# Top 50 Internet Startup Investors in Portugal in June 2026 ## Portugal Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Porto, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 20 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care 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 ## Shilling VC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 12 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, Software, Internet 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. ## Armilar Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Caixa Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS 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. ## Bynd Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care Bynd is a leading Iberian Venture Capital firm ## LC Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series D - Focus: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS 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. ## Brpx - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology A prominent European venture capital in Retail Technologies, Digital Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and Emerging Technologies ## EDP Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Energy, Information Technology EDP Ventures is the venture capital arm of EDP. We invest in early-stage startups working in the energy space ## TheVentureCity - Type: VC Fund - Location: Miami, Florida, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Our ticket size ranges from $100-500k for Pre-seed/Seed and $1-4M for Series A companies. We're in search of promising-founders with product-driven mindsets who have a passion for building. Those who've fallen in love with data. For we believe in fit---both product and with the team here. Got a great idea? Come to TheVentureCity and give it the expertise to help it grow. ## REDangels - Type: VC Fund - Location: Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Mobile, Internet of Things, Internet They believe the unbelievable and trust the untrustable. ## Olisipo Way - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Marketplace 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. ## Indico Capital Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, E-Commerce, B2B 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. ## WISENEXT - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet 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. ## SVG Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Los Gatos, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: AgTech, Agriculture, Farming We are a Venture & Innovation Platform Advancing the Food & Agriculture Industries We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the food and agriculture industries. ## Bright Pixel (formerly Sonae IM) - Type: VC Fund - Location: Maia, Porto, Portugal - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS 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. ## Faber - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS 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. ## Acurio Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bilbao, Pais Vasco, Spain - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence Acurio Ventures partners with visionary founders to make history happen. Acurio Ventures is a European early-stage VC that invests across sectors and business models and that relies on its entrepreneurial DNA, flexible approach and proven value add to partner with the best founders out there. ## Beta Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Porto, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology We support innovative tech ventures to unlock its potential by providing smart funding and hands-on advisory. ## Ideias Glaciares - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Wellness, SaaS, Video Ideias Glaciares ## J12 - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS J12 is a thesis-driven venture capital firm partnering early with technical founders across Europe to build category-defining data and AI companies across infrastructure, tooling, and domain-specific applications ## Dominic Gualtieri - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Cloud Data Services, Information Technology, Content Delivery Network Dominic Gualtieri is a parttner at deias Glaciares. ## Lavender Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Gaming, Metaverse, Blockchain Lavender Capital is an Incubator and Advisor to numerous GameFi and NFT start-ups and projects and recognized as a value-added partner and investor. ## Rui Ferreira - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Mobile, Internet, Nutrition Rui Ferreira ## Solana - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services Solana is the high performance network powering internet capital markets, payments, and crypto applications. Fast. Decentralized. Scalable. Energy efficient. Solana can power thousands of transactions per second. ## FunFair Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Douglas, NA - Isle of Man, Isle of Man - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech FunFair Ventures is a venture capital business .Funfair Ventures funds early stage blockchain projects with a focus on both equity and tokens. ## Basinghall Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Human Resources, B2B Basinghall believes in (really) smart capital: connecting tech pioneers with established industry partners through deep data insights and startup expertise. ## Kraken - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services Kraken is more than just a Bitcoin trading platform. Come see why our cryptocurrency exchange is the best place to buy, sell, trade and learn about crypto. ## TIIN Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Naarden, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Cyber Security TIN Capital was founded in 1998. With European Cyber Tech Fund V we invest in cyber security and IoT startups and scale-ups based in Europe. ## MSM - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, Software, B2B MSM is a 45M€ early-stage impact VC fund. We invest in brave founders solving the world’s biggest social and environmental challenges. ## Seedrs - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage Online investing opportunities in the best new startup businesses, and raise seed and angel investment, with top European equity crowdfunding site Seedrs. ## Verizon Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A - Focus: Software, Mobile, SaaS Shop Verizon smartphone deals and wireless plans on the largest 4G LTE network. First to 5G. Get Fios for the fastest internet, TV and phone service. ## Alex Vassiliev - Type: Angel - Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Apps, Baby, EdTech Alex Vassiliev is a Founder and CEO at Elixir Fine Foods. ## Possible Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology Possible Ventures backs ambitious teams building frontier technology to positively impact society. We invest globally in the early stages, actively supporting founders via our collective of global entrepreneurs. ## Adara Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence We help create a path Seed to exit, we've been there. We're experienced tech investors. We partner with founders with vision, courage and the capacity to execute. ## Iberis Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Iberis is an investment manager that operates a value-oriented investment management. ## Creative Wings - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Hardware, Mobile Devices, Internet of Things Creative Wings offers creative arts training and consultancy services as well as offers creative, engaging educational courses for kids, young adults, and professionals. Its aims is to provide these courses at an affordable cost. ## Insight Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: Energy, FinTech, Marketing Insight Ventures build scalable business models that can be stand-alone or integrated into an already established company. Through agile construction methodologies, connections with startups, and extensive experience in building technology businesses, they have transformed traditional businesses into exponential companies.Since 2017, they havehelped companies of all sizes and sectors to build and scale innovative business models, generating exponential growth and changing the way they compete in the market. ## LeadX Capital Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: München, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: SaaS, Software, Restaurants Driving digital transformation of consumer industries. As a leading growth capital investor, we combine deep investment experience with commercial reach. ## UniWhales - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Credit, Lending, Online Portals UniWhales is a Defi analysis community that monitors and analyzes whale position movements on Uniswap, SushiSwap, 1Inch, Pancake, and other decentralized trading platforms. ## Pathena - Type: VC Fund - Location: Porto, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series C - Focus: B2B, Made to Order, Marketing Pathena is an investment firm engaged on boosting the success of information technology and digital biomedical companies. ## Greenfield - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Software, Information Technology We are long-term backers of early developer teams building toward an open, decentralized and more robust architecture of tomorrow’s web. ## Notion Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud. ## Carlos Brazão - Type: Angel - Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Cloud Storage Carlos Brazão ## Clever web - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Credit, Lending, Online Portals Cleverweb is a venture capital investment firm. ## Novabase Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Analytics 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. ## Florian Heinemann - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet Florian Heinemann is a Founding Partner at Project A Ventures, where he is responsible for the areas of marketing, CRM, and business intelligence. Before co-founding Project A, he was Managing Director at Rocket Internet with the same areas of responsibility (2007-2012). During his time at Rocket, he was mainly involved at Zalando, Global FashionGroup, and Spark Networks (aka eDarling/Affinitas).Prior to Rocket, Florian was Co-Founder and Managing Director of JustBooks/AbeBooks being in charge of marketing and product (1999-2002, exit to Amazon in 2008). Then, he was co-heading the online marketing department of Jamba! and the online dating portal iLove (2003-2005, exit to Verisign). In 2006, he was Co-Founder of the online marketplace antibodies-online.com (exit to Broadoak).Moreover, he has been an investor/business angel in more than 80 startups including Trivago (seed investor), Zalando (founding investor), Audibene (seed investor), Home24 (founding investor), CityDeal/Groupon (founding investor), Betreut.de/Care (seed investor), ClassPass (early stage investor), Mimi Hearing (early stage investor), Bitbond (seed investor), Lillydoo (early stage investor), and the Code University (seed stage investor).Apart from his Project A-related board activities he sits on the board of Koerber AG and About You and the digital advisory boards of Henkel and Oetker.Florian holds a doctorate’s degree in innovation management/entrepreneurship from RWTH Aachen University. He was a visiting scholar at the Wharton School. His research has been published in leading international journals, such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of International Marketing, and Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft. Furthermore, Florian holds a masters degree in business administration from WHU Koblenz. During his studies, he was a fellow of "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes" (German National Academic Foundation). ## BluePointe Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence We look for enablers of change that could have a meaningful impact to the Human Experience. ## Demium Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Health Care Demium is a talent investment company founded in Spain in 2013 with the aim of supporting the best professionals and helping them to carry out successful projects, always with an eminently digital and technological component. In November 2020, it's asset management company, Demium Capital, started operating with a first €50M fund to invest inmore than 75 early-stage startups per year (pre-seed/seed), becoming the most active venture capital fund in Spain. Startups such as Hannun, Voicemod, Swipcar, Citibox, Singularu or Landbot, among others have been created in the incubator. The company is present in five countries: Spain, Portugal, Poland, Ukraine and Czech Republic ## COREangels - Type: VC Fund - Location: Ílhavo, Aveiro, Portugal - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology Where startups can get much more than money, and Investors can professionally invest as angels. ## Wayra - Type: VC Fund - Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS 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.