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Top 50 Machine Learning Startup Investors in Portugal in September 2025

Last updated: Sep 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds 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 50 Machine Learning Startup Investors in Portugal in September 2025

Investor	Machine Learning Portugal investments
Portugal Ventures	8
Caixa Capital	5
Shilling VC	5
Faber	5
TheVentureCity	2
Ryan Petersen	2
Crane Venture Partners	2
GED Ventures Portugal	2
Grupo Lusiaves service	1
Young Guo	1
Draper Associates	1
Klaus von Sayn-Wittgenstein	1
Roger Dickey	1
LocalGlobe	1
Bewater Funds	1
COREangels	1
REDangels	1
M4 Ventures	1
Rob Emrich	1
Terrence Rohan	1
Investo	1
Adeyemi Ajao	1
J12	1
Vitor Crespo	1
LC Ventures	1
European Institute of Innovation and Technology	1
European regional development fund (ERDF)	1
CORFO	1
Workday Ventures	1
Kevin Rose	1
Bright Pixel (formerly Sonae IM)	1
Novabase Capital	1
Augusta Investments	1
Gorilla Capital	1
Conexo Ventures	1
Superlyst Ventures	1
Raymond Tonsing	1
Armilar Venture Partners	1
Errol Damelin	1
Sonae	1
TheVentureCity	1
Future Energy Ventures	1
EDP Ventures	1
Bruno Cardoso	1
Dispatch Ventures	1
WISENEXT	1
Maersk Growth	1
Vânia Fernandes	1
University of Beira Interior	1
Elad Gil	1

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Verticals:Enterprise, SaaS, Security, Networks, AI, VR/AR, Marketplace, Blockchain, Internet of Things, New materials, Electronics, Robotics, Cleantech, Agrotech, Seatech, Therapeutics, Digital Health, Diagnostics, Innovative Accommodation, Tourist Entertainment Companies, Tour Operators, Wine, Nautical and Equestrian Tourism, Theme ParksMobile, Robotics Founded in 2012, Portugal Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Porto, Portugal. The firm is a part of the Banco Português de Fomento group. The firm seeks to invest in pre-seed, seed and series A stages

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Portugal, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Glartek — Glartek's Augmented and Connected Worker solution enables increasing efficiency, safety, and excellence in all industrial operations.
Winalist — Discover and book curated wine tours, tastings, and exclusive wine and spirits experiences across Europe and the US. Explore top vineyards and enjoy personalized recommendations with Winalist.
Mantis-AI — Mantis.AI is an entertainment tech company that takes raw videos and noisy data and shapes them into a masterpiece of organized video clips, enriched data and content insights.

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.

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.
Noxus — At Spot, we're crafting the operating system for tomorrow's workforce, harnessing AI to streamline influencer marketing. Our platform empowers agencies, businesses, and content creators to collaborate effectively and reach audiences with ease.
Infraspeak — Infraspeak is an Intelligent CMMS Software that brings outstanding flexibility, connectivity and intelligence to your operations.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Portugal, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cafler — Your car's personal assistant. Ask for a Cafler now, we move your car for you!
Relive — Relive is empowering the next generation of real estate entrepreneurs, with a mobile app that allows them to work for themselves, from anywhere, while saving time and earning commissions faster.
specter automation — Construction is the second least digitized sector in the world with 96% of all data being unused. Although detailed planning data is created upfront, a lack of suitable digital tools prevents its transfer to the construction site. SPECTER’s web-based construction management software uniquely incorporates the core components of constructionplanning, reducing the organizational burden on construction management and helping to meet project timelines and budgets.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Portugal, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

YPLASMA — YPlasma, an INTA spin-off, develops plasma actuators for ionic flow control, enabling advancements in Energy and Electronics.
KOA Biotech — Detecta enfermedades a tiempo y maximiza tus resultados.
Zymvol Biomodeling — Need a new or better biocatalyst? At ZYMVOL we combine bioinformatics and molecular modeling to accelerate Enzyme Discovery and Design

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Spain, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Count — Explore, refactor, and share your data at warp speed.
Tansley — Tansley is a group of companies (Guaw, Milbby, Brand Story, Bookish) focused on fostering consumer ecosystems around hobbies and passions.
Passport — Passport is the modern shipping carrier for international ecommerce that helps direct-to-consumer brands ship their products internationally.

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

Crane is a London based VC firm investing and building seed and early stage intelligent enterprise and deep technology businesses across Europe. Our strategy is to support founders in building and executing their go-to-market strategy.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

SRE.ai — SRE.ai delivers AI agents that automate Salesforce DevOps workflows, allowing for fast, transparent deployments, back-promotions, and impact analysis. With seamless tool integration, SRE.ai minimizes clicks and maximizes productivity, enabling teams to scale without sacrificing quality or speed.
Memories.ai — Memories.ai is an innovative startup focused on developing a cutting-edge AI video analytics platform that leverages advanced machine learning and computer vision technologies to automatically analyze, interpret, and extract valuable insights from video content across various industries, including security, retail, entertainment, and more.
Bluefish Labs — Bluefish helps brands turn AI into a powerful new marketing channel to reach consumers and tell their story online.

GED Ventures Portugal is an Investment firm.

Investment focus

Hospital, Consulting, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Hoopers — Global basketball community platform connecting players, fans and enthusiasts through products, contents, experiences and NFTs.
PluggableAI — Pluggable is the leading Meaningful Mobile Engagement solution where, through disruptive AI models and non-intrusive smartphone sensors, we maximize mobile app engagement.
Indie Campers — Indie Campers offers adventurers the opportunity to start their journey in one location and end it in any of our other depots, while delivering an outstanding customer service for a unique and unforgettable experience.

Lusiaves Group, founded in 1986 in Marinha das Ondas (Figueira da Foz), has continuously invested in vertical integration of the poultry sector to ensure full control of the entire animal production process. The verticalization of the industry is made possible by a commitment to continual learning about the poultry market and through the adoptionof agrifood innovation, food quality and safety, animal health and nutrition, sustainability, and human resources as the cornerstones of its operations. Those bets enabled the Lusiaves Group to grow and expand, combined with solid teamwork, supported by career advancement, and the ability to continually improve individual and collective work daily.

Investment focus

Computer, Consumer, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Post-IPO Equity
Sweden, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Meight — Run your cargo on budget and on time with a few simple clicks, from your laptop. Forget phone calls, driver headaches, hardware and tech nightmares, forever.
Scandi Standard — Welcome to Scandi Standard. We want to inspire you to choose chicken: a good, healthy choice, which is ideal for today’s consumers. We sell the finest Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish chicken under the Kronfågel, Danpo, Den stolte Hane and Naapurin Maalaiskana brands. We are the leading chicken producer in the Nordic region, serving thedomestic and export markets.In June 2013, we created the Nordic region's market-leading chickenbased product group when Scandi Standard was established. The Company was created by gathering the largest poultry operations in the region into one collective group. At present, the Group has an annual turnover of approximately SEK 5.2 billion and almost 1,700 employees.

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.

Draper Associates, founded in 1985, is a seed-stage venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs to drive their businesses to greatness. We understand that a great company takes time to build and we'd like to ensure that entrepreneurs are in for the long haul.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Neurvona — AI Digital Twin Personas
MIDL — MIDL is a digital finance company that offers EVM compatibility, functionality of Ethereum dApps to Bitcoin users.
Decile Group — Discover how to launch a VC fund instantly with top managers. Join us to fund great companies changing the world. Start your journey now!

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!
Framed Data — Here is an exclusive deal for Mattermark subscribers.

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.

Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Laka — Laka is collective bicycle insurance especially for cyclists. We flipped insurance. By making it pay to pay out, we are the collective that backs each other. Protect your bikes and gear against theft & damage with Laka 5-star rated cycle insurance.
Xelix — Empower your AP & P2P teams with Xelix: AI-powered software that prevents overpayments & delivers meaningful insights around working capital.
Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.

Venture capital management company with moninvestment funds and liquidity for the investors.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Machine Learning
Funding Round, Seed, Secondary Market
Spain, Colombia, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Nailted — Complete AI-powered Engagement, Performance and Management suite: People Analytics, one-to-one meetings, performance reviews, goals, and more.
Lico Cosmetics — Lico Cosmetics is a chemical engineer specializing in formulation and high-end cosmetics, supported by women entrepreneurs, specialists in the sector, and passionate about the eco-beauty world.
Product Hackers — Crecimiento real, sin humo. Activa estrategias de Full Business Growth para escalar tu negocio con impacto, foco y sostenibilidad.

Where startups can get much more than money, and Investors can professionally invest as angels.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Spain, Portugal, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Imageryst — Imageryst automatically extracts satellite imagery insights to enhance global strategic and operational decisions.
Plain Tiger — Elevate your hotel and spa with Plain Tiger's B2B marketplace. Source sustainably from our curated portfolio of consumables suppliers, featuring leading products for spas, hotel rooms, and operations. Connect with verified sustainable suppliers, fueling an eco-conscious shift in hospitality.
Triple — The best payment data enrichment solution. Our API includes fraud detection, transaction enrichment, categorization, subscriptions, and carbon footprint.

They believe the unbelievable and trust the untrustable.

Investment focus

Internet of Things, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Portugal, Poland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

HypeLabs — HypeLabs is the company that created the Hype SDK, an interoperable mesh networking software that improves connectivity on all kinds of devices, from mobile to desktop to IoT, allowing them to connect even when there is no internet. The software works by intelligently connecting devices in local mesh networks using existing connectivitytechnologies, such as Bluetooth, WiFi, LoRa and others. This network enables content to securely hop between devices, until it reaches a destination or an Internet exit point, improving range and deliverability.Founded in 2016, the company is located in San Francisco (USA), Porto (Portugal), London (UK) and Krakow (Poland). AngelPad #10 (Spring '16) alumni & Deutsche Telekom WARP alumni.
Musiversal — Record your music in real time with world-class session musicians, vocalists, producers and audio engineers
Sensefinity — Sensefinity The Blockchain IoT Transformation Company Building the Internet of Cargo Where Assets autonomously connect to processes

M4 Ventures helps startups to grow and expand globally through experience and hands-on collaboration.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments
Seed, Funding Round
Portugal, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Modatta — Your data is worth a fortune, so why aren't you getting paid? Now you can. Monetize your data. Decide who uses it and why. Bring fairness to the system.
PayNest — PayNest is a payments amalgamator, which was created with the core mission of digitizing cash collection in the Middle East.
Paynest — Hello, we are Paynest! An innovative online platform with a very important mission: to give every employee the tools to master financial wellness and build a resilient future. Instant wage access, financial education and mentoring by professional financial coaches are the main benefits we bring on the table.Our co-partners in this mission will bethe pioneering employers: the minds who have an insightful and special way of thinking. Those who believe that their teams’ wellness is a top priority and want to see their employees evolve both professionally and personally. Together we will provide independence and safety to every employee. And that’s just the beginning! We are here to grow with you.50% of employees confirm that they are unable to fund a financial emergency. This is something that “produces” a never-ending sense of financial stress. Studies show that the demanding modern life and the global political and economical changes make every employee worry about the future. In Paynest we believe that it's vital for employees to have instant wage access whenever they want to. The result will be less everyday stress, more focus and boosted morale.In Paynest we believe that if you take action today, you can dream of tomorrow.And that is something that works both for every employer and every employee around the world.

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. | 423 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.

Terrence Rohan is a seed investor and the Managing Director of Otherwise. Terrence's seed investments include Figma (Board Director 2013-2015), Front, Notion, Hugging Face, Granola, Vanta and Robinhood, among others. He has been ranked by Forbes as part of the Midas Brink list and Business Insider as a Top 100 seed investor.Prior toOtherwise, Terrence was at Index Ventures for 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. In 2017 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. He first joined Google in 2005. 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, Series B
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.
Browser Use — Make Websites Accessible for Agents
David AI — David AI is an audio data research company - trusted by top AI labs to develop the proprietary audio datasets that power their models.

Lovable Generated Project

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Mexico, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Cuéntame — Cuéntame develops tools designed for employees' emotional wellbeing.
Holacasa — Holacasa te ayuda a conseguir tu hipoteca, comparando +11 bancos. Sin costo ni compromiso.
Konta — Konta offers an online accounting service for micro and small businesses in México. Their company vision is to make running a small company easy. They are helping freelancers and small entrepreneurs by implementing a cost-effective, automated online accounting service. José Menéndez and Pablo Icaza founded the company in September 2019, with itsheadquarters in Monterrey, México.

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Sweden, Germany, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Ostrom — We make energy fair, smart and green - one flexible monthly plan with no hidden fees, digital-first and 100% renewable energy.
DataCrunch.io — DataCrunch is a cloud service provider which facilitates utilization and integration of state of the art AI/ML models
IPercept — At IPercept we provide AI-based, hardware-enabled software solutions and services that can best be described as the fitness tracker for complex industrial machines. At the push of a button, you can learn about a machines’ health, down to micrometer changes for each critical component. You can get insights into what maintenance activities you shouldapply and when. You can monitor how the machines are operated, how to optimize their utilization and much more. All of this is achieved through a plug-n-play installation - for old machines as well as new. All securely provided without requiring access to any machine controllers or IT-systems. These services reduce maintenance costs, downtime and increase productivity - a solid ROI for our customers. In 5 years, most complex industrial machinery sold in the world will be supported by our technology.

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 — DeepNeuronic is a tech startup that specializes in building machine learning-based products to resolve and automate daily problems.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series D
Portugal, China, Poland

Portfolio highlights

360hyper — The groceries marketplace where you can find everthing you need. Buy online groceries as fast as in 4 hours with personalized picking.
Musiversal — Record your music in real time with world-class session musicians, vocalists, producers and audio engineers
Brands&Ninjas — SaaS to control the performance of physical marketing campaigns on retail.

EIT empowers entrepreneurs and innovators to support the development of innovative solutions to pressing global challenges, aiming to turn ideas into products, services, and jobs for Europe.It has set up Europe’s largest innovation network with more than 2000 partners from leading business, research, and education organizations across Europeworking together in more than 60 innovation hubs across Europe. The EIT Community offers a wide range of innovation and entrepreneurship activities across Europe: entrepreneurial education courses, innovation-driven research projects, and business creation and acceleration services.By creating unique opportunities for talented innovators, entrepreneurs, and students, the EIT has powered more than 3 100 start-ups and scale-ups that have gone to raise more than EUR 3.3 billion in external capital with more than 1 170 new products and services created. 3 100 students have already graduated from EIT labeled master and doctoral programs and over 10 000 have participated in EIT Community entrepreneurial training.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Grant, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Portugal, France, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Aurrigo International plc — Global Transport Technology Leaders Engineering a Sustainable Future.
resourcly — Resourcly is on a mission to enable a circular economy with industrial symbiosis. We provide a B2B Industrial Inventory Sharing Platform to connect manufacturers and their partners to reuse resources and monetize industrial waste.
SpaceCrop — SpaceCrop is an agricultural software company that helps farms manage irrigation and increase crop resiliency using satellite data and artificial intelligence.

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.

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 provide clinicians and researchers a non-invasive means of sampling fluids.
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.

CORFO is an executing agency of government policy in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation, through tools and instruments compatible with the central tendencies of a social market economy, creating the conditions to achieve building a society of opportunities.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
Chile, Argentina, Peru

Portfolio highlights

Mywacc — We are a fintech that offers valuation services to provide start-ups and small businesses with accurate, reliable, and affordable financial valuations (leveraged in AI), as well as access to capital and additional services that could help them make better financial decisions and improve their chances of success. Funded by Corfo Chile. Partnershipfrom UDD Ventures. Part of Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub
Audibots — Otro sitio de WordPress
Remote Waters — Remote Waters provide water purification systems with low O&M and fast installation for remote communities with limited access to potable water.

Workday Ventures helps accelerate innovation by connecting next-generation enterprise technology companies with Workday, customers, and the broader community. Learn more

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Buk — Software de Recursos Humanos para atender todas las necesidades de tus colaboradores. Desde el pago de sus remuneraciones hasta su desarrollo profesional.
Comulate — Comulate reinvents the revenue process for large broker accounting teams with purpose-built direct bill automation, cash application & carrier payables automation, and more.
Veza — Veza is the identity security company that enables organizations to understand, manage and control who can and should take what action on what data.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Portugal, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Brij — With one-touch, BRIJ allows consumers to gain product info, care instructions and discounts while you gain a deeper understanding of your consumer. Apps, paper manuals and hassles not required.
FlowFuse — FlowFuse is the Industrial Application platform empowering teams to build, deploy, and manage solutions that optimize operations.
Tidal Cyber — Tidal Cyber helps enterprise organizations to define, measure, and improve their defenses to address the adversary behaviors that are most important to them. It also helps to assess, organize, and optimize defenses with a deep understanding of the threats.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed
Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

WEEZIE — Weezie offers all-in-one fiber network management software focused on the automation and digitalization of all internal processes.
Glartek — Glartek's Augmented and Connected Worker solution enables increasing efficiency, safety, and excellence in all industrial operations.
HypeLabs — HypeLabs is the company that created the Hype SDK, an interoperable mesh networking software that improves connectivity on all kinds of devices, from mobile to desktop to IoT, allowing them to connect even when there is no internet. The software works by intelligently connecting devices in local mesh networks using existing connectivitytechnologies, such as Bluetooth, WiFi, LoRa and others. This network enables content to securely hop between devices, until it reaches a destination or an Internet exit point, improving range and deliverability.Founded in 2016, the company is located in San Francisco (USA), Porto (Portugal), London (UK) and Krakow (Poland). AngelPad #10 (Spring '16) alumni & Deutsche Telekom WARP alumni.

Seed/Early Technology Investments

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Spain, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Rappi — Rappi is a consumer tech company that specializes in providing online delivery services. It connects consumers who want to purchase prepared foods, groceries, clothes, and virtually anything with independent contractors who can fulfill those needs. The company was founded in 2015 with its main offices in Bogota, Colombia.
Dropbox DocSend — Try our secure document sharing platform for free. Instantly know when documents are opened & what pages are read. Easy-to-use eSignatures.
CoverWallet — How much will my business insurance cost? What insurance coverage does my small business need? Visit CoverWallet and get a free quote in just a minute!

Gorilla Capital invests in early stage Finnish, Swedish, Danish and Estonian technology companies

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Finland, Estonia, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Mjuk — Marketplace for pre-owned, unique design furniture
Agenton AI — Transform your auto dealership with AI voice agents that handle every call, book service appointments, and convert leads 24/7. Increase revenue and never miss another service opportunity.
Orijin — A turnkey solution to solve EUDR for coffee & cocoa importers and producers

We invest in exceptional individuals with the passion for solving hard challenges and bringing disruptive innovation to high growth markets.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Spain, Mexico, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Buildpeer — Buildpeer is a project management software for construction fields. The company was founded by Mauricio Valdes in 2021 and is headquartered in Garza García, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.
Hotelverse — Hotelverse allows customers search over hotels on their platform and book rooms as per their requirements.
Savana — Transform EMR into Deep-Real World Evidence with a scientific methodology that applies Artificial Intelligence (AI) to EMR free-text.

Superlyst Ventures is a seed-stage investment collective, backed by an ecosystem of successful entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, Privacy, Computer
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Kertos — Kertos is a software company that develops and provides a holistic privacy platform in Europe, implementing automation and execution in a highly regulated environment focusing on the operational needs for all stakeholders involved. With their focus on product, integration, and automation they enable businesses to scale, to adopt and to maneuver inmodern tech environments with only a fraction of the current workload. They drive consumer engagement and help companies to interact with their customers in sensitive matters.
Meight — Run your cargo on budget and on time with a few simple clicks, from your laptop. Forget phone calls, driver headaches, hardware and tech nightmares, forever.

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

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
Merkle Manufactory — Merkle Manufactory is a software company contributing to the Farcaster protocol and working on clients.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Portugal, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cintoo — Cintoo is essential for BIM to bridge the gap between your physical and virtual worlds.
Automaise — Radically improve your customer care operations by focusing where the volume is and helping your agents do a better job.
Sword Health — SWORD Health is a digital musculoskeletal (MSK) therapy provider. The company pairs licensed physical therapists with innovative technology to help people overcome their chronic and post-surgical pain faster and more cost-effectively. We’re on a mission to free two billion people from pain by making it simple for people to recover at home, withoutresorting to imaging, surgeries, or opioids. Since launching in 2015, SWORD Health has worked with insurers, health systems, and employers in Europe, Australia, and the U.S. to give thousands of people access to preventative, chronic, and post-surgical MSK care that gets results. SWORD Health has offices in New York City, Chicago, Salt Lake City, Sydney, and Porto.

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.
OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback

Sonae is a multinational company with a diversified portfolio of businesses in retail, financial services, technology, shopping centres, telecommunications

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Analytics
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Movvo — The Movvo platform delivers smart business intelligence solutions for owners and operators of retail and commercial real estate that turns data into improved retail performance and better value engineering decisions. The platform combines consumer behaviour wireless sensor technology and digests other public and private datasets, enhancing theunderstanding of the data by applying machine learning to provide fast and easy interpretation of this data delivering insights and rapid scenario-planning. Whether it is measuring ROI or reporting KPI's, the Movvo platform has these bases covered. Where it comes into its own is via the application of machine learning Want to easily prepare a leasing pack that maximises the rental value, what to create additional incremental value from asset investment decisions, want to know the impact of changing the tenant from apparel retailer to food & beverage? The Movvo platform can deliver prescriptive intelligence and more.

TheVentureCity is a global early-stage venture fund, investing in product-centric startups across the US, Europe, and Latam. With more than $150M under management, the firm invests from pre-seed and seed with a ticket size from $100-500k to Series A with $1-4M.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Spain, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Count — Explore, refactor, and share your data at warp speed.
Tansley — Tansley is a group of companies (Guaw, Milbby, Brand Story, Bookish) focused on fostering consumer ecosystems around hobbies and passions.
Passport — Passport is the modern shipping carrier for international ecommerce that helps direct-to-consumer brands ship their products internationally.

Future Energy Ventures is a unique venture capital fund that brings together corporate partners and world-class start-ups to shape the future energy landscape. Future Energy Ventures invests in digital and digitally enabled technologies and business models that have the potential to redefine the future energy landscape.From its operational hubsin Germany, Israel and Silicon Valley, Future Energy Ventures looks for both investments and scaling opportunities for its portfolio globally and new investment opportunities.Future Energy Ventures is the venture capital investment and collaboration platform of E.ON, one of Europe’s largest operators of energy networks and energy-related infrastructure.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

KUGU — KUGU - The platform for digital building management. We digitalize processes for property managers, energy companies and housing companies.
feld.energy — feld. energy enables farmers to produce sustainable energy without sacrificing agriculture.Agri-PV is a solution that brings benefits to all parties.
Chloris Geospatial — Chloris Geospatial is able to provide answers today to critical natural capital issues. Chloris Geospatial provides innovative measurements of natural capital that use cutting-edge remote sensing, machine learning, and ecological science.

EDP Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.

Investment focus

SaaS, Energy, Internet
Series A
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Piclo — Piclo develop software to make our electricity grids smart, flexible and sustainable.
Power to Hydrogen — Power to Hydrogen (P2H2) is simplifying hydrogen. Our technology enables a brighter energy future by solving the technical and economic challenges that come with producing hydrogen. Our AEM-based, electrolysis technology produces high pressure, high efficiency hydrogen from renewable energy with lower cost materials thancompeting electrolyzers. This technology can reduce the total cost of hydrogen to enable clean transportation, store energy efficiently, and decarbonize industrial processes. In addition to low-cost, high-pressure hydrogen production, the technology can produce high-pressure oxygen and be used reversibly to produce electricity. Both services can create additional revenue streams to make the total cost of hydrogen $1/kg.
Electrified Thermal Solutions — Electrified Thermal Solutions, Inc. is developing the Joule Hive: a new energy storage technology that converts surplus zero-carbon electricity into heat.

Bruno Cardoso

Investment focus

Consulting, Machine Learning, Professional Services
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

DeepNeuronic — DeepNeuronic is a tech startup that specializes in building machine learning-based products to resolve and automate daily problems.

Dispatch Ventures invests in founders building early-stage technology companies. Over the years, Dispatch has nurtured dozens of startups- helping them find corporate clients, skilled employees, gain media coverage, and raise millions in venture capital.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Leav — Sign up for a free trial of the most intuitive mobile self-checkout platform designed for today's retailers.
Meight — Run your cargo on budget and on time with a few simple clicks, from your laptop. Forget phone calls, driver headaches, hardware and tech nightmares, forever.
Stamped Technologies — Stamped is an accounting firm using technology to provide SMEs with fast, easy and affordable financial and corporate tax preparation.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed
Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

pleez — Pleez offers Restaurant's an optimisation of their menu within Delivery Platforms, so that they can have a revenue increase up to 25%.
Volup — Volup is a premium food delivery app that partners exclusively with top-tier chefs and restaurants.
Relive — Relive is empowering the next generation of real estate entrepreneurs, with a mobile app that allows them to work for themselves, from anywhere, while saving time and earning commissions faster.

Integrated logistics company and global leader in container shipping.

Investment focus

Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Altris — Altris is a leading developer of sodium-ion batteries, offering superior performance and sustainability. Our innovative energy storage solutions are made from abundant and renewable materials, revolutionizing the way we power the world. Discover our cutting-edge technology today.
MODIFI — Explore digital trade finance and B2B payment solutions that empower your business to grow globally.
C1 Green Chemicals — C1 develops climate friendly chemical production processes via computer simulation. Our first product is green methanol. Circular carbon chemistry reducing CO2.

Vânia Fernandes

Investment focus

Consulting, Machine Learning, Professional Services
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

DeepNeuronic — DeepNeuronic is a tech startup that specializes in building machine learning-based products to resolve and automate daily problems.

The University of Beira Interior's mission is to "promote the highest level of qualification, production, transmission, review and dissemination of knowledge, culture, science and technology, through study, teaching and research.

Investment focus

Consulting, Machine Learning, Professional Services
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

DeepNeuronic — DeepNeuronic is a tech startup that specializes in building machine learning-based products to resolve and automate daily problems.

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.

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