Top 5 Payments Angel Investors in Portugal in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 5 angel investors that invest in Payments startups based in Portugal. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from Portugal. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Payments Angel Investors in Portugal in January 2026

Investor	Payments Portugal investments
Arthur Hayes	2
Alex Atallah	1
Nuno Job	1
Crypto Dog	1
Balaji Srinivasan	1

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Arthur Hayes is based out of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island and is the Advisor of Upexi. Arthur previously worked at BitMEX as a CEO. Arthur Hayes attended the University of Pennsylvania.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Oyl — The happiest place on Bitcoin
BSX — BSX is a trading company that offers specializes in options and perpetual futures trading.
JUICE Finance — Juice Finance empowers you to maximize your yield on Blast by using your Blast ETH as collateral to access 300% USDB and ETH leverage to deploy throughout the Blast ecosystem

Alex Atallah is a Co-Founder of OpenSea. Attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

METAMORPH — Blockchain gaming company

Nuno Job is the co-founder of Decipad.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Replicate — Run open-source machine learning models with a cloud API
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.
Swish Robotics — Embodied Intelligence for the Home

The Crypto Dog is an angle investor.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Bitcoin
Seed, Funding Round
United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Botanix Labs — Botanix Labs is a fully Ethereum-equivalent second-layer virtual machine built on top of Bitcoin. It unites Bitcoin's market cap with Ethereum's dApp ecosystem to meet its diverse applications, igniting a new frontier.
Nametag — Nametag is a digital collector lens to search the internet for collectors, view their NFTs and Nokens, and badges.
Pichi Finance — Pichi Finance Points are typically stored off-chain and linked to wallet addresses, limiting their tradability on the open market.

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the co-founder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.