# Best Horizon

> Best Horizon is a VC fund in Lisbon backing Music and Family. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lisbon, Portugal
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Jun 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/10866620/
- Website: http://www.besthorizon.pt

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.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Best Horizon. Shizune tracks 3 team members at Best Horizon. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/best-horizon?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $840k–$2.1M |
| Pre-Seed | $100k–$762k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Music | 1 | 13% |
| Family | 1 | 13% |
| Gaming | 1 | 13% |
| Travel | 1 | 13% |
| Tourism | 1 | 13% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 38% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 38% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Portugal | 4 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pedro Falcão | Founder and CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pedro-falc%C3%A3o |
| Nelson Raposo | Business Angel | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nelson-raposo |
| Paulo Falcão | Business Angel | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paulo-falc%C3%A3o |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| KIT-AR | KIT-AR is an industrial AR solution to enhance workers on the manufacturing shopfloor. | $2.1M | Seed | Jun 22, 2022 |  |
| Musiversal | They believe that in order to become a top professional and getting recognition for your music, a critical step is to collaborate with others, namely getting other people to help you play and produce your music. It's not just their opinion, for hundreds of years music has been a collaborative art and with the development of DAWs and VST'scollaboration and adding something different and special to your music has become even more crucial as composers try to distinguish themselves from others in an overcrowded landscape.​They believe that talent is native and that education will bring composers the skills to articulate their talent. However, in order to make your music really sound like it's meant to be, it's necessary to have the resources to produce and hire others to help and play your music. This requires an investment that can be very expensive many creators can't afford. They're here to make it affordable. | $1.6M | Seed | Mar 31, 2021 |  |
| redcatpig | Award-winning Game Development Studio from Azores, Portugal. Currently working on KEO, a post-apocalyptic/sci-fi vehicle combat game. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 19, 2021 |  |
| Citycheck | Citycheck is a location-based game app that allows you to explore cities through fun games. You can learn about the history and culture of over 10 cities around europe with our amazing content. Find the best places to visit, to stay and to eat, and the best activities to do. We also have great tools for businesses to attract, engage andcross/upp-sell with our users. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 01, 2021 |  |
| KIT-AR | KIT-AR is an industrial AR solution to enhance workers on the manufacturing shopfloor. | $762K | Pre-Seed | Dec 01, 2019 |  |
| Musiversal | They believe that in order to become a top professional and getting recognition for your music, a critical step is to collaborate with others, namely getting other people to help you play and produce your music. It's not just their opinion, for hundreds of years music has been a collaborative art and with the development of DAWs and VST'scollaboration and adding something different and special to your music has become even more crucial as composers try to distinguish themselves from others in an overcrowded landscape.​They believe that talent is native and that education will bring composers the skills to articulate their talent. However, in order to make your music really sound like it's meant to be, it's necessary to have the resources to produce and hire others to help and play your music. This requires an investment that can be very expensive many creators can't afford. They're here to make it affordable. | $840K | Seed | Jul 01, 2019 |  |
| Musiversal | They believe that in order to become a top professional and getting recognition for your music, a critical step is to collaborate with others, namely getting other people to help you play and produce your music. It's not just their opinion, for hundreds of years music has been a collaborative art and with the development of DAWs and VST'scollaboration and adding something different and special to your music has become even more crucial as composers try to distinguish themselves from others in an overcrowded landscape.​They believe that talent is native and that education will bring composers the skills to articulate their talent. However, in order to make your music really sound like it's meant to be, it's necessary to have the resources to produce and hire others to help and play your music. This requires an investment that can be very expensive many creators can't afford. They're here to make it affordable. | $100K | Pre-Seed | May 10, 2019 |  |
| Shiptimize | Shiptimize changes the way online stores arrange logistics. Our plugins, app and API allows ecommerce owners to ship faster, cheaper, flexible with multiple carriers and receive top level customer support at the same time. | $1.1M | Seed | Dec 27, 2018 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [LC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lc-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Portugal Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/portugal-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [REDangels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/redangels-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SINTEF Venture AS](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sintef-tto) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Criteria Venture Tech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caixa-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Armilar Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/espirito-santo-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Best Horizon invest in?

Best Horizon invests primarily in Music, Family and Gaming startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Portugal. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Best Horizon's check size?

Best Horizon typically joins rounds of $840k–$2.1M at Seed and $100k–$762k at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Best Horizon participates in.

### How do I contact Best Horizon?

Public channels for Best Horizon include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Best Horizon?

The team at Best Horizon includes Pedro Falcão (Founder and CEO), Nelson Raposo (Business Angel) and Paulo Falcão (Business Angel). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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