# Top 10 Community Angel Investors in Portugal in August 2026

## Miguel Santo Amaro
- Type: Angel
- Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Communities, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage

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 The currentrigid, one-size-fits-all approach is outdated and fails to satisfy the needs of the modern workforce.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.

## Ricardo Carvalho
- Type: Angel
- Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Communities, SaaS

Ricardo Carvalho - Founder @ Social Innovation Sports

## Niko Klansek
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Communities, SaaS

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

## Tiago Mendes Gonçalves
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Sports, Software, Communities

Tiago Mendes Gonçalves is the CEO at InnoWave Technologies.

## Nuno Sanches
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Sports, Software, Communities

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.

## Alex Vassiliev
- Type: Angel
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Baby, EdTech

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

## Sebastian De La Rosa
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Cannabis, Pharmaceutical, Alternative Medicine

CCO @ AceCann


## Cristina Fonseca
- Type: Angel
- Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Neemias Queta
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Sports, Software, Communities

Neemias Queta is an individual investor.

## Ticha Penicheiro
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Sports, Software, Communities

Ticha Penicheiro is a Sports Agent.

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