Top 45 Media (entertainment) VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Portugal in December 2024

Investor	Media (entertainment) Portugal investments
Portugal Ventures	9
Portugal Ventures	9
REDangels	5
LC Ventures	5
LC Ventures	5
REDangels	5
Armilar Venture Partners	4
Bynd Venture Capital	4
Armilar Venture Partners	4
Bynd Venture Capital	4
Bright Pixel	3
Indico Capital Partners	3
Best Horizon	3
Best Horizon	3
Bright Pixel	3
Shilling	2
Shilling	2
Iberis Capital	1
200M	1
Accel	1
Seedrs	1
APEX Capital	1
Pathena	1
Iberis Capital	1
The Ark Fund	1
NewBound Venture Capital	1
Beta-i	1
Faber	1
Demium Capital	1
Omnes Capital	1
Misfits Gaming Group	1
Insight Ventures	1
Farfetch	1
Accel	1
Pathena	1
Omnes Capital	1
Demium Capital	1
The Ark Fund	1
Boost VC	1
Seedrs	1
Faber	1
StartUp Health	1
200M	1
Insight Ventures	1
StartUp Health	1

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.

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

Unlockit — Revolutionizing Real Estate Transaction Management. Streamline your processes and unlock success with Unlockit's advanced solutions
Tonic App — Tonic App is a B2C2B digital health company building a professional ecosystem for medical doctors. Tonic App helps medical doctors to diagnose and treat their patients by curating, for them, in a single mobile platform, the best professional resources from peers, publishers, regulatory bodies, recruiters, providers & the industry.
Yon Living — Living designed for Digital Nomads. Flexible stays in inspiring homes with like-minded people. Work-ready and fully serviced apartments, with no deposits. Find your next home in Lisbon.

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

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.

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.

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

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.
Tonic App — Tonic App is a B2C2B digital health company building a professional ecosystem for medical doctors. Tonic App helps medical doctors to diagnose and treat their patients by curating, for them, in a single mobile platform, the best professional resources from peers, publishers, regulatory bodies, recruiters, providers & the industry.

Bynd is a leading Iberian Venture Capital firm with focus on seed / early stage technology startups

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Portugal, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Last.app — Last is a comprehensive restaurant software solution. Thanks to the use of new technologies, our platform offers unique solutions in the market, always with the aim of simplifying and optimizing the tasks of the team of any type of restaurant.
Trebellar — Trebellar provides advanced data analytics for building occupancy, energy efficiency, and climate optimization. Maximize your workplace productivity with our intelligent building solutions.
Incapto Coffee — Incapto Coffee offers the sale of the automatic coffee machine and a subscription system for coffee beans.

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.

Bynd is a leading Iberian Venture Capital firm

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Portugal, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Last.app — Last is a comprehensive restaurant software solution. Thanks to the use of new technologies, our platform offers unique solutions in the market, always with the aim of simplifying and optimizing the tasks of the team of any type of restaurant.
QUIXOTIC — QUIXOTIC 360 is a one-of-its-kind, SaaS solution for energy retailers and renewable energy communities. It includes automations, regulatory frameworks, triggers and alerts, industry-specific integrations, etc. We automate business processes and integrate platforms to streamline our customers operations.
Incapto Coffee — Incapto Coffee offers the sale of the automatic coffee machine and a subscription system for coffee beans.

A prominent European venture capital in Retail Technologies, Digital Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and Emerging Technologies

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Chord — Chord is a commerce data platform purpose-built for modern brands. Chord enables brands to unify, synthesize, and orchestrate their data to drive radical decisions and revenue.
Didimo — Didimo creates realistic high-fidelity digital humans. Simple, fast, accurate user-generated avatars to integrate into your app, game or site.
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.

Indico Capital Partners is the leading independent Venture Capital firm in Portugal investing in global technology companies. Indico focuses on software as a service, artificial intelligence, internet of things, fintech, cybersecurity and digital companies, targeting investments at Seed to Series A level. Founded in 2017, the team at Indico werepreviously behind the majority of the Portuguese global tech success stories, as investors and entrepreneurs.Headed by the two most senior former Caixa Capital VC Team members, supported by a successful and experienced entrepreneur and a strong group of advisors, top entrepreneurs, they raised our first fund (authorized by the Portuguese Securities Market Commission - CMVM) from a cornerstone institutional investor (EIF) and international family/multi-family offices from Europe, US, and Australia. In addition to Silicon Valley, London, and Berlin, cities like Lisbon have emerging startup ecosystems. Portugal went through a difficult macro environment years ago which led to a growth in the entrepreneurship culture and investment. We have excellent tech graduates and a global mindset.Highly innovative companies like luxury eCommerce platform Farfetch, YC graduate machine learning translation platform Unbabel or the leading student accommodation marketplace Uniplaces have a strong Portuguese DNA and went to raise international rounds in the UK and the US - we want to back the next success stories of the ecosystem.

Investment focus

Information Technology, E-Commerce, B2B
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Portugal, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

FRVR — FRVR brings captivating games to billions of players instantly.
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.
Oceano Fresco — Oceano Fresco develops and produces bivalves varieties with superior performance for shellfish farmers at a competitive cost, respecting environmental sustainability and ensuring consumer safety.They use a multi-disciplinary approach including expertise in molecular biology, genetics, animal physiology, computational biology and intellectualproperty to select value adding traits to shellfish farmers and contribute to the sustainability and profitability of the aquaculture industry.They work with hatcheries, nurseries and research centers in order to test and validate their solutions and ensure that they suit the specific needs of each customer, in each technical and environmental context.

Best Horizon is a venture capital platform that provides financing, mentoring, and access to their contact and partner network. They have invested in ICT startups for more than a decade. They also have a portfolio of half a hundred companies in Portugal, Spain, USA, Brazil, and the Netherlands.

Investment focus

Music, Gaming, Shipping
Seed, Pre-Seed
Portugal, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

redcatpig — Award-winning Game Development Studio from Azores, Portugal. Currently working on KEO, a post-apocalyptic/sci-fi vehicle combat game.
Musiversal — Record your music in real time with world-class session musicians, vocalists, producers and audio engineers
KIT-AR — Reduce time and costs spent fixing errors on your manufacturing shopfloor with quality assurance and augmented reality- Click in to find how!

Best Horizon is a venture capital platform that provides financing, mentoring, and access to their contact and partner network. They have invested in ICT startups for more than a decade. They also have a portfolio of half a hundred companies in Portugal, Spain, USA, Brazil, and the Netherlands.

Investment focus

Music, Gaming, Shipping
Seed, Pre-Seed
Portugal, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

redcatpig — Award-winning Game Development Studio from Azores, Portugal. Currently working on KEO, a post-apocalyptic/sci-fi vehicle combat game.
Musiversal — Record your music in real time with world-class session musicians, vocalists, producers and audio engineers
KIT-AR — Reduce time and costs spent fixing errors on your manufacturing shopfloor with quality assurance and augmented reality- Click in to find how!

A prominent European venture capital in Retail Technologies, Digital Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and Emerging Technologies

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Chord — Chord is a commerce data platform purpose-built for modern brands. Chord enables brands to unify, synthesize, and orchestrate their data to drive radical decisions and revenue.
Didimo — Didimo creates realistic high-fidelity digital humans. Simple, fast, accurate user-generated avatars to integrate into your app, game or site.
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.

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

Cooby — Supercharge your WhatsApp and integrate it with your CRM to reduce administrative work and lost customer data.
Bounce — Short term (hourly & daily) storage all around urban areas, hosted by local businesses.
Luca — Luca's learning platform provides learning programs for primary and secondary school students. The learning platform offers pre-recorded K12 videos, gamified content and AI powered personalized study paths, covering the entire official academic curriculum and national exams prep. Luca is a VC backed startup with HQ in Madrid & MexicoCity

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

Portfolio highlights

Piper — Piper is a next-gen sales productivity and intelligence solution that puts AI to work for both sales reps and sales managers.Through its advanced interpretation of sales conversations from video calls, emails and audio notes, Piper automatically populates deal-related fields in the CRM, freeing up sales capacity and ensuring unbiased, highquality data.Piper further lightens the daily workload of salespeople by assisting through every stage of the client engagement: enhancing meeting prep, drafting follow-up emails, scheduling the next call, and more.For sales reps, Piper is a game-changer, letting them focus on selling without the admin drag. For sales directors and revenue ops, Piper provides top-notch data insights into the sales pipeline, enhancing sales forecasting and data-driven decision-making.
Connected — Connected is a startup that offers affordable connecting humans, unleashing a new wave of IoT-based business models and contributing to bridge the digital gap.
Vawlt — Simplify your company's transition to the cloud, improve security standards, and optimize storage resource usage.

Iberis is an investment manager that operates a value-oriented investment management.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, B2B
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

D-Orbit — End-to-end services for the New Space industry, including platform engineering, launch and deployment, and decommissioning.
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.
Inflammatix — Inflammatix develops rapid point of care diagnostic tests by reading the immune system, and resolves major clinical health challenges.

200M is a Portuguese public fund of 200 million euros designed to co-invest with the best VCs from around the world in startups which are growing their business out of Portugal.

Investment focus

Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Therapeutics
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Portugal, Brazil, France

Portfolio highlights

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.
Coverflex — Coverflex is on a mission to improve the way companies compensate their people, making it more transparent, flexible and easier for everyone to make the most of what they get. Through a fully digital solution, Coverflex helps companies manage every part of compensation beyond salary — benefits, insurance, meal allowance and exclusive discounts —while empowering people to spend on what suits them best.
Sound Particles — A CGI-like software for Sound Design, capable of using particle systems to generate thousands of sounds in a virtual 3D world

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

e6data — e6data develops a high-performance lakehouse compute engine designed for enterprise-level data analytics. By boosting the ROI on current platforms and architectures, e6data enables businesses to avoid ecosystem lock-in. Their next-generation SQL engine delivers five times the performance, reduces Total Cost of Ownership by 50%, and ensures smoothadoption. The solution integrates effortlessly with leading data lakehouse formats, data catalogs, governance frameworks, SQL standards, dialects, object stores, and major cloud providers.
Raycast — A collection of powerful productivity tools all within an extendable launcher.
Nurix AI — Nurix AI promotes data quality and integrity to provide accurate generative AI solutions.

Online investing opportunities in the best new startup businesses, and raise seed and angel investment, with top European equity crowdfunding site Seedrs.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Laka — Laka is collective bicycle insurance especially for cyclists. We flipped insurance. By making it pay to pay out, we are the collective that backs each other. Protect your bikes and gear against theft & damage with Laka 5-star rated cycle insurance.
Signature Brew — Signature Brew is a music bar and brewery that aims to bring people together. They provide beer, booze, and live music for their patrons, which enables them to bring the community together through the power of good beer, music, and memories.
SRSLY Low Carb — SRSLYLowCarb is a home for healthy, Keto and Low Carb friendly foods. Perfect for diabetic-friendly diets. Elevate your health journey with us!

Investing with elite athletes in Sports, Media and Entertainment

Investment focus

Sports, Media and Entertainment, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Portugal, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hexis — Hexis optimises your daily energy needs to the unique demands of your workouts, lifestyle and goals. The only system to personalise, periodic and plan, your daily carbohydrate and calorie needs.
VRTL — The Virtual Venue of Fandom. A fully white-labeled platform designed for live entertainment brands to live on their owned-sites, that executes all in-person best practices in a virtual setting. (fka Virtual Tables)
Traits Insights — Traits is a player profiling platform which enables decision-makers in sport to harness the value of analytics by translating complex performance data into powerful and meaningful insights.

Pathena is an investment firm engaged on boosting the success of information technology and digital biomedical companies.

Investment focus

B2B, Made to Order, Marketing
Series A, Seed, Series C
Portugal, Germany

Portfolio highlights

BIZAY / 360imprimir — • Bizay has empowered more than 1 Million SMB’s to grow their businesses during the last 5 years.• Bizay is a tech-based B2B Marketplace for made-to-order products. Running a fabless business model (no capex), it leverages on the idle capacity of production partners to meet the needs of the SMB’s.• Started on printing, packaging, textile andprofessional products and now applying the same model in furniture, food and 3D printing (amongst others).• 360imprimir / 360onlineprint - rebranded to Bizay - Your bussiness your way - to reflect the unlimited product categories. • Bizay is the customer facing brand (the SMB’s do not meet the production partners) and its tech platform manages the production by: o Using data and algorithms to aggregate different orders and to decide in which suppliers to produce them, driving huge efficiency and speed gains. o Enabling full tracking of the orders in the different production partners and automating pre-production processes.• Bizay differentiates themselves from other players by offering: o Online configuration of the products (options to customize and personalize). o Competitive pricing for small and medium orders (similar price per unit as for large orders), 48 hours of delivery time (instead of several weeks) and guaranteed quality (customer-facing brand ensuring high quality levels). o Integrated value chain in a single offer (on-demand design services provided by external providers).• Originally selling in Portugal, Spain, Brazil and México, the company raised B round of 18m€ one year ago (communicated in April) in order to launch new countries.• 17 new countries were launched in 2019 simultaneously (including DE, FR, UK and USA).• In 2019, 8 months of trading in the new countries confirm: o Competitiveness pricing of their offer in all the market. o Market deepness and sound acquisition metrics.
Promptly — Health Analytics Patient Report Outcomes, Health Care, Value based health
NVision Imaging Technologies — NVision Imaging Technologies is leveraging advances in quantum physics to enable the first routine, convenient and affordable use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for assessing early patient response to cancer treatment at the metabolic level.

Iberis is an investment manager that operates a value-oriented investment management.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, B2B
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

FRVR — FRVR brings captivating games to billions of players instantly.
NeuralShift — NeuralShift is an early-stage AI startup that assists lawyers by incorporating AI into daily processes.NeuralShift solution, Affine, is intended to assist lawyers in finding and cross-referencing the most essential material for everyday work.
Connected — Connected is a startup that offers affordable connecting humans, unleashing a new wave of IoT-based business models and contributing to bridge the digital gap.

The Ark Fund provides networked capital to talented entrepreneurs at an early stage: when most needed. Investment at this stage helps finance working capital, helps validate the business during or after an acceleration or incubation program, allows entrepreneurs to reach initial customers, validate their market and to measure value, with the goalto prepare them for their next investment round.Latin America boasts two of the biggest emerging economies in the world, a 500M spanish-speaking population and a $5 trillion economy. The region offers a tremendous opportunity for emerging entrepreneurs to create the next big thing that will change our world. Angels play an important role in helping to create these successes.By providing structured access to dealflow, investment training and community, The Ark provides high-net worth individuals and professional investors with a gateway to this transformative opportunity. The Ark enables opportunity to lead innovation and transformation of industries and economies. TheArk has built a collaborative funding ecosystem, providing investment training through active funding in extraordinary startups. We challenge ourselves to be better and challenge humanity to be better.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Mexico, United States, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Nudos — B2B platform that enables companies to manage the equipping of hybrid workers distributed over the world. From the Onboarding (devices procurement anywhere) to the offboarding (recovery and storaged of devices), and everything in between. The company was founded in 2022 and headquartered in Mexico City , Mexico.
GuruHotel — Automated hotel website in under 60 seconds
Saludtools — Saludtools is a digital platform that improves access, quality and reliability of medical services for thousands of patients in Latin America. Our innovative and friendly technology breaks the barriers that prevent a better medical attention. We are about making outstanding healthcare accessible for everyone.

NewBound VC is an early stage venture capital firm partnering with entrepreneurs who challenge what's "possible".

Investment focus

Sports, E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Buzzer — Buzzer is a notification-driven mobile platform for live sports personalized for fans. The company's mission is to simplify the discovery of live moments and make them seamless to watch. Buzzer takes fans from league to league and game to game, instantaneously.
Siprocal — Unparalleled reach across the Americas. Impact your target audiences with immersive experiences on their first screen of choice.
Explorer Cold Brew — With Explorer, you choose how you want your coffee, pick your caffeine level, what Flavor Elixir to add. Craft the perfect cup, conveniently in 30 seconds or less. No more trips to the coffee shop - it's the best way to make an (award-winning!) cold brew at home.

Beta-i is an organization created to boost entrepreneurship, and its mission is to foster a true innovation culture. We help new and established businesses grow, by offering 360º innovation services with 6 main areas: Acceleration, Events, Consulting, Open Innovation, Education and Investment.Internationally recognized as one of the leadingcompanies in this field, and for running Lisbon Challenge, one of Europe’s most active startup accelerators, since 2010 we have received +5000 applications to our several programs and accelerated over 850 startups, that have raised +65M.

Investment focus

FinTech, Computer, Software
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Didimo — Didimo creates realistic high-fidelity digital humans. Simple, fast, accurate user-generated avatars to integrate into your app, game or site.
Coverflex — Coverflex is on a mission to improve the way companies compensate their people, making it more transparent, flexible and easier for everyone to make the most of what they get. Through a fully digital solution, Coverflex helps companies manage every part of compensation beyond salary — benefits, insurance, meal allowance and exclusive discounts —while empowering people to spend on what suits them best.

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

Opnova — Opnova breaks through the rework barrier in IT, security, and compliance operations, delivering intelligent automation to workflows where implementing conventional automation was not previously practical or possible.
Hefring Marine — Hefring Marine's on-board AI saves fuel consumption, significantly reduces carbon emissions and improves safety in boats and vessels through our real time sea navigation guidance for both manned and unmanned vessels.
Mitiga Solutions — Mitigating the risk from climate-driven perils to your business assets everywhere.

Demium is a talent investment company founded in Spain in 2013 with the aim of supporting the best professionals and helping them to carry out successful projects, always with an eminently digital and technological component. In November 2020, it's asset management company, Demium Capital, started operating with a first €50M fund to invest inmore than 75 early-stage startups per year (pre-seed/seed), becoming the most active venture capital fund in Spain. Startups such as Hannun, Voicemod, Swipcar, Citibox, Singularu or Landbot, among others have been created in the incubator. The company is present in five countries: Spain, Portugal, Poland, Ukraine and Czech Republic

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Spain, Portugal, Poland

Portfolio highlights

KomboAI — Improve your skills with KomboAI Stop losing opportunities and start creating meaningful relationships with your clients today. Start Now See Kombo in Action Free forever No credit card Over 200+ sales reps are already using KomboAI during their job Join the sales revolution today Get Insights Get real time insights from external and internal sources
Holaglow — Holaglow is an aesthetic medicine and cosmetic dermatology provider of personalized services.
Rauda AI — Rauda is an artificial intelligence platform specialized in automating customer service with the best customer experience. Take a quantum leap in productivity, reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction with the power of generative artificial intelligence.

Omnes, "Powering Entrepreneurs" is a Leading private equity firm dedicated to energy transition and innovation.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
France, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Qantev — Qantev is the leading AI claims platform for health & life insurance, enabling insurers to automate claims operations, reduce leakage, improve loss ratios, enhance data quality, and elevate customer experience.
Carbyon — Carbyon is a Netherlands-based company that develops direct air capture (DAC) technologies. The company's fuels help to replace fossil hydrocarbons with electrical batteries or hydrogen (H2), alternative energy carriers that are used to store renewable electricity and make major changes to transportation facilities, energy grids, and gastransportation networks, filters CO2 from the air and supply it in a purified form to make kerosene for aircraft, enabling existing fossil industry to re-use and repurpose these storage and transport facilities for renewable hydrocarbons.
Unseenlabs — Unseenlabs designs and develops a spectrum surveillance payload which is designed to detect and track non-cooperative vessels wherever they happen to be in the world.

Misfits Gaming Group is an interactive entertainment and lifestyle company powered by creative formats, connecting to younger audiences through multiple touch points.

Investment focus

Sports, Computer, Logistics
Seed, Funding Round
India, Portugal, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Omnivio — Omnivio provides full Supply Chain visibility and own logistics like control, through Control Towers and asset-lite logistics marketplace.
TMRW Sports — TMRW is a sports company that focuses on progressive approaches to sports, media, and technology. Using advances in technology, the company launches golf leagues and holds a series of stadium events to provide people with growing approaches to sports and entertainment.
Pixion Games — Pixion Games is a studio focused on building competitive esports games for mobile device.

Insight Ventures build scalable business models that can be stand-alone or integrated into an already established company. Through agile construction methodologies, connections with startups, and extensive experience in building technology businesses, they have transformed traditional businesses into exponential companies.Since 2017, they havehelped companies of all sizes and sectors to build and scale innovative business models, generating exponential growth and changing the way they compete in the market.

Investment focus

Energy, FinTech, Marketing
Seed, Series B
Portugal, South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ingine — Injin is a company that develops technology that converts the energy of waves into electricity, called wave power generation.
Dash — Mobile payments, Mobile payment network, Mobile money, payments, African payments, super app, financial super app, payment-led super app.
SocialTalk — SocialTalk helps discover the perfect influencers, manage influencers database, track and measure campaigns.

Farfetch operates an e-commerce website that unites various independent fashion boutiques. It offers bags, coats, dresses, jackets, jewellery, swimwear, trouser, shoes, knitwear, suits, shorts, and accessories. They operate a modular end-to-end technology platform purpose built to connect the luxury fashion ecosystem worldwide. Their vision wasto create a single operating system that could address the complex demands of consumers and luxury sellers alike. Their platform is built on an API-enabled proprietary technology stack, which provides the foundation for the three main components: applications, services and data. Farfetch serves women, men, and kids. Jose Neves founded the company in 2008, with its headquarters in London, United Kingdom.

Investment focus

Fashion, E-Commerce, Software
Corporate Round, Funding Round, Convertible Note
United States, Spain, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Decommerce — Decommerce provides a Community Building Solution for brands to build strong and engaging communities. Host your own Data and reduce marketing spend through rewarding your loyal customers using web3 and blockchain based solutions
Neiman Marcus Group — Shop fashion's top names for women, men, and kids. Plus, check out beauty's best brands, designer jewelry, luxurious decor, and distinctive gifts for any occasion.
Colvin — At The Colvin Co we aim to change the way people buy flowers online by offering intermediary-free bouquets selected by our floral gurus through an optimised platform that delivers best-in-class user experience.

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, India, United Kingdom

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Cyera — Cyera provides organizations with data reality for cloud data security. Cyera was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in San Mateo, USA.
Taito.ai — We automate employee performance enablement with AI, letting your people drive their growth and development, instead of just analyzing it.
Blip — Digital communication solutions from Take Blip provide smarter contacts with your customers. See what the chatbots can do!

Pathena is an investment firm engaged on boosting the success of information technology and digital biomedical companies.

Investment focus

B2B, Made to Order, Marketing
Series A, Seed, Series C
Portugal, Germany

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BIZAY / 360imprimir — • Bizay has empowered more than 1 Million SMB’s to grow their businesses during the last 5 years.• Bizay is a tech-based B2B Marketplace for made-to-order products. Running a fabless business model (no capex), it leverages on the idle capacity of production partners to meet the needs of the SMB’s.• Started on printing, packaging, textile andprofessional products and now applying the same model in furniture, food and 3D printing (amongst others).• 360imprimir / 360onlineprint - rebranded to Bizay - Your bussiness your way - to reflect the unlimited product categories. • Bizay is the customer facing brand (the SMB’s do not meet the production partners) and its tech platform manages the production by: o Using data and algorithms to aggregate different orders and to decide in which suppliers to produce them, driving huge efficiency and speed gains. o Enabling full tracking of the orders in the different production partners and automating pre-production processes.• Bizay differentiates themselves from other players by offering: o Online configuration of the products (options to customize and personalize). o Competitive pricing for small and medium orders (similar price per unit as for large orders), 48 hours of delivery time (instead of several weeks) and guaranteed quality (customer-facing brand ensuring high quality levels). o Integrated value chain in a single offer (on-demand design services provided by external providers).• Originally selling in Portugal, Spain, Brazil and México, the company raised B round of 18m€ one year ago (communicated in April) in order to launch new countries.• 17 new countries were launched in 2019 simultaneously (including DE, FR, UK and USA).• In 2019, 8 months of trading in the new countries confirm: o Competitiveness pricing of their offer in all the market. o Market deepness and sound acquisition metrics.
Promptly — Health Analytics Patient Report Outcomes, Health Care, Value based health
NVision Imaging Technologies — NVision Imaging Technologies is leveraging advances in quantum physics to enable the first routine, convenient and affordable use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for assessing early patient response to cancer treatment at the metabolic level.

Omnes VC is the Venture Capital arm of Omnes Capital, a leading private equity firm dedicated to energy transition and innovation with €4.8 billion in assets under management and a 20 year + experience in: venture capital, buyout & growth capital, private debt, renewable energy, co-investment, secondary funds of funds. Omnes Capital is fullyindependent.With 65 business sales including 14 IPOs carried out in 16 years, Omnes VC is one of the key players in France in financing innovative SMEs with expertise in both Technology and Healthcare sectors. Omnes VC has supported 120 companies and has invested more than €500M in businesses such as Scality, Novaled, BioVex, arGEN-X, Pixium, Blablacar.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
France, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Qantev — Qantev is the leading AI claims platform for health & life insurance, enabling insurers to automate claims operations, reduce leakage, improve loss ratios, enhance data quality, and elevate customer experience.
Carbyon — Carbyon is a Netherlands-based company that develops direct air capture (DAC) technologies. The company's fuels help to replace fossil hydrocarbons with electrical batteries or hydrogen (H2), alternative energy carriers that are used to store renewable electricity and make major changes to transportation facilities, energy grids, and gastransportation networks, filters CO2 from the air and supply it in a purified form to make kerosene for aircraft, enabling existing fossil industry to re-use and repurpose these storage and transport facilities for renewable hydrocarbons.
The Exploration Company — For Space & Non-Space Industries.

Demium is a talent investment company founded in Spain in 2013 with the aim of supporting the best professionals and helping them to carry out successful projects, always with an eminently digital and technological component. In November 2020, it's asset management company, Demium Capital, started operating with a first €50M fund to invest inmore than 75 early-stage startups per year (pre-seed/seed), becoming the most active venture capital fund in Spain. Startups such as Hannun, Voicemod, Swipcar, Citibox, Singularu or Landbot, among others have been created in the incubator. The company is present in five countries: Spain, Portugal, Poland, Ukraine and Czech Republic

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Spain, Portugal, Poland

Portfolio highlights

KomboAI — Close more deals and level up your sales game with KomboAI Learn new winning methodologies, adapt your pitch to your prospects and personalize your outreach. Start Now See Kombo in Action Free forever No credit card Over 200+ sales reps are already using KomboAI during their job Join the sales revolution today Get Insights Get
Holaglow — Holaglow is an aesthetic medicine and cosmetic dermatology provider of personalized services.
Rauda AI — Rauda is an artificial intelligence platform specialized in automating customer service with the best customer experience. Take a quantum leap in productivity, reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction with the power of generative artificial intelligence.

The Ark Fund provides networked capital to talented entrepreneurs at an early stage: when most needed. Investment at this stage helps finance working capital, helps validate the business during or after an acceleration or incubation program, allows entrepreneurs to reach initial customers, validate their market and to measure value, with the goalto prepare them for their next investment round.Latin America boasts two of the biggest emerging economies in the world, a 500M spanish-speaking population and a $5 trillion economy. The region offers a tremendous opportunity for emerging entrepreneurs to create the next big thing that will change our world. Angels play an important role in helping to create these successes.By providing structured access to dealflow, investment training and community, The Ark provides high-net worth individuals and professional investors with a gateway to this transformative opportunity. The Ark enables opportunity to lead innovation and transformation of industries and economies. TheArk has built a collaborative funding ecosystem, providing investment training through active funding in extraordinary startups. We challenge ourselves to be better and challenge humanity to be better.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Mexico, United States, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Nudos — B2B platform that enables companies to manage the equipping of hybrid workers distributed over the world. From the Onboarding (devices procurement anywhere) to the offboarding (recovery and storaged of devices), and everything in between. The company was founded in 2022 and headquartered in Mexico City , Mexico.
GuruHotel — Automated hotel website in under 60 seconds
Saludtools — Saludtools is a digital platform that improves access, quality and reliability of medical services for thousands of patients in Latin America. Our innovative and friendly technology breaks the barriers that prevent a better medical attention. We are about making outstanding healthcare accessible for everyone.

Boost VC: The Pre-Seed Fund Making Sci-FI a Reality. Investing in crypto, virtual reality, augmented reality, AI, Ocean Tech, Space Tech, human augmentation, exoskeletons and more.

Investment focus

Software, Virtual Reality, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

nunu.ai — nunu.ai is the frontier of artificial intelligence in gaming by creating the first multi-modal AI agents designed to test and play any game.
Radiant — Clean. Portable. Safe. Energy
Rosy Soil — Rosy Soil is a gardening solution focused on sustainable practices that support the health of soil, plants, and the environment.

Online investing opportunities in the best new startup businesses, and raise seed and angel investment, with top European equity crowdfunding site Seedrs.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Laka — Laka is collective bicycle insurance especially for cyclists. We flipped insurance. By making it pay to pay out, we are the collective that backs each other. Protect your bikes and gear against theft & damage with Laka 5-star rated cycle insurance.
Signature Brew — Signature Brew is a music bar and brewery that aims to bring people together. They provide beer, booze, and live music for their patrons, which enables them to bring the community together through the power of good beer, music, and memories.
SRSLY Low Carb — SRSLYLowCarb is a home for healthy, Keto and Low Carb friendly foods. Perfect for diabetic-friendly diets. Elevate your health journey with us!

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

Opnova — Opnova breaks through the rework barrier in IT, security, and compliance operations, delivering intelligent automation to workflows where implementing conventional automation was not previously practical or possible.
1s1 Energy — 1s1 Energy is developing material technology for PEM water electrolysis systems for green hydrogen production. The company's mission is to develop viable and scalable solutions to reduce carbon emissions within the decade. 1s1 Energy Inc. was founded in 2019 by Daniel Sobek, Sukanta Bhattacharyya, and T. Don Tilley.
Mitiga Solutions — Mitigating the risk from climate-driven perils to your business assets everywhere.

Organizing and investing in a global army of entrepreneurs committed to achieving health moonshots

Investment focus

Health Care, Wellness, Medical
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

AvoMD — AvoMD is reimagining clinical decision support with interactive point-of-care software, available standalone and via EHR integrations, and seamless content building tools.
Pear Suite — Pear Suite empowers community health workers with technology, education, and community, helping them do their best work and serve their communities.
Hidoc Consult — Hidoc Consult: Boost your well-being with free consultations, 24/7 access to quality healthcare, complete privacy, user-friendly, and a trusted network of HCPs

200M is a Portuguese public fund of 200 million euros designed to co-invest with the best VCs from around the world in startups which are growing their business out of Portugal.

Investment focus

Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Therapeutics
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Portugal, Brazil, France

Portfolio highlights

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.
Coverflex — Coverflex is on a mission to improve the way companies compensate their people, making it more transparent, flexible and easier for everyone to make the most of what they get. Through a fully digital solution, Coverflex helps companies manage every part of compensation beyond salary — benefits, insurance, meal allowance and exclusive discounts —while empowering people to spend on what suits them best.
Sound Particles — A CGI-like software for Sound Design, capable of using particle systems to generate thousands of sounds in a virtual 3D world

Insight Ventures build scalable business models that can be stand-alone or integrated into an already established company. Through agile construction methodologies, connections with startups, and extensive experience in building technology businesses, they have transformed traditional businesses into exponential companies.Since 2017, they havehelped companies of all sizes and sectors to build and scale innovative business models, generating exponential growth and changing the way they compete in the market.

Investment focus

Energy, FinTech, Marketing
Seed, Series B
Portugal, South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ingine — Injin is a company that develops technology that converts the energy of waves into electricity, called wave power generation.
Dash — Mobile payments, Mobile payment network, Mobile money, payments, African payments, super app, financial super app, payment-led super app.
SocialTalk — SocialTalk helps discover the perfect influencers, manage influencers database, track and measure campaigns.

Organizing and investing in a global army of entrepreneurs committed to achieving health moonshots

Investment focus

Health Care, Wellness, Medical
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

AvoMD — AvoMD is reimagining clinical decision support with interactive point-of-care software, available standalone and via EHR integrations, and seamless content building tools.
Pear Suite — Pear Suite empowers community health workers with technology, education, and community, helping them do their best work and serve their communities.
Hidoc Consult — Hidoc Consult: Boost your well-being with free consultations, 24/7 access to quality healthcare, complete privacy, user-friendly, and a trusted network of HCPs