# Semapa Next

> Semapa Next is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 24 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lisbon, Portugal
- Total investments: 24
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 29%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/semapanext/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/semapanext
- Website: http://www.semapanext.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SemapaNEXTVC/

Semapa Next is a venture capital firm that invests in teams of exceptional founders from Series A to late-stage funding. We support today the leaders of tomorrow. From Lisbon to Europe.We want to be a long-term partner of exceptional teams that are positively changing the world we live in. Besides investing with patient capital, we bring a mix ofentrepreneurial, operational, and financial experience to our investments.Our team and network of advisors has direct experience in Sales & Marketing, Talent Management, Finance, and M&A with businesses across all stages of development.We provide access to Semapa’s Group and its international network of partners to leverage opportunities of business development, technology piloting and world-class expertise in managing and growing global businesses.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $222k–$6.5M |
| Series A | $6.5M–$32M |
| Series B | $43M–$51M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 29% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 25% |
| SaaS | 5 | 21% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 21% |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 13% |

57 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 12 | 50% |
| Seed | 5 | 21% |
| Series B | 2 | 8% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 4% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Portugal | 5 | 21% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 17% |
| Germany | 3 | 13% |
| United States | 3 | 13% |
| Poland | 1 | 4% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hugo Pinto | Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hugo-pinto-8fd2 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jupus | As the first legal AI secretary in Europe, JUPUS automates the entire process from initial client contact to the complete file. Lawyers are supported by an AI chatbot, an online appointment booking tool, and an AI platform that automatically collects and processes inquiries, information, and documents, facilitating automated communication withclients. | $14.8M | Series A | Jun 23, 2026 |  |
| Gigaton | Gigaton is a climate technology company developing artificial intelligence to decarbonize energy-intensive industries. It intends to use AI technology to reduce carbon emissions by gigatonnes per year. Its emphasis is on energy-intensive industries like cement, steel, and glass, which account for more than 20% of global emissions. Deep learning isused by Carbon Re's Delta Zero platform for industrial decarbonization to enable rapid development and deployment of new low-carbon industrial processes, designs, and materials. | $26M | Series A | Jun 02, 2026 |  |
| Sybilion | Sybilion is an artificial intelligence-powered platform that provides a decision layer for companies analyzing information for supply chain management, marketing, and planning purposes. | $4.2M | Seed | Mar 11, 2026 |  |
| constellr | Constellr creates imaging technology for the agriculture industry to evaluate soil health, vegetation, and industrial monitoring, using proprietary space infrastructure. Constellr supports food security by enabling high-precision smart farming services across the globe. The company specializes in tackling climate change with accountability andmonitoring data for multiple markets. | $44M | Series A | Feb 10, 2026 |  |
| Overstory | Overstory combines AI and advanced satellite imagery to help electric utilities pinpoint and prioritize vegetation risks before they materialize. With Overstory's vegetation intelligence, transmission and distribution operators can make smarter decisions about the vegetation around their power corridors, optimizing resources and improvingoperational efficiency. This helps prevent outages, reduce wildfire risks, and accelerate the transition to a safer, more resilient grid. | $43M | Series B | Nov 25, 2025 |  |
| Sonant AI | The AI Receptionist for Insurance | $3.2M | Seed | Mar 06, 2025 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Meisterwerk | Meisterwerk provides a SaaS operating system for SMB field service and craftsman companies. They offer services that include operational planning, mobile time tracking, digital forms, information exchange, and their own workflows. Meisterwerk helps to communicate between the office and the workforce. | $6.5M | Series A | Jul 25, 2024 |  |
| Overstory | Overstory combines AI and advanced satellite imagery to help electric utilities pinpoint and prioritize vegetation risks before they materialize. With Overstory's vegetation intelligence, transmission and distribution operators can make smarter decisions about the vegetation around their power corridors, optimizing resources and improvingoperational efficiency. This helps prevent outages, reduce wildfire risks, and accelerate the transition to a safer, more resilient grid. | $14M | Series A | Oct 19, 2023 |  |
| Soveren | With Soveren you can fulfill your mission-critical production data observability and security goals.Soveren helps identify and protect crown jewels in Kubernetes-based environments. It automatically discovers sensitive data and assets, mapping the flows between them and immediately alerting you before risks become full-blown incidents.Ourmission is to help leading organizations protect millions of consumer data records without slowing down their business. We have built our solution in partnership with the most innovative security leaders in Europe and the US.We enable security teams to:1. Enrich your data inventory and improve the quality of manual reviews2. Gain near real-time visibility into sensitive assets and data flows3. Protect sensitive data and assets in the cloud from common security risks4. Maintain ongoing compliance with data regulations (PCI DSS, GDPR, CPRA, etc.)5. Reduce supply-chain attack risks and control sensitive data sharing | $3.6M | Seed | Feb 20, 2023 |  |

10 of 24 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [EDP Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edp-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Iberis Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iberis-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [B Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/b-capital-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Start Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/big-start-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [CapitalT](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capitalt) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Convective Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/convective-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Semapa Next invest in?

Semapa Next invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 24 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Portugal. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Semapa Next's check size?

Semapa Next typically joins rounds of $222k–$6.5M at Seed, $6.5M–$32M at Series A and $43M–$51M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Semapa Next participates in.

### How do I contact Semapa Next?

Public channels for Semapa Next include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Semapa Next?

The team at Semapa Next includes Hugo Pinto (Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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