Banco Portugues de Fomento
VC Fund
Porto, Portugal
Banco Portugues de Fomento is a VC fund in Porto focused on Health Care and Medical Device. Banco Portugues de Fomento was born in November 2020 in the result of the merger of three Portuguese public institutions.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 14%
Last updated:
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Industries Banco Portugues de Fomento invests in
Stages Banco Portugues de Fomento invests in
Countries Banco Portugues de Fomento invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Rory Earley
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Violetta Chekan
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 2 (29%)
- Medical Device 2 (29%)
- B2B 1 (14%)
- Travel 1 (14%)
- Leisure 1 (14%)
Stage
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (57%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (29%)
- Series D 1 (14%)
Country
- Portugal 5 (71%)
- Ireland 1 (14%)
- United Kingdom 1 (14%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Rory Earley
Investment Committee Member
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Investment Committee Member | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Violetta Chekan
Funds Manager | Venture Capital
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Funds Manager | Venture Capital | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
BIZAY
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Bizay enables the world’s largest catalogue of customizable products. Its technology platform operates across Europe, South and North America, and digitalizes the booming and huge industry of product customization by empowering brands, people and societies to self-express. It enables local manufacturers, brands, and wholesalers to offercustomization on any product in the world and reduces the cost of production by half through batching and supply-chain optimization technologies. Our platform/technology is aimed at three customer targets:(i) B2B2C provides a platform for businesses to design and sell customized products from Bizay’s existing product catalogue, with the four main customer segments: Resellers, Content Creators (Independent artists, influencers or event or managers that want to sell customized merchandise with their branding, designs or artwork), e-Commerce entrepreneurs (Small entrepreneurs that aim to expand their catalogue and upgrade their business by adding customized products to their online stores), as well as big household brands & enterprises (well-established business in need of a partner that is capable of handling large volume of customized products orders or to expand their existing offer)(ii) B2B, which is focused on SMBs, provides an extensive product catalogue for customized products to be used in several industries (ex: uniforms for restaurants and bags for retail shops) (iii) Customization-as-a-Service (CaaS), where clients (typically major brands) capitalize on Bizay’s technology, expertise, customization options, techniques and offline suppliers to customize their own products | $55.7M / Series D / Jul 07, 2026 | |
Gazelle Wind Power
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Gazelle Wind Power is a developer of a floating wind platform. Gazelle Wind Power is advancing a platform designed and engineered to enable floating offshore wind production in deeper waters farther out at sea. | $2.2M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 28, 2025 | |
Indie Campers
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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. | $31M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 20, 2025 | |
Arborea
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Founded in 2015 by CEO Julian Melchiorri, Arborea is industrializing photosynthesis to expand the world’s food supply. The start-up has developed a breakthrough ingredients & proteins production platform that solves the crucial issues of existing photosynthetic culture platforms. Arborea’s cultivation technology for photosyntheticmicroorganisms mimics the functioning mechanisms of a real leaf. In doing so, it has created a radically more effective food production platform resulting in a capital-light, scalable solution which slashes the costs of fermentation. Arborea is on a mission to make healthy and sustainable food the primary choice for everyone by enabling hitherto expensive nutritional ingredients and proteins to be produced sustainably, efficiently, and affordably. | $5.2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 23, 2024 | |
Oceano Fresco
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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. | $18.4M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 25, 2024 | |
Glooma
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Glooma specializes in the supply of portable medical screening device that supplements conventional breast self-examination. | $528.5K / Pre-Seed / Mar 27, 2023 | |
CleoCare
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CleoCare is a women’s health startup focused on breast health, early detection, and personalized risk assessment for breast cancer. The company is developing SenseGlove, a sensor-based wearable paired with an AI-powered mobile application that guides breast self-exams, captures quantitative pressure and motion data, and tracks tissue changes tobuild individual baselines over time.The mobile app provides step-by-step exam guidance, helps ensure full breast coverage, creates personalized risk profiles, and generates actionable reports that can be reviewed by physicians to support clinical decision-making and screening recommendations. CleoCare combines wearable sensing, machine-learning classifiers, and a risk assessment engine designed to support precision prevention and earlier clinical follow-up when meaningful changes are detected.CleoCare operates under a B2B2C model, initially targeting employers and insurers as a preventive health benefit while building the clinical and health-economic evidence needed to support future reimbursement pathways. The company has completed an FDA pre-submission and is planning and conducting clinical studies, including collaborations with institutions such as the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), as it prepares for U.S. market entry and raises a Seed round. | $514.4K / Pre-Seed / Apr 26, 2022 |
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FAQ
What does Banco Portugues de Fomento invest in?
Banco Portugues de Fomento invests primarily in Health Care, Medical Device and B2B startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Portugal. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at Banco Portugues de Fomento includes Rory Earley (Investment Committee Member) and Violetta Chekan (Funds Manager | Venture Capital). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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