# Critical Ventures

> Critical Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Coimbrã, Portugal
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 22%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/critical-ventures-inc/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/CrtVentures
- Website: http://www.critical-ventures.com

Critical Ventures is a VC fund in Coimbrã focused on Software and Information Technology. Critical Ventures is venture capital arm of Critical Group. It partners with the most inspiring and courageous entrepreneurs developing innovative technologies with the potential to disrupt global markets.It is designed to support entrepreneurs from an early stage, with expertise, strategic guidance and a unique ecosystem of technologybusinesses, helping to build companies that are future pioneers with the ability to shape new markets.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$13M |
| Series A | $2.6M–$19M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 56% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 33% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 33% |
| Internet | 2 | 22% |
| Analytics | 2 | 22% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 56% |
| Series A | 3 | 33% |
| Series B | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 33% |
| Portugal | 2 | 22% |
| Germany | 1 | 11% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 11% |
| Slovakia (Slovak Republic) | 1 | 11% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pedro Murtinho | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pedro-murtinho |
| David Dias | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-dias-bdf8 |
| Gonçalo Quadros | Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gonalo-quadros |
| Joao Carreira | Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joao-carreira |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Humanos | Humanos is building the verification network for AI, designed for a world where autonomous AI agents move money, access data, and execute critical actions across organizational boundaries. Through a single API, organizations can verify an AI agent's identity, who it represents, its delegated authority, human authorization, and executionevidence before any action is performed. Every verification generates cryptographically verifiable runtime trust signals that enable runtime governance and power the next generation of AI insurance.Before any high-stakes action runs, a system makes a single humanos.verify() call, and Humanos runs deterministic checks against the mandate and returns an authorized or not-authorized decision. If an action falls outside what was approved, Humanos pauses it, collects fresh approval in real time, and resumes once verified. Every executed action emits a cryptographically signed receipt that auditors, banks, regulators, and counterparties can verify independently, without trusting the originating system. | $3.2M | Seed | Aug 04, 2026 |  |
| Almetra | AI-based process analytics platform to increase productivity and quality in manual processes. Processes are captured using computer vision and automatically analysed with a highly flexible AI to identify improvement potential.1. Real-time capture with cameras Cameras are installed at individual assembly stations capturing live video streams ofassembly or packaging tasks.2. AI tracks material & work steps Video streams are continuously analyzed to detect workpiece movements, cycle times, and work step sequencing.3. Aggregation for data analysis Process data is aggregated per article and production to provide insights on process performance. Video snippets allow for a comprehensive root-cause analysis.4. Data-driven improvements Your factory managers and process engineers define, implement and measure process improvements to increase productivity and quality in your assembly line. | $18.5M | Series A | Jun 25, 2026 |  |
| RunSafe Security | RunSafe Security is on a mission to immunize software from cyber attacks and disrupt hacker economics without developer friction. RunSafe's patented technology, Alkemist, inoculates customers' systems from an entire class of cyber attacks by stopping the infection at its source. Our customers integrate our product across build and deploytoolchains to protect open source, in-house code, and 3rd party binaries. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with an office in Huntsville, Alabama, RunSafe Security's customers span the critical infrastructure, IIoT, automotive, medical, develops, and national security industries. | $12M | Series B | Sep 17, 2024 |  |
| Twinzo | Twinzo focuses on sensors, databases, and data streams, up to real-time visualization of any kind of tracking and monitoring technology. Twinzo was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in, Slovakia. | $2.5M | Seed | Jun 01, 2023 |  |
| Kirontech | Each year, the healthcare insurance industry loses nearly half a trillion dollars due to Fraud, Waste and Abuse.With our state-of-the-art artificial intelligence solutions, fraud, waste and abuse are identified at source and inefficiencies are reduced across the board. KironAI is the most advanced and specialized AI solution in the healthcareinsurance market, and our proprietary algorithms allow the platform to handle millions of complex claims with ease.By combining the techniques of AI and our extensive industry knowledge of medical claims data, Kirontech will change the way health insurance works for good.There is a growing consensus that AI technology has a vital role to play in the future of health insurance, in the elimination of fraud, waste and abuse, the streamlining and reinforcing of risk assessment processes, and in network optimization. But how?Kirontech works with extensive medical claims data, using machine learning AI to improve the bottom line of insurers, third party administrators and reinsurers, and increase quality of care through better monitoring and management of providers.KironAI uses dynamic “graph–based” learning, which means it discovers rules and patterns from within the data, rather than simply scanning for pre-specified ones; it observes, learns and adapts to new relevant patterns too complicated for the human eye to pick up. The system is ultra-fast and resilient, designed to learn even from scarce data.Kirontech is based in Cambridge, an internationally recognized technology hub. With a presence in London, the largest centre for underwriting commercial and specialty risk in the world, Kirontech is perfectly positioned to make use of its top technical and domain expertise to address the serious issues which impede the health insurance business today.But more than anything else, Kirontech is about its people. With its unique combination of skills and expertise, our team works to innovate the healthcare industry through the application of new technology that has already proved its value across many other domains. |  | Series A | Jan 31, 2023 |  |
| hOS | hOS is an early-stage AI technology company. | $12.8M | Seed | Feb 09, 2022 |  |
| CBR Genomics | We apply our end-to-end solutions to hand genetic reports at the clinical desk. We make Genomics accessible! | $2.6M | Series A | Dec 13, 2017 |  |
| CBR Genomics | We apply our end-to-end solutions to hand genetic reports at the clinical desk. We make Genomics accessible! | $1.2M | Seed | Jul 01, 2013 |  |
| Watchful Software | Watchful Software is focused on providing data-centric information protection that works. With the massive amounts that have been invested in securing the network perimeter, one thing has become painfully clear: today's enterprises must secure the information itself. |  | Seed | Nov 27, 2012 |  |

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## Co-investors
- [Start Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/big-start-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Portugal Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/portugal-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alsop Louie Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alsop-louie-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Anthemis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthemis-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [B5 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/b5-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BIG Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/big-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Critical Ventures invest in?

Critical Ventures invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Critical Ventures's check size?

Critical Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$13M at Seed and $2.6M–$19M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Critical Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Critical Ventures?

Public channels for Critical Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) 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 Critical Ventures?

The team at Critical Ventures includes Pedro Murtinho (Partner), David Dias (Managing Director) and Gonçalo Quadros (Partner). 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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