Bright Pixel Capital
VC Fund
Maia, Portugal
Bright Pixel Capital is a VC fund in Maia focused on Software and Information Technology. Bright Pixel Capital (former Sonae IM) is the technology investment arm of the multinational group Sonae. With special focus on cybersecurity, infrastructure software, retail technologies, business applications and emerging tech, it has a portfolio of more than 60 companies, from early to growth stages. Bright Pixel acts as a partner that bringsspecialized know-how, global footprint, and a wealth of experience in helping companies from early stage to IPO.
- Total investments:
- 128
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 42%
Last updated:
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Industries Bright Pixel Capital invests in
Stages Bright Pixel Capital invests in
Countries Bright Pixel Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.2M–$7.3M
- Series A
- $5.4M–$16M
- Series B
- $5.9M–$35M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 42 (33%)
- Information Technology 25 (20%)
- SaaS 24 (19%)
- Artificial Intelligence 20 (16%)
- Cyber Security 19 (15%)
Stage
- Series A 29 (23%)
- Series B 18 (14%)
- Seed 17 (13%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 11 (9%)
- Series C 7 (5%)
Country
- United States 24 (19%)
- Portugal 18 (14%)
- Israel 9 (7%)
- Spain 6 (5%)
- United Kingdom 5 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Benjamin Junior
Investment Team
|
Investment Team | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Claudia Azevedo
CEO
|
CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Daniela Coutinho
Investment Team
|
Investment Team | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Eduardo Piedade
Managing Partner & CEO
|
Managing Partner & CEO | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
Fernando Martins
Investment Team
|
Investment Team | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
| See all 11 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| The New Brain for Web App Security. It's not a WAF; It's a whole new ecosystem. | $27M / Series A / Sep 02, 2026 | ||
| Cord is a collaborative training data platform with algorithmic features designed to automate manual annotation for computer vision, and make it easy to manage and evaluate training data. The company's suite of powerful tools allows for seamless collaboration across roles and teams, from domain-expert annotators to project managers and machinelearning engineers. | $60M / Series C / Feb 26, 2026 | ||
| Second Nature helps people have better conversations. The company is the first to offer a platform for immersive sales simulations in natural language. By practicing with “Jenny” and other AI-powered conversation partners, sales professionals improve their performance and confidence by gaining real time, personalized feedback. Managers andexecutives use Second Nature to effectively roll out their strategy and influence their teams’ conversations in the field, at scale. The company is based in Tel Aviv and New York. For more information, please visit www.secondnature.ai. | $22M / Series B / Oct 16, 2025 | ||
| The Duel Brand Advocacy Platform enables brands to mobilize and manage entire communities of social affiliates, content creators and micro-influencers to acquire customers and drive revenue at scale. It also measures the true ROI of advocacy and its impact on Social Commerce, in comparison to ads.Committed to working with brands that put peopleand the planet over profit, Duel is Bcorp Certified and breaks a brand’s reliance on digital advertising through its Social Affiliate and Brand Ambassador programs.Founded by world-record breaking adventurer and former brand ambassador, Paul Archer, and viral games developer, Panagiotis Tsarouchis, the Duel team is made up of psychologists, brand experts and community builders from companies including Amazon and Lululemon. The platform is used by brands such as Charlotte Tilbury, Monica Vinader, Mint Velvet, NEOM Organics, ELEMIS and more, with the team having consulted with hundreds of other brands. | $16M / Series A / Sep 23, 2025 | ||
| Tidal Cyber is a cybersecurity company that provides a threat-led defense platform. The platform maps adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures to measure the effectiveness of a security stack. The service helps teams prioritize defenses and reduce security risks by analyzing real-world threat behavior. | $10M / Series A / Sep 03, 2025 | ||
| Brij is a software platform that bridges the offline and online for omnichannel brands. | $8M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 24, 2025 | ||
| FlowForge is an open-source and low-code development platform for integration and automation at enterprise scales, built on Node-RED. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. | $7.3M / Seed / Jun 10, 2025 | ||
| Gitpod is an open-source developer platform automating the provisioning of ready-to-code developer environments. Designed for applications running in the cloud, Gitpod frees engineering teams from the friction of manually setting-up local dev environments, saving dozens of hours and enabling a new level of collaboration to create applicationsmuch more quickly than ever before.Natively integrated with GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket, Gitpod automatically and continuously prebuilds dev environments for all your branches. As a result team members can instantly start coding with fresh dev environments for each new task - no matter if you are building a new feature, want to fix a bug, or work on a code review. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 01, 2025 | ||
| Picnic is a cybersecurity firm that proactively protects people and companies against the biggest threat vector in cyber today: attacks by social engineers. Social engineers are hackers who use public information about you, your family, and your company to craft attacks that include phishing scams, ransomware, impersonation, identity theft,malware, elder fraud, and many others. Picnic proactively finds and removes the information about businesses and people that can be harvested by social engineers. Our technology works automatically, seamlessly, and continuously to protect you, your organization, and also your family. We make you less visible and reduce your attack surface. This is next-generation security—security at the human level.Get in touch to learn more about how we preemptively safeguard enterprises and individual employees from social engineering attacks. | $10M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 22, 2025 | ||
| SEKOIA is the SaaS cybersecurity that analyzes and understands emerging threats. It specialties in cybersecurity, consulting, innovation, RedTeam, BlueTeam, cert, threatintel, sekoia.io, and siem as a service. | $28.5M / Series B / Apr 09, 2025 | ||
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FAQ
What does Bright Pixel Capital invest in?
Bright Pixel Capital invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 128 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Bright Pixel Capital's check size?
Bright Pixel Capital typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$7.3M at Seed, $5.4M–$16M at Series A and $5.9M–$35M 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 Bright Pixel Capital participates in.
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Who are the partners at Bright Pixel Capital?
The team at Bright Pixel Capital includes Benjamin Junior (Investment Team), Claudia Azevedo (CEO) and Daniela Coutinho (Investment Team), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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