# Erik Veen

> Erik Veen is a seed investor at Portugal Gateway Fund (Cape Town) backing Software and Analytics. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Portugal Gateway Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/portugal-gateway-fund)
- Location: Cape Town, South Africa
- Total investments: 1
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-van-veen-96a0507

Erik Veen is a seed investor at Portugal Gateway Fund in Cape Town focused on Software and Analytics. Erik Veen is based out of Cape Town and is the Founder and Partner of Portugal Gateway Fund. Erik previously worked at Simba Group as a Group Director. Erik Veen attended the University of Cape Town.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 1 | 100% |
| Analytics | 1 | 100% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Locstat | Locstat is a unique and first of its kind Graph Analytics Platform, with customer driven industry and point solutions, incorporating Graph-based AI, Analytics and Event Processing, that enables organisations to rapidly scale next generation data intelligence solutions. | $2.9M | Seed |  |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Anza Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anza-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Portugal Gateway Fund

VC Fund



1 contacts available at Portugal Gateway Fund.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Erik Veen | Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/erik-veen-van |

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## FAQ

### What does Erik Veen invest in?

Erik Veen invests primarily in Software, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Africa. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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