Top 15 Machine Learning Angel Investors in Portugal (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Ryan Petersen
Angel
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2 | United States, India, Brazil | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $1.7M–$62M |
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Mehman Yashar
Angel
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2 | Portugal | Seed | FinTech, Machine Learning, Intelligent Systems | $38k–$65k |
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Errol Damelin
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Israel | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $535k–$47M |
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Vânia Fernandes
Angel
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1 | Portugal | Seed | Consulting, Machine Learning, Professional Services | |
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David Peterson
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Portugal | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Internet, Medical, Software | $1.5M–$2.5M |
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Klau von Sayn-Wittgenstein
Angel
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1 | United States, Portugal | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, B2B, Internet | $590k–$2.4M |
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Adeyemi Ajao
Angel
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1 | United States, Spain, Chile | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Mobile | $770k–$50M |
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Kevin Rose
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Mobile, Internet, iOS | $1M–$50M |
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Rob Emrich
Angel
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1 | United States, Portugal | Seed, Debt Financing | Software, Internet, Computer | $650k–$1.8M |
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Roger Dickey
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Colombia | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Education, Artificial Intelligence | $756k–$5M |
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Elad Gil
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $2M–$117M |
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Raymond Tonsing
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Japan | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software | $1M–$115M |
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Terrence Rohan
Angel
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1 | United States, Sweden, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | $1.8M–$28M |
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Bruno Cardoso
Angel
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1 | Portugal | Seed | Consulting, Machine Learning, Professional Services | |
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Young Guo
Angel
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1 | United States, Portugal | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, B2B | $1.5M–$5.5M |
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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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$8.5M; Series A $13M–$30M; Series B $25M–$62M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
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
Founder & CEO @ AIDigitalEngine
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- Industry: FinTech, Machine Learning, Intelligent Systems
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $38k–$65k
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AIDigitalEngine — AIDigitalEngine is a specialized technology builder democratizing institutional-grade financial intelligence. We engineer and deploy advanced AI workflows, analytical systems, and premium digital products designed exclusively for retail investors and financial operators.The financial market is driven by asymmetric information. Our systemseliminate that gap. By leveraging state-of-the-art artificial intelligence, our frameworks automate complex earnings call extraction, market sentiment tracking, and high-level risk assessment. We transform raw, overwhelming market data into actionable, hyper-fast leverage, allowing individuals to execute with the precision and speed of elite quantitative analysts.
Errol Damelin is the founder of Dust Road Ventures, a seed-stage investment firm investing in fintech, AI, health-tech, and enterprise software. He has made over 75 investments since 2011, almost all as first or second cheques. Before investing full-time he built three companies — Supply Chain Connect, Wonga, and Tide. Portfolio includes Wise(invested pre-revenue), Purplebricks (first investor), HiBob, K Health, Cleo AI, Earnin, Elliptic, Cazoo, Citymapper, YuLife, and Zoe. TechCrunch Founder of the Year (2010). Based in London. Originally from Klerksdorp, South Africa.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.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Seed $535k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $698k–$3.8M; Series A $3.7M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Aurora — The Operating System for High Performance Living
- OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback
Vânia Fernandes
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- Industry: Consulting, Machine Learning, Professional Services
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DeepNeuronic — Transform surveillance with AI-powered computer vision. Real-time threat detection, traffic monitoring, and intelligent analytics for safer operations.
David Peterson is a entrepreneur, turned intrapreneur, former music executive, and adviser, to now serving as the Chief Operating Officer of WordAgents, again back to founder at WaysToCashFlow, Record Labelless, and co-founding the podcast We Tried, We Failed
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- Industry: Internet, Medical, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Aqua Voice — Fast, accurate, and private speech-to-text for Mac, Windows, iPhone, and AI workflows.
- Entourage AI — Entourage AI operates in the HealthTech sector, focusing on longevity and health span through AI-powered proteomics analysis. Its core offerings include the Proteomic Aging Clock, which compares biological age to chronological age; Organ Health analysis for specific wellness maps; and an AI Coach for tailored interventions to slow aging or preventdiseases like cancer and cardiovascular issues.
Klau von Sayn-Wittgenstein
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, B2B, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $590k–$2.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BabylonAI — BabylonAI develops analytics solutions for medium-sized computer vision teams.
- Cekura AI — Cekura AI is an AI based Software Development firm offering Developer Tool to observe and test AI voice agents.
- Framed Data — Here is an exclusive deal for Mattermark subscribers.
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.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Spain, Chile
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Round size: Seed $770k–$6.1M; Series A $5.2M–$32M; Series B $3.6M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
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 — StockGro is a stock market advisory & research app trusted by 35M+ users. Get daily trade ideas with entry, exit & stop-loss from 150+ SEBI-registered analysts.
- Job&Talent — Find and manage your workforce with AI-driven hiring, scheduling, and performance tools designed to increase productivity by up to 30%.
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.
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- Industry: Mobile, Internet, iOS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.2M; Series A $1.4M–$18M; Series B $8.3M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
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.
Rob Emrich - Founder & CEO @ The Mobile Majority
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Computer
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
- Geography: United States, Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $650k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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 — DropCatch.com helps you secure expiring domain names.
- CoolChip Technologies — CoolChip Technologies, Inc. | 426 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.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Education, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Colombia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $756k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- howie — Howie is an AI calendar secretary for email, SMS, iMessage, Gmail, and Google Calendar. He books meetings, protects focus time, follows up, and handles reminders.
- Double — Double is a software platform that helps users to build, automate, and analyze investment portfolio for retail investors.
- Augment Markets — Buy and sell shares in private tech companies. Also private markets intelligence news: @TheAugmentPulse
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Browse database — It's Free!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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 259
- Round size: Seed $2M–$17M; Series A $9.5M–$50M; Series B $27M–$117M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- NavigateAI — An AI copilot for every person in the field. NavigateAI upskills and coaches your team, runs real-time quality control, manages the project in the background, and provides expert knowledge, instantly.
- Harvey — Harvey is an artificial intelligence technology service provider.
- Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 116
- Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Series A $4.5M–$38M; Series B $20M–$115M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Basis — Basis protocol is designed to expand and contract supply similarly to the way central banks buy and sell fiscal debt to stabilize purchasing power. For this reason, we refer to Basis as having an algorithmic central bank.
- Friend — Your new roommate is waiting.
- Blowfish — Blowfish makes it easy to identify & stop fraud before it happens. Join the leading wallets protecting their users funds with the blowfish security engine
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.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Sweden, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 79
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$14M; Pre-Seed $1.8M–$3M; Series A $3M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Interfere — The self-healing layer of the internet
- The Clearing Company — A new kind of prediction market.
- The Sentience Company — Sentience is humanity's first platform for uploaded consciousness. Our mission is to create AI that emulates and scales real human minds.
Bruno Cardoso
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- Industry: Consulting, Machine Learning, Professional Services
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DeepNeuronic — Transform surveillance with AI-powered computer vision. Real-time threat detection, traffic monitoring, and intelligent analytics for safer operations.
Young Guo is based out of Beijing and is the General Partner of IDG Capital Partners. Young previously worked at Soros Fund Management as a Executive management. Young Guo attended the Columbia Business School.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, B2B
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5.5M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
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.
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