Finance teams to drive material savings.
Vasco Lopes da Silva
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- Health Care, Human Resources
- Seed
- Portugal
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- MyCareforce — The platform that connects nurses to available shifts.
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.
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- FinTech, Banking, Finance
- Seed, Series A
- United States, Spain, Portugal
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- 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.
Ivan on Tech CEO @moralisweb3 @moralismoney.
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- Web3, Gaming, Web Apps
- Seed, Funding Round
- Portugal, United Arab Emirates
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- Eesee — Company based in British Virgin Islands.
- GAM3S.GG — Your home of web3 gaming offering game discovery, reviews, guides, news & quests for a full experience.
- EclipseFi — EclipseFi is a Cosmos modular multi-chain token issuance platform that seeks to tackle Launchpad's cross-chain user experience and sustainability challenges with features like smart accounts and cross-chain design.
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.
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- Software, Mobile, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Spain, Chile
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- 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.
José Manuel Pinto
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- Marketing Automation, Predictive Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed
- Portugal
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- 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.
Tiago Monteiro is a former F1 driver
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- Marketing Automation, Predictive Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed
- Portugal
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- 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.
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