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Top 50 Financial Services Startup Investors in Portugal in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 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 January 2026

Investor	Financial Services Portugal investments
Shilling VC	5
SVG Ventures	3
Accomplice	3
Portugal Ventures	2
MSM	2
Start Ventures	2
BREEGA	2
Placeholder	2
Maelstrom	2
Signum Capital	2
Dragonfly	2
Armilar Venture Partners	2
Franklin Templeton	2
Arthur Hayes	2
MS&AD Ventures	1
WISENEXT	1
Waterdrip Capital	1
Partech	1
dlab	1
SOSV	1
Inflection.xyz	1
HTX	1
Hashed	1
Bybit	1
Nina Capital	1
SVG Ventures	1
Instituição Financeira de Desenvolvimento	1
Stableton Financial	1
LC Ventures	1
EDP Ventures	1
Galaxy Digital	1
Wintermute Ventures	1
Solana Ventures	1
Spaceship	1
Hypersphere Ventures	1
Crypto Dog	1
Wintermute	1
European regional development fund (ERDF)	1
Balaji Srinivasan	1
Caixa Capital	1
FunFair Ventures	1
Cetacean Capital	1
DeFiance Capital	1
Greenfield	1
OKX	1
Delphi Digital	1
Banco de Investimento Global	1
UniWhales	1
Terra	1
BH Digital	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

Cafler — Your car's personal assistant. Ask for a Cafler now, we move your car for you!
Nilo — Nilo is a collaborative 3D platform that works across desktop, mobile, Discord, and Telegram. It combines generative AI with world-building tools, allowing users to generate assets, characters, animations, and code from natural language or drawings. The result: a radically simplified creation experience that lowers the barrier to entry andaccelerates how quickly new ideas can be built, tested, and shared.It’s creation at the speed of culture: whether spinning up a game inspired by today’s viral sound, turning a group chat joke into a playable world or crafting a custom hangout, Nilo transforms imagination into interaction — instantly and collaboratively.Nilo’s key features include:Text-to-3D generation: Create characters, environments, and code from prompts or images. Browser-Based: Nilo runs entirely in your browser - no installs, no downloads, no friction. Voice-enabled coding: A built-in AI-powered code editor that supports spoken commands and natural language for playful, social programming. Real-time multiplayer: Co-create and play with friends instantly.Nilo was founded in April 2024, bringing together veterans from Fortnite, Twitch, YouTube, Snapchat, Microsoft, Adobe, Blizzard, VRChat, Rec Room, and major VFX projects such as Avatar and Star Wars.
specter automation — Construction is the second least digitized sector in the world with 96% of all data being unused. Although detailed planning data is created upfront, a lack of suitable digital tools prevents its transfer to the construction site. SPECTER’s web-based construction management software uniquely incorporates the core components of constructionplanning, reducing the organizational burden on construction management and helping to meet project timelines and budgets.

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
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.
Heritable Agriculture — Making plants programmable

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
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bolo AI — At Bolo AI, we are pioneering the future of knowledge management in heavy industries, starting with Oil & Gas. Our groundbreaking platform combines domain-specific models with cutting-edge AI technology to redefine how millions of heavy industry professionals access and create vital knowledge. Our products, Bolo AI Answer and Bolo AI Writer,streamline access to critical information and documentation processes, setting new standards in productivity, safety, and efficiency.
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.
Throne — Throne is a health company that focuses on individual gut wellness and hydration maintenance.

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

AddVolt — AddVolt is a technology based company that tackles markets where there is a high potential for diesel costs reduction through the generation of solar and kinetic energy, while other secondary savings are generated (e.g. maintenance).
Hephaesnus — Hephaesnus is an industrial technology startup dedicated to the development of products and technologies for forest firefighting.
Floating Particle — Floating Particle is a technology and innovation company that drives an innovative solution for waste management and clean energy. Floating Particle specializes in IoT, Big Data and Machine Learning to provide cutting-edge technology to the customers.

MSM is a 45M€ early-stage impact VC fund. We invest in brave founders solving the world’s biggest social and environmental challenges.

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.
GoParity — GoParity is an online savings and investment platform that uses a P2P business model to simplify investment and allow citizens and companies to get a decent return on their sustainable loans. Citizens and companies invest their funds in projects they believe in to generate economic, social and environmental impact.We are driving the transitiontowards a more sustainable and inclusive economic system, making investment in sustainable solutions accessible to all, from citizens to small enterprises. Join us @ www.goparity.com
Win-Win — 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

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United Kingdom, Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

ETHIACK — Identify vulnerabilities before they get exploited. We combine Machine and Human Ethical Hacking for both in-depth and in-breadth security testing.
Zango — Zango is an AI-powered compliance automation platform designed to help financial services firms manage regulatory change across multiple regions, including the UK and EU. Leveraging cutting-edge AI, the platform performs real-time horizon scanning, automated gap analysis, and human validation to ensure accuracy and maintain security andtransparency. Backed by industry-leading investors, it empowers compliance teams to dramatically accelerate processes and reduce manual oversight.
Jove Insurance — Jove provides business and protection insurance to contractors, freelancers and SMEs, powered by tech and driven by social good.

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

Portfolio highlights

Ensol — Ensol offers custom-made photovoltaic installations at low prices as well as personalized guidance assisting homes in selecting the optimum sizes and solar equipment for their needs and maximizing their return on investment.
Pensero AI — Pensero.ai is an AI-powered performance review platform for engineering teams, offering real-time insights, automated analysis, and ongoing feedback. Setup in just 15 minutes to enhance transparency, save managers 50 hrs, and promote a culture of growth.
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.

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

ARX — ARX smart contracts and HaLo chips enable creators build decentralized, immutable and composable physical crypto assets.
Celestia — Celestia is the modular blockchain powering unstoppable applications with full-stack customizability.
Tally — Tally is a DAO operations platform. DAOs use Tally to create and pass proposals, enable delegation, and power voting.

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Aethir — Power Ultra-Low Latency Gaming & AI Experiences.
Elixir — Powering deUSD, a yield bearing and fully collateralized decentralized dollar on the Elixir Network, bringing institutional-grade liquidity to RWAs.
BIO Protocol — The BIO Protocol (BIO) allows onchain scientific communities to fund, build, and co-own research and products in specific biomedical domains including lifespan, brain health, and rare disorders. BIO, founded by senior VitaDAO members, empowers worldwide communities of scientists, patients, and investors to take science into their own hands andbring solutions to life more effectively than traditional pharmaceutical companies.

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.
Zypher Network — Zypher Network, Portal for Revolutionary Fully-on-Chain Games using ZKP & AI

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

Ancient8 — Ancient8 is building an ETH gaming Layer 2 with OP Stack. Ancient8 offers a suite of Web3 gaming infrastructure tools that serve as the distribution and marketing channel for games globally.
Quadrata — Quadrata is a Passport Network that brings the identity and compliance layer to DeFi across existing public blockchains. The company was founded in 2021 by Lisa Fridman and Fabrice Cheng and is headquartered in Marina Del Rey, California.
Nexus — Nexus is a DEX Layer 1, purpose-built to give users around the world access to a new era of verifiable finance.

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

Cintoo — Cintoo is essential for BIM to bridge the gap between your physical and virtual worlds.
Automaise — Radically improve your customer care operations by focusing where the volume is and helping your agents do a better job.
Sword Health — Sword delivers AI Care with clinical oversight to prevent pain, support recovery, and promote whole-body health. Trusted by employers and health plans.

Franklin Templeton is an investment management firm offering mutual funds, ETFs, and wealth management services. The firm provides investment solutions across asset classes, including equity, fixed income, and alternative investments. Through subsidiaries such as Fiduciary Trust Company International and Clarion Partners, Franklin Templeton servesindividual and institutional clients globally.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Stord — Stord offers fulfillment, warehousing, and transportation for DTC and B2B, plus the integrated software you need to provide your end consumers with the best pre-purchase and post-delivery consumer experience. No matter your product, Stord is ready to power your commerce.
CAP Labs — CAP Labs is a stablecoin developer platform that produces various denominations of redeemable stablecoins.
Stable — Stable is a blockchain infrastructure designed to facilitate compliant and predictable USDT transactions.

Arthur Hayes is based out of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island and is the Advisor of Upexi. Arthur previously worked at BitMEX as a CEO. Arthur Hayes attended the University of Pennsylvania.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Oyl — The happiest place on Bitcoin
BSX — BSX is a trading company that offers specializes in options and perpetual futures trading.
JUICE Finance — Juice Finance empowers you to maximize your yield on Blast by using your Blast ETH as collateral to access 300% USDB and ETH leverage to deploy throughout the Blast ecosystem

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ZenAdmin — Optimize your IT operations with ZenAdmin's comprehensive platform, offering device lifecycle management, SaaS oversight, and 24/7 IT support across 150+ countries.
CrediLinq.Ai — CrediLinq.Ai is revolutionizing SME lending using AI and machine learning. They Linq artificial intelligence & machine learning with credit underwriting.
Next Insurance — Protect your small business with NEXT Insurance. Fast quotes. Instant coverage with competitive rates. Totally tailored for 1,300+ professions.

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.

Waterdrip capital invests in blockchain industries.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

HolmesAI — HolmesAI is a decentralised AI agent that offers persona customisation, tool integration, and task-specific agent deployment services.
Kaia — Kaia is a public blockchain that utilizes Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) for enhanced reliability and performance.
aZen Protocol — aZen Protocol is a decentralized infrastructure for ubiquitous computing that utilizes blockchain technology to create a shared economy of computing power. It connects and manages resources globally to form a stable, distributed network that can support various applications such as DePIN, AI and Edge Computing.

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

RockFi — RockFi is a private management company offering wealth management services.
METYCLE — The B2B marketplace for global scrap metal trading. We give the world access to scrap metal.
ai|coustics — ai|coustics is pioneering innovative audio algorithms based on AI and Deep Learning models and fundamentally improving the capabilities of Speech Audio Enhancement in digital communication and media content.

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

API3 — First-party blockchain oracle. Web APIs for trustless apps. Decentrally governed, quantifiably secure data feeds.
dcSpark — Take your first step into the ever-growing world of Blockchain. By focusing on interoperability and composability, we provide a seamless experience for end users.
Daler Trading — Daler is an algorithmic trading firm and crypto market maker specializing in options and futures. We provide liquidity and market-making services for the cryptocurrency ecosystem and Real-World Assets (RWA) across over 30 centralized (CEX) and decentralized exchanges (DEX).

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

Ubitium — Ubiquitous computing, universal RISC-V microprocessor
Lodestar Space — Lodestar is a next-gen robotics company building a fully-integrated solutions to construct, restore and protect high-value assets in space.
Fabric Cryptography — Fabric develops a custom cryptography hardware to accelerate cryptography algorithms. The chips, whose components exclusively serve cryptographic purposes, are based on Verifiable Processing Units (VPUs) which incorporate features of GPUs and ASICs to improve the speed and cost of advanced cryptographic workloads.

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

Lysto — How much does culture influence creative thinking?
Flexity — Flexity provides fast and efficient planning and design services.
Phi Labs — Blockchain tools that empower and reward builders

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, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

EthicHub — EthicHub connect groups of smallholder farmers on a profitable activity, with lenders from all over the world and with direct buyers, creating value to all parties. By combining lending and product sale services we use the coffee as collateral for the loan and improve unit economics. Now it is possible to serve smallholder farmers in a veryprofitable way. EthicHub creates value from mutual benefit: Lenders provide affordable loans to the smallholder farmers (only coffee producers in early stage) and direct buyers (coffee roasters in early stage) offer faire prices for the crops, enabling farmers to have the resources to payback the loans and to get free from the poverty and low productivity cycle.
Hata — 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
Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform

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.

We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the agtech and foodtech industries.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

FarmWise — FarmWise provides technology-based services that allow farmers to streamline farm operations and increase food production efficiency.
Food4All — With the F4A App, you can explore discounted close-to-expiry products at your favourite supermarkets. Act now - save money and say no to food waste.
Napigen — We are the genome editing company specialized for mitochondrial engineering. We address unmet needs of future food supplies by creating hybrid crop plants to boost their yields to an unprecedented level. The company’s technology creates robust male sterile lines that are ideal over conventional lines because of their stability and elitebackgrounds. This allows the production of non-GM hybrid seeds in crop plants that are currently mostly non-hybrid such as wheat. Our technology solution is expected to fulfill the highest level of public acceptance and aspiration.

Instituição Financeira de Desenvolvimento (IFD), with headquarters in Porto, has as its main goal to direct public financial resources, preferentially leveraged by private co-financing, and in particular Financial Instruments (FI) of Equity / Quasi-Equity and Mid- to Long-Term Debt, so that “viable” SME may increase their equity capital andfinance their investments, while developing their activity in industries concerning tradable goods or services, in the start-up, growth or transfer of ownership stages. Created on the 21st of October of 2014 by the Decree-Law No. 155/2014, IFD is a State-owned financial company, registered with the Banco de Portugal under number 316, whose object is to perform operations to mitigate market failures in financing to small and medium enterprises (SME), through the management of investment funds, other autonomous sets of assets or instruments of a similar nature, co-financed by public funds to support the economy, and the performance of credit operations, including issuance of guarantees and other commitments.IFD’s Mission is to design, structure and operationalise financing solutions that address market failures in Portuguese SME access to finance, thus contributing to economic development and to the creation of wealth and employment, with growing volumes of added value.

Investment focus

AgTech, Internet, Software
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Agri Marketplace — A b2b digital marketplace where fair food trade is made easy, fast and transparent!

Explore private blue-chip tech investment opportunities with Stableton. Diversify your portfolio with top private tech companies, offering liquidity, transparency, and growth potential.

Investment focus

FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Secondary Market, Series C, Series D
United States, Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Beekeeper — Beekeeper is the employee app built for frontline success. Connect frontline teams, boost engagement, and make every shift more productive.
Epic Games — Welcome to Epic Games Store! Download and play PC Games of every genre. We have mods, DLC and Free Games too! Games for everyone.
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.

We’re an early stage European venture capital firm partnering with globally minded founders.We’re supportive, founder focused, and aim to work together with you as a close and collaborative team of independent thinkers. Along with the support of our entire network, each member of our team brings their own personal experience to the table. Thefirst ticket is up to 200K€ and the total investment in a given startup can be up to 1M€.We decide investments quickly, allowing the founders to get back focusing on growing the business. Our team and network of international mentors help young startups to scale quickly and to prepare for the next rounds.Our partners have been investing in tech-based startups since 2000 and have a portfolio of more than 100 companies in the USA, Brazil, The Netherlands, Spain and Portugal.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series D
Portugal, China, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Cleanwatts — We simplify, amplify and accelerate energy decarbonization for companies and communities around the world. Our clients call upon us to improve their energy efficiency performance and to increase their access to affordable clean energy. Join Cleanwatts today.
Musiversal — Record your music in real time with world-class session musicians, vocalists, producers and audio engineers
Brands&Ninjas — SaaS to control the performance of physical marketing campaigns on retail.

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 is harnessing the power of the ocean to heal the climate through Direct Ocean Capture technology.
Splight Tech — By creating a new layer of safety for the grid, Splight rapidly unlocks additional transmission capacity on existing infrastructure for IPPs and data centers.
Mixergy — Hot water is central to energy management. We help homes, buildings, and utilities transition to a cleaner, more resilient future.

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, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Bullish Global — Bullish Global is a new blockchain-based cryptocurrency exchange designed to combine the performance, user privacy, and compliance offered by central order book technology with the vertically integrated user benefits of decentralized finance (DeFi) market architecture.
Forward Industries — Solana is built to power global markets. Forward Industries is capitalizing on that momentum with an active Solana treasury strategy built to grow SOL per share and generate long-term shareholder value.
Argo Blockchain — Argo Blockchain (NASD:ARBK), is the First Climate Positive Bitcoin Mining Company. A Pioneer in Using Renewable Power & Innovation in Blockchain Technology

Wintermute Ventures is the investment arm of Wintermute, a global algorithmic trading firm, liquidity provider, and leading OTC desk in digital assets. Drawing from Wintermute's expertise in pioneering DeFi trading and powering liquidity across the entire ecosystem, Wintermute Ventures is uniquely positioned to back early-stage Web3 projectswith hands-on support. Focused on long-term growth, the company takes a flexible approach, investing from early ideation to later-stage expansion. Committed to developing strategic relationships and driving positive outcomes, Wintermute Ventures prioritizes decentralized ownership, ensuring its investments align with the company’s broader vision of a decentralized future. Since 2020, it has invested in over 100 projects.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Zerion — Zerion is an investing app that enables anyone, anywhere in the world, to access a suite of new financial products and services built on the backbone of decentralized finance (DeFi). Simple, user-centered design is combined with a powerful tech stack that aggregates across every major decentralized exchange, offering users a single point of entryfor managing their digital assets with ease. Zerion is non-custodial, which means users never delegate their funds to the platform. This agile approach mitigates centralization risk and has allowed Zerion to operate globally since inception.
Pyth Network — The Pyth network is a specialized oracle solution for latency-sensitive financial data that is typically kept behind the “walled gardens’’ of centralized institutions. The Pyth network is focused on finding a new and inexpensive way to bring this unique data on-chain and aggregating it securely.
Inversion — Inversion is a technology-first investment company that acquires and transforms legacy businesses with blockchain technology.

Solana Ventures' mission is to accelerate the growth of the Solana blockchain and adjacent ecosystems by providing capital to the most promising teams building in the crypto ecosystem.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

FrodoBots Lab — FrodoBots Lab is pioneering advancements in Embodied AI research at the intersection of crypto and gaming.
Starpower — Starpower: On-boarding now, Share 30,000,000 STARs
Exponent Finance — Exponent Finance is a Solana Network DeFi fixed price market that creates time-locked tokens that can generate set returns or be traded for yield.

Spaceship is a global group of crypto natives, founders, builders, and investors. We aim to invest in, support, and $FUEL blockchain start-ups, emerging crypto networks, and decentralized communities.

Investment focus

Credit, Content, Lending
Seed, Series A
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

메이저사이트[마이멜로디] — Securely interpret DeFi and crypto portfolios with Octav's best-in-class cross-chain monitoring & pre-tax facilitator. Maximize efficiency for finance, accounting, tax professionals. Advanced labeling, reporting & reconciliation of DeFi investments. Latest Web3 dashboard. Elevate Decentralized Finance now.
VitaDAO — Join VitaDAO, a community owned collective funding early stage longevity research. We fund and commercialize longevity therapeutics.
Lit Protocol — Lit Protocol is a decentralized access control infrastructure designed to bring more utility to the web.

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, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Canada

Portfolio highlights

PureStake — Blockchain developers and operations experts building cloud-based services and tools for Algorand and other Proof of Stake Networks.
CEA Industries — CEA Industries is an agriculture company that offers indoor cultivation services.
Moonbeam Network — Moonbeam is an Ethereum-compatible smart contract platform on the Polkadot network that makes it easy to build natively interoperable applications.

The Crypto Dog is an angle investor.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Bitcoin
Seed, Funding Round
United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Botanix Labs — Botanix Labs is a fully Ethereum-equivalent second-layer virtual machine built on top of Bitcoin. It unites Bitcoin's market cap with Ethereum's dApp ecosystem to meet its diverse applications, igniting a new frontier.
Nametag — Nametag is a digital collector lens to search the internet for collectors, view their NFTs and Nokens, and badges.
Pichi Finance — Pichi Finance Points are typically stored off-chain and linked to wallet addresses, limiting their tradability on the open market.

A leading algorithmic trading firm focused on building liquid and efficient markets in digital assets.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Pave Bank — The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank
WOO Network — Discover WOO's ecosystem of centralized and decentralized apps to seize every opportunity in crypto.
Silicon Data — Silicon Data is a data product that brings essential intelligence and efficiency to markets.

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 Ltd develops innovative breath-based sampling, enabling rapid, non-invasive detection of respiratory diseases for improved global healthcare.
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.

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

Rhuna — Rhuna is an AI and blockchain platform that transforms event management with NFT ticketing and token rewards.
BridgePort — SaaS, Fintech, Middleware, Trading Infra
Coca Wallet — Coca Wallet operates as a non-custodial payments app.

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 — Empowering businesses with a seamless stablecoin infrastructure that simplifies cross-border payments, treasury management, and financial integration.
Wisdomise — Wisomise is an intelligence-augmented ecosystem, which offers you all you need in order to gain the most out of your Web3 investments, in terms of both better returns as well as more informed risks.
Pulsar Finance — 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.

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

We are long-term backers of early developer teams building toward an open, decentralized and more robust architecture of tomorrow’s web.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, France, Gibraltar

Portfolio highlights

Keyring Network — Keyring equips financial service providers with permissioning tools for compliant transactions on-chain, powered by zero-knowledge privacy. The company operates at the intersection of traditional and blockchain-based finance, serving as an institutional-grade gateway to channel assets, capital, and users on-chain.
Panoptic — Panoptic is a perpetual, oracle-free, instant-settlement options trading protocol on the Ethereum blockchain. Panoptic enables the permissionless trading of options on top of any asset pool in the Uniswap v3 ecosystem and seeks to develop a trustless, permissionless, and composable options product, i.e., do for decentralized options markets whatx*y=k automated market maker protocols did for spot trading.Read the whitepaper behind our product here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.14232
Stroom Network — Liquid staking protocol in bitcoin lignthning network

OKX is the second largest global crypto exchange by trading volume and a leading Web3 ecosystem. With monthly Proof of Reserve releases, OKX is trusted by over 50 million global users. OKX is the fastest and most reliable crypto trading app for professional traders everywhere. - Buy, sell, and trade 350+ tokens with 100+ local currencies -Duplicate moves from top traders in the industry in just one click - Explore Web3 and take control of your crypto, NFTs, and digital assets with the OKX WalletWith its extensive range of crypto products and services, and unwavering commitment to innovation, OKX’s vision is a world where financial access is backed by blockchain and the power of decentralized finance.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Grant
United States, Japan, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Brink — Brink is a Bitcoin research and development centre
Ethena — Enabling the Internet Bond
Lombard — Lombard is committed to leveraging Bitcoin's potential as a dynamic financial tool by integrating it to DeFi collaborating with technological and infrastructural partners on a common, ecosystem-driven aim to bring Bitcoin to DeFi.

Delphi Digital is a leading cryptocurrency research firm, providing cutting-edge insights and updates to a community of over 30,000 investors and venture firms.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Philippines, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

375ai — 375ai is an edge data intelligence network on Solana that provides advanced real-time data collection and analysis to power a smarter, more connected world.
Pyth Network — The Pyth network is a specialized oracle solution for latency-sensitive financial data that is typically kept behind the “walled gardens’’ of centralized institutions. The Pyth network is focused on finding a new and inexpensive way to bring this unique data on-chain and aggregating it securely.
Hyperdrive — Hyperdrive delivers investment growth strategies utilizing a portfolio-centered approach.

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.

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.

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 — Enterprise-grade blockchain data + AI agents that deploy wherever your team works.

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

Legion — Legion makes on-chain fundraising accessible to ordinary investors by ensuring regulatory compliance and investor accountability.
Puffer — Puffer Finance operates as a blockchain infrastructure company.
Injective — Injective is a blazing-fast Layer 1 blockchain for Web3 finance, built for DeFi apps with low fees, cross-chain support, and unmatched scalability.

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