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Top 25 Impact Startup Investors in Portugal

A list of 25 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Impact startups based in Portugal. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Impact companies from Portugal. We update this investor list every month.

Top 25 Impact Startup Investors in Portugal

Investor Impact Portugal investments
Portugal Ventures 8
Caixa Capital 5
HCapital Partners 4
MSM 2
COREangels 1
European regional development fund (ERDF) 1
Schneider Electric Energy Access Asia 1
200M 1
Teak Capital 1
Verdane 1
Wayra 1
InterCapital Group 1
Techstars Autonomous Technology 1
Acumen 1
Egis 1
Armilar Venture Partners 1
Critical Software 1
Bhavik Bajaj 1
FORWARD.one 1
Marc de Jong 1
Korys 1
Carlos Oliveira 1
G7 Renewable Energies 1
InterCapital 1
Betwixt Ventures 1
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Portugal Ventures VC Fund · Porto, Lisboa, Portugal · 6 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Portugal, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Unlockit — Revolutionizing Real Estate Transaction Management. Streamline your processes and unlock success with Unlockit's advanced solutions
  • Tonic App — Tonic App is a B2C2B digital health company building a professional ecosystem for medical doctors. Tonic App helps medical doctors to diagnose and treat their patients by curating, for them, in a single mobile platform, the best professional resources from peers, publishers, regulatory bodies, recruiters, providers & the industry.
  • Yon Living — Living designed for Digital Nomads. Flexible stays in inspiring homes with like-minded people. Work-ready and fully serviced apartments, with no deposits. Find your next home in Lisbon.
Caixa Capital VC Fund · Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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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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.
HCapital Partners VC Fund · Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal · 3 investments in the past 12 months
We are an independent private equity firm, investing in a broad spectrum of companies through dedicated funds.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Portugal, Spain, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Libattion — Developing more sustainable & effective lithium batteries. A popular choice for a wide range of applications including electric vehicles.
  • Routal — SmartMonkey provides learning AI software solutions for logistics services and field operations. SmartMonkey software learns from a company’s operational and logistics digital history, utilizing existing technology and knowledge as well as IoT methodologies to ensure accuracy in data poor environments.
  • Eneida — Operational Analytics LV Apps, software and smart sensor for LV Network Monitoring, Control, and Visibility
MSM VC Fund · Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
MSM is an early-stage generalist impact fund that invests all across Europe.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, B2B
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
  • 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
  • UpLink — UpLink is a Telecommunications company that empowers the spread of The Collective Network farther, faster, and cheaper.UpLink believes that connectivity is a human right, an enabler of growth, and an equalizer of opportunities. They envision a world where the Internet is more accessible, inclusive, and affordable. Founded by Carlos Lei Santosand Andre Francisco in 2016 and is located in New York, NY.
  • WNWN Food Labs — We're WNWN Food Labs and we love food. We're creating delicious, sustainable and ethical alternatives to unsustainable and ethically dubious foods. We're starting with cacao-free chocolate. Changing chocolate? It's Win-Win #alt-chocolate #altchocolate #alt-universe #altuniverse #alt-protein
COREangels VC Fund · Ílhavo, Aveiro, Portugal · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Where startups can get much more than money, and Investors can professionally invest as angels.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Spain, Portugal, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Imageryst — Imageryst automatically extracts satellite imagery insights to enhance global strategic and operational decisions.
  • Triple — The best payment data enrichment solution. Our API includes fraud detection, transaction enrichment, categorization, subscriptions, and carbon footprint.
  • Strong by Form — Strong by Form bonds nature and technology to build a sustainable future. Our Woodflow technology allows to produce high-performance lightweight biocomposites that are strong enough to become an alternative to materials such as aluminum or fiber reinforced plastics on vehicles and steel and concrete used on buildings. Emulating trees’ structuralefficiency, we’ve developed a design-to fabrication technology that combines the latest optimization tools and AI with a proprietary additive manufacturing process. This allows us to create timberbased composites capable of matching the performance other structural materials at a fraction of their weight and environmental impact.We tackle the sustainable lightweight materials market. These enable vehicles to reach longer distances and buildings to use less raw material. We expect Woodflow’s combination of high-performance, sustainability and productivity to become a game changer for the new generation of sustainable construction and mobility.
European regional development fund (ERDF) VC Fund · Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Grant, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, Germany, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Losanje — Losanje has a brand and an upcycling workshop that gives second-hand and unsold completed apparel and textiles a second life. Its goal is to create an innovative manufacturing chain that will allow for the first time the industrialization of upcycling, as well as to implement the most credible solution, both ecologically and economically.
  • PulmoBiomed — Pulmobiomed has developed a best-in-class exhaled breath condensate device, capable of capturing Covid-19 particles in as little as 5 seconds. Pulmobiomed a biotechnology company is working with industry leaders in integrating their diagnostic capabilities into our PBM-Hale device. Pulmobiomed techn
  • Knock Technology — The world's simplest video chat app: Improves mental health and boosts innovation. It's a secure, cost effective and peer-to-peer telecoms solution for everyone.
Schneider Electric Energy Access Asia VC Fund
Schneider Electric is an investment fund dedicated to early and growth stage ventures in the energy access segment.
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Investment focus
  • Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar
  • Seed, Funding Round, Convertible Note
  • India, France, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
  • Agros — Agros exist to make farming economically viable and environmentally sustainable. The company provides farmers with carbon-reducing and income-increasing products and services, from input to market. Their unique ecosystem approach aggregates different low-carbon technologies, bundled with affordable finance, insurance, advisory and market access.Agros’ mission is to double the income of millions of farmers while reducing 100 megatons of annual carbon emissions.
  • Selex Motors — Selex Motors, a startup in electric vehicles, is making urban transportation in busy cities of Southeast Asia green and empowering by offering the next generation of personal mobility.
  • Biofuels Junction — Biofuels Junction is a key factor in India's solid biofuels value chain and a desired partner for stakeholders. Biofuels Junction has made a name for itself among high-profile corporate customers by focusing on quality, dependability, and compliance. Our long-term goal is to create a cleaner environment by replacing fossil fuels and to helpthe rural economy by increasing farmer income. Biofuels Junction today produces, aggregates, and promotes sales of 9000+ tons of biomass fuel each month, thanks to strong leadership and a capable workforce. Biofuels Junction is a responsible member of the solid biofuels value chain, offering solutions ranging from farm residue collection to supplier development to big-scale aggregation and supply chain advising.
200M VC Fund · Porto, Lisboa, Portugal
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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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Therapeutics
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Portugal, Brazil, France
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 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.
  • Sound Particles — A CGI-like software for Sound Design, capable of using particle systems to generate thousands of sounds in a virtual 3D world
Teak Capital VC Fund · Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Teak Capital is a venture capital management firm based in Malaysia. The company believes in empowering entrepreneurs to think big and at the same time mastering the essential building blocks of managing a business from practicing right governance, holistic understanding of company financials, and seeking opportunities for the business.Teak lendsits expertise and advice in corporate matters and add value by giving new perspective to entrepreneurs in developing and strategizing for their business growth.
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Investment focus
  • Baby, Biofuel, Children
  • Seed, Series D
  • Malaysia, Portugal, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • DigiLens — DigiLens is an innovator in holographic waveguide display technology for extended reality (XR).DigiLens has developed a patented optical platform and photopolymer technology that delivers best-in-class solutions using a unique, low-cost contact-copy manufacturing process. DigiLens enables OEM partners to design and build XR-enabled devices for theglobal automobile, enterprise, consumer, avionics, and military industries.
  • BioMimetx — BioMimetx is a biotech startup focused on the development of green antifouling solutions to prevent marine biofouling. The company discovers and owns environmental bacteria that secrete molecules, which are used as natural antimicrobials and algaecides. BioMimetx is based in Cantanhede, Portugal.
  • Applecrumby & Fish — Applecrumby & Fish is an online and offline baby store that offers various brands of baby products available both locally and internationally. The baby products are classified under the categories: bath and skincare, food and health, feeding, baby gear, diapers and potty, playroom, maternity, and school.Putto, Brush Baby, Tommee Tippee,Hot-Kid, Nordic Naturals, Annie’s Organic, Zoli, Munchkin, Avent, Clevamama, Attitude, Potette Plus, The First Years, Renova, Peaceable Kingdom, Mega Bloks, Emma-Jane, MooGoo, Stephen Joseph, and Thinkbaby are some of the brands available in Applecrumby & Fish’s stores.Applecrumby & Fish was founded in 2011 and is based in Selangor, Malaysia.
Verdane VC Fund · Oslo, Oslo, Norway · 5 investments in the past 12 months
The preferred growth partner to tech-enabled businesses in Northern Europe.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
  • Sweden, Norway, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • fiskaly — fiskaly develops smart cloud solutions for complex requirements in fiscalization, electronic receipts, and invoices for our partners in retail technology.Our SIGN fiscalization software and APIs are designed to avoid tax tampering by generating unique digital transaction signatures. We are 100% compliant with country-specific legislations andoffer cloud-based solutions without additional hardware. fiskaly’s certified product for Germany is the market leading and operating in more than 600,000 cash registers. Our solution for digital receipts opens up modern ways to optimize business processes and create new experiences. We enable full-circle benefits for POS providers, retailers, and consumers. With this paperless receipt alternative, fiskaly has won several awards for innovation & sustainability in 2023.
  • Jobylon — Jobylon is a social recruiting and hiring software with the purpose of liberating the hiring managerJobylon aims to provide the easiest way for companies to create and share beautiful job ads, manage candidates with their team and hire the right person with one simple tool.The recruitment industry has stayed unchanged for too long whilstthe need for a simple and efficient tool has increased. Our mission is to change recruitment as you know it!Sign up for your free account on www.jobylon.com
  • Ingrid — Ingrid was founded with a mission to create delivery experiences that fit people's lives by letting e-commerce businesses deliver sustainable growth and giving shoppers the power to personalize delivery and returns. The result is a better overall customer experience and greater efficiency for both the retailer and the delivery carrier.
Wayra VC Fund · Madrid, Madrid, Spain · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • GrabrFi — GrabrFi provides access to US banking and all of its resources and possibilities and finances, life to the next level.
  • Remuner — The sales compensation platform that helps you align your company and employee goals by automating all aspects of incentive plans.
  • Depasify — The all in one platform for dealing with digital assets. Reduce costs and time to market in a secure way.
InterCapital Group VC Fund · Wilmington, North Carolina, United States
InterCapital Group provides management consulting and business advisory services to a wide range of companies, executives management teams and startups. We have the capacity to assist our clients in a variety of ways including business strategy, marketing plans, product development, angel investment or venture capital raises, social mediaconsulting, human resources, operational improvement, developing or strengthening a executive team or advisory board .The InterCapital Group typically works with clients and companies with less than $10 million on annual revenue. Current and past clients consist of companies from many sectors including financial services, consumer web, high-tech, software, mobile, media, communications, retail, hospitality, consumer products, consumer services, social media, nonprofits, insurance and wealth management.
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Investment focus
  • Biofuel, Biotechnology
  • Seed
  • Portugal
Portfolio highlights
  • BioMimetx — BioMimetx is a biotech startup focused on the development of green antifouling solutions to prevent marine biofouling. The company discovers and owns environmental bacteria that secrete molecules, which are used as natural antimicrobials and algaecides. BioMimetx is based in Cantanhede, Portugal.
Techstars Autonomous Technology VC Fund
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Investment focus
  • CleanTech, Manufacturing, Nanotechnology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Portugal
Portfolio highlights
  • Guardion, Inc
  • OmniPreSense
  • GRAPHENEST — Graphenest is a nanotechnology company focused on high-value graphene-based solutions for advanced composites and functional coatings & inks markets.
Acumen VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, India, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • AquaRech — AquaRech includes Farm management that enhances fish production, enables access to the market & promotes equal trade.
  • Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.
  • ReCircle — They are a Waste Management service that provides a free doorstep pick-up service for offices, institutions, households and schools to dispose their recyclable waste (Raddi). They further supply this recycled waste to authorized recycling centres, ensuring safety and sustainability.
Egis VC Fund · Saint-quentin, Rhone-Alpes, France
Egis is an international engineering, assembly and project management group. In engineering and consulting, he works in the fields of transport, city, building, industry, water, environment and energy.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Renewable Energy, Natural Resources
  • Series A
  • Portugal
Portfolio highlights
  • RVE.SOL - Solucoes de Energia Rural — Rural populations forced reliance on biomass and kerosene for their energy needs is causing over 1.6M# deaths per annum. Their lack of access to clean water causes over 5M people to die; 2M of them are children under the age of 5.RVE.SOL's _Changing Rural Life Forever_ initiative is creating alternative, renewable energy choices for therural poor, allowing them to take advantage of natural resources like sunlight, cattle manure and raw water to manage their own way to a better future.Our _KUDURA_ rural village energy hub is community managed; provides communities with potable water, solar electricity, biogas for cooking and organic fertiliser for agriculture.A holistic approach, the solution seeks to target the four areas of rural life that prevalently cause poverty to propagate:1. Access to clean water to obviate transmission of water borne disease2. Access to renewable electricity to obviate the dependance on kerosene for light and improve children's opportunity to study at night3. Access to Biogas to obviate mass destruction of primary forest in a bid to be able to cook food4. Access to fertiliser to reinvigorate over-used soils and so increase quality and quantity of crop harvest for subsistence farmers.Ultimately, this approach seeks to create wealth for rural farmers by offering a choie of more cost effective and efficient services utilising naturally available resources.
Armilar Venture Partners VC Fund · Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • Portugal, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Rows — Combine the power of a spreadsheet with built-in integrations from your business apps. Automate workflows and build tools that make work simpler.
  • Veeton — Veeton is the creator of an artificial intelligence-powered platform for automated fashion imaging. The company's platform provides fashion firms with an alternative to photo sessions by generating a limitless range of high-quality on-model images using only packshot photos, instantaneously and at a fraction of the cost, allowing clients tocreate e-commerce shoots in a few clicks.
  • Tonic App — Tonic App is a B2C2B digital health company building a professional ecosystem for medical doctors. Tonic App helps medical doctors to diagnose and treat their patients by curating, for them, in a single mobile platform, the best professional resources from peers, publishers, regulatory bodies, recruiters, providers & the industry.
Critical Software VC Fund · Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
With a heritage in safety critical software development, testing and verification & validation, we provide technology you can trust.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, CleanTech, Crowdfunding
  • Pre-Seed
  • Portugal
Portfolio highlights
  • 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
Bhavik Bajaj Angel · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Bhavik Bajaj
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, SaaS
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
FORWARD.one VC Fund · Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
We are a leading non-profit establishing new relationships between agriculture and nature. Protecting the natural world and treasured wildlife.
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Investment focus
  • Semiconductor, Information Technology, Audio
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • The Netherlands, Germany, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
  • Collo — Collo provides industrial areas with resolution liquid-particle mixture sensors that monitor and measure the digital fingerprint of liquids.
  • Nuventura — Nuventura developed GIS switchgear that replaces SF6 with air, while at the same time, building on all the advantages of SF6 switchgear.
  • Sensorfact — Sensorfact offers smart energy savings in the manufacturing industry. The company is a smart advisor for the industry who translates sustainability to day-to-day language and specific actions. No complex sensor technology, no complex software and no complex business models. We make sustainability understandable and transparant.
Marc de Jong Angel · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
Marc de Jong has had an extremely successful career with Phillips where he was previously a member of the Royal Philips Group Management Committee. He was CEO of various divisions within Philips and CEO of the automotive and identification businesses of NXP Semiconductors before beginning his own management consultancy. Marc de Jong holds aMasters in Physics and Mathematics from the Free University of Amsterdam, further qualifications in Economics and two MBA’s, one from the University of Rochester in the United States and another from the Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
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Investment focus
  • Sensor, Software, Wind Energy
  • Seed
  • Portugal
Portfolio highlights
  • Fibersail — Fibersail redefines the knowledge on wind farms, through a reliable and cost-efficient shape sensor able to monitor each deflection.
Korys VC Fund · Halle, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Information Technology, Renewable Energy
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Greenely — Greenely is the electricity company that optimizes your electricity use using smart technology in an app. We help you take control of your consumption.
  • Protealis — Sustainable plant proteins for Europe​
  • Eneida — Operational Analytics LV Apps, software and smart sensor for LV Network Monitoring, Control, and Visibility
Carlos Oliveira Angel
Carlos Oliveira
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Investment focus
  • Sensor, Software, Wind Energy
  • Seed
  • Portugal
Portfolio highlights
  • Fibersail — Fibersail redefines the knowledge on wind farms, through a reliable and cost-efficient shape sensor able to monitor each deflection.
G7 Renewable Energies VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
Leaders in renewable energy development in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Renewable Energy, Natural Resources
  • Series A
  • Portugal
Portfolio highlights
  • RVE.SOL - Solucoes de Energia Rural — Rural populations forced reliance on biomass and kerosene for their energy needs is causing over 1.6M# deaths per annum. Their lack of access to clean water causes over 5M people to die; 2M of them are children under the age of 5.RVE.SOL's _Changing Rural Life Forever_ initiative is creating alternative, renewable energy choices for therural poor, allowing them to take advantage of natural resources like sunlight, cattle manure and raw water to manage their own way to a better future.Our _KUDURA_ rural village energy hub is community managed; provides communities with potable water, solar electricity, biogas for cooking and organic fertiliser for agriculture.A holistic approach, the solution seeks to target the four areas of rural life that prevalently cause poverty to propagate:1. Access to clean water to obviate transmission of water borne disease2. Access to renewable electricity to obviate the dependance on kerosene for light and improve children's opportunity to study at night3. Access to Biogas to obviate mass destruction of primary forest in a bid to be able to cook food4. Access to fertiliser to reinvigorate over-used soils and so increase quality and quantity of crop harvest for subsistence farmers.Ultimately, this approach seeks to create wealth for rural farmers by offering a choie of more cost effective and efficient services utilising naturally available resources.
InterCapital VC Fund · Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
InterCapital is an investment firm focused on early-stage ventures. InterCapital cooperates with outstanding Entrepreneurs, promoting innovative ideas and business models, leading to positive social and environmental impact.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Human Resources, Biofuel
  • Funding Round, Seed
  • United Kingdom, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
  • Benivo — Increase satisfaction for employees and HR by >50% NPS. Save 30-70% on costs.
  • Benivo — Increase satisfaction for employees and HR by >50% NPS. Save 30-70% on costs.
  • BioMimetx — BioMimetx is a biotech startup focused on the development of green antifouling solutions to prevent marine biofouling. The company discovers and owns environmental bacteria that secrete molecules, which are used as natural antimicrobials and algaecides. BioMimetx is based in Cantanhede, Portugal.
Betwixt Ventures VC Fund · Porto, Lisboa, Portugal
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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Investment focus
  • Drones, Energy, Mobile
  • Seed
  • Portugal
Portfolio highlights
  • LOQR — Increase your business and reduce costs with the best AI-Powered Journey-as-a-Service provider for financial institutions.
  • BladeInsight — BladeInsight offers innovative solutions for wind turbine blade operations and maintenance.
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