Top 5 Automotive VC Funds &amp; Investors in Portugal (August 2026)

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.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 131
Round size: Seed $2.8M–$8.8M; Series A $8M–$39M
Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $140M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

Nopan — We help large merchants, fintechs, and PSPs turn account and wallet payment methods into measurable revenue drivers.
Aseon Labs — Robotic pitstops for self driving cars. A depot in a box for charging, cleaning & inspecting AVs directly in operating zones. Backed by @ycombinator
OLIX — OLIX designs and manufactures optical processors that use light-based circuits to accelerate artificial intelligence workloads. The company develops Optical Tensor Processing Units that execute matrix and tensor operations for training and running inference on large-scale machine learning models. Its hardware aims to increase performance and reducepower consumption relative to conventional electronic accelerators by processing data in the optical domain. Flux Computing focuses on infrastructure for generative AI and advanced neural networks, targeting data centers and organizations that require intensive model computation. The product stack centers on custom optical chips integrated with supporting electronics, control software, and tools that link into existing AI frameworks. Sales and partnerships primarily address customers building large AI clusters, research environments, and emerging applications that benefit from high-throughput, low-energy computation.

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

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: Portugal, United States, France

Investor stats

Total investments: 295
Round size: Seed $110k–$2M; Pre-Seed $107k–$547k
Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2011

Portfolio highlights

AddVolt — AddVolt is a technology based company that tackles markets where there is a high potential for diesel costs reduction through the generation of solar and kinetic energy, while other secondary savings are generated (e.g. maintenance).
Unlockit — Unlockit will offer to public and governmental bodies the guarantee that everything within a real estate transaction is recorded, meaning better industry regulation, more taxes and public fees collected, and less overall fraud and money laundering activities.
Logical Safety — IoT safety for a safer, more productive workforce

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Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

Total investments: 367
Round size: Seed $1.6M–$13M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.3M; Series A $4.2M–$30M
Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

nPlan — AI that forecasts project outcomes, creates scenarios of the future and helps mitigate risk across single projects and portfolios. Trained on over 750,000 past programmes.
Stream — Stream is a financial services firm that allows employees to stream their earned wages into their accounts through an instant app. The app allows them to have complete control over when they get paid. It also effectively ends the need for employee advances, loans, and employee stress suffered from short-term, unplanned financial obligations. Thecompany aims to play a key role in reducing the poverty premium and preventing employees from entering cycles of debt caused by overdraft fees, high-interest credit, or payday loans.
Dataform — Develop and operationalize scalable data transformations pipelines in BigQuery using SQL.

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Momentum Holdings specializes in manufacturing, Harley Davidson® dealerships, and interior design materials.

Investment focus

Industry: Automotive, Energy Storage, Electric Vehicle
Stage:Seed
Geography: Portugal

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

AddVolt — AddVolt is a technology based company that tackles markets where there is a high potential for diesel costs reduction through the generation of solar and kinetic energy, while other secondary savings are generated (e.g. maintenance).

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