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Top 35 Machine Learning VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Portugal in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 35 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 35 Machine Learning VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Portugal in April 2025

Investor	Machine Learning Portugal investments
Portugal Ventures	7
Caixa Capital	5
Shilling	5
Faber	4
Maersk Growth	2
Crane Venture Partners	2
GED Ventures Portugal	2
J12	1
EDP Ventures	1
Future Energy Ventures	1
University of Beira Interior	1
Rock International Group	1
SHIFT Invest	1
Draper Associates	1
Novabase Capital	1
Bright Pixel (formerly Sonae IM)	1
Conexo Ventures	1
Augusta Investments	1
LC Ventures	1
Gorilla Capital	1
Grupo Lusiaves service	1
Dispatch Ventures	1
CORFO	1
Notion Capital	1
Armilar Venture Partners	1
Bewater Funds	1
WISENEXT	1
European regional development fund (ERDF)	1
COREangels	1
REDangels	1
LocalGlobe	1
Workday Ventures	1
Investo	1
Sonae	1
Forestay Capital	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

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.
Corium Biotech — Corium Biotech is an R&D company dedicated to the bioproduction of exotic leather destined to answer the current leather market needs for performant materials that respect both the environment and animal wellbeing.

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.
Probely — Probely is a web application and API vulnerability scanner for agile teams. Automate Security Testing by adding Probely into your SDLC and CI/CD pipelines.
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 help foundersbuild global companies powered by AI/data or climate/ocean 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, Machine Learning, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Portugal, United Kingdom, United States

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.
PHOTON IP — PHOTON IP is a deeptech startup based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The company develops cutting edge technologies for advanced photonics applications.
KOA Biotech — KOA Biotech uses IoT technology to improve farm productivity.

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.

VC firm investing into seed and early stage intelligent enterprise and deep tech companies in Europe.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Encord — Encord is the AI data management platform. Accelerate and simplify multimodal data curation, annotation, and model eval to get better AI into production faster.
Sandgarden — Sandgarden is a modularized platform to prototype, iterate, and deploy AI applications. It removes the infrastructure overhead of crafting the pipeline of tools and processes needed even to begin testing AI on imagined use cases — and then makes it trivial to turn a test into a production application without figuring out how to deploy, monitor, andscale the stack.
Kurrent — Persist your application data as streams of events with our open-source database, EventStoreDB. We believe it's the best data storage solution for event-sourced systems. Available for free download on most platforms or use our managed service Event Store Cloud.

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.

J12 Ventures invests early in innovative companies in the Nordics.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Sweden, Germany, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Ayora — Transform your firm's realisation and lockup by giving your fee earners P&L management superpowers
Jeff — Jeff is a personalized loan broker that matches borrowers and lenders through alternative data. Jeff's mission is to help the unbanked to access financial services. In the absence of credit history and bank transactions, Jeff gathers alternative data from sources like smartphones, social media, behavioral patterns, geolocation, and other typesof digital footprint.Jeff then puts this information to good use and find ways on how alternative data points can prove creditworthiness and build trust, building new ways of accessing financing and evolving an alternative credit score.The company was founded in 2019 and is located in Riga, Latvia.
DataCrunch.io — DataCrunch is a cloud service provider which facilitates utilization and integration of state of the art AI/ML models

EDP Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.

Investment focus

SaaS, Energy, Internet
Series A
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Probely — Probely is a web application and API vulnerability scanner for agile teams. Automate Security Testing by adding Probely into your SDLC and CI/CD pipelines.
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.

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.
Reev — Reev provides a transparent and automated charging platform for the management and control of charging infrastructure for electric cars.
Hololight — Unleash the potential of XR! Holo-Light is your immersive technology expert for scaling XR use cases, enhancing XR apps, and streamlining engineering workflows.

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.

Rock International Group is a venture capital investment firm.

Investment focus

Energy, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Series A
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Jungle AI — Jungle uses artificial intelligence to predict component failure, and poor performance in an advanced asset management software.

SHIFT Invest is a Dutch venture capital fund that invests in early stage environmental impact startups

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany

Portfolio highlights

TEEPTRAK — Optimise your industrial efficiency with TeepTrak. Improve your production and exceed your objectives today!
OneThird — Blockchain, Food Loss, Food Waste, Food Tech, Supply Chain, Big Data, Ag Tech, Digitization, AI, Shelf Life Prediction, Quality Assessment, Fresh Produce, Dynamic Routing, UN SDG 12.3, Spectroscopy, Mobile App, and NIR Spectroscopy
Time-Travelling Milkman — Time-Travelling Milkman produce a plant-based cream from sunflower seeds, as an ingredient for dairy alternatives.

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, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cryptio — We offer enterprise-grade accounting, reporting, and audit software for your digital assets.
Maestro — Advanced UTxO-indexing data layer to supercharge Defi on Bitcoin, Cardano & Dogecoin.
The Open Network Foundation — A decentralized and open internet designed to onboard 500M people on-chain, built by the community using technology developed by Telegram.

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.

Sonae IM is the corporate venturing arm of Sonae (retail and telco group), which is focused on investing in tech-based companies. The company invests in a broad range of companies related to Sonae's core, joining funding with a strategic profile.With a flexible investment style and approach, Sonae IM leverages on its technology expertise,brand capital, and access to a global network. The company supports companies to achieve success with an internal pool of experts, which supports portfolio management.Sonae has been developing different corporate venturing initiatives for long, namely revenue assurance leader WeDo (2001) and Mainroad spin-off (2003) and subsequent successful exit (2014). Moreover, after deciding that Cyber security was an interesting area, it invested in Spanish cyber security company s21sec (2014). Another critical space for retailers, location analytics, led to the investment in Movvo (2014).Since the official launch of Sonae IM in late 2015, the company invested in InovRetail (demand forecasting for retailers), StyleSage (fashion tech predictive analytics) and Sysvalue (cyber security add on for s21sec). Additionally, Sonae IM got involved in the acquisition of Novo Banco's stakes in 3 funds managed by ES Ventures and launched Bright Pixel (company builder studio). Sonae IM was officially founded in 2015, but corporate venturing initiatives within Sonae are in Sonae's DNA for longer and led to what Sonae IM is today. The company is based in Porto, Portugal.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Cyber Security
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Spain, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Harmonya — The all-in-one AI-powered product data enrichment, categorization, and insights platform for CPGs and retailers
Trustero — Trustero provides solutions and services that enable demonstrable, sustainable trustworthiness for emerging enterprises. The Trustero Compliance as a Service (CaaS) offers, establishes, and manages regulatory compliance by undertaking vulnerability assessments, security risk analyses, and other measures to ensure all business processes and systemsremain in full compliance. Artificial intelligence (AI) and other modern technologies means their clients have the visibility needed to gain actionable insights into their compliance across the extended enterprise.
Tamnoon — Tamnoon develops a state-of-the-art cloud security platform to empower security teams and manage cloud risks effectively. By harnessing the power of AI combined with human expertise, the company empowers security teams and equips organizations of all sizes with exceptional cloud protection capabilities.

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, Portugal, Ecuador

Portfolio highlights

Payflow — Payflow is an employee benefit that companies can offer to their employees. Payflow provides employees instant access to earned salary to improve their financial well-being. Companies benefit from improved productivity and engagement, with no impact on cash-flow.Payflow was founded in 2020, and it is a Rocket Internet backed venture based inSpain.
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.

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!

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.

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

Orijin — A turnkey solution to solve EUDR for coffee & cocoa importers and producers
Planmark Oy — Planmark develops an AI-powered reporting platform that streamlines ESG data collection and report generation, allowing companies to focus on core business.
Serviceform — Welcome to future of communication - the truly all-in-one conversion and management software built for established businesses. Start now!

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.

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.

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.

Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Nelly — Nelly provides tool for medical practices that simplifies patient onboarding and payments.
Aslan — Aslan a platform or solution designed to enhance employee benefits by offering more customizable and flexible compensation options.
Hybird Energy — Discover how Hybird's intelligent electrical panels can save up to 30% in energy consumption. With source-level transparency and enhanced control, manage your electricity usage efficiently. Invest in Hybird for sustainable energy management.

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

Rows — Combine the power of a spreadsheet with built-in integrations from your business apps. Automate workflows and build tools that make work simpler.
Veeton — Veeton is the creator of an artificial intelligence-powered platform for automated fashion imaging. The company's platform provides fashion firms with an alternative to photo sessions by generating a limitless range of high-quality on-model images using only packshot photos, instantaneously and at a fraction of the cost, allowing clients tocreate e-commerce shoots in a few clicks.
Cintoo — Cintoo is essential for BIM to bridge the gap between your physical and virtual worlds.

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 — The Growth Company. Maximizamos tus ingresos en el canal Digital.

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.

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 has developed a best-in-class exhaled breath condensate device, capable of capturing Covid-19 particles in as little as 5 seconds. Pulmobiomed a biotechnology company is working with industry leaders in integrating their diagnostic capabilities into our PBM-Hale device. Pulmobiomed techn
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.

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Heidi Health — Heidi Health is modernizing primary care with AI-powered technologies to improve care's quality and accessibility. its creators and engineers is to completely eradicate missed and sluggish diagnoses worldwide. They are committed to bridging the gap between the level of care that patients desire and the level of care that doctors can delivergiven their budget constraints. To create a platform where patients can quickly and easily get the treatment they require and to give every clinician the resources they need to deliver care that is secure, efficient,
Model ML — ModelML - AI-Powered Research and Due Diligence
Robeaute — Redesigning the future of neurosurgery by creating the new standard device that will provide surgeons with seamless access to delicate areas of the brain parenchyma and with real-time data.

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.
Astrix Security — Astrix is the first integration access management solution - helping organizations unleash the power of automation and app integrations while keeping their ever-expanding web of third-parties under control.

Investo is a seed capital firm that invests both financial and intellectual capital in technology startups. The firm offers founders 24/7 access to advice and helps scale businesses, as well as provide key talent that may be needed. Inveseto provides guidance, talent and capital so game-changing companies can scale.

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.

Sonae is one of the biggest private employer in Portugal, with about 40,000 staff. With each employee having had different training and career paths, all of them are treated as individual cases. This approach is immediately evident in the care taken by the company to select and integrate new staff, a process which seeks to match the personaland professional profiles each employee with the specific demands of the tasks to perform.They genuinely believe that people are at the heart of their success; that their skills are intimately linked to results; that the human factor is the key factor. They are a people company that deal with people every day. Their final goal is always customer satisfaction.The HR policy follows the strategy of the business, its demands, pace and ambitions. It contributes actively towards the company’s mission of sustainably creating value.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Analytics
Seed
Portugal

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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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Logistics
Series B, Series C, Series A
Switzerland, United States, Canada

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Buynomics — buynomics is the leading solution to optimize your product portfolio. Our clients use buynomics to optimize pricing, promotions, & portfolio architecture.
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.
Wasabi Technologies — Wasabi provides simple, predictable and affordable hot cloud storage for businesses all over the world. It enables organizations to store and instantly access an unlimited amount of data at 1/5th the price of the competition with no complex tiers or unpredictable egress fees. Trusted by tens of thousands of customers worldwide, Wasabi has beenrecognized as one of technology’s fastest-growing and most visionary companies. Created by Carbonite co-founders and cloud storage pioneers David Friend and Jeff Flowers, Wasabi has secured nearly $275 million in funding to date and is a privately held company based in Boston.

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