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Top 50 SaaS Angel Investors in Portugal in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Saas startups based in Portugal. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Saas companies from Portugal. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 SaaS Angel Investors in Portugal in January 2026

Investor	SaaS Portugal investments
Ideias Glaciares	4
Ryan Petersen	2
Arthur Hayes	2
Raymond Tonsing	1
Larry Fitzgerald	1
Stephen Curry	1
Carlos Brazão	1
Rui Pereira	1
Pedro Aguiar	1
Niall Curran	1
Sachin Duggal	1
Dennis Liu	1
Simon Brandhof	1
Tim Vieira	1
Henrique Castro	1
Sandeep Nailwal	1
Jon Soberg	1
Chris Paul	1
Dominique Locher	1
Rui Ferreira	1
Crypto Dog	1
Alex Vassiliev	1
António Félix da Costa	1
Adeyemi Ajao	1
Jayson Tatum	1
Young Guo	1
Philippe Laffont	1
Dawn Hudson	1
Rohit Gupta	1
Gabby Dizon	1
Alex Morgan	1
Serena Williams	1
Stephen Nash	1
Rob Emrich	1
David Peterson	1
Errol Damelin	1
Charlie Songhurst	1
Roger Dickey	1
Lawrence Chu	1
Roy Bhasin	1
Carlos Oliveira	1
Alex Lieberman	1
Fernando Reani	1
Philip Reisberger	1
Alain Fiocco	1
Andrés Alcalá	1
Kelvin Beachum Jr.	1
Florian Heinemann	1
Kevin Rose	1
Kirk Posmantur	1

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Ideias Glaciares

Investment focus

Wellness, SaaS, Mobile Apps
Pre-Seed, Seed
Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

Replai — Without data, creative choices are just guesswork. Replai helps you understand the difference between a creative that your audience acts on and one that is just another scroll.
sheerME — SheerME is Revolutionising the way people find, book, and pay for their Wellness and Beauty services powered by a benefit-based walletOur approach is based on Discovery, Transaction & Reward to create more online visibility, reach, conversion into new business, loyalty, and frequency through our wallet and cashback ecosystem, to all ourpartners in the beauty and wellness sectors.This made us a fresh and different option in this sector where there are mainly SaaS players, and we bring marketplace with no monthly fee, only a commission for business sent through our owned and partner channels.
MIGHTY — MIGHTY is a maker of healthy food fridges for the workplace. Their healthy food fridges use a software platform that organizes and coordinates logistics with local storage and distribution partners.

Ryan Petersen is the CEO and Founder of Flexport. Prior to starting Flexport to fix the user experience in global trade, Ryan was co-founder and CEO of ImportGenius.com, a data-as-a-service business for global shipping. He holds a degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia University.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Nuvo — The only onboarding platform with native fraud prevention and automated credit risk assessment from a portfolio of credit risk insights.
Teleport — Teleport is ridesharing reimagined as a protocol. By distributing ownership and governance of the network, riders get cars cheaper and faster, drivers earn more, and entrepreneurs can innovate on top.
Little Umbrella — Future is Fun with Social & AI Games. At Little Umbrella, we create AI-powered games that deliver immersive experiences, bringing families, friends, and communities closer together. Proudly serving a growing community of over 30 million players

Arthur Hayes is based out of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island and is the Advisor of Upexi. Arthur previously worked at BitMEX as a CEO. Arthur Hayes attended the University of Pennsylvania.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Oyl — The happiest place on Bitcoin
BSX — BSX is a trading company that offers specializes in options and perpetual futures trading.
JUICE Finance — Juice Finance empowers you to maximize your yield on Blast by using your Blast ETH as collateral to access 300% USDB and ETH leverage to deploy throughout the Blast ecosystem

Raymond Tonsing is a San Francisco based venture capitalist and entrepreneur. He founded Caffeinated Capital, an early stage venture capital firm, and now serves as its managing director. Raymond holds a bachelor's degree in Arts from University of Colorado Boulder.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Polywork — Launch an AI-powered personal website to showcase your work, grow your personal brand, or start your side hustle.
Nuvocargo — Nuvocargo is your all-in-one digital platform for cross border trade between the US and Mexico. Book your shipments now
Varda — Expanding the economic bounds of humankind with the world's first orbital manufacturing & reentry platform.

Larry Fitzgerald is an American football wide receiver for the Arizona Cardinals of the NFL. Larry played college football at Pittsburgh, where he earned unanimous All-America honors. He was drafted by the Cardinals third overall in the 2004 NFL Draft.He is second in NFL career receiving yards, second in career receptions, and sixth in receivingtouchdowns.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Sports, FinTech
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Brazil, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Toma — Toma automates customer communications and operational tasks, helping dealerships boost revenue and enhance customer experiences with a conversational AI.
Whoosh — Modern golf operations software for private golf clubs that streamlines your workflows to improve member experiences and reduce revenue loss.
Crimson Education — Crimson Education is the world's leading higher educational consultancy helping students around the world gain admission into leading US and UK universities by up to 400%!

Stephen Curry currently works as the Founder and Partner at Unanimous Media. He previously worked at Slyce.io as co-founder. Stephen Curry attended Davidson College in 2006.

Investment focus

Mobile, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
Series A, Series C, Series B
United States, Canada, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Step — Step is a financial services company that builds mobile-based banking for teenagers. It helps teens and young adults achieve financial independence and knowledge at an earlier age. The company's mission is to create a bank that gives its users the tools to become smarter with their money and reward them along their financial journey.It wasfounded in 2018 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
Super.com — Through rich rewards and everyday savings, Super helps you access more of what you want at better prices, escape overspending, and level up life.
TMRW Sports — TMRW Sports is harnessing technology to build modern approaches to sports, media, and entertainment.

Carlos Brazão

Investment focus

Cloud Storage
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Vawlt — Simplify your company's transition to the cloud, improve security standards, and optimize storage resource usage.

Rui Pereira is a co-founder and Vice President at OutSystems. Currently runs Professional Services, Technical Support and the IT groups. Before starting OutSystems, Pereira was a partner at WeDo Consulting, worked in various positions at Oracle in the US and Europe and Unilever. Has studied Computer Science, Business Management and Marketing.

Investment focus

iOS, Gaming, Android
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Volt Games — Volt Games primarily focuses on crafting mobile games for android and ios.

Pedro Aguiar is an individual investor

Investment focus

Marketing Automation, Predictive Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Full Venue — Attract top-tier customers on a smaller budget,increase retention, and push every order's value higher with our Al solution.

Niall Curran is the Chairman at COPA90.

Investment focus

iOS, Gaming, Android
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Volt Games — Volt Games primarily focuses on crafting mobile games for android and ios.

Sachin Dev Duggal is based out of London, England. Sachin Dev Duggal served as a CEO of Builder.ai . Sachin previously worked as Co-founder & Chief Wizard at Shoto. Sachin Dev Duggal attended the Imperial College London.

Investment focus

Fitness, Database, Wellness
Seed, Pre-Seed
Portugal, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Shoto — Shoto is an app available for iOS and Android that lets you find the unseen photos that you and your friends have collected from the moments you shared together.Shoto automatically finds all the photos that you and your friends have taken together at the same time and place, and privately organizes them together into meaningful albums withoutany of the nagging or chasing that takes place today when you try to collect photos from your “smartphone” friends.
CASAFARI — CASAFARI brings transparency to chaotic property markets by building a clean and complete real estate database. The company's proprietary technology allows agents to collect, clean, match duplicates, and evaluate every property coming to the market and to source the best investment opportunities in real-time.
WONE (Walking on Earth) — WONE is the resilience coach that empowers teams to perform at their peak every day.

Dennis Liu is a content producer at VirtualBacon.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Gaming, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Portugal, United States, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Kuvi.ai — Chat, Query and Trade with ease. Pioneering crypto AFOS (Agentic Finance OS) where everyone gets to have their very own AI assistant.
ZAP — ZAP offers a reputation-based token distribution protocol that supports fair rewards for user contributions within the Blast ecosystem. It enables users to participate in various projects through missions and seamless investment options. Additionally, ZAP is expanding its services to other blockchains and developing tools to simplify access toventure-capital-backed projects.
Avalon — Avalon is an Orlando, Florida-based platform to create games and virtual experiences.

Simon Brandhof is an Associate at Time for the Planet.

Investment focus

SaaS, Developer Tools
Pre-Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Reviewpad — We help developers push their code changes faster and safely.Code reviews are a crucial communication mechanism between developers. Reviewpad’s platform combines multiple artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, including integration with ChatGPT to summarise and review pull requests. The platform leaves only essential tasks to thedevelopers, reducing the merge time of code changes by 50 percent.

Tim Vieira - Investor, Advisor @ Lapa Studio

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology
Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Lapa Studio —
Portal da Queixa —
OurSupport — OurSupport is an online platform that connects individuals or businesses seeking IT support with local IT support professionals. The platform streamlines the connection between companies or users of technological devices in need of IT support and nearby IT experts, facilitating on-site assistance or at very minimum remote support from a local I.Tsupport person that speaks the same language and same cultures. Currently, our platform serves large multinational companies, whereby OurSupport simplifies the traditional approach to seeking IT support individuals or companies by eliminating time-consuming processes and searches for local IT companies, negotiations of contracts, and discrepancies in payment terms and operating formats.OurSupport enables a unique simplified global agreement, allowing our clients to access IT support worldwide. The focus is on computer and technological device users, addressing the current challenge of global coverage for local support for businesses.OurSupport empowers businesses of all sizes and users to expand operations without worries about depending own technology, by ensuring fast remote or on-site IT assistance in the current era of remote work and technology dependence.

Previously, Henrique served as Chief Operating Officer of Yahoo! Inc. Additionally, he was elected to join the Board of Directors for Minneapolis-based retailer, Target Corp. on March 13, 2013. Henrique is a senior executive with 20+ years experience in leading companies such as Google, Dell and McKinsey, building, scaling and managing businessglobally.He is recognized by his knowledge of the Media, Internet, Telco/Tech, Retail, Consumer industries and has extensive experience as CEO/GM, CRO, Head of Strategy and Business Development, Sales & Marketing and Operations Lead.Henrique was formerly Google's President of Media, Mobile and Platforms Worldwide with full responsibility $5bn+ full P&L of Google's TV Ads, YouTube Ads, Google Display Network, Mobile Ads, AdMob, AdExchange and DoubleClick business globally. He built and scaled the Display, Mobile and Platforms Business from scratch to turn them it into #1 digital business globally with multi-billion dollar revenue and 2000+ people. In this position he lead the team to launch operations in 40+ countries, hired 1000+ people, acquired and integrated Googleâ€™s two largest acquisitions.Prior to this position Henrique lead European Sales & Media Solutions and Sales Operations for Google Europe.Before Google, Henrique was Sales & Business Development Director for Dell Western Europe Region where he managed sales and operations across 9 countries for all B2B businesses with revenues of $2+bn and 30%+ growth.Early in career Henrique worked for ABB- Asea Brown Boveri in Corporate/Project Finance and in the Private Equity.Henrique holds a MBA from IMD and MSc in Economics/Business Administration from ISEG. He is fluent in English, Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese.Henrique is also a Board Director of the IAB - Interactive Advertising Bureau – The as industry association, that comprises 500+ leading media and technology companies, to set the agenda to educate marketeers, agencies, media companies and regulators on Interactive Advertising.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, B2B
Seed
Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

Do — Do offers a platform that works as one place for all the notes, presentations, docs, and all other collateral to live together. The company gives the user the tools to frame the discussion, ensure things get done, and make decisions clear.
Codacy — Codacy is an automated code review tool that helps developers to save time in code reviews and to tackle technical debt efficiently. Developers spend 10%-20% of their time reviewing code. Gartner estimates the global technical debt to grow to $1 Trillion by 2015. Codacy tracks new issues by severity level for every commit and pull requestand allows a hassle free customization of static analysis It provides advanced code metrics on the health of a project and on the performance of teams.

Sandeep Nailwal is the co-founder and COO of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as the Co-Founder and CEO. He attended the Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Defx — Defx is a non-custodial perps venue. We're built on Arbitrum, and will be coming to Solana very soon.
Veda — Veda is the largest vault infrastructure platform in DeFi, enabling institutions to launch and manage onchain financial products at scale.
RISE Chain — RISE is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain designed to redefine blockchain performance by delivering near-instant transaction confirmations at unprecedented scale, all while upholding Ethereum’s foundational principle of decentralization

Jon Soberg joined MS&AD Ventures as Managing Partner in 2018.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Germany, Israel

Portfolio highlights

CASAFARI — CASAFARI brings transparency to chaotic property markets by building a clean and complete real estate database. The company's proprietary technology allows agents to collect, clean, match duplicates, and evaluate every property coming to the market and to source the best investment opportunities in real-time.
HMBradley — Important information about the future of HMBradley
Carro — Unlock a new sales channel and let Carro uncover the perfect brand partners on Shopify. Carro enables top brands on Shopify to sell each others products through cross-store selling.

Christopher Emmanuel Paul is an American professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Sports, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, France, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Scout - Make Money Moves — Scout is the financial wellness platform for student athletes in the new NIL era. We empower athletes to make better financial decisions with live financial education sessions and personalized, tech-enabled service.
Buoy — Zero sugar liquid electrolytes and ionic trace minerals that blend with any beverage, even alcohol and coffee. No sugar, no stevia, no dextrose, no flavorings and no artificial ingredients. Gluten and major allergen free. Vegan and non-GMO.
Umaro Foods — Umaro Foods specializes in developing a plant-based protein source from ocean-farmed seaweed.

Dominique Locher

Investment focus

SaaS, Rental, Social
Seed, Pre-Seed
Portugal, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Sharely — Sharely is the rental and rental platform for everyday objects.
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.
Quantia — A powerful and easy to use analytics platform for tracking, analyzing and understanding the performance of your brand in the ecommerce world.

Rui Ferreira

Investment focus

Mobile, Internet, Nutrition
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Nutrium — Nutrium is the most up-to-date nutrition software for dietitians and nutritionists to manage their nutrition business with nutritional assessment, meal planning and progress tracking.
YouClap — YouClap is changing the way people engage with each other through challenges. Millennials and Gen Zers keep consuming more online content, with mobile video as king, but what if viewers could be something more? Not just passive content watchers but active participants. This is what's happening with online challenges but, in spite of theirpopularity, major social media platforms weren't built with challenges in mind, lacking dedicated features. This is where YouClap comes in, as a balanced interactive playground for content.

The Crypto Dog is an angle investor.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Bitcoin
Seed, Funding Round
United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Botanix Labs — Botanix Labs is a fully Ethereum-equivalent second-layer virtual machine built on top of Bitcoin. It unites Bitcoin's market cap with Ethereum's dApp ecosystem to meet its diverse applications, igniting a new frontier.
Nametag — Nametag is a digital collector lens to search the internet for collectors, view their NFTs and Nokens, and badges.
Pichi Finance — Pichi Finance Points are typically stored off-chain and linked to wallet addresses, limiting their tradability on the open market.

Alex Vassiliev is a Founder and CEO at Elixir Fine Foods.

Investment focus

Apps, Baby, EdTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bairro — Produtos em minutos
Buddy.ai — Buddy lets children practice spoken English by talking with a virtual AI-powered cartoon character in a mobile app. With its engaging virtual character, speech technology, and adaptive learning, Buddy is making speaking practice affordable for 500 million children around the globe by automating the mundane part of tutoring work at a fraction ofthe cost. This enables teachers and parents to give kids unlimited speaking practice, essential for mastering English.
Elixir Fine Foods — Elixir Fine Foods is an innovative startup company bringing the highest quality European products to China, using the power of social commerce.Flagship brand in Elixir's portfolio is Healthy Eva - baby food brand with products in different categories including fruit, vegetable, meat and fish purees, baby biscuits, baby porridges etcdistributed through e-commerce and social commerce in China, including e-commerce platforms like Tmall Global or live-streaming serices such as Taobao Live, Kuaishou etc.

António Félix da Costa

Investment focus

Sports, Marketplace, Augmented Reality
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

MyLADS — MyLADS is a startup that loves fan engagement and sports! To accomplish this goal MyLADS created an engagement tool, where football fans, through an app, get to be part of their favorite football team family. MyLADS stands out because it offers exclusive and unique experiences to the fans, bringing them closer to their club and players, narrowingdown the existing gap. Our lucky users will get access to this money can’t buy experiences and official clubs collectibles patented, the LADS Collectibles.
Exclusible — Step into the future with Exclusible. Explore how we're driving innovation in the Metaverse, Roblox, and Fortnite, helping brands create impactful digital experiences.

Adeyemi (“Ade”) is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Base10 Partners. Before Base10, Ade had a successful career as an entrepreneur and investor.Ade was the co-founder and CEO of Tuenti (The “Spanish Facebook” which was acquired by Telefonica in 2010 for $100M), co-founder and CEO of Identified (“AI for HR” acquired by Workday in 2014) and afounding investor of Cabify (the largest ridesharing company in Latin America currently valued at over $1B). While at Workday, Ade led launch to Workday Ventures, the first fund focused on Applied AI for Enterprise Software and was VP of Technology Strategy.Ade is originally from Spain and half Nigerian. He holds an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He also holds a J.D. in Law and a M.S in Economics from Icade University in Spain and studied a certificate on Machine Learning at Stanford.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Spain, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Dropbox DocSend — Try our secure document sharing platform for free. Instantly know when documents are opened & what pages are read. Easy-to-use eSignatures.
StockGro — Get expert stock market insights from SEBI-Registered Analysts on StockGro. Make informed investments with trusted advice. Join Today!
Job&Talent — Jobandtalent is an on-demand staffing marketplace that aims to make the labor market much more liquid and transparent, helping companies to hire in a more flexible way and with the mission of being part of the reduction of unemployment in the world. The labor market has evolved from a very structured state into an extremely flexible one. Companiesare demanding flexibility which has resulted in the growth of liquidity in the market. However, the flexible state of the labor market is also leaving the workers in a vulnerable and unprotected employment situation. Jobandtalent has created a Workforce as a Service (WaaS) platform in order to make this labor flexibility beneficial for both companies and workers alike.The company has offices in the UK, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Mexico, and Colombia, and has plans for further expansion to France and Italy by the end of the year.

Jayson Tatum

Investment focus

Sports, Information Technology, Fitness
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
Canada, Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

TMRW Sports — TMRW Sports is harnessing technology to build modern approaches to sports, media, and entertainment.
TheProgram.ai — Gamifying Wellness For Your Community Engage your community with Wellnify.ai, the all-in-one white-label wellness solution that uses the power of gamification and the science of behaviour change to foster healthier, happier communities. Engage your workforce, students, fans, athletes, or the general public effortlessly. Request Demo View Pricing (Coming Soon) Drag Why Choose Wellnify? Wellnify leverages
League One Volleyball — The largest community of youth volleyball clubs with its professional league launching in January 2025, League One Volleyball (LOVB) is re-imagining the future of volleyball.

Prior to joining IDG Capital, Young was a member of the Soros Fund Management in New York from 1996 to 1999, where he was involved in managing a $3 billion private equity fund. In 1996, Young worked for Salomon Brothers in New York, where he participated in securities trading. He worked at W.R. Grace & Co. in Maryland from 1990 to 1995, wherehe led product development and was granted five U.S. patents. Young holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, a Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and a B.S. in Applied Chemistry from Shanghai Jiaotong University.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, B2B
Seed, Series A
United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Pony.ai — Pony.ai is a startup that builds full-stack autonomous driving solutions. It is a pioneer in autonomous mobility technologies and services across the US and China, spearheading public-facing Robotaxi pilots in both markets. Pony.ai is committed to creating a safe and sustainable mobility future by delivering autonomous mobility everywhere.Thecompany was founded by James Peng and Tiancheng Lou in 2016 and is headquartered in Fremont, California, United States.
Unbabel — Unbabel offers multilingual translation services in more than 30 languages to enhance your customer service experiences. Learn more about our language operation solutions!
uSens — 26DOF Hand Tracking and 6DOF SLAM solutions that is changing how we interact with technology, and bring augmented, virtual and mixed reality experiences to life.

Philippe Laffont is the founder and portfolio manager of Coatue Management. Mr. Laffont graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991 with a B.S. and M.Sc. in Computer Science. He worked as an analyst in management consulting for McKinsey & Co. from 1992 to 1994 in Madrid, Spain. After working as an independent consultant forseveral years, Mr. Laffont joined Tiger Management LLC as a research analyst in 1996. He focused on telecommunications stocks while at Tiger until he left to found Coatue in 1999.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series A, Series D, Series F
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Suade — Technology to prevent the next financial crisis
TMRW Sports — TMRW Sports is harnessing technology to build modern approaches to sports, media, and entertainment.
CommonStock — Commonstock is a social network that amplifies the knowledge of the best investors, verified by actual track records for signal over noise.

Dawn Hudson is the Executive Vice President of the National Football League - (NFL) and a Consultant at NVIDIA. Dawn Hudson has served as Chief Marketing Officer for the National Football League since October 2014.Previously, she served from 2009 to 2014 as vice chairman of The Parthenon Group, an advisory firm focused on strategy consulting. Shewas president and chief executive officer of Pepsi-Cola North America, the beverage division of PepsiCo, Inc. for the U.S. and Canada, from 2005 to 2007 and president from 2002, and simultaneously served as chief executive officer of the foodservice division of PepsiCo, Inc. from 2005 to 2007.Previously, she spent 13 years in marketing, advertising and branding strategy, holding leadership positions at major agencies, such as D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles and Omnicom. She currently serves on the boards of directors of The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc., an advertising holding company, and Amplify Snack Brands, Inc., a snack food company.She was a director of P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, Inc., a restaurant chain, until 2012, of Allergan, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, until 2014, and of Lowes Companies, Inc., a home-improvement retailer, until May 2015.She holds a BA degree from Dartmouth College. She joined the NVIDIA board in July 2013.

Investment focus

Sports, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
Funding Round
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

TMRW Sports — TMRW Sports is harnessing technology to build modern approaches to sports, media, and entertainment.

Partner at SterlingVC - early stage VC fund backed by Sterling Equities, focused on sports, media and real estate tech investments. Founder of Bollyshake, building the nex-gen entertainment platform for Indian millennials, currently focused on user generated dancing videos. PreviouslyDirector at High Line Venture Partners - early stagefund based in NYC with notable investments in Pinterest, Vine, Makerbot, Refinery29 and numerous others. Previously at RBS having built out the Cross Asset Structuringstructuring group which delivered innovative cross asset solutions covering exotic derivatives across interest rates, inflation, foreign exchange, equities and hybrids to institutional clients.

Investment focus

Sports, eSports, Internet
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

FanAI — FanAI is an AI-driven Audience Monetization platform focusing first on esports, and their sponsor ecosystems, increasing franchise and sponsorship revenues by making their audience data actionable.
TMRW Sports — TMRW Sports is harnessing technology to build modern approaches to sports, media, and entertainment.

Gabby Dizon is the Chairman and co-founder of Alto.io, a Singapore-based game platform that connects games to the blockchain. He helped pioneer the Philippine game industry as part of the team that released the first Filipino-made game in 2003. Gabby is also CEO of game developer Altitude Games and former President of the Game DevelopersAssociation of the Philippines. Gabby helps champion the game development industry in Southeast Asia and is an active member of the Philippine startup community.

Investment focus

Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Hong Kong, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Moku — Worshipping a mischievous Moki with big balls and a small brain. 8887 NFTs, 900+ traits, 3 epic games.
Sapien — Sapien offers Data Labelling Services with RLHF to fine-tune your LLMs potential. Improve model performance with better data to improve outcomes. Consult us now!
Clout Kitchen — Clout Kitchen is THE Virality Engine for brands and creators, designing data-driven viral campaigns with distribution marketing.

Alexandra Patricia Morgan Carrasco is an American soccer player, Olympic gold medalist, and FIFA Women's World Cup champion. She is a forward for Orlando Pride in the National Women's Soccer League and the United States national team.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Sports
Seed, Series B, Series A
United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Soccer Post — Now fully stocked with the latest 2022 FIFA World Cup Jerseys! Shop soccer balls, goalkeeper gloves, jerseys, cleats & more online or in store today. America's largest soccer store staffed by the Soccer Experts.
TMRW Sports — TMRW Sports is harnessing technology to build modern approaches to sports, media, and entertainment.
Nourish — Achieve your desired health and wellness through personalized nutrition counseling. Nourish is the easiest way to find a registered dietitian and get it covered by your insurance. Find a dietitian today and start your telehealth appointments.

Serena Williams is an American professional tennis player who is currently ranked No. 1 in women's singles tennis. The Women's Tennis Association has ranked her World No. 1 in singles on six separate occasions. Widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time, she became the World No. 1 for the first time on July 8, 2002,and regained this ranking for the sixth time on February 18, 2013, becoming the oldest world no. 1 player in WTA's history. Williams is also the reigning French Open, US Open, WTA Tour Championships and Olympic ladies singles champion.In 2008 Williams helped to fund the construction of the Serena Williams Secondary School in Matooni, Kenya. She received a Celebrity Role Model Award from Avon Foundation in 2003 for work in breast cancer. Williams has also been involved in a number of clinics at schools and community centers, particularly those which have programs focusing on at-risk youth; she has also won the "Young Heroes Award" from Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater L.A. and Inland (2003) and the "Family Circle and Prudential Financial Player Who Makes a Difference Award" (2004). In response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Williams, along with other ATP and WTA stars decided to forgo their final day of preparation for the 2010 Australian Open to form a charity event in which all proceeds will go to the Haiti earthquake victims.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Shares — Shares is a social investment platform that gives everyone access to the stock market and improves the investment experience.
TMRW Sports — TMRW Sports is harnessing technology to build modern approaches to sports, media, and entertainment.
Lifeforce — Lifeforce operates as a clinically integrated health optimization platform.

Stephen John "Steve" Nash, OC, OBC is a Canadian-British retired professional basketball player who formerly played for the Dallas Mavericks, Phoenix Suns, and Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association.

Investment focus

Sports, Basketball, Apps
Seed, Funding Round
Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

TMRW Sports — TMRW Sports is harnessing technology to build modern approaches to sports, media, and entertainment.
Unrivaled — A 3v3 league built in collaboration with the biggest stars in women's basketball, co-founded by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart. Launching in January 2025.
HomeCourt — HomeCourt is a mobile app that uses AI to record and track basketball shots, makes, misses, and location.

Rob Emrich - Founder & CEO @ The Mobile Majority

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Unbabel — Unbabel offers multilingual translation services in more than 30 languages to enhance your customer service experiences. Learn more about our language operation solutions!
MotionSavvy — MotionSavvy is developing a translation tool for the Deaf and Hard of hearing by working with gesture recognition technology Leap Motion along with various mobile devices which targets sign language users for improved accessibility. Our goal is the 370 million deaf and hard of hearing market worldwide with a cost affordable product against currentcompetitors.
CoolChip Technologies — CoolChip Technologies, Inc. | 422 followers on LinkedIn. CoolChip Technologies, Inc. is the worldwide leader in Kinetic CoolingTM, a new product category based on disruptive technology that is transforming the electronics cooling industry. Solutions Powered by Kinetic CoolingTM offer unprecedented performance across acoustics, form factor, and cooling. By partnering with CoolChip, consumer electronics and enterprise manufacturers have the opportunity to unleash innovation and deliver next-generation products for their customers.

David Peterson

Investment focus

Internet, Software, B2B
Seed, Series B
India, Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

OSlash - Text Expander and Keyboard Shortcuts — Transform long URLs into memorable shortcuts. Make information easy to access, find, & share with others in an instant with a complete URL management solution
Commsor — Commsor is the world's only full-stack company, providing Community-Led companies with the software, resources, and education to unlock the full power of community.
Unbabel — Unbabel offers multilingual translation services in more than 30 languages to enhance your customer service experiences. Learn more about our language operation solutions!

Errol Damelin is the Founder, CEO, chairman, or original investor and backer of over 75 digital and tech companies around the world, including in the US, the UK, most of Europe, Israel, Indonesia, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, and Nigeria. He concentrates his efforts on SaaS, fintech, crypto, marketplaces and data analytics as well as on health andwellness. He is also a technologist and has three granted patents to his name with another four pending.Among the companies co-founded by Damelin are groundbreaking fintech company Wonga, and SME banking startup Tide. His early investments include Wise, Cazoo, Purplebricks, K Health, YuLife, Sure, Demyst, Zoe, Farewill, CityMapper, Modifi, UnBabel, Thimble, HiBob, Modifi, Elliptic, Lendingkart, and VivaReal. Using his own personal equity, Damelin continues to invest early on in the next generation of entrepreneurs so that he can help them succeed. He is not an institutional VC fund and does not maximize the assets under his management. He best describes his approach as Riding Shotgun.Damelin's success as a founder has been recognized by The Guardian, which named him Digital Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011; by Ernst and Young, which named him the UK's Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011 as well; and by TechCrunch, which named him Founder of the Year in 2010.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Zelt — Manage everything from HRIS, payroll, pension, devices, apps and more seamlessly in one central hub, for all processes and applications, third-party included. Improve productivity through enhanced employee experience.
Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
Ritual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback

Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Granola — Granola takes your raw meeting notes and makes them awesome. No awkward meeting bots - just beautiful notes for you and your team, every single time.
Dex — Dex is a SaaS company that offers an AI assistant to act as user's personal talent agent and scan the tech market for next opportunity.
Grouphug — Generates memes from the archive of group WhatsApp chats

Roger Dickey is the Co-Founder & CEO of Made Renovation. He previously worked at Gigster as a Co-Founder & CEO. Roger Dickey attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Canada, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

SearchEye — Get tech-driven SEO at scale, speed and a fraction of the cost compared to traditional agencies. Acquire PR Mentions, Digital PR and Content.
Double — Double is a software platform that helps users to build, automate, and analyze investment portfolio for retail investors.
Craftwork — Craftwork is a modern general contracting company that uses technology to simplify repair and renovation projects for homeowners.

Lawrence Chu - Partner and Leader of West Coast Tech M&A Practice @ Goodwin Procter

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Portugal, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

TheyDo — Customer journey management: organize your business around the customer journey. Manage insights, journeys, opportunities and solutions in one place. Try now!
Jerry — Jerry simplifies the expensive, frustrating, and time-consuming aspects of car ownership.
Folden Lane — Affordable luxury. Durable storage baskets that add to the beauty and personality of your space, and save up to 80% on carbon emissions.

Zeneca is a Writer, collector,Trader and Angel Investor

Investment focus

Gaming, Finance, Web Apps
Seed, Funding Round
Canada, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

nftperp — First perpetual futures dex for NFTs
GAM3S.GG — The future of gaming offering game discovery, reviews, guides, news & quests for a full experience across Steam, PlayStation, Epic Games, Xbox, Nintendo and web3.
Anomaly — Anomaly is an AI-enabled gaming app chain that focuses on gaming and layer 3 blockchain innovation.

Carlos Oliveira

Investment focus

Sensor, Software, Wind Energy
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Fibersail — Fibersail redefines the knowledge on wind farms, through a reliable and cost-efficient shape sensor able to monitor each deflection.

Alex Lieberman is an Executive Chairman at Morning Brew. He attended the University of Michigan Ross School of Business.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Gift
Seed, Funding Round
United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

beehiiv — Access the best tools available in email, helping your newsletter scale and monetize like never before.
TMRW Sports — TMRW Sports is harnessing technology to build modern approaches to sports, media, and entertainment.
Lavender — Lavender helps thousands of sellers around the world write better emails faster, getting them more positive replies in less time. Rated 4.9/5 on G2.

Fernando Reani is a Managing Director at Under Armour Australia & New Zealand

Investment focus

Marketing Automation, Predictive Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Full Venue — Attract top-tier customers on a smaller budget,increase retention, and push every order's value higher with our Al solution.

Philip Reisberger

Investment focus

Database, Real Estate, Lead Generation
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

CASAFARI — CASAFARI brings transparency to chaotic property markets by building a clean and complete real estate database. The company's proprietary technology allows agents to collect, clean, match duplicates, and evaluate every property coming to the market and to source the best investment opportunities in real-time.

Alain Fiocco is EVP, Chief Technology Officer at OVH.com.

Investment focus

Cloud Storage
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Vawlt — Simplify your company's transition to the cloud, improve security standards, and optimize storage resource usage.

Andrés Alcalá

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Ubirider — Ubirider generates value for both mobility providers and riders by seamlessly moving people, information and payments.

Kelvin Beachum Jr. is the NFL Athlete at Arizona Cardinals Football Club.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series B, Series A
United States, Brazil, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

KittyCAD — Working on the future of mechanical CAD!
Alta — Your personal AI stylist that truly gets you
Vybe — Virtual Try-On & AI Styling for Fashion Stores

Florian Heinemann is a Founding Partner at Project A Ventures, where he is responsible for the areas of marketing, CRM, and business intelligence. Before co-founding Project A, he was Managing Director at Rocket Internet with the same areas of responsibility (2007-2012). During his time at Rocket, he was mainly involved at Zalando, Global FashionGroup, and Spark Networks (aka eDarling/Affinitas).Prior to Rocket, Florian was Co-Founder and Managing Director of JustBooks/AbeBooks being in charge of marketing and product (1999-2002, exit to Amazon in 2008). Then, he was co-heading the online marketing department of Jamba! and the online dating portal iLove (2003-2005, exit to Verisign). In 2006, he was Co-Founder of the online marketplace antibodies-online.com (exit to Broadoak).Moreover, he has been an investor/business angel in more than 80 startups including Trivago (seed investor), Zalando (founding investor), Audibene (seed investor), Home24 (founding investor), CityDeal/Groupon (founding investor), Betreut.de/Care (seed investor), ClassPass (early stage investor), Mimi Hearing (early stage investor), Bitbond (seed investor), Lillydoo (early stage investor), and the Code University (seed stage investor).Apart from his Project A-related board activities he sits on the board of Koerber AG and About You and the digital advisory boards of Henkel and Oetker.Florian holds a doctorate’s degree in innovation management/entrepreneurship from RWTH Aachen University. He was a visiting scholar at the Wharton School. His research has been published in leading international journals, such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of International Marketing, and Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft. Furthermore, Florian holds a masters degree in business administration from WHU Koblenz. During his studies, he was a fellow of "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes" (German National Academic Foundation).

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Germany, Brazil, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

itravel — itravel allows leisure travelers to configure and book experiences, hotels, and transportation on tablets, the web, and in social media. itravel offers the client tools to select and “build” custom trips based on desired experiences (such as kitesurfing, elephant rides, special spa treatments), specific room configurations, and personalpreferences. itravel’s app interfaces allow these selections to happen effortlessly and with appealing content.
Unicorn Workspaces — Unicorn offers work solutions for teams of all sizes with flexible terms and independent of high market rental prices. It is a fast-growing shared office provider, with 21 workspaces in Berlin, Potsdam, Cologne, Munich, Hamburg, and LisbonTheir vision of “Workspace as a Service” is reflected in their all-inclusive offer, and support fromcommunity baristas. They combine their coffee expertise and community manager knowledge to provide seamless work experience. With their friendly attitude and eagerness to help, members and visitors will receive good advice and assistance.Each of their workspaces is equipped with a modern café, where they offer organic direct trade coffee and hot beverages for all of their members and guests. They also offer a small selection of cold drinks, salads, and desserts. The café functions as a central meeting point for their community.
CODE University of Applied Sciences — CODE is a Berlin-based state-accredited university of applied sciences that offers bachelor’s degree programs in the field of Digital Product Development.

Kevin Rose is the Co-Founder and CEO of PROOF. He previously worked at HODINKEE as a Board Of Directors. Kevin Rose attended the University of Nevada Las Vegas.

Investment focus

Mobile, Internet, iOS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

ClayStack — Multichain liquid staking platform that allows users to stake their assets, mint staking derivatives, and participate in DeFi.
Magic Spoon — Magic Spoon cereal is high-protein, low-sugar, keto-friendly, and gluten-free. Available in Cocoa, Frosted, Fruity, Blueberry, Peanut Butter, and Cinnamon.
Universe XYZ — Universe XYZ is an NFT platform that provides blockchain technology and cryptocurrency solutions for creating and distributing tokens.

Kirk Posmantur is the Chairman & Founder of Axcess Worldwide, a partnership development company that creates inspired ideas and connects extraordinary brands and people. With over 20 years of experience generating hundreds of millions of dollars in contracted revenue for many of the world’s top brands in the luxury and lifestyle, consumermass, and hospitality and travel sectors, Kirk is widely recognized as the pioneer and innovator of partnership development. Axcess currently represents over 50 of the world’s leading brands.Kirk is greatly involved in multiple charities and has served as the Chairman of the Board for the Atlanta chapter of After School All-Stars since 2000, raising over $20 million for his charity’s chapter.Kirk earned his undergraduate degree at the William F. Harrah College of Hotel Management at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Investment focus

Mobile, Sports, Distillery
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Onda — Onda is a spirits brand for a new generation of drinkers. Onda’s first product is a line of canned sparkling tequila beverages, made with blanco tequila and real, legit fruit. Onda’s beverages are all 5% ABV, 100 calories, zero sugar, zero carbs and naturally gluten free. Onda’s brand is inspired by the surf style of the ‘90s.
mPath — m›Path is a mobile development platform that helps individuals create and manage applications without writing a single line of code. It is founded by the former CTO & CIO of Salesforce, Claus Moldt and Trae Chancellor.
TMRW Sports — TMRW Sports is harnessing technology to build modern approaches to sports, media, and entertainment.

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