Top 5 Climate Angel Investors in Portugal in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 5 angel investors that invest in Climate startups based in Portugal. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Climate companies from Portugal. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Climate Angel Investors in Portugal in April 2025

Investor	Climate Portugal investments
Carlos Oliveira	1
Marc de Jong	1
Joaquim Sérvulo Rodrigues	1
Vasco de Mello	1
Bhavik Bajaj	1

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Carlos Oliveira

Investment focus

Sensor, Software, Wind Energy
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Fibersail — “If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it” (William Kelvin)Fibersail develops a shape sensing system based on FBG fiber optic research and development to monitor and analyze wind turbine blades in terms of shape, condition, and behavior. The real-time information provided by our system will help wind turbine operators maximize performanceand availability while preventing failures and minimizing maintenance costs from their assets.Our unique solution and approach with fiber optic sensors make it possible for a very easy and simple integration along the entire length of any critical structure ensuring the monitoring of its precise shape and behavior.Fibersail - Shaping the structures of tomorrow.

Marc de Jong has had an extremely successful career with Phillips where he was previously a member of the Royal Philips Group Management Committee. He was CEO of various divisions within Philips and CEO of the automotive and identification businesses of NXP Semiconductors before beginning his own management consultancy. Marc de Jong holds aMasters in Physics and Mathematics from the Free University of Amsterdam, further qualifications in Economics and two MBA’s, one from the University of Rochester in the United States and another from the Erasmus University, Rotterdam.

Investment focus

Sensor, Software, Wind Energy
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Fibersail — “If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it” (William Kelvin)Fibersail develops a shape sensing system based on FBG fiber optic research and development to monitor and analyze wind turbine blades in terms of shape, condition, and behavior. The real-time information provided by our system will help wind turbine operators maximize performanceand availability while preventing failures and minimizing maintenance costs from their assets.Our unique solution and approach with fiber optic sensors make it possible for a very easy and simple integration along the entire length of any critical structure ensuring the monitoring of its precise shape and behavior.Fibersail - Shaping the structures of tomorrow.

Joaquim Sérvulo Rodrigues has a BSc and an MSc in Electrotechnical Engineering from IST (Portugal), and an MBA from INSEAD (France). From 1983 to 1995 he was Assistant Professor at IST and Research Project Leader of INESC. From 1997 to 2000 he was the General Manager of the Direct Channels Department of BES. From 2004 to 2006, he was CEO ofCrediflash SA, the card business unit of the BES Group, and General Manager of the BES Consumer Credits Department. From the very beginning, back in 2000, Joaquim has put his vast experience at the service of many of our global portfolio companies, both from a technical standpoint – drawing on his electrical engineering background and work as a teacher at IST (Lisbon) and as a researcher at INESC (a reference Portuguese research institute) – and from a management standpoint – putting to use his seasoned business skills and sense, built on his curriculum at INSEAD and his long experience developing businesses in the Banco Espírito Santo Group. A reference in the Venture Capital community, as CEO of Espírito Santo Ventures, Joaquim challenges the strategy and oversees the globality of our entire portfolio while remaining personally involved in many of the companies we invest in, and his door is always open to advise the team on all of them.

Investment focus

Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
Series A, Series B, Seed
Portugal, United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Neuraspace — Focus on fewer alerts with more time to manoeuver, with a scalable AI/ML solution from Neuraspace
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Miles in the Sky — Embark on a journey with Miles to upgrade your learning experiences. Our unique model provides a better way to increase learner engagement and improve knowledge retention.

Vasco de Mello is Chairman and CEO of BRISA – AUTO-ESTRADAS DE PORTUGAL, S.A. A manager by training, with a bachelor’s degree from the American College of Switzerland (1978), and the attendance of the “Training Program” at Citicorp, in New York, and Banco Crefisul de Investimentos, in S. Paulo, Brazil (1978-1979), Vasco de Mello has held numerousexecutive positions in companies of the José de Mello Group (1980-1991) and was Chairman of Banco Mello and Companhia de Seguros Império (1992-2000).