Shilling VC
VC Fund
Lisboa, Portugal
Shilling VC is a VC fund in Lisboa focused on Information Technology and Software. Shilling is an early-stage venture capital firm backing exceptional founders from the start.Shilling invests in a wide range of verticals and seeks out the biggest opportunities across all B2B and consumer categories. Leveraging the concept of Founder LPs, Shilling brings much more than capital and offers through its Shilling Platform, directaccess to successful founders and executives of leading companies. This platform supports entrepreneurs in validating and developing their ventures, which then accelerate their growth into global markets.
- Total investments:
- 108
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 22%
- Last fund:
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Industries Shilling VC invests in
Stages Shilling VC invests in
Countries Shilling VC invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $603k–$5M
- Pre-Seed
- $125k–$3M
- Series A
- $5M–$20M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Information Technology 15 (14%)
- Software 13 (12%)
- Artificial Intelligence 13 (12%)
- Health Care 8 (7%)
- Financial Services 8 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 48 (44%)
- Pre-Seed 24 (22%)
- Series A 15 (14%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 6 (6%)
- Series B 2 (2%)
Country
- Portugal 36 (33%)
- Spain 13 (12%)
- United States 12 (11%)
- United Kingdom 6 (6%)
- Germany 4 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Pedro Ramalho Carlos
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Ricardo Jacinto
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
Hugo Gonçalves Pereira
Founding Partner
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Founding Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Hugo Gonçalves Pereira
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Isabel Salgueiro
Head of Platform
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Head of Platform | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 11 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Balance
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Balance is a private digital health company based in Spain that operates in the clinics and outpatient healthcare services sector. company's core mission is to provide an integrated, medical, and sustainable approach to treating obesity and overweight conditions. Moving away from traditional restrictive diets, the company leverages asubscription-based telehealth model combined with clinical pharmacology. | $3.4M / Seed / Jul 03, 2026 | |
Tucuvi
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Tucuvi is a health technology company unlocking efficient and high-quality healthcare at scale with a CE-marked platform for Phone Consultation Automation. We develop safe and clinically validated Conversational AI for any care pathway, enabling clinical teams to augment their capacities, improve processes’ efficiency and efficacy, and achievebetter patient outcomes and satisfaction through continuous and personalized care. | $20M / Series A / Jan 08, 2026 | |
Algori
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Algori is a data analytics firm that is rethinking the consumer panel for the consumer products sector. | $4.2M / Dec 09, 2025 | |
Luca
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Luca's learning platform provides learning programs for primary and secondary school students. The learning platform offers pre-recorded K12 videos, gamified content and AI powered personalized study paths, covering the entire official academic curriculum and national exams prep. Luca is a VC backed startup with HQ in Madrid & MexicoCity | $8M / Series A / Oct 30, 2025 | |
Nilo
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Nilo is a collaborative 3D platform that works across desktop, mobile, Discord, and Telegram. It combines generative AI with world-building tools, allowing users to generate assets, characters, animations, and code from natural language or drawings. The result: a radically simplified creation experience that lowers the barrier to entry andaccelerates how quickly new ideas can be built, tested, and shared.It’s creation at the speed of culture: whether spinning up a game inspired by today’s viral sound, turning a group chat joke into a playable world or crafting a custom hangout, Nilo transforms imagination into interaction — instantly and collaboratively.Nilo’s key features include:Text-to-3D generation: Create characters, environments, and code from prompts or images. Browser-Based: Nilo runs entirely in your browser - no installs, no downloads, no friction. Voice-enabled coding: A built-in AI-powered code editor that supports spoken commands and natural language for playful, social programming. Real-time multiplayer: Co-create and play with friends instantly.Nilo was founded in April 2024, bringing together veterans from Fortnite, Twitch, YouTube, Snapchat, Microsoft, Adobe, Blizzard, VRChat, Rec Room, and major VFX projects such as Avatar and Star Wars. | $4M / Seed / Sep 24, 2025 | |
Workfully
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Workfully is a human resource e agency that prices employment, recruitment and upskillng services for candidates and companies. | $4.7M / Seed / Sep 23, 2025 | |
Musiversal
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They believe that in order to become a top professional and getting recognition for your music, a critical step is to collaborate with others, namely getting other people to help you play and produce your music. It's not just their opinion, for hundreds of years music has been a collaborative art and with the development of DAWs and VST'scollaboration and adding something different and special to your music has become even more crucial as composers try to distinguish themselves from others in an overcrowded landscape.They believe that talent is native and that education will bring composers the skills to articulate their talent. However, in order to make your music really sound like it's meant to be, it's necessary to have the resources to produce and hire others to help and play your music. This requires an investment that can be very expensive many creators can't afford. They're here to make it affordable. | $6M / Series A / Sep 10, 2025 | |
BetterPic
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Forget expensive, complicated photoshoots. Get your professional headshots on the go, with 8 selfies/casual photos in less than an hour. High-quality customer service, top data privacy, and a clear money-back guarantee policy. | $2.5M / Seed / Aug 18, 2025 | |
Replai
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Founded in 2019, Replai is the world’s first video-based creative insights platform that empowers brands to maximize the performance and engagement of their videos. Blending computer vision and AI technology, Replai has solved a long-standing problem that helps brands recalibrate their videos so they can maximize growth and build communities.Replai partners with some of the biggest global brands and mobile apps companies. Based in San Francisco, Replai is a privately-held, venture-backed company, with offices in London and Porto. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 03, 2025 | |
Sword Health
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SWORD Health is a digital musculoskeletal (MSK) therapy provider. The company pairs licensed physical therapists with innovative technology to help people overcome their chronic and post-surgical pain faster and more cost-effectively. We’re on a mission to free two billion people from pain by making it simple for people to recover at home, withoutresorting to imaging, surgeries, or opioids. Since launching in 2015, SWORD Health has worked with insurers, health systems, and employers in Europe, Australia, and the U.S. to give thousands of people access to preventative, chronic, and post-surgical MSK care that gets results. SWORD Health has offices in New York City, Chicago, Salt Lake City, Sydney, and Porto. | $40M / Jun 17, 2025 | |
| See all 108 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Shilling VC invest in?
Shilling VC invests primarily in Information Technology, Software and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 108 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Portugal. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Shilling VC's check size?
Shilling VC typically joins rounds of $603k–$5M at Seed, $125k–$3M at Pre-Seed and $5M–$20M 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 Shilling VC participates in.
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Who are the partners at Shilling VC?
The team at Shilling VC includes Pedro Ramalho Carlos (Partner), Ricardo Jacinto (Managing Partner) and Hugo Gonçalves Pereira (Founding Partner), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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