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Top 20 Big Data Startup Investors in Portugal in September 2025

Last updated: Sep 2025 A list of 20 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 20 Big Data Startup Investors in Portugal in September 2025

Investor	Big Data Portugal investments
Portugal Ventures	6
Crane Venture Partners	2
WISENEXT	1
Brpx	1
Bright Pixel (formerly Sonae IM)	1
Dominique Locher	1
Boost VC	1
Shilling VC	1
Novabase Capital	1
Nina Capital	1
StartUp Health	1
Michael Chang	1
Armilar Venture Partners	1
European regional development fund (ERDF)	1
Jeremy Hendon	1
LocalGlobe	1
Forestay Capital	1
BlueCrow Capital	1
Scott MacMillan	1
Pathena	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

Glartek — Glartek's Augmented and Connected Worker solution enables increasing efficiency, safety, and excellence in all industrial operations.
Winalist — Discover and book curated wine tours, tastings, and exclusive wine and spirits experiences across Europe and the US. Explore top vineyards and enjoy personalized recommendations with Winalist.
Mantis-AI — Mantis.AI is an entertainment tech company that takes raw videos and noisy data and shapes them into a masterpiece of organized video clips, enriched data and content insights.

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

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

Portfolio highlights

SRE.ai — SRE.ai delivers AI agents that automate Salesforce DevOps workflows, allowing for fast, transparent deployments, back-promotions, and impact analysis. With seamless tool integration, SRE.ai minimizes clicks and maximizes productivity, enabling teams to scale without sacrificing quality or speed.
Memories.ai — Memories.ai is an innovative startup focused on developing a cutting-edge AI video analytics platform that leverages advanced machine learning and computer vision technologies to automatically analyze, interpret, and extract valuable insights from video content across various industries, including security, retail, entertainment, and more.
Bluefish Labs — Bluefish helps brands turn AI into a powerful new marketing channel to reach consumers and tell their story online.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed
Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

pleez — Pleez offers Restaurant's an optimisation of their menu within Delivery Platforms, so that they can have a revenue increase up to 25%.
Volup — Volup is a premium food delivery app that partners exclusively with top-tier chefs and restaurants.
Relive — Relive is empowering the next generation of real estate entrepreneurs, with a mobile app that allows them to work for themselves, from anywhere, while saving time and earning commissions faster.

A prominent European venture capital in Retail Technologies, Digital Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and Emerging Technologies

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Chord — Chord is a commerce data platform purpose-built for modern brands. Chord enables brands to unify, synthesize, and orchestrate their data to drive radical decisions and revenue.
Didimo — Didimo creates realistic high-fidelity digital humans. Simple, fast, accurate user-generated avatars to integrate into your app, game or site.
Probely — Probely is a web application and API vulnerability scanner for agile teams. Automate Security Testing by adding Probely into your SDLC and CI/CD pipelines.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Portugal, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Brij — With one-touch, BRIJ allows consumers to gain product info, care instructions and discounts while you gain a deeper understanding of your consumer. Apps, paper manuals and hassles not required.
FlowFuse — FlowFuse is the Industrial Application platform empowering teams to build, deploy, and manage solutions that optimize operations.
Tidal Cyber — Tidal Cyber helps enterprise organizations to define, measure, and improve their defenses to address the adversary behaviors that are most important to them. It also helps to assess, organize, and optimize defenses with a deep understanding of the threats.

Dominique Locher

Investment focus

SaaS, Rental, Social
Seed, Pre-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.

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

Portfolio highlights

Neurvona — AI Digital Twin Personas
Castle — Castle is a technology company that makes it easy for companies to add bitcoin to their treasury, regardless of their knowledge of bitcoin. We enable businesses to go from zero to bitcoin in less than 48 hours.
m00m world — m00m multiplayer sci-fi world! Build your container home, make friends, play mini-games, and fight the F8 Corporation. Based on our audio series and webcomic.

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!
Relive — Relive is empowering the next generation of real estate entrepreneurs, with a mobile app that allows them to work for themselves, from anywhere, while saving time and earning commissions faster.
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.

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, Medical
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

CryoCloud — CryoCloud Accelerate your protein structure determination - Bring your cryo-EM data analysis to the next level by using our cloud-based image analysis workflow.
EarlySight — EarlySight start-up company is founded in order to accelerate the development and to bring the technology to clinics.
Magentiq Eye Ltd — AI assisted colonoscopy by MAGENTIQ EYE set a new standard of , recognized by the gastroenterology community for its superior performance.

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.
JETSWEAT — Jetsweat is a well-being platform that helps organizations engage populations to live healthier lives. We partner with forward-thinking employers, health plans and health systems to set a new standard for holistic and preventative care, driving better outcomes through engaging journeys, personalized programming from exclusive provider ecosystem,and dedicated white-label software.
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

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.

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 Health is a digital musculoskeletal (MSK) therapy provider. The company pairs licensed physical therapists with innovative technology to help people overcome their chronic and post-surgical pain faster and more cost-effectively. We’re on a mission to free two billion people from pain by making it simple for people to recover at home, withoutresorting to imaging, surgeries, or opioids. Since launching in 2015, SWORD Health has worked with insurers, health systems, and employers in Europe, Australia, and the U.S. to give thousands of people access to preventative, chronic, and post-surgical MSK care that gets results. SWORD Health has offices in New York City, Chicago, Salt Lake City, Sydney, and Porto.

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 provide clinicians and researchers a non-invasive means of sampling fluids.
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.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Laka — Laka is collective bicycle insurance especially for cyclists. We flipped insurance. By making it pay to pay out, we are the collective that backs each other. Protect your bikes and gear against theft & damage with Laka 5-star rated cycle insurance.
Xelix — Empower your AP & P2P teams with Xelix: AI-powered software that prevents overpayments & delivers meaningful insights around working capital.
Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.

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

Buynomics — buynomics is the leading solution to optimize your product portfolio. Our clients use buynomics to optimize pricing, promotions, & portfolio architecture.
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.

Expert investment fund management & advisory since 2010. Specializing in venture capital, private equity, and wealth management

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments
Seed
United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Bighub — Bighub is a marketplace integration technology and sales accelerator that synchronizes with over 30 marketplaces in a single ecosystem.
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.
Maven Pet — Maven is a SaaS pet tech startup that provides a personal vet to track the pet’s safety and health 24/7.It focuses on using technology to improve the quality of life for pets, as well as offering pet owners peace of mind and a way to keep track of their pet's safety, health, and well-being on a continual basis through their own personalveterinarian.It was started by the founders of Findster Technologies in 2021 and is based in Porto, Portugal.

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.

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.

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