Top 30 Cryptocurrency VC Funds & Investors in Portugal (June 2026)

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• Caldera — Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.
• Quadrata — Quadrata is a Passport Network that brings the identity and compliance layer to DeFi across existing public blockchains. The company was founded in 2021 by Lisa Fridman and Fabrice Cheng and is headquartered in Marina Del Rey, California.
• Nexus — Nexus is a DEX Layer 1, purpose-built to give users around the world access to a new era of verifiable finance.

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• 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.
• INIT Capital — Lend, Borrow, and Access Yield Strategies with Liquidity Hook

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• Derivio —
• 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.

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• Discord — Discord is the easiest way to talk over voice, video, and text. Talk, chat, hang out, and stay close with your friends and communities.
• Forterra — Forterra delivers autonomous mission systems for defense. From self-driving land systems to coordinated swarms of robotic platforms, the company builds scalable, robust, mission-critical hardware and software designed to empower customers to deploy autonomy as a force multiplier - extending reach, survivability, and effectiveness across thebattlespace and industrial domains.
• Capital Markets Gateway — Transforming the capital markets: Workflow management and data intelligence solutions for ECM participants.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Delivus — Delivus offers small package delivery in major U.S. cities in the shortest amount of time, with real-time delivery tracking, at the same cost as the current courier To facilitate this, we provide Delivery as a Service.
• IDA — IDA is the leading provider of digital asset solutions, allowing trust, transparency, and speed in payments and commerce. By leveraging blockchain technology, IDA opens up a more connected and inclusive global economy.
• MiNDCAFE — MiNDCAFE is an online psychological counseling platform.

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• 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.
• 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.
• Power Protocol — Power Protocol is an infrastructure layer that drives the single, cohesive blockchain entertainment ecosystem.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Centrifuge — Centrifuge is the platform for tokenized real-world assets, providing the infrastructure and ecosystem to tokenize, manage, and invest into RWAs.
• Terra — Terra is a programmable money for the internet that is easier to spend, and more attractive to hold. Available on all leading blockchains.
• Candy Digital — Fandom, reimagined. Only at Candy.com

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• 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

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• 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.
• MonkeyLeague — MonkeyLeague is a video game company. They develop PC and console-based NFT games. The company offers a turn-based, play-and-earn multi-player soccer game that provides monkey NFTs of genetic composition formulated from 32 traits.

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• Pave Bank — The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank
• Codex — Codex is a peer-to-peer version of electronic cash allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.
• Silicon Data — Silicon Data is a data product that brings essential intelligence and efficiency to markets.

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• 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.

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• Nava labs — Nava labs is the developer of AI control infrastructure designed to verify and secure the execution of AI agents in financial environments.
• 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.
• Canton Strategic Holdings — Hillstream BioPharma is a development-stage company advancing improved therapies for patients with cancer via a unique QUATRAMERTM nanoparticle platform. This unique technology enables intranuclear and intracellular delivery of small molecules, peptides, genes, other macromolecules and biologics to the tumor cello, while significantly minimizingexposure to normal tissues.

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• 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.

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• AlchemyNFT — AlchemyNFT is a non-fungible token (NFT) service.
• BabylonChain — Babylon is a VC-backed blockchain project founded by Claude. E. Shannon Award recipient, Professor David Tse from Stanford University. The project’s mission is to bring Bitcoin’s unparalleled security to all PoS blockchains in the world. To this end, we are building, as the bridge between Bitcoin and the PoS world, a new public Cosmos-based PoSblockchain called Babylon with a native token.
• 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.

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• Slope Finance — Slope is a community-based decentralized exchange built on Solana.
• Circuit & Chisel — Circuit & Chisel is an agentic AI platform that enables agents to make transactions between autonomous agents.
• Yield Guild Games Southeast Asia — YGG SEA is a sub-decentralized autonomous organization (subDAO) of the play-to-earn blockchain game YGG. The YGG SEA will be based on smart contracts built on the Etherum blockchain.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Blum — Blum is a decentralized exchange platform
• DoubleZero — DoubleZero is developing a global fiber network intended for high-performance distributed systems and blockchains. It seeks to enhance blockchain performance by establishing a dedicated physical infrastructure layer for communication.
• Avara Ventures — Avara creates smart contract-enabled products and public goods (open source protocols) that incorporate decentralized blockchain technologies and token-based economies.

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• 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.

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• MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
• unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
• Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.

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• 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).

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• Rebar Labs — Rebar Labs is a company that offers research services and infrastructure for bitcoin. The company wants to help users in the Bitcoin ecosystem create more effective and better experiences by addressing issues related to maximum extractable value and offering services that guarantee equitable value distribution.
• Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.
• Tren Finance — Tren Finance: a secure DeFi liquidity protocol offering seamless asset swaps, yield opportunities, and cross-chain compatibility through automated smart contracts, redefining liquidity for users and institutions.