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Top 50 Financial Services Startup Investors in Portugal in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Financial services startups based in Portugal. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Financial services companies from Portugal. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Financial Services Startup Investors in Portugal in December 2024

Investor	Financial Services Portugal investments
Shilling	5
Accomplice	3
SVG Ventures	3
Franklin Templeton	2
Armilar Venture Partners	2
Portugal Ventures	2
Arthur Hayes	2
MSM	2
Signum Capital	2
Placeholder	2
Dragonfly	2
Breega	2
NEAR	1
Terra	1
MS&AD Ventures	1
WISENEXT	1
BH Digital	1
Partech	1
CoinFund	1
Possible Ventures	1
SharesPro	1
Olisipo Way	1
Betwixt Ventures	1
European regional development fund (ERDF)	1
Balaji Srinivasan	1
Caixa Capital	1
Boost VC	1
EDP Ventures	1
Cetacean Capital	1
Bewater Funds	1
DeFiance Capital	1
Start Ventures	1
dlab	1
Maelstrom	1
Waterdrip Capital	1
Galaxy Digital	1
SOSV	1
Inflection	1
Hypersphere Ventures	1
HTX	1
Hashed	1
Nuno Job	1
Bybit	1
Beta-i	1
Tue Lumbye	1
UniWhales	1
Clever web	1
Nina Capital	1
Banco de Investimento Global	1
FunFair Ventures	1

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Shilling is an early-stage venture capital firm backing exceptional founders from the start.Shilling invests in a wide range of verticals and seeks out the biggest opportunities across all B2B and consumer categories. Leveraging the concept of Founder LPs, Shilling brings much more than capital and offers through its Shilling Platform, directaccess to successful founders and executives of leading companies. This platform supports entrepreneurs in validating and developing their ventures, which then accelerate their growth into global markets.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Portugal, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cooby — Supercharge your WhatsApp and integrate it with your CRM to reduce administrative work and lost customer data.
Bounce — Short term (hourly & daily) storage all around urban areas, hosted by local businesses.
Luca — Luca's learning platform provides learning programs for primary and secondary school students. The learning platform offers pre-recorded K12 videos, gamified content and AI powered personalized study paths, covering the entire official academic curriculum and national exams prep. Luca is a VC backed startup with HQ in Madrid & MexicoCity

Accomplice is a venture firm and contemporary family office. We have been part of the origin story of AngelList, Carbon Black, Coinlist, Currencycloud, DraftKings, FalconX, FLOW, Freshbooks, Integral Ad Science, Hopper, HQO, Luna, Near, Orchard, Patreon, PillPack, Plastiq, Recorded Future, SecurityScorecard, Skillz, Veracode, Work Human, WHOOP, Zoopla, and more. We are also founders behind Accomplice Blockchain and the Spearhead operator-angel movement.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Monkey Tilt — Join your new crypto casino at Monkey Tilt. Play with crypto, earn points & win prizes. Tilt Club VIP program includes bonuses, merch drops & more.
Synex Medical — Synex Medical develops non-invasive blood testing technology. This portable device will allow users to monitor metabolite concentrations without having to penetrate skin. They use a miniaturized magnetic resonance system to detect blood metabolites. The system only consists of magnets and radio waves, meaning there are no negative health effects.
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.

We are a Venture & Innovation Platform Advancing the Food & Agriculture Industries We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the food and agriculture industries.

Investment focus

AgTech, Agriculture, Farming
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

scoutlabs — We're building the world's densest digital trap network to accurately gauge insect pest pressure. This helps millions of farmers in precisely combating crop-eating insects, accelerating a transition to more sustainable methods. Good for the farmer, the environment and for our food security
Cynomys — Soluzioni IOT di monitoraggio ambientale per allevamenti e aziende
Verdi Expeditions — Verdi is building the world's first truly scalable platform for farm automation. We work with the world's largest food brands to grow better and more sustainable crops.

Franklin Resources is a global investment management organization known as Franklin Templeton Investments. They have an extensive global presence, including offices in 35 countries and clients in more than 150. Their common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol BEN and is included in the Standard & Poor’s500:registered: Index.Franklin Resources Inc. NYSE: BEN is an investment firm originally founded in New York in 1947 as Franklin Distributors, Inc. It is listed on the NYSE under the ticker BEN as in Benjamin Franklin, whom founder Rupert Johnson, Sr. admired. In 1973 the headquarters moved from New York to San Mateo, California.The firm specializes in conservatively managed mutual funds. It offers products under the Franklin, Templeton, Mutual Series and Fiduciary brand names. Like other large investment companies, the firm offers a wide variety of funds but is traditionally best known for bond funds under the Franklin brand, international funds under the Templeton brand, and value funds under the Mutual Series brand.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Series D
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

SatLayer — SatLayer to protect any sort of dApp or protocol as a Bitcoin Validated Service (BVS), significantly enhancing security for all of cryptocurrency.
Bitlayer — Bitlayer is the first Bitcoin second-layer network, based on BitVM, offering ultra-scalability and L1 security, aiming to be Bitcoin's computing layer.
Candid Therapeutics — Candid Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that focuses on the treatment of a range of immunological conditions.

Armilar Venture Partners is Portugal's leading venture capitalist. An independent VC with a 20-year-old history, a high-performance track record and an international footprint, Armilar is a deep-tech investor in ICT, HealthTech and CleanTech.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Portugal, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Rows — Combine the power of a spreadsheet with built-in integrations from your business apps. Automate workflows and build tools that make work simpler.
Veeton — Veeton is the creator of an artificial intelligence-powered platform for automated fashion imaging. The company's platform provides fashion firms with an alternative to photo sessions by generating a limitless range of high-quality on-model images using only packshot photos, instantaneously and at a fraction of the cost, allowing clients tocreate e-commerce shoots in a few clicks.
Cintoo — Cintoo is essential for BIM to bridge the gap between your physical and virtual worlds.

Verticals:Enterprise, SaaS, Security, Networks, AI, VR/AR, Marketplace, Blockchain, Internet of Things, New materials, Electronics, Robotics, Cleantech, Agrotech, Seatech, Therapeutics, Digital Health, Diagnostics, Innovative Accommodation, Tourist Entertainment Companies, Tour Operators, Wine, Nautical and Equestrian Tourism, Theme ParksMobile, Robotics Founded in 2012, Portugal Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Porto, Portugal. The firm is a part of the Banco Português de Fomento group. The firm seeks to invest in pre-seed, seed and series A stages

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Portugal, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Hoopers — Global basketball community platform connecting players, fans and enthusiasts through products, contents, experiences and NFTs.
PluggableAI — Pluggable is the leading Meaningful Mobile Engagement solution where, through disruptive AI models and non-intrusive smartphone sensors, we maximize mobile app engagement.
Corium Biotech — Corium Biotech is an R&D company dedicated to the bioproduction of exotic leather destined to answer the current leather market needs for performant materials that respect both the environment and animal wellbeing.

After graduating with a degree in economics from the Wharton School of Business, Arthur lived in Hong Kong as an equity derivatives trader. He was the market-maker for Deutsche Bank and Citibank’s Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) businesses. He also has extensive experience trading equity index futures, forwards, and swaps as well as non-deliverable FXforwards. Arthur brings a deep understanding of how to structure and trade financial derivatives.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

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
Infinit — Infinit is the DeFi Abstraction Layer that removes the enormous friction associated with creating and scaling DeFi ecosystems.

MSM is an early-stage generalist impact fund that invests all across Europe.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Biorce — Biorce is an innovating HealthAI startup committed to transforming drug development through the use of artificial intelligence.
UpLink — UpLink is a Telecommunications company that empowers the spread of The Collective Network farther, faster, and cheaper.UpLink believes that connectivity is a human right, an enabler of growth, and an equalizer of opportunities. They envision a world where the Internet is more accessible, inclusive, and affordable. Founded by Carlos Lei Santosand Andre Francisco in 2016 and is located in New York, NY.
WNWN Food Labs — We're WNWN Food Labs and we love food. We're creating delicious, sustainable and ethical alternatives to unsustainable and ethically dubious foods. We're starting with cacao-free chocolate. Changing chocolate? It's Win-Win #alt-chocolate #altchocolate #alt-universe #altuniverse #alt-protein

They are a Singapore-based firm that exclusively consults in Blockchain-enabled companies. Their mission is to realize the future of Blockchain economy by consulting in game changing projects and companies. They participate in Pre-sale stages of Token Generation Events and Equity investments.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

zkPass — Privacy-focused to connect the world
CrytocoinMiner — CrytocoinMiner presents a seamless and easy-to-use cloud mining solution that allows you to easily discover the world of cryptocurrency mining, whether you're interested in Bitcoin or Ethereum.
Pichi Finance — Pichi Finance Points are typically stored off-chain and linked to wallet addresses, limiting their tradability on the open market.

Placeholder is a venture capital firm that invests in decentralized networks and web services.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Cayman Islands

Portfolio highlights

Celestia — Celestia is a modular data availability network that securely scales with the number of users, making it easy for anyone to launch their own blockchain.
Astria — Astria is the Shared Sequencer Network: the easiest way to deploy decentralized rollups.
Squads — Collaborative infrastructure for web3 native teams

A cross-border cryptoasset investment firm. Global from day one.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Level — Level is a stakblecoin backed by restaked dollar tokens.
Variational — Go long or short with leverage on memecoins, DEX pairs, pre-launch tokens, points markets, and more.
RD Technologies — RD Wallet is a licenced Stored Value Facility in Hong Kong. It is the first business-focused, multiple-currency mobile wallet. RD Wallet offers deposits, local and cross-border payments and foreign exchange services for businesses.

VCs use all sorts of tricks to attract the best companies. We do too. But as founders, we know that the main reason you choose an investor to be a part of your journey is because you like them. You trust them. Their values align with yours.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

InSpek — Next-generation chemical monitoring systems using Raman-on-a-chip integrated photonic sensors.
Klasha — At Klasha, we're simplifying borderless payments for commerce in Africa. We help merchants worldwide sell online to Africa and receive payments in local African currencies while enjoying super fast last-mile delivery to customers across the continent.
Socium — Socium Job these are companies that recruit and offer real career opportunities to all those who share their values and wish to invest in their development.

NEAR is the chain abstraction stack, empowering builders to create apps that scale to billions of users and across all blockchains.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Funding Round, Convertible Note
United States, Canada, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

GAIB — GAIB is the economic foundation for the future of artificial intelligence and computers. GAIB is a crypto-AI platform under development that tokenize GPUs, making AI computing—the processing power required to train and run AI models—more accessible.
idOS — The idOS is an open-source, decentralized identity system empowering users with data security, self-sovereignty, and control in web3 applications.
OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.

Terra is a programmable money for the internet that is easier to spend, and more attractive to hold. Available on all leading blockchains.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Series A, Initial Coin Offering, Seed
United States, Singapore, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

1Konto — 1Konto provides a secure, reliable, and seamless solution to access, trade and settle digital and fiat currencies at the best price through our Web App, API, and OTC desk.
Leap Wallet — Leap is the ultimate crypto wallet for Cosmos blockchains, offering seamless exploration of multiple chains, asset transfers, staking rewards, governance participation, and more. With best-in-class UX design, managing your crypto assets has never been easier. Stay in control with our 100% non-custodial wallet, securely storing your private keys on your computer. Discover the future of crypto wallets with Leap.
Flipside Crypto — Flipside orchestrates blockchain growth through a powerful mix of data science, community activation, and measurable strategies that drive market cap.

MS&AD Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm set upby MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings as its affiliated company.

Investment focus

FinTech, Insurance, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

INSHUR — Simple, flexible, and reliable commercial auto insurance for drivers in the US, UK, and the Netherlands. Discover INSHUR.
Bounti.ai — Bounti streamlines prospecting, quickly elevating response rates and conversion, delivering results in seconds instead of hours.
Energetic Capital — Let us cover the payment default risk on your next Solar Project. Energetic Insurance makes efficient financing possible for financiers, investors and energy service providers with the EneRate Credit Cover solar insurance policy.

WiseNext is a venture and smart capital investment company. We focus on helping young entrepreneurs with innovative ideas that have an impact on our society, providing capital, knowledge and networking.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed
Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

Pleez — Pleez offers Restaurant's an optimisation of their menu within Delivery Platforms, so that they can have a revenue increase up to 25%.
Reckon.ai — Seamless Shopping 24/7 with Reckon.ai. Our AI-powered solution enables autonomous stores, where customers can grab what they want and go, checkout free.
Relive — Relive is empowering the next generation of real estate entrepreneurs, with a mobile app that allows them to work for themselves, from anywhere, while saving time and earning commissions faster.

BH Digital offers institutional investors access to a diverse array of compelling opportunities. Brevan Howard Digital combines Brevan Howard's institutional governance, controls, and risk management with specialized expertise inherent to crypto markets in both investing and business operations.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Time.fun — Time.fun enables creators to tokenize and sell their time and allows creators to monetize direct interactions such as messages or calls.
Morpho Labs — A permissionless and non-custodial lending protocol. Earn interest on over-collateralized lending and borrow digital assets using immutable infrastructure.
Skyfire Systems — Skyfire, a financial stack designed to enable autonomous agentic AI commerce, is to establish the first fully autonomous, open agentic AI economy in history.

Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

KoRo — KoRo is a fast-growing FoodTech startup - one of the leading brands for healthy, long-lasting and sustainable food.
QPLIX Wealth Management Software — QPLIX lets Family Offices, IFAs and Asset Managers consolidate all asset data and streamline controlling, reporting and accounting.
Socium — Socium Job these are companies that recruit and offer real career opportunities to all those who share their values and wish to invest in their development.

CoinFund is a private cryptoasset investor and blockchain research and advisory firm that focuses on crypto and blockchain investments. The firm was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, United States.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Gensyn — The Gensyn protocol provides hyperscale, cost efficient, compute capacity for all deep learning workloads.
Tableland — A 3k generative NFT built from 1,074 handcrafted works of art for the builders and creatives of cyberspace.
Superstate — Superstate is developing the next generation of legal, blockchain-based financial solutions.

Possible Ventures backs ambitious teams building frontier technology to positively impact society. We invest globally in the early stages, actively supporting founders via our collective of global entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Heidi Health — Heidi Health is modernizing primary care with AI-powered technologies to improve care's quality and accessibility. its creators and engineers is to completely eradicate missed and sluggish diagnoses worldwide. They are committed to bridging the gap between the level of care that patients desire and the level of care that doctors can delivergiven their budget constraints. To create a platform where patients can quickly and easily get the treatment they require and to give every clinician the resources they need to deliver care that is secure, efficient,
Zafrens — Zafrens specializes in developing tools and generating insights at the interface of biology, chemistry, and engineering. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Diego, California, United States.
Orbem — We combine accelerated MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) with AI technology to scan, classify, and sort eggs, nuts, seeds, plants, and more.

SharesPro is an independent analyst working on the US stock market, an expert on systematic investment and capital growth. SharesPro has extensive experience in stock markets and in-depth knowledge of investments, mergers, and acquisitions. The firm was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation.

Investment focus

SaaS, Cryptocurrency, Artificial Intelligence
Secondary Market, Seed
United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

TRUE Future — Our goal is to unleash the potential of NFT tokens and provide brands, game developers and users with cross-chain infrastructure to apply real benefits of the technology.
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.
Automation Anywhere — Automation Anywhere is a global leader in Robotic Process Automation, offering cloud-native, web-based, intelligent automation solutions to the world's largest enterprises.

Olisipo Way is an early-stage venture firm that focuses on IT investments. It invests in technology companies with very diverse and complementary skills. The initial portfolio of Olisipo Way comes from the innovation created within the Olisipo through the continuous stimulation of innovation among employees and the incubation of new businessventures.The firm was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Lisbon, Lisboa.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Communities
Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Zharta — Zharta is a peer to pool protocol that enables its users to apply for real-time loans by using NFTs as collateral.
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.
advertio — The customer acquisition platform that empowers your business to grow risk-free, where you only pay per results, not promises.

Betwixt Ventures focuses on bringing together startups with Venture Capital Investors.By raising a pledge fund exclusively targeting investments on early stage startups with high potential, Betwixt Ventures proposes to add value through the following main activities:• Origination, screening, negotiation of deal terms, and monitoring of vettedstartups• Startup follow up, mentoring, consulting and value creation• Attraction of venture capital funds and placement of further investment rounds• Attraction of exit opportunities and facilitation of exit processStarting its capital raise in October 2015, the pledge fund will exclusively target investments on early stage startups typically based out of Portugal. At a second stage, it intends to invest also in Spanish and Italian startups. While no particular industry will be ruled out from the investment scope, the pledge fund will tend to focus on the broad technology and energy sectors. As a pre-requisite, it will either invest in startups previously vetted by other Business Angels, or co-invest in them with other seed or venture capital funds as partners. The focus of the pledge fund will be to invest in the gap between seed and series A rounds. Upon the investment at this stage, Betwixt Ventures will seek to attract further institutional investment rounds, internationally.On top of the pledge fund management, Betwixt Ventures will also offer both financial and general advisory services to startups. The former include either the attraction of venture capital funds for placement of further investment rounds, or the attraction of strategic buyers for potential M&A transactions, mainly in the US market. The later encompass 360 degrees consulting to startups, from marketing & sales, to business development and management.

Investment focus

Drones, Energy, Mobile
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

LOQR — Increase your business and reduce costs with the best AI-Powered Journey-as-a-Service provider for financial institutions.
BladeInsight — BladeInsight offers innovative solutions for wind turbine blade operations and maintenance.

The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) aims to improve the European Union's economic, social, and territorial cohesion by resolving imbalances across its various regions. ERDF funds initiatives for which the European Commission and national and regional governments in member countries share responsibility. Each member state'sgovernment decides which initiatives to support and is responsible for their continued supervision.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Grant, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

Losanje — Losanje has a brand and an upcycling workshop that gives second-hand and unsold completed apparel and textiles a second life. Its goal is to create an innovative manufacturing chain that will allow for the first time the industrialization of upcycling, as well as to implement the most credible solution, both ecologically and economically.
PulmoBiomed — Pulmobiomed has developed a best-in-class exhaled breath condensate device, capable of capturing Covid-19 particles in as little as 5 seconds. Pulmobiomed a biotechnology company is working with industry leaders in integrating their diagnostic capabilities into our PBM-Hale device. Pulmobiomed techn
Knock Technology — The world's simplest video chat app: Improves mental health and boosts innovation. It's a secure, cost effective and peer-to-peer telecoms solution for everyone.

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the co-founder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ZAR — Enjoy borderless banking with a USD Visa card powered by stablecoins. Available in 180+ countries. Sign up for your account today!
The Arena — Arena. social is a cutting-edge SocialFi platform that is revolutionizing how content producers interact, network, and make money from their work.
OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.

Caixa Capital is the Private Equity and Venture Capital arm of banking Group Caixa Geral de Depósitos and has a track record spanning over two decades of activity, since the industry was created in Portugal. It is a leading investor in terms of funds under management, portfolio size and diversity.Caixa Capital´s mission is to invest in fundsand companies, led by highly qualified management teams, with high growth and valuation potential, that enable our funds to achieve an attractive risk adjusted return and for society at large to benefit sustainably from our activity.Currently with more than 700 million Euros under management and a portfolio of over 80 investments, Caixa Capital is a reference in this area with special links to the respective European sector associations.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Portugal, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

HiJiffy — Increase direct bookings and upselling with HiJiffy's AI-powered communication solutions for hospitality.
Probely — Probely is a web application and API vulnerability scanner for agile teams. Automate Security Testing by adding Probely into your SDLC and CI/CD pipelines.
Infraspeak — Infraspeak is an Intelligent CMMS Software that brings outstanding flexibility, connectivity and intelligence to your operations.

Boost VC: The Pre-Seed Fund Making Sci-FI a Reality. Investing in crypto, virtual reality, augmented reality, AI, Ocean Tech, Space Tech, human augmentation, exoskeletons and more.

Investment focus

Software, Virtual Reality, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

forml — Discover how our platform can help your business harness the power of Machine Learning and drive growth. Get started today!
Capa — Capa is an interoperability protocol that connects fiat and blockchains in LATAM.
Sinn Studio Inc. — Swordsman is a physics-based combat game designed for virtual reality. Slash your way through medieval Earth to become the ultimate Swordsman.

EDP Ventures is the venture capital arm of EDP. We invest in early-stage startups working in the energy space

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Energy
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Portugal, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Captura — Captura mission is globally scalable carbon capture to support a sustainable future for the climate.
Splight — Enhance Grid Performance
Delfos Energy — Why did it Fail? Avoid unexpected failures across your assetsReduce the risk of unexpected failuresmoreOptimize Maintenance Windowsmoreretain and scale up operational knowledgemoreplatform real time monitoring, analysis and predictions for renewable energy and oil&gas assetsVIEW OUR APPLICATIONS customer and partnerssee what our customers say about our solutions TestimonialsYour failure prediction alarm, helped us avoid an

We place investments & form partnerships with disruptive visionaries to accelerate their ideas to market.

Investment focus

Finance, Ethereum, Cryptocurrency
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Portugal, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Damex — Whether you're a personal user or a business looking to streamline your operations, with Damex you can manage your digital assets with ease.
Wisdomise — Explore Wisdomise, your all-in-one, AI-powered platform delivering carefully curated insights and automated investment opportunities.
Pulsar Finance — All-in-one platform for your web3 assets - all your tokens, DeFi and NFTs. Start tracking your portfolio across 100+ chains and main CEXes from a single place.

Venture capital management company with moninvestment funds and liquidity for the investors.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Machine Learning
Funding Round, Seed, Secondary Market
Spain, Colombia, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Nailted — The employee engagement platform for modern People & HR teams who deliver the best employee experience
Lico Cosmetics — Lico Cosmetics is a chemical engineer specializing in formulation and high-end cosmetics, supported by women entrepreneurs, specialists in the sector, and passionate about the eco-beauty world.
Product Hackers — The Growth Company. Maximizamos tus ingresos en el canal Digital.

Defiance Capital is a Decentralized Finance (DeFi) focused cryptoasset fund that combines fundamental research with an activist investment approach.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Gomu — Gomu supercharge your app, dapp, wallet with actions and data in NFTs, DeFi, DEX, DAO. Built by a team hailing from Coinbase, CoinMarketCap, Chainlink, Zendesk and Millennium. Request for a demo today.
Fordefi — The MPC wallet platform and Web3 gateway from Fordefi allow institutions to connect to dApps across multiple chains while keeping digital assets secure. Fordefi is the first institutional MPC wallet and security platform designed for decentralised finance. It provides MPC key management, self-service DeFi policy controls, time-of-transaction smartcontract insights, transaction simulation, and risk alerts.
Suberra — Payment protocol for Web 3.0

BiG Start Ventures is an early-stage VC investing globally in B2B Fintech, Insurtech, Regtech and Cybersecurity. Onetier Partners, SCR, S.A.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Portugal, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Fraudio — Fraudio is the ideal partner in Payment Fraud and AML Solutions. We will help you detect, on time, any possible fraudulent transaction.
Beholder — Beholder is an AI-powered remote sensing platform designed for the investigation of vital minerals and energy resources. It uses machine learning to interpret data from satellites in order to create accurate forecasts on mineral deposits at the same time, thanks to remote sensing technology that does not harm the environment and can be scaledwithout restriction.
Jove Insurance — Jove provides business and protection insurance to contractors, freelancers and SMEs, powered by tech and driven by social good.

Early-stage venture capital and resources for startups exploring new frontiers in web3, decentralization, and blockchain technology.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

FleetOperate — FleetOperate is a truck driver marketplace platform that enables drivers to provide on-demand driving services to carriers and shippers. The company's platform offers booking shipment from a particular location with registered truck drivers and permits tracking of their location eliminating the problem of driver shortages, driver turnover, andunseated trucks while maintaining low costs, enabling people to transport their essentials with ease. The carriers and shippers avail Driver-as-a-Service to solve the problem of driver shortages, driver turnover, and unseated trucks while maintaining low costs.FleetOperate was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Light Protocol — Light allows developers to reduce the cost of on-chain state by orders of magnitude without sacrificing the security and performance of the Solana L1.
WeatherXM — Join WeatherXM's global network powered by blockchain. Earn WXM tokens with accurate, hyperlocal forecasts for agriculture, energy, and more.

Maelstrom invests in cool shit with a focus on crypto and digital assets.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Series A
Singapore, India, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
Magma — Magma is a decentralized liquid staking protocol built on the Monad Network, an Ethereum-compatible Layer 1 blockchain.
Fluid Protocol — Fluid Protocol is a decentralized, over-collateralized lending mechanism designed especially for Fuel Network. In order to maximize capital efficiency, Fluid offers users a safe and effective method of releasing liquidity from their collateral without having to liquidate their underlying assets.

Waterdrip capital invests in blockchain industries.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Singapore, Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

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

Galaxy is a digital asset and blockchain leader helping institutions, startups, and individuals shape a changing economy.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Arch — Access instant credit without selling your crypto or equity stake on the platform with best-in-class security and a regulatory-first approach.
Yala — Yala operates a multi-token system and unlocks a thriving and interconnected DeFi ecosystem on Bitcoin.
Chaos Labs — Chaos Labs is a fully automated on-chain economic security system that allows crypto protocols to optimize risk management and capital efficiency while safeguarding user funds. Chaos Labs offers a more secure and safe operating environment for crypto protocols. Chaos Labs uses technology and risk management expertise to help protocols navigate theoften volatile crypto markets and make informed decisions. The platform is currently available for protocols on the Ethereum network, with plans to expand to other blockchains such as Terra, NEAR, and Polygon in the future.

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.

Inflection is a first check venture capital firm exploring new frontiers. We run nodes, govern DAOs and write code. We invest between $500k-$1.5M initially and have a global mandate.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GitPOAP — GitPOAP is a decentralized reputation platform that represents off-chain accomplishments and contributions on chain as POAPs.
Senken — Senken is the world's first on-chain carbon credit exchange based on verified climate projects. Senken is a climate finance portal to the regenerative economy.
Salsa (prev. Pearl) — Meet & Chat throught POAPs. The app to connect with web3 people and brand you care about.

Hypersphere Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in and develops blockchain technology. A Hypersphere is an investment group leveraging on-chain treasuries, decentralized organizations, and governance to increase the utility of the blockchain networks in which we invest.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Canada

Portfolio highlights

PuffPaw — PuffPaw is an e-cigarette maker that uses blockchain technology to track its consumers' smoking behavior.
Kernel — Kernel is leading the way in restaking on the BNB Chain, which is intended to speed up innovation and ecosystem expansion while offering decentralized shared security.
Sentient — Community-built open AGI

HTX serves its 10 million+ users worldwide with secure and stable trading services. Here at HTX, you can buy Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin, SHIB, and over 500 quality cryptocurrencies anywhere, anytime.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, China

Portfolio highlights

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.
Camp Network — Camp Network provides online camp registration and camp management software for all types of events across the United States.

Hashed is a global, early stage venture fund focused on backing founders who are pioneering the future of blockchain and cryptocurrency. Hashed is based in Seoul and San Francisco.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, South Korea, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

GAIB — GAIB is the economic foundation for the future of artificial intelligence and computers. GAIB is a crypto-AI platform under development that tokenize GPUs, making AI computing—the processing power required to train and run AI models—more accessible.
Dfns — Supercharge your platform with keyless custody as a service. One API to generate secure wallets, manage your crypto, sign transactions, set up business rules, monitor security, and more.
Fitogether — Fitogether leads the world trend with advanced data analysis technology in the industry. We provides player analysis solution OHCOACH with global top-level wearable EPTS core technology.

Nuno Job is the co-founder of Decipad.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Portugal, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Upstash — Upstash is a serverless data platform providing low latency and high scalability for real-time applications. Optimize your data infrastructure with Upstash's managed services for Redis, Vector, QStash, and other key data technologies.
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.

Bybit is a cryptocurrency exchange founded in March 2018 to provide a professional platform with an ultra-fast matching engine, excellent customer service, and multilingual community support for crypto traders. The company offers innovative online spot and derivatives trading services, mining and staking products, and API support to retail andinstitutional clients worldwide, and aims to be the most dependable exchange for the emerging digital asset class.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Singapore, Cayman Islands

Portfolio highlights

Hata — Hata is a regulated platform where businesses & consumers can transact and access cryptocurrencies with fiat currency such as the US Dollar & Malaysia Ringgit. Our vision is to enable safe & effortless access to cryptocurrency for all. We're committed to achieve that by providing a reliable platform for all to accesscryptocurrency easily, through our commitment to customers and compliance with regulations. Hata is regulated by the Securities Commission of Malaysia as a Recognised Market Operator (Digital Asset Exchange & Digital Broker) , and the Labuan Financial Services Authority (Malaysia) as a Licensed Money Broker & Payment System Operator. Learn more at : https://hata.io
dvts.network — dvts.network is an ethereum liquidity staking protocol that reduces the initial capital requirements for ethereum validators.
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.

Beta-i is an organization created to boost entrepreneurship, and its mission is to foster a true innovation culture. We help new and established businesses grow, by offering 360º innovation services with 6 main areas: Acceleration, Events, Consulting, Open Innovation, Education and Investment.Internationally recognized as one of the leadingcompanies in this field, and for running Lisbon Challenge, one of Europe’s most active startup accelerators, since 2010 we have received +5000 applications to our several programs and accelerated over 850 startups, that have raised +65M.

Investment focus

FinTech, Computer, Software
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Didimo — Didimo creates realistic high-fidelity digital humans. Simple, fast, accurate user-generated avatars to integrate into your app, game or site.
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.

Tue Lumbye is the Head of Danish Market at Better Collective. He attended Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern Denmark.

Investment focus

Sports, FinTech, Software
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Finland, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Betmarkets — Betmarkets is a web platform that allows bettors to invest in sports betting. Their platform is entirely automated to ensure that they have access to all the best prices and the maximum liquidity, bringing this benefit to all users in a split-second. They operate under an oath of service towards all their users, putting them as their firstpriority. They also prevent problem gambling by putting professionals in charge of the final decision and by ensuring that all behaviour is pre-defined, preventing users from increasing the number of bets and from chasing losses.
Measurelet — Measurelets project a technological toilet for the healthcare sector.
Attractive.ai — Attractive.ai analyse user experience by machine, and with a model that can scale to cover the whole of the web.

UniWhales is a Defi analysis community that monitors and analyzes whale position movements on Uniswap, SushiSwap, 1Inch, Pancake, and other decentralized trading platforms.

Investment focus

Credit, Lending, Online Portals
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Zharta — Zharta is a peer to pool protocol that enables its users to apply for real-time loans by using NFTs as collateral.

Cleverweb is a venture capital investment firm.

Investment focus

Credit, Lending, Online Portals
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Zharta — Zharta is a peer to pool protocol that enables its users to apply for real-time loans by using NFTs as collateral.

We deploy early stage capital to fuel the growth of need-driven health technology companies.

Investment focus

Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Medical
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Austria

Portfolio highlights

basys.ai — Basys.ai automates the process of prior authorization and utilization management to improve costs and timeliness for health plans/payers using an AI-based platform. The proprietary platform automates the process of encoding/digitizing the payer policies using machine learning, thus reducing the piloting timeline by up to 9 months.
Lillian Care — Lillian is building a nationwide network of health facilities in Germany.
ALFIE — AI software platform that provides consistent and automated measurements from radiographic images used to assess spinal disorders.

Banco de Investimento Global, SA is a specialized financial institution which is licensed in all business areas open to the banking sector

Investment focus

Information Technology, Mobile, GovTech
Seed
Portugal, Germany

Portfolio highlights

LOQR — Increase your business and reduce costs with the best AI-Powered Journey-as-a-Service provider for financial institutions.
Drivit — Drivit turns any smartphone into a high-quality telematics device. Power your mobility app with features that will show you the best way to a safer, cheaper and more sustainable driving.
Elucidate — The Elucidate FinCrime Index (EFI) is a financial crime risk quantification platform to build trust and confidence between financial institutions, corporates, and regulators.

FunFair Ventures is a venture capital business .Funfair Ventures funds early stage blockchain projects with a focus on both equity and tokens.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Switzerland, Peru, India

Portfolio highlights

SCRYPT Digital — Your trusted partner for crypto assets
STYLE Protocol — Infrastructure for virtual worlds and connecting games.
Crypto Valley Exchange — The first portfolio risk capable platform for Options & Futures trading in DeFi, offering 1000x+ leverage based on margin offset.

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