# Top 40 Sports Angel Investors in Portugal in June 2026

## Nicolas Julia
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Gaming, Cryptocurrency

Nicolas Julia is based out of Paris, Ile-de-France, and is the CEO and Co-founder of Sorare. Nicolas previously worked at Stratumn as a VP of Operations. Nicolas Julia attended the EM Lyon Business School.

## David Apple
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, Apps

David Apple is the CBO of ScorePlay, on the Board of the CMTA, and an active Angel Investor and Start-up Advisor.

## Mario Götze
- Type: Angel
- Location: German, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Mario Götze is a professional footballer.

## Omar Fonseca
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Soccer, Sports

Omar da Fonseca is the Ex-player.

## Alejandro Bedoya
- Type: Angel
- Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Soccer, Sports

Alejandro Bedoya

## Édouard Mendy
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Soccer, Sports, FinTech

Édouard Mendy

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

Sérgio Oliveira

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

António Félix da Costa

## Aïssa Mandi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Soccer, Sports

Aïssa Mandi

## Renaud Visage
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

Building the world's largest event technnology company with Eventbrite (NYSE: EB).Helping start-ups scale with seed fund Point Nine Capital.Angel investing in bold and ambitious European and U.S. start-ups.  Sample from 40+ portfolio companies:
- Sqreen (exited to Datadog)
- Meero ($290M in funding)
- Algolia ($184M)
- Alkemics ($54M)
-Builder ($29M)
- Verve ($28M)
- Fox Intelligence (€18M)

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

Michael Chang

## Alexandre Yazdi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Gaming, Internet

Alexandre Yazdi is the CEO at Voodoo.

## Amaury Sepulchre
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Collaboration

Amaury handles all eFounders Operations in Paris. He loves shaping new businesses, pushing ideas, cracking business models and building teams. He is a former top-tier consultant with a strong entrepreneurial mindset and a can-do attitude.

## Quentin Nickmans
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Quentin Nickmans is the Co-founder and Partner of Hexa. He previously worked at EATINGDESK as a Co-Founder. Quentin Nickmans attended Cass Business School.

## Deepinder Goyal
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Wellness, E-Commerce

Deepinder Goyal, Founder & CEO, Zomato, is the Founder and CEO of Zomato. Prior to starting Zomato, Deepinder worked as a management consultant with Bain and Company in New Delhi. It was at Bain that Deepinder conceived the idea of an online restaurant information service after seeing the demand for menu cards among his colleagues. He left Bainin 2008 to start Zomato (then foodiebay) out of his apartment and has since overseen strategy and product development. Deepinder graduated with a Mathematics and Computing degree from IIT Delhi in 2005 and hails from Muktsar in Punjab.

## Pankaj Chaddah
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Fitness, Health Care

Pankaj Chaddah is the Co-Founder of Shyft. Pankaj graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering from IIT Delhi in 2007.

## Ideias Glaciares
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Wellness, SaaS, Video

Ideias Glaciares

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

Scott MacMillan

## Nico Rosberg
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Sports, Apps

Nico Rosberg is a Former F1 World Champion.

## Pat Cummins
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Consulting, B2B

Pat Cummins is the Australian Cricket Captain.

## Tue Lumbye
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Sports, FinTech, Software

Tue Lumbye is the Head of Danish Market at Better Collective. He attended Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern Denmark.

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

Jeremy Hendon

## Youcef Es-skouri
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Youcef Es-skouri

## Michael Philippe
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Education, EdTech, E-Learning

Michael Philippe is the Co-Founder at Thomson Reuters. He attended the University of Minnesota Law School from 1975 to 1978.

## Raphaël Varane
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Sports, Apps, Drones

Raphaël Varane is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Manchester United and the France national team.

## Stephen Nash
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Sports, Basketball, Apps

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.

## Alex Morgan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Sports

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.

## Jayson Tatum
- Type: Angel
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Sports, Information Technology, Fitness

Jayson Tatum

## Philippe Laffont
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series D, Series F
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

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.

## Rohit Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Sports, eSports, Internet

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.

## Andre Iguodala
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Sports, E-Commerce, Internet

Andre Iguodala is an NBA Champion and Finals MVP currently signed with the Golden State Warriors. He advises Twice, a startup acquired by eBay in 2015.Andre Tyler Iguodala is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The swingman was an NBA All-Starin 2012 and has been named to the NBA All-Defensive Team twice. Iguodala won an NBA championship with the Warriors in 2015, when he was named the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP). He was also a member of the United States national team at the 2010 FIBA World Championship and 2012 Summer Olympics, winning the gold medal both times.Iguodala went to Lanphier High School in Springfield, Illinois before attending the University of Arizona. After completing two years, he declared for the 2004 NBA draft where he was drafted with the ninth overall pick by the Philadelphia 76ers. Iguodala played in Philadelphia until the summer of 2012, when he was traded to the Denver Nuggets in a four team trade. He was acquired by Golden State in 2013. In 2014–15, he became a reserve for the first time in his career, but captured the Finals MVP after he returned to the starting lineup in the middle of series.

## Kirk Posmantur
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Mobile, Sports, Distillery

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.

## Chris Paul
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Sports, Health Care

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

## David Blitzer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Scotch Plains, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Sports, Fantasy Sports, Sporting Goods

David Blitzer joined HBSE Ventures as Founder.

## Larry Fitzgerald
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Sports, FinTech

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.

## Alexis Ohanian
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, Mobile

Alexis Ohanian is the President and Founder of 776 Foundation. He previously worked at reddit as an Executive Chair and Board Member. Alexis Ohanian attended the University of Virginia.

## Serena Williams
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Information Technology

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.

## Alex Lieberman
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Gift

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

## Jozy Altidore
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Media and Entertainment, Gaming, Sports

Jozy Altidore

## Kelvin Beachum Jr.
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

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

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