# Explorer Investments

> Explorer Investments is a VC fund in Lisboa backing Manufacturing and Retail. See 78 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lisboa, Portugal
- Total investments: 78
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 68%
- Last fund: Apr 2018
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/explorer-investments/about/
- Website: http://www.explorerinvestments.com/

Explorer Investments is a VC fund in Lisboa focused on Manufacturing and Retail. Explorer is a independent management company of alternative assets, with a reputation for outstanding quality, in-depth experience and an excellent track record.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.1M–$11M |
| Series A | $6.9M–$16M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 10 | 13% |
| Retail | 6 | 8% |
| Health Care | 5 | 6% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 6% |
| Textiles | 4 | 5% |

92 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Private Equity | 45 | 58% |
| Seed | 7 | 9% |
| Series A | 4 | 5% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 5% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Portugal | 49 | 63% |
| Spain | 3 | 4% |
| Brazil | 2 | 3% |
| Israel | 2 | 3% |
| United States | 2 | 3% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Andreia Sousa | CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreia-sousa |
| Antonio Rocha e Silva | Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ant%C3%B3nio-rocha-e-silva |
| Elizabeth Rothfield | Founding Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elizabeth-rothfield |
| Joana Vilhena Vilhena | Head of Legal and Compliance | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joana-vilhena-vilhena |
| Rodrigo Guimaraes | Founding Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rodrigo-guimar%C3%A3es |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Neuraspace | Neuraspace's proprietary AI technology enables more accurate satellite collision risk prediction and, by applying a data fusion strategy, offers increased robustness and resilience. The platform also automates many of the current manual processes and communications and delivers an end-to-end solution, providing operators with actionableorbital maneuver recommendations to avoid collisions, while delivering valuable insights to various other stakeholders including regulators, insurers and other Space-asset dependent businesses. | $6.9M | Series A | Aug 05, 2026 |  |
| Spotlite | Spotlite develops monitoring systems using remote sensing for various types of infrastructure. It provides structural assessment to prevent risks and damages. Spotlite is based in Coimbra, Portugal. | $4.1M | Seed | Dec 03, 2025 |  |
| Luca | Luca's learning platform provides learning programs for primary and secondary school students. The learning platform offers pre-recorded K12 videos, gamified content and AI powered personalized study paths, covering the entire official academic curriculum and national exams prep. Luca is a VC backed startup with HQ in Madrid & MexicoCity | $8M | Series A | Oct 30, 2025 |  |
| Feedzai | Feedzai is a data science company that helps financial institutions prevent, detect, and remediates fraud risk. Feedzai has one mission: to make banking and commerce safe by combining fraud prevention and anti-money laundering under one platform to manage financial crime. Founded by data scientists and aerospace engineers, Feedzai is consideredbest in a class by Aite and one of the most successful AI companies by Forbes. The world’s largest banks, processors, and retailers use Feedzai to safeguard trillions of dollars and manage risk while improving customer experience. | $75M | Series E | Oct 02, 2025 |  |
| PlaySight Interactive | PlaySight is connecting the next generation of athletes through immersive sports video and analytics technology. They are bringing advanced sports video and analytics technology to every court in the world, creating a global and connected community of athletes, coaches, and fans.Technology has changed how sports are coached, played, and consumedat the elite levels, and they are focused on delivering the same cutting-edge experience to all levels of sport, all over the world. They are becoming the new standard in sports with our cloud-based Smart Court sports video and analytics platform, integrating what happens on-court with an interactive and social online community. |  | Private Equity | Aug 05, 2025 |  |
| SkillUp Online | SkillUp Online is a cloud-based continuing education and certification platform offering blended learning strategies for IT students and professionals alike. Specifically targeting those individuals exploring career change or advancement, the platform offers over 140 Microsoft certified courses for in-demand skills like artificial intelligence,data science, big data, cloud computing, and more.The SkillUp curriculum combines custom high-quality instructional content blended with one-on-one support from certified experts in the technology space to drive dramatically increased success rates among enrollees. | $7M | Series A | Jul 15, 2025 |  |
| Litehaus | Itehaus is a pioneering property development company specializing in construction solutions, including 3D-printed modular homes and sustainable building technologies. Its mission is to revolutionize real estate development by combining technology, sustainability, and design innovation to create elegant, minimalist, and eco-friendly homes harmonizedwith Portugal’s natural beauty. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | May 21, 2025 |  |
| Speedbird Aero | Speedbird Aero is making drone delivery possible for companies, logistics services, and healthcare facilities. We are pushing the drone industry forward..In 2019, we started the certification process of the first remotely piloted multirotor aircraft in the country. In 2020, Speedbird Aero received the first BVLOS Waiver in Brazil / LatinAmerica for daily Drone Delivery operations. The goal is to continue to develop drone delivery technology in conjunction with our partners and under the guidance and supervision of the Brazilian aeronautical entities that regulate this industry. | $5.8M |  | May 07, 2025 |  |
| Portocanna | Portocanna is a medical cannabis company focused on processing and manufacturing EU-GMP-certified cannabis products. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 01, 2025 |  |
| eSelf AI | eSelf AI redefines face-to-face interactions with human-like video conversations. | $4.5M | Seed | Dec 11, 2024 |  |

10 of 78 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lince Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lince-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Indico Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/indico-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Iberis Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iberis-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Start Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/big-start-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Caixa Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caixa-capital-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Cedrus Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cedrus-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Explorer Investments invest in?

Explorer Investments invests primarily in Manufacturing, Retail and Health Care startups, most often at Private Equity and Seed stage. Most of the 78 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Portugal. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Explorer Investments's check size?

Explorer Investments typically joins rounds of $2.1M–$11M at Seed and $6.9M–$16M 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 Explorer Investments participates in.

### How do I contact Explorer Investments?

Public channels for Explorer Investments 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 Explorer Investments?

The team at Explorer Investments includes Andreia Sousa (CFO), Antonio Rocha e Silva (Partner) and Elizabeth Rothfield (Founding Partner), among 15 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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