Top 25 Finance Startup Investors in Portugal (August 2026)

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• Sapiom — Where agents run
• Venice — Private & Unrestricted AI | https://t.co/iIt1pyF1TK
• Velocity — Velocity provides a unified platform for efficiently moving and managing funds across both traditional banks and blockchains.

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• Bambu — Bambu is a leading global digital wealth technology provider for financial institutions. We enable companies to make saving and investing simple and intelligent for their clients. The cloud-based platform is powered by our proprietary algorithms and machine learning tools. The company serves over 20 financial institutions globally. Founded in 2016,Bambu is headquartered in Singapore with a subsidiary in the United Kingdom and the United States and EMEA representatives.
• Quantifeed — Quantifeed is Asia's leading digital wealth management platform for financial institutions.
• Sumo Logic — Sumo Logic provides best-in-class cloud monitoring, log management, SIEM tools, and real-time insights for web and SaaS based apps.

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• Cytonic — Cytonic is a multi-virtual-machine blockchain. Cytonic is compatible with blockchains such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana.
• Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
• Superform Labs — THE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR YIELD IS FORMING

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• Oh — The OpenAI of the spicy content industry, combining consumer platforms (@ohchatai | @ohdotfun) with infrastructure (https://t.co/BMwDSzAg14)
• Paxos Labs — Blockchain infrastructure for enterprises. Regulated by the OCC in the US, FIN-FSA in the EU, and MAS in Singapore. For support, visit https://t.co/qmOCfQa262
• Zcash Open Development Lab — Builders of the Zcash protocol and flagship Zcash wallet, Zodl @zodl_app. We envision a world without mass financial surveillance.

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• Derivio — Be early. Trade smarter. One terminal.
• PayGo — One request = one settlement. Pay-as-you-go payments for APIs, AI & agents. x402 on ENI
• 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.

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• Derivio — Be early. Trade smarter. One terminal.
• Tazapay — Experience Tazapay's best-in-class global payment solutions for businesses. Our extensive network supports cards, local payment options, and bank transfers in over 173 countries, ensuring seamless collections, secure holding, and efficient payouts worldwide.
• DePay — DePay is an Argentina-based real-time payments infrastructure startup.

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• Veniam — Transfer 10x more data for your video telematics, fleet operations, industrial IoT or connected vehicles.
• Growappy — Growappy is an EdTech that offers an all-in-one platform for early education that is leading a vision to unlock personalized education since nursery with the power of AI, while providing a revolutionary communication experience between schools and families and drastically simplifying bureaucracy for teachers and school owners.
• Infraspeak — Infraspeak is an Intelligent CMMS Software that brings outstanding flexibility, connectivity and intelligence to your operations.

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• Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.
• KIP Protocol — KIP Protocol is a decentralised AI framework unlocking digital property rights of Knowledge Assets in the AI-powered future.
• Alliance Games — Build Beyond Limits. Multiplayer for the Next, Decentralized Era.

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• BULK Trade — One Exchange Infinite Markets
• Pave Bank — The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank
• Nova Markets — The next billion-dollar market starts here. Powered by @HyperliquidX

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• Thirdverse — Thirdverse is a web3 and virtual reality game studio that develops and operates multiplayer virtual reality games. The company combines the technology of blockchain to create an economic zone and a virtual world, enabling customers to experience seamless gameplay in a virtual environment.Thirdverse was founded in 2016 and is headquartered nTokyo, Japan.
• Ethena — Enabling the Internet Bond
• Lombard — Every onchain Bitcoin journey starts with Lombard.

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• DarcMatter — DarcMatter is a fintech platform that provides cloud based infrastructure for asset managers to better manage, communicate and access investors. By utilizing proprietary structuring and technology, DarcMatter is able to provide a frictionless process for both investors and private issuers while remaining fully compliant of all current financialregulations.
• Chance Studios — Every Collection Starts With A Chance
• Chance Studios — Every Collection Starts With A Chance

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• Soter Insure — Reliable insurance for the digital asset ecosystem.
• Ethereum Institutional — Accelerating institutional adoption of Ethereum
• Digital Prime Technologies — Full-Service Institutional-Grade Prime Brokerage for Digital Asset Management. DLCC offers full-service Prime Brokerage solutions for digital assets. Our all-in-one user interface leverages both API and Saas product offerings to connect clients with a growing network of liquidity providers to transact, borrow, and lend digital assets, and managecollateral. Our product suite also offers traditional Prime Brokerage services, such as consultation and capital introduction.

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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.
• Power Protocol — The ecosystem for blockchain entertainment. Fueled by $POWER. Launch Partner: @Fableborne Power Up Your Play
• Hyperdrive — Next: Lending markets built for RWAs. No oracle, no AMM, no liquidator.

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• 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 — Every onchain Bitcoin journey starts with Lombard.
• Camp Network — Camp Network provides online camp registration and camp management software for all types of events across the United States.

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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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• StaySAFU — Security leader building the Web3 Security Layer, offering comprehensive solutions across blockchains to protect investors and project.
• 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.
• Mobula Labs — onchain trading & data infrastructure powering @ChainLink, @fomo, top traders & MMs

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• KAIO — The first protocol purpose-built for RWAs, ensuring seamless movement, compliance, and liquidity in DeFi through a sovereign AppChain.
• TrueDAO — TrueDAO is a new-generation AI-native decentralized autonomous financial infrastructure. Built on the underlying logic of DAO community co-governance, it leverages smart contracts to construct an on-chain financial system integrating AI algorithm scheduling, staking, and dynamic protection. It optimizes economic parameters and asset strategies inreal time via AI models, delivers low-volatility and sustainable value growth paths for digital assets, and pioneers an innovative paradigm of autonomous finance.
• Soter Insure — Reliable insurance for the digital asset ecosystem.

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• Rain — Rain is a vertically integrated issuing partner for global platforms. Enabling innovative financial products through modern APIs, flexible infrastructure, supporting electronic and digital money. Launch a card program in days not months.
• 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 — Flipside Crypto provides unparalleled analytics and business intelligence to crypto organizations.Their suite of analytics tools provides insights into user behaviors, developer activities, and financial activities, as well as FCAS, a relative value for measuring the fundamental health of cryptocurrency projects. It provides analytics tocryptocurrency organizations and distributes FCAS via partners such as CoinMarketCap, Messari, MarketWatch, and TheStreet. Flipside Crypto is backed by CoinBase Ventures, True Ventures, Founder Collective, Digital Currency Group, and other investors.Dave Balter, Eric Stone, and Jim Myers established it in Boston, Massachusetts in 2017.

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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 provides the industry’s leading digital asset derivatives trading platform. Kemet’s turnkey, all-in-one technology platform supports the full trade lifecycle with high-performance portfolio, execution and risk management capabilities and a full suite of APIs, enabling institutions to execute across the entire digital asset derivatives marketfrom a single endpoint. Built on state-of-the-art technology, the Kemet platform provides maximum flexibility and can be enhanced quickly in response to client requests.Led by a team of technologists from the world’s most advanced trading institutions, including D.E. Shaw, Jump Trading, DRW and Cboe, Kemet’s platform meets the most demanding standards for latency, reliability and security. Kemet is backed by some of the biggest names in digital asset trading and VCs in addition to a host of some of the best angels in the industry.
• Arbelos Markets — Arbelos Markets provides unprecedented access and transparency to counterparties through powerful technology.

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• Mesh — Mesh Pay is a payment infrastructure platform that enables businesses to accept and send digital assets and cryptocurrency transactions through a single integration. It supports connectivity with hundreds of wallets and exchanges, and processes payments, deposits, verification,s and global payouts, settling funds in stablecoins or local currency toreduce volatility risk and increase completion rates. The platform includes SmartFunding™, which orchestrates funding from multiple sources to streamline checkout and payout processes, and offers real-time address validation and settlement features. Mesh Pay also provides programmable wallet capabilities for autonomous commerce and routes funds securely across wallets, banks and exchanges.
• 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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• 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.

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• ORO AI — Real-world data for frontier AI. Designed by @midcenturyai
• Nevermined — Payments infrastructure for AI agents. Delegate spending, meter usage, and settle autonomously across MCP, x402, and A2A. Start earning in minutes.
• 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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• Bolo AI — Bolo AI Copilot for Asset Intelligence transforms how energy companies interact with their data, turning complex asset performance data into instant, actionable insights.
• 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.
• Realm.Security — Realm.Security transforms sprawling security data into a unified intelligent entity. Leveraging AI and cutting edge data processing technology, we deliver the right information to the right destination at the right time.

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• Morpho Labs — Morpho is an open credit network that connects lenders and borrowers to the best possible opportunities worldwide.
• Velocity — Velocity provides a unified platform for efficiently moving and managing funds across both traditional banks and blockchains.

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• Ethena — Enabling the Internet Bond