# Ask Capital

> Ask Capital is a VC fund in Lisboa backing Automotive and Manufacturing. See 6 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lisboa, Portugal
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Oct 2021
- Lead investor: 67%
- Fund size: $6.1M
- Last fund: Jan 2011
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ask---advisory-services-kapital/
- Website: http://www.ask.pt/

Ask Capital is a VC fund in Lisboa focused on Automotive and Manufacturing. ASK is a finance boutique focused on Small and Medium Enterprises and entrepreneurs to develop their business in the areas of corporate finance, private equity, real estate and asset management. Their diversity of business areas allows you to offer its clients a comprehensive range of services in the financial area.ASK was founded in 2006 byprofessionals with extensive experience in various traditional investment banking activities. It is present in three countries: Portugal, Brazil and Angola.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Automotive | 2 | 33% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 33% |
| Golf | 1 | 17% |
| Retail | 1 | 17% |
| Big Data | 1 | 17% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 50% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 33% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Portugal | 5 | 83% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 17% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Diogo Torrado | Director, Corporate Finance | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/diogo-torrado |
| Nuno Miranda | CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nuno-miranda |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Autochek | Autochek is an automotive technology company that aims to build digital solutions. | $13.1M | Seed | Oct 26, 2021 | https://autochek.africa/ |
| PETAPILOT | PETAPILOT develops software for analytics and digital audit services. The company operates in businesses, government, and institutional markets and the branches of the company are located in Portugal, Luxembourg, France, and Austria. It develops products and technology platforms for data analysis with high variety and volume, mainly businessintelligence solutions, big data, cloud computing, and fraud detection. The main product of the company is Colbi, an analytical tool of commercial and financial information, with high scalability and performance. The Colbi serves a number of sectors ranging from government financial regulation, consultancy companies, industry, distribution and services.PETAPILOT is a Portugal-based company that was founded in 2014 by Valter Pinho. |  | Seed | Feb 01, 2015 | http://www.petapilot.com |
| Gum Chemical Solutions | Gum Chemical Solutions is manufactures, refines, and processes rosin. The company's product includes gum rosin, wood rosin, and water white gum rosin. The company's product rosin includes resin and solid amber residue obtained after the distillation of crude turpentine oleoresin, or of naphtha extract from pine stumps. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 01, 2015 | http://www.gumchemical.com/ |
| TURFLYNX | Bringing mobile robotic technology to outdoor heavy machinery. |  | Seed | Dec 01, 2014 | http://turflynx.com/ |
| Compramos Qualquer Carro | Compramos Qualquer Carro is a reference company in the automotive sector, specialized in the purchase of vehicles. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 01, 2014 | https://compramosqualquercarro.com/ |
| Torbel | Torbel is offers design, sales, manufacturing, assembly and after-sales service of industrial dedusting facilities, energy production. TORBEL manufactures thermal energy equipment’s powered by biomass fuels starting at a power of 90kW up to 15MW (higher for special requests). TORBEL’s produces thermal energy from biomass direct combustion orgasification process. From Fixed Grates up to Bubbling Fluidized Bed, TORBEL presents a wide range of technologies, using air, water, steam and diathermic oil to take thermal energy. |  | Private Equity | Jan 01, 2014 | http://www.torbel.pt/ |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [4DX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/4dx-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
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## FAQ

### What does Ask Capital invest in?

Ask Capital invests primarily in Automotive, Manufacturing and Golf startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Portugal. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Ask Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Ask Capital?

The team at Ask Capital includes Diogo Torrado (Director, Corporate Finance) and Nuno Miranda (CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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