# maze impact

> maze impact is a VC fund in Lisbon backing Software and Education. See 22 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lisbon, Portugal
- Total investments: 22
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/maze-impact/
- Website: https://maze-impact.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/maze.impact/

maze impact is a VC fund in Lisbon focused on Software and Education. maze is an impact investment firm that offers financial and non-financial tools to everyone committed to delivering positive social and environmental outcomes.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 18% |
| Education | 4 | 18% |
| Social Impact | 4 | 18% |
| Apps | 3 | 14% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 14% |

57 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Non-equity Assistance | 12 | 55% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 27% |
| Convertible Note | 3 | 14% |
| Seed | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Portugal | 4 | 18% |
| Germany | 3 | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 14% |
| Sweden | 2 | 9% |
| Spain | 1 | 5% |

13 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 | — |
| Luís Fonseca | Partner; Partner | 0 | — |
| Rita Casimiro | Head of Acceleration; Partner | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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 |  |
| 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 |  |
| KiDSiE | Circular marketplace for open-box and gently used kid stuff. Transforming how we shop for our children. |  | Convertible Note | Nov 01, 2023 |  |
| Root Sustainability | Root Sustainability offers a software-based platform designed to support companies on their journey towards achieving net-zero emissions. By providing data-driven insights into environmental footprints, Root Sustainability enables businesses to optimize their sustainability efforts. The platform facilitates the easy and effective transition ofcompanies towards sustainability by gathering data from existing management systems through an intuitive onboarding process. Root Sustainability introduces a fully automated environmental reduction software solution aimed at reducing a company's environmental footprint and achieving net-zero status. The company focuses on making the sustainability transition seamless for product companies, emphasizing the management of environmental impact. |  | Convertible Note | Oct 01, 2023 |  |
| NU-RISE | NU-RISE LDA helping doctors provide better cancer treatment. They have developed a probe that goes inside the body. This probe will monitor, in real-time, the level of radiation the patient is receiving. The Doctor can target the cancer but avoid the healthy organs. Better, safer and more accurate radiation - it's an evolution for cancertreatment. |  | Non-equity Assistance | May 01, 2020 |  |
| Rnters | Rnters is an online rental marketplace of everyday items that allow users to save money and profit from underutilized assets. Rnters is an online rental market that allows anyone to sell and invest in their unused items. Through Rnters anyone will have access to more than 3,000 unique items anytime at a fraction of the buying cost.The company isheadquartered in Lisboa, Portugal and was founded by Guilherme Guerra in 2016. |  | Non-equity Assistance | May 01, 2020 |  |
| ElectricFeel | ElectricFeel is a partner to launch profitable and sustainable fleets of electric vehicles. By combining world-class technology with unique industry expertise, we empower entrepreneurs, utility, and mobility providers to build successful micromobility businesses. |  | Non-equity Assistance | May 01, 2020 |  |
| Sepiia | Sepiia is an intelligent clothing company, manufactured in Spain in a sustainable manner. Founded in 2016 thanks to the Lanzadera platform, Sepiia will launch its first technological fashion products next September. |  | Non-equity Assistance | May 01, 2020 |  |
| Omoguru | Omoguru provides effortless reading and learning with text customization tools. Their universal design includes and benefits both struggling and strong readers.Omoguru is created for education, web accessibility, and leisure.We deliver a range of services:- Omoguru Reader is an app for smartphones and tablets that helps you make the textmore readable and to decode letters and words easier. A set of tools helps improve reading rhythm, focus, and speed.- Lexie (beta) is a PWA ebook reader and content management platform. It enables the use of a wide range of digital and printed content, content creation, and sharing.- W3Lexie is a browser plugin for comfortable online reading and learning. It removes distractions and enables content collection through integration with Lexie.- w3Access is a web accessibility widget. It is amazing for web owners making the crucial step towards web accessibility.- OmoType is a dynamic font system perfect for schools, designers, and publishers. It enables highly readable and legible content to both struggling and strong readers, in digital and print.All our solutions and tools are designed and developed by combining:- Years of speech therapy experience, - Available scientific research on dyslexia, readability, and legibility - Effective literacy strategies created by our usersWe are a team of speech therapists, designers, typographers, dreamers, innovators, and experienced entrepreneurs who are finding new ways to deliver a comfortable reading experience to everyone.Combining the tools, products, and activities, besides empowering the position of dyslexic children, Omoguru's effort is to create a universal platform that includes everyone. A global community that destigmatizes dyslexia and encourages the blossoming of dyslexics' creative potential by making it easier to read, learn and grow in all aspects of life in which reading is important. Awards: December 2019 - Tesla's Golden Egg for Innovation October 2019 - Social Innovation Tournament 2019 - Finalist September 2019 - Central European Startup Awards 2019 - Croatia National Winners - Best Social Impact Startup June 2019 - Emerging Europe - Social Impact Startup of The Year - Finalist June 2019 - Europas Awards - Hottest Tech for Good Startup - Top 7 Finalist March 2019 - Digital Takeover - Digital Business Leaders Winner |  | Non-equity Assistance | May 01, 2020 |  |
| Panion | Panion is a community-building tool that helps companies, schools, and organizations facilitate more social interactions amongst its members. The platform is entirely keyword searchable and filterable so members are able to search for each other based on common interests, values, goals or experiences and even narrow their searches by location,gender, age, language and much more. Members and admins can propose spontaneous events within the network and form social groups around an interest. Community admins are given a dashboard of analytics to track trends in their community and send segmented messages based on interest and location. |  | Non-equity Assistance | May 01, 2020 |  |

10 of 22 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [maze impact](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maze-b4a7) — VC Fund, 16 deals together
- [FoodTech Founders](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foodtech-founders) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Norrsken VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/norrsken-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Water Lemon Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/water-lemon-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does maze impact invest in?

maze impact invests primarily in Software, Education and Social Impact startups, most often at Non-equity Assistance and Funding Round stage. Most of the 22 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Portugal. 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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