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Top 35 B2B Startup Investors in Portugal in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 35 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in B2b startups based in Portugal. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in B2b companies from Portugal. We update this investor list every month.

Top 35 B2B Startup Investors in Portugal in January 2026

Investor	B2B Portugal investments
Caixa Capital	10
Faber	8
Armilar Venture Partners	5
Join Capital	5
EQT Ventures	3
Shilling VC	3
Innovation Nest	2
Omnes Capital	2
Pathena	2
Notion Capital	2
Curiosity VC	1
Rob Emrich	1
Adeyemi Ajao	1
Isomer Capital	1
Workday Ventures	1
Pitchdrive	1
Henrique Castro	1
Elad Gil	1
David Peterson	1
Wefunder	1
Kevin Rose	1
Klaus von Sayn-Wittgenstein	1
CapitalT	1
Raymond Tonsing	1
Errol Damelin	1
Augusta Investments	1
Roger Dickey	1
LeadX Capital Partners	1
Investo	1
Demium Capital	1
Jared Fliesler	1
Portugal Ventures	1
Ryan Petersen	1
Young Guo	1
Terrence Rohan	1

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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.

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.
Noxus — At Spot, we're crafting the operating system for tomorrow's workforce, harnessing AI to streamline influencer marketing. Our platform empowers agencies, businesses, and content creators to collaborate effectively and reach audiences with ease.
Infraspeak — Infraspeak is an Intelligent CMMS Software that brings outstanding flexibility, connectivity and intelligence to your operations.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Portugal, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

YPLASMA — YPlasma, an INTA spin-off, develops plasma actuators for ionic flow control, enabling advancements in Energy and Electronics.
RESONIKS — It's data that drives resilient and sustainable supply chains. Implement SUPPLYZ solutions to gather real-time inventory data for your products and materials and use this data to automate your processes, offer new services and prevent supply chain disruptions. SUPPLYZ can be implemented for both industrial and consumer applications
Zymvol Biomodeling — Physics-AI hyperrealistic enzyme discovery. ZYMVOL helps R&D managers uncover hidden opportunities and screen areas overlooked by traditional methods.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Portugal, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cintoo — Cintoo is essential for BIM to bridge the gap between your physical and virtual worlds.
Automaise — Radically improve your customer care operations by focusing where the volume is and helping your agents do a better job.
Sword Health — Sword delivers AI Care with clinical oversight to prevent pain, support recovery, and promote whole-body health. Trusted by employers and health plans.

JOIN Capital is an early stage VC focused on Seed and Series A investments in Industry 4.0 and enterprise tech. Our portfolio companies are front and center at factories, delivering smart machinery and robotics for high-volume manufacturing. They’re behind the scenes with powerful algorithms for managing global production systems. They rethink andrewire essential processes, with the goal of maximizing human capabilities. We invest in technologies related to core business functions: operations, manufacturing, data analytics, supply chain and software development. We seek innovative solutions to real customer problems that have achieved product-market fit. Technologies we invest in include: machine learning, robotics, cloud computing, IoT, smart sensors.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

QuadSAT — QuadSAT has been established as a VSAT solution and R&D company in Horsens, Denmark. Their satellite service offerings range from preventative maintenance, servicing, upgrades and new installation on Ku, C-band, and TVRO installations whether it is maritime or terrestrial.They also provide consultation, auditing, surveying and projectmanagement ensuring a reliable and efficient communications network for Their clientele.Their company has built on innovation; therefore they pay attention to the newest technologies and work on their own inventions to improve the service level in the whole satellite industry.
PhotonPath — Enabling seamless integration between Photonics and Electronics for a faster, more connected and sustainable future
36ZERO Vision — FotoNow is an AI-powered visual inspection system developed to identify and solve a wide range of manufacturing quality issues. It offers a fully automated error tracking and identification for optimized manufacturing agility and quality, factory throughput, and capital spending.

EQT Ventures is a European VC fund with just over €2.3 billion in total capital raised. EQT Ventures I launched in May 2016, with commitments totaling €566 million and a simple mission - to be the kind of VC the team would have liked to have had on their own startup journeys. Recognizing that building and growing a company takes more than justcapital, the EQT Ventures team provides founders with support and advice throughout different stages of growth. EQT Ventures doesn't focus on particular markets or industries, but on bold and ambitious founders who have the grit and determination to build global success stories. EQT Ventures II launched in November 2019, with commitments totaling €660 million. EQT Ventures III launched in 2022, with commitments totaling €1.1 billion, making it the biggest European Venture Capital fund committed to early-stage tech startups. The EQT Ventures team is based across six offices in London, Stockholm, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Paris, and San Francisco, taking a locals-with-locals approach and supporting founders on the ground. Motherbrain, EQT Ventures' in-house-developed artificial intelligence (AI) platform, ensures the team has a data-driven approach and has driven more than $100 million in portfolio company investments.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Peanut App — Whether you're navigating fertility, pregnancy, motherhood or menopause, Peanut is a safe space to ask questions, find support and connect with other women.
Kota — Replace your tools, brokers and outdated processes with the only platform that handles the entire employee benefits journey.
Strawberry — Strawberry is an agentic browser with built-in, personalized AI companions.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Portugal, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cafler — Your car's personal assistant. Ask for a Cafler now, we move your car for you!
Nilo — Nilo is a collaborative 3D platform that works across desktop, mobile, Discord, and Telegram. It combines generative AI with world-building tools, allowing users to generate assets, characters, animations, and code from natural language or drawings. The result: a radically simplified creation experience that lowers the barrier to entry andaccelerates how quickly new ideas can be built, tested, and shared.It’s creation at the speed of culture: whether spinning up a game inspired by today’s viral sound, turning a group chat joke into a playable world or crafting a custom hangout, Nilo transforms imagination into interaction — instantly and collaboratively.Nilo’s key features include:Text-to-3D generation: Create characters, environments, and code from prompts or images. Browser-Based: Nilo runs entirely in your browser - no installs, no downloads, no friction. Voice-enabled coding: A built-in AI-powered code editor that supports spoken commands and natural language for playful, social programming. Real-time multiplayer: Co-create and play with friends instantly.Nilo was founded in April 2024, bringing together veterans from Fortnite, Twitch, YouTube, Snapchat, Microsoft, Adobe, Blizzard, VRChat, Rec Room, and major VFX projects such as Avatar and Star Wars.
specter automation — Construction is the second least digitized sector in the world with 96% of all data being unused. Although detailed planning data is created upfront, a lack of suitable digital tools prevents its transfer to the construction site. SPECTER’s web-based construction management software uniquely incorporates the core components of constructionplanning, reducing the organizational burden on construction management and helping to meet project timelines and budgets.

Innovation Nest invest in early stage B2B SaaS startups from Europe and help them grow from local to global using our network of contacts and strong in-house competencies. It strongly believes that the path to growth leads through Silicon Valley and strongly encourage our portfolio startups to set up presence there. The company supports high-techcompanies to grow faster and scale their business globally.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Poland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Kenjo — All-in-one human resources (HR) software created for SMEs that need to optimise their processes. Click to find out more!
Antavo Enterprise Loyalty Cloud — Engage non-loyalty members with our promotion technology and build your customer loyalty program faster with our AI-powered loyalty management software.
AI Clearing — AI-powered platform for construction progress tracking and quality control, supporting contractors and asset owners in energy, utilities, infrastructure, and civil construction projects.

Omnes VC is the Venture Capital arm of Omnes Capital, a leading private equity firm dedicated to energy transition and innovation with €4.8 billion in assets under management and a 20 year + experience in: venture capital, buyout & growth capital, private debt, renewable energy, co-investment, secondary funds of funds. Omnes Capital is fullyindependent.With 65 business sales including 14 IPOs carried out in 16 years, Omnes VC is one of the key players in France in financing innovative SMEs with expertise in both Technology and Healthcare sectors. Omnes VC has supported 120 companies and has invested more than €500M in businesses such as Scality, Novaled, BioVex, arGEN-X, Pixium, Blablacar.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
France, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Caracol — Lead the future of manufacturing thanks to Caracol's 3D printing technologies. Discover our solutions for industrial, Large Format Additive Manufacturing.
Complix — Complix is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of Alphabodiesâ„¢, a novel class of biopharmaceuticals that offer significant advantages over existing protein based therapies. Alphabodiesâ„¢ bind with high affinity to a wide range of disease targets and are particularly suited to address certain targets that aredifficult to reach with antibodies or other types of protein scaffolds. Due to their unique stability and versatility Alphabodiesâ„¢ can be delivered via alternative non-injectable routes of administration, unlike most therapeutic proteins.
Amakem — Amakem is a kinase platform company focusing on ophthalmology and is developing new treatments for serious eye conditions. Amakem's product pipeline is based on its unique â€˜Localized Drug Action' platform which is designed to generate safe and effective novel kinase inhibitors that minimize systemic exposure with the aim of reducingside effects.

Pathena is an investment firm engaged on boosting the success of information technology and digital biomedical companies.

Investment focus

B2B, Made to Order, Marketing
Series A, Seed, Series C
Portugal, Germany

Portfolio highlights

BIZAY / 360imprimir — • Bizay has empowered more than 1 Million SMB’s to grow their businesses during the last 5 years.• Bizay is a tech-based B2B Marketplace for made-to-order products. Running a fabless business model (no capex), it leverages on the idle capacity of production partners to meet the needs of the SMB’s.• Started on printing, packaging, textile andprofessional products and now applying the same model in furniture, food and 3D printing (amongst others).• 360imprimir / 360onlineprint - rebranded to Bizay - Your bussiness your way - to reflect the unlimited product categories. • Bizay is the customer facing brand (the SMB’s do not meet the production partners) and its tech platform manages the production by: o Using data and algorithms to aggregate different orders and to decide in which suppliers to produce them, driving huge efficiency and speed gains. o Enabling full tracking of the orders in the different production partners and automating pre-production processes.• Bizay differentiates themselves from other players by offering: o Online configuration of the products (options to customize and personalize). o Competitive pricing for small and medium orders (similar price per unit as for large orders), 48 hours of delivery time (instead of several weeks) and guaranteed quality (customer-facing brand ensuring high quality levels). o Integrated value chain in a single offer (on-demand design services provided by external providers).• Originally selling in Portugal, Spain, Brazil and México, the company raised B round of 18m€ one year ago (communicated in April) in order to launch new countries.• 17 new countries were launched in 2019 simultaneously (including DE, FR, UK and USA).• In 2019, 8 months of trading in the new countries confirm: o Competitiveness pricing of their offer in all the market. o Market deepness and sound acquisition metrics.
Promptly — Health Analytics Patient Report Outcomes, Health Care, Value based health
NVision Imaging Technologies — NVision Imaging Technologies is leveraging advances in quantum physics to enable the first routine, convenient and affordable use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for assessing early patient response to cancer treatment at the metabolic level.

Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

HeyJobs — Intelligent recruiting | more hires with performance marketing | only qualified candidates | fast recruiting success | over 1,500 companies use HeyJobs to find employees
Wercker — Industry leading container registry, for organizations to manage Docker images, perform vulnerability analysis, and manage access via fine-grained access control.
Isembard — Isembard has experience from the military, government, large enterprises, and a successfully exited technology business.

Investing in the next generation B2B software companies in the Benelux, Nordics & Baltics

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
The Netherlands, Finland, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Orq.ai — Orq.ai is the platform to build, ship, and scale AI fast and in control. Give your teams one secure place to develop, test, deploy, and monitor GenAI applications.
Telescope — A practical tool for managing sustainability risk in real estate
Altura Platform — Altura Platform helps you to identify opportunities, collaborate on writing your bid and analyse data on your performance.

Rob Emrich - Founder & CEO @ The Mobile Majority

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Unbabel — Unbabel offers multilingual translation services in more than 30 languages to enhance your customer service experiences. Learn more about our language operation solutions!
MotionSavvy — MotionSavvy is developing a translation tool for the Deaf and Hard of hearing by working with gesture recognition technology Leap Motion along with various mobile devices which targets sign language users for improved accessibility. Our goal is the 370 million deaf and hard of hearing market worldwide with a cost affordable product against currentcompetitors.
CoolChip Technologies — CoolChip Technologies, Inc. | 422 followers on LinkedIn. CoolChip Technologies, Inc. is the worldwide leader in Kinetic CoolingTM, a new product category based on disruptive technology that is transforming the electronics cooling industry. Solutions Powered by Kinetic CoolingTM offer unprecedented performance across acoustics, form factor, and cooling. By partnering with CoolChip, consumer electronics and enterprise manufacturers have the opportunity to unleash innovation and deliver next-generation products for their customers.

Adeyemi (“Ade”) is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Base10 Partners. Before Base10, Ade had a successful career as an entrepreneur and investor.Ade was the co-founder and CEO of Tuenti (The “Spanish Facebook” which was acquired by Telefonica in 2010 for $100M), co-founder and CEO of Identified (“AI for HR” acquired by Workday in 2014) and afounding investor of Cabify (the largest ridesharing company in Latin America currently valued at over $1B). While at Workday, Ade led launch to Workday Ventures, the first fund focused on Applied AI for Enterprise Software and was VP of Technology Strategy.Ade is originally from Spain and half Nigerian. He holds an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He also holds a J.D. in Law and a M.S in Economics from Icade University in Spain and studied a certificate on Machine Learning at Stanford.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Spain, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Dropbox DocSend — Try our secure document sharing platform for free. Instantly know when documents are opened & what pages are read. Easy-to-use eSignatures.
StockGro — Get expert stock market insights from SEBI-Registered Analysts on StockGro. Make informed investments with trusted advice. Join Today!
Job&Talent — Jobandtalent is an on-demand staffing marketplace that aims to make the labor market much more liquid and transparent, helping companies to hire in a more flexible way and with the mission of being part of the reduction of unemployment in the world. The labor market has evolved from a very structured state into an extremely flexible one. Companiesare demanding flexibility which has resulted in the growth of liquidity in the market. However, the flexible state of the labor market is also leaving the workers in a vulnerable and unprotected employment situation. Jobandtalent has created a Workforce as a Service (WaaS) platform in order to make this labor flexibility beneficial for both companies and workers alike.The company has offices in the UK, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Mexico, and Colombia, and has plans for further expansion to France and Italy by the end of the year.

Isomer's entrepreneurial approach accesses high-potential opportunities through limited partner investments in funds, company co-investments, and providing liquidity to firms and founders via secondary purchases.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Cowboy — Meet Cowboy, the connected electric bike for urban riders. With an intuitive motor to sense your pedaling force and a companion app in the cockpit to guide your ride, tune into a newfound freedom in the city.
Automata — Automata LINQ platform: an open, integrated lab automation solution, designed to help labs unlock their potential, lab space and scientists.
Latent Labs — Latent Labs is making biology programmable to transform health and sustainability for the benefit of all.We are a frontier AI lab building foundational models that capture the fundamentals of biology. We empower partners with breakthrough generative AI to gain unprecedented control over molecular biology, creating new antibodies, optimizingexisting enzymes, and advancing genetic engineering.Contact us to work with us today.

Workday Ventures helps accelerate innovation by connecting next-generation enterprise technology companies with Workday, customers, and the broader community. Learn more

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Comulate — Comulate reinvents the revenue process for large broker accounting teams with purpose-built direct bill automation, cash application & carrier payables automation, and more.
StackOne — Accelerate your SaaS growth with our unified API solution for HRIS, ATS, and CRM. Say "yes" to customers, build advanced integrations quickly, and experienced the best data privacy controls in the market.
Veza — Veza is the identity security company that enables organizations to understand, manage and control who can and should take what action on what data.

Pitchdrive is a pre-seed investor run by experienced tech entrepreneurs backing founders during their crazy startup ride. Buckle up.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Belgium, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

introw — We help B2B sales, marketing & partnership teams to unlock warm referral leads in their partner ecosystem through AI. Allowing them to discover & co-sell on these leads from within their sales tools.
Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
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.

Previously, Henrique served as Chief Operating Officer of Yahoo! Inc. Additionally, he was elected to join the Board of Directors for Minneapolis-based retailer, Target Corp. on March 13, 2013. Henrique is a senior executive with 20+ years experience in leading companies such as Google, Dell and McKinsey, building, scaling and managing businessglobally.He is recognized by his knowledge of the Media, Internet, Telco/Tech, Retail, Consumer industries and has extensive experience as CEO/GM, CRO, Head of Strategy and Business Development, Sales & Marketing and Operations Lead.Henrique was formerly Google's President of Media, Mobile and Platforms Worldwide with full responsibility $5bn+ full P&L of Google's TV Ads, YouTube Ads, Google Display Network, Mobile Ads, AdMob, AdExchange and DoubleClick business globally. He built and scaled the Display, Mobile and Platforms Business from scratch to turn them it into #1 digital business globally with multi-billion dollar revenue and 2000+ people. In this position he lead the team to launch operations in 40+ countries, hired 1000+ people, acquired and integrated Googleâ€™s two largest acquisitions.Prior to this position Henrique lead European Sales & Media Solutions and Sales Operations for Google Europe.Before Google, Henrique was Sales & Business Development Director for Dell Western Europe Region where he managed sales and operations across 9 countries for all B2B businesses with revenues of $2+bn and 30%+ growth.Early in career Henrique worked for ABB- Asea Brown Boveri in Corporate/Project Finance and in the Private Equity.Henrique holds a MBA from IMD and MSc in Economics/Business Administration from ISEG. He is fluent in English, Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese.Henrique is also a Board Director of the IAB - Interactive Advertising Bureau – The as industry association, that comprises 500+ leading media and technology companies, to set the agenda to educate marketeers, agencies, media companies and regulators on Interactive Advertising.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, B2B
Seed
Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

Do — Do offers a platform that works as one place for all the notes, presentations, docs, and all other collateral to live together. The company gives the user the tools to frame the discussion, ensure things get done, and make decisions clear.
Codacy — Codacy is an automated code review tool that helps developers to save time in code reviews and to tackle technical debt efficiently. Developers spend 10%-20% of their time reviewing code. Gartner estimates the global technical debt to grow to $1 Trillion by 2015. Codacy tracks new issues by severity level for every commit and pull requestand allows a hassle free customization of static analysis It provides advanced code metrics on the health of a project and on the performance of teams.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Ashby — Ashby is a developer of recruitment software used for high-growth companies. It develops usable, enterprise-grade employment software that enables company leaders, recruiters, and hiring managers to run their hiring process significantly better. It was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Harvey — Harvey is an artificial intelligence technology service provider.
Cognition — Cognition is an applied artificial intelligence lab that focuses on reasoning and code.

David Peterson

Investment focus

Internet, Software, B2B
Seed, Series B
India, Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

OSlash — Transform long URLs into memorable shortcuts. Make information easy to access, find, & share with others in an instant with a complete URL management solution
Commsor — Commsor is the world's only full-stack company, providing Community-Led companies with the software, resources, and education to unlock the full power of community.
Unbabel — Unbabel offers multilingual translation services in more than 30 languages to enhance your customer service experiences. Learn more about our language operation solutions!

Wefunder is a crowd investing platform that offers capital raising services. The company's online platform offers investment services to startups through its investors' userbase and disruptive companies can receive amount as small as hundred dollars, enabling companies to grow and develop their businesses.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
United States, Kenya, France

Portfolio highlights

HelloWoofy.com / SelfTact.com (Smart Selfies for Networking) — HelloWoofy.com is a smart marketing platform for small business owners, or “underdogs”, to use patented generative AI (11,115,356) to create, schedule and post marketing content to multiple mediums or channels at once. Over 10,000 members strong, $1.1M in sales and backed by notable VC funds, Equity Crowdfunding (Reg CF) and angel investors.Achieved a $23: ~$1000 CAC to LTV/Cart/Investment ratio and sales to capital raised ratio of $1:$1.6 . SelfTact.com, incubated an application designed to ease the lead gathering process at events using selfies. With a virtual “rolodex” of contacts, a user can scroll through, email, text and see where they met to close prospects in one click. SelfTact is used as a lead magnet for HelloWoofy.com. iOS and Android Apps.EmojiData.ai, incubated an API for SaaS platforms to embed patented generative AI (11,115,356) technology. The API focuses on generating content with the perfect emojis, hashtags and text based on various forms of input. 80M calls over 4 years of usage. Part of HelloWoofy.com.
Reflect — Reflect is a networked note-taking tool. Keep track of your notes, books, and meetings.
Firesale — Firesale is an AI-powered resale marketplace built for people with too much stuff and zero time. Sellers record a 2-second video, and Firesale’s AI instantly generates the title, description, photos, and price. No typing, no pricing games, no endless messages — just tap, record, and sell. Designed to feel like a digital yard sale, Firesale makes iteffortless to turn clutter into cash locally, with Uber-powered pickup and delivery options.

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.

Investment focus

Mobile, Internet, iOS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

ClayStack — Multichain liquid staking platform that allows users to stake their assets, mint staking derivatives, and participate in DeFi.
Magic Spoon — Magic Spoon cereal is high-protein, low-sugar, keto-friendly, and gluten-free. Available in Cocoa, Frosted, Fruity, Blueberry, Peanut Butter, and Cinnamon.
Universe XYZ — Universe XYZ is an NFT platform that provides blockchain technology and cryptocurrency solutions for creating and distributing tokens.

Klaus von Sayn-Wittgenstein

Investment focus

Internet, Machine Learning, B2B
Seed, Series A
United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
The Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Northsea — Northsea is an AI-native research platform that helps consultants, investors, and strategy teams generate deeper customer insights with a fraction of the effort.
Overstory — Overstory applies artificial intelligence to high-resolution satellite imagery to provide real-time analytics of natural resources. We help to prevent forest fires, deforestation, power outages and are on a mission to create a more sustainable environment. Our insights on the quantity and quality of natural resources help to improve decision-makingby electric utility companies, forestry companies and NGOs.
Balthazar — Balthazar is a SaaS platform for hardware R&D that automates experiment tracking in the lab. It facilitates collaboration, ensures knowledge retention, and serves as the backbone of AI-driven research.

Raymond Tonsing is a San Francisco based venture capitalist and entrepreneur. He founded Caffeinated Capital, an early stage venture capital firm, and now serves as its managing director. Raymond holds a bachelor's degree in Arts from University of Colorado Boulder.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Polywork — Launch an AI-powered personal website to showcase your work, grow your personal brand, or start your side hustle.
Nuvocargo — Nuvocargo is your all-in-one digital platform for cross border trade between the US and Mexico. Book your shipments now
Varda — Expanding the economic bounds of humankind with the world's first orbital manufacturing & reentry platform.

Errol Damelin is the Founder, CEO, chairman, or original investor and backer of over 75 digital and tech companies around the world, including in the US, the UK, most of Europe, Israel, Indonesia, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, and Nigeria. He concentrates his efforts on SaaS, fintech, crypto, marketplaces and data analytics as well as on health andwellness. He is also a technologist and has three granted patents to his name with another four pending.Among the companies co-founded by Damelin are groundbreaking fintech company Wonga, and SME banking startup Tide. His early investments include Wise, Cazoo, Purplebricks, K Health, YuLife, Sure, Demyst, Zoe, Farewill, CityMapper, Modifi, UnBabel, Thimble, HiBob, Modifi, Elliptic, Lendingkart, and VivaReal. Using his own personal equity, Damelin continues to invest early on in the next generation of entrepreneurs so that he can help them succeed. He is not an institutional VC fund and does not maximize the assets under his management. He best describes his approach as Riding Shotgun.Damelin's success as a founder has been recognized by The Guardian, which named him Digital Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011; by Ernst and Young, which named him the UK's Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011 as well; and by TechCrunch, which named him Founder of the Year in 2010.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Zelt — Manage everything from HRIS, payroll, pension, devices, apps and more seamlessly in one central hub, for all processes and applications, third-party included. Improve productivity through enhanced employee experience.
Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback

Seed/Early Technology Investments

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Spain, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

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!

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Canada, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

SearchEye — Get tech-driven SEO at scale, speed and a fraction of the cost compared to traditional agencies. Acquire PR Mentions, Digital PR and Content.
Double — Double is a software platform that helps users to build, automate, and analyze investment portfolio for retail investors.
Craftwork — Craftwork is a modern general contracting company that uses technology to simplify repair and renovation projects for homeowners.

Driving digital transformation of consumer industries. As a leading growth capital investor, we combine deep investment experience with commercial reach.

Investment focus

Restaurants, SaaS, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Germany, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Motatos — Motatos is an online retail store that offers a wide variety of food, beverages, and household products to customers.
Matsmart — Matsmart sells surplus food online. A major part of the food would otherwise be thrown away due to packaging changes, short or expired expiry dates or other reasons. During 2017, Matsmart saved 2022 tonnes of food from going to waste. The company has seen explosive growth, reaching recurring revenues of SEK 200 million. Matsmart was founded by KarlAndersson, Erik Södergren and Ulf Skagerström, and launched in Sweden in 2014. Since then, the company has also expanded to Norway and Finland. Long live the food!
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.

Lovable Generated Project

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Mexico, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Cuéntame — Cuéntame develops tools designed for employees' emotional wellbeing.
Holacasa — Holacasa te ayuda a conseguir tu hipoteca, comparando +11 bancos. Sin costo ni compromiso.
Konta — Konta offers an online accounting service for micro and small businesses in México. Their company vision is to make running a small company easy. They are helping freelancers and small entrepreneurs by implementing a cost-effective, automated online accounting service. José Menéndez and Pablo Icaza founded the company in September 2019, with itsheadquarters in Monterrey, México.

Demium is a talent investment company founded in Spain in 2013 with the aim of supporting the best professionals and helping them to carry out successful projects, always with an eminently digital and technological component. In November 2020, it's asset management company, Demium Capital, started operating with a first €50M fund to invest inmore than 75 early-stage startups per year (pre-seed/seed), becoming the most active venture capital fund in Spain. Startups such as Hannun, Voicemod, Swipcar, Citibox, Singularu or Landbot, among others have been created in the incubator. The company is present in five countries: Spain, Portugal, Poland, Ukraine and Czech Republic

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Spain, Portugal, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Dealcar — DEALCAR is a company that digitalizes the used car market through a SaaS platform, enabling fully digital transactions. This platform creates a network effect benefiting dealers, partners, and customers. • Dealers: Increase revenue by selling extra products and boost sales by reducing turnover time. • Partners: Distribute products at the pointof sale without marketing expenses, lowering operational costs. • Consumers: Purchase a used car easily in just three steps, enjoying a smooth, trusted process similar to renting but with the benefits of owning a car.
Rauda AI — Rauda is an artificial intelligence platform specialized in automating customer service with the best customer experience. Take a quantum leap in productivity, reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction with the power of generative artificial intelligence.
Aino — AIno is an AI GIS platform for location data analysis and map creation. Perform site analysis in minutes for urban planning and real estate projects.

Jared Fliesler

Investment focus

B2B, Apps, Big Data
Seed, Series A
United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Secret — Secret offers an online platform that enables users to share their personal secrets with other users anonymously. It owns and operates a mobile application that helps users to share and connect with friends. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Unbabel — Unbabel offers multilingual translation services in more than 30 languages to enhance your customer service experiences. Learn more about our language operation solutions!
Locality — Locality does for local services what Kayak does for air travel. Locality shows consumers every service that’s available around them in a way that makes it easy to find the right one for them. Whether it’s finding the best yoga class in a new city or searching for a spontaneous mani-pedi near the office, Locality connects consumers to services foreveryday life, giving them the power to find services wherever they are, whenever they need information.

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

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Portugal, United States, France

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).
Hephaesnus — Hephaesnus is an industrial technology startup dedicated to the development of products and technologies for forest firefighting.
Floating Particle — Floating Particle is a technology and innovation company that drives an innovative solution for waste management and clean energy. Floating Particle specializes in IoT, Big Data and Machine Learning to provide cutting-edge technology to the customers.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Nuvo — The only onboarding platform with native fraud prevention and automated credit risk assessment from a portfolio of credit risk insights.
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.
Little Umbrella — Future is Fun with Social & AI Games. At Little Umbrella, we create AI-powered games that deliver immersive experiences, bringing families, friends, and communities closer together. Proudly serving a growing community of over 30 million players

Prior to joining IDG Capital, Young was a member of the Soros Fund Management in New York from 1996 to 1999, where he was involved in managing a $3 billion private equity fund. In 1996, Young worked for Salomon Brothers in New York, where he participated in securities trading. He worked at W.R. Grace & Co. in Maryland from 1990 to 1995, wherehe led product development and was granted five U.S. patents. Young holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, a Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and a B.S. in Applied Chemistry from Shanghai Jiaotong University.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, B2B
Seed, Series A
United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Pony.ai — Pony.ai is a startup that builds full-stack autonomous driving solutions. It is a pioneer in autonomous mobility technologies and services across the US and China, spearheading public-facing Robotaxi pilots in both markets. Pony.ai is committed to creating a safe and sustainable mobility future by delivering autonomous mobility everywhere.Thecompany was founded by James Peng and Tiancheng Lou in 2016 and is headquartered in Fremont, California, United States.
Unbabel — Unbabel offers multilingual translation services in more than 30 languages to enhance your customer service experiences. Learn more about our language operation solutions!
uSens — 26DOF Hand Tracking and 6DOF SLAM solutions that is changing how we interact with technology, and bring augmented, virtual and mixed reality experiences to life.

Terrence Rohan is a seed investor and the Managing Director of Otherwise. Terrence's seed investments include Figma, Front, Notion, Hugging Face, Granola, Vanta, and Robinhood, among others. Forbes has ranked him as part of the Midas Brink list, and Business Insider has named him one of the top seed investors.Terrence was at Index Venturesfor seven years. While at Index, he co-created and eventually led Index’s first Seed Fund and then incubated the firm’s inaugural Founder-Angel Fund, which he served as General Partner and Co-Founder. He launched Otherwise, a novel Founder-Angel Fund inspired by the one he created for Index.Before becoming an investor, Terrence held various roles in product marketing and development at Google and YouTube.Terrence holds an MS in Management from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, an MS in Philosophy from The London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA in Philosophy from Colgate University.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Fazeshift — Automate Accounts Receivable with Fazeshift's AI-powered platform to save your team valuable time and improve cash flow.
Wordware — A collaborative prompt engineering IDE
The San Francisco Compute Company — The San Francisco Compute Company manufactures supercomputers.

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