Top 15 Social Media Startup Investors in Portugal (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Portugal Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Portugal, United States, France | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $107k–$2M |
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Ricardo Carvalho
Angel
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2 | Portugal | Seed | Software, Communities, SaaS | $522k–$2.3M |
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REDangels
VC Fund
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2 | Portugal, United States, Poland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Mobile, Machine Learning, Internet of Things | $11k–$1.6M |
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Niko Klansek
Angel
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2 | Portugal | Seed | Software, Communities, SaaS | $522k–$2.3M |
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Antler
VC Fund
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1 | Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $100k–$29M |
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Insight Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Portugal, South Korea, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Manufacturing, B2B, Energy | $768k–$33M |
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Rui Ferreira
Angel
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1 | Portugal | Seed | Mobile, Internet, Nutrition | $110k–$4.7M |
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Bynd Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $483k–$50M |
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Ticha Penicheiro
Angel
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1 | Seed | Sports, Software, Communities | ||
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Max Richardson
Angel
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1 | Portugal | Angel | Video, Social Media, Social Network | |
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Sport Horizon Holding S.p.a.
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, Germany, Portugal | Seed, Convertible Note | Software, Sports, Communities | $522k–$2.3M |
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Seedrs
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $39k–$4.2M |
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Tiago Mendes Gonçalves
Angel
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1 | Seed | Sports, Software, Communities | ||
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Nuno Sanches
Angel
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1 | Seed | Sports, Software, Communities | ||
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Neemias Queta
Angel
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1 | Seed | Sports, Software, Communities | ||
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Ricardo Carvalho - Founder @ Social Innovation Sports
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- Industry: Software, Communities, SaaS
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $522k–$2.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hoopers — Global basketball community platform connecting players, fans and enthusiasts through products, contents, experiences and NFTs.
- Felton — Felton is an AI audience intelligence platform that profiles every person in your social media audience. 200+ KPIs, 25+ emotions, 250+ filters.
They believe the unbelievable and trust the untrustable.
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- Industry: Mobile, Machine Learning, Internet of Things
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Portugal, United States, Poland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $110k–$1.6M; Angel $55k–$181k; Pre-Seed $11k–$55k
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wall-i — Wall-i is a programmatic outdoor advertising network, that displays ads on screens for segmented audiences, by age, gender, location, and market. Wall-i aims to be the Google Ads of the outdoor advertising. By combining plug-and-play screen incorporation and audience recognition technology (age, gender and mood), with a CPV /CPM businessmodel, it enables real-estate owners to monetize LCD screens and tablets with ads.
- Musiversal — Record your music in real time with world-class session musicians, vocalists, producers and audio engineers
- UpLink — Tellent Recruitee helps you hire faster, work better together, and win top talent without the bottleneck; powered by AI-driven features.
Niko Klansek is the Co-Founder at HashMark. He previously worked at FlyKly and attended Fordham University.
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- Industry: Software, Communities, SaaS
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $522k–$2.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hoopers — Global basketball community platform connecting players, fans and enthusiasts through products, contents, experiences and NFTs.
- Felton — Felton is an AI audience intelligence platform that profiles every person in your social media audience. 200+ KPIs, 25+ emotions, 250+ filters.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2215
- Round size: Seed $159k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$645k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $72M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
- Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.
- Homethings — Single-use plastic is bonkers. Homethings makes cleaning products that make sense. No more shipping water in plastic bottles. We send non toxic cleaning tabs so that you can refill over and over again using your tap.
Insight Ventures build scalable business models that can be stand-alone or integrated into an already established company. Through agile construction methodologies, connections with startups, and extensive experience in building technology businesses, they have transformed traditional businesses into exponential companies.Since 2017, they havehelped companies of all sizes and sectors to build and scale innovative business models, generating exponential growth and changing the way they compete in the market.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, B2B, Energy
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: Portugal, South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $768k–$33M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Heaboo — Heaboo is a technological company focus on the R&D, manufacturing, and commercialization of a stand-alone and passive device capable to corrects the response time of the hot water supply in taps or shower mixers increasing the energy and water efficiency of the building. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Aveiro.
- SocialTalk — SocialTalk helps discover the perfect influencers, manage influencers database, track and measure campaigns.
- INEYE Pharma — INEYE Pharma engages in the development of polymer-based technologies for ocular applications. The company operates on a B2B strategy and caters to other pharmaceutical companies that operate in the ocular disease industry.
Rui Ferreira
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- Industry: Mobile, Internet, Nutrition
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $110k–$4.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Bynd is a leading Iberian Venture Capital firm
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $483k–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $552k–$2.1M; Series A $2.3M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $11M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Pollen — Electric mobility for lightweight vehicles is about to get simpler, more affordable and more reliable.
- Wio Capital — Wio Capital is a wealthtech company that builds an AI-powered wealth management platform for financial advisors, offices, and bankers.
- Spacebackend — Lynapse by Spacebackend unifies interface modeling, version control, testing, and validation. Convert ICDs into traceable, deterministic implementations with human-in-the-loop review.
Ticha Penicheiro is a Sports Agent.
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- Industry: Sports, Software, Communities
- Stage:Seed
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hoopers — Global basketball community platform connecting players, fans and enthusiasts through products, contents, experiences and NFTs.
- Felton — Felton is an AI audience intelligence platform that profiles every person in your social media audience. 200+ KPIs, 25+ emotions, 250+ filters.
Max Richardson
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- Industry: Video, Social Media, Social Network
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hunchat — The best place to have conversations. Talk with your friends on video even when they are not online!
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- Industry: Software, Sports, Communities
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Italy, Germany, Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $522k–$2.3M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AWorld — AWorld is The Sustainability Platform and Mobile App chosen by the United Nations to support the ActNow Campaign.
- Hoopers — Global basketball community platform connecting players, fans and enthusiasts through products, contents, experiences and NFTs.
- Felton — Felton is an AI audience intelligence platform that profiles every person in your social media audience. 200+ KPIs, 25+ emotions, 250+ filters.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 199
- Round size: Seed $65k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $39k–$505k; Equity Crowdfunding $204k–$4.2M
- Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Laka — Laka is collective bicycle insurance especially for cyclists. We flipped insurance. By making it pay to pay out, we are the collective that backs each other. Protect your bikes and gear against theft & damage with Laka 5-star rated cycle insurance.
- OurPetsLife — At OurPetsLife, our mission is to empower pet owners with innovative, reliable, and accessible Pet products trusted by the professionals. From dog food, supplements for pets, shampoo, pet treats, dental care & much more.
- The Cookaway — The Cookaway offers an exciting range of world cuisine menus put together by our expert chefs and available to buy as a recipe box.
Tiago Mendes Gonçalves is the CEO at InnoWave Technologies.
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- Industry: Sports, Software, Communities
- Stage:Seed
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hoopers — Global basketball community platform connecting players, fans and enthusiasts through products, contents, experiences and NFTs.
- Felton — Felton is an AI audience intelligence platform that profiles every person in your social media audience. 200+ KPIs, 25+ emotions, 250+ filters.
Nuno Sanches brings almost two decades of experience in the Telecom, Pay TV, and Media industries, and has joined the Kaltura Team as General Manager, Media, and Telecom. Before joining Kaltura, Nuno created from the ground up and led for 6 years Vodafone Group’s Global TV Product Development organization. Before that Nuno led Product, Marketing,Content, and Technology in Portugal’s largest pay-tv operator. During his career, he led some of the earliest and most successful launches of advanced user interfaces, live TV restart, TV everywhere, network PVR, and Cloud TV in Europe. Nuno holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, is passionate about the product, design, and user experience. When he is not globe-trotting bringing the future of TV to a life he spends his time reading, cooking, and exploring the world with his teenage son and two young daughters. Nuno is based in Kaltura’s London office.
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- Industry: Sports, Software, Communities
- Stage:Seed
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hoopers — Global basketball community platform connecting players, fans and enthusiasts through products, contents, experiences and NFTs.
- Felton — Felton is an AI audience intelligence platform that profiles every person in your social media audience. 200+ KPIs, 25+ emotions, 250+ filters.
Neemias Queta is an individual investor.
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- Industry: Sports, Software, Communities
- Stage:Seed
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hoopers — Global basketball community platform connecting players, fans and enthusiasts through products, contents, experiences and NFTs.
- Felton — Felton is an AI audience intelligence platform that profiles every person in your social media audience. 200+ KPIs, 25+ emotions, 250+ filters.
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Verticals:Enterprise, SaaS, Security, Networks, AI, VR/AR, Marketplace, Blockchain, Internet of Things, New materials, Electronics, Robotics, Cleantech, Agrotech, Seatech, Therapeutics, Digital Health, Diagnostics, Innovative Accommodation, Tourist Entertainment Companies, Tour Operators, Wine, Nautical and Equestrian Tourism, Theme ParksMobile, Robotics Founded in 2012, Portugal Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Porto, Portugal. The firm is a part of the Banco Português de Fomento group. The firm seeks to invest in pre-seed, seed and series A stages
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AddVolt
— AddVolt is a technology based company that tackles markets where there is a high potential for diesel costs reduction through the generation of solar and kinetic energy, while other secondary savings are generated (e.g. maintenance).
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Unlockit
— Unlockit will offer to public and governmental bodies the guarantee that everything within a real estate transaction is recorded, meaning better industry regulation, more taxes and public fees collected, and less overall fraud and money laundering activities.
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— IoT safety for a safer, more productive workforce
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