Top 10 Community Angel Investors in Portugal (August 2026)

Miguel is a tech entrepreneur (Coverflex, StudentFinance, and Uniplaces) and an early-stage tech investor via Shilling (new early-stage €30M Shilling Founders Fund).Miguel is the co-founder & CEO of Coverflex.com. The way we work is changing, but compensation — salary, bonus, equity, and benefits — has not evolved for decades. The currentrigid, one-size-fits-all approach is outdated and fails to satisfy the needs of the modern workforce. Coverflex is changing that. This all-in-one tech-enabled platform enables all companies — regardless of their size — to design, consolidate and personalise their compensation offers beyond salary. Companies can supercharge their employee benefits while saving both time and money. Coverflex calls this “Compensation as a Service”. Miguel is also the founder of Studentfinance.com (edtech startup promoting Income-Share -Agreements (“ISA”) to help increase educational opportunity and empower people to access high-impact careers) & Uniplaces.com (consumer marketplace to mid-to-long term rentals).Miguel is also a Partner, since 2017, in the most active pre-seed and seed VC in Portugal - Shilling.vc - as well as a lead mentor role in Techstars. Since then, Miguel led angel investments in more than 30 early-stage companies in Europe.Miguel is passionate about startups and entrepreneurship and serves as an advisor to a number of early-stage companies around Europe. Since 2017 he is an EO Portugal Founding Member, a peer-to-peer organisation that supports high-impact entrepreneurs across the world. He is married to Flávia and together they have baby Camila.

Investment focus

Industry: Communities, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage
Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Geography: Spain, Portugal

Investor stats

Total investments: 4
Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

EatTasty — Eattasty combina hechos y perspectiva para una cobertura completa y comprensible.
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

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Ricardo Carvalho - Founder @ Social Innovation Sports

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Communities, SaaS
Stage:Seed
Geography: Portugal

Investor stats

Total investments: 4
Round size: Seed $522k–$2.3M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Hoopers — Global basketball community platform connecting players, fans and enthusiasts through products, contents, experiences and NFTs.
Felton — Felton is an AI audience intelligence platform that profiles every person in your social media audience. 200+ KPIs, 25+ emotions, 250+ filters.

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Niko Klansek is the Co-Founder at HashMark. He previously worked at FlyKly and attended Fordham University.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Communities, SaaS
Stage:Seed
Geography: Portugal

Investor stats

Total investments: 4
Round size: Seed $522k–$2.3M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Hoopers — Global basketball community platform connecting players, fans and enthusiasts through products, contents, experiences and NFTs.
Felton — Felton is an AI audience intelligence platform that profiles every person in your social media audience. 200+ KPIs, 25+ emotions, 250+ filters.

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Tiago Mendes Gonçalves is the CEO at InnoWave Technologies.

Investment focus

Industry: Sports, Software, Communities
Stage:Seed

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Hoopers — Global basketball community platform connecting players, fans and enthusiasts through products, contents, experiences and NFTs.
Felton — Felton is an AI audience intelligence platform that profiles every person in your social media audience. 200+ KPIs, 25+ emotions, 250+ filters.

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Nuno Sanches brings almost two decades of experience in the Telecom, Pay TV, and Media industries, and has joined the Kaltura Team as General Manager, Media, and Telecom. Before joining Kaltura, Nuno created from the ground up and led for 6 years Vodafone Group’s Global TV Product Development organization. Before that Nuno led Product, Marketing,Content, and Technology in Portugal’s largest pay-tv operator. During his career, he led some of the earliest and most successful launches of advanced user interfaces, live TV restart, TV everywhere, network PVR, and Cloud TV in Europe. Nuno holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, is passionate about the product, design, and user experience. When he is not globe-trotting bringing the future of TV to a life he spends his time reading, cooking, and exploring the world with his teenage son and two young daughters. Nuno is based in Kaltura’s London office.

Investment focus

Industry: Sports, Software, Communities
Stage:Seed

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Hoopers — Global basketball community platform connecting players, fans and enthusiasts through products, contents, experiences and NFTs.
Felton — Felton is an AI audience intelligence platform that profiles every person in your social media audience. 200+ KPIs, 25+ emotions, 250+ filters.

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Alex Vassiliev is a Founder and CEO at Elixir Fine Foods.

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, Baby, EdTech
Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Geography: Portugal, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 4
Round size: Pre-Seed $1M–$1.5M
Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

Bairro Direct — Bairro developed a mobile application that allows fast delivery of supermarket products, food, and essential goods in the heart of the Portuguese capital, available between 10 am to 12 pm, ensuring that the user experience is always of high quality, regardless of the type of product desired or delivery time.
Buddy.ai — Buddy.ai teaches over a million children worldwide to speak English with our voice-based virtual tutor. With proprietary speech and virtual human technologies, the company is solving conversational AI for language learning. Buddy provides a month of learning for the cost of one live tutoring session. That means 500 million children worldwide willsoon have access to affordable 1:1 English speaking practice. Buddy works for native Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, and Polish speakers, with more languages coming soon. The company raised $3M of venture capital, generated over $4.5M in sales, and is entering the scaling stage. Our mobile holds the Top 10 positions on the App Store’s Kids and Education charts in several major countries throughout Latin America and Europe.Buddy.ai holds multiple international awards and nominations, including GESA (Global Edtech Startup Awards) in London, EnlightEd in Madrid, and Voice Summit Awards in New York, among others. Headquartered in Mountain View, California we are a growing international team combining expertise in voice and virtual human technologies, education, and game design.
Elixir Fine Foods — Elixir Fine Foods is an innovative startup company bringing the highest quality European products to China, using the power of social commerce.Flagship brand in Elixir's portfolio is Healthy Eva - baby food brand with products in different categories including fruit, vegetable, meat and fish purees, baby biscuits, baby porridges etcdistributed through e-commerce and social commerce in China, including e-commerce platforms like Tmall Global or live-streaming serices such as Taobao Live, Kuaishou etc.

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CCO @ AceCann

Investment focus

Industry: Cannabis, Pharmaceutical, Alternative Medicine
Stage:Seed
Geography: Portugal

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

AceCann — AceCann is a medical cannabis company focused on the cultivation, processing, extraction, and R&D of organic medical cannabis. Through its focus on smaller, scalable, indoor farming methods, the company will be able to precisely manage temperature, humidity, and other variables to ensure each plant receives daily care while meeting the qualitystandards associated with premium medical cannabis products. AceCann is the first company in Portugal to be awarded an R&D certificate of suitability by the National Innovation Agency.

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Cristina is a female software engineer and entrepreneur. She holds a Master’s degree in Telecommunications and Software Engineering from the Technical University of Lisbon and before founding Talkdesk she worked as a researcher and built two other online businesses.Talkdesk is a platform that allows you to you create your call center in minutesand integrate it with a variety of top business tools, including Salesforce, Desk.com and Zendesk. Talkdesk raised more than $24M in the last 2 years from Salesforce Ventures, DFJ, Storm Ventures and 500Startups.Cristina leads the Talkdesk Lisbon office and her areas of focus include engineering, product and knowledge management. Cristina is proud of the role woman play in technology and society today. She is a Global Shaper and part of the Global Agenda Council on Europe, a World Economic Forum initiative.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
Geography: Portugal, Germany, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 5
Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

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.
EatTasty — Eattasty combina hechos y perspectiva para una cobertura completa y comprensible.
Amplemarket — Amplemarket develops a sales intelligence platform to help businesses reach their revenue goals. Amplemarket assists clients with everything from lead generation to prospect engagement, allowing them to focus solely on selling. With Amplemarket, clients can easily find the data that helps them close deals.

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Neemias Queta is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Industry: Sports, Software, Communities
Stage:Seed

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Hoopers — Global basketball community platform connecting players, fans and enthusiasts through products, contents, experiences and NFTs.
Felton — Felton is an AI audience intelligence platform that profiles every person in your social media audience. 200+ KPIs, 25+ emotions, 250+ filters.

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