Top 50 Hardware VC Funds & Investors in Portugal (August 2026)
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Portugal Ventures
VC Fund
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21 | Portugal, United States, France | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $107k–$2M |
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Iberis Capital
VC Fund
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6 | Portugal, United States, Spain | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $107k–$23M |
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LC Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Portugal, United Kingdom, Poland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $11k–$12M |
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Faber
VC Fund
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5 | Portugal, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS | $29k–$25M |
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Bynd Venture Capital
VC Fund
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5 | Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $483k–$50M |
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EDP Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Portugal, United States, Brazil | Seed, Series A | Energy, Software, Information Technology | $355k–$14M |
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Armilar Venture Partners
VC Fund
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5 | Portugal, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $520k–$17M |
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Caixa Capital
VC Fund
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5 | Portugal, United States, Spain | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $120k–$23M |
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Momenta Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Switzerland, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $1.5M–$60M |
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HCapital Partners
VC Fund
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4 | Portugal, Italy, Spain | Seed, Series A | Software, Power Grid, Artificial Intelligence | $1.2M–$9.5M |
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Novabase Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Portugal, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Analytics | $576k–$3M |
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Shilling VC
VC Fund
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3 | Portugal, Spain, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $125k–$20M |
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Indico Capital Partners
VC Fund
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3 | Portugal, United States, Spain | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, E-Commerce, B2B | |
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Lince Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Portugal, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $859k–$16M |
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Brpx
VC Fund
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3 | Portugal, United States, Spain | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $318k–$15M |
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Bright Pixel Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Portugal, Israel | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $1.2M–$35M |
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REDangels
VC Fund
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2 | Portugal, United States, Poland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Mobile, Machine Learning, Internet of Things | $11k–$1.6M |
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BlueCrow Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Portugal, United Kingdom, Spain | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A | Information Technology, SaaS, Manufacturing | $697k–$18M |
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Explorer Investments
VC Fund
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2 | Portugal, Spain, Brazil | Private Equity, Seed, Series A | Manufacturing, Retail, Health Care | $2.1M–$16M |
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200M
VC Fund
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2 | Portugal, Brazil, France | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Apps | $2.7M–$6.5M |
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WISENEXT
VC Fund
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2 | Portugal, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Internet | $100k–$1.8M |
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Spider Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1.5M–$50M |
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Olisipo Way
VC Fund
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2 | Portugal, Lithuania | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, InsurTech, Financial Services | $118k–$6.5M |
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GED Ventures Portugal
VC Fund
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2 | Portugal, France, Germany | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $1.5M–$38M |
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EIT Urban Mobility
VC Fund
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2 | Spain, Sweden, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Transportation, Information Technology | |
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Innovation Nest
VC Fund
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2 | Poland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, E-Commerce | $25k–$11M |
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Grupo Lusiaves service
VC Fund
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2 | Sweden, Portugal | Seed, Post-IPO Equity, Venture - Series Unknown | Computer, Consumer, Software | $81k–$330k |
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Superlyst Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, Portugal | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Machine Learning, Privacy | $1.5M–$4.4M |
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Seaya
VC Fund
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1 | Spain, United States, France | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Internet, Financial Services | $1.6M–$55M |
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FORWARD.one
VC Fund
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1 | The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden | Seed, Series A | Software, Semiconductor, Information Technology | $2.7M–$21M |
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Google Assistant Investments
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning | $500k–$11M |
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Betwixt Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Portugal | Seed | Drones, Energy, Mobile | $154k–$1.2M |
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LeadX Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, France, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Software, SaaS, E-Commerce | $120k–$16M |
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Critical Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Portugal, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1.2M–$19M |
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Korys
VC Fund
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1 | Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany | Series B, Series A | Biotechnology, Renewable Energy, Information Technology | $4.4M–$50M |
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Wayra
VC Fund
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1 | Spain, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $103k–$16M |
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Construtech Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Brazil, Portugal | Seed, Pre-Seed | Real Estate, Software, Construction | |
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Verizon Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Israel, Canada | Series B, Series A | Software, Mobile, SaaS | $3M–$35M |
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Beta-i
VC Fund
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1 | Portugal | Pre-Seed | FinTech, Computer, Software | |
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Herrick Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Portugal | Series A | Software, Electronics, Virtual Reality | |
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Keensight Capital
VC Fund
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1 | France, Germany, United States | Private Equity, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing | |
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Dispatch Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, Financial Services | $125k–$20M |
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EIT Health
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, Spain, Ireland | Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed | Health Care, Medical Device, Medical | $22k–$1.7M |
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Critical SGPS
VC Fund
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1 | Portugal | Seed | Computer, Software, Information Technology | |
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Firstminute Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $650k–$30M |
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Oxy Capital
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1 | Italy, Portugal | Private Equity | VoIP, Software, Wireless | |
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Delta Blockchain Fund
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Switzerland, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software | |
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Kamay Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Mexico, Colombia | Pre-Seed, Seed | FinTech, Lending, Restaurants | |
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Metro
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United States | Series A, Seed, Series C | Hospitality, Restaurants, Retail | |
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Atlante
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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
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Portugal, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 295
- Round size: Seed $110k–$2M; Pre-Seed $107k–$547k
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2011
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).
- Unlockit — Unlockit will offer to public and governmental bodies the guarantee that everything within a real estate transaction is recorded, meaning better industry regulation, more taxes and public fees collected, and less overall fraud and money laundering activities.
- Logical Safety — IoT safety for a safer, more productive workforce
Iberis is an investment manager that operates a value-oriented investment management.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Portugal, United States, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $107k–$4.4M; Series A $5.3M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Reckon.ai — Whether you're building an unattended store or supplying the equipment behind it, Reckon's patented AI technology transforms existing infrastructure into smart, autonomous assets.
- Jscrambler — Jscrambler is the leading client-side security solution for JavaScript in-app protection and real-time webpage monitoring. Start your free trial today!
- CorPower Ocean — CorPower Ocean AB was founded in 2009 to develop high efficiency Wave Energy Converters (WECs).CorPower's Wave Energy Converters deliver five times higher annual energy output per ton of device compared to previously known wave power solutions. The step-change improvement in performance and efficiency allows a Cost-of-Energy that cancompete with offshore wind. The products are currently in pilot with Iberdrola. CorPower has assembled a team with extensive experience in energy generation, design and manufacturing of production equipment, system engineering as well as the market expertise to allow us to continue transforming the technology of tomorrow into renewable energy applications of today.
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.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Portugal, United Kingdom, Poland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Seed $262k–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $11k–$600k; Series A $5.4M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $17M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Lyzer — The groceries marketplace where you can find everthing you need. Buy online groceries as fast as in 4 hours with personalized picking.
- Musiversal — Record your music in real time with world-class session musicians, vocalists, producers and audio engineers
- Primetag — AI-native influencer & creator marketing platform for brands & agencies. Find the best creators, analyse the market and competitors, and measure campaign performance.
Faber is a Lisbon-based venture capital firm investing in outstanding entrepreneurs who innovate at the intersection of science and technology to drive digital transformation and climate action. The firm combines a specialist focus on deep tech early-stage startups with dedicated funds, investment teams and expert advisors to actively helpfounders build global companies powered by AI/Data, Web3 or Ocean/Climate technologies.Faber’s unique approach in Southern Europe is led by an entrepreneurial management partnership and backed by notable thesis-driven institutions and private investors. Investing since 2013, the firm has been an early investor in hard tech companies such as Unbabel, SWORD Health, Codacy, iLoF or YData.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Portugal, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 97
- Round size: Seed $549k–$5.2M; Pre-Seed $29k–$3M; Series A $2.5M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Porelio — Porelio is an environmental technology that provides purification technologies for water and industrial chemicals.
- ATMOS Space Cargo — ATMOS Space Cargo develops and manufactures space capsules to return cargo from space, microgravity experiments, Commercial products to entire rocket stages.
- InSpacePropulsion Technologies — Cost-effective, robust, and quickly available propulsion solutions, based on 10+ years of R&D and 40 years of combined experience in space propulsion.
Bynd is a leading Iberian Venture Capital firm
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $483k–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $552k–$2.1M; Series A $2.3M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $11M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Pollen — Electric mobility for lightweight vehicles is about to get simpler, more affordable and more reliable.
- Wio Capital — Wio Capital is a wealthtech company that builds an AI-powered wealth management platform for financial advisors, offices, and bankers.
- Spacebackend — Lynapse by Spacebackend unifies interface modeling, version control, testing, and validation. Convert ICDs into traceable, deterministic implementations with human-in-the-loop review.
EDP Ventures is the venture capital arm of EDP. We invest in early-stage startups working in the energy space
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- Industry: Energy, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Portugal, United States, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Round size: Seed $355k–$4.1M; Series A $2.5M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $8M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Spotlite — Spotlite combines satellite data with AI to predict infrastructure risks before they become problems.
- 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
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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Portugal, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 114
- Round size: Seed $520k–$3.8M; Series A $4M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $53M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Airflows — Airflows is a platform offering private AI solutions for back-office operations, enabling the creation of applications, workflows, and agent assistants from documents, rules, and approvals while maintaining full control, auditability, and integration with existing systems like ERP, ECM, and BPM.
- Neuraspace — Focus on fewer alerts with more time to manoeuver, with a scalable AI/ML solution from Neuraspace
- DOJO AI — The only tool you need to grow your Brand.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Portugal, United States, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $120k–$3M; Series A $3M–$12M; Series B $1.1M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Veniam — Transfer 10x more data for your video telematics, fleet operations, industrial IoT or connected vehicles.
- Growappy — Growappy is an EdTech that offers an all-in-one platform for early education that is leading a vision to unlock personalized education since nursery with the power of AI, while providing a revolutionary communication experience between schools and families and drastically simplifying bureaucracy for teachers and school owners.
- Infraspeak — Infraspeak is an Intelligent CMMS Software that brings outstanding flexibility, connectivity and intelligence to your operations.
Momenta is the leading Industrial Impact® venture capital firm, accelerating industrial innovators across energy, manufacturing, smart spaces, and the supply chain. For over a decade, our team of deep industry operators has helped scale industry leaders and innovators to improve critical industries, the environment, and people's quality oflife. PitchBook has ranked Momenta as one of the ten best-performing venture capital firms for 2023 in its prestigious Global Manager Performance Score League Tables, and the firm is the only European-headquartered VC to secure a Top 10 spot on the list.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Switzerland, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 94
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5.4M; Series A $2.5M–$23M; Series B $21M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Continual — RADCOM gives 5G operators end-to-end subscriber visibility, AI-driven automation, and up to 70% lower TCO from the RAN to the core. See the platform in action.
- Thingstream — Thingstream is a leading provider of IoT Communication-as-a-Service for the Internet of Things applications. Thingstream’s intelligent Global Communication Platform provides low power, low cost, ubiquitous IoT communication via MQTT and works in over 190 countries already today. The secure, out-of-the-box IoT communication solution leverages theglobally-available GSM network to offer immediate, global IoT connectivity that no other low power connectivity provider can today. Thingstream specialises in helping simplify IoT communication, reducing costs and operational overheads in the delivery of an intelligent network of connected things. For more information visit https://thingstream.io.
- Decision Engines — Decision Engines provides robotic process automation for your finance processes such as AP, AR, Credits etc. for unprecedented operational efficiencies.
We are an independent private equity firm, investing in a broad spectrum of companies through dedicated funds.
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- Industry: Software, Power Grid, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Portugal, Italy, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$4.8M; Series A $4.7M–$9.5M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $23M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Reefilla — Reefilla EV charging services: recharge your car anywhere, anytime
- Automaise — AI Agents that automate, assist, and accelerate customer service operations. See how Automaise helps enterprise teams resolve more, escalate less, and deliver results within weeks.
- Dingoo — Dingoo is an e-commerce company that uses AI to deliver retail groceries to consumers on same day without any restrictions.
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Browse database — It's Free!Novabase Capital, Sociedade de Capital de Risco, SA is a venture capital firm owned entirely by Novabase SGPS, SA. Its main purpose is to find and support Portuguese ICT business projects – in early development or expanding – with high potential. Novabase Capital has an unique, specific expertise and a long track record in the development oftechnology-based SMEs throughout Portugal.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Portugal, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $576k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $13M in 2011
Portfolio highlights
- WEEZIE — Weezie offers all-in-one fiber network management software focused on the automation and digitalization of all internal processes.
- Glartek — Glartek is a technology-enabled services company focused on Industrial Internet of Things and Augmented reality solutions. With their experience in development solution for industry and their knowledge in field management, they are able to provide the best expertise in cloud analytics and augmented reality tools for the industry.
- HypeLabs — HypeLabs is the company that created the Hype SDK, an interoperable mesh networking software that improves connectivity on all kinds of devices, from mobile to desktop to IoT, allowing them to connect even when there is no internet. The software works by intelligently connecting devices in local mesh networks using existing connectivitytechnologies, such as Bluetooth, WiFi, LoRa and others. This network enables content to securely hop between devices, until it reaches a destination or an Internet exit point, improving range and deliverability.Founded in 2016, the company is located in San Francisco (USA), Porto (Portugal), London (UK) and Krakow (Poland). AngelPad #10 (Spring '16) alumni & Deutsche Telekom WARP alumni.
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.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Portugal, Spain, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 107
- Round size: Seed $603k–$5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3M; Series A $5M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Tucuvi — Tucuvi is a health technology company unlocking efficient and high-quality healthcare at scale with a CE-marked platform for Phone Consultation Automation. We develop safe and clinically validated Conversational AI for any care pathway, enabling clinical teams to augment their capacities, improve processes’ efficiency and efficacy, and achievebetter patient outcomes and satisfaction through continuous and personalized care.
- Balance — Balance is a private digital health company based in Spain that operates in the clinics and outpatient healthcare services sector. company's core mission is to provide an integrated, medical, and sustainable approach to treating obesity and overweight conditions. Moving away from traditional restrictive diets, the company leverages asubscription-based telehealth model combined with clinical pharmacology.
- Punto Health — AI-powered digital platform for management of Alzheimer's and other dementias.
Indico Capital Partners is the leading independent Venture Capital firm in Portugal investing in global technology companies. Indico focuses on software as a service, artificial intelligence, internet of things, fintech, cybersecurity and digital companies, targeting investments at Seed to Series A level. Founded in 2017, the team at Indico werepreviously behind the majority of the Portuguese global tech success stories, as investors and entrepreneurs.Headed by the two most senior former Caixa Capital VC Team members, supported by a successful and experienced entrepreneur and a strong group of advisors, top entrepreneurs, they raised our first fund (authorized by the Portuguese Securities Market Commission - CMVM) from a cornerstone institutional investor (EIF) and international family/multi-family offices from Europe, US, and Australia. In addition to Silicon Valley, London, and Berlin, cities like Lisbon have emerging startup ecosystems. Portugal went through a difficult macro environment years ago which led to a growth in the entrepreneurship culture and investment. We have excellent tech graduates and a global mindset.Highly innovative companies like luxury eCommerce platform Farfetch, YC graduate machine learning translation platform Unbabel or the leading student accommodation marketplace Uniplaces have a strong Portuguese DNA and went to raise international rounds in the UK and the US - we want to back the next success stories of the ecosystem.
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- Industry: Information Technology, E-Commerce, B2B
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Portugal, United States, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- FRVR — FRVR brings captivating games to billions of players instantly.
- Indie Campers — Indie Campers offers adventurers the opportunity to start their journey in one location and end it in any of our other depots, while delivering an outstanding customer service for a unique and unforgettable experience.
- Oceano Fresco — Oceano Fresco develops and produces bivalves varieties with superior performance for shellfish farmers at a competitive cost, respecting environmental sustainability and ensuring consumer safety.They use a multi-disciplinary approach including expertise in molecular biology, genetics, animal physiology, computational biology and intellectualproperty to select value adding traits to shellfish farmers and contribute to the sustainability and profitability of the aquaculture industry.They work with hatcheries, nurseries and research centers in order to test and validate their solutions and ensure that they suit the specific needs of each customer, in each technical and environmental context.
Lince Capital is an independent venture capital company. Lince Capital was born from the experience of a family group with over 30 years of experience in managing investment funds in various business areas, including real estate, infrastructure, agriculture, and telecommunications.Lince Capital is distinguished by its personalized and excellentsupport, close and direct relationship with each of its investors and business partners, and the dedication of an experienced and dynamic team.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Portugal, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $859k–$6.8M; Series A $2.1M–$16M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.3M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BIZAY — Bizay enables the world’s largest catalogue of customizable products. Its technology platform operates across Europe, South and North America, and digitalizes the booming and huge industry of product customization by empowering brands, people and societies to self-express. It enables local manufacturers, brands, and wholesalers to offercustomization on any product in the world and reduces the cost of production by half through batching and supply-chain optimization technologies. Our platform/technology is aimed at three customer targets:(i) B2B2C provides a platform for businesses to design and sell customized products from Bizay’s existing product catalogue, with the four main customer segments: Resellers, Content Creators (Independent artists, influencers or event or managers that want to sell customized merchandise with their branding, designs or artwork), e-Commerce entrepreneurs (Small entrepreneurs that aim to expand their catalogue and upgrade their business by adding customized products to their online stores), as well as big household brands & enterprises (well-established business in need of a partner that is capable of handling large volume of customized products orders or to expand their existing offer)(ii) B2B, which is focused on SMBs, provides an extensive product catalogue for customized products to be used in several industries (ex: uniforms for restaurants and bags for retail shops) (iii) Customization-as-a-Service (CaaS), where clients (typically major brands) capitalize on Bizay’s technology, expertise, customization options, techniques and offline suppliers to customize their own products
- Nutrium — Nutrium is the most up-to-date nutrition software for dietitians and nutritionists to manage their nutrition business with nutritional assessment, meal planning and progress tracking.
- Neuraspace — Focus on fewer alerts with more time to manoeuver, with a scalable AI/ML solution from Neuraspace
A prominent European venture capital in Retail Technologies, Digital Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and Emerging Technologies
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Portugal, United States, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $409k–$2.4M; Pre-Seed $318k–$1.3M; Series A $7.2M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Chord — Chord is a commerce data platform purpose-built for modern brands. Chord enables brands to unify, synthesize, and orchestrate their data to drive radical decisions and revenue.
- Didimo — Didimo creates realistic high-fidelity digital humans. Simple, fast, accurate user-generated avatars to integrate into your app, game or site.
- 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.
Bright Pixel Capital (former Sonae IM) is the technology investment arm of the multinational group Sonae. With special focus on cybersecurity, infrastructure software, retail technologies, business applications and emerging tech, it has a portfolio of more than 60 companies, from early to growth stages. Bright Pixel acts as a partner that bringsspecialized know-how, global footprint, and a wealth of experience in helping companies from early stage to IPO.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, Portugal, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 106
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.3M; Series A $5.4M–$15M; Series B $15M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EatTasty — Eattasty combina hechos y perspectiva para una cobertura completa y comprensible.
- Bria — Bria is a Computer Software company.
- Mesh Security — Mesh Security is the industry’s first complete Zero Trust Posture Management (ZTPM) SaaS platform, a single source of truth that enables companies to implement a unified Zero Trust Architecture on top of their existing stack. Without using agents, Mesh effortlessly and seamlessly maps a company’s entire cloud XaaS estate in minutes, providing fullcontextual visibility, control, and protection of the Everywhere Enterprise.
They believe the unbelievable and trust the untrustable.
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- Industry: Mobile, Machine Learning, Internet of Things
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Portugal, United States, Poland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $110k–$1.6M; Angel $55k–$181k; Pre-Seed $11k–$55k
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wall-i — Wall-i is a programmatic outdoor advertising network, that displays ads on screens for segmented audiences, by age, gender, location, and market. Wall-i aims to be the Google Ads of the outdoor advertising. By combining plug-and-play screen incorporation and audience recognition technology (age, gender and mood), with a CPV /CPM businessmodel, it enables real-estate owners to monetize LCD screens and tablets with ads.
- Musiversal — Record your music in real time with world-class session musicians, vocalists, producers and audio engineers
- UpLink — Tellent Recruitee helps you hire faster, work better together, and win top talent without the bottleneck; powered by AI-driven features.
BlueCrow Capital is a venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Information Technology, SaaS, Manufacturing
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Portugal, United Kingdom, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $697k–$10M; Series A $6.5M–$16M; Venture - Series Unknown $8.2M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bighub — The All-in-One Platform for european marketplace growth. Integration, Catalog SEO, Pricing, Financing, Logistics, Helpdesk, and Resale.
- Bling Energy — Bling Energy is a startup that focuses on providing more efficient and sustainable energy solutions, mostly through solar panels.
- TWEVO Technologies — Solutions for i4.0 | Detection + Supervision + Control State-of-the-art AI video processing and encoding, ultra-fast Edge-AI electronics implementations complement and strengthen real-time factory worker responses, optimised video processing and transmission to provide full video information on the factory floor.
Founded in 2003, Explorer is Portugals leading independent management company of alternative assets, with a reputation for outstanding quality, in-depth experience and an excellent track record.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Retail, Health Care
- Stage:Private Equity, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Portugal, Spain, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$11M; Series A $6.9M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- 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
- Neuraspace — Focus on fewer alerts with more time to manoeuver, with a scalable AI/ML solution from Neuraspace
- Spotlite — Spotlite combines satellite data with AI to predict infrastructure risks before they become problems.
200M is a Portuguese public fund of 200 million euros designed to co-invest with the best VCs from around the world in startups which are growing their business out of Portugal.
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- Industry: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Portugal, Brazil, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$6.5M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sensei — We are the leading European provider of autonomous stores, with an AI-powered solution to build efficient operations and deliver a seamless shopping experience.
- Coverflex — Coverflex is a compensation management platform for teams to manage and enjoy multiple benefits. 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 everypart of compensation beyond salary — benefits, insurance, meal allowance, and exclusive discounts — while empowering people to spend on what suits them best.
- Sound Particles — A CGI-like software for Sound Design, capable of using particle systems to generate thousands of sounds in a virtual 3D world
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Browse database — It's Free!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.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Portugal, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $478k–$1.8M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
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%.
- Volup — Volup is a premium food delivery app that partners exclusively with top-tier chefs and restaurants.
- MindProber — Not all impressions are created equal. Understand the emotional impact of your content. Learn about Mediaprobe - Next-gen media measurement.
Spider Capital is a seed-stage enterprise venture capital focused on the digital transformation of industry.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 83
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4.7M; Series A $7M–$19M; Series B $5.2M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Cimba.ai — Cimba.AI, the Gen-AI-native platform that gives enterprises the power to create custom adaptive AI agents that can produce deep insights and recommend and trigger business actions based on internal data and knowledge base. The platform leverages self-training artificial intelligence that learns and adapts to an organization’s unique knowledgebase(i.e., dashboards, query history, metadata, playbooks, etc.), providing business decision makers with customizable AI agents that generate both insights and recommended next steps (i.e., which ten deals we should focus on this week?) to take based on their data (i.e., Snowflake)
- Oliv AI — Elevate your sales team's performance with Oliv and get deep insights into rep activities and sales strategies, plus timely alerts on deal progress and buyer intent.
- CoLab Software — The only tool purpose-built to simplify design reviews for engineering teams building complex products.
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.
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- Industry: Software, InsurTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Portugal, Lithuania
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $118k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DoJob.ai — Hybrid Intelligence Innovation Project
- OSCAR — OSCAR offers a variety of fixed-price home services, including maintenance, cleaning, laundry, and beauty services, all accessible through a user-friendly app. Customers can easily schedule appointments for these services, with options available for immediate bookings. Additionally, OSCAR provides repair services for household appliances likewashing machines and boilers, ensuring convenience for users. The platform streamlines the process of finding and scheduling necessary home services, catering to the needs of busy individuals and families. Through its comprehensive service offerings, OSCAR simplifies home management for its users.
- Fluxe Insurance Software — FLUXE develops AI software based to build digital tools for claim automation aligned with the challenges of the insurance industry!
GED Ventures Portugal is an Investment firm.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Portugal, France, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $12M–$38M
- Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rofim — Rofim provides a multidisciplinary platform that combines practitioners' knowledge, technology for analyses, and medical imaging to provide a diagnosis. In order to share knowledge and provide the most accurate and timely diagnosis possible, Rofim concentrates on all the functionalities created for fluid medical use. The company is dedicatedto making the daily lives of physicians, patients, and medical institutions easier, more moral, and more seamless.
- Hoopers — Global basketball community platform connecting players, fans and enthusiasts through products, contents, experiences and NFTs.
- PluggableAI — FAN OF THE MATCH transforms fan passion in live events, sports, and media into AI-driven insights that boost engagement and create new revenue opportunities
EIT Urban Mobility is an initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union. Europe’s leading community for impact-driven start-ups and scale-ups in urban mobilityWe want to move cities toward a more sustainable future by partnering up with start-ups and scale-ups like yours. Our Impact Venturesdivision gives you access to funding and support channels to deliver financial, environmental and social impact on the urban landscapes around us. Our tools are: Funding through grants and equity investments, Knowledge and training through partner-led programmes, networking and introductions through dedicated support to our equity portfolio companiesOur investments provide you with a boost on your growth journey, and our network connects you with the right stakeholders in the public policy sector — on a regional, national and European-wide scale — to put your company on the map and bring your urban mobility services to the people who need it the most.If you’re like us and have a drive to shape the cities of our future, join our community of engaged and esteemed impactful ventures by applying for one of the many different programs we offer.
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- Industry: Software, Transportation, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Spain, Sweden, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Smart Point — We are entering the age of convenience and immediacy. A Smart Point automates the reception of any product you shop online, and any service available in your city, from pharmaceuticals, to flowers and dry cleaning. All delivered in 1 hour and available to pick up at your convenience.
- Parabol — As Parabol, we use our innovative power for smart mobility systems and traffic safety all over the world.
- Fastlane — Discover seamless logistics control with our cutting-edge transport management software. Streamline operations, optimize routes, and enhance efficiency effortlessly. Try our solution for comprehensive control today!
Innovation Nest invest in early stage B2B SaaS startups from Europe and help them grow from local to global using our network of contacts and strong in-house competencies. It strongly believes that the path to growth leads through Silicon Valley and strongly encourage our portfolio startups to set up presence there. The company supports high-techcompanies to grow faster and scale their business globally.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Poland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $25k–$2.5M; Series A $4.5M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $12M in 2011
Portfolio highlights
- Infraspeak — Infraspeak is an Intelligent CMMS Software that brings outstanding flexibility, connectivity and intelligence to your operations.
- AI Clearing — AI-powered platform for construction progress tracking and quality control, supporting contractors and asset owners in energy, utilities, infrastructure, and civil construction projects.
- Meisterwerk — B2B SaaS Operating System for SMB field service and craftsman companies
Lusiaves Group, founded in 1986 in Marinha das Ondas (Figueira da Foz), has continuously invested in vertical integration of the poultry sector to ensure full control of the entire animal production process. The verticalization of the industry is made possible by a commitment to continual learning about the poultry market and through the adoptionof agrifood innovation, food quality and safety, animal health and nutrition, sustainability, and human resources as the cornerstones of its operations. Those bets enabled the Lusiaves Group to grow and expand, combined with solid teamwork, supported by career advancement, and the ability to continually improve individual and collective work daily.
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- Industry: Computer, Consumer, Software
- Stage:Seed, Post-IPO Equity, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Sweden, Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Post-IPO Equity $81k–$330k
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Meight — Run your cargo on budget and on time with a few simple clicks, from your laptop. Forget phone calls, driver headaches, hardware and tech nightmares, forever.
- Scandi Standard — Welcome to Scandi Standard. We want to inspire you to choose chicken: a good, healthy choice, which is ideal for today’s consumers. We sell the finest Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish chicken under the Kronfågel, Danpo, Den stolte Hane and Naapurin Maalaiskana brands. We are the leading chicken producer in the Nordic region, serving thedomestic and export markets.In June 2013, we created the Nordic region's market-leading chickenbased product group when Scandi Standard was established. The Company was created by gathering the largest poultry operations in the region into one collective group. At present, the Group has an annual turnover of approximately SEK 5.2 billion and almost 1,700 employees.
Superlyst Ventures is a seed-stage investment collective, backed by an ecosystem of successful entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Software, Machine Learning, Privacy
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kertos — Kertos is a software company that develops and provides a holistic compliance platform in Europe, implementing automation and execution in a highly regulated environment focusing on the operational needs for all stakeholders involved. With their focus on product, integration, and automation they enable businesses to scale, to adopt and to maneuverin modern tech environments with only a fraction of the current workload. They drive consumer engagement and help companies to interact with their customers in sensitive matters.
- Meight — Run your cargo on budget and on time with a few simple clicks, from your laptop. Forget phone calls, driver headaches, hardware and tech nightmares, forever.
Seaya is an European VC investing in exceptional entrepreneurs who build global tech companies.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Spain, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 107
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$10M; Series A $3.8M–$25M; Series B $4M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $341M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Adsmurai — Adsmurai presents the solution to plan, launch, measure, and scale your Paid Media campaigns across all platforms.
- NeuralTrust — NeuralTrust is the leading security platform for generative AI, offering a unified command center for real-time defense and offense. Its open source AI gateway delivers the fastest performance in the market for managing LLM traffic, while its automated red teaming engine proactively uncovers vulnerabilities, ensuring robust protection for your AIsystems.
- Restaurantes.com (formerly Restalo) — Restalo.es ahora es @RestaurantesCom
We are a leading non-profit establishing new relationships between agriculture and nature. Protecting the natural world and treasured wildlife.
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- Industry: Software, Semiconductor, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$6.3M; Series A $4.4M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $170M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Zuriq — We are building a quantum computer with scalability at its heart. Trapped-ion qubits with freedom to move and connect.
- Villari — Villari delivers wireless structural health monitoring technology. Our crack detection system monitors critical locations of the structure: identified cracks, crack indications, or high stress locations. With Villari you can monitor fatigue cracks in steel welds continuously.
- Delft Advanced Biorenewables — We enable the bio-economy by improving the productivity of fermentations with our in-situ product recovery (ISPR) technology.
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Browse database — It's Free!They are looking to invest and work closely with early-stage companies that are moving the voice and assistance ecosystem forward. If your company is developing technologies that broaden the Assistant’s set of features, building new hardware devices for digital assistants, or focusing on a particular industry such as travel, games, or hospitality,we'd like to hear from you.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3M; Series A $3M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Satisfi Labs — Satisfi Labs provide digital workforces in industries, AI assistants are an essential staffing solution to help brands meet their growing customer needs.
- Elly — The first empathetic audio companion for patients living with a chronic disease.
- Wysa — Use Wysa to vent or just talk through negative thoughts and emotions. Let it help you cope with pandemic anxiety and lockdowns. It is anonymous, safe and free.
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.
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- Industry: Drones, Energy, Mobile
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $154k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Driving digital transformation of consumer industries. As a leading growth capital investor, we combine deep investment experience with commercial reach.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, France, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $120k–$394k; Pre-Seed $120k–$550k; Series B $5.3M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Motatos — Motatos is an online retail store that offers a wide variety of food, beverages, and household products to customers.
- Matsmart — Matsmart sells surplus food online. A major part of the food would otherwise be thrown away due to packaging changes, short or expired expiry dates or other reasons. During 2017, Matsmart saved 2022 tonnes of food from going to waste. The company has seen explosive growth, reaching recurring revenues of SEK 200 million. Matsmart was founded by KarlAndersson, Erik Södergren and Ulf Skagerström, and launched in Sweden in 2014. Since then, the company has also expanded to Norway and Finland. Long live the food!
- Sensei — We are the leading European provider of autonomous stores, with an AI-powered solution to build efficient operations and deliver a seamless shopping experience.
Critical Ventures is venture capital arm of Critical Group. It partners with the most inspiring and courageous entrepreneurs developing innovative technologies with the potential to disrupt global markets.It is designed to support entrepreneurs from an early stage, with expertise, strategic guidance and a unique ecosystem of technologybusinesses, helping to build companies that are future pioneers with the ability to shape new markets.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Portugal, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$13M; Series A $2.6M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Almetra — We use computer vision and AI analytics to provide insights into manual assembly processes - our platform supports process engineers in driving productivity and quality of assembly processes
- Humanos — The Human Authorization Layer for AI https://t.co/RzfFeAgNCj
- RunSafe Security — Secure embedded systems with RunSafe Security's runtime cybersecurity protection, integrating build-time defenses without affecting performance.
Korys is the name chosen by the Colruyt family for their investment structure. The name Korys is derived from the Latin word for hazelnut tree – Corylus - which is at the origin of the Colruyt name.Their multi-disciplinary approach enables us to create a well-balanced, diversified portfolio of listed stocks and bonds, private equity funds, anddirect participations in small and medium-sized companies. Through their investments, they aim to make a positive impact on people and the planet, while generating attractive returns. A “three P” approach (People, Planet, Profit) forms the cornerstone of their investment strategy. They invest for the long term, as they realize that it takes time to achieve the sustainable impact they are aiming for. They focus their investments in sectors in which they have built substantial expertise as a team: Cleantech, consumer goods & retail and life sciences.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Renewable Energy, Information Technology
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Series A $4.4M–$13M; Series B $6.4M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Entrix — Entrix is an optimisation and trading platform for grid-scale battery storage that accelerates the transition towards a clean energy future. Our mission is to enable the most effective use of green energy and to ensure the reliability of the future energy system. We provide state-of-the-art technology and services to both asset owners and potentialinvestors across the globe.
- OroraTech — From safeguarding forests and ecosystems to protecting communities and critical assets, OroraTech's advanced technology and reliable insights address challenges, mitigate risks, and drive meaningful impact.
- Ona Therapeutics — Ona Therapeutics is a biotech company that specializes in the discovery and development of therapeutic biologics targeting tumor metastatic-initiating cells and lipid metabolism. Founded in 2019 by Salvador Aznar-Benitah and Valerie Vanhooren, it was a spin-off from ICREA and Advanced Studies, and the IRB Institute for Research in Biomedicine.
Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world. We currently operate in 10 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with drivenentrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 254
- Round size: Seed $103k–$3.5M; Series A $2.5M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
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- 1DOC3 — 1doc3 is a e-health platform that connects 490 million of Spanish speaking people with licensed and trusted doctors. Users find personalized answers to their health related questions. Doctors build their online reputation, find new patients and create the biggest health related questions and answers curated database in Spanish. The Platform isavailable via web, App, SMS and USSD, allowing the entire population to have access to a Doctor no matter where they are, or even if they don't have internet access.
- LetsData — LetsData is an AI-power radar against disinformation. LetsData provides real-time media and social media monitoring in over 50 countries, empowering state agencies, businesses, and civil societies to proactively navigate risks and seize opportunities in the face of disinformation.
- YBVR — YBVR provides high-quality video VR streaming experiences: Immersive, interactive, and enriched, Live, and VoD.
Construtech Ventures combines over 20 years of knowledge and networking in the construction and real estate industry with a objective and clear approach to diagnosing opportunities for adding real value to its portfolio, through prototyping solutions, hiring teams of entrepreneur to build startups with high growth potential and investing inConstrutechs with teams capable of generating a digital transformation in this industry whilst partnering with great companies looking to innovate in the development of the construction chain.
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- Industry: Real Estate, Software, Construction
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Brazil, Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bider — Bider finds the best real estate offer to the user's criteria and needs. It began operation on March 1, 2016, with its headquarters in Florianópolis in Brazil.
- Kaasa — Kaasa is a technology startup that connects real estate with repair and maintenance service providers.
- Infraspeak — Infraspeak is an Intelligent CMMS Software that brings outstanding flexibility, connectivity and intelligence to your operations.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, SaaS
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, Israel, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 142
- Round size: Series A $3M–$22M; Series B $10M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1M in 2009
Portfolio highlights
- Wiliot — Wiliot is an enterprise supply chain AI platform delivering real-time visibility, traceability, and automation across the physical world.
- Optibus — AI-powered transportation management platform for planning and operating more equitable, sustainable, and efficient public transportation.
- Edgybees — Edgybees’ pioneering platform delivers real-time, high-speed augmented reality experiences to anything that moves. Using sensors and streaming data, AR application developers can now deliver overlays that keep up with a three-dimensional human experience of high-speed motion. The Edgybees platform contains a set of unique, patent-pendingcapabilities packaged in the form of a developer SDK coupled with its back-end SaaS services. This ability opens the door to exciting new consumer and commercial applications of high-speed AR on a wide range of devices. Edgybees was co-founded in 2016 by Menashe Haskin, former manager of the Amazon Prime Air Israeli development office, the company’s Chief Technology Officer, together with CEO Adam Kaplan and Vice President for Research and Development Nitay Megides.
Global innovation consultancy helping world-class companies design and scale collaborative, open and corporate innovation strategies, products and ecosystems.
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- Industry: FinTech, Computer, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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 a compensation management platform for teams to manage and enjoy multiple benefits. 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 everypart of compensation beyond salary — benefits, insurance, meal allowance, and exclusive discounts — while empowering people to spend on what suits them best.
Herrick Partners is a company that specializes in investment management services.
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- Industry: Software, Electronics, Virtual Reality
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- YDreams — Unimos tecnologia sensorial, narrativas integradas e design transformador para permitir que os sonhos mais ousados possam acontecer.
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Browse database — It's Free!Keensight Capital is a European Growth Buyout investor with deep expertise in Technology and Healthcare.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Private Equity, Series A
- Geography: France, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.2B in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Advancis — Advancis offers innovative PSIM solution for scalability, architecture and project support with cost efficiency.
- Plat4mation — As ServiceNow Elite partner, we make work flow so people can get work done quickly, easily, and unimpeded.
- Advancis Software — Advancis is based on the principle of constant growth by developing sustainable and well-designed solutions for its customers, relying on the work of competent and high-performing employees. In addition to its completely in-house in Langen/Frankfurt developed product WinGuard that is flexible with regard to customer requirements and extensibleanytime, Advancis also offers the necessary services such as support, service and maintenance – this means qualified customer care and high investment protection.
Dispatch Ventures invests in founders building early-stage technology companies. Over the years, Dispatch has nurtured dozens of startups- helping them find corporate clients, skilled employees, gain media coverage, and raise millions in venture capital.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.1M; Series A $6M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Leav — Sign up for a free trial of the most intuitive mobile self-checkout platform designed for today's retailers.
- Meight — Run your cargo on budget and on time with a few simple clicks, from your laptop. Forget phone calls, driver headaches, hardware and tech nightmares, forever.
- Stamped Technologies — Stamped is an accounting firm using technology to provide SMEs with fast, easy and affordable financial and corporate tax preparation.
EIT Health is a network of best-in-class health innovators backed by the EU. We deliver solutions to enable European citizens to live longer, healthier lives.
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- Industry: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical
- Stage:Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Spain, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 100
- Round size: Seed $220k–$1.4M; Grant $22k–$1.7M; Pre-Seed $44k–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
Portfolio highlights
- IDOVEN — Idoven has developed the world’s first AI cardiologist -Willem- that augments both a cardiologist’s and non-cardiology expert clinician’s ability to identify, triage and diagnose patients at scale through APIs. The company counts clients such as AstraZeneca, Abbott, Novartis, GE Healthcare, FIFPRO, Google, Santander and Real Madrid Foundation.Idoven is backed by top-tier investors and business angels including Insight Partners, Northzone and Wayra (Telefónica), Iker Casillas, Pau Gasol, the Accel Starters program, EIC Accelerator, Horizon 2020, ERC and EIT Health. The company has been awarded with numerous distinctions for its AI technology in Europe and the US, including the the European Seal of Excellence 3x from the European Commission, granted by Horizon 2020, European Research Council ERC 2x (RIA) Europe’s most prestigious research grant, supporting excellent researchers in carrying out ground-breaking, high-risk, high-gain, frontier research projects, EIC Accelerator, and EIT Health. Idoven was ranked #1 Spanish HealthTech company in 2020 by NEOTEC. Idoven has been Google for Startups Resident at Google Campus Madrid and part of the Google for Startups Global Alumni Program. The company has won the prize Emprendedor XXI from CaixaBank, the Healthy Longevity Catalyst Award from the U.S. National Academy of Medicine, and has been awarded at South Summit 2021 as the Most Disruptive Startup, and Best Health and Wellbeing Startup. Selected by CB Insights as one of the top 150 global companies in Digital Health for 2022, and top 50 global companies in Digital Health for 2023. Idoven was recognized by TIME Magazine as one of the World's Top HealthTech Companies of 2025.
- Noah Labs — A breakthrough for heart failure: Noah Labs Ark is a Class IIa Medical Device Software with AI-driven detection of early cardiac decompensation through voice.
- Trak — Trak is a software tool for healthcare professional to provide AI-based tele-rehabilitation services like physiotherapy and others.
Critical SGPS is a financial services company that serves sectors such as aerospace, energy, education, and health care.
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- Industry: Computer, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Watchful Software — Watchful Software is focused on providing data-centric information protection that works. With the massive amounts that have been invested in securing the network perimeter, one thing has become painfully clear: today's enterprises must secure the information itself.
firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 130 unicorn founders and a world-class community.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 192
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$10M; Pre-Seed $650k–$5M; Series A $6.8M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- CodeWords — CodeWords is a technology startup working on AI systems for workflow automation. Their platform CodeWords lets anyone create automations and AI workflows by chatting with AI. Agemo's technology is designed to build code-based workflows and systems that can autonomously reason through software.
- Unleash — Private, secure, scalable, and ready for the most complex setups out-of-the-box. Cut down on costs, time, and technical debt. +18M Docker's downloads.
- Frontier Health — Frontier Health develops artificial intelligence tools that help healthcare administration teams manage repetitive and high-volume tasks within existing clinical workflows. Its primary product, Juno, functions as an AI coworker that supports care coordination by processing information across multiple patient pathways and software systems. Theplatform is designed to work with a wide range of healthcare applications, enabling organizations to use their current systems while reducing manual administrative work. Frontier Health emphasizes clinical safety, data security, and compliance with healthcare standards, including NHS guidance and information security certifications. The company brings together technology specialists and healthcare professionals with experience working across numerous hospitals to address operational challenges in healthcare delivery.
Oxy is the company the first Private Equity in Portugal to create a co-investment program at the company level.
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- Industry: VoIP, Software, Wireless
- Stage:Private Equity
- Geography: Italy, Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Nonius Hospitality Technology — Integrated Cloud Based Hospitality Technology Solutions to Enhance Guest Experiences with Chromecast, TV, Wi-Fi, Networks, Signage and Voice.
- Automaise — Radically improve your customer care operations by focusing where the volume is and helping your agents do a better job.
- SIF Italia — SIF Italia is a real estate based firm that provides property, asset management and condominium administration services.
Delta Blockchain Fund is an early-stage venture capital fund lighting the path of blockchain innovation by supporting developers and visionaries building the world of decentralization.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Switzerland, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 70
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Karma3 Labs — Building trust and reputation for the open web
- Alterscope — Solity Network provides the infrastructure for Decentralized Finance to enable real-time processing of risk across chains, protocols, and liquidity pools.
- Token Flow Insights — Contextualized data and analytics for the blockchain ecosystem. The only analytics solution that maps flows and contextualizes blockchain transaction data between protocols.
Kamay Ventures is the first corporate venture capital fund open to multiple corporations.
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- Industry: FinTech, Lending, Restaurants
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Mexico, Colombia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Kilimo — Kilimo is a Big Data solution for water management in agriculture.. It features climate monitoring by using satellite and site data to provides prescription for each crop and increase water use efficiency. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Cordoba, Argentina.
- Altscore — AltScore offers Lending-as-a-Service (LaaS) tools for MSMB lending that provide cutting-edge underwriting, client experience, and smart collections.
- Sensei — We are the leading European provider of autonomous stores, with an AI-powered solution to build efficient operations and deliver a seamless shopping experience.
METRO GROUP is a Germany-based holding company and international retailing company. It operates numerous outlets in various countries in Europe, Africa and Asia. The Company operates a portfolio of sales brands, which offers a range of services for private and commercial customers. The portfolio comprises Metro Cash & Carry brand, which isactive in the self-service wholesale industry, Real hypermarkets brand, which operates the Real stores across Europe offering both food and non-food products; Media Markt brand, which is active on the European market in the consumer electronics retailing industry; Saturn brand, which operates consumer electronics stores and Galeria Kaufhof brand, under which the Company operates department stores in Germany and Belgium. The Company is also engaged in the real estate operations (Metro Properties), logistics (Metro Logistics), Information Technology (Metro Systems) and advertising services.
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- Industry: Hospitality, Restaurants, Retail
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series C
- Geography: Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Sensei — We are the leading European provider of autonomous stores, with an AI-powered solution to build efficient operations and deliver a seamless shopping experience.
- orderbird — The iPad POS system orderbird POS is a complete POS solution that is ideal for bars, restaurants and clubs. The cash register system can be individualized according to your needs. It will send the waiter's orders directly & wireless to the kitchen and bar. The iPad POS system will provide detailed reports per day, month, waiter and shift.The system operates via WiFi with pre-configured printers that are available in the orderbird store. orderbird POS is the perfect combination of low costs and high performance.orderbird was founded in 2011 by Jakob Schreyer, Bastian Schmidtke, Patrick Brienen and Artur Hasselbach with the goal of establishing a more affordable and intuitive POS system that fits the real needs of the modern catering industry. The fast-growing company is currently home to more than 100 employees at its Berlin location. Over 5,000 customers — restaurants, cafés, bars, clubs, ice cream shops and beer gardens — in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland are already using the orderbird POS system.
- Retail Media Group — Retail Media Group GmbH (RMG) is a cross-industry marketing platform for retail data. RMG monetizes retail and customer insights from leading retailers such as Media Markt, Saturn, real, Thalia and Metro. Based on these data, RMG enables advertisers to address their respective target audiences individually and without scatter losses. With a digitalreach from more than 60 million IDs, it is a leading partner in the European trade sector. RMG is the Center of Competence when it comes to the effective handling of customer insights in retail marketing compliant with data protection regulations. Furthermore, the company strives to advance the digital transformation of the trade industry.
The first EV Fastcharging Network enabled by renewables, energy storage and 100% grid-integrated.
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Atlante Infra Portugal — Atlante Infra Portugal is a electronic and electrical energy equipment production company.
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