# Philippe Teixeira da Mota

> Philippe Teixeira da Mota is a seed investor at Shapers backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 62 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Shapers](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shapers-b00f)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 62
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pteixeiradamota/

Philippe Teixeira da Mota is a seed investor at Shapers in London focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Co-founder of Shapers. Previously Partner at Hedosophia.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.5M–$17M |
| Pre-Seed | $125k–$7.4M |
| Series A | $9M–$35M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 37 | 60% |
| Financial Services | 30 | 48% |
| Software | 21 | 34% |
| Information Technology | 11 | 18% |
| Finance | 10 | 16% |

50 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 36 | 58% |
| Series A | 13 | 21% |
| Pre-Seed | 12 | 19% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 9 | 15% |
| Germany | 8 | 13% |
| United States | 8 | 13% |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 6% |
| India | 3 | 5% |

21 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Talentir | Content Monetization | $4.5M | Seed | Jun 25, 2026 |  |
| Klearly | Klearly simplifies payment acceptance for small and medium-sized businesses by transforming smartphones and tablets into secure payment processing devices, allowing businesses to easily take payments. Businesses can focus on what they do best with our all-in-one digital payment solution, while Klearly handles the rest. | $14M | Series A | Jan 13, 2026 |  |
| Deblock | Deblock offers banking services to cryptocurrency users.It assists people to cash out their cryptocurrency investments. | $34.6M | Series A | Nov 19, 2025 |  |
| Kontigo | We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app. | $20M | Seed | Sep 01, 2025 |  |
| Klearly | Klearly simplifies payment acceptance for small and medium-sized businesses by transforming smartphones and tablets into secure payment processing devices, allowing businesses to easily take payments. Businesses can focus on what they do best with our all-in-one digital payment solution, while Klearly handles the rest. | $6.2M | Seed | Jan 15, 2025 |  |
| Deblock | Deblock offers banking services to cryptocurrency users.It assists people to cash out their cryptocurrency investments. | $16.7M | Seed | Nov 21, 2024 |  |
| Ferovinum | Ferovinum is a fintech platform providing working capital and stock management software built specifically for the wine and spirits industry. | $23.2M | Series A | Sep 19, 2024 |  |
| Palm | Palm specializes in AI-powered treasury software designed to optimize financial operations for businesses. The platform offers solutions for generating accurate cash forecasts quickly and managing company funds efficiently. Palm's technology streamlines automated workflows for forecasting and cash movement, ensuring enterprise-grade securityand controls. The company focuses on addressing treasury challenges with innovative solutions, supported by a team with expertise in treasury and fintech. Palm's services are aimed at improving financial decision-making and operational efficiency for its clients. | $6.1M | Seed | Sep 03, 2024 |  |
| Chift | Chift eases integrations for software companies. One connection to Chift activates multiple native integrations. Don't reinvent the wheel and have a quick go to market thanks to integrations that work. | $2.5M | Seed | Jun 25, 2024 |  |
| Ember | Leveraging Open Banking, Machine Learning & Making Tax Digital, Ember is the first solution to automate the entire accounting process from bank transaction through to tax submission without ever leaving the platform, rendering expensive accounting software and manual bookkeeping redundant. | $6.4M | Seed | May 17, 2024 |  |

10 of 62 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Speedinvest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/speedinvest) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Global Founders Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-founders-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Motier Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/motier-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Picus Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/picus-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Soma Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soma-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

## About Shapers

VC Fund · Lisbon, Portugal

Shapers is backed by global fintech operators and investing in fintech founders across Europe.

3 contacts available at Shapers.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Inês Melo e Castro | Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/in%C3%AAs-melo-e-castro |
| Philippe Teixeira da Mota | Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/philippe-teixeira-da-mota-f163 |
| Thomas Teixeira da Mota | Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thomas-teixeira-da-mota |

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## FAQ

### What does Philippe Teixeira da Mota invest in?

Philippe Teixeira da Mota invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 62 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Philippe Teixeira da Mota's check size?

Philippe Teixeira da Mota typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$17M at Seed, $125k–$7.4M at Pre-Seed and $9M–$35M 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 Philippe Teixeira da Mota participates in.

### When did Philippe Teixeira da Mota last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Philippe Teixeira da Mota closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 62 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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