# maze impact

> maze impact is a VC fund in Lisboa backing Biotechnology and Apps. See 33 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lisboa, Portugal
- Total investments: 33
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/maze-impact/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/maze_impact
- Website: http://maze-impact.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/maze.impact/

maze impact is a VC fund in Lisboa focused on Biotechnology and Apps. We work alongside impact ventures and investors to scale effective solutions for social and environmental challenges. We address this through 3 main areas of activity: a 35M€ VC Fund, which invests in early stage impact ventures; an impact accelerator, Maze X; and the Government Performance team which works the public sector to improve socialservices.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for maze impact. Shizune tracks 6 team members at maze impact. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/maze-b4a7?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Biotechnology | 7 | 21% |
| Apps | 5 | 15% |
| Software | 5 | 15% |
| Health Care | 5 | 15% |
| Manufacturing | 5 | 15% |

74 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 13 | 39% |
| Non-equity Assistance | 12 | 36% |
| Convertible Note | 3 | 9% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 9% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 18% |
| Germany | 5 | 15% |
| Portugal | 3 | 9% |
| Spain | 2 | 6% |
| Sweden | 2 | 6% |

17 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Antonio Miguel | Managing Partner | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antonio-miguel |
| Cristina Almeida | Head of Platform | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cristina-almeida |
| João Santos | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jo%C3%A3o-santos |
| Luís Fonseca | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lu%C3%ADs-fonseca |
| Orson Stadler | Principal | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/orson-stadler |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cloov | Cloov offers B2B solutions to enable brands on implementing circular business models in white-label. | $1.2M | Seed | Jun 16, 2026 |  |
| Blend | Blend provides mobile first video training with accredited compliance modules and integration for workforce onboarding and upskilling. |  | Seed | Jun 18, 2025 |  |
| Biomara | BioMara is a biotechnology company that focuses on transforming seaweed into valuable bioproducts. The company supports regenerative seaweed farms and aims to extract and purify high-value components from seaweed biomass. BioMara's mission is to leverage seaweed to create positive environmental impacts and sustainable solutions. | $148.6K | Pre-Seed | Feb 27, 2025 |  |
| Beans | Beans is on a mission to help the planet by reducing food waste, saving products, and offering them through an online grocery platform at discounted prices. | $1.5M | Seed | Jan 30, 2025 |  |
| ParaStruct | ParaStruct delivers long-term and cost-effective waste management solutions for the construction industry. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2025 |  |
| Miinta | Miinta provides online emotional support for young people via chat, voice, and video with professional therapists. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2025 |  |
| coobi | Coobi offers a digital platform using AI and wearable data to provide personalized support and relapse prevention for addiction recovery. | $553.2K | Pre-Seed | Oct 01, 2024 |  |
| Easy Bites | Easy Bites provides an app that guides families with young children on healthy feeding practices and child nutrition. |  | Seed | Apr 05, 2024 |  |
| CoGrader | Cograder is a grading system that uses generative AI to help educators streamline the grading process, freeing them from a considerable workload and allowing them to focus on more added-value activities, such as student support. Additionally, the system ensures impartial, fair, and objective assessments and detects AI usage in student'sanswers, safeguarding the integrity of the educational system. In essence, teachers import assignment questions, rubrics, and student answers from the LMS, and get graded assignments with thorough feedback. |  | Convertible Note | Dec 01, 2023 |  |
| Resistomap | Resistomap provides a data-driven laboratory service for monitoring antibiotic resistance from environmental samples. | $1.6M | Seed | Nov 15, 2023 |  |

10 of 33 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [maze impact](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maze-x) — VC Fund, 16 deals together
- [Indico Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/indico-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [University Technology Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/university-technology-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Moomin](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/all-things-commerce) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ananda Impact Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ananda-ventures-gmbh-social-venture-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Brinc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brinc-io) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does maze impact invest in?

maze impact invests primarily in Biotechnology, Apps and Software startups, most often at Seed and Non-equity Assistance stage. Most of the 33 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact maze impact?

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### Who are the partners at maze impact?

The team at maze impact includes Antonio Miguel (Managing Partner), Cristina Almeida (Head of Platform) and João Santos (Principal), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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