# Ricardo Carvalho

> Ricardo Carvalho is a seed investor at Social Innovation Sports backing Software and Communities. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Social Innovation Sports](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/social-innovation-sports)
- Location: Lisbon, Portugal
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Nov 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardoccarvalho

Ricardo Carvalho is a seed investor at Social Innovation Sports in Lisbon focused on Software and Communities. Ricardo Carvalho - Founder @ Social Innovation Sports

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $522k–$2.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 50% |
| Communities | 2 | 50% |
| SaaS | 1 | 25% |
| Sports | 1 | 25% |
| Social Media | 1 | 25% |

6 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hoopers | Hoopers is a digital community platform that connects basketball players, fans, and enthusiasts through fields, content, experiences, and NFT. The Portuguese startup company is incubated at Startup Lisboa and Startup Braga. | $2.3M | Seed | Nov 08, 2024 |  |
| Hoopers | Hoopers is a digital community platform that connects basketball players, fans, and enthusiasts through fields, content, experiences, and NFT. The Portuguese startup company is incubated at Startup Lisboa and Startup Braga. |  | Seed | Jul 04, 2022 |  |
| Felton | Felton is an AI audience intelligence company that profiles your social media audience at the individual level. Millions of real people, each one understood.Most organizations rely on social media sentiment analysis that sorts comments into positive, negative or neutral. We built an emotion AI that goes further: 25 specific emotions, demographicand psychographic profiling, behavioral patterns and brand detection. Extracted directly from social interactions across multiple platforms. No APIs. No surveys. No bots.We don't analyze what people post. We reveal who they are. Your active audience.Your audience changes every week. New followers, shifting emotions, emerging behaviors. We track it all so you always know who you're talking to.Felton is funded by Buenavista Equity Partners (formerly GED Ventures), Portugal Ventures, Sport Horizon Holding and several business angels, including Portuguese basketball icons Neemias Queta (NBA champion with the Boston Celtics) and Ticha Penicheiro (WNBA Hall of Famer). | $521.6K | Seed | Jul 04, 2022 |  |
| Felton | Felton is an AI audience intelligence company that profiles your social media audience at the individual level. Millions of real people, each one understood.Most organizations rely on social media sentiment analysis that sorts comments into positive, negative or neutral. We built an emotion AI that goes further: 25 specific emotions, demographicand psychographic profiling, behavioral patterns and brand detection. Extracted directly from social interactions across multiple platforms. No APIs. No surveys. No bots.We don't analyze what people post. We reveal who they are. Your active audience.Your audience changes every week. New followers, shifting emotions, emerging behaviors. We track it all so you always know who you're talking to.Felton is funded by Buenavista Equity Partners (formerly GED Ventures), Portugal Ventures, Sport Horizon Holding and several business angels, including Portuguese basketball icons Neemias Queta (NBA champion with the Boston Celtics) and Ticha Penicheiro (WNBA Hall of Famer). |  | Seed |  |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Portugal Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/portugal-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Sport Horizon Holding S.p.a.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sport-horizon-holding-s-p-a) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [GED Ventures Portugal](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ged-ventures-portugal) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Startup Braga](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/startupbraga) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Social Innovation Sports

VC Fund



1 contacts available at Social Innovation Sports.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ricardo Carvalho | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ricardo-carvalho |

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## FAQ

### What does Ricardo Carvalho invest in?

Ricardo Carvalho invests primarily in Software, Communities and SaaS startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Portugal. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Ricardo Carvalho's check size?

Ricardo Carvalho typically joins rounds of $522k–$2.3M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ricardo Carvalho participates in.

### When did Ricardo Carvalho last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ricardo Carvalho closed in Nov 2024. Shizune tracks 4 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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