Top 50 Enterprise Angel Investors in Portugal in May 2026
Top 50 Enterprise Angel Investors in Portugal in May 2026
| Investor | Enterprise Portugal investments |
|---|---|
| Ideias Glaciares | 2 |
| Sachin Duggal | 1 |
| Alex Vassiliev | 1 |
| Henrique Castro | 1 |
| Anton Bukov | 1 |
| Alexis Bonte | 1 |
| Ryan Petersen | 1 |
| Adeyemi Ajao | 1 |
| Marc de Jong | 1 |
| Nuno Job | 1 |
| Jon Soberg | 1 |
| Dominique Locher | 1 |
| William Bateman | 1 |
| Pedro Aguiar | 1 |
| Klaus von Sayn-Wittgenstein | 1 |
| Jose A. Santos | 1 |
| Bernardo Rocha Novo | 1 |
| Florian Heinemann | 1 |
| Alain Fiocco | 1 |
| Vânia Fernandes | 1 |
| Paulo Alexandre Lopes | 1 |
| Rui Ferreira | 1 |
| David Peterson | 1 |
| Rob Emrich | 1 |
| Bruno Cardoso | 1 |
| Dominic Gualtieri | 1 |
| Vasco Lopes da Silva | 1 |
| Dawn Hudson | 1 |
| Humberto Ayres Pereira | 1 |
| Kevin Rose | 1 |
| David Blitzer | 1 |
| Elad Gil | 1 |
| Alexis Ohanian | 1 |
| Philippe Laffont | 1 |
| Terrence Rohan | 1 |
| Roger Dickey | 1 |
| Hugo Arevalo | 1 |
| Errol Damelin | 1 |
| Kirk Posmantur | 1 |
| Young Guo | 1 |
| Tim Vieira | 1 |
| Carlos Oliveira | 1 |
| Praveen Paranjothi | 1 |
| Andre Iguodala | 1 |
| Rohit Gupta | 1 |
| Chris Paul | 1 |
| Stephen Curry | 1 |
| Raymond Tonsing | 1 |
| Nuno Sebastiao | 1 |
| Jozy Altidore | 1 |
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- Wellness, SaaS, Video
- 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.
Sachin Dev Duggal is based out of London, England. Sachin Dev Duggal served as a CEO of Builder.ai . Sachin previously worked as Co-founder & Chief Wizard at Shoto. Sachin Dev Duggal attended the Imperial College London.
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- Fitness, Database, Wellness
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Portugal, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Shoto — Shoto is an app available for iOS and Android that lets you find the unseen photos that you and your friends have collected from the moments you shared together.Shoto automatically finds all the photos that you and your friends have taken together at the same time and place, and privately organizes them together into meaningful albums withoutany of the nagging or chasing that takes place today when you try to collect photos from your “smartphone” friends.
- CASAFARI — CASAFARI brings transparency to chaotic property markets by building a clean and complete real estate database. The company's proprietary technology allows agents to collect, clean, match duplicates, and evaluate every property coming to the market and to source the best investment opportunities in real-time.
- WONE (Walking on Earth) — WONE is the resilience coach that empowers teams to perform at their peak potential through data led measurement, AI coaching and micro moments when you need it most.
Alex Vassiliev is a Founder and CEO at Elixir Fine Foods.
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- Apps, Baby, EdTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Portugal, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bairro Direct — Bairro developed a mobile application that allows fast delivery of supermarket products, food, and essential goods in the heart of the Portuguese capital, available between 10 am to 12 pm, ensuring that the user experience is always of high quality, regardless of the type of product desired or delivery time.
- Buddy.ai — Buddy lets children practice spoken English by talking with a virtual AI-powered cartoon character in a mobile app. With its engaging virtual character, speech technology, and adaptive learning, Buddy is making speaking practice affordable for 500 million children around the globe by automating the mundane part of tutoring work at a fraction ofthe cost. This enables teachers and parents to give kids unlimited speaking practice, essential for mastering English.
- Elixir Fine Foods — Elixir Fine Foods is an innovative startup company bringing the highest quality European products to China, using the power of social commerce.Flagship brand in Elixir's portfolio is Healthy Eva - baby food brand with products in different categories including fruit, vegetable, meat and fish purees, baby biscuits, baby porridges etcdistributed through e-commerce and social commerce in China, including e-commerce platforms like Tmall Global or live-streaming serices such as Taobao Live, Kuaishou etc.
Previously, Henrique served as Chief Operating Officer of Yahoo! Inc. Additionally, he was elected to join the Board of Directors for Minneapolis-based retailer, Target Corp. on March 13, 2013. Henrique is a senior executive with 20+ years experience in leading companies such as Google, Dell and McKinsey, building, scaling and managing businessglobally.He is recognized by his knowledge of the Media, Internet, Telco/Tech, Retail, Consumer industries and has extensive experience as CEO/GM, CRO, Head of Strategy and Business Development, Sales & Marketing and Operations Lead.Henrique was formerly Google's President of Media, Mobile and Platforms Worldwide with full responsibility $5bn+ full P&L of Google's TV Ads, YouTube Ads, Google Display Network, Mobile Ads, AdMob, AdExchange and DoubleClick business globally. He built and scaled the Display, Mobile and Platforms Business from scratch to turn them it into #1 digital business globally with multi-billion dollar revenue and 2000+ people. In this position he lead the team to launch operations in 40+ countries, hired 1000+ people, acquired and integrated Google’s two largest acquisitions.Prior to this position Henrique lead European Sales & Media Solutions and Sales Operations for Google Europe.Before Google, Henrique was Sales & Business Development Director for Dell Western Europe Region where he managed sales and operations across 9 countries for all B2B businesses with revenues of $2+bn and 30%+ growth.Early in career Henrique worked for ABB- Asea Brown Boveri in Corporate/Project Finance and in the Private Equity.Henrique holds a MBA from IMD and MSc in Economics/Business Administration from ISEG. He is fluent in English, Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese.Henrique is also a Board Director of the IAB - Interactive Advertising Bureau – The as industry association, that comprises 500+ leading media and technology companies, to set the agenda to educate marketeers, agencies, media companies and regulators on Interactive Advertising.
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- SaaS, Software, B2B
- Seed
- Portugal, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Do — Do offers a platform that works as one place for all the notes, presentations, docs, and all other collateral to live together. The company gives the user the tools to frame the discussion, ensure things get done, and make decisions clear.
- Codacy — Codacy is an automated code review tool that helps developers to save time in code reviews and to tackle technical debt efficiently. Developers spend 10%-20% of their time reviewing code. Gartner estimates the global technical debt to grow to $1 Trillion by 2015. Codacy tracks new issues by severity level for every commit and pull requestand allows a hassle free customization of static analysis It provides advanced code metrics on the health of a project and on the performance of teams.
I am a philosopher, concept generator, and innovator with a deep fascination for technology, simplicity, and innovation, stemming from my software engineering journey that began in 2002. I have a profound curiosity in diverse domains such as algorithms, space exploration, blockchain technology, virtual and augmented reality, artificialintelligence, emerging energy sources, and new material sciences. My holistic and interdisciplinary approach propels me towards harnessing technology and innovation to conceive and create a future that surpasses the conventional boundaries of imagination
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- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Arab Emirates, Portugal, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- STON.fi — STON.fi is a decentralized automated market maker (AMM) built on the TON blockchain. Explore the full range of STON.fi. Swap cryptocurrencies, stake tokens, provide liquidity on the TON blockchain.
- CrossCurve Metelayer — Your Unfair Advantage for Building in DeFi. Any token. Any chain. Any operation. One MetaLayer.
- Blockscout — Blockscout is optimized for next-level blockchain exploration. Multi-chain, highly configurable, and open-source, the explorer portal opens up access to all chain data and functionality.
Alexis Bonte is based out of Madrid, Madrid, and is the President and Group CEO of Stillfront Group. Alexis previously worked at eRepublik Labs as a Co-Founder and CEO. Alexis Bonte attended Regent's University London.
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- Gaming, Video Games, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Finland, Portugal, United States
Portfolio highlights
- ZBD — Learn more about Earn at ZBD
- AudioMob — Monetizing mobile games non-intrusively using audio ads! AudioMob are the creators of Audio Enhanced Banners & Rewarded Audio
- CASAFARI — CASAFARI brings transparency to chaotic property markets by building a clean and complete real estate database. The company's proprietary technology allows agents to collect, clean, match duplicates, and evaluate every property coming to the market and to source the best investment opportunities in real-time.
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.
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- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Nuvo — The only onboarding platform with native fraud prevention and automated credit risk assessment from a portfolio of credit risk insights.
- 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.
- Little Umbrella — Future is Fun with Social & AI Games. At Little Umbrella, we create AI-powered games that deliver immersive experiences, bringing families, friends, and communities closer together. Proudly serving a growing community of over 30 million players
Adeyemi (“Ade”) is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Base10 Partners. Before Base10, Ade had a successful career as an entrepreneur and investor.Ade was the co-founder and CEO of Tuenti (The “Spanish Facebook” which was acquired by Telefonica in 2010 for $100M), co-founder and CEO of Identified (“AI for HR” acquired by Workday in 2014) and afounding investor of Cabify (the largest ridesharing company in Latin America currently valued at over $1B). While at Workday, Ade led launch to Workday Ventures, the first fund focused on Applied AI for Enterprise Software and was VP of Technology Strategy.Ade is originally from Spain and half Nigerian. He holds an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He also holds a J.D. in Law and a M.S in Economics from Icade University in Spain and studied a certificate on Machine Learning at Stanford.
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- Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Spain, Chile
Portfolio highlights
- Dropbox DocSend — Try our secure document sharing platform for free. Instantly know when documents are opened & what pages are read. Easy-to-use eSignatures.
- StockGro — Get expert stock market insights from SEBI-Registered Analysts on StockGro. Make informed investments with trusted advice. Join Today!
- Job&Talent — Find and manage your workforce with AI-driven hiring, scheduling, and performance tools designed to increase productivity by up to 30%.
Marc de Jong has had an extremely successful career with Phillips where he was previously a member of the Royal Philips Group Management Committee. He was CEO of various divisions within Philips and CEO of the automotive and identification businesses of NXP Semiconductors before beginning his own management consultancy. Marc de Jong holds aMasters in Physics and Mathematics from the Free University of Amsterdam, further qualifications in Economics and two MBA’s, one from the University of Rochester in the United States and another from the Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
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- Sensor, Software, Wind Energy
- Seed
- Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Fibersail — “If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it” (William Kelvin)Fibersail develops a shape sensing system based on FBG fiber optic research and development to monitor and analyze wind turbine blades in terms of shape, condition, and behavior. The real-time information provided by our system will help wind turbine operators maximize performanceand availability while preventing failures and minimizing maintenance costs from their assets.Our unique solution and approach with fiber optic sensors make it possible for a very easy and simple integration along the entire length of any critical structure ensuring the monitoring of its precise shape and behavior.Fibersail - Shaping the structures of tomorrow.
Nuno Job is the co-founder of Decipad.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Portugal, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Replicate — Run open-source machine learning models with a cloud API
- 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.
- Swish Robotics — Embodied Intelligence for the Home
Jon Soberg joined MS&AD Ventures as Managing Partner in 2018.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Germany, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- CASAFARI — CASAFARI brings transparency to chaotic property markets by building a clean and complete real estate database. The company's proprietary technology allows agents to collect, clean, match duplicates, and evaluate every property coming to the market and to source the best investment opportunities in real-time.
- Honest Dollar — A new stealth startup founded by some of the most innovative individuals in the technology and Financial Services industries. What are we doing? Well it wouldn't be much of a stealth startup if we told you that in the "Company Description.
- REEF — REEF Technology transforms open urban spaces into mixed-use places that connect people to local goods, services & experiences. Explore REEF's neighborhood-centric solutions today.
Dominique Locher
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- SaaS, Rental, Social
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Portugal, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Sharely — Sharely is the rental and rental platform for everyday objects.
- Reckon.ai — Whether you're building an unattended store or supplying the equipment behind it, Reckon's patented AI technology transforms existing infrastructure into smart, autonomous assets.
- Quantia — A powerful and easy to use analytics platform for tracking, analyzing and understanding the performance of your brand in the ecommerce world.
William Bateman is working as a Managing Director at Round Hill Ventures.
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- Database, Real Estate, Lead Generation
- Seed
- Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- CASAFARI — CASAFARI brings transparency to chaotic property markets by building a clean and complete real estate database. The company's proprietary technology allows agents to collect, clean, match duplicates, and evaluate every property coming to the market and to source the best investment opportunities in real-time.
Pedro Aguiar is an individual investor
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- Marketing Automation, Predictive Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed
- Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Full Venue — Attract top-tier customers on a smaller budget,increase retention, and push every order's value higher with our Al solution.
Klaus von Sayn-Wittgenstein
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- Internet, Machine Learning, B2B
- Seed, Series A
- United States, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Streem — Easy AR-powered remote video support & communication platform with AI data capture to get the job done from anywhere. Streem is better than being there.
- Unbabel — Unbabel offers multilingual translation services in more than 30 languages to enhance your customer service experiences. Learn more about our language operation solutions!
- Framed Data — Here is an exclusive deal for Mattermark subscribers.
Jose A. Santos
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- Software, Information Technology
- Seed
- Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Ubirider — Ubirider generates value for both mobility providers and riders by seamlessly moving people, information and payments.
Bernardo Novo is a CEO at SC Fitness
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- Marketing Automation, Predictive Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed
- Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Full Venue — Attract top-tier customers on a smaller budget,increase retention, and push every order's value higher with our Al solution.
Florian Heinemann is a Founding Partner at Project A Ventures, where he is responsible for the areas of marketing, CRM, and business intelligence. Before co-founding Project A, he was Managing Director at Rocket Internet with the same areas of responsibility (2007-2012). During his time at Rocket, he was mainly involved at Zalando, Global FashionGroup, and Spark Networks (aka eDarling/Affinitas).Prior to Rocket, Florian was Co-Founder and Managing Director of JustBooks/AbeBooks being in charge of marketing and product (1999-2002, exit to Amazon in 2008). Then, he was co-heading the online marketing department of Jamba! and the online dating portal iLove (2003-2005, exit to Verisign). In 2006, he was Co-Founder of the online marketplace antibodies-online.com (exit to Broadoak).Moreover, he has been an investor/business angel in more than 80 startups including Trivago (seed investor), Zalando (founding investor), Audibene (seed investor), Home24 (founding investor), CityDeal/Groupon (founding investor), Betreut.de/Care (seed investor), ClassPass (early stage investor), Mimi Hearing (early stage investor), Bitbond (seed investor), Lillydoo (early stage investor), and the Code University (seed stage investor).Apart from his Project A-related board activities he sits on the board of Koerber AG and About You and the digital advisory boards of Henkel and Oetker.Florian holds a doctorate’s degree in innovation management/entrepreneurship from RWTH Aachen University. He was a visiting scholar at the Wharton School. His research has been published in leading international journals, such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of International Marketing, and Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft. Furthermore, Florian holds a masters degree in business administration from WHU Koblenz. During his studies, he was a fellow of "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes" (German National Academic Foundation).
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Germany, Brazil, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- itravel — itravel allows leisure travelers to configure and book experiences, hotels, and transportation on tablets, the web, and in social media. itravel offers the client tools to select and “build” custom trips based on desired experiences (such as kitesurfing, elephant rides, special spa treatments), specific room configurations, and personalpreferences. itravel’s app interfaces allow these selections to happen effortlessly and with appealing content.
- Unicorn Workspaces — Unicorn offers work solutions for teams of all sizes with flexible terms and independent of high market rental prices. It is a fast-growing shared office provider, with 21 workspaces in Berlin, Potsdam, Cologne, Munich, Hamburg, and LisbonTheir vision of “Workspace as a Service” is reflected in their all-inclusive offer, and support fromcommunity baristas. They combine their coffee expertise and community manager knowledge to provide seamless work experience. With their friendly attitude and eagerness to help, members and visitors will receive good advice and assistance.Each of their workspaces is equipped with a modern café, where they offer organic direct trade coffee and hot beverages for all of their members and guests. They also offer a small selection of cold drinks, salads, and desserts. The café functions as a central meeting point for their community.
- CODE University of Applied Sciences — CODE is a Berlin-based state-accredited university of applied sciences that offers bachelor’s degree programs in the field of Digital Product Development.
Alain Fiocco is EVP, Chief Technology Officer at OVH.com.
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- Cloud Storage
- Seed
- Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Vawlt — Simplify your company's transition to the cloud, improve security standards, and optimize storage resource usage.
Vânia Fernandes
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- Consulting, Machine Learning, Professional Services
- Seed
- Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- DeepNeuronic — Transform surveillance with AI-powered computer vision. Real-time threat detection, traffic monitoring, and intelligent analytics for safer operations.
Paulo Alexandre Lopes is the Managing Director at oddsgate. Paulo Alexandre Lopes attended IPAM.
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- SaaS, Boating, Gambling
- Pre-Seed
- Brazil, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- ODDSGATE — With an open, API based platform and built in a modular way, allowing for stability, scalability, and flexibility. Our founding team with more than 15 years of experience in out-of-the-box solutions, or products like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), we are stepping into the Igaming industry with the goal to deliver a cutting edge and competitiveiGaming platform, focused on the regulated markets.
- Espadarte Group — Espadarte is working on a new product that will transform the Brazilian nautical market. It is founded in 2021 and the Yachts yard is based in Curitiba, Parana, Brazil.
Rui Ferreira
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- Mobile, Internet, Nutrition
- Seed
- Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Nutrium — Nutrium is the most up-to-date nutrition software for dietitians and nutritionists to manage their nutrition business with nutritional assessment, meal planning and progress tracking.
- YouClap — YouClap is changing the way people engage with each other through challenges. Millennials and Gen Zers keep consuming more online content, with mobile video as king, but what if viewers could be something more? Not just passive content watchers but active participants. This is what's happening with online challenges but, in spite of theirpopularity, major social media platforms weren't built with challenges in mind, lacking dedicated features. This is where YouClap comes in, as a balanced interactive playground for content.
David Peterson
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- Internet, Software, B2B
- Seed, Series B
- India, Portugal, United States
Portfolio highlights
- OSlash — Transform long URLs into memorable shortcuts. Make information easy to access, find, & share with others in an instant with a complete URL management solution
- Commsor — Commsor is the world's only full-stack company, providing Community-Led companies with the software, resources, and education to unlock the full power of community.
- Unbabel — Unbabel offers multilingual translation services in more than 30 languages to enhance your customer service experiences. Learn more about our language operation solutions!
Rob Emrich - Founder & CEO @ The Mobile Majority
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- Software, Internet, Computer
- Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
- United States, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Unbabel — Unbabel offers multilingual translation services in more than 30 languages to enhance your customer service experiences. Learn more about our language operation solutions!
- MotionSavvy — DropCatch.com helps you secure expiring domain names.
- CoolChip Technologies — CoolChip Technologies, Inc. | 424 followers on LinkedIn. CoolChip Technologies, Inc. is the worldwide leader in Kinetic CoolingTM, a new product category based on disruptive technology that is transforming the electronics cooling industry. Solutions Powered by Kinetic CoolingTM offer unprecedented performance across acoustics, form factor, and cooling. By partnering with CoolChip, consumer electronics and enterprise manufacturers have the opportunity to unleash innovation and deliver next-generation products for their customers.
Bruno Cardoso
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- Consulting, Machine Learning, Professional Services
- Seed
- Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- DeepNeuronic — Transform surveillance with AI-powered computer vision. Real-time threat detection, traffic monitoring, and intelligent analytics for safer operations.
Dominic Gualtieri is a parttner at deias Glaciares.
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- Cloud Data Services, Information Technology, Content Delivery Network
- Seed
- Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Codavel — Codavel helps video platforms to achieve the optimal tradeoff between QoE and CDN costs, regardless of CDN failures or user’s bad network. Codavel ensures each video chunk for each user is delivered with the best available CDN option based on customer's business rules, maximum QoE or minimum costs, while guaranteeing customer's desireduser experience. Traditionally, user experience is highly dependent on the user's WiFi, 3G or 4G connection quality and CDN availability. Metrics like user retention, conversion and even revenue are in the hand of CDNs and wireless networks. With Codavel, customers can get back in control. As a result, every end user gets a 5-star experience, regardless of CDN failures or user's bad network. We are working towards a world where internet-based services are frustration-free. For every user, anytime, anywhere.
Vasco Lopes da Silva
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- Health Care, Human Resources
- Seed
- Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- MyCareforce — The platform that connects nurses to available shifts.
Dawn Hudson is the Executive Vice President of the National Football League - (NFL) and a Consultant at NVIDIA. Dawn Hudson has served as Chief Marketing Officer for the National Football League since October 2014.Previously, she served from 2009 to 2014 as vice chairman of The Parthenon Group, an advisory firm focused on strategy consulting. Shewas president and chief executive officer of Pepsi-Cola North America, the beverage division of PepsiCo, Inc. for the U.S. and Canada, from 2005 to 2007 and president from 2002, and simultaneously served as chief executive officer of the foodservice division of PepsiCo, Inc. from 2005 to 2007.Previously, she spent 13 years in marketing, advertising and branding strategy, holding leadership positions at major agencies, such as D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles and Omnicom. She currently serves on the boards of directors of The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc., an advertising holding company, and Amplify Snack Brands, Inc., a snack food company.She was a director of P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, Inc., a restaurant chain, until 2012, of Allergan, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, until 2014, and of Lowes Companies, Inc., a home-improvement retailer, until May 2015.She holds a BA degree from Dartmouth College. She joined the NVIDIA board in July 2013.
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- Sports, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
- Funding Round
- Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- TMRW Sports — TMRW Sports is harnessing technology to build modern approaches to sports, media, and entertainment.
Humberto Ayres Pereira - Founder & CEO @ Rows
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- SaaS, Pet, Video
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- United States, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Kombo — One unified API for HRIS, Payroll & ATS
- Maven Pet — Maven is a SaaS pet tech startup that provides a personal vet to track the pet’s safety and health 24/7.It focuses on using technology to improve the quality of life for pets, as well as offering pet owners peace of mind and a way to keep track of their pet's safety, health, and well-being on a continual basis through their own personalveterinarian.It was started by the founders of Findster Technologies in 2021 and is based in Porto, Portugal.
- MyCareforce — The platform that connects nurses to available shifts.
Kevin Rose is the Co-Founder and CEO of PROOF. He previously worked at HODINKEE as a Board Of Directors. Kevin Rose attended the University of Nevada Las Vegas.
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- Mobile, Internet, iOS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- ClayStack — Multichain liquid staking platform that allows users to stake their assets, mint staking derivatives, and participate in DeFi.
- Solana — Solana is the high performance network powering internet capital markets, payments, and crypto applications. Fast. Decentralized. Scalable. Energy efficient. Solana can power thousands of transactions per second.
- Magic Spoon — Magic Spoon cereal is high-protein, low-sugar, keto-friendly, and gluten-free. Available in Cocoa, Frosted, Fruity, Blueberry, Peanut Butter, and Cinnamon.
David Blitzer joined HBSE Ventures as Founder.
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- Sports, Fantasy Sports, Sporting Goods
- Funding Round, Series A
- Portugal, United States
Portfolio highlights
- SlamBall — SlamBall is a global sports league association. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
- TMRW Sports — TMRW Sports is harnessing technology to build modern approaches to sports, media, and entertainment.
Elad Gil is the Co-Founder of Color Genomics. He previously worked at Twitter as a Vice President. Elad Gil attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- RunSybil — RunSybil is an AI-driven offensive security platform that continuously evaluates applications and infrastructure for vulnerabilities. Leveraging cutting-edge AI techniques, it autonomously identifies and exploits real-world security flaws through sophisticated penetration testing. By automating hacker-like intuition, RunSybil delivers proactivedefense capabilities, empowering organizations to strengthen the security of modern applications.
- Netic — Netic provides an AI-driven platform designed to automate and optimize customer engagement and operational workflows for essential service industries, including HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and appliance services. The platform autonomously handles inbound communications across various channels—such as calls, texts, and web chats—by bookingappointments and managing inquiries directly within existing CRM or field service management systems . Utilizing generative AI models, Netic's system assesses customer interactions to prioritize urgent requests, predict maintenance needs, and initiate targeted outreach campaigns based on factors like weather patterns and service history . This approach aims to enhance technician utilization and reduce missed revenue opportunities during periods of fluctuating demand . Additionally, Netic offers analytics tools that provide insights into customer interactions and operational performance, supporting data-informed decision-making .
- Decagon — Trusted by world-class companies, Decagon is the most advanced AI platform for customer support.
Alexis Ohanian is the President and Founder of 776 Foundation. He previously worked at reddit as an Executive Chair and Board Member. Alexis Ohanian attended the University of Virginia.
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- Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Shef — Enter code FIRST10 at checkout and save $10 on your first order
- TMRW Sports — TMRW is a sports company that focuses on progressive approaches to sports, media, and technology. Using advances in technology, the company launches golf leagues and holds a series of stadium events to provide people with growing approaches to sports and entertainment.
- Pulp Culture — Pulp Culture is hard pressed juice, enhanced by superfoods and adaptogens, that supports active, healthy lifestyles.
Philippe Laffont is the founder and portfolio manager of Coatue Management. Mr. Laffont graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991 with a B.S. and M.Sc. in Computer Science. He worked as an analyst in management consulting for McKinsey & Co. from 1992 to 1994 in Madrid, Spain. After working as an independent consultant forseveral years, Mr. Laffont joined Tiger Management LLC as a research analyst in 1996. He focused on telecommunications stocks while at Tiger until he left to found Coatue in 1999.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series A, Series D, Series F
- United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Suade — Technology to prevent the next financial crisis
- TMRW Sports — TMRW Sports is harnessing technology to build modern approaches to sports, media, and entertainment.
- CommonStock — Commonstock is a social network that amplifies the knowledge of the best investors, verified by actual track records for signal over noise.
Terrence Rohan is a seed investor and the Managing Director of Otherwise. Terrence's seed investments include Figma, Front, Notion, Hugging Face, Granola, Vanta, and Robinhood, among others. Forbes has ranked him as part of the Midas Brink list, and Business Insider has named him one of the top seed investors.Terrence was at Index Venturesfor seven years. While at Index, he co-created and eventually led Index’s first Seed Fund and then incubated the firm’s inaugural Founder-Angel Fund, which he served as General Partner and Co-Founder. He launched Otherwise, a novel Founder-Angel Fund inspired by the one he created for Index.Before becoming an investor, Terrence held various roles in product marketing and development at Google and YouTube.Terrence holds an MS in Management from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, an MS in Philosophy from The London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA in Philosophy from Colgate University.
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- Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Sweden
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- Fazeshift — Automate Accounts Receivable with Fazeshift's AI-powered platform to save your team valuable time and improve cash flow.
- Wordware — A collaborative prompt engineering IDE
- The San Francisco Compute Company — The San Francisco Compute Company manufactures supercomputers.
Roger Dickey is the Co-Founder & CEO of Made Renovation. He previously worked at Gigster as a Co-Founder & CEO. Roger Dickey attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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- Software, Education, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, Canada, Colombia
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- SearchEye — Get tech-driven SEO at scale, speed and a fraction of the cost compared to traditional agencies. Acquire PR Mentions, Digital PR and Content.
- Double — Double is a software platform that helps users to build, automate, and analyze investment portfolio for retail investors.
- Craftwork — Craftwork is a modern general contracting company that uses technology to simplify repair and renovation projects for homeowners.
Hugo Arévalo is co-founder of Buytheface , Bright & Sharp , and Albau Ventures . In addition, he has invested in: Jobandtalent , Cabify , Ontruck and Deporvillage : and has led the 50M € round of Hawkers . One of its criteria is the qualification of management. Lately, it is focused on investing in marketplace, fintech and ecommerce, althoughit is open to any sector. Among his exits, Tuenti and Buytheface stand out .
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- Software, Fashion, FinTech
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Spain, Canada, Belgium
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- Cuimo — Cuimo is a motor company that offers transport, financing, and second hand motorcycle servicing.
- Webel — Webel is an on demand Home Services Marketplace (cleaning, nannies, tutors...) where clients can search, book, compare, pay and review these services. Thanks to a deep analysis of the current methods for hiring these services and the competition outlook, we have created a unique and revolutionary business model that will outperform the market.
- Omnia — Omnia is a platform built for SEO and marketing experts. Our platform helps you monitor citations and mentions across the most popular AI engines like ChatGPT. Perplexity, Cooole Gemini and Microsoft Copilot
Errol Damelin is the Founder, CEO, chairman, or original investor and backer of over 75 digital and tech companies around the world, including in the US, the UK, most of Europe, Israel, Indonesia, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, and Nigeria. He concentrates his efforts on SaaS, fintech, crypto, marketplaces and data analytics as well as on health andwellness. He is also a technologist and has three granted patents to his name with another four pending.Among the companies co-founded by Damelin are groundbreaking fintech company Wonga, and SME banking startup Tide. His early investments include Wise, Cazoo, Purplebricks, K Health, YuLife, Sure, Demyst, Zoe, Farewill, CityMapper, Modifi, UnBabel, Thimble, HiBob, Modifi, Elliptic, Lendingkart, and VivaReal. Using his own personal equity, Damelin continues to invest early on in the next generation of entrepreneurs so that he can help them succeed. He is not an institutional VC fund and does not maximize the assets under his management. He best describes his approach as Riding Shotgun.Damelin's success as a founder has been recognized by The Guardian, which named him Digital Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011; by Ernst and Young, which named him the UK's Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011 as well; and by TechCrunch, which named him Founder of the Year in 2010.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Israel
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- Zelt — Manage everything from HRIS, payroll, pension, devices, apps and more seamlessly in one central hub, for all processes and applications, third-party included. Improve productivity through enhanced employee experience.
- Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
- OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback
Kirk Posmantur is the Chairman & Founder of Axcess Worldwide, a partnership development company that creates inspired ideas and connects extraordinary brands and people. With over 20 years of experience generating hundreds of millions of dollars in contracted revenue for many of the world’s top brands in the luxury and lifestyle, consumermass, and hospitality and travel sectors, Kirk is widely recognized as the pioneer and innovator of partnership development. Axcess currently represents over 50 of the world’s leading brands.Kirk is greatly involved in multiple charities and has served as the Chairman of the Board for the Atlanta chapter of After School All-Stars since 2000, raising over $20 million for his charity’s chapter.Kirk earned his undergraduate degree at the William F. Harrah College of Hotel Management at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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- Mobile, Sports, Distillery
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Portugal
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- Onda — Onda is a spirits brand for a new generation of drinkers. Onda’s first product is a line of canned sparkling tequila beverages, made with blanco tequila and real, legit fruit. Onda’s beverages are all 5% ABV, 100 calories, zero sugar, zero carbs and naturally gluten free. Onda’s brand is inspired by the surf style of the ‘90s.
- mPath — m›Path is a mobile development platform that helps individuals create and manage applications without writing a single line of code. It is founded by the former CTO & CIO of Salesforce, Claus Moldt and Trae Chancellor.
- TMRW Sports — TMRW Sports is harnessing technology to build modern approaches to sports, media, and entertainment.
Young Guo is based out of Beijing and is the General Partner of IDG Capital Partners. Young previously worked at Soros Fund Management as a Executive management. Young Guo attended the Columbia Business School.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, B2B
- Seed, Series A
- United States, Portugal
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- Pony.ai — Pony.ai is a startup that builds full-stack autonomous driving solutions. It is a pioneer in autonomous mobility technologies and services across the US and China, spearheading public-facing Robotaxi pilots in both markets. Pony.ai is committed to creating a safe and sustainable mobility future by delivering autonomous mobility everywhere.Thecompany was founded by James Peng and Tiancheng Lou in 2016 and is headquartered in Fremont, California, United States.
- Unbabel — Unbabel offers multilingual translation services in more than 30 languages to enhance your customer service experiences. Learn more about our language operation solutions!
- uSens — 26DOF Hand Tracking and 6DOF SLAM solutions that is changing how we interact with technology, and bring augmented, virtual and mixed reality experiences to life.
Tim Vieira - Investor, Advisor @ Lapa Studio
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- Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Portugal
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- Lapa Studio —
- Portal da Queixa —
- OurSupport — Book vetted local IT technicians for on-site or remote support in minutes. Transparent pricing, global coverage, and an AI self-help tool - all from one app.
Carlos Oliveira
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- Sensor, Software, Wind Energy
- Seed
- Portugal
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- Fibersail — “If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it” (William Kelvin)Fibersail develops a shape sensing system based on FBG fiber optic research and development to monitor and analyze wind turbine blades in terms of shape, condition, and behavior. The real-time information provided by our system will help wind turbine operators maximize performanceand availability while preventing failures and minimizing maintenance costs from their assets.Our unique solution and approach with fiber optic sensors make it possible for a very easy and simple integration along the entire length of any critical structure ensuring the monitoring of its precise shape and behavior.Fibersail - Shaping the structures of tomorrow.
Praveen Paranjothi is an entrepreneur and investor in venture and impact capital.
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- Database, Software, Biometrics
- Seed
- Portugal, United States
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- CASAFARI — CASAFARI brings transparency to chaotic property markets by building a clean and complete real estate database. The company's proprietary technology allows agents to collect, clean, match duplicates, and evaluate every property coming to the market and to source the best investment opportunities in real-time.
- TypingDNA — TypingDNA provides typing biometrics authentication as a service, enabling companies to recognize people by the way they type. The company's authentication technology compares how people type on their keyboards against previous recordings. Works on both mobiles and PCs. Headquartered in New York, United States, with offices in Romania, EU.
Andre Iguodala is an NBA Champion and Finals MVP currently signed with the Golden State Warriors. He advises Twice, a startup acquired by eBay in 2015.Andre Tyler Iguodala is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The swingman was an NBA All-Starin 2012 and has been named to the NBA All-Defensive Team twice. Iguodala won an NBA championship with the Warriors in 2015, when he was named the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP). He was also a member of the United States national team at the 2010 FIBA World Championship and 2012 Summer Olympics, winning the gold medal both times.Iguodala went to Lanphier High School in Springfield, Illinois before attending the University of Arizona. After completing two years, he declared for the 2004 NBA draft where he was drafted with the ninth overall pick by the Philadelphia 76ers. Iguodala played in Philadelphia until the summer of 2012, when he was traded to the Denver Nuggets in a four team trade. He was acquired by Golden State in 2013. In 2014–15, he became a reserve for the first time in his career, but captured the Finals MVP after he returned to the starting lineup in the middle of series.
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- Sports, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- United States, Canada, Portugal
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- Rye — Rye builds developer tools and APIs to build the next generation of eCommerce experiences.
- Shef — Enter code FIRST10 at checkout and save $10 on your first order
- TMRW Sports — TMRW Sports is harnessing technology to build modern approaches to sports, media, and entertainment.
Partner at SterlingVC - early stage VC fund backed by Sterling Equities, focused on sports, media and real estate tech investments. Founder of Bollyshake, building the nex-gen entertainment platform for Indian millennials, currently focused on user generated dancing videos. PreviouslyDirector at High Line Venture Partners - early stagefund based in NYC with notable investments in Pinterest, Vine, Makerbot, Refinery29 and numerous others. Previously at RBS having built out the Cross Asset Structuringstructuring group which delivered innovative cross asset solutions covering exotic derivatives across interest rates, inflation, foreign exchange, equities and hybrids to institutional clients.
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- Sports, eSports, Internet
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Portugal, United States
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- FanAI — FanAI is an AI-driven Audience Monetization platform focusing first on esports, and their sponsor ecosystems, increasing franchise and sponsorship revenues by making their audience data actionable.
- TMRW Sports — TMRW Sports is harnessing technology to build modern approaches to sports, media, and entertainment.
Christopher Emmanuel Paul is an American professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association.
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- Food and Beverage, Sports, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, France, Portugal
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- Scout - Make Money Moves — Scout is the financial wellness platform for student athletes in the new NIL era. We empower athletes to make better financial decisions with live financial education sessions and personalized, tech-enabled service.
- Buoy — Zero sugar liquid electrolytes and ionic trace minerals that blend with any beverage, even alcohol and coffee. No sugar, no stevia, no dextrose, no flavorings and no artificial ingredients. Gluten and major allergen free. Vegan and non-GMO.
- Umaro Foods — Umaro Foods specializes in developing a plant-based protein source from ocean-farmed seaweed.
Stephen Curry currently works as the Founder and Partner at Unanimous Media. He previously worked at Slyce.io as co-founder. Stephen Curry attended Davidson College in 2006.
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- Mobile, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
- Series A, Series C, Series B
- United States, Canada, Portugal
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- Step — Step is a financial services company that builds mobile-based banking for teenagers. It helps teens and young adults achieve financial independence and knowledge at an earlier age. The company's mission is to create a bank that gives its users the tools to become smarter with their money and reward them along their financial journey.It wasfounded in 2018 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
- Super.com — Through rich rewards and everyday savings, Super helps you access more of what you want at better prices, escape overspending, and level up life.
- TMRW Sports — TMRW Sports is harnessing technology to build modern approaches to sports, media, and entertainment.
Raymond Tonsing is a San Francisco based venture capitalist and entrepreneur. He founded Caffeinated Capital, an early stage venture capital firm, and now serves as its managing director. Raymond holds a bachelor's degree in Arts from University of Colorado Boulder.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Japan
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- Polywork — Launch an AI-powered personal website to showcase your work, grow your personal brand, or start your side hustle.
- Nuvocargo — Nuvocargo is your all-in-one digital platform for cross border trade between the US and Mexico. Book your shipments now
- Varda — Expanding the economic bounds of humankind with the world's first orbital manufacturing & reentry platform.
Prior to starting Feedzai, Nuno was an engineer for the European Space Agency, and worked closely with several successful technology startups.In 2011, Nuno, along with his fellow co-founders Paulo Marques and Pedro Bizarro, established Feedzai to fight financial fraud with advanced machine learning technology.Fast forward to today, Nuno hasbeen named the Entrepreneur of the Year by London Business School, shared a stage with tech leaders such as Stephen Hawking and Steve Wozniak, and has been the driving force of Feedzai’s global growth.Under Nuno’s leadership, Feedzai has raised more than $282 million in venture funding, surpassed 500 employees, and continues to keep commerce safe for many of the leading banks, retailers, and payment processors around the globe.Nuno has an MBA from the London Business School.
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- FinTech, Banking, Finance
- Seed, Series A
- United States, Spain, Portugal
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- Synctera — Making it easier for community banks and FinTechs to find their perfect match and work together. Welcome to the new FinTech frontier.
- 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.
- Dragonboat — Source of truth agentic platform with context and memory to orchestrate across SPM, PPM, and Product Management to accelerate outcome at scale.
Jozy Altidore
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- Media and Entertainment, Gaming, Sports
- Seed, Funding Round
- Portugal, United States
Portfolio highlights
- TMRW Sports — TMRW Sports is harnessing technology to build modern approaches to sports, media, and entertainment.
- PHȲND — PHȲND is a subscription-free cloud gaming platform that offers a way to discover, play, and socialize across a wide variety of games.
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