Top 5 Retail Startup Investors in Portugal

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 5 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Retail startups based in Portugal. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Retail companies from Portugal. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Retail Startup Investors in Portugal

Investor	Retail Portugal investments
REDangels	2
Seaya	1
EDP Ventures	1
LeadX Capital Partners	1
Bright Pixel	1

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They believe the unbelievable and trust the untrustable.

Investment focus

Internet of Things, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Portugal, Poland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

HypeLabs — HypeLabs is the company that created the Hype SDK, an interoperable mesh networking software that improves connectivity on all kinds of devices, from mobile to desktop to IoT, allowing them to connect even when there is no internet. The software works by intelligently connecting devices in local mesh networks using existing connectivitytechnologies, such as Bluetooth, WiFi, LoRa and others. This network enables content to securely hop between devices, until it reaches a destination or an Internet exit point, improving range and deliverability.Founded in 2016, the company is located in San Francisco (USA), Porto (Portugal), London (UK) and Krakow (Poland). AngelPad #10 (Spring '16) alumni & Deutsche Telekom WARP alumni.
Musiversal — Record your music in real time with world-class session musicians, vocalists, producers and audio engineers
Sensefinity — Sensefinity The Blockchain IoT Transformation Company Building the Internet of Cargo Where Assets autonomously connect to processes

Seaya Ventures is a Spanish venture fund investing in early and growth-stage Internet and technology-enabled companies in Spain and Latin America. The firm seeks to transform early and growth-stage companies into category leaders, with a focus on innovative businesses that require growth or expansion capital and can build lasting value.Itsinvestments are focused on products and services that facilitate the migration to a digital world such as digital marketplaces, consumer and internet media, consumer and mobile media, enterprise, and consumer software and services, and Payment: Internet and Mobile.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
Spain, France, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Fracttal — Fracttal offers intelligent maintenance and asset management software (CMMS/GMAO/EAM), that is 100% mobile and cloud-based. These tools allow companies to manage their maintenance in a more sustainable, secure, and efficient way that guarantees the integrity and continuity of their operations, as well as the safety of workers.Demonstrated improvements include reducing asset failures by over 25%, improving maintenance costs by at least 15% and increasing productivity by more than 35%, while also reducing accidents and operational risks. Fracttal, which counts companies such Acciona, Unilever, Iberostar, Veolia and FedEx, among its almost 1000 customers, directs its solutions to large multinationals and SMEs in various industry sectors, including manufacturing, facility management, energy, and transport in which it already has a significant presence.With its main solution, Fracttal One, companies can remotely manage all maintenance operations from any device and for any type of asset, including equipment, vehicles, machinery, and facilities. This intelligent tool, a leader in several of the world's most prestigious rankings, facilitates real-time collaborative work between different work teams and integrates with any ERP. Fracttal One improves decision making, maximizes efficiency and extends the useful life of physical assets, while reducing incidents and unplanned downtime that can lead to delays, lost profitability, and accidents. Fracttal has also developed Predictto, an AI enabled predictive maintenance solution that allows companies to anticipate failure conditions with a high percentage of certainty. To do so, Predictto applies Machine Learning to bigdata, identifying the behavior of assets based on proprietary reliability and degradation models.
Piper — Piper is a next-gen sales productivity and intelligence solution that puts AI to work for both sales reps and sales managers.Through its advanced interpretation of sales conversations from video calls, emails and audio notes, Piper automatically populates deal-related fields in the CRM, freeing up sales capacity and ensuring unbiased, highquality data.Piper further lightens the daily workload of salespeople by assisting through every stage of the client engagement: enhancing meeting prep, drafting follow-up emails, scheduling the next call, and more.For sales reps, Piper is a game-changer, letting them focus on selling without the admin drag. For sales directors and revenue ops, Piper provides top-notch data insights into the sales pipeline, enhancing sales forecasting and data-driven decision-making.
NX Technologies — NX Technologies develops technologies for the energy sector.

EDP Ventures is the venture capital arm of EDP. We invest in early-stage startups working in the energy space

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Energy
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Portugal, Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

77 Sol — 77 Sol is a solar energy technology company. 77 Sol offers technology, equipment, financing, and solar energy professionals. They deliver to our integrators, installers, engineers, and partner resellers a digital distributor in the form of software as a service for photovoltaic equipment.
APLANET — Aplanet provides the most complete software tools for CSR and sustainability professionals to manage their day-to-day. Their mission is to bring social responsibility to the forefront of business objectives by empowering organizations with the tools to manage, measure, and showcase their impact.
Mixergy — The Mixergy Tank - heat what you need, live better, save money, and reduce your impact on the environment. Market leaders in hot water tank innovation and in the decarbonisation of heating hot water in the home.

Driving digital transformation of consumer industries. As a leading growth capital investor, we combine deep investment experience with commercial reach.

Investment focus

Restaurants, SaaS, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Germany, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Motatos — Motatos is an online retail store that offers a wide variety of food, beverages, and household products to customers.
Matsmart — Matsmart sells surplus food online. A major part of the food would otherwise be thrown away due to packaging changes, short or expired expiry dates or other reasons. During 2017, Matsmart saved 2022 tonnes of food from going to waste. The company has seen explosive growth, reaching recurring revenues of SEK 200 million. Matsmart was founded by KarlAndersson, Erik Södergren and Ulf Skagerström, and launched in Sweden in 2014. Since then, the company has also expanded to Norway and Finland. Long live the food!
Sensei — We are the leading European provider of autonomous stores, with an AI-powered solution to build efficient operations and deliver a seamless shopping experience.

Sonae IM is the corporate venturing arm of Sonae (retail and telco group), which is focused on investing in tech-based companies. The company invests in a broad range of companies related to Sonae's core, joining funding with a strategic profile.With a flexible investment style and approach, Sonae IM leverages on its technology expertise,brand capital, and access to a global network. The company supports companies to achieve success with an internal pool of experts, which supports portfolio management.Sonae has been developing different corporate venturing initiatives for long, namely revenue assurance leader WeDo (2001) and Mainroad spin-off (2003) and subsequent successful exit (2014). Moreover, after deciding that Cyber security was an interesting area, it invested in Spanish cyber security company s21sec (2014). Another critical space for retailers, location analytics, led to the investment in Movvo (2014).Since the official launch of Sonae IM in late 2015, the company invested in InovRetail (demand forecasting for retailers), StyleSage (fashion tech predictive analytics) and Sysvalue (cyber security add on for s21sec). Additionally, Sonae IM got involved in the acquisition of Novo Banco's stakes in 3 funds managed by ES Ventures and launched Bright Pixel (company builder studio). Sonae IM was officially founded in 2015, but corporate venturing initiatives within Sonae are in Sonae's DNA for longer and led to what Sonae IM is today. The company is based in Porto, Portugal.