Top 50 Artificial intelligence Startup Investors in Portugal in January 2025
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Artificial intelligence startups based in Portugal. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Artificial intelligence companies from Portugal. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Artificial intelligence Startup Investors in Portugal in January 2025
Investor | Artificial intelligence Portugal investments |
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Portugal Ventures | 20 |
Armilar Venture Partners | 12 |
Shilling | 7 |
Caixa Capital | 5 |
TheVentureCity | 5 |
LC Ventures | 4 |
Bynd Venture Capital | 4 |
Bright Pixel | 4 |
Faber | 4 |
TheVentureCity | 4 |
Notion Capital | 3 |
Vesalius Biocapital Partners | 3 |
GED Ventures Portugal | 3 |
HCapital Partners | 3 |
CapitalT | 2 |
Ryan Petersen | 2 |
Lakestar | 2 |
Iberis Capital | 2 |
200M | 2 |
EDP Ventures | 2 |
WISENEXT | 2 |
Maersk Growth | 2 |
Pitchdrive | 2 |
Crane Venture Partners | 2 |
Curiosity VC | 2 |
Bright Pixel (formerly Sonae IM) | 2 |
Bruno Cardoso | 1 |
Sonae | 1 |
Bernardo Rocha Novo | 1 |
Forestay Capital | 1 |
Prudence | 1 |
Tiago Monteiro | 1 |
Grupo Lusiaves service | 1 |
Rock International Group | 1 |
Vitor Crespo | 1 |
J12 | 1 |
Pedro Aguiar | 1 |
Kamay Ventures | 1 |
Lince Capital | 1 |
Delta Blockchain Fund | 1 |
Klaus von Sayn-Wittgenstein | 1 |
Superlyst Ventures | 1 |
Augusta Investments LLC | 1 |
Enzo Ventures | 1 |
CTT | 1 |
Seedrs | 1 |
Gorilla Capital | 1 |
Prudence Holdings | 1 |
Conexo Ventures | 1 |
M4 Ventures | 1 |
Verticals:Enterprise, SaaS, Security, Networks, AI, VR/AR, Marketplace, Blockchain, Internet of Things, New materials, Electronics, Robotics, Cleantech, Agrotech, Seatech, Therapeutics, Digital Health, Diagnostics, Innovative Accommodation, Tourist Entertainment Companies, Tour Operators, Wine, Nautical and Equestrian Tourism, Theme ParksMobile, Robotics Founded in 2012, Portugal Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Porto, Portugal. The firm is a part of the Banco Português de Fomento group. The firm seeks to invest in pre-seed, seed and series A stages
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Portugal, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- Hoopers — Global basketball community platform connecting players, fans and enthusiasts through products, contents, experiences and NFTs.
- PluggableAI — Pluggable is the leading Meaningful Mobile Engagement solution where, through disruptive AI models and non-intrusive smartphone sensors, we maximize mobile app engagement.
- Corium Biotech — Corium Biotech is an R&D company dedicated to the bioproduction of exotic leather destined to answer the current leather market needs for performant materials that respect both the environment and animal wellbeing.
Armilar Venture Partners is Portugal's leading venture capitalist. An independent VC with a 20-year-old history, a high-performance track record and an international footprint, Armilar is a deep-tech investor in ICT, HealthTech and CleanTech.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Portugal, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Rows — Combine the power of a spreadsheet with built-in integrations from your business apps. Automate workflows and build tools that make work simpler.
- Veeton — Veeton is the creator of an artificial intelligence-powered platform for automated fashion imaging. The company's platform provides fashion firms with an alternative to photo sessions by generating a limitless range of high-quality on-model images using only packshot photos, instantaneously and at a fraction of the cost, allowing clients tocreate e-commerce shoots in a few clicks.
- Cintoo — Cintoo is essential for BIM to bridge the gap between your physical and virtual worlds.
Shilling is an early-stage venture capital firm backing exceptional founders from the start.Shilling invests in a wide range of verticals and seeks out the biggest opportunities across all B2B and consumer categories.
Leveraging the concept of Founder LPs, Shilling brings much more than capital and offers through its Shilling Platform, directaccess to successful founders and executives of leading companies. This platform supports entrepreneurs in validating and developing their ventures, which then accelerate their growth into global markets.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Portugal, Spain, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Cooby — Supercharge your WhatsApp and integrate it with your CRM to reduce administrative work and lost customer data.
- Bounce — Short term (hourly & daily) storage all around urban areas, hosted by local businesses.
- 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
Caixa Capital is the Private Equity and Venture Capital arm of banking Group Caixa Geral de Depósitos and has a track record spanning over two decades of activity, since the industry was created in Portugal. It is a leading investor in terms of funds under management, portfolio size and diversity.Caixa Capital´s mission is to invest in fundsand companies, led by highly qualified management teams, with high growth and valuation potential, that enable our funds to achieve an attractive risk adjusted return and for society at large to benefit sustainably from our activity.Currently with more than 700 million Euros under management and a portfolio of over 80 investments, Caixa Capital is a reference in this area with special links to the respective European sector associations.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Portugal, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- HiJiffy — Increase direct bookings and upselling with HiJiffy's AI-powered communication solutions for hospitality.
- Probely — Probely is a web application and API vulnerability scanner for agile teams. Automate Security Testing by adding Probely into your SDLC and CI/CD pipelines.
- Infraspeak — Infraspeak is an Intelligent CMMS Software that brings outstanding flexibility, connectivity and intelligence to your operations.
TheVentureCity is a global early stage venture fund, investing in product-centric startups across the US, Europe and Latam. We believe in founders who expect more from their VC. Our data-driven nature allows us to see beyond borders, knowing talent has no zip code. Which is why we have international hubs in Miami, Madrid, San Francisco and SaoPaulo. We create a steady current of resources, offering a combination of bespoke data insights and guidance from experienced operators. With product-led growth at our core.With more than $160M under management, we invest from pre-seed/seed with a ticket size from $100-300k to Series A with $1-4M.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Spain, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Spike Technologies — November 30, 2022 - Spike technology, REST API end-points, and Cloud architecture are designed with data privacy and security at heart. We process billions of
- Tiny Health — Tiny Health is the first at-home gut health test for moms and babies 0-3 years. Detect any gut imbalances early on and prevent chronic conditions.
- Sidekick — Expertly-managed portfolios for the modern investor
We’re an early stage European venture capital firm partnering with globally minded founders.We’re supportive, founder focused, and aim to work together with you as a close and collaborative team of independent thinkers. Along with the support of our entire network, each member of our team brings their own personal experience to the table. Thefirst ticket is up to 200K€ and the total investment in a given startup can be up to 1M€.We decide investments quickly, allowing the founders to get back focusing on growing the business.
Our team and network of international mentors help young startups to scale quickly and to prepare for the next rounds.Our partners have been investing in tech-based startups since 2000 and have a portfolio of more than 100 companies in the USA, Brazil, The Netherlands, Spain and Portugal.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series D
- Portugal, China, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- 360hyper — The groceries marketplace where you can find everthing you need. Buy online groceries as fast as in 4 hours with personalized picking.
- Musiversal — Record your music in real time with world-class session musicians, vocalists, producers and audio engineers
- Brands&Ninjas — SaaS to control the performance of physical marketing campaigns on retail.
Bynd is a leading Iberian Venture Capital firm
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Portugal, Spain, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Last.app — Last is a comprehensive restaurant software solution. Thanks to the use of new technologies, our platform offers unique solutions in the market, always with the aim of simplifying and optimizing the tasks of the team of any type of restaurant.
- QUIXOTIC — QUIXOTIC 360 is a one-of-its-kind, SaaS solution for energy retailers and renewable energy communities. It includes automations, regulatory frameworks, triggers and alerts, industry-specific integrations, etc. We automate business processes and integrate platforms to streamline our customers operations.
- Incapto Coffee — Incapto Coffee offers the sale of the automatic coffee machine and a subscription system for coffee beans.
A prominent European venture capital in Retail Technologies, Digital Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and Emerging Technologies
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Portugal, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Chord — Chord is a commerce data platform purpose-built for modern brands. Chord enables brands to unify, synthesize, and orchestrate their data to drive radical decisions and revenue.
- Didimo — Didimo creates realistic high-fidelity digital humans. Simple, fast, accurate user-generated avatars to integrate into your app, game or site.
- Probely — Probely is a web application and API vulnerability scanner for agile teams. Automate Security Testing by adding Probely into your SDLC and CI/CD pipelines.
Faber is a Lisbon-based venture capital firm investing in outstanding entrepreneurs who innovate at the intersection of science and technology to drive digital transformation and climate action. The firm combines a specialist focus on deep tech early-stage startups with dedicated funds, investment teams and expert advisors to actively help foundersbuild global companies powered by AI/data or climate/ocean technologies.
Faber’s unique approach in Southern Europe is led by an entrepreneurial management partnership and backed by notable thesis-driven institutions and private investors. Investing since 2013, the firm has been an early investor in hard tech companies such as Unbabel, SWORD Health, Codacy, iLoF or YData
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Investment focus
- Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Portugal, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Meight — Run your cargo on budget and on time with a few simple clicks, from your laptop. Forget phone calls, driver headaches, hardware and tech nightmares, forever.
- Opnova — Opnova breaks through the rework barrier in IT, security, and compliance operations, delivering intelligent automation to workflows where implementing conventional automation was not previously practical or possible.
- 1s1 Energy — 1s1 Energy is developing material technology for PEM water electrolysis systems for green hydrogen production. The company's mission is to develop viable and scalable solutions to reduce carbon emissions within the decade. 1s1 Energy Inc. was founded in 2019 by Daniel Sobek, Sukanta Bhattacharyya, and T. Don Tilley.
Our ticket size ranges from $100-500k for Pre-seed/Seed and $1-4M for Series A companies. We're in search of promising-founders with product-driven mindsets who have a passion for building. Those who've fallen in love with data. For we believe in fit---both product and with the team here. Got a great idea? Come to TheVentureCity and give it the expertise to help it grow.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Spain, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Devengo — Light-speed transfers. Our Instant Payments API enables seamless integration to automate payouts to your customers in Europe and the UK.
- Plexigrid — We provide tailored solutions for electricity systems by using data analysis and optimization technology.
- BrandLovrs — BrandLovrs provides a one-of-a-kind model for gamifying influencer marketing campaigns Brands may use the BrandLovrs platform to collaborate with a large number of producers for scalable and gamified influencer marketing.
Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Cogna — Cogna offers an AI-powered SaaS platform that streamlines the integration of data across several business domains.
- Refute — Refute identifies and addresses misinformation on behalf of there businesses.
- Upvest — Upvest empowers financial institutions to offer investment products in their app with a modular, scalable, and accessible API. Upvest brings together everything that’s required to offer a broad range of investment products on the website and app. They are connected to the world’s leading asset providers and exchanges to provide the bestinvestments, at the best prices and execution speed.
Vesalius Biocapital Partners invests in companies active in human health through venture capital funds raised since 2007. They have contributed to developing 20 companies since inception.With more than € 150 million under management in two funds. Vesalius Biocapital Partners plays the role of lead investor in the large majority of its financingrounds.Their companies are based in Europe allowing easy interaction with management.They invest in all stages of development and do not shy away from relatively early-stage projects with a sound proprietary technology and corresponding IP, unique team skills and a clear competitive edge based on solid data.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- Belgium, Germany, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- CatalYm — Catalym develops antibodies against a placental factor which is overexpressed by various tumour types.
- Caresyntax — Caresyntax is the only enterprise-scale surgical data solution you need to make surgery smarter, safer, and more profitable.
- Inflammatix — Inflammatix develops rapid point of care diagnostic tests by reading the immune system, and resolves major clinical health challenges.
GED Ventures Portugal is an Investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Hospital, Consulting, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round
- Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Hoopers — Global basketball community platform connecting players, fans and enthusiasts through products, contents, experiences and NFTs.
- PluggableAI — Pluggable is the leading Meaningful Mobile Engagement solution where, through disruptive AI models and non-intrusive smartphone sensors, we maximize mobile app engagement.
- Indie Campers — Indie Campers offers adventurers the opportunity to start their journey in one location and end it in any of our other depots, while delivering an outstanding customer service for a unique and unforgettable experience.
We are an independent private equity firm, investing in a broad spectrum of companies through dedicated funds.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Portugal, Spain, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Libattion — Sustainable industrial energy storage solutions with CO2-certificate - made from second life lithium batteries.
- Routal — SmartMonkey provides learning AI software solutions for logistics services and field operations. SmartMonkey software learns from a company’s operational and logistics digital history, utilizing existing technology and knowledge as well as IoT methodologies to ensure accuracy in data poor environments.
- Eneida — Operational Analytics LV Apps, software and smart sensor for LV Network Monitoring, Control, and Visibility
CapitalT is a venture capital fund investing in tech companies in climate tech, future of work, education, and web3/the new social. They help exceptional teams develop groundbreaking ideas to grow better, scale faster, and change across their industries.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, The Netherlands, United States
Portfolio highlights
- RYE — RYE is a members-only, low-cost green energy supplier built for businesses with no time to deal with energy suppliers. Always accurate energy or it's free.
- trail — Trail offers a straightforward approach to implementing AI Governance, empowering developers and businesses to create reliable AI solutions
- AirForestry — AirForestry thins forests in a completely new way, namely from the air. #Re-inventing Forestry
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.
Lakestar is a venture capital firm investing in technology companies led by exceptional entrepreneurs. Early investments included Skype, Spotify, Facebook, and Airbnb. Since raising the first fund in 2013, Lakestar manages an aggregated volume of over EUR 1bn across three early-stage funds, and more recently a growth fund.
The company has expandedand broadened its portfolio and holds investments in the likes of Opendoor, Oscar, GetYourGuide, Glovo, Sender, Eigen, Five, Revolut, and Hometogo to name a few. Lakestar has a presence in Berlin, Zurich, and London.Lakestar helps companies to identify new markets and expand into them rapidly, with a focus on the US and Europe. The team advises and supports portfolio companies in business development, recruitment, technology, and marketing. The investments range from early-stage companies to those in their growth stage.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Cogny — Cogny provides AI powered insights for excel.
- Mindgard — Mindgard is an AI security company that helps enterprise to test, detect, and respond to cyber threats against their AI models.Given that businesses are increasingly focused on offering AI-driven services such as LLMs, securing this new way of conducting business is equally important. Mindgard ensures that your business can safely and securelymove into the new AI world and continue to protect your digital assets, brand and reputation.Our platform enables enterprise customers to determine, detect, and remediate against any adversarial attack vulnerabilities within all their AI models. This answers the “What is my AI risk?” and “How do I mitigate my AI risk?” questions that currently cannot be answered using traditional Cyber Security platforms. By designing our platform from the ground up to integrate with existing AI and Cyber Security operational tooling, Mindgard can be seamlessly added to your organization, providing repeatable and automated AI model vulnerability testing.The Mindgard platform has been in development for over 4 years based on cutting edge PhD-led, AI & cyber security research, also used by the global Intelligence Community. As well as providing a library of adversarial attacks based on deep research, leveraging our platform that can automate repeated security testing, detection, and response across the entire AI estate. By leveraging the Mindgard platform, our clients free up precious AI and cyber security resources and at the same time understand, detect, and mitigate risks across their entire AI model portfolio, which currently takes too long and is too expensive. Our platform ensures that business can rapidly embrace LLMs and other AI technologies whilst protecting their digital assets, brand, and reputation within the new AI world.
- Mindgard Ltd — Mindgard Ltd specializes in providing comprehensive AI security solutions to enterprises. Our operations center around a sophisticated platform designed to determine, detect, and remediate adversarial attack vulnerabilities within AI models. The platform is built on over four years of PhD-led research in AI and cyber security, ensuring advancedprotection that traditional Cyber Security platforms cannot offer.Our platform integrates seamlessly with existing AI and Cyber Security tools, enabling automated and repeatable vulnerability testing across the entire AI estate. This integration allows enterprises to efficiently assess and mitigate risks, optimizing their AI and cyber security resources.Key operational features include: - Automated Security Testing: Utilizing a library of adversarial attacks, our platform conducts thorough and repeated security tests to identify vulnerabilities. - Detection and Response: The platform continuously monitors AI models for threats and provides rapid detection and response capabilities to neutralize potential attacks. - Seamless Integration: Designed for compatibility with existing operational tools, our platform can be easily incorporated into current security infrastructures.Mindgard Ltd's operations ensure that businesses can securely adopt and innovate with AI technologies while protecting their digital assets, brand, and reputation in the evolving AI landscape.
Iberis is an investment manager that operates a value-oriented investment management.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, B2B
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- D-Orbit — End-to-end services for the New Space industry, including platform engineering, launch and deployment, and decommissioning.
- Sensei — We are the leading European provider of autonomous stores, with an AI-powered solution to build efficient operations and deliver a seamless shopping experience.
- Inflammatix — Inflammatix develops rapid point of care diagnostic tests by reading the immune system, and resolves major clinical health challenges.
200M is a Portuguese public fund of 200 million euros designed to co-invest with the best VCs from around the world in startups which are growing their business out of Portugal.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Therapeutics
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Portugal, Brazil, France
Portfolio highlights
- Sensei — We are the leading European provider of autonomous stores, with an AI-powered solution to build efficient operations and deliver a seamless shopping experience.
- 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.
- Sound Particles — A CGI-like software for Sound Design, capable of using particle systems to generate thousands of sounds in a virtual 3D world
EDP Ventures is the venture capital arm of EDP. We invest in early-stage startups working in the energy space
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Energy
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Portugal, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Captura — Captura mission is globally scalable carbon capture to support a sustainable future for the climate.
- Splight — Splight is an Artificial Intelligence Company, that creates Artificial Energy, the greenest energy ever made. Artificial Energy is energy that would have not been generated but for the application of digital solutions to existing power infrastructure. Running over a proprietary, powerful and transparent digital platform, Artificial Energyproduction leverages the unutilized capacity of the grid to generate energy combining big data capture and processing with state-of-the-art technologies such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and cloud computing. We create expanded pools of benefits for our clients by increasing revenues, reducing operating and maintenance costs, eliminating or delaying capital expenditures, lowering the cost of capital, and ultimately increasing profitability while directly contributing to the full decarbonization of the energy industry.
- Delfos Energy — Why did it Fail? Avoid unexpected failures across your assetsReduce the risk of unexpected failuresmoreOptimize Maintenance Windowsmoreretain and scale up operational knowledgemoreplatform real time monitoring, analysis and predictions for renewable energy and oil&gas assetsVIEW OUR APPLICATIONS customer and partnerssee what our customers say about our solutions TestimonialsYour failure prediction alarm, helped us avoid an
WiseNext is a venture and smart capital investment company. We focus on helping young entrepreneurs with innovative ideas that have an impact on our society, providing capital, knowledge and networking.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Portugal, United States
Portfolio highlights
- pleez — Pleez offers Restaurant's an optimisation of their menu within Delivery Platforms, so that they can have a revenue increase up to 25%.
- Volup — Volup is a premium food delivery app that partners exclusively with top-tier chefs and restaurants.
- Relive — Relive is empowering the next generation of real estate entrepreneurs, with a mobile app that allows them to work for themselves, from anywhere, while saving time and earning commissions faster.
Integrated logistics company and global leader in container shipping.
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Investment focus
- Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Altris — Altris is a leading developer of sodium-ion batteries, offering superior performance and sustainability. Our innovative energy storage solutions are made from abundant and renewable materials, revolutionizing the way we power the world. Discover our cutting-edge technology today.
- MODIFI — Explore digital trade finance and B2B payment solutions that empower your business to grow globally.
- Pactum — Pactum autonomous negotiations help companies unlock hidden value. Our AI negotiates non-strategic supplier contracts on a massive scale.
Pitchdrive is a pre-seed investor run by experienced tech entrepreneurs backing founders during their crazy startup ride. Buckle up.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Belgium, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Powernaut — We build the software to run the energy system of tomorrow. Our virtual power plants create unseen before, but a necessity in our clean energy transition.
- Vendorvue — Vendorvue revolutionize vendor management for procurement teams.
- DataPad — Say hello to the World's easiest metric tracking tool. Track everything in one place. Enable your entire team. Build data culture. All with no code, no development.
VC firm investing into seed and early stage intelligent enterprise and deep tech companies in Europe.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Encord — Discover how the world's leading AI teams use Encord to accelerate the development of the next generation of AI applications.
- Sandgarden — Sandgarden is a modularized platform to prototype, iterate, and deploy AI applications. It removes the infrastructure overhead of crafting the pipeline of tools and processes needed even to begin testing AI on imagined use cases — and then makes it trivial to turn a test into a production application without figuring out how to deploy, monitor, andscale the stack.
- Kurrent — Persist your application data as streams of events with our open-source database, EventStoreDB. We believe it's the best data storage solution for event-sourced systems. Available for free download on most platforms or use our managed service Event Store Cloud.
Investing in the next generation B2B software companies in the Benelux, Nordics & Baltics
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- The Netherlands, Finland, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Epum — EpumRE empowers institutional CRE investors to see into the future using geospatial AI.
- Moonlit.ai — Discover Moonlit, the largest European legal database powered by AI, providing seamless access to legal documents, case law, and insights across EU member states.
- Onesurance — Maak gebruik van de kracht van onze geavanceerde AI Decision Engine om de winstgevendheid van uw verzekeringsbedrijf aanzienlijk te verhogen.
Sonae IM is the corporate venturing arm of Sonae (retail and telco group), which is focused on investing in tech-based companies. The company invests in a broad range of companies related to Sonae's core, joining funding with a strategic profile.With a flexible investment style and approach, Sonae IM leverages on its technology expertise,brand capital, and access to a global network. The company supports companies to achieve success with an internal pool of experts, which supports portfolio management.Sonae has been developing different corporate venturing initiatives for long, namely revenue assurance leader WeDo (2001) and Mainroad spin-off (2003) and subsequent successful exit (2014). Moreover, after deciding that Cyber security was an interesting area, it invested in Spanish cyber security company s21sec (2014). Another critical space for retailers, location analytics, led to the investment in Movvo (2014).Since the official launch of Sonae IM in late 2015, the company invested in InovRetail (demand forecasting for retailers), StyleSage (fashion tech predictive analytics) and Sysvalue (cyber security add on for s21sec). Additionally, Sonae IM got involved in the acquisition of Novo Banco's stakes in 3 funds managed by ES Ventures and launched Bright Pixel (company builder studio). Sonae IM was officially founded in 2015, but corporate venturing initiatives within Sonae are in Sonae's DNA for longer and led to what Sonae IM is today. The company is based in Porto, Portugal.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Cyber Security
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, Spain, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Harmonya — The all-in-one AI-powered product data enrichment, categorization, and insights platform for CPGs and retailers
- Trustero — Trustero provides solutions and services that enable demonstrable, sustainable trustworthiness for emerging enterprises. The Trustero Compliance as a Service (CaaS) offers, establishes, and manages regulatory compliance by undertaking vulnerability assessments, security risk analyses, and other measures to ensure all business processes and systemsremain in full compliance. Artificial intelligence (AI) and other modern technologies means their clients have the visibility needed to gain actionable insights into their compliance across the extended enterprise.
- Tamnoon — Tamnoon develops a state-of-the-art cloud security platform to empower security teams and manage cloud risks effectively. By harnessing the power of AI combined with human expertise, the company empowers security teams and equips organizations of all sizes with exceptional cloud protection capabilities.
Bruno Cardoso
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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.
Sonae is one of the biggest private employer in Portugal, with about 40,000 staff. With each employee having had different training and career paths, all of them are treated as individual cases. This approach is immediately evident in the care taken by the company to select and integrate new staff, a process which seeks to match the personaland professional profiles each employee with the specific demands of the tasks to perform.They genuinely believe that people are at the heart of their success; that their skills are intimately linked to results; that the human factor is the key factor. They are a people company that deal with people every day. Their final goal is always customer satisfaction.The HR policy follows the strategy of the business, its demands, pace and ambitions. It contributes actively towards the company’s mission of sustainably creating value.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Analytics
- Seed
- Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Movvo — The Movvo platform delivers smart business intelligence solutions for owners and operators of retail and commercial real estate that turns data into improved retail performance and better value engineering decisions. The platform combines consumer behaviour wireless sensor technology and digests other public and private datasets, enhancing theunderstanding of the data by applying machine learning to provide fast and easy interpretation of this data delivering insights and rapid scenario-planning. Whether it is measuring ROI or reporting KPI's, the Movvo platform has these bases covered. Where it comes into its own is via the application of machine learning Want to easily prepare a leasing pack that maximises the rental value, what to create additional incremental value from asset investment decisions, want to know the impact of changing the tenant from apparel retailer to food & beverage? The Movvo platform can deliver prescriptive intelligence and more.
Bernardo Novo is a CEO at SC Fitness
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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.
Forestay Capital is dedicated to investing in the tech sector and reflects Waypoint’s focus on innovative, forward-looking industries in which it can leverage its entrepreneurial heritage and long-track record in helping businesses to realize their ambitions for growth. It is passionate about technologies that transform conventional models withsoftware and data to make an impact on business, practices, and people. It invests in revenue-generating technology companies in Europe, Israel, and in the US, and favors software and data-driven businesses that challenge established models.Forestay Capital was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Geneve, Switzerland.
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- Software, Information Technology, Logistics
- Series B, Series C, Series A
- Switzerland, United States, Canada
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- Convelio — Convelio is a global logistics startup specialized in bulky, fragile and high-value items.
- Manta — Get a holistic view of your data pipelines to boost your data governance, achieve DataOps, and migrate to the cloud without a hassle.
- Wasabi Technologies — Wasabi provides simple, predictable and affordable hot cloud storage for businesses all over the world. It enables organizations to store and instantly access an unlimited amount of data at 1/5th the price of the competition with no complex tiers or unpredictable egress fees. Trusted by tens of thousands of customers worldwide, Wasabi has beenrecognized as one of technology’s fastest-growing and most visionary companies. Created by Carbonite co-founders and cloud storage pioneers David Friend and Jeff Flowers, Wasabi has secured nearly $275 million in funding to date and is a privately held company based in Boston.
We invest in technology companies leading the global transformation of the built world.
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- Real Estate, SaaS, Events
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Canada, Germany
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- Evernest — Evernest has developed a technology platform for real estate agents to make the entire process of residential real estate transactions more efficient. With the help of its full-service brokerage platform, smart marketing services and digitized support processes, Evernest offers a transparent and personalized experience for agents as well asproperty buyers and sellers. Founded in late 2019, currently more than 100 people are working for Evernest in Hamburg and Berlin, Germany.
- VendorPM — Connecting Trusted Vendors to Property Managers. Easily request quotes from your preferred vendors and thousands more reviewed by fellow property managers.
- Clearstory.build — Construction's leading Change Order Communication Platform. We help Subs, GCs, and Owners communicate T&M Tags and Change Order Requests in real-time.
Tiago Monteiro is a former F1 driver
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- 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.
Lusiaves Group, founded in 1986 in Marinha das Ondas (Figueira da Foz), has continuously invested in vertical integration of the poultry sector to ensure full control of the entire animal production process. The verticalization of the industry is made possible by a commitment to continual learning about the poultry market and through the adoptionof agrifood innovation, food quality and safety, animal health and nutrition, sustainability, and human resources as the cornerstones of its operations. Those bets enabled the Lusiaves Group to grow and expand, combined with solid teamwork, supported by career advancement, and the ability to continually improve individual and collective work daily.
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- Computer, Software, Machine Learning
- Seed
- Portugal
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- Meight — Run your cargo on budget and on time with a few simple clicks, from your laptop. Forget phone calls, driver headaches, hardware and tech nightmares, forever.
Rock International Group is a venture capital investment firm.
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- Energy, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A
- Portugal
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- Jungle AI — Jungle uses artificial intelligence to predict component failure, and poor performance in an advanced asset management software.
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.
J12 Ventures invests early in innovative companies in the Nordics.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Sweden, Germany, Portugal
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- Ayora — Transform your firm's realisation and lockup by giving your fee earners P&L management superpowers
- Jeff — Jeff is a personalized loan broker that matches borrowers and lenders through alternative data. Jeff's mission is to help the unbanked to access financial services. In the absence of credit history and bank transactions, Jeff gathers alternative data from sources like smartphones, social media, behavioral patterns, geolocation, and other typesof digital footprint.Jeff then puts this information to good use and find ways on how alternative data points can prove creditworthiness and build trust, building new ways of accessing financing and evolving an alternative credit score.The company was founded in 2019 and is located in Riga, Latvia.
- DataCrunch.io — DataCrunch is a cloud service provider which facilitates utilization and integration of state of the art AI/ML models
Pedro Aguiar is an individual investor
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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.
Kamay Ventures is the first corporate venture capital fund open to multiple corporations.
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- FinTech, Lending, Restaurants
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Mexico, Colombia
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- Kilimo — Kilimo is a Big Data solution for water management in agriculture.. It features climate monitoring by using satellite and site data to provides prescription for each crop and increase water use efficiency. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Cordoba, Argentina.
- Altscore — AltScore offers Lending-as-a-Service (LaaS) tools for MSMB lending that provide cutting-edge underwriting, client experience, and smart collections.
- Sensei — We are the leading European provider of autonomous stores, with an AI-powered solution to build efficient operations and deliver a seamless shopping experience.
Lince Capital is an independent venture capital company. Lince Capital was born from the experience of a family group with over 30 years of experience in managing investment funds in various business areas, including real estate, infrastructure, agriculture, and telecommunications.Lince Capital is distinguished by its personalized and excellentsupport, close and direct relationship with each of its investors and business partners, and the dedication of an experienced and dynamic team.
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- Information Technology, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round
- Portugal, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
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- pleez — Pleez offers Restaurant's an optimisation of their menu within Delivery Platforms, so that they can have a revenue increase up to 25%.
- Sensei — We are the leading European provider of autonomous stores, with an AI-powered solution to build efficient operations and deliver a seamless shopping experience.
- Bling Energy — Bling Energy is a startup that focuses on providing more efficient and sustainable energy solutions, mostly through solar panels.
Delta Blockchain Fund is an early-stage venture capital fund lighting the path of blockchain innovation by supporting developers and visionaries building the world of decentralization.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Cayman Islands
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- Soulbound — Saga is a decentralized gaming community that aims to improve and grow the metaverse by creating a chain-agnostic market infrastructure.
- Pell Network — Pell Network is a precisely constructed multi-layered restaking network with a great user experience, clear role segregation, and a closed-loop business logic chain.
- Schuman Financial — Schuman Financial develops technologies, infrastructure, and products that bring financial services on-chain.
Klaus von Sayn-Wittgenstein
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- Internet, Machine Learning, B2B
- Seed, Series A
- United States, Portugal
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- Streem — Easy AR-powered remote video support & communication platform with AI data capture to get the job done from anywhere. Streem is better than being there.
- Unbabel — Unbabel offers multilingual translation services in more than 30 languages to enhance your customer service experiences. Learn more about our language operation solutions!
- Framed Data — Here is an exclusive deal for Mattermark subscribers.
Superlyst Ventures is a seed-stage investment collective, backed by an ecosystem of successful entrepreneurs.
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- Software, Privacy, Computer
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Portugal
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- Kertos — Kertos is a software company that develops and provides a holistic privacy platform in Europe, implementing automation and execution in a highly regulated environment focusing on the operational needs for all stakeholders involved. With their focus on product, integration, and automation they enable businesses to scale, to adopt and to maneuver inmodern tech environments with only a fraction of the current workload. They drive consumer engagement and help companies to interact with their customers in sensitive matters.
- Meight — Run your cargo on budget and on time with a few simple clicks, from your laptop. Forget phone calls, driver headaches, hardware and tech nightmares, forever.
Seed/Early Technology Investments
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- Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Spain, Brazil
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- Rappi — Rappi is a consumer tech company that specializes in providing online delivery services. It connects consumers who want to purchase prepared foods, groceries, clothes, and virtually anything with independent contractors who can fulfill those needs. The company was founded in 2015 with its main offices in Bogota, Colombia.
- Dropbox DocSend — Try our secure document sharing platform for free. Instantly know when documents are opened & what pages are read. Easy-to-use eSignatures.
- CoverWallet — How much will my business insurance cost? What insurance coverage does my small business need? Visit CoverWallet and get a free quote in just a minute!
We are an early-stage VC fund investing in tech companies that meet future generation needs
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- Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Spain, Ireland, Portugal
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- Harbiz — Harbiz es la app para gestionar tu negocio de entrenamiento personal. Harbiz te ayuda a organizarte, comunicarte con clientes y cobrarles en un solo lugar. Customizable. Eficiente. Simple de usar. Prueba Gratis.
- Remuner — The sales compensation platform that helps you align your company and employee goals by automating all aspects of incentive plans.
- Bankflip — Permissioned data technology to collect and process your customers' income, tax, employment & other relevant data & documents in real-time
CTT is principally engaged in the provision of courier services.
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- Virtual Assistant, Assistive Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed
- Portugal
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- NeuralShift — NeuralShift is an early-stage AI startup that assists lawyers by incorporating AI into daily processes.NeuralShift solution, Affine, is intended to assist lawyers in finding and cross-referencing the most essential material for everyday work.
Online investing opportunities in the best new startup businesses, and raise seed and angel investment, with top European equity crowdfunding site Seedrs.
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- E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Portugal
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- Laka — Laka is collective bicycle insurance especially for cyclists. We flipped insurance. By making it pay to pay out, we are the collective that backs each other. Protect your bikes and gear against theft & damage with Laka 5-star rated cycle insurance.
- Signature Brew — Signature Brew is a music bar and brewery that aims to bring people together. They provide beer, booze, and live music for their patrons, which enables them to bring the community together through the power of good beer, music, and memories.
- SRSLY Low Carb — SRSLYLowCarb is a home for healthy, Keto and Low Carb friendly foods. Perfect for diabetic-friendly diets. Elevate your health journey with us!
Gorilla Capital invests in early stage Finnish, Swedish, Danish and Estonian technology companies
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Finland, Estonia, Sweden
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- Orijin — A turnkey solution to solve EUDR for coffee & cocoa importers and producers
- Planmark Oy — Planmark develops an AI-powered reporting platform that streamlines ESG data collection and report generation, allowing companies to focus on core business.
- Serviceform — Welcome to future of communication - the truly all-in-one conversion and management software built for established businesses. Start now!
We invest in technology companies leading the global transformation of the real estate sector.
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- Real Estate, SaaS, Software
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Canada, Sweden
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- Hemlane — Hemlane is a property management solution that helps you manage your rental properties. We automate the day-to-day - from rent collection to 24/7 repair coordination.
- VendorPM — Connecting Trusted Vendors to Property Managers. Easily request quotes from your preferred vendors and thousands more reviewed by fellow property managers.
- Properly — Properly is your hassle-free partner to buy and sell homes in Canada.
We invest in exceptional individuals with the passion for solving hard challenges and bringing disruptive innovation to high growth markets.
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- FinTech, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Spain, Portugal, Ecuador
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- CO2offset — CO2offset is an advanced SaaS solution that measures the carbon preserved in forests for its nurturing and development.
- DeepNeuronic — DeepNeuronic is a tech startup that specializes in building machine learning-based products to resolve and automate daily problems.
- Enthec Solutions — Enthec Solutions offers products on security monitoring, DevSecOps, and cloud.
M4 Ventures helps startups to grow and expand globally through experience and hands-on collaboration.
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- FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments
- Seed, Funding Round
- Portugal, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
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- PayNest — PayNest is a payments amalgamator, which was created with the core mission of digitizing cash collection in the Middle East.
- Visor.ai — Deliver a better and faster experience with AI-powered bots and Customer Service Automation. With no need for Data Scientists or Developers.
- Paynest — Hello, we are Paynest! An innovative online platform with a very important mission: to give every employee the tools to master financial wellness and build a resilient future. Instant wage access, financial education and mentoring by professional financial coaches are the main benefits we bring on the table.Our co-partners in this mission will bethe pioneering employers: the minds who have an insightful and special way of thinking. Those who believe that their teams’ wellness is a top priority and want to see their employees evolve both professionally and personally. Together we will provide independence and safety to every employee. And that’s just the beginning! We are here to grow with you.50% of employees confirm that they are unable to fund a financial emergency. This is something that “produces” a never-ending sense of financial stress. Studies show that the demanding modern life and the global political and economical changes make every employee worry about the future. In Paynest we believe that it's vital for employees to have instant wage access whenever they want to. The result will be less everyday stress, more focus and boosted morale.In Paynest we believe that if you take action today, you can dream of tomorrow.And that is something that works both for every employer and every employee around the world.
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