# Joaquim Sérvulo Rodrigues

> Joaquim Sérvulo Rodrigues is a Series A investor at Armilar Venture Partners backing Energy. See 23 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Armilar Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/espirito-santo-ventures)
- Location: Lisbon, Portugal
- Total investments: 23
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 35%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joaquim-servulo-rodrigues-b88bb9bb/

Joaquim Sérvulo Rodrigues is a Series A investor at Armilar Venture Partners in Lisbon focused on Energy and Manufacturing. Joaquim Sérvulo Rodrigues has a BSc and an MSc in Electrotechnical Engineering from IST (Portugal), and an MBA from INSEAD (France). From 1983 to 1995 he was Assistant Professor at IST and Research Project Leader of INESC. From 1997 to 2000 he was the General Manager of the Direct Channels Department of BES. From 2004 to 2006, he was CEO ofCrediflash SA, the card business unit of the BES Group, and General Manager of the BES Consumer Credits Department. From the very beginning, back in 2000, Joaquim has put his vast experience at the service of many of our global portfolio companies, both from a technical standpoint – drawing on his electrical engineering background and work as a teacher at IST (Lisbon) and as a researcher at INESC (a reference Portuguese research institute) – and from a management standpoint – putting to use his seasoned business skills and sense, built on his curriculum at INSEAD and his long experience developing businesses in the Banco Espírito Santo Group. A reference in the Venture Capital community, as CEO of Espírito Santo Ventures, Joaquim challenges the strategy and oversees the globality of our entire portfolio while remaining personally involved in many of the companies we invest in, and his door is always open to advise the team on all of them.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.6M–$2.8M |
| Series A | $4M–$9.3M |
| Series B | $3.2M–$40M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 4 | 17% |
| Manufacturing | 4 | 17% |
| Renewable Energy | 3 | 13% |
| PaaS | 2 | 9% |
| Solar | 2 | 9% |

49 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 9 | 39% |
| Seed | 3 | 13% |
| Series B | 3 | 13% |
| Series C | 3 | 13% |
| Series E | 2 | 9% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Portugal | 8 | 35% |
| United States | 6 | 26% |
| Australia | 1 | 4% |
| Singapore | 1 | 4% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 4% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## 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 |  |
| Bling Energy | Bling Energy is a startup that focuses on providing more efficient and sustainable energy solutions, mostly through solar panels. | $2.2M | Seed | Sep 12, 2024 |  |
| Miles in the Sky | Miles in the Sky is an ed-tech startup that aims to transform the learning experience for students and professionals. | $1.6M | Seed | Apr 18, 2023 |  |
| 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. | $2.8M | Seed | Mar 23, 2022 |  |
| OutSystems | OutSystems is a global leader transforming how companies innovate through software, empowering IT leaders with a better way to build the software that matters most. The OutSystems platform helps companies develop, deploy, and maintain mission-critical applications by unifying and automating the entire software lifecycle. With OutSystems,organizations leverage generative AI to deliver software instantaneously, adapt faster to changing requirements, and reduce technical debt by building on a future-proof platform. Helping customers achieve their business goals by addressing key strategic initiatives, OutSystems delivers software up to 10x faster than traditional development. Recognized as a leader by analysts, IT executives, business leaders, and developers around the world, global brands trust OutSystems to tackle their impossible projects and turn their big ideas into software that moves their business, people, and the world forward. | $150M | Series E | Feb 17, 2021 |  |
| OutSystems | OutSystems is a global leader transforming how companies innovate through software, empowering IT leaders with a better way to build the software that matters most. The OutSystems platform helps companies develop, deploy, and maintain mission-critical applications by unifying and automating the entire software lifecycle. With OutSystems,organizations leverage generative AI to deliver software instantaneously, adapt faster to changing requirements, and reduce technical debt by building on a future-proof platform. Helping customers achieve their business goals by addressing key strategic initiatives, OutSystems delivers software up to 10x faster than traditional development. Recognized as a leader by analysts, IT executives, business leaders, and developers around the world, global brands trust OutSystems to tackle their impossible projects and turn their big ideas into software that moves their business, people, and the world forward. | $55M | Series C | Feb 02, 2016 |  |
| Ubiquity Global Services | Ubiquity is a multinational business process and call center outsourcing organization dedicated to helping partners improve customer satisfaction while reducing operating costs. The world's leading outsourcer for the fintech and emerging payments sector, Ubiquity offers live customer experience management services, interactive voice response(IVR) solutions, and a comprehensive risk and compliance solution, including fraud investigations, and disputes and chargeback management. Ubiquity has developed a next-generation technology platform engineered for operational excellence while delivering partners meaningful and actionable business intelligence. Headquartered in New York City, the company’s expanding network includes delivery locations in the United States, Hungary, El Salvador, the Philippines and an innovation hub in Amsterdam, where the company develops artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to optimize customer service agent performance. Together with its partners, Ubiquity is pioneering a new approach for maximizing the potential of every customer contact. | $4M | Series A | Sep 01, 2012 |  |
| BERD | Founded in 2006 as a result of the entrepreneurial spirit of its current President, Professor Pedro Pacheco, BERD was born in order to commercially exploit the Organic Prestressing System (OPS) advantages, developed by the OPS Group of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Oporto (FEUP).Based in the north of Portugal town ofMatosinhos, BERD began its process of internationalisation in 2007 and is currently operating in countries such as Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Poland, Romania, United States, Russia, Turkey, Czech Republic, Slovakia, India, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela, among others. |  | Series A | Jan 01, 2011 |  |
| TxVia | TxVia offers the most advanced transaction processing technology for emerging payments and financial services, as well as comprehensive supporting services. Its solutions encompass the full scope of consumer, corporate and government payment applications. TxVia enables electronic payments with a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) delivery model, a fullycustomizable solution that supports its clients' specialized processing needs. TxVia clients, which include some of the largest payments companies in the world, realize significant time-to-market, cost, scalability, reliability and security benefits from its custom—rather than one-size-fits-all—platforms. | $27.5M | Series D | Oct 26, 2010 |  |
| Petra Systems | Petra Solar is a technology company, pioneering "smart solar" which couples distributed solar energy generation with smart grid technology, with their own smart grid communication infrastructure and platform. Petra Solar's smart energy systems are being deployed in both the largest distributed solar electric project and the largestrooftop project in the world today. | $40M | Series B | Feb 08, 2010 |  |

10 of 23 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Goldman Sachs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goldman-sachs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kkr) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lince Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lince-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Village Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/village-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Abdiel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abdiel-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Armilar Venture Partners

VC Fund · Lisboa, Portugal

Armilar Venture Partners is a venture capital firm, with near 300 million euros of assets under management, represented by worldwide companies with innovative products and services that are improving our world, the way we live, and the way we do business.

5 contacts available at Armilar Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| María Carmo Coutinho | Senior Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/m-carmo-coutinho |
| Pedro Almeida | Venture Capital Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pedro-almeida-4 |
| Vitor Martins | Senior Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vitor-martins |
| Ana Barros | Personal Assistant | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ana-barros |
| Duarte Mineiro | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/duarte-mineiro |

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## FAQ

### What does Joaquim Sérvulo Rodrigues invest in?

Joaquim Sérvulo Rodrigues invests primarily in Energy, Manufacturing and Renewable Energy startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 23 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Portugal. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Joaquim Sérvulo Rodrigues's check size?

Joaquim Sérvulo Rodrigues typically joins rounds of $1.6M–$2.8M at Seed, $4M–$9.3M at Series A and $3.2M–$40M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Joaquim Sérvulo Rodrigues participates in.

### When did Joaquim Sérvulo Rodrigues last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Joaquim Sérvulo Rodrigues closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 23 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?

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