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Top 10 Automotive VC Funds & Investors in Portugal (October 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Portugal Automotive startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Portugal Automotive startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Portugal Ventures
VC Fund
6 Portugal, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $107k–$3.6M
Crane Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $2.2M–$37M
Buenavista Equity Partners
VC Fund
1 Spain, Portugal, Japan Debt Financing, Private Equity, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Restaurants $2M–$75M
Buenavista Equity Partners Portugal
VC Fund
1 Portugal, France, Germany Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $1.5M–$38M
Portuguese Public Funding
VC Fund
1 Portugal Pre-Seed CleanTech, Automotive, Industrial
Forestay Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Switzerland, Germany Series B, Series C, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $7M–$110M
LocalGlobe
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1M–$30M
Techstars Autonomous Technology
VC Fund
1 United States, Portugal Seed, Pre-Seed Electronics, Nanotechnology, Advanced Materials $120k–$120k
MOMENTUM HOLDINGS
VC Fund
1 Portugal Seed Automotive, Energy Storage, Electric Vehicle
Abacus Alpha
VC Fund
1 Germany, Portugal Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Mobile, Industrial, Recruiting
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Portugal Ventures
VC Fund · Porto, Lisboa, Portugal · 6 investments in Portugal Automotive startups

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 Parks Mobile, 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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Portugal, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 389
  • Round size: Seed $121k–$1.9M; Pre-Seed $107k–$796k; Venture - Series Unknown $121k–$3.6M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Aptoide — Find, discover and download the best apps and games for Android in the official Aptoide app store
  • 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.
  • Outgoing — A ticketing tool that allows organizers to sell tickets directly on WhatsApp and Instagram. Users can purchase tickets through a personalized checkout process entirely within the chat, without registration or redirects. It also offers customer support that answers questions in real time.
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Crane Venture Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Portugal Automotive startups, 15 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 139
  • Round size: Seed $2.9M–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $2.2M–$16M; Series A $10M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $140M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Expanse — We predict exactly what every job needs before it runs, so your cluster does more real work with the GPUs you already have.
  • IMMIX — Immix engages in scaling web3 trading through next-generation technologies.
  • Outerlimit — Outerlimit is an AI security company focused on securing and governing agentic AI systems. Its platform provides visibility into AI agent activity, identity and access controls, risk assessment, and runtime security. The company helps organizations establish security and governance controls for AI agents operating across enterprise environments and manage their access to applications, data, and systems.
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Buenavista Equity Partners
VC Fund · Madrid, Madrid, Spain · 1 investments in Portugal Automotive startups

GED is an independent Private Equity group operating in the Iberian Peninsula and South-Eastern Europe. The company was incorporated in 1996 and GED’s professional Partners hold a majority stake in the Management Companies of the Group.GED is positioned in the middle market, managing funds in excess of €300M through 4 different Private Equityvehicles and operates in two different private equity sectors; private equity and private equity-real estate.GED Private Equity is looking at buyouts and expansion deals maximizing the portfolio value through a clear buy and build strategy in the core countries: Romania, Bulgaria, Spain and Portugal, backing medium size companies that can become regional market leaders.GED Opportunity targets opportunistic and value added real estate investments in South Eastern Europe.GED has a strong track record in Eastern Europe and the Iberian Peninsula, achieved it during its 19 years activity in the region through offices in Madrid, Seville, Bucharest, Sofia and Oporto.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Restaurants
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Private Equity, Seed
  • Geography: Spain, Portugal, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$4.2M; Debt Financing $17M–$75M; Private Equity $6.4M–$7.7M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $106M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Highlight Therapeutics — Highlight Therapeutics is a private, clinical-stage company dedicated to unlocking the full potential of immuno-oncology.
  • Atir Hospitality — Atir Hospitality is a premier investor and operator in Spain's hospitality sector. Our offerings encompass all-included solutions.
  • New Capital Aparcamiento Torrecárdenas — New Capital Aparcamiento Torrecárdenas operates as a special purpose concessionaire focused on public-private infrastructure development and facility management. The company's core business model centers on executing long-term administrative concessions for the construction, structural maintenance, and commercial optimization of large-scaleparking assets. Its value proposition is built around providing modern, high-capacity, and sustainable vehicle parking solutions adjacent to high-traffic public complexes.
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Buenavista Equity Partners Portugal
VC Fund · Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal · 1 investments in Portugal Automotive startups

#Tech4Purpose – Investing in innovative, global and purpose-driven ESG-friendly ethos technologies

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Portugal, France, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $12M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Rofim — Rofim provides a multidisciplinary platform that combines practitioners' knowledge, technology for analyses, and medical imaging to provide a diagnosis. In order to share knowledge and provide the most accurate and timely diagnosis possible, Rofim concentrates on all the functionalities created for fluid medical use. The company is dedicatedto making the daily lives of physicians, patients, and medical institutions easier, more moral, and more seamless.
  • Hoopers — Global basketball community platform connecting players, fans and enthusiasts through products, contents, experiences and NFTs.
  • Hope Care Health — Hope Care is a digital health company that combines services, products, and cutting-edge technology platforms to enable the delivery of Social and Health Care without barriers.
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Portuguese Public Funding
VC Fund · 1 investments in Portugal Automotive startups

Portuguese Public Funding

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Investment focus

  • Industry: CleanTech, Automotive, Industrial
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Portugal

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • GRAPHENEST — Graphenest is a nanotechnology company focused on high-value graphene-based solutions for advanced composites and functional coatings & inks markets.
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Forestay Capital
VC Fund · Genève, Geneve, Switzerland · 1 investments in Portugal Automotive startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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 with software 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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series B, Series C, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Switzerland, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Series A $12M–$28M; Series B $17M–$68M; Series C $7M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $220M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Reco — SaaS Security Leverage Reco's context analysis to streamline SaaS security, minimize data and identity risk, and automate remediation
  • Pivot — Pivot operates as a fintech company.
  • Fonoa — Manage your sales tax, VAT, and GST obligations seamlessly through our API, globally. For internet businesses around the world, we make taxes simple, automated, borderless, and accessible via our API.
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LocalGlobe
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Portugal Automotive startups, 29 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 443
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1M–$5.1M; Series A $4M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Noah — API-first stablecoin payments, enterprise-grade compliance and real-time settlements, powered by stablecoin technology.
  • Resolutiion — Resolutiion provides AI-powered software for managing commercial conflict, delivery risk, and business relationship performance. The platform supports organizations with dispute detection, workflow automation, contract monitoring, issue resolution, and operational risk management across customers, suppliers, workforce teams, and commercialpartnerships. Its system uses AI-driven analysis to identify relationship friction, monitor delivery performance, and support structured resolution processes. Resolutiion also provides commercial intelligence tools, reporting, and collaboration features for enterprise delivery and governance management.
  • Maven Robotics — Maven Robotics is building the world's leading general purpose AI robots.
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Techstars Autonomous Technology
VC Fund · 1 investments in Portugal Automotive startups

Investment focus

  • Industry: Electronics, Nanotechnology, Advanced Materials
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Portugal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$120k
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Guardion — Guardion helps save lives by detecting and tracking dirty bombs in their cities. Guardion has the world's first radiation detector that exploits quantum properties of nanomaterials allowing us to build low cost, sensitive, and low power detectors uniquely capable of being deployed at a large-scale. Guardion was a winner of the $50kMassChallenge 2017 Gold Prize and Technology in Space Prize from CASIS (Center for Advancement in Science in Space) and Boeing. In early 2018, Guardion joined the inaugural cohort of the Techstars Autonomous Tech Accelerator sponsored by the Air Force.
  • OmniPreSense — OmniPreSense is developing Smart City traffic monitoring sensors to help make our cities safer. The sensors detect excessive speeding and are networked to provide real time alerts or traffic reports. This data is easily provided to authorities for speed calming or other corrective actions. We are currently in Beta site testing of our product. Wehave validation of the market as we have had customers who are engineers buying our base radar sensor and building their own traffic monitor. Now we're building a simple to use solution for everyone. Our product is like Ring, but instead of protecting your door we protect your neighborhood.OmniPreSense was founded on 2016 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
  • GRAPHENEST — Graphenest is a nanotechnology company focused on high-value graphene-based solutions for advanced composites and functional coatings & inks markets.
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MOMENTUM HOLDINGS
VC Fund · Montgomery, Alabama, United States · 1 investments in Portugal Automotive startups

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

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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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Abacus Alpha
VC Fund · Frankenthal, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany · 1 investments in Portugal Automotive startups

Abacus alpha is an investment company centred around a tradition-steeped, multinational listed company. They invest in companies that work in or for the following areas: energy, water, waste water and materials. Technology-oriented activities as well as services and trade are of particular interest to us. Both minority and majority shareholdingsare possible.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Industrial, Recruiting
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Germany, Portugal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wizi — Wizi develops location-sharing and geo-social discovery solutions for mobile devices. Its technology aggregates geo-location technology and location information obtained from social networks for smartphones. Wizi also develops a text-based service that works on all mobile devices. It integrates with mobile operators' location-based servicesthat allow mobile subscribers to get into the process of geo-location and geo-social discovery.
  • 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).
  • Salinnova GmbH — SALINNOVA GmbH deals with innovations in seawater desalination. The main product is SALINO, which replaces the four components high-pressure pump, energy recovery, booster pump and electric motor with a compact unit, significantly increasing energy efficiency and reliability as well as reducing life cycle costs and simplifying assembly andoperation. SALINO is perfect for use in small and medium-sized desalination plants for industry, shipping or hotels.
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Automotive VC funding in Portugal at a glance

Stats across 24 deals from 23 investors.

23
investors
in Portugal Automotive startups
24
deals
in Portugal Automotive startups
$237k
median round
in Portugal Automotive startups
39%
lead investors
lead at least one round
42%
Seed
most common funding stage

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