Top 30 Cryptocurrency Startup Investors in Portugal in May 2026

Portfolio highlights

• Zoo Finance — Zoo Finance is a pioneering DeFi protocol focused on unlocking liquidity from locked assets, empowering users to access capital more efficiently while maximizing the utility of their on-chain holdings.
• Joystream — Joystream is a block chain-based, decentralized video platform.
• Zypher Network — Zypher Network, Portal for Revolutionary Fully-on-Chain Games using ZKP & AI

Portfolio highlights

• Ethena — Enabling the Internet Bond
• Ref Finance — Ref Finance is a DeFi platform built on NEAR Protocol that costs less than $0.01 for transactions.
• Parallax — Parallax offers a cross-border payments platform for freelancers, remote workers, and businesses. The service enables receiving international client payments, holding funds in USD, exchanging currencies, and sending money to domestic bank accounts and mobile wallets. Users manage balances and transfers through a web app with quoted rates anditemized fees. The platform supports global payouts and recurring disbursements to partners and team members. Compliance measures include identity verification and transaction monitoring aligned with regulatory standards. Documentation and support resources guide account setup, funding, and cash-out.

Portfolio highlights

• Oyl — Trade Alkanes tokens, swap on Bitcoin Layer 1, and access DeFi directly on Bitcoin. Non-custodial wallet optimized for Bitcoin smart contracts.
• BSX — BSX is a trading company that offers specializes in options and perpetual futures trading.
• JUICE Finance — Juice Finance empowers you to maximize your yield on Blast by using your Blast ETH as collateral to access 300% USDB and ETH leverage to deploy throughout the Blast ecosystem

Portfolio highlights

• Aethir — Power Ultra-Low Latency Gaming & AI Experiences.
• Elixir — Powering deUSD, a yield bearing and fully collateralized decentralized dollar on the Elixir Network, bringing institutional-grade liquidity to RWAs.
• Zcash Open Development Lab — Zodl is a mobile wallet for sending and managing private Zcash transactions, with encrypted payments and full user control of funds.

Portfolio highlights

• Revolut — Join 40+ million customers globally using Revolut to send money to 160+ countries, hold up-to 36 currencies in app, spend in 150+ currencies, and manage their money.
• Blockhead — Latest Bitcoin, Ethereum News & Crypto Market Updates
• Our Next Energy — ONE is a Michigan-based energy storage company focused on engineering batteries that accelerate U.S. domestic manufacturing and energy resilience.

Portfolio highlights

• Pye Labs — Pye Finance is a Web3 startup that builds a staking-market infrastructure on the Solana blockchain.
• Octane — A developer-first platform to stress-test your smart contracts with cutting-edge AI. One-click install. Save time and money on security.
• BitVault — BitVault is a DeFi protocol that provides a crypto-native money solution via its BTC-backed stablecoin, bvUSD, and yield-bearing staked stablecoin, sbvUSD.

Portfolio highlights

• ORO AI — ORO facilitates the transformation of data into advanced forms of intelligence, representing the next generation of analytical capabilities.
• Nevermined — Payments infrastructure for AI agents. Let your agents pay, get paid, and settle autonomously with built-in metering, billing, and card delegation.
• Templar Protocol — Templar Protocol is a startup that focuses on creating a lending platform for cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and other digital assets.

Portfolio highlights

• Gamium — Gamium is a Web3 and Metaverse technology company building the truly Decentralized Social Metaverse.
• Lympid — We believe that anyone should have access to the amazing opportunities found on the blockchain, from DeFi protocols (aave, compound, yearn…) to Crypto Indexes, there's so much to discover! At Lympid you will be able to do it all easily in the same app, and directly through EUR.
• Alliance Games — Build Beyond Limits. Multiplayer for the Next, Decentralized Era.

Portfolio highlights

• Rhuna — Rhuna is an AI and blockchain platform that transforms event management with NFT ticketing and token rewards.
• BridgePort — SaaS, Fintech, Middleware, Trading Infra
• Coca Wallet — Coca Wallet operates as a non-custodial payments app.

Portfolio highlights

• StablR — StablR issues compliant stablecoins StablR Euro (EURR) and StablR USD (USDR), backed by reserves and audits. Built for secure payments, DeFi, and fintech.
• Kemet Trading — Kemet Trading provides institutional-grade infrastructure for digital asset derivatives trading; optimizing access to liquidity, data, trade execution and post-trade workflows.
• Arbelos Markets — Arbelos Markets provides unprecedented access and transparency to counterparties through powerful technology.

Portfolio highlights

• worm.wtf — worm.wtf is the prediction marketplace for the Solana ecosystem.
• Voyage — Voyage AI is an AI infrastructure project building the first GEOFi network to make AI-generated content citable.
• Circuit & Chisel — Circuit & Chisel is an agentic AI platform that enables agents to make transactions between autonomous agents.

Portfolio highlights

• fomo — Fomo is a cutting-edge fintech startup revolutionizing the financial landscape through innovative technology and strategic partnerships.
• Blitz Electric Mobility — Blitz provides electric vehicles and fleet management software to food and beverage delivery, courier, and logistics companies.
• Blueprint Bryan Johnson — On the surface, Blueprint may seem something about health, wellness and aging. It's really a system to make tomorrow better for you, me, the planet and our shared future with AI.

Portfolio highlights

• Fly Media — Fly Media offers an AI-powered platform for automated video production and content adaptation driven by smart workflows. The platform helps creators and brands generate, edit, and localize media at scale, streamlining tasks like scene assembly, formatting, and repurposing across channels. Behind its “generated” media vision, the company maintains aseed-stage pitch room with a deck, business plan, and product videos available via its website.Fly Media emphasizes reducing manual overhead in content creation by applying AI to repetitive tasks and enabling teams to focus on high-level creative decisions.
• Moonbeam Network — Moonbeam is an Ethereum-compatible smart contract platform on the Polkadot network that makes it easy to build natively interoperable applications.
• Tools For Humanity — Tools for Humanity is a technology company building for humans in the age of AI.

Portfolio highlights

• EthicHub — EthicHub connect groups of smallholder farmers on a profitable activity, with lenders from all over the world and with direct buyers, creating value to all parties. By combining lending and product sale services we use the coffee as collateral for the loan and improve unit economics. Now it is possible to serve smallholder farmers in a veryprofitable way. EthicHub creates value from mutual benefit: Lenders provide affordable loans to the smallholder farmers (only coffee producers in early stage) and direct buyers (coffee roasters in early stage) offer faire prices for the crops, enabling farmers to have the resources to payback the loans and to get free from the poverty and low productivity cycle.
• Hata — Your crypto gateway to global opportunities. Regulated by the Labuan Financial Services Authority. Buy, sell, and trade crypto securely.
• Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform

Portfolio highlights

• Udemy — Udemy's mission is to create new possibilities for people and organizations everywhere by connecting them to the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in a changing world. The Udemy marketplace platform, with thousands of up-to-date courses in dozens of languages, provides the tools learners, instructors, and enterprises need to achievetheir goals and reach their full potential. Millions of people learn on Udemy from real-world experts in topics ranging from programming and data science to leadership and team building. For companies, Udemy Business offers an employee training and development platform with subscription access to thousands of courses, learning analytics, and the ability to host and distribute their own content.
• TRUE Future — TRUE: creating synergy between a successful Web2 businesses and a well-established Web3 infrastructure for redefining social gaming.
• Lifetime Health — We are a digital platform, transforming the healthcare landscape with our innovative hospital-at-home care services. Our mission is to create an efficient healthcare system that provides essential services, including lab tests, express check-ups, nursing care, and medical devices, right at your doorstep.

Portfolio highlights

• Gro — Gro protocol is a stablecoin yield aggregator that tranches risk and yield. The first two products built on it are the PWRD stablecoin with deposit protection and yield, and Vault with leveraged stablecoin yields.
• TRM Labs — Next Generation Blockchain Intelligence | Monitor, Investigate, and Mitigate Crypto Fraud and Financial Crime
• Bullish Global — Bullish Global is a new blockchain-based cryptocurrency exchange designed to combine the performance, user privacy, and compliance offered by central order book technology with the vertically integrated user benefits of decentralized finance (DeFi) market architecture.

Portfolio highlights

• Damex — Empowering businesses with a seamless stablecoin infrastructure that simplifies cross-border payments, treasury management, and financial integration.
• Wisdomise — Wisomise is an intelligence-augmented ecosystem, which offers you all you need in order to gain the most out of your Web3 investments, in terms of both better returns as well as more informed risks.
• Pulsar Finance — Pulsar Finance portfolio manager has been shut down. Follow us on X for updates on our new project.

Portfolio highlights

• Brink — Brink is a Bitcoin research and development centre
• Ethena — Enabling the Internet Bond
• Lombard — Lombard is committed to leveraging Bitcoin's potential as a dynamic financial tool by integrating it to DeFi collaborating with technological and infrastructural partners on a common, ecosystem-driven aim to bring Bitcoin to DeFi.

Portfolio highlights

• 375ai — 375ai is an edge data intelligence network on Solana that provides advanced real-time data collection and analysis to power a smarter, more connected world.
• Relay — Relay is a multichain payments network that allows users to spend any digital asset to transact on any blockchain
• Pyth Network — The Pyth network is a specialized oracle solution for latency-sensitive financial data that is typically kept behind the “walled gardens’’ of centralized institutions. The Pyth network is focused on finding a new and inexpensive way to bring this unique data on-chain and aggregating it securely.

Portfolio highlights

• Greenlane — Greenlane is a distributor of premium cannabis accessories, packaging, vape solutions, and lifestyle products. It serves a diverse and expansive customer base with more than 8,000 retail locations, including licensed cannabis dispensaries, smoke shops, and specialty retailers. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Boca Raton, Florida.
• Flora Growth Corp. — Flora Growth is a global cannabis company that leverages natural, cost-effective cultivation practices to supply cannabis derivatives to its diverse business divisions of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, hemp textiles, and food and beverage.The company makes organic cannabis oils, food and drink with added cannabidiol, and pharmaceutical-, medical-,and cosmetic-grade cannabis plant derivatives.Flora Growth was established in 2019 by
• Cluster Protocol — Cluster Protocol is the co-ordination layer for AI agents, a carnot engine fueling the AI economy making sure the AI developers are monetized for their AI models and users get an unified seamless experience to build that next AI app/ agent within a virtual disposable environment facilitating the creation of modular, self-evolving AI agents.

Portfolio highlights

• API3 — First-party blockchain oracle. Web APIs for trustless apps. Decentrally governed, quantifiably secure data feeds.
• dcSpark — Take your first step into the ever-growing world of Blockchain. By focusing on interoperability and composability, we provide a seamless experience for end users.
• Daler Trading — Daler is an algorithmic trading firm and crypto market maker specializing in options and futures. We provide liquidity and market-making services for the cryptocurrency ecosystem and Real-World Assets (RWA) across over 30 centralized (CEX) and decentralized exchanges (DEX).

Portfolio highlights

• Privy — Rated the #1 sales app in the Shopify App Store. Used by 600,000+ online brands around the world to grow sales NOW with email & SMS.
• Freebird — Freebird is a first-of-its-kind mobile rebooking tool that empowers travelers to skip the line and instantly book a new ticket – on any airline at no additional cost – in the event of a flight cancellation, four-hour delay, or missed connection. Freebird provides travelers with instant notifications in the event of a flight disruption, and offersthe ability to rebook in less than 30 seconds with only three taps on their mobile device.
• PillPack — PillPack is a full-service pharmacy that sorts medication by dose and offers door-to-door delivery. They fill, sort, and deliver all medications in personalized packets based on when you need to take them. Their service helps you take the right meds at the right time, every time.

Portfolio highlights

• ETHGas — ETHGas aims to redefine how users engage with Ethereum by providing low-latency, 3ms settlement times, and real-time trading, as well as a comprehensive product suite for exact order execution.
• Rio Network — Rio Network is an operator of a public proof-of-stake blockchain platform intended for the issuance, investment, and life-cycle management of digital securities and crypto assets.
• Allora Labs — The source for NFT pricing. Upshot uses machine learning to provide deep insight into NFT markets and unlocks a wave of exotic new DeFi possibilities.

Portfolio highlights

• Pave Bank — The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank
• WOO Network — Discover WOO's ecosystem of centralized and decentralized apps to seize every opportunity in crypto.
• Silicon Data — Silicon Data is a data product that brings essential intelligence and efficiency to markets.

Portfolio highlights

• 1Konto — 1Konto provides a secure, reliable, and seamless solution to access, trade and settle digital and fiat currencies at the best price through our Web App, API, and OTC desk.
• Leap Wallet — Leap is the ultimate crypto wallet for Cosmos blockchains, offering seamless exploration of multiple chains, asset transfers, staking rewards, governance participation, and more. With best-in-class UX design, managing your crypto assets has never been easier. Stay in control with our 100% non-custodial wallet, securely storing your private keys on your computer. Discover the future of crypto wallets with Leap.
• Flipside Crypto — Enterprise-grade blockchain data + AI agents that deploy wherever your team works.

Portfolio highlights

• Ad-Shield — Start measuring revenue lost to ad blockers and learn how to get additional revenue through Ad-Shield Recovery today
• Injective — Explore Injective: the high-performance blockchain powering decentralized finance, governance, and next-gen Web3 apps with unmatched speed and scale.
• Decentralised Gaming Ventures — D.G.Pals is a virtual pet, NFT Game Project that focuses on Squad-battler (PvP and Competitive), Siege Defence, Clan System, and various types of genre revolving around the IP as part of the ecosystem in the D.G.Verse.

Portfolio highlights

• HolmesAI — HolmesAI is a decentralised AI agent that offers persona customisation, tool integration, and task-specific agent deployment services.
• Kaia — Kaia is a public blockchain that utilizes Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) for enhanced reliability and performance.
• aZen Protocol — aZen Protocol is a decentralized infrastructure for ubiquitous computing that utilizes blockchain technology to create a shared economy of computing power. It connects and manages resources globally to form a stable, distributed network that can support various applications such as DePIN, AI and Edge Computing.

Portfolio highlights

• TonUP — TonUP offers cryptocurrencies as well as IDO services.
• 4Everland — 4EVERLAND is a Web 3.0 cloud computing platform that integrates storage, computing, and network core capabilities.
• Ordz Games — Ordz Games is a gaming provider for the Bitcoin eco-chain.

Portfolio highlights

• Legion — Legion makes on-chain fundraising accessible to ordinary investors by ensuring regulatory compliance and investor accountability.
• Puffer — Puffer Finance operates as a blockchain infrastructure company.
• Injective — Injective is a blazing-fast Layer 1 blockchain for Web3 finance, built for DeFi apps with low fees, cross-chain support, and unmatched scalability.

Portfolio highlights

• Creator.Bid — Creator.Bid allows content creators to create AI-driven digital assets to monetize their content.
• NATIX Network — Earn passive income by owning a part of your favourite city
• Camp Network — Camp Network provides online camp registration and camp management software for all types of events across the United States.