# Top 50 Artificial intelligence Startup Investors in Portugal in June 2026 ## Portugal Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Porto, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 25 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care 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 ## Armilar Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 13 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Shilling VC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, Software, Internet 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. ## Faber - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS 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 helpfounders build global companies powered by AI/Data, Web3 or Ocean/Climate 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. ## TheVentureCity - Type: VC Fund - Location: Miami, Florida, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence TheVentureCity is a global early-stage venture fund, investing in product-centric startups across the US, Europe, and Latam. With more than $150M under management, the firm invests from pre-seed and seed with a ticket size from $100-500k to Series A with $1-4M. ## Bynd Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care Bynd is a leading Iberian Venture Capital firm ## Bright Pixel Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Maia, Porto, Portugal - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Bright Pixel Capital (former Sonae IM) is the technology investment arm of the multinational group Sonae. With special focus on cybersecurity, infrastructure software, retail technologies, business applications and emerging tech, it has a portfolio of more than 60 companies, from early to growth stages. Bright Pixel acts as a partner that bringsspecialized know-how, global footprint, and a wealth of experience in helping companies from early stage to IPO. ## Caixa Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS 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. ## LC Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Brpx - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology A prominent European venture capital in Retail Technologies, Digital Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and Emerging Technologies ## Vesalius Biocapital Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Strassen, Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical 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. ## Iberis Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Software, SaaS Iberis is an investment manager that operates a value-oriented investment management. ## BlueCrow Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, SaaS, Energy Efficiency BlueCrow Capital is a venture capital firm. ## GED Ventures Portugal - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: Health Care, Software, Medical GED Ventures Portugal is an Investment firm. ## Notion Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud. ## HCapital Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Power Grid, Information Technology We are an independent private equity firm, investing in a broad spectrum of companies through dedicated funds. ## COREangels - Type: VC Fund - Location: Ílhavo, Aveiro, Portugal - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence Where startups can get much more than money, and Investors can professionally invest as angels. ## Grupo Lusiaves service - Type: VC Fund - Location: Leiria, Leiria, Portugal - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Post-IPO Equity - Focus: Computer, Consumer, Software 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. ## EDP Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Energy, Information Technology EDP Ventures is the venture capital arm of EDP. We invest in early-stage startups working in the energy space ## Pitchdrive - Type: VC Fund - Location: Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence Pitchdrive is a pre-seed investor run by experienced tech entrepreneurs backing founders during their crazy startup ride. Buckle up. ## CapitalT - Type: VC Fund - Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology 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. ## COREangels Lisbon - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Marketing, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS COREangels Boston is a group of operators and entrepreneurs investing at the angel stage in startups which have low capital costs and are either special situations or unicorns-in-waiting. ## Heartfelt Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence We are the first investors for exceptional founders building transformative companies across Europe and the US. ## Crane Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Crane is a London based VC firm investing and building seed and early stage intelligent enterprise and deep technology businesses across Europe. Our strategy is to support founders in building and executing their go-to-market strategy. ## Lince Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Information Technology 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. ## Lakestar - Type: VC Fund - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech 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. ## Vanagon Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: München, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Education Vanagon Ventures invests in outstanding founder teams who build for the third wave of the internet. ## 200M - Type: VC Fund - Location: Porto, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Retail 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. ## WISENEXT - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet 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. ## Curiosity VC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Investing in the next generation B2B software companies in the Benelux, Nordics & Baltics ## Ryan Petersen - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech 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. ## Techstars Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence Techstars helps founders succeed. Through our global accelerators, we invest in early-stage startups led by founders building a better future for everyone. ## Bernardo Rocha Novo - Type: Angel - Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Marketing Automation, Predictive Analytics, Artificial Intelligence Bernardo Novo is a CEO at SC Fitness ## Kevin Rose - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Mobile, Internet, iOS Kevin Rose is the Co-Founder and CEO of PROOF. He previously worked at HODINKEE as a Board Of Directors. Kevin Rose attended the University of Nevada Las Vegas. ## European regional development fund (ERDF) - Type: VC Fund - Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Grant, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) aims to improve the European Union's economic, social, and territorial cohesion by resolving imbalances across its various regions. ERDF funds initiatives for which the European Commission and national and regional governments in member countries share responsibility. Each member state'sgovernment decides which initiatives to support and is responsible for their continued supervision. ## William Bateman - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Database, Real Estate, Lead Generation William Bateman is working as a Managing Director at Round Hill Ventures. ## Roger Dickey - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Education, E-Commerce Roger Dickey is the Co-Founder & CEO of Made Renovation. He previously worked at Gigster as a Co-Founder & CEO. Roger Dickey attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. ## Elad Gil - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Elad Gil is the Co-Founder of Color Genomics. He previously worked at Twitter as a Vice President. Elad Gil attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ## Jon Soberg - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Jon Soberg joined MS&AD Ventures as Managing Partner in 2018. ## Young Guo - Type: Angel - Location: Beijing, Beijing, China - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, B2B Young Guo is based out of Beijing and is the General Partner of IDG Capital Partners. Young previously worked at Soros Fund Management as a Executive management. Young Guo attended the Columbia Business School. ## Alexis Bonte - Type: Angel - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Apps Alexis Bonte is based out of Madrid, Madrid, and is the President and Group CEO of Stillfront Group. Alexis previously worked at eRepublik Labs as a Co-Founder and CEO. Alexis Bonte attended Regent's University London. ## Dominique Locher - Type: Angel - Location: Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: B2C, Pet, SaaS Dominique Locher ## Sachin Duggal - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Fitness, Database, Wellness Sachin Dev Duggal is based out of London, England. Sachin Dev Duggal served as a CEO of Builder.ai . Sachin previously worked as Co-founder & Chief Wizard at Shoto. Sachin Dev Duggal attended the Imperial College London. ## Bewater Funds - Type: VC Fund - Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Secondary Market - Focus: Software, SaaS, Machine Learning Bewater Funds manages closed-end funds that invest in excellent, unlisted private companies. Entity supervised by the CNMV. Only for professional clients. ## Farfetch - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Corporate Round, Convertible Note - Focus: Fashion, E-Commerce, Retail Farfetch operates an e-commerce website that unites various independent fashion boutiques. It offers bags, coats, dresses, jackets, jewellery, swimwear, trouser, shoes, knitwear, suits, shorts, and accessories. They operate a modular end-to-end technology platform purpose built to connect the luxury fashion ecosystem worldwide. Their vision wasto create a single operating system that could address the complex demands of consumers and luxury sellers alike. Their platform is built on an API-enabled proprietary technology stack, which provides the foundation for the three main components: applications, services and data. Farfetch serves women, men, and kids. Jose Neves founded the company in 2008, with its headquarters in London, United Kingdom. ## Beta-i - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Computer, Software Global innovation consultancy helping world-class companies design and scale collaborative, open and corporate innovation strategies, products and ecosystems. ## YoungBrains - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Database, Real Estate, Lead Generation YoungBrains is an angel investor that helps founders and their teams launch new ventures, develop products, and raise external capital. YoungBrains is a Germany-based company that was founded in 2009 by Nils Henning and Mila Sukhareva. ## Pedro Aguiar - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Marketing Automation, Predictive Analytics, Artificial Intelligence Pedro Aguiar is an individual investor ## Sonae - Type: VC Fund - Location: Maia, Porto, Portugal - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Software, Analytics 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. ## Rock International Group - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Energy, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence Rock International Group is a venture capital investment firm. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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