Top 50 Enterprise Angel Investors in Portugal in December 2024

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.

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.

William Bateman is working as a Managing Director at Round Hill Ventures.

Alex Lieberman is an Executive Chairman at Morning Brew. He attended the University of Michigan Ross School of Business.

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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Praveen Paranjothi is an entrepreneur and investor in venture and impact capital.

Vasco Lopes da Silva

Paulo Alexandre Lopes is the Managing Director at oddsgate. Paulo Alexandre Lopes attended IPAM.

Vitor Crespo is the Chief Executive Officer and Board Advisor at FastCompChem. He attended the University of Portugal (UPT) in 1993.

Carlos Oliveira

Job van der Voort is the Co-founder and CEO of Remote. He previously worked at GitLab as a VP of Product. Job van der Voort attended the University of Amsterdam.

At 31, Sachin Dev Duggal is an innovator, serial entrepreneur, and an advocate of enterprise that touches lives and benefits the world at large.He is the co-founder of shoto – a new startup that lets find unseen photos from your friends when you were together using location, your phonebook, and an algorithm that understands the nature of the momentand who was there.Sachin was the co-founder of nivio (which he exited in 2012 after taking it to a $100m valuation), the company that first made Windows available over the Internet. He sits on the board of Planet M (a large Indian retail chain), Chairs his original technology solutions company SD 2 Labs, and is an advisor to Eros Digital; the digital arm of Bollywood’ premiere distribution company. Sachin’s profile is an unusual mix of experiences & serendipity. He was an entrepreneur at 15, worked for the United Nations and helped write the declaration of youth rights before he completed his first degree from Imperial College. Sachin has also built a successful software business (www.sd2labs.com) and was a young investment-banker (at Deutsche Bank) building complex trading models at 17. The software company continues to grow year on year and now has just over 100 people in India and the US.Sachin started his public foray very early in life, at the age of 12 he went on stage in front of 1200 people and the world media to demand something be done about the state of the environment. He began his professional career at the age of 15, when he formed SMX Corporation (now sd2labs) along with his best friend. In August 2004, Sachin co-founded nivio with a view to disrupt the old compute model; and got seed funding from two of his bosses! Fast forward to 4 years later, nivio was selected as a technology pioneer at the World Economic Forum in January, 2009. Sachin made history in being the youngest attendees at the WEF in Davos. He left nivio in 2012 to start on a new idea having put together a world-class team to grow the business.Sachin’s an avid and recent believer of Vipassana and that life is a zero-sum game – so its essential to spend our time giving; this is one of the main reasons he has put aside stock in all major businesses he works in with Saurabh to their foundation and other notable charities such as Keep a Child Alive – the charity that Sachin & Saurabh’s foundation worked with to raise 4m USD for children in India and South Africa with Aids in 2011.Sachin’s other accolades include the MIT TR35 Indian Innovator of the Year, the PriceWaterhouseCoopers Leader of Tomorrow, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, the BBC Young Asian achiever of the Year and UNEP Global 500 Youth Award. Sachin is also the Youth Leader of the National Computer and Electronics Committee of the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India. But the real desire and mission has always been on the dream of 100x50 (100m kids educated in 50 years) through their Sachin & Saurabh Foundation, a not-for-profit set up to deliver that dream.Sachin Dev Dugal is currently the Chief Wizard at Builder.

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Serena Williams is an American professional tennis player who is currently ranked No. 1 in women's singles tennis. The Women's Tennis Association has ranked her World No. 1 in singles on six separate occasions. Widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time, she became the World No. 1 for the first time on July 8, 2002,and regained this ranking for the sixth time on February 18, 2013, becoming the oldest world no. 1 player in WTA's history. Williams is also the reigning French Open, US Open, WTA Tour Championships and Olympic ladies singles champion.In 2008 Williams helped to fund the construction of the Serena Williams Secondary School in Matooni, Kenya. She received a Celebrity Role Model Award from Avon Foundation in 2003 for work in breast cancer. Williams has also been involved in a number of clinics at schools and community centers, particularly those which have programs focusing on at-risk youth; she has also won the "Young Heroes Award" from Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater L.A. and Inland (2003) and the "Family Circle and Prudential Financial Player Who Makes a Difference Award" (2004). In response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Williams, along with other ATP and WTA stars decided to forgo their final day of preparation for the 2010 Australian Open to form a charity event in which all proceeds will go to the Haiti earthquake victims.

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.

Lawrence Chu - Partner and Leader of West Coast Tech M&A Practice @ Goodwin Procter

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Andrés Alcalá

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.

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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Philip Reisberger

Bernardo Novo is a CEO at SC Fitness

Alain Fiocco is EVP, Chief Technology Officer at OVH.com.

Vânia Fernandes

Fernando Reani is a Managing Director at Under Armour Australia & New Zealand

Carlos Brazão

Rui Ferreira

Jon Soberg joined MS&AD Ventures as Managing Partner in 2018.

Sérgio Oliveira

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

Alexandra Patricia Morgan Carrasco is an American soccer player, Olympic gold medalist, and FIFA Women's World Cup champion. She is a forward for Orlando Pride in the National Women's Soccer League and the United States national team.

Jose A. Santos

Larry Fitzgerald is an American football wide receiver for the Arizona Cardinals of the NFL. Larry played college football at Pittsburgh, where he earned unanimous All-America honors. He was drafted by the Cardinals third overall in the 2004 NFL Draft.He is second in NFL career receiving yards, second in career receptions, and sixth in receivingtouchdowns.

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.

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.

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.

Terrence Rohan is a seed investor, and the Managing Director of Otherwise, a new type of Angel Fund. Terrence's early stage investments include Figma, Notion, Hugging Face, Vanta, Robinhood, Patreon, Front, Pachama, Justworks, Circle, and Browser Company, among others. He has been ranked by Forbes as part of the Midas Brink list.Beforebecoming an investor, Terrence Rohan held various roles in product marketing and development at Google and YouTube. He 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.

Ideias Glaciares

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

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.

Prior to joining IDG Capital, Young was a member of the Soros Fund Management in New York from 1996 to 1999, where he was involved in managing a $3 billion private equity fund. In 1996, Young worked for Salomon Brothers in New York, where he participated in securities trading. He worked at W.R. Grace & Co. in Maryland from 1990 to 1995, wherehe led product development and was granted five U.S. patents. Young holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, a Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and a B.S. in Applied Chemistry from Shanghai Jiaotong University.

Kelvin Beachum Jr. is the NFL Athlete at Arizona Cardinals Football Club.

Rob Emrich - Founder & CEO @ The Mobile Majority

Bruno Cardoso

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.

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.

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.

Tim Vieira - Investor, Advisor @ Lapa Studio