# Luis Manuel

> Luis Manuel is a Series A investor at EDP Ventures (Lisbon) backing Energy and Renewable Energy. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [EDP Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edp-ventures)
- Location: Lisbon, Portugal
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luis-manuel-4109376/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/lmanuel11
- Website: https://x.com/lmanuel11

Luis Manuel is a Series A investor at EDP Ventures in Lisbon focused on Energy and Renewable Energy. Luis Manuel, Executive Director of EDP Inovação since 2008; responsible for EDP Ventures (corporate VC) and EDP Starter (business incubation program). Board member of EDP Inovação, EDP Ventures, EDP Mop, Vertequip, Arquiled, EIDT, Feedzai, Egg Electronics and Principle Power. Previously he worked 2 years at Explorer Investments (Portuguese privateequity fund manager) and 6 years at Galp Energia in Strategy and Business Portfolio department. He also worked previously in Espírito Santo Investment in the Project Finance and Corporate Finance Advisory divisions in Portugal and Brazil. Member of the Cabinet of the Secretary of State of Economic Development and Innovation during the XVI Portuguese Constitutional Government. He is also a member of the board of the Portuguese Electric Vehicles Association (APVE). Luís has a degree in Economics from Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 6 | 50% |
| Renewable Energy | 3 | 25% |
| Solar | 2 | 17% |
| Software | 2 | 17% |
| CleanTech | 2 | 17% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 33% |
| Seed | 3 | 25% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 17% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 25% |
| Portugal | 2 | 17% |
| France | 1 | 8% |
| Singapore | 1 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 8% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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 |  |
| Captura | Captura is a Direct Ocean Capture company that develops a carbon capture system to catch scalable carbon from the atmosphere. It develops cost-competitive carbon dioxide capture and sequestration technology to extract it from ocean water to meet the rapidly growing demand in the credit market. Its system combines innovative technology with thenatural carbon removal powers of the ocean to remove CO2 from the atmosphere at a large scale and low cost, providing a critical capability in the fight against climate change. | $10M | Series A | Apr 11, 2024 |  |
| Yotta Energy | Yotta is developing a modular energy storage device The SolarLEAF™ - a battery storage device that integrates with photovoltaic (PV). It has been designed to reduce cost and expand development of energy storage and grid resiliency. The SolarLEAFs biggest value is reducing the soft costs of designing, installing, and maintaining an energy storagesystem compared to traditional centralized systems. | $8M |  | Sep 19, 2023 |  |
| Terabase Energy | Terabase Energy is a digital solutions company whose products and services reduce costs and accelerate deployment in large-scale solar. The company's proprietary software is used by more than 400 engineering, procurement, and construction firms, developers, and independent power producers in 28 countries. | $25M |  | Jul 18, 2023 |  |
| Mixergy | Mixergy Ltd. offer a cost-effective solution to save energy and facilitate more renewable power generation through grid balancing. Mixergy tanks achieve better utilisation of solar PV and heat pumps. | $11.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 27, 2023 |  |
| HSL Technologies | HSL Technologies (SAS HySiLabs) is a pioneering deeptech company headquartered in Aix-en-Provence, France, specializing in hydrogen and low-carbon silica production, storage, and transport solutions. The company’s mission is to enable the decarbonization of industry and mobility by revolutionizing hydrogen storage and silica production through asustainable, scalable, and safe liquid carrier technology caled HydroSil.HSL’s approach leverages a unique synergy between hydrogen and silica markets, aiming to become a market leader in low-carbon silica while providing decentralized hydrogen refueling and industrial decarbonization solutions. The company is developing a robust supply chain built on gigaplants for Hydrosil production and decentralized release units, with a business model targeting bundled hydrogen and silica offers for industrial and mobility clients. | $14.1M | Series A | Jan 31, 2023 |  |
| 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. | $1.5M | Seed | Jul 25, 2022 |  |
| Green Li-ion | Green Li-ion is a deep clean technology that solves the existential risk to the precious metals industry and the environment. Its patented deep technology is Cleaner, Faster, and 4x more profitable than current Lithium-Ion Battery recycling and the only technology to fully Rejuvenate the battery cathode. It was founded in 2020 and is based inSingapore. | $11.6M | Series A | Jan 27, 2022 |  |
| ChemiTek | They develop, produce and commmercialize, environmental friendly, detergents for several industries, providing customers an innovative, customized and value-added solution.CHEMITEK wants to stand out for its innovative products. The position is find partners who have specific problems where we can act and solve with their Know-How, providing theideal products for each area / customer. | $1.3M | Seed | Nov 23, 2021 |  |
| Yotta Energy | Yotta is developing a modular energy storage device The SolarLEAF™ - a battery storage device that integrates with photovoltaic (PV). It has been designed to reduce cost and expand development of energy storage and grid resiliency. The SolarLEAFs biggest value is reducing the soft costs of designing, installing, and maintaining an energy storagesystem compared to traditional centralized systems. | $13M | Series A | Nov 02, 2021 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Doral Energy-Tech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/doral-energy-tech-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Indico Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/indico-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Portugal Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/portugal-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Equinor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/equinor-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ganexa Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ganexa-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Maersk Growth](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maersk-growth) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About EDP Ventures

VC Fund · Lisbon, Portugal

EDP Ventures is a venture capital investment arm of EDP - Energias de Portugal, S.A. specializing in seed, series A and early stage investments. It seeks to invest in, energy efficiency solution, energy storage, smart grids, electric mobility, and information technology sectors. The firm typically invests in all regions. It invests between €0.5million ($0.58 million) to €5 million ($5.85 million). EDP Ventures is based in Lisbon, Portugal with an additional offices in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

5 contacts available at EDP Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Luis Manuel | Executive Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/luis-manuel-00f1 |
| António Lopes | Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ant%C3%B3nio-lopes |
| Daniel Nascimento | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-nascimento-156d |
| Mariana Costa | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mariana-costa-1cd6 |
| Miguel Burguete | Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/miguel-burguete |

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## FAQ

### What does Luis Manuel invest in?

Luis Manuel invests primarily in Energy, Renewable Energy and Solar startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Luis Manuel last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Luis Manuel closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 12 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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