# WISENEXT

> WISENEXT is a VC fund in Lisboa backing Software and SaaS. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lisboa, Portugal
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Oct 2022
- Lead investor: 6%
- Last fund: Jul 2018
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wisenext
- Website: http://wisenext.net

WiseNext is a venture and smart capital investment company. We focus on helping young entrepreneurs with innovative ideas that have an impact on our society, providing capital, knowledge and networking.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $478k–$1.8M |
| Pre-Seed | $100k–$1.1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 18% |
| SaaS | 2 | 12% |
| Internet | 2 | 12% |
| Advertising | 2 | 12% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 12% |

39 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 53% |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 41% |
| Series A | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Portugal | 11 | 65% |
| United States | 2 | 12% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Paulo Santos | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paulo-santos-2 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MindProber | MindProber addresses the shortcomings of consumer neurscience - lack of speed and scale - by providing customers with automated media testing tools.We collect declarative responses and physiological reactions to media content from hundreds of panelists though our proprietary medical grade sensors, and report on the overall and second-to-secondimpact of the material through client-controlled interactive dashboards. | $5.4M | Series A | Oct 11, 2022 |  |
| Volup | Volup is a premium food delivery app that partners exclusively with top-tier chefs and restaurants. |  | Pre-Seed | Apr 15, 2022 |  |
| pleez | pleez is headquartered in Lisboa, Portugal and was founded in 2020.We provide competitors data that restaurants don’t have, machine learning backed recommendations for restaurants to improve their delivery offering (pricing, promos, menu composition..) and AI-powered features, like delivery menu pictures / dish description creation.Withpleez, restaurants have their delivery channels on auto-pilot. Now, they just need to focus on cooking. You cook food. We cook data. | $1.7M | Seed | Apr 01, 2022 |  |
| Relive | Relive is empowering the next generation of real estate entrepreneurs, with a mobile app that allows them to work for themselves, from anywhere, while saving time and earning commissions faster. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Jan 15, 2022 |  |
| Relive | Relive is empowering the next generation of real estate entrepreneurs, with a mobile app that allows them to work for themselves, from anywhere, while saving time and earning commissions faster. |  | Seed | Jan 15, 2022 |  |
| Reckon.ai | Reckon.ai have been working with several retail customers for the last years and they found that the task of competitive analysis in this vertical is still in the early days of what modern technology can do for them. You wouldn’t believe the number of problems and inefficiencies screaming for solutions in the digital age.So they decided to buildReckon, a cloud platform for smart retail product analysis and price comparison that uses powerful machine learning algorithms, data fusion and computer vision to reshape the way retailers get their competitive intelligence data. | $1.8M | Seed | Sep 08, 2021 |  |
| pleez | pleez is headquartered in Lisboa, Portugal and was founded in 2020.We provide competitors data that restaurants don’t have, machine learning backed recommendations for restaurants to improve their delivery offering (pricing, promos, menu composition..) and AI-powered features, like delivery menu pictures / dish description creation.Withpleez, restaurants have their delivery channels on auto-pilot. Now, they just need to focus on cooking. You cook food. We cook data. | $100K | Pre-Seed | Jul 23, 2021 |  |
| Paycritical | Paycritical offers advanced payment gateway technology with tailored white-label solutions for businesses to manage mobile payments. The company's point-of-sale (POS) system integrates QR Codes and a 100% cloud-based billing solution, designed to enhance customer experience and accessibility. | $474.5K | Pre-Seed | Jul 12, 2021 |  |
| Hunter | Hunter offers electric skateboards and builds superior micro-mobility vehicles. They provide skateboards with swappable batteries whose power is concentrated in hub motors and independent suspension systems. |  | Seed | Apr 08, 2021 |  |
| Habit | Habit enables contextual, embedded and affinity insurance journeys based on contextual data and real-time decision on which products or coverages to show. The right product at the right time, through the right channel. |  | Seed | Jan 11, 2021 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Portugal Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/portugal-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [APX](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apxberlin) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Armilar Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/espirito-santo-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Shio Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shio-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [22 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/22-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does WISENEXT invest in?

WISENEXT invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Portugal. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is WISENEXT's check size?

WISENEXT typically joins rounds of $478k–$1.8M at Seed and $100k–$1.1M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds WISENEXT participates in.

### How do I contact WISENEXT?

Public channels for WISENEXT include LinkedIn 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 WISENEXT?

The team at WISENEXT includes Paulo Santos (Co-Founder and Managing Partner). 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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