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Top 50 Consumer Startup Investors in Portugal in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Consumer startups based in Portugal. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Consumer companies from Portugal. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Consumer Startup Investors in Portugal in December 2024

Investor	Consumer Portugal investments
Portugal Ventures	12
Olisipo Way	6
Armilar Venture Partners	5
LC Ventures	4
Faber	3
Ganexa Capital	3
Bynd Venture Capital	3
Bright Pixel	3
Ideias Glaciares	2
Lince Capital	2
WISENEXT	2
TrulyMad	2
Shanti Bergel	1
David Helgason	1
Betwixt Ventures	1
BreakawayGrowth Fund	1
Superlyst Ventures	1
Caixa Capital	1
Farfetch	1
Pankaj Chaddah	1
Boost Capital Partners	1
Paul Heydon	1
Philipp Moehring	1
Herrick Partners	1
Ryan Petersen	1
Indico Capital Partners	1
Alexis Bonte	1
Enjoyventure Management	1
Google Assistant Investments	1
Critical Ventures	1
Beta-i	1
Failup Ventures	1
REDangels	1
SID Venture Partners	1
EIT Urban Mobility	1
Dispatch Ventures	1
Atlante	1
European Institute of Innovation and Technology	1
Pedro Lourenço	1
Sisu Game Ventures	1
Andy Chung	1
Lasse Seppanen	1
Grupo Lusiaves service	1
EDP Ventures	1
Quiet Capital	1
Critical SGPS	1
Amazon Alexa Fund	1
M4 Ventures	1
Creative Wings	1
Demium 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.

Olisipo Way is an early-stage venture firm that focuses on IT investments. It invests in technology companies with very diverse and complementary skills. The initial portfolio of Olisipo Way comes from the innovation created within the Olisipo through the continuous stimulation of innovation among employees and the incubation of new businessventures.The firm was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Lisbon, Lisboa.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Communities
Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

sheerME — SheerME is Revolutionising the way people find, book, and pay for their Wellness and Beauty services powered by a benefit-based walletOur approach is based on Discovery, Transaction & Reward to create more online visibility, reach, conversion into new business, loyalty, and frequency through our wallet and cashback ecosystem, to all ourpartners in the beauty and wellness sectors.This made us a fresh and different option in this sector where there are mainly SaaS players, and we bring marketplace with no monthly fee, only a commission for business sent through our owned and partner channels.
Checkfirst — Create AI-powered inspection workflows that collect and verify on-site data, effortlessly.
OSCAR — On-demand app for home services like repair, cleaning and laundry with fixed prices in less than 30 minutes.

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.

We’re an early stage European venture capital firm partnering with globally minded founders.We’re supportive, founder focused, and aim to work together with you as a close and collaborative team of independent thinkers. Along with the support of our entire network, each member of our team brings their own personal experience to the table. Thefirst ticket is up to 200K€ and the total investment in a given startup can be up to 1M€.We decide investments quickly, allowing the founders to get back focusing on growing the business. Our team and network of international mentors help young startups to scale quickly and to prepare for the next rounds.Our partners have been investing in tech-based startups since 2000 and have a portfolio of more than 100 companies in the USA, Brazil, The Netherlands, Spain and Portugal.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series D
Portugal, China, Poland

Portfolio highlights

360hyper — The groceries marketplace where you can find everthing you need. Buy online groceries as fast as in 4 hours with personalized picking.
Musiversal — Record your music in real time with world-class session musicians, vocalists, producers and audio engineers
Brands&Ninjas — SaaS to control the performance of physical marketing campaigns on retail.

Faber is a Lisbon-based venture capital firm investing in outstanding entrepreneurs who innovate at the intersection of science and technology to drive digital transformation and climate action. The firm combines a specialist focus on deep tech early-stage startups with dedicated funds, investment teams and expert advisors to actively help foundersbuild global companies powered by AI/data or climate/ocean technologies. Faber’s unique approach in Southern Europe is led by an entrepreneurial management partnership and backed by notable thesis-driven institutions and private investors. Investing since 2013, the firm has been an early investor in hard tech companies such as Unbabel, SWORD Health, Codacy, iLoF or YData

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Portugal, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Opnova — Opnova breaks through the rework barrier in IT, security, and compliance operations, delivering intelligent automation to workflows where implementing conventional automation was not previously practical or possible.
1s1 Energy — 1s1 Energy is developing material technology for PEM water electrolysis systems for green hydrogen production. The company's mission is to develop viable and scalable solutions to reduce carbon emissions within the decade. 1s1 Energy Inc. was founded in 2019 by Daniel Sobek, Sukanta Bhattacharyya, and T. Don Tilley.
Mitiga Solutions — Mitigating the risk from climate-driven perils to your business assets everywhere.

Ability to open doors on opportunities (potential clients/strategic partners/suppliers/etc). Add market credibility, something missing in many start-ups.Know-how that can save you time, money and unnecessary stress and worry. Ability to complement the existing management team, filling gapsThey understand the difficulties andhardships of starting and building a business. They are motivated to work with you on the building process, and not just wait for the end result

Investment focus

Health Care, Fitness, Wellness
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Portugal, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Abtrace — Abtrace is an automated, self-learning care system where we can provide personalised care, delivered at population scale - where predictive, preventative and proactive approaches keep people healthy and out of hospital.
sheerME — SheerME is Revolutionising the way people find, book, and pay for their Wellness and Beauty services powered by a benefit-based walletOur approach is based on Discovery, Transaction & Reward to create more online visibility, reach, conversion into new business, loyalty, and frequency through our wallet and cashback ecosystem, to all ourpartners in the beauty and wellness sectors.This made us a fresh and different option in this sector where there are mainly SaaS players, and we bring marketplace with no monthly fee, only a commission for business sent through our owned and partner channels.
ChemiTek — Certified & sustainable solutions for industrial maintenance. We have the solutions you need!

Bynd is a leading Iberian Venture Capital firm

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Portugal, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Last.app — Last is a comprehensive restaurant software solution. Thanks to the use of new technologies, our platform offers unique solutions in the market, always with the aim of simplifying and optimizing the tasks of the team of any type of restaurant.
QUIXOTIC — QUIXOTIC 360 is a one-of-its-kind, SaaS solution for energy retailers and renewable energy communities. It includes automations, regulatory frameworks, triggers and alerts, industry-specific integrations, etc. We automate business processes and integrate platforms to streamline our customers operations.
Incapto Coffee — Incapto Coffee offers the sale of the automatic coffee machine and a subscription system for coffee beans.

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.

Ideias Glaciares

Investment focus

Wellness, SaaS, Mobile Apps
Pre-Seed, Seed
Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

Replai — Without data, creative choices are just guesswork. Replai helps you understand the difference between a creative that your audience acts on and one that is just another scroll.
sheerME — SheerME is Revolutionising the way people find, book, and pay for their Wellness and Beauty services powered by a benefit-based walletOur approach is based on Discovery, Transaction & Reward to create more online visibility, reach, conversion into new business, loyalty, and frequency through our wallet and cashback ecosystem, to all ourpartners in the beauty and wellness sectors.This made us a fresh and different option in this sector where there are mainly SaaS players, and we bring marketplace with no monthly fee, only a commission for business sent through our owned and partner channels.
MIGHTY — MIGHTY is a maker of healthy food fridges for the workplace. Their healthy food fridges use a software platform that organizes and coordinates logistics with local storage and distribution partners.

Lince Capital is an independent venture capital company. Lince Capital was born from the experience of a family group with over 30 years of experience in managing investment funds in various business areas, including real estate, infrastructure, agriculture, and telecommunications.Lince Capital is distinguished by its personalized and excellentsupport, close and direct relationship with each of its investors and business partners, and the dedication of an experienced and dynamic team.

Investment focus

Information Technology, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round
Portugal, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates

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%.
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.
Bling Energy — Bling Energy is a startup that focuses on providing more efficient and sustainable energy solutions, mostly through solar panels.

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.

TrulyMad Business Accelerator

Investment focus

Beauty, Fitness, Wellness
Pre-Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

sheerME — SheerME is Revolutionising the way people find, book, and pay for their Wellness and Beauty services powered by a benefit-based walletOur approach is based on Discovery, Transaction & Reward to create more online visibility, reach, conversion into new business, loyalty, and frequency through our wallet and cashback ecosystem, to all ourpartners in the beauty and wellness sectors.This made us a fresh and different option in this sector where there are mainly SaaS players, and we bring marketplace with no monthly fee, only a commission for business sent through our owned and partner channels.

Shanti Bergel is the Managing Director of the Transcend Fund, an early stage venture capital firm focused on games and digital entertainment.

Investment focus

Gaming, PC Games, Online Games
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Carbonated — Carbonated makes hardcore PVP multiplayer games accessible to everyone on their mobile phones and PCs, by using AI to drive moment-to moment gameplay.
Doppio Games — Harnessing the power of AI to craft groundbreaking games you can play using only your voice. Setting the stage for the next gen of entertainment.
Playable Worlds — Playable Worlds builds the most alive online worlds ever -- powered by cloud-native technology that enhances all types of play.

David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.

Investment focus

Software, Gaming, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Denmark, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.
Rocky Road — At Rocky Road, we are redefining social gaming with our social gaming network. We are hiring!

Betwixt Ventures focuses on bringing together startups with Venture Capital Investors.By raising a pledge fund exclusively targeting investments on early stage startups with high potential, Betwixt Ventures proposes to add value through the following main activities:• Origination, screening, negotiation of deal terms, and monitoring of vettedstartups• Startup follow up, mentoring, consulting and value creation• Attraction of venture capital funds and placement of further investment rounds• Attraction of exit opportunities and facilitation of exit processStarting its capital raise in October 2015, the pledge fund will exclusively target investments on early stage startups typically based out of Portugal. At a second stage, it intends to invest also in Spanish and Italian startups. While no particular industry will be ruled out from the investment scope, the pledge fund will tend to focus on the broad technology and energy sectors. As a pre-requisite, it will either invest in startups previously vetted by other Business Angels, or co-invest in them with other seed or venture capital funds as partners. The focus of the pledge fund will be to invest in the gap between seed and series A rounds. Upon the investment at this stage, Betwixt Ventures will seek to attract further institutional investment rounds, internationally.On top of the pledge fund management, Betwixt Ventures will also offer both financial and general advisory services to startups. The former include either the attraction of venture capital funds for placement of further investment rounds, or the attraction of strategic buyers for potential M&A transactions, mainly in the US market. The later encompass 360 degrees consulting to startups, from marketing & sales, to business development and management.

Investment focus

Drones, Energy, Mobile
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

LOQR — Increase your business and reduce costs with the best AI-Powered Journey-as-a-Service provider for financial institutions.
BladeInsight — BladeInsight offers innovative solutions for wind turbine blade operations and maintenance.

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Investment focus

Software, Computer, Internet
Seed, Series B, Series E
United States, Canada, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Gentreo — Gentreo helps you create the important documents you need for official estate planning, including your Will, Power of Attorney, and more. Get started today!
Senso.ai — Senso is a fintech startup using artificial intelligence to provide financial institutions with recommendations on how to strengthen client relationships.
Doppio Games — Harnessing the power of AI to craft groundbreaking games you can play using only your voice. Setting the stage for the next gen of entertainment.

Superlyst Ventures is a seed-stage investment collective, backed by an ecosystem of successful entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, Privacy, Computer
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Kertos — Kertos is a software company that develops and provides a holistic privacy platform in Europe, implementing automation and execution in a highly regulated environment focusing on the operational needs for all stakeholders involved. With their focus on product, integration, and automation they enable businesses to scale, to adopt and to maneuver inmodern tech environments with only a fraction of the current workload. They drive consumer engagement and help companies to interact with their customers in sensitive matters.
Meight — Run your cargo on budget and on time with a few simple clicks, from your laptop. Forget phone calls, driver headaches, hardware and tech nightmares, forever.

Caixa Capital is the Private Equity and Venture Capital arm of banking Group Caixa Geral de Depósitos and has a track record spanning over two decades of activity, since the industry was created in Portugal. It is a leading investor in terms of funds under management, portfolio size and diversity.Caixa Capital´s mission is to invest in fundsand companies, led by highly qualified management teams, with high growth and valuation potential, that enable our funds to achieve an attractive risk adjusted return and for society at large to benefit sustainably from our activity.Currently with more than 700 million Euros under management and a portfolio of over 80 investments, Caixa Capital is a reference in this area with special links to the respective European sector associations.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

HiJiffy — Increase direct bookings and upselling with HiJiffy's AI-powered communication solutions for hospitality.
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.
Infraspeak — Infraspeak is an Intelligent CMMS Software that brings outstanding flexibility, connectivity and intelligence to your operations.

Farfetch operates an e-commerce website that unites various independent fashion boutiques. It offers bags, coats, dresses, jackets, jewellery, swimwear, trouser, shoes, knitwear, suits, shorts, and accessories. They operate a modular end-to-end technology platform purpose built to connect the luxury fashion ecosystem worldwide. Their vision wasto create a single operating system that could address the complex demands of consumers and luxury sellers alike. Their platform is built on an API-enabled proprietary technology stack, which provides the foundation for the three main components: applications, services and data. Farfetch serves women, men, and kids. Jose Neves founded the company in 2008, with its headquarters in London, United Kingdom.

Investment focus

Fashion, E-Commerce, Software
Corporate Round, Funding Round, Convertible Note
United States, Spain, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Decommerce — Decommerce provides a Community Building Solution for brands to build strong and engaging communities. Host your own Data and reduce marketing spend through rewarding your loyal customers using web3 and blockchain based solutions
Neiman Marcus Group — Shop fashion's top names for women, men, and kids. Plus, check out beauty's best brands, designer jewelry, luxurious decor, and distinctive gifts for any occasion.
Colvin — At The Colvin Co we aim to change the way people buy flowers online by offering intermediary-free bouquets selected by our floral gurus through an optimised platform that delivers best-in-class user experience.

Pankaj Chaddah is the Co-Founder of Shyft. Pankaj graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering from IIT Delhi in 2007.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fitness, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, France, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

sheerME — SheerME is Revolutionising the way people find, book, and pay for their Wellness and Beauty services powered by a benefit-based walletOur approach is based on Discovery, Transaction & Reward to create more online visibility, reach, conversion into new business, loyalty, and frequency through our wallet and cashback ecosystem, to all ourpartners in the beauty and wellness sectors.This made us a fresh and different option in this sector where there are mainly SaaS players, and we bring marketplace with no monthly fee, only a commission for business sent through our owned and partner channels.
Yoho — Yoho manufactures orthopaedic lightweight footwear.
Clean Electric — Clean Electric builds Lithium-Ion Batteries with Liquid Immersion Cooling. Fast Charge. Long Life. Unparalleled Safety.

Boost Capital Partners invests in pre-seed or seed companies - we support founders to build intuitive solutions to real-life problems

Investment focus

Software, B2B, Direct Sales
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Mexico, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Dubme — 5 billion people can not consume audiovisual content available to them due to language barriers. We believe that those barriers can be overcome thanks to disruptive technologies such as AI and Cloud Computing. Our mission is to level the playing field so that every human can benefit from all the content in the world,regardless of language barriers.
Cuvama — Cuvama makes selling and delivering value easy. We enable even your most average reps to sound like an expert and sell value, not products.
Ximple — Ximple breaks the cycle of perpetual financial exclusion that million of families in Latin America experience through innovative underwriting. We partner up with Direct Sellers to enhance their business through software and working capital solutions

I have 30+ years as a founder, operator, investor, board member and advisor. I have founded/co-founded multiple companies and have dealt with cofounder issues directly. I have invested in individual companies that have achieved $2b in revenue, $1b in profit, $30b in valuation. Plus on the other side of the spectrum, I have seen lots ofdifferent poor behaviour by some investors, founders and lawyers. My value add is: - the ability to quickly filter out the wrong people. - fundraising - strategy - focus - making tough decisions - cashflow planningCurrently investing directly in startups (mainly tech) at all stages and in funds (most asset classes) as an LP globally. I invested early in Supercell (majority acquired by Tencent), Unity Software (NYSE:U), Radiant Entertainment (acquired by Riot Games), Boomlagoon (acquired by Wargaming), Peak (acquired by Hachette Livre), Gameclub (acquired by Take-Two Interactive), Doppio Games (acquired by Fortis). Previously, I cofounded a seed VC firm & was an investment banker at various firms. I have both a HBA & MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at University of Western Ontario in Canada.If you message me with a pitch deck link for your company or fund then do not send me a docsend link or anything requesting an email and or password as I will ignore it. And make sure you detail the team background, why it’s the best team and why you will win.I’m also open to board positions for companies in Europe and North America. Owner of https://www.heathfieldestatenewforest.co.uk/

Investment focus

Software, Gaming, Mobile Apps
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Tellie — Create a free website/link-in-bio to market your art, release new music, increase your followers, sell merchandise, and share your portfolio/resume/EPK. Token Gate all.
Coherence — Unlock your multiplayer possibilities
Glean AI — Glean AI is the only Accounts Payable solution that combines smart automation with spend intelligence and powers Finance teams to drive material savings.

Philipp is an earliest stage technology investor in Berlin. He invested in more than 100 companies across various sectors, including open source software, ML/AI enabled SaaS, and deep tech from synthetic biology to materials science.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Levity — Train your own AI on documents, images, or text data to perform daily, repetitive tasks so your team can reach the next level of productivity. No code required.
consalio — consalio enables customers to gain transparency over ongoing consulting activities and costs in the company.
bunch — bunch is the operating system (OS) for private market investing, handling digital entity creation, seamless investor onboarding and portfolio management. The company's platform focuses on saving time, money and mental energy by eliminating legacy intermediaries, overwhelming regulatory complexity, and low-tech administration.Operating acrosslegal structures, asset classes and jurisdictions allows bunch to fully unlock private markets for everyone, enabling businesses and investors to make private markets easy, cost-efficient and fast.

Herrick Partners is a company that specializes in investment management services.

Investment focus

Software, Electronics, Virtual Reality
Series A
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

YDreams — Unimos tecnologia sensorial, narrativas integradas e design transformador para permitir que os sonhos mais ousados possam acontecer.

Ryan Petersen is the CEO and Founder of Flexport. Prior to starting Flexport to fix the user experience in global trade, Ryan was co-founder and CEO of ImportGenius.com, a data-as-a-service business for global shipping. He holds a degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia University.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Better Stack — Delightful observability tools that turn your logs & monitoring into a secret weapon for shipping better software faster.
TruckSmarter — Our mission is to empower truck drivers lives across the US through technology and grit.
Teleport — Teleport is ridesharing reimagined as a protocol. By distributing ownership and governance of the network, riders get cars cheaper and faster, drivers earn more, and entrepreneurs can innovate on top.

Indico Capital Partners is the leading independent Venture Capital firm in Portugal investing in global technology companies. Indico focuses on software as a service, artificial intelligence, internet of things, fintech, cybersecurity and digital companies, targeting investments at Seed to Series A level. Founded in 2017, the team at Indico werepreviously behind the majority of the Portuguese global tech success stories, as investors and entrepreneurs.Headed by the two most senior former Caixa Capital VC Team members, supported by a successful and experienced entrepreneur and a strong group of advisors, top entrepreneurs, they raised our first fund (authorized by the Portuguese Securities Market Commission - CMVM) from a cornerstone institutional investor (EIF) and international family/multi-family offices from Europe, US, and Australia. In addition to Silicon Valley, London, and Berlin, cities like Lisbon have emerging startup ecosystems. Portugal went through a difficult macro environment years ago which led to a growth in the entrepreneurship culture and investment. We have excellent tech graduates and a global mindset.Highly innovative companies like luxury eCommerce platform Farfetch, YC graduate machine learning translation platform Unbabel or the leading student accommodation marketplace Uniplaces have a strong Portuguese DNA and went to raise international rounds in the UK and the US - we want to back the next success stories of the ecosystem.

Investment focus

Information Technology, E-Commerce, B2B
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Portugal, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

FRVR — FRVR brings captivating games to billions of players instantly.
Indie Campers — Indie Campers offers adventurers the opportunity to start their journey in one location and end it in any of our other depots, while delivering an outstanding customer service for a unique and unforgettable experience.
Oceano Fresco — Oceano Fresco develops and produces bivalves varieties with superior performance for shellfish farmers at a competitive cost, respecting environmental sustainability and ensuring consumer safety.They use a multi-disciplinary approach including expertise in molecular biology, genetics, animal physiology, computational biology and intellectualproperty to select value adding traits to shellfish farmers and contribute to the sustainability and profitability of the aquaculture industry.They work with hatcheries, nurseries and research centers in order to test and validate their solutions and ensure that they suit the specific needs of each customer, in each technical and environmental context.

Alexis is a Venture Partner at Atomico advising on new investments in France, Spain & Portugal and Eastern Europe as well as sourcing and accelerating growth in the games, blockchain and travels vertical. He is passionate about high-impact, purpose-driven companies, and he currently serves on the boards of Bossa Studios and OhBiBi, Atomico’slatest game investment. He splits his time between London, Paris, Bucharest, Stockholm and Madrid.Alexis is co-founder and CEO of games company eRepublik Labs (eRepublik.com, Age of Lords, World at War, War and Peace) a “free-to-play” pioneer that he sold in June of 2017 to Stillfront Group. Alexis remains the company’s CEO, and is also the Group COO for Stillfront, giving him a unique mix of investor as well as operational expertise. Prior to Erepublik Labs, Alexis was part of the first wave of internet start ups and was with lastminute.com for six years right up to its $1.1B trade sale to Sabre in 2005.Alexis has numerous angel investments, mainly in Europe, and has been active in supporting the development of the European digital ecosystem through events and associations.Alexis is fluent in French, Spanish, Portuguese, English, Italian and understands basic Romanian if pushed. A long time ago he was a national sailing champion in Portugal, but now he prefers to stay dry and play chess with one of his three children.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Software
Seed, Series A, Angel
Finland, Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

AudioMob — Monetizing mobile games non-intrusively using audio ads! AudioMob are the creators of Audio Enhanced Banners & Rewarded Audio
Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
StageZero Technologies — StageZero inserts in-app ‘MicroTasks’ into mobile games; bite-sized activities that users can complete in exchange for rewards and perks, including coins and extra lives.

The EnjoyVenture Management is a private equity company that focuses its investments on the seed and early-stage companies.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

coapp — coapp brings people and resources together under your brand and handles social and financial transactions between them. Easy!
MARCLEY — MARCLEY provides a system that enables multi-family building apartment owners to utilize solar energy on their roofs without any financial commitment or additional effort. The generated green power is sold at a cheaper cost than the local basic utility.
Careloop — Berlin-based HR-tech and EduTech startup with a focus on the German healthcare industry.

They are looking to invest and work closely with early-stage companies that are moving the voice and assistance ecosystem forward. If your company is developing technologies that broaden the Assistant’s set of features, building new hardware devices for digital assistants, or focusing on a particular industry such as travel, games, or hospitality,we'd like to hear from you.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Satisfi Labs — Transform your customer interactions with conversational AI marketing powered by our AI Chat. Our solution provides consistent and scalable conversations
Slang Labs — Slang Labs provides in-app Voice Assistants. These accurate and multilingual voice assistants can be used out of the box for Android and Web Apps. Add Voice capabilities to your app with just a few lines of code.
Wysa — Use Wysa to vent or just talk through negative thoughts and emotions. Let it help you cope with pandemic anxiety and lockdowns. It is anonymous, safe and free.

We invest in game-changing companies with the power to transform the way the world uses technology.

Investment focus

Medical, Computer, Genetics
Seed, Series A
Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

hOS — hOS is an early-stage AI technology company.
CBR Genomics — We apply our end-to-end solutions to hand genetic reports at the clinical desk. We make Genomics accessible!
RunSafe Security — Secure embedded systems with RunSafe Security's runtime cybersecurity protection, integrating build-time defenses without affecting performance.

Beta-i is an organization created to boost entrepreneurship, and its mission is to foster a true innovation culture. We help new and established businesses grow, by offering 360º innovation services with 6 main areas: Acceleration, Events, Consulting, Open Innovation, Education and Investment.Internationally recognized as one of the leadingcompanies in this field, and for running Lisbon Challenge, one of Europe’s most active startup accelerators, since 2010 we have received +5000 applications to our several programs and accelerated over 850 startups, that have raised +65M.

Investment focus

FinTech, Computer, Software
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Didimo — Didimo creates realistic high-fidelity digital humans. Simple, fast, accurate user-generated avatars to integrate into your app, game or site.
Coverflex — Coverflex is on a mission to improve the way companies compensate their people, making it more transparent, flexible and easier for everyone to make the most of what they get. Through a fully digital solution, Coverflex helps companies manage every part of compensation beyond salary — benefits, insurance, meal allowance and exclusive discounts —while empowering people to spend on what suits them best.

Failup Ventures invests in pre-seed and seed stage companies based in the US and Nordics.

Investment focus

Marketplace, Home Services, Machine Learning
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Finland, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

OSCAR — On-demand app for home services like repair, cleaning and laundry with fixed prices in less than 30 minutes.
Confidentialmind — The ConfidentialMind software stack enables you to integrate AI-solutions such as language models into your workflows and processes without data leaks to third parties. We will find a way to protect your data.

They believe the unbelievable and trust the untrustable.

Investment focus

Internet of Things, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Portugal, Poland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

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.
Musiversal — Record your music in real time with world-class session musicians, vocalists, producers and audio engineers
Sensefinity — Sensefinity The Blockchain IoT Transformation Company Building the Internet of Cargo Where Assets autonomously connect to processes

First Ukrainian high-technology venture capital firm established by IT experts for IT geeks, investing in early-stage tech companies

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Ukraine, Bahamas

Portfolio highlights

AiSDR — AiSDR sales automation acts as your inside sales rep. From outbound to inbound emails, AiSDR runs your outreach and drives leads to customers
Haiqu — Haiqu Inc. is a quantum computing software firm focusing on the development of enabling technology to improve the performance of modern quantum hardware. Their software addresses the adoption obstacles that prevent scalable quantum applications from being realized, allowing for a broader variety of practical use cases in finance, life sciences,mobility, and other fields.
Iris Finance — Discover Iris Finance, the most innovative AI-powered finance platform for your consumer brand. Maximize profits effortlessly with real-time financial intelligence, data science insights, and strategic planning.

EIT Urban Mobility is an initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union. Europe’s leading community for impact-driven start-ups and scale-ups in urban mobilityWe want to move cities toward a more sustainable future by partnering up with start-ups and scale-ups like yours. Our Impact Venturesdivision gives you access to funding and support channels to deliver financial, environmental and social impact on the urban landscapes around us. Our tools are: Funding through grants and equity investments, Knowledge and training through partner-led programmes, networking and introductions through dedicated support to our equity portfolio companiesOur investments provide you with a boost on your growth journey, and our network connects you with the right stakeholders in the public policy sector — on a regional, national and European-wide scale — to put your company on the map and bring your urban mobility services to the people who need it the most.If you’re like us and have a drive to shape the cities of our future, join our community of engaged and esteemed impactful ventures by applying for one of the many different programs we offer.

Investment focus

Software, Transportation, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Spain, Sweden, France

Portfolio highlights

Smart Point — We are entering the age of convenience and immediacy. A Smart Point automates the reception of any product you shop online, and any service available in your city, from pharmaceuticals, to flowers and dry cleaning. All delivered in 1 hour and available to pick up at your convenience.
Parabol — As Parabol, we use our innovative power for smart mobility systems and traffic safety all over the world.
Fastlane — Discover seamless logistics control with our cutting-edge transport management software. Streamline operations, optimize routes, and enhance efficiency effortlessly. Try our solution for comprehensive control today!

Dispatch Ventures invests in founders building early-stage technology companies. Over the years, Dispatch has nurtured dozens of startups- helping them find corporate clients, skilled employees, gain media coverage, and raise millions in venture capital.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Canada, United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Leav — Sign up for a free trial of the most intuitive mobile self-checkout platform designed for today's retailers.
Meight — Run your cargo on budget and on time with a few simple clicks, from your laptop. Forget phone calls, driver headaches, hardware and tech nightmares, forever.
Frenter — Helping equipment rental businesses manage their day-to-day operations so they can focus on growing their business in-person and online. Request a Demo today

The first EV Fastcharging Network enabled by renewables, energy storage and 100% grid-integrated.

Investment focus

Portfolio highlights

Atlante Infra Portugal — Atlante Infra Portugal is a electronic and electrical energy equipment production company.

EIT empowers entrepreneurs and innovators to support the development of innovative solutions to pressing global challenges, aiming to turn ideas into products, services, and jobs for Europe.It has set up Europe’s largest innovation network with more than 2000 partners from leading business, research, and education organizations across Europeworking together in more than 60 innovation hubs across Europe. The EIT Community offers a wide range of innovation and entrepreneurship activities across Europe: entrepreneurial education courses, innovation-driven research projects, and business creation and acceleration services.By creating unique opportunities for talented innovators, entrepreneurs, and students, the EIT has powered more than 3 100 start-ups and scale-ups that have gone to raise more than EUR 3.3 billion in external capital with more than 1 170 new products and services created. 3 100 students have already graduated from EIT labeled master and doctoral programs and over 10 000 have participated in EIT Community entrepreneurial training.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Apps, SaaS
Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
France, Sweden, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

ADAXIS — ADAXIS offers innovative software tools for industrial robotics that unlock new manufacturing processes and maximum value. The company helps operators to select process parameters and reduce the risk of print failure through optimization and process prediction tools based on machine learning. ADAXIS was founded in 2021 and is based in Bidart,France.
Meight — Run your cargo on budget and on time with a few simple clicks, from your laptop. Forget phone calls, driver headaches, hardware and tech nightmares, forever.
Alter — Alter is the most secure communications platform built on private blockchain technology powered by Secret Network's Private Smart Contracts and ECDH encryption. Alter has leveraged this technology and made something that was historically available only to limited groups of people, institutions and government organizations - accessible toeveryone and anyone to make sure there's higher control over own data privacy and it is truly secure.

Pedro Lourenço

Investment focus

Consumer, Analytics, Insurance
Angel, Pre-Seed
Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

MindProber — Not all impressions are created equal. Understand the emotional impact of your content. Learn about Mediaprobe - Next-gen media measurement.
Habit — Habit's mission is to bring context and meaningfulness to the way insurance is sold. We connect brands with insurers to enable the best way to distribute insurance - on digital.

Sisu Game Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund focused 100% on games. We set up shop in 2014 to support the most promising founders in the industry. Sisu has deep roots in the Nordic region, but our network of founders is fully global.The Sisu team consists of Samuli, Paul, Erik, Kalle, Moaffak, Kadri, and Jere - all of whom haveextensive backgrounds in the game industry and startup circles, both as entrepreneurs and investors. We've founded and built sixteen game companies since the early 90s and had several successful exits. Apart from funding companies, the team uses their expertise to act as a studio builder. Individual founders are supported in building their team, honing their product strategy and in gathering the right group of investors.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Virtual Reality
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Finland, United States, Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Bitmagic — Discover Bitmagic, the revolutionary game development platform powered by Generative AI. Create multiplayer 3D games with simple prompts, no coding needed. Join our community and start creating your own games today!
VIZTA DGTL — VIZTA is an innovative gaming studio at the forefront of significant technology shifts and increasing demands from new generations and various consumers.
Rocky Road — At Rocky Road, we are redefining social gaming with our social gaming network. We are hiring!

Andy Chung is the Partner and Founder of Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company. He previously worked at AngelList as a Partner. Andy Chung attended University of Cambridge.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, Denmark, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Purple Dot — Sell More by Selling Earlier
Unlock — Unlock is a video-based platform packed with unique experiences your team will love.
Cosmos Video — Cosmos Video is the virtual venue platform that allows people to work, hang out, and socialize together.

Lasse Seppanen is the Game Lead for Everdale at Supercell.

Investment focus

Gaming, Computer
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Doppio Games — Harnessing the power of AI to craft groundbreaking games you can play using only your voice. Setting the stage for the next gen of entertainment.

Lusiaves Group, founded in 1986 in Marinha das Ondas (Figueira da Foz), has continuously invested in vertical integration of the poultry sector to ensure full control of the entire animal production process. The verticalization of the industry is made possible by a commitment to continual learning about the poultry market and through the adoptionof agrifood innovation, food quality and safety, animal health and nutrition, sustainability, and human resources as the cornerstones of its operations. Those bets enabled the Lusiaves Group to grow and expand, combined with solid teamwork, supported by career advancement, and the ability to continually improve individual and collective work daily.

Investment focus

Computer, Software, Machine Learning
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Meight — Run your cargo on budget and on time with a few simple clicks, from your laptop. Forget phone calls, driver headaches, hardware and tech nightmares, forever.

EDP Ventures is the venture capital arm of EDP. We invest in early-stage startups working in the energy space

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Energy
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Portugal, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Captura — Captura mission is globally scalable carbon capture to support a sustainable future for the climate.
Splight — Splight is an Artificial Intelligence Company, that creates Artificial Energy, the greenest energy ever made. Artificial Energy is energy that would have not been generated but for the application of digital solutions to existing power infrastructure. Running over a proprietary, powerful and transparent digital platform, Artificial Energyproduction leverages the unutilized capacity of the grid to generate energy combining big data capture and processing with state-of-the-art technologies such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and cloud computing. We create expanded pools of benefits for our clients by increasing revenues, reducing operating and maintenance costs, eliminating or delaying capital expenditures, lowering the cost of capital, and ultimately increasing profitability while directly contributing to the full decarbonization of the energy industry.
Delfos Energy — Why did it Fail? Avoid unexpected failures across your assetsReduce the risk of unexpected failuresmoreOptimize Maintenance Windowsmoreretain and scale up operational knowledgemoreplatform real time monitoring, analysis and predictions for renewable energy and oil&gas assetsVIEW OUR APPLICATIONS customer and partnerssee what our customers say about our solutions TestimonialsYour failure prediction alarm, helped us avoid an

Move the world forward with quiet capital. We are builders who invest in remarkable founders from day zero.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

11x — Onboard the AI workforce from the future and 11x your productivity today
W Labs — W is a line of men's personal care products that are intended to work harder and smell amazing. W's better-for-you goods are made to last, especially when you need them most. The company was founded to provide men the confidence to succeed in all that they set their minds to.
Speakeasy — Create great integration experiences for your APIs: native-language SDKs, Terraform providers, and friction-free docs.

Critical SGPS is a financial services company that serves sectors such as aerospace, energy, education, and health care.

Investment focus

Computer, Software, Information Technology
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Watchful Software — Watchful Software is focused on providing data-centric information protection that works. With the massive amounts that have been invested in securing the network perimeter, one thing has become painfully clear: today's enterprises must secure the information itself.

The Amazon Alexa Fund is Amazon’s venture capital fund investing in artificial intelligence, frontier tech, voice, robotics, and digital health across consumer and enterprise. We invest in early- to growth-stage companies globally. To learn more, visit us at alexafund.com.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Heeyo — Talking AIs that helps kids learn and play!
Sunrise — Sunrise aims to bring simple answers to millions of people suffering from sleep disorders.We have developed a 3-gram sensor to diagnose sleep with gold standard quality. The technology offers a revolutionary new way to measure brain commands at night, with published clinical results never seen before. Studies demonstrate Sunrise is as accurate asin-lab sleep studies, at a fraction of the cost.Affecting one in three people, sleep disorders are extremely common. Sleep apnea is the most prevalent disease with almost 1 billion persons concerned. This condition leads to great body damage over time and yet remains undiagnosed in 80% of the cases.Patients, caregiver and insurers stand to benefit greatly from a solution to current highly cumbersome, expensive and time-consuming diagnostics systems.
Imbue — We want machines that learn the way humans do.Our mission is to build human-like general intelligence and make it safely accessible in order to foster a more abundant, equitable, and unconstrained society.We take a first-principles approach, starting from simple self-supervised architectures and evolving them to tackle human developmentalmilestones of increasing complexity.

M4 Ventures helps startups to grow and expand globally through experience and hands-on collaboration.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments
Seed, Funding Round
Portugal, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Modatta — Your data is worth a fortune, so why aren't you getting paid? Now you can. Monetize your data. Decide who uses it and why. Bring fairness to the system.
PayNest — PayNest is a payments amalgamator, which was created with the core mission of digitizing cash collection in the Middle East.
Paynest — Hello, we are Paynest! An innovative online platform with a very important mission: to give every employee the tools to master financial wellness and build a resilient future. Instant wage access, financial education and mentoring by professional financial coaches are the main benefits we bring on the table.Our co-partners in this mission will bethe pioneering employers: the minds who have an insightful and special way of thinking. Those who believe that their teams’ wellness is a top priority and want to see their employees evolve both professionally and personally. Together we will provide independence and safety to every employee. And that’s just the beginning! We are here to grow with you.50% of employees confirm that they are unable to fund a financial emergency. This is something that “produces” a never-ending sense of financial stress. Studies show that the demanding modern life and the global political and economical changes make every employee worry about the future. In Paynest we believe that it's vital for employees to have instant wage access whenever they want to. The result will be less everyday stress, more focus and boosted morale.In Paynest we believe that if you take action today, you can dream of tomorrow.And that is something that works both for every employer and every employee around the world.

Creative Wings offers creative arts training and consultancy services as well as offers creative, engaging educational courses for kids, young adults, and professionals. Its aims is to provide these courses at an affordable cost.

Investment focus

Hardware, Mobile Devices, Internet of Things
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

EGG Electronics — EGG Electronics is a Portuguese Tech Startup located in Lisbon. It was funded by EDP (Energias de Portugal) and Portugal Ventures. With its products the company aims at making the daily experience of charging electronic devices and gadgets a lot more easy and natural.EGG Electronics is recently on the spotlight because of its original EGGPowerStation - an innovative charging dock that allows to charge up to 15 devices simultaneously. With it's changeable and customizable covers it's refreshingly beautiful. Because of the flat surface, it can be placed anywhere, being available within reach of the hand. It is available both for individual consumers and for companies (as a business solution for meeting rooms or as a corporate gift)

Demium is a talent investment company founded in Spain in 2013 with the aim of supporting the best professionals and helping them to carry out successful projects, always with an eminently digital and technological component. In November 2020, it's asset management company, Demium Capital, started operating with a first €50M fund to invest inmore than 75 early-stage startups per year (pre-seed/seed), becoming the most active venture capital fund in Spain. Startups such as Hannun, Voicemod, Swipcar, Citibox, Singularu or Landbot, among others have been created in the incubator. The company is present in five countries: Spain, Portugal, Poland, Ukraine and Czech Republic

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Spain, Portugal, Poland

Portfolio highlights

KomboAI — Improve your skills with KomboAI Stop losing opportunities and start creating meaningful relationships with your clients today. Start Now See Kombo in Action Free forever No credit card Over 200+ sales reps are already using KomboAI during their job Join the sales revolution today Get Insights Get real time insights from external and internal sources
Holaglow — Holaglow is an aesthetic medicine and cosmetic dermatology provider of personalized services.
Rauda AI — Rauda is an artificial intelligence platform specialized in automating customer service with the best customer experience. Take a quantum leap in productivity, reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction with the power of generative artificial intelligence.

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