# Duarte Mineiro

> Duarte Mineiro is a seed investor at Tonic App (Lisbon) backing Biotechnology and Big Data. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Tonic App](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tonic-app)
- Location: Lisbon, Portugal
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Mar 2024
- Lead investor: 31%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/duarte-mineiro/

Duarte Mineiro is a seed investor at Tonic App in Lisbon focused on Biotechnology and Big Data. Duarte has a degree in Industrial Engineering from IST (Lisbon) and later took an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He worked for over 10 years in top management consulting in a few different countries, and joined ESV in early 2010.Duarte grew up to become a firm believer of "learning by doing" and as such, heembodies the true spirit of collaboration, team work and respect for the individual. Nothing seems more enthousiastic for him than spending his energy together with the promoters to either close a deal of solve issues and make things happen.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Biotechnology | 4 | 25% |
| Big Data | 3 | 19% |
| Medical | 2 | 13% |
| Health Care | 2 | 13% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 13% |

39 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 63% |
| Series A | 3 | 19% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 6% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Portugal | 9 | 56% |
| Spain | 1 | 6% |
| Brazil | 1 | 6% |
| Canada | 1 | 6% |
| United States | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tonic App | Tonic App is a B2C2B digital health company building a professional ecosystem for medical doctors. Tonic App helps medical doctors to diagnose and treat their patients by curating, for them, in a single mobile platform, the best professional resources from peers, publishers, regulatory bodies, recruiters, providers & the industry. | $11.8M | Series A | Mar 26, 2024 |  |
| DareData | DareData empowers enterprises to overcome data challenges with expert Data & AI consulting and tailored solutions that address their business needs. By delivering AI-powered insights, the company helps organizations unlock new opportunities and scale to new heights. With experience across 8+ industries and clients in over 5 countries,DareData's team supports clients at every stage of their data journey. Whether it’s integrating AI with scalable infrastructure or optimizing existing systems, DareData ensures precision, efficiency, and reliability - so businesses can focus on what truly matters! |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| Reckon.ai | Reckon.ai have been working with several retail customers for the last years and they found that the task of competitive analysis in this vertical is still in the early days of what modern technology can do for them. You wouldn’t believe the number of problems and inefficiencies screaming for solutions in the digital age.So they decided to buildReckon, a cloud platform for smart retail product analysis and price comparison that uses powerful machine learning algorithms, data fusion and computer vision to reshape the way retailers get their competitive intelligence data. | $1.8M | Seed | Sep 08, 2021 |  |
| Promptly | Promptly is a Health Data Analytics company, collecting, integrating and analyzing data on the outcomes of care. Promptly develops proprietary technology for patient engagement, real-world data collection, and outcomes analytics, discovering digital biomarkers on important symptoms, adverse effects and treatment outcomes, using different sources ofdata. In partnership with some of the most visionary, forward-looking healthcare organizations, the company leverages this health data to promote better healthcare at lower costs for thousands of patients every day. | $3.7M | Seed | Jun 01, 2021 |  |
| StudentFinance | StudentFinance is a provider of educational financial services that aims to provide students with success-based financing. The company's services select students through a selection process based on data forecasting using artificial intelligence technology and invest in students who primarily have technical skills and can become softwareengineers, data analysts, or cybersecurity experts, allowing students to advance in their career path and get the right job while also repaying the money.StudentFinance was established in March, 2019 in Madrid, Spain by Mariano Kostelec. | $5.5M | Seed | May 18, 2021 |  |
| Tonic App | Tonic App is a B2C2B digital health company building a professional ecosystem for medical doctors. Tonic App helps medical doctors to diagnose and treat their patients by curating, for them, in a single mobile platform, the best professional resources from peers, publishers, regulatory bodies, recruiters, providers & the industry. | $3.7M |  | Aug 27, 2019 |  |
| Tonic App | Tonic App is a B2C2B digital health company building a professional ecosystem for medical doctors. Tonic App helps medical doctors to diagnose and treat their patients by curating, for them, in a single mobile platform, the best professional resources from peers, publishers, regulatory bodies, recruiters, providers & the industry. | $3.8M | Series A | Aug 27, 2019 |  |
| Tonic App | Tonic App is a B2C2B digital health company building a professional ecosystem for medical doctors. Tonic App helps medical doctors to diagnose and treat their patients by curating, for them, in a single mobile platform, the best professional resources from peers, publishers, regulatory bodies, recruiters, providers & the industry. | $3.8M | Seed | Aug 27, 2019 |  |
| LaserLeap Technologies | LaserLeap Tecnhologies was established to address the need for a painless method to deliver medicines through the skin, and promote faster and more effective treatments. Two decades of research with lasers and ultrasound led to a technology that combines affordable lasers with innovative materials, and is capable of permeabilizing the skin tomedicines and cosmetics in a safe, painless and effective manner. Established on 2011 in Coimbra, Portugal, the company focuses in the skin permeation of cosmetics, anesthetics, drugs for skin cancer, vaccines and biotechnology drugs. |  | Seed | Nov 14, 2013 |  |
| NutriVentures | Nutri Ventures is a powerful story, with lots of adventures and engaging characters, specially designed to make kids feel good by having fun, and providing interactive content. It's the first animated series, targeted at kids under 10, with multiplatform content that will engage and entertain children while creating an opportunity to educatethem on the importance of healthy food. But Nutri Ventures is much more than an animated series: It’s a Cause! It contains specific content for parents, educators and others stakeholders, promotes healthy food and establishes partnerships to develop additional content and support nutritional programs. Nutri Ventures vision is to engage our children through entertainment to educate them about proper nutrition and create an exciting overall environment about healthy food! |  | Seed | Feb 13, 2013 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Portugal Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/portugal-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Vesalius Biocapital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vesalius-biocapital-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Shilling VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shilling-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [TheVentureCity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-venture-city) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [BlueCrow Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bluecrow-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Brpx](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brightpixel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Tonic App

VC Fund · Porto, Portugal

Tonic App is a B2C2B digital health company building a professional ecosystem for medical doctors. Tonic App helps medical doctors to diagnose and treat their patients by curating, for them, in a single mobile platform, the best professional resources from peers, publishers, regulatory bodies, recruiters, providers & the industry.

5 contacts available at Tonic App.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Daniela Seixas | Founder and CEO, MD, PhD, MBA | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniela-seixas |
| Duarte Mineiro | Non Executive Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/duarte-mineiro |
| Joao Oliveira | CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joao-oliveira |
| Sofia Fernandes | Content Director, PhD | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sofia-fernandes-ee80 |
| Sonia Gimeno | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sonia-gimeno |

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## FAQ

### What does Duarte Mineiro invest in?

Duarte Mineiro invests primarily in Biotechnology, Big Data and Medical startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Portugal. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Duarte Mineiro last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Duarte Mineiro closed in Mar 2024. Shizune tracks 16 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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