# Top 10 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in Portugal in June 2026 ## Alex Vassiliev - Type: Angel - Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Apps, Baby, EdTech Alex Vassiliev is a Founder and CEO at Elixir Fine Foods. ## Miguel Santo Amaro - Type: Angel - Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Communities, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage Miguel is a tech entrepreneur (Coverflex, StudentFinance, and Uniplaces) and an early-stage tech investor via Shilling (new early-stage €30M Shilling Founders Fund).Miguel is the co-founder & CEO of Coverflex.com. The way we work is changing, but compensation — salary, bonus, equity, and benefits — has not evolved for decades. The currentrigid, one-size-fits-all approach is outdated and fails to satisfy the needs of the modern workforce. Coverflex is changing that. This all-in-one tech-enabled platform enables all companies — regardless of their size — to design, consolidate and personalise their compensation offers beyond salary. Companies can supercharge their employee benefits while saving both time and money. Coverflex calls this “Compensation as a Service”. Miguel is also the founder of Studentfinance.com (edtech startup promoting Income-Share -Agreements (“ISA”) to help increase educational opportunity and empower people to access high-impact careers) & Uniplaces.com (consumer marketplace to mid-to-long term rentals).Miguel is also a Partner, since 2017, in the most active pre-seed and seed VC in Portugal - Shilling.vc - as well as a lead mentor role in Techstars. Since then, Miguel led angel investments in more than 30 early-stage companies in Europe.Miguel is passionate about startups and entrepreneurship and serves as an advisor to a number of early-stage companies around Europe. Since 2017 he is an EO Portugal Founding Member, a peer-to-peer organisation that supports high-impact entrepreneurs across the world. He is married to Flávia and together they have baby Camila. ## Dmitry Shklyar - Type: Angel - Location: Petersburg, Virginia, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Finance, Grocery, Crowdfunding Dmitry Shklyar is the founder of JobTop. Dmitry Shklyar attended Saint Petersburg State University of Finance and Economics in 2002. ## Leonid Dovladbegyan - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Grocery, Food Delivery, Delivery Service Leonid Dovladbegyan is a general director of online hypermarket Vprok.ru. ## Andrey Tsytsenko - Type: Angel - Location: Russia, Ohio, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Grocery, Software, Food Delivery Andrew Tsytsenko is a CEO/Co-founder – Motify App. He attended Université Paris Dauphine - PSL. ## Filipe de Botton - Type: Angel - Location: Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Food Delivery Filipe de Botton ## Cleo Sham - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Apps, mHealth, Wellness Cleo is Spotahome’s Chief Operating Officer. She oversees Spotahome’s global performance, delivery and expansion, and leads operations and customer experience, which covers Spotahome’s unique selling proposition -the Homecheckers, property listings, landlord management, regional development and the tenant experience. Prior to Spotahome, Cleo wasHead of Uber’s Regional Operations EMEA, where she was responsible for ridesharing operations in 45 countries after moving from Director of Operations, China. There she helped to turn Guangzhou, home to 12 million people in southern China, into Uber’s busiest city globally in little more than two years. Prior to Uber, she had worked at Mckinsey, Merrill Lynch and had launched a number of her own startups. Cleo is the first woman to join the Spotahome C-Suite. Cleo is a strong ambassador for women in business and LGBTQ+ inclusivity, recognised by her participation in leading events Women in Technology, EUROUT and Feminin Pluriel. She holds an MBA from Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League institution, where she was a Joseph Wharton Fellow, and graduated from Rice University with a triple-major in Economics, Managerial Studies and Sports Management. In her spare time, Cleo has a passion for sports, especially surfing and tennis. She speaks English, Cantonese, Mandarin, German and Spanish. ## Timo Meyer - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Restaurants, Food and Beverage Timo Meyer is the Founder & Managing Director at Shio Capital.He attended DSTY. ## Alexandre Relvas - Type: Angel - Location: Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Food Delivery Alexandre Relvas ## Cristina Fonseca - Type: Angel - Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, CRM Cristina is a female software engineer and entrepreneur. She holds a Master’s degree in Telecommunications and Software Engineering from the Technical University of Lisbon and before founding Talkdesk she worked as a researcher and built two other online businesses.Talkdesk is a platform that allows you to you create your call center in minutesand integrate it with a variety of top business tools, including Salesforce, Desk.com and Zendesk. Talkdesk raised more than $24M in the last 2 years from Salesforce Ventures, DFJ, Storm Ventures and 500Startups.Cristina leads the Talkdesk Lisbon office and her areas of focus include engineering, product and knowledge management. Cristina is proud of the role woman play in technology and society today. She is a Global Shaper and part of the Global Agenda Council on Europe, a World Economic Forum initiative.