Top 50 Machine Learning Startup Investors in Portugal (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Portugal Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | Portugal, United States, France | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $110k–$2.1M |
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Faber
VC Fund
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6 | Portugal, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS | $34k–$25M |
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Shilling VC
VC Fund
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5 | Portugal, Spain, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Internet | $208k–$20M |
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Caixa Capital
VC Fund
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5 | Portugal, United States, Spain | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $120k–$12M |
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Crane Venture Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $2.7M–$39M |
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Grupo Lusiaves service
VC Fund
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2 | Sweden, Portugal | Seed, Post-IPO Equity | Computer, Consumer, Software | $81k–$330k |
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GED Ventures Portugal
VC Fund
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2 | Portugal, France, Germany | Seed, Series B | Health Care, Software, Medical | $1.6M–$2.3M |
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TheVentureCity
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Spain, Brazil | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $100k–$45M |
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Ryan Petersen
Angel
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2 | United States, India, Brazil | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $1.7M–$62M |
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Maersk Growth
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Denmark | Series A, Seed, Series B | Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Software | $1.3M–$115M |
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Investo
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Mexico, Chile | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | E-Commerce, Internet, Software | $120k–$4.4M |
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J12
VC Fund
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1 | Sweden, Germany, Norway | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $420k–$65M |
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Future Energy Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United States, Israel | Seed, Series A | Software, Energy, Information Technology | $1.2M–$27M |
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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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CORFO
VC Fund
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1 | Chile, Argentina, Peru | Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $16k–$266k |
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Bright Pixel Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Portugal, Israel | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $1.1M–$35M |
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Superlyst Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, Portugal | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Privacy, Computer | $1.4M–$4.4M |
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Forestay Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Switzerland, United States, Germany | Series B, Series C, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Retail | $2M–$100M |
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Wefunder
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Kenya, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding | Software, SaaS, E-Commerce | $51k–$2.7M |
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Terrence Rohan
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Sweden | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence | $1.8M–$28M |
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WISENEXT
VC Fund
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1 | Portugal, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Internet | $165k–$1.6M |
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BlueCrow Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates | Seed | FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments | |
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LC Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Portugal, China, Poland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series D | Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things | |
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Conexo Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Spain, Mexico, Portugal | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Software, Information Technology | |
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Vânia Fernandes
Angel
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1 | Portugal | Seed | Consulting, Machine Learning, Professional Services | |
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University of Beira Interior
VC Fund
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1 | Portugal | Seed | Consulting, Machine Learning, Professional Services | |
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European regional development fund (ERDF)
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, Germany, France | Grant, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology | $27k–$2.2M |
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Novabase Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Portugal, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Analytics | $576k–$3M |
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Gorilla Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Finland, Sweden, Estonia | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $149k–$5.5M |
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Sonae
VC Fund
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1 | Portugal | Seed | SaaS, Software, Analytics | |
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Dispatch Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, Financial Services | $125k–$18M |
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Notion Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $1.1M–$60M |
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Bewater Funds
VC Fund
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1 | Spain, Colombia, Portugal | Seed, Secondary Market | Software, SaaS, Machine Learning | $24k–$2.1M |
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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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Roger Dickey
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Colombia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Education, E-Commerce | $731k–$5M |
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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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Armilar Venture Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Portugal, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $500k–$16M |
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European Institute of Innovation and Technology
VC Fund
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1 | Portugal, France, Sweden | Grant, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $75k–$295k |
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Draper Associates
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Information Technology | $1M–$50M |
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SHIFT Invest
VC Fund
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1 | The Netherlands, Germany, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $938k–$19M |
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Augusta Investments
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Spain, Brazil | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Mobile, SaaS | $770k–$45M |
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M4 Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Portugal, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates | Seed | FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments | |
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Bruno Cardoso
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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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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LocalGlobe
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1M–$33M |
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Rock International Group
VC Fund
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1 | Portugal | Series A | Energy, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Vitor Crespo
Angel
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1 | Portugal | Seed | Consulting, Machine Learning, Professional Services | |
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EDP Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Portugal | Series A | SaaS, Energy, Internet | $5.5M–$18M |
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Klaus von Sayn-Wittgenstein
Angel
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1 | United States, Portugal | Seed, Series A | Internet, Machine Learning, B2B | $590k–$2M |
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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
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Portugal, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 226
- Round size: Seed $110k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $110k–$658k
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2011
Portfolio highlights
- Azulfy — Real-time pollution monitoring for EU municipalities. Satellite-based environmental compliance tools for local governments and smart cities.
- PLUTOS — We are here to make sure that your Puppy gets the best treat! PLUTOS were created specifically for dogs to have fun. Find out our dog healthy chews.
- Hostels HUB — Hostels HUB is a hostel developer that is looking for opportunities both in city as leisure locations around Portugal.
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.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Portugal, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 85
- Round size: Seed $549k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $34k–$3.8M; Series A $3.5M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- B'ZEOS — B’ZEOS offers seaweed-based packaging solutions to industries looking for sustainable alternatives and a way to decarbonize their industry. B’ZEOS is a technology-based start-up that focuses on material development based on seaweed, and our innovation lies within the material formulation, which is converted into tailored packaging solutions.
- Ponda — Ponda is a biomaterials company pioneering regenerative-material supply chains.
- Apres — Apres is a distributed learning engine built to enable high-performance, user-friendly AI for the world.
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.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Portugal, Spain, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 85
- Round size: Seed $603k–$5M; Pre-Seed $208k–$3M; Series A $5M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Algori — Improving FMCG growth with the fastest and most granular insights from 45,000 shoppers in Spain
- Musiversal — Record your music in real time with world-class session musicians, vocalists, producers and audio engineers
- Punto Health — AI-Powered, Personalised Support for Every Patient and Family
Caixa Capital is the Private Equity and Venture Capital arm of banking Group Caixa Geral de Depósitos and has a track record spanning over two decades of activity, since the industry was created in Portugal. It is a leading investor in terms of funds under management, portfolio size and diversity.Caixa Capital´s mission is to invest in fundsand companies, led by highly qualified management teams, with high growth and valuation potential, that enable our funds to achieve an attractive risk adjusted return and for society at large to benefit sustainably from our activity.Currently with more than 700 million Euros under management and a portfolio of over 80 investments, Caixa Capital is a reference in this area with special links to the respective European sector associations.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Portugal, United States, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 67
- Round size: Seed $120k–$2.5M; Series A $3M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BioMimetx — BioMimetx is a biotech startup focused on the development of green antifouling solutions to prevent marine biofouling. The company discovers and owns environmental bacteria that secrete molecules, which are used as natural antimicrobials and algaecides. BioMimetx is based in Cantanhede, Portugal.
- 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.
- Exogenus Therapeutics — Exogenus Therapeutics is engineering cell biology for innovative therapeutic solutions.Exo-T is a biotechnology company dedicated to the pre-clinical and clinical development of innovative cellular-based therapies applied to regenerative medicine, specifically for the skin lesions treatment. The company is presently developing its first product,Exo-Wound, for the treatment of chronic wounds.The project that led to the creation of the company (Nanoinspire) participated in COHiTEC 2014 program and is the result of the research developed in collaboration with Crioestaminal SA, Biocant, and Centre for Neurosciences and Cellular Biology of Coimbra University.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 122
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$8M; Series A $8M–$39M
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $140M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Qovery — Qovery is a DevOps automation tool that lets developers deploy and scale applications on their cloud by simplifying and automating infrastructure so tech teams can focus on what matters most: building great products.
- Mycelial — Mycelial is a computer company that develops computer software to unlock values in the most constrained environments. It delivers software from the ocean floor to interstellar space, enabling users with a solution in the most sensitive environments where instantaneous decision-making meets life and death.Mycelial was established in 2021 and isbased in New York.
- ConfigHub Inc. — ConfigHub will unify and centralize software infrastructure configuration in a way that existing tools do not.
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.
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- Industry: Computer, Consumer, Software
- Stage:Seed, Post-IPO Equity
- Geography: Sweden, Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Post-IPO Equity $81k–$330k
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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.
GED Ventures Portugal is an Investment firm.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Portugal, France, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$2.3M
- Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hope Care Health — Hope Care is a digital health company that combines services, products, and cutting-edge technology platforms to enable the delivery of Social and Health Care without barriers.
- Virtuleap — Virtuleap combines neuroscience and virtual reality to help increase attention levels, and address cognitive illnesses, disorders, and learning challenges. We have created a library of VR games designed by neuroscientists in order to test and train a range of cognitive abilities and make that data accessible through our enterprise platform. Ourfirst paid client is the AARP, and we are now working with leading institutions, like the VA Health Care System and the Pacific Brain Health Center, to validate our solution as an effective diagnostic and treatment for attention deficit and cognitive decline.
- CryoTherapeutics — CryoTherapeutics is focusing on the development, demonstration of clinical benefit, and early-stage commercialization of a proprietary cryotherapy system for use in the treatment of coronary artery disease that causes heart attacks. The safety and efficacy of cryoenergy in the cardiovascular system has been demonstrated and CryoTherapeutics intendsto extend the benefits of cryoenergy to the problem of diseased coronary arteries.
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.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Spain, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 149
- Round size: Seed $100k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.2M; Series A $3M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$7.5M; 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
Integrated logistics company and global leader in container shipping.
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- Industry: Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$4.8M; Series A $11M–$22M; Series B $15M–$115M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ofload — Ofload connects road freight to thousands of reliable carriers and manages it through technology. This means less waste and more data. Start hauling and shipping with us today!
- Fleetzero — Fleetzero is a marine technology company that sells electric and hybrid marine propulsion systems for new and existing commercial vessels.
- WasteFuel — WasteFuel produces renewable fuels using proven technologies to address the climate emergency and revolutionize mobility.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Mexico, Chile
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $125k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $120k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100k in 2012
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.
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
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Sweden, Germany, Norway
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.7M; Pre-Seed $420k–$1.7M; Series A $7M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Treyd — Working capital for fast growing brands. Order Now, Pay Suppliers Later
- VALIDIO — Real-time data validation and data quality monitoring for modern data teams. Abstracting complexity away from data engineering.
- CURE: One app, all things health — CURE connects local pharmacies with customers throughout its platform and delivers healthcare-related goods directly to the consumer.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Energy, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 89
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$5M; Series A $4M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $293M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Calipsa — Advanced video analytics for real-time security and forensic analysis. Calipsa is a cloud-based platform that uses AI to extract operational intelligence from video systems.
- GridCARE — GridCARE is the essential one-stop power solution for AI data centers, delivering energy security and resilience at unprecedented speed.
- Reel Energy — Reel empowers all companies to procure renewable electricity that makes a real difference for the climate.
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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. | 424 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.
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.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Chile, Argentina, Peru
Investor stats
- Total investments: 101
- Round size: Seed $20k–$200k; Grant $16k–$100k; Pre-Seed $19k–$266k
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Candel Medical Company — Candel combines conventional therapy with neuromodulation techniques and offers personalized remote therapy through a neurorehabilitation device (tES) and a multi-device mobile application. The devices are plug&play, have real time monitoring, and the possibility of remote access by professionals to follow up the therapy in their patients.
- Califix Compliance — Califix Compliance is a SaaS platform that automates contractor audits for industries like mining, energy, and the environment. By aggregating financial, legal, and regulatory data in real time, Califix reduces compliance processes from months to seconds, enabling sustainable operations and helping companies avoid risks, fines, and operationaldelays.
- DataRoot —
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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, Portugal, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 95
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.3M; Series A $5.4M–$16M; Series B $15M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EatTasty — Fresh food delivery service in Lisbon. Easy to choose and order. Free delivery. Discover our delicious lunches and dinners!
- Bria — Bria is a Computer Software company.
- Mesh Security — Mesh Security is the industry’s first complete Zero Trust Posture Management (ZTPM) SaaS platform, a single source of truth that enables companies to implement a unified Zero Trust Architecture on top of their existing stack. Without using agents, Mesh effortlessly and seamlessly maps a company’s entire cloud XaaS estate in minutes, providing fullcontextual visibility, control, and protection of the Everywhere Enterprise.
Superlyst Ventures is a seed-stage investment collective, backed by an ecosystem of successful entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Software, Privacy, Computer
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$4.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Forestay Capital is dedicated to investing in the tech sector and reflects Waypoint’s focus on innovative, forward-looking industries in which it can leverage its entrepreneurial heritage and long-track record in helping businesses to realize their ambitions for growth. It is passionate about technologies that transform conventional models withsoftware and data to make an impact on business, practices, and people. It invests in revenue-generating technology companies in Europe, Israel, and in the US, and favors software and data-driven businesses that challenge established models.Forestay Capital was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Geneve, Switzerland.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Retail
- Stage:Series B, Series C, Series A
- Geography: Switzerland, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Series A $12M–$28M; Series B $2M–$68M; Series C $7M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Buynomics — buynomics is the leading solution to optimize your product portfolio. Our clients use buynomics to optimize pricing, promotions, & portfolio architecture.
- Pivot — Pivot operates as a fintech company.
- Neural Concept — Neural Concept is the first AI software for enhanced engineering. Leverage your historical CAD and CAE data to drastically shorten and improve your design cycles.
Wefunder is a crowd investing platform that offers capital raising services. The company's online platform offers investment services to startups through its investors' userbase and disruptive companies can receive amount as small as hundred dollars, enabling companies to grow and develop their businesses.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Geography: United States, Kenya, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 84
- Round size: Seed $200k–$2.7M; Pre-Seed $89k–$1M; Equity Crowdfunding $51k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $25k in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Kombuchery — Establish the leading health and lifestyle brand in the beverage industry. We aim to establish a socially-responsible, healthier, and more affordable alternative to conventional beverages in the market, while disrupting the traditional beverage value chain by leveraging direct-to-consumer subscription and digital marketing channels.
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- Firesale — Firesale is an AI-powered resale marketplace built for people with too much stuff and zero time. Sellers record a 2-second video, and Firesale’s AI instantly generates the title, description, photos, and price. No typing, no pricing games, no endless messages — just tap, record, and sell. Designed to feel like a digital yard sale, Firesale makes iteffortless to turn clutter into cash locally, with Uber-powered pickup and delivery options.
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, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 73
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$13M; Pre-Seed $1.8M–$3M; Series A $3M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dreamer — /dev/agents platform will work on new UI patterns that make it easier to build AI agents in a new cloud-based operating system.
- Sauna by Wordware — A collaborative prompt engineering IDE
- Mach9 — Mach9 is building the operating system for cities. We're monitoring surface and underground infrastructure to predict and prevent infrastructure failures.
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Browse database — It's Free!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.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Portugal, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $478k–$1.6M; Pre-Seed $165k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
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.
BlueCrow Capital is a venture capital firm.
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- Industry: FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Bighub — Bighub is a marketplace integration technology and sales accelerator that synchronizes with over 30 marketplaces in a single ecosystem.
- Sensei — We are the leading European provider of autonomous stores, with an AI-powered solution to build efficient operations and deliver a seamless shopping experience.
- Maven Pet — Maven is a SaaS pet tech startup that provides a personal vet to track the pet’s safety and health 24/7.It focuses on using technology to improve the quality of life for pets, as well as offering pet owners peace of mind and a way to keep track of their pet's safety, health, and well-being on a continual basis through their own personalveterinarian.It was started by the founders of Findster Technologies in 2021 and is based in Porto, Portugal.
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.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series D
- Geography: Portugal, China, Poland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Cleanwatts — We simplify, amplify and accelerate energy decarbonization for companies and communities around the world. Our clients call upon us to improve their energy efficiency performance and to increase their access to affordable clean energy. Join Cleanwatts today.
- 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.
We invest in exceptional individuals with the passion for solving hard challenges and bringing disruptive innovation to high growth markets.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Spain, Mexico, Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Lead/follow: no public data
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 — Electronic Health Records reuse, with Clinical Natural Language Processing.
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- Industry: Consulting, Machine Learning, Professional Services
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- DeepNeuronic — Transform surveillance with AI-powered computer vision. Real-time threat detection, traffic monitoring, and intelligent analytics for safer operations.
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.
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- Industry: Consulting, Machine Learning, Professional Services
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- DeepNeuronic — Transform surveillance with AI-powered computer vision. Real-time threat detection, traffic monitoring, and intelligent analytics for safer operations.
The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) aims to improve the European Union's economic, social, and territorial cohesion by resolving imbalances across its various regions. ERDF funds initiatives for which the European Commission and national and regional governments in member countries share responsibility. Each member state'sgovernment decides which initiatives to support and is responsible for their continued supervision.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Stage:Grant, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Grant $27k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $44k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
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 Ltd develops innovative breath-based sampling, enabling rapid, non-invasive detection of respiratory diseases for improved global healthcare.
- 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.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Portugal, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $576k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $13M in 2011
Portfolio highlights
- WEEZIE — Weezie offers all-in-one fiber network management software focused on the automation and digitalization of all internal processes.
- Glartek — Glartek is a technology-enabled services company focused on Industrial Internet of Things and Augmented reality solutions. With their experience in development solution for industry and their knowledge in field management, they are able to provide the best expertise in cloud analytics and augmented reality tools for the industry.
- 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.
Gorilla Capital helps ambitious startups grow with smart funding and support. Discover how our team invests in early-stage companies.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Finland, Sweden, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Seed $274k–$1.3M; Pre-Seed $149k–$680k; Series A $2.6M–$5.5M
- Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Upsy Company — Join Zotabet Casino today to enjoy special benefits and an amazing gaming environment with a wide range of slots!
- Pandatron — With clients like SAP, Universal Pictures & Skanska, Pandatron is a startup that supports change management. We do it by scaling AI-driven coaching 1-on-1s to every employee, which also allows us to measure change.
- Nordic Information Control — Inventering och klassificering av information, automatiskt med Nordic Information Control Platform. Automatic Regulatory compliance.
Sonae is a multinational company with a diversified portfolio of businesses in retail, financial services, technology, shopping centres, telecommunications
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Analytics
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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Browse database — It's Free!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.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.1M; Series A $6M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 266
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7M; Series A $4.5M–$25M; Series B $7.5M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Stable — Unlock the Future of Commodity Price Risk Management at StableHub.com. Empowering businesses to conquer price risk, gain confidence and protect their bottom line across agriculture, renewables and packaging. Grounded by data, backed by global insurance bodies. Explore our free platform.
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- Element — They provide services for custom development, prioritised roadmap development, support contracts and commercial products for Matrix. The company enables governments, businesses and individuals to run their own secure communication infrastructure while interconnecting via the global Matrix network. New Vector, a European startup founded in 2017 bythe creators of an open, decentralized communications standard called Matrix to drive adoption and grow an ecosystem around an alternative messaging protocol for instant messaging and VoIP apps.The company was founded in 2017 and is based in London.
Bewater Funds manages closed-end funds that invest in excellent, unlisted private companies. Entity supervised by the CNMV. Only for professional clients.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Secondary Market
- Geography: Spain, Colombia, Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $291k–$2.1M; Secondary Market $24k–$281k
- Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nailted — Nailted connects performance and engagement, adapting to you with the power of AI. Make the best decisions and boost your team's performance.
- Dentaltix — We are the first dental store that works mainly online. We offer products and services for dental clinics via the Internet, with special advantages to help dentists become more competitive.At Dentaltix.com we are very familiar with how clinics function and the way in which both dentists and clinical staff work. With our passion for processoptimisation and cost-savings through technology, we are transforming the dental sector.
- Product Hackers — Crecimiento real, sin humo. Activa estrategias de Full Business Growth para escalar tu negocio con impacto, foco y sostenibilidad.
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.
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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: 46
- Round size: Seed $535k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $668k–$3.8M; Series A $3.7M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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
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, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Canada, Colombia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $731k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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: 51
- Round size: Seed $770k–$6M; Series A $5.2M–$29M; Series B $3.6M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% 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 — Get expert stock market insights from SEBI-Registered Analysts on StockGro. Make informed investments with trusted advice. Join Today!
- Job&Talent — Find and manage your workforce with AI-driven hiring, scheduling, and performance tools designed to increase productivity by up to 30%.
Armilar Venture Partners is Portugal's leading venture capitalist. An independent VC with a 20-year-old history, a high-performance track record and an international footprint, Armilar is a deep-tech investor in ICT, HealthTech and CleanTech.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Portugal, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 102
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.8M; Series A $4M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $53M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Equall — Equall offers legal AI systems to help companies and lawyers evaluate and control risk.
- DOJO AI — Dojo AI is pioneering the Marketing Operating System (MOS) category, providing challenger brands with enterprise-grade marketing infrastructure. Its proprietary technology combines real-time market intelligence, specialized AI agents, and automated workflow orchestration in one unified platform.The Dojo MOS enables marketing teams to run theirentire operation - from market research and strategy to content creation and campaign execution - through a single, intelligent system. The platform features a proprietary graph engine for real-time market intelligence, marketing-specific language models, and autonomous AI agents trained for specialized marketing tasks.Built for challenger brands looking to compete more effectively, Dojo eliminates the need for multiple point solutions and reduces dependency on external agencies. The platform continuously learns and optimizes, providing companies with compounding advantages as they scale their marketing operations.
- DareData —
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.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Grant, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Portugal, France, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Grant $75k–$295k
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $63M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Aurrigo International — 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.
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.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 373
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8.5M; Series A $2.3M–$21M; Series B $5M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Packlane — Packlane makes it easy and affordable for small businesses to design and order custom boxes and packaging online. Through Packlane's online store, customers can apply their own branding and artwork to various packaging styles, get an instant quote, and preview their box designs in full 3D.
- CryptoMove — Buy a perfect domain name from Sudos.com. Discover thousands of domain names available for sale. Sudos.com keeps you safe.
- Finless Foods — Discover sustainable, cell-cultured seafood alternatives like bluefin tuna at Finless Foods, committed to ocean health and responsible food innovation.
SHIFT Invest is a Dutch venture capital fund that invests in early stage environmental impact startups
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: The Netherlands, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $938k–$6.2M; Series A $3.5M–$9.9M; Series B $2.6M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $129M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- OTIV — OTIV offers autonomous technology to make your railway operations in complex environment safer and more efficient.
- Foamlab — FoamLab specializes in high-performance, bio-based foams made from bacterial nanocellulose and develops a new class of sustainable foams made from bacterial cellulose, a natural and renewable material grown through fermentation.
- foodforecast — AI supported solution to reduce food waste.
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Browse database — It's Free!Seed/Early Technology Investments
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Spain, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $770k–$3M; Series A $2.5M–$25M; Series B $3.6M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- Augusta Gold — Augusta Gold is an exploration and development company focused on creating long-term stakeholder value. It develops the Reward and Bullfrog gold projects and pursues accretive merger and acquisition opportunities. The company's projects are situated in the Bullfrog mining district, Nevada, and possess existing infrastructure for accelerateddevelopment.
M4 Ventures helps startups to grow and expand globally through experience and hands-on collaboration.
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- Industry: FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Portugal, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Bruno Cardoso
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- Industry: Consulting, Machine Learning, Professional Services
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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
- 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!
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.
- Solana — 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.
- 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.
Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 333
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.5M; Series A $3.5M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Wefarm — Wefarm is a farmer-to-farmer digital network that enables farmers to share information via SMS. The company allows small-scale farmers to connect with one another to solve problems, share ideas, and spread innovation. Utilizing the latest machine learning technology, Wefarm’s service works both online and over SMS.Since its founding in 2015,Wefarm has been named one of Africa’s Most Innovative Companies by FastCompany and has won Google’s Impact Challenge Award, TechCrunch’s Europas-Tech for Good Award, and the European Union Commission’s Ideas from Europe prize, among others. The company is headquartered in London with a field presence in Nairobi, Kampala, and Dar-es-Salaam.
- Circular — Developers-focused job platform for Software Developers, DevOps, Data Science & more. Sign up now and get access to successful hiring processes in Spain, Remote.
- Victory League — Victory League is a profit-driven sports entertainment organization that uses mass-market events and media manipulation to benefit athletes financially.
Rock International Group is a venture capital investment firm.
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- Industry: Energy, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jungle AI — Jungle uses artificial intelligence to predict component failure, and poor performance in an advanced asset management software.
Vitor Crespo is the Chief Executive Officer and Board Advisor at FastCompChem. He attended the University of Portugal (UPT) in 1993.
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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.
EDP Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.
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- Industry: SaaS, Energy, Internet
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Series A $5.5M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
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.
Klaus von Sayn-Wittgenstein
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- Industry: Internet, Machine Learning, B2B
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $590k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Machine Learning Investor funding in Portugal at a glance
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