# Top 50 Software Angel Investors in Portugal in June 2026

## Ideias Glaciares
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Wellness, SaaS, Video

Ideias Glaciares

## Arthur Hayes
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

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.

## Ryan Petersen
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech

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.

## Michele Attisani
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Michele Attisani - General Partner @ Insiders Ventures

## Fernando Reani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Marketing Automation, Predictive Analytics, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Roy Bhasin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Gaming

Zeneca is a Writer, collector,Trader and Angel Investor

## Balaji Srinivasan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including anonline MOOC.

## Niall Curran
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: iOS, Gaming, Android

Niall Curran is the Chairman at COPA90.

## Sérgio Oliveira
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: PaaS, Soccer, Sports

Sérgio Oliveira

## Carlos Oliveira
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Sensor, Software, Wind Energy

Carlos Oliveira

## Klaus von Sayn-Wittgenstein
- Type: Angel
- Location: Pacific Palisades, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Machine Learning, B2B

Klaus von Sayn-Wittgenstein

## Adeyemi Ajao
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Mobile

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.

## António Félix da Costa
- Type: Angel
- Location: Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Sports, Marketplace, Augmented Reality

António Félix da Costa

## Vitor Crespo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Consulting, Machine Learning, Professional Services

Vitor Crespo is the Chief Executive Officer and Board Advisor at FastCompChem. He attended the University of Portugal (UPT) in 1993.

## Elad Gil
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Elad Gil is the Co-Founder of Color Genomics. He previously worked at Twitter as a Vice President. Elad Gil attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

## Scott MacMillan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Fitness, Big Data

Scott MacMillan

## Roger Dickey
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Education, E-Commerce

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.

## Dominique Locher
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Rental, Social

Dominique Locher

## Kevin Rose
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Mobile, Internet, iOS

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.

## Praveen Paranjothi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Database, Software, Biometrics

Praveen Paranjothi is an entrepreneur and investor in venture and impact capital.

## Raymond Tonsing
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

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.

## James Fitzgerald
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Education

James Fitzgerald

## Ed Wray
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

Mr. Edward Wray, Ed is a Co-Founder of Betfair Australia Pty Ltd. Mr. Wray co-founded The Sporting Exchange Limited (Alternate Name: Betfair Limited) in May 1999 and served as its Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Betfair, he spent eight years at J.P. Morgan & Co. as a Vice President in the debt capital markets and derivatives area. He servesas the Chairman at Betfair. He has been Non-executive Chairman of The Sporting Exchange Limited since 2006. He served as the Chairman of Betfair Limited since 2006. He served as Non-Executive Chairman of Betfair Group PLC from March 17, 2008 to March 6, 2012. He has been a Director at Sporting Exchange since August 1998. Mr. Wray has been a Director of Betfair Group PLC since August 20, 1999. He serves as a Non Executive Director of Funding Circle Ltd. He served as a Director at Betfair since 1999.

## Simon Brandhof
- Type: Angel
- Location: Annecy, Rhone-Alpes, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Developer Tools

Simon Brandhof is an Associate at Time for the Planet.

## Henrique Castro
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, B2B

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 Google’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.

## Paulo Alexandre Lopes
- Type: Angel
- Location: Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Boating, Gambling

Paulo Alexandre Lopes is the Managing Director at oddsgate. Paulo Alexandre Lopes attended IPAM.

## David Peterson
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Haven, Connecticut, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Medical, Software

David Peterson is a entrepreneur, turned intrapreneur, former music executive, and adviser, to now serving as the Chief Operating Officer of WordAgents, again back to founder at WaysToCashFlow, Record Labelless, and co-founding the podcast We Tried, We Failed

## Charlie Songhurst
- Type: Angel
- Location: Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Lawrence Chu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Fashion, Software, E-Commerce

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

## Bhavik Bajaj
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, FinTech

Bhavik Bajaj

## Young Guo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, B2B

Young Guo is based out of Beijing and is the General Partner of IDG Capital Partners. Young previously worked at Soros Fund Management as a Executive management. Young Guo attended the Columbia Business School.

## Christian Reber
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Christian Reber​ is the founder and CEO of Pitch. The German entrepreneur previously founded the award-winning to-do app Wunderlist. After it was acquired by Microsoft in 2015, he spent two years as Microsoft's Entrepreneur in Residence. He is an active investor and advisor in a number of technology businesses, such as Lilium, Notion,Onefootball, Neufund, Freigeist and more. Prior to his career in business, Christian studied Mathematics and Computer Science as well as International Management in Berlin. Christian received the Forbes 30 under 30 award in 2014 and 2016.

## Terrence Rohan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence

Terrence Rohan is a seed investor and the Managing Director of Otherwise. Terrence's seed investments include Figma, Front, Notion, Hugging Face, Granola, Vanta, and Robinhood, among others. Forbes has ranked him as part of the Midas Brink list, and Business Insider has named him one of the top seed investors.Terrence was at Index Venturesfor seven years. While at Index, he co-created and eventually led Index’s first Seed Fund and then incubated the firm’s inaugural Founder-Angel Fund, which he served as General Partner and Co-Founder. He launched Otherwise, a novel Founder-Angel Fund inspired by the one he created for Index.Before becoming an investor, Terrence held various roles in product marketing and development at Google and YouTube.Terrence holds an MS in Management from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, an MS in Philosophy from The London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA in Philosophy from Colgate University.

## Errol Damelin
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

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.

## Rob Emrich
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Software, Internet, Computer

Rob Emrich - Founder & CEO @ The Mobile Majority

## Rui Pereira
- Type: Angel
- Location: Linda-a-velha, Lisboa, Portugal
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: iOS, Gaming, Android

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.

## Philip Reisberger
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Database, Real Estate, Lead Generation

Philip Reisberger

## Florian Heinemann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

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).

## Jon Soberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

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

## Rui Ferreira
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Mobile, Internet, Nutrition

Rui Ferreira

## Sebastien Borget
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency

Sebastien Borget is based out of Paris, Île-de-France and serves as the Global Ambassador of The Sandbox. Sebastien attended The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

## Chris Lee
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: iOS, Gaming, Android

Chris Lee is an investor in Gaming.

## Heiko Hubertz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Machine Learning

Heiko Hubertz - Founder & CEO @ Oxolo

## Giulio Xiloyannis
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Online Games, Gaming, Apps

Giulio Xiloyannis is the Chief Commercial Officer of ZALORA, the largest online fashion retailer in SEA. Prior to ZALORA, he worked across a number of Rocket Internet Founded Venture in Italy, J.P Morgan and Rabobank. Giulio is an investor and Founding Investor for Omnilytics and an adviser for Musa, Taskomat and Edgar (Italy based ventures).Giulio as a pro-bono advisor for Florence based incubator Nana Bianca and Singapore based Antler as well as having collaborated with the Malaysian state sponsored incubator Magic.

## Anton Bukov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Internet

I am a philosopher, concept generator, and innovator with a deep fascination for technology, simplicity, and innovation, stemming from my software engineering journey that began in 2002. I have a profound curiosity in diverse domains such as algorithms, space exploration, blockchain technology, virtual and augmented reality, artificialintelligence, emerging energy sources, and new material sciences. My holistic and interdisciplinary approach propels me towards harnessing technology and innovation to conceive and create a future that surpasses the conventional boundaries of imagination

## Michael Chang
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Fitness, Big Data

Michael Chang

## Bruno Cardoso
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Consulting, Machine Learning, Professional Services

Bruno Cardoso

## Freddy Mallet
- Type: Angel
- Location: Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Developer Tools

Freddy Mallet

## Pedro Aguiar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Marketing Automation, Predictive Analytics, Artificial Intelligence

Pedro Aguiar is an individual investor

## Tiago Monteiro
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Marketing Automation, Predictive Analytics, Artificial Intelligence

Tiago Monteiro is a former F1 driver