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Top 15 Big Data Startup Investors in Portugal in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Big data startups based in Portugal. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Big data companies from Portugal. We update this investor list every month.

Top 15 Big Data Startup Investors in Portugal in January 2025

Investor	Big Data Portugal investments
Portugal Ventures	5
Crane Venture Partners	2
StartUp Health	1
Dominique Locher	1
Michael Chang	1
LocalGlobe	1
Boost VC	1
Armilar Venture Partners	1
Forestay Capital	1
European regional development fund (ERDF)	1
Scott MacMillan	1
Shilling	1
Jeremy Hendon	1
Novabase Capital	1
Nina Capital	1

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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

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

Portfolio highlights

Hoopers — Global basketball community platform connecting players, fans and enthusiasts through products, contents, experiences and NFTs.
PluggableAI — Pluggable is the leading Meaningful Mobile Engagement solution where, through disruptive AI models and non-intrusive smartphone sensors, we maximize mobile app engagement.
Corium Biotech — Corium Biotech is an R&D company dedicated to the bioproduction of exotic leather destined to answer the current leather market needs for performant materials that respect both the environment and animal wellbeing.

VC firm investing into seed and early stage intelligent enterprise and deep tech companies in Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Encord — Discover how the world's leading AI teams use Encord to accelerate the development of the next generation of AI applications.
Sandgarden — Sandgarden is a modularized platform to prototype, iterate, and deploy AI applications. It removes the infrastructure overhead of crafting the pipeline of tools and processes needed even to begin testing AI on imagined use cases — and then makes it trivial to turn a test into a production application without figuring out how to deploy, monitor, andscale the stack.
Kurrent — Persist your application data as streams of events with our open-source database, EventStoreDB. We believe it's the best data storage solution for event-sourced systems. Available for free download on most platforms or use our managed service Event Store Cloud.

Organizing and investing in a global army of entrepreneurs committed to achieving health moonshots

Investment focus

Health Care, Wellness, Medical
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

AvoMD — AvoMD is reimagining clinical decision support with interactive point-of-care software, available standalone and via EHR integrations, and seamless content building tools.
Pear Suite — Pear Suite empowers community health workers with technology, education, and community, helping them do their best work and serve their communities.
Hidoc Consult — Hidoc Consult: Boost your well-being with free consultations, 24/7 access to quality healthcare, complete privacy, user-friendly, and a trusted network of HCPs

Dominique Locher

Investment focus

SaaS, Rental, Social
Seed
Portugal, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Sharely — Sharely is the rental and rental platform for everyday objects.
Reckon.ai — Reckon.ai have been working with several retail customers for the last years and they found that the task of competitive analysis in this vertical is still in the early days of what modern technology can do for them. You wouldn’t believe the number of problems and inefficiencies screaming for solutions in the digital age.So they decided to buildReckon, a cloud platform for smart retail product analysis and price comparison that uses powerful machine learning algorithms, data fusion and computer vision to reshape the way retailers get their competitive intelligence data.
Quantia — A powerful and easy to use analytics platform for tracking, analyzing and understanding the performance of your brand in the ecommerce world.

Michael Chang

Investment focus

Apps, Fitness, Big Data
Pre-Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Virtuleap — Virtuleap combines neuroscience and virtual reality to help increase attention levels, and address cognitive illnesses, disorders, and learning challenges. We have created a library of VR games designed by neuroscientists in order to test and train a range of cognitive abilities and make that data accessible through our enterprise platform. Ourfirst paid client is the AARP, and we are now working with leading institutions, like the VA Health Care System and the Pacific Brain Health Center, to validate our solution as an effective diagnostic and treatment for attention deficit and cognitive decline.

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

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Clock Bio — Clock Bio operates as a biotech company, that develops novel regenerative medicines.
Keel — Keel is a London-based startup offering modern businesses a much-needed third choice between off-the-shelf and no-code tools. Keel has developed a powerful programmable operations platform which offers all the benefits of bespoke tooling without the need to build from scratch.Keel was founded in 2022 by Benoit Machefer, Tom Frew and Jon Bretman,who directly experienced the frustration of being underserved by off-the-shelf software when scaling the fastest growing online pharmacy in Europe to over $130m revenue. The company represents a compelling vision of a future without legacy ERP, where ops teams and engineers work more closely together building bespoke tools on the robust and secure Keel platform.
ERS - Ecosystem Restoration Standard — Wildsense monitors forest health using satellite imagery to help foresters better adapt to climate change-related risks like insect outbreaks and drought.

Boost VC: The Pre-Seed Fund Making Sci-FI a Reality. Investing in crypto, virtual reality, augmented reality, AI, Ocean Tech, Space Tech, human augmentation, exoskeletons and more.

Investment focus

Software, Virtual Reality, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MoldCo — Expert-led, evidence-based solutions for mold illness prevention and recovery. Launching early 2025.
Rosy Soil — Crafted for the specific needs of indoor plants, this blend contains all-natural, renewable ingredients that optimize drainage, deliver plant-boosting nutrients, and support a diverse community of beneficial fungi and microbes.
PoSciDonDAO — PoSciDonDAO is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) that provides funding for research on life-altering diseases through tailored medicine.

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

Rows — Combine the power of a spreadsheet with built-in integrations from your business apps. Automate workflows and build tools that make work simpler.
Veeton — Veeton is the creator of an artificial intelligence-powered platform for automated fashion imaging. The company's platform provides fashion firms with an alternative to photo sessions by generating a limitless range of high-quality on-model images using only packshot photos, instantaneously and at a fraction of the cost, allowing clients tocreate e-commerce shoots in a few clicks.
Cintoo — Cintoo is essential for BIM to bridge the gap between your physical and virtual worlds.

Forestay Capital is dedicated to investing in the tech sector and reflects Waypoint’s focus on innovative, forward-looking industries in which it can leverage its entrepreneurial heritage and long-track record in helping businesses to realize their ambitions for growth. It is passionate about technologies that transform conventional models withsoftware and data to make an impact on business, practices, and people. It invests in revenue-generating technology companies in Europe, Israel, and in the US, and favors software and data-driven businesses that challenge established models.Forestay Capital was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Geneve, Switzerland.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Logistics
Series B, Series C, Series A
Switzerland, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Manta — Get a holistic view of your data pipelines to boost your data governance, achieve DataOps, and migrate to the cloud without a hassle.
Neural Concept — Neural Concept is the first AI software for enhanced engineering. Leverage your historical CAD and CAE data to drastically shorten and improve your design cycles.
Wasabi Technologies — Wasabi provides simple, predictable and affordable hot cloud storage for businesses all over the world. It enables organizations to store and instantly access an unlimited amount of data at 1/5th the price of the competition with no complex tiers or unpredictable egress fees. Trusted by tens of thousands of customers worldwide, Wasabi has beenrecognized as one of technology’s fastest-growing and most visionary companies. Created by Carbonite co-founders and cloud storage pioneers David Friend and Jeff Flowers, Wasabi has secured nearly $275 million in funding to date and is a privately held company based in Boston.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Grant, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

Losanje — Losanje has a brand and an upcycling workshop that gives second-hand and unsold completed apparel and textiles a second life. Its goal is to create an innovative manufacturing chain that will allow for the first time the industrialization of upcycling, as well as to implement the most credible solution, both ecologically and economically.
PulmoBiomed — Pulmobiomed has developed a best-in-class exhaled breath condensate device, capable of capturing Covid-19 particles in as little as 5 seconds. Pulmobiomed a biotechnology company is working with industry leaders in integrating their diagnostic capabilities into our PBM-Hale device. Pulmobiomed techn
Knock Technology — The world's simplest video chat app: Improves mental health and boosts innovation. It's a secure, cost effective and peer-to-peer telecoms solution for everyone.

Scott MacMillan

Investment focus

Apps, Fitness, Big Data
Pre-Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Virtuleap — Virtuleap combines neuroscience and virtual reality to help increase attention levels, and address cognitive illnesses, disorders, and learning challenges. We have created a library of VR games designed by neuroscientists in order to test and train a range of cognitive abilities and make that data accessible through our enterprise platform. Ourfirst paid client is the AARP, and we are now working with leading institutions, like the VA Health Care System and the Pacific Brain Health Center, to validate our solution as an effective diagnostic and treatment for attention deficit and cognitive decline.

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

Cooby — Supercharge your WhatsApp and integrate it with your CRM to reduce administrative work and lost customer data.
Bounce — Short term (hourly & daily) storage all around urban areas, hosted by local businesses.
Luca — Luca's learning platform provides learning programs for primary and secondary school students. The learning platform offers pre-recorded K12 videos, gamified content and AI powered personalized study paths, covering the entire official academic curriculum and national exams prep. Luca is a VC backed startup with HQ in Madrid & MexicoCity

Jeremy Hendon

Investment focus

Apps, Fitness, Big Data
Pre-Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Virtuleap — Virtuleap combines neuroscience and virtual reality to help increase attention levels, and address cognitive illnesses, disorders, and learning challenges. We have created a library of VR games designed by neuroscientists in order to test and train a range of cognitive abilities and make that data accessible through our enterprise platform. Ourfirst paid client is the AARP, and we are now working with leading institutions, like the VA Health Care System and the Pacific Brain Health Center, to validate our solution as an effective diagnostic and treatment for attention deficit and cognitive decline.

Novabase Capital, Sociedade de Capital de Risco, SA is a venture capital firm owned entirely by Novabase SGPS, SA. Its main purpose is to find and support Portuguese ICT business projects – in early development or expanding – with high potential. Novabase Capital has an unique, specific expertise and a long track record in the development oftechnology-based SMEs throughout Portugal.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed
Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

WEEZIE — Weezie offers all-in-one fiber network management software focused on the automation and digitalization of all internal processes.
Glartek — Glartek's Augmented and Connected Worker solution enables increasing efficiency, safety, and excellence in all industrial operations.
HypeLabs — HypeLabs is the company that created the Hype SDK, an interoperable mesh networking software that improves connectivity on all kinds of devices, from mobile to desktop to IoT, allowing them to connect even when there is no internet. The software works by intelligently connecting devices in local mesh networks using existing connectivitytechnologies, such as Bluetooth, WiFi, LoRa and others. This network enables content to securely hop between devices, until it reaches a destination or an Internet exit point, improving range and deliverability.Founded in 2016, the company is located in San Francisco (USA), Porto (Portugal), London (UK) and Krakow (Poland). AngelPad #10 (Spring '16) alumni & Deutsche Telekom WARP alumni.

We deploy early stage capital to fuel the growth of need-driven health technology companies.

Investment focus

Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Noah Labs — Noah Labs is a compant that creates AI-powered software solutions for medical care and research that help diagnose, manage illnesses, and guide interventions.
Rivia — Integrated Clinical Trial Intelligence. Drive therapeutic evaluation and trial management with real-time insights.
Lillian Care — Lillian is building a nationwide network of health facilities in Germany.

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