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Top 15 Machine Learning Angel Investors in Portugal in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Machine learning startups based in Portugal. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Machine learning companies from Portugal. We update this investor list every month.

Top 15 Machine Learning Angel Investors in Portugal in January 2026

Investor	Machine Learning Portugal investments
Ryan Petersen	2
Young Guo	1
Errol Damelin	1
Kevin Rose	1
David Peterson	1
Raymond Tonsing	1
Roger Dickey	1
Bruno Cardoso	1
Rob Emrich	1
Adeyemi Ajao	1
Terrence Rohan	1
Vânia Fernandes	1
Elad Gil	1
Klaus von Sayn-Wittgenstein	1
Vitor Crespo	1

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Ryan Petersen is the CEO and Founder of Flexport. Prior to starting Flexport to fix the user experience in global trade, Ryan was co-founder and CEO of ImportGenius.com, a data-as-a-service business for global shipping. He holds a degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia University.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Nuvo — The only onboarding platform with native fraud prevention and automated credit risk assessment from a portfolio of credit risk insights.
Teleport — Teleport is ridesharing reimagined as a protocol. By distributing ownership and governance of the network, riders get cars cheaper and faster, drivers earn more, and entrepreneurs can innovate on top.
Little Umbrella — Future is Fun with Social & AI Games. At Little Umbrella, we create AI-powered games that deliver immersive experiences, bringing families, friends, and communities closer together. Proudly serving a growing community of over 30 million players

Prior to joining IDG Capital, Young was a member of the Soros Fund Management in New York from 1996 to 1999, where he was involved in managing a $3 billion private equity fund. In 1996, Young worked for Salomon Brothers in New York, where he participated in securities trading. He worked at W.R. Grace & Co. in Maryland from 1990 to 1995, wherehe led product development and was granted five U.S. patents. Young holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, a Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and a B.S. in Applied Chemistry from Shanghai Jiaotong University.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, B2B
Seed, Series A
United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Pony.ai — Pony.ai is a startup that builds full-stack autonomous driving solutions. It is a pioneer in autonomous mobility technologies and services across the US and China, spearheading public-facing Robotaxi pilots in both markets. Pony.ai is committed to creating a safe and sustainable mobility future by delivering autonomous mobility everywhere.Thecompany was founded by James Peng and Tiancheng Lou in 2016 and is headquartered in Fremont, California, United States.
Unbabel — Unbabel offers multilingual translation services in more than 30 languages to enhance your customer service experiences. Learn more about our language operation solutions!
uSens — 26DOF Hand Tracking and 6DOF SLAM solutions that is changing how we interact with technology, and bring augmented, virtual and mixed reality experiences to life.

Errol Damelin is the Founder, CEO, chairman, or original investor and backer of over 75 digital and tech companies around the world, including in the US, the UK, most of Europe, Israel, Indonesia, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, and Nigeria. He concentrates his efforts on SaaS, fintech, crypto, marketplaces and data analytics as well as on health andwellness. He is also a technologist and has three granted patents to his name with another four pending.Among the companies co-founded by Damelin are groundbreaking fintech company Wonga, and SME banking startup Tide. His early investments include Wise, Cazoo, Purplebricks, K Health, YuLife, Sure, Demyst, Zoe, Farewill, CityMapper, Modifi, UnBabel, Thimble, HiBob, Modifi, Elliptic, Lendingkart, and VivaReal. Using his own personal equity, Damelin continues to invest early on in the next generation of entrepreneurs so that he can help them succeed. He is not an institutional VC fund and does not maximize the assets under his management. He best describes his approach as Riding Shotgun.Damelin's success as a founder has been recognized by The Guardian, which named him Digital Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011; by Ernst and Young, which named him the UK's Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011 as well; and by TechCrunch, which named him Founder of the Year in 2010.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Zelt — Manage everything from HRIS, payroll, pension, devices, apps and more seamlessly in one central hub, for all processes and applications, third-party included. Improve productivity through enhanced employee experience.
Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
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Kevin Rose is the Co-Founder and CEO of PROOF. He previously worked at HODINKEE as a Board Of Directors. Kevin Rose attended the University of Nevada Las Vegas.

Investment focus

Mobile, Internet, iOS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

ClayStack — Multichain liquid staking platform that allows users to stake their assets, mint staking derivatives, and participate in DeFi.
Magic Spoon — Magic Spoon cereal is high-protein, low-sugar, keto-friendly, and gluten-free. Available in Cocoa, Frosted, Fruity, Blueberry, Peanut Butter, and Cinnamon.
Universe XYZ — Universe XYZ is an NFT platform that provides blockchain technology and cryptocurrency solutions for creating and distributing tokens.

David Peterson

Investment focus

Internet, Software, B2B
Seed, Series B
India, Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

OSlash — Transform long URLs into memorable shortcuts. Make information easy to access, find, & share with others in an instant with a complete URL management solution
Commsor — Commsor is the world's only full-stack company, providing Community-Led companies with the software, resources, and education to unlock the full power of community.
Unbabel — Unbabel offers multilingual translation services in more than 30 languages to enhance your customer service experiences. Learn more about our language operation solutions!

Raymond Tonsing is a San Francisco based venture capitalist and entrepreneur. He founded Caffeinated Capital, an early stage venture capital firm, and now serves as its managing director. Raymond holds a bachelor's degree in Arts from University of Colorado Boulder.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Polywork — Launch an AI-powered personal website to showcase your work, grow your personal brand, or start your side hustle.
Nuvocargo — Nuvocargo is your all-in-one digital platform for cross border trade between the US and Mexico. Book your shipments now
Varda — Expanding the economic bounds of humankind with the world's first orbital manufacturing & reentry platform.

Roger Dickey is the Co-Founder & CEO of Made Renovation. He previously worked at Gigster as a Co-Founder & CEO. Roger Dickey attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Canada, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

SearchEye — Get tech-driven SEO at scale, speed and a fraction of the cost compared to traditional agencies. Acquire PR Mentions, Digital PR and Content.
Double — Double is a software platform that helps users to build, automate, and analyze investment portfolio for retail investors.
Craftwork — Craftwork is a modern general contracting company that uses technology to simplify repair and renovation projects for homeowners.

Bruno Cardoso

Investment focus

Consulting, Machine Learning, Professional Services
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

DeepNeuronic — Transform surveillance with AI-powered computer vision. Real-time threat detection, traffic monitoring, and intelligent analytics for safer operations.

Rob Emrich - Founder & CEO @ The Mobile Majority

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Unbabel — Unbabel offers multilingual translation services in more than 30 languages to enhance your customer service experiences. Learn more about our language operation solutions!
MotionSavvy — MotionSavvy is developing a translation tool for the Deaf and Hard of hearing by working with gesture recognition technology Leap Motion along with various mobile devices which targets sign language users for improved accessibility. Our goal is the 370 million deaf and hard of hearing market worldwide with a cost affordable product against currentcompetitors.
CoolChip Technologies — CoolChip Technologies, Inc. | 422 followers on LinkedIn. CoolChip Technologies, Inc. is the worldwide leader in Kinetic CoolingTM, a new product category based on disruptive technology that is transforming the electronics cooling industry. Solutions Powered by Kinetic CoolingTM offer unprecedented performance across acoustics, form factor, and cooling. By partnering with CoolChip, consumer electronics and enterprise manufacturers have the opportunity to unleash innovation and deliver next-generation products for their customers.

Adeyemi (“Ade”) is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Base10 Partners. Before Base10, Ade had a successful career as an entrepreneur and investor.Ade was the co-founder and CEO of Tuenti (The “Spanish Facebook” which was acquired by Telefonica in 2010 for $100M), co-founder and CEO of Identified (“AI for HR” acquired by Workday in 2014) and afounding investor of Cabify (the largest ridesharing company in Latin America currently valued at over $1B). While at Workday, Ade led launch to Workday Ventures, the first fund focused on Applied AI for Enterprise Software and was VP of Technology Strategy.Ade is originally from Spain and half Nigerian. He holds an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He also holds a J.D. in Law and a M.S in Economics from Icade University in Spain and studied a certificate on Machine Learning at Stanford.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Spain, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Dropbox DocSend — Try our secure document sharing platform for free. Instantly know when documents are opened & what pages are read. Easy-to-use eSignatures.
StockGro — Get expert stock market insights from SEBI-Registered Analysts on StockGro. Make informed investments with trusted advice. Join Today!
Job&Talent — Jobandtalent is an on-demand staffing marketplace that aims to make the labor market much more liquid and transparent, helping companies to hire in a more flexible way and with the mission of being part of the reduction of unemployment in the world. The labor market has evolved from a very structured state into an extremely flexible one. Companiesare demanding flexibility which has resulted in the growth of liquidity in the market. However, the flexible state of the labor market is also leaving the workers in a vulnerable and unprotected employment situation. Jobandtalent has created a Workforce as a Service (WaaS) platform in order to make this labor flexibility beneficial for both companies and workers alike.The company has offices in the UK, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Mexico, and Colombia, and has plans for further expansion to France and Italy by the end of the year.

Terrence Rohan is a seed investor and the Managing Director of Otherwise. Terrence's seed investments include Figma, Front, Notion, Hugging Face, Granola, Vanta, and Robinhood, among others. Forbes has ranked him as part of the Midas Brink list, and Business Insider has named him one of the top seed investors.Terrence was at Index Venturesfor seven years. While at Index, he co-created and eventually led Index’s first Seed Fund and then incubated the firm’s inaugural Founder-Angel Fund, which he served as General Partner and Co-Founder. He launched Otherwise, a novel Founder-Angel Fund inspired by the one he created for Index.Before becoming an investor, Terrence held various roles in product marketing and development at Google and YouTube.Terrence holds an MS in Management from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, an MS in Philosophy from The London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA in Philosophy from Colgate University.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Fazeshift — Automate Accounts Receivable with Fazeshift's AI-powered platform to save your team valuable time and improve cash flow.
Wordware — A collaborative prompt engineering IDE
The San Francisco Compute Company — The San Francisco Compute Company manufactures supercomputers.

Vânia Fernandes

Investment focus

Consulting, Machine Learning, Professional Services
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

DeepNeuronic — Transform surveillance with AI-powered computer vision. Real-time threat detection, traffic monitoring, and intelligent analytics for safer operations.

Elad Gil is the Co-Founder of Color Genomics. He previously worked at Twitter as a Vice President. Elad Gil attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Ashby — Ashby is a developer of recruitment software used for high-growth companies. It develops usable, enterprise-grade employment software that enables company leaders, recruiters, and hiring managers to run their hiring process significantly better. It was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Harvey — Harvey is an artificial intelligence technology service provider.
Cognition — Cognition is an applied artificial intelligence lab that focuses on reasoning and code.

Klaus von Sayn-Wittgenstein

Investment focus

Internet, Machine Learning, B2B
Seed, Series A
United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Streem — Easy AR-powered remote video support & communication platform with AI data capture to get the job done from anywhere. Streem is better than being there.
Unbabel — Unbabel offers multilingual translation services in more than 30 languages to enhance your customer service experiences. Learn more about our language operation solutions!
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Vitor Crespo is the Chief Executive Officer and Board Advisor at FastCompChem. He attended the University of Portugal (UPT) in 1993.

Investment focus

Consulting, Machine Learning, Professional Services
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

DeepNeuronic — Transform surveillance with AI-powered computer vision. Real-time threat detection, traffic monitoring, and intelligent analytics for safer operations.

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