Top 50 Sports Startup Investors in Portugal in January 2025
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Sports startups based in Portugal. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sports companies from Portugal. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Sports Startup Investors in Portugal in January 2025
Investor | Sports Portugal investments |
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Olisipo Way | 3 |
Portugal Ventures | 3 |
Kima Ventures | 3 |
Shilling | 3 |
another.vc | 3 |
Nicolas Julia | 2 |
Armilar Venture Partners | 2 |
Omar Fonseca | 2 |
Mario Götze | 2 |
35V | 2 |
Bynd Venture Capital | 2 |
TrulyMad | 2 |
David Apple | 2 |
Boost VC | 1 |
Atlas Finance Group | 1 |
Counterpart Advisors | 1 |
Renaud Visage | 1 |
Chris Paul | 1 |
Sérgio Oliveira | 1 |
Draper Startup House Ventures | 1 |
ADvantage | 1 |
APEX Capital | 1 |
António Félix da Costa | 1 |
APEX Capital | 1 |
Deepinder Goyal | 1 |
Philippe Laffont | 1 |
Roca X | 1 |
Morningstar Ventures | 1 |
Andre Iguodala | 1 |
Misfits Gaming Group | 1 |
Ganexa Capital | 1 |
Pankaj Chaddah | 1 |
Alexandre Yazdi | 1 |
Jayson Christopher Tatum | 1 |
Ideias Glaciares | 1 |
Michael Chang | 1 |
Tue Lumbye | 1 |
Alejandro Bedoya | 1 |
Jeremy Hendon | 1 |
David Blitzer | 1 |
Moonrock Capital | 1 |
Alex Morgan | 1 |
Demium Capital | 1 |
StartUp Health | 1 |
NewBound Venture Capital | 1 |
Kirk Posmantur | 1 |
WISENEXT | 1 |
Kelvin Beachum Jr. | 1 |
Seven Seven Six | 1 |
Semapa Next | 1 |
Olisipo Way is an early-stage venture firm that focuses on IT investments. It invests in technology companies with very diverse and complementary skills. The initial portfolio of Olisipo Way comes from the innovation created within the Olisipo through the continuous stimulation of innovation among employees and the incubation of new businessventures.The firm was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Lisbon, Lisboa.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Communities
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
- Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Checkfirst — Create AI-powered inspection workflows that collect and verify on-site data, effortlessly.
- OSCAR — On-demand app for home services like repair, cleaning and laundry with fixed prices in less than 30 minutes.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Portugal, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- Hoopers — Global basketball community platform connecting players, fans and enthusiasts through products, contents, experiences and NFTs.
- PluggableAI — Pluggable is the leading Meaningful Mobile Engagement solution where, through disruptive AI models and non-intrusive smartphone sensors, we maximize mobile app engagement.
- Corium Biotech — Corium Biotech is an R&D company dedicated to the bioproduction of exotic leather destined to answer the current leather market needs for performant materials that respect both the environment and animal wellbeing.
Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.
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- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, United Kingdom
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Shilling is an early-stage venture capital firm backing exceptional founders from the start.Shilling invests in a wide range of verticals and seeks out the biggest opportunities across all B2B and consumer categories.
Leveraging the concept of Founder LPs, Shilling brings much more than capital and offers through its Shilling Platform, directaccess to successful founders and executives of leading companies. This platform supports entrepreneurs in validating and developing their ventures, which then accelerate their growth into global markets.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Portugal, Spain, United States
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- Cooby — Supercharge your WhatsApp and integrate it with your CRM to reduce administrative work and lost customer data.
- Bounce — Short term (hourly & daily) storage all around urban areas, hosted by local businesses.
- Luca — Luca's learning platform provides learning programs for primary and secondary school students. The learning platform offers pre-recorded K12 videos, gamified content and AI powered personalized study paths, covering the entire official academic curriculum and national exams prep. Luca is a VC backed startup with HQ in Madrid & MexicoCity
We're just another venture capital firm. We invest as soon as you made up your mind to start a company. Sometimes even before that.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, Switzerland, France
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- baCta — We produce high-quality, carbon negative natural rubber from engineered microorganisms and renewable feedstocks.
- AllFocal Optics — AllFocal Optics revolutionizes display technology through groundbreaking nanophotonic solutions.
- Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data
Nicolas Julia is a Blockchain entrepreneur. He is the CEO at Sorare, the leading platform to collect and play with officially licensed football Crypto-goodsNicolas dedicated his career to Blockchain in 2015, and was previously running operations at Stratumn, a $8M VC-backed blockchain company.Nicolas hosts the meetup Crypto-goods Club, theplace of expression for all Crypto-goods
enthusiasts.He believes Crypto-goods will pave the way for a new era of digital ownership and change the internet.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Gaming, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, Israel, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- cubzh — Welcome to Cubzh, a universe of user-built avatars, hangouts and games.
- Sekai Studio — Creating mind blowing official entertainment anime fans have been dreaming about
- Tweed — Tweed provides a plug & play white-label wallet solution that includes compliant self-custodial key management, comprehensive wallet features and payment infrastructure all in one SDK. With Tweed, platforms and brands can onboard mainstream users seamlessly and create frictionless web3 experiences which increase the overall activity and saleson platform. Tweed’s architecture is built as a true self-custodial solution, and passes regular legal audits to ensure your platform can offload the regulatory burden and offer a fully compliant web3 experience.The company is still currently in stealth mode.
Armilar Venture Partners is Portugal's leading venture capitalist. An independent VC with a 20-year-old history, a high-performance track record and an international footprint, Armilar is a deep-tech investor in ICT, HealthTech and CleanTech.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Portugal, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Rows — Combine the power of a spreadsheet with built-in integrations from your business apps. Automate workflows and build tools that make work simpler.
- Veeton — Veeton is the creator of an artificial intelligence-powered platform for automated fashion imaging. The company's platform provides fashion firms with an alternative to photo sessions by generating a limitless range of high-quality on-model images using only packshot photos, instantaneously and at a fraction of the cost, allowing clients tocreate e-commerce shoots in a few clicks.
- Cintoo — Cintoo is essential for BIM to bridge the gap between your physical and virtual worlds.
Omar da Fonseca is the Ex-player.
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Investment focus
- Soccer, Sports
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- ScorePlay — ScorePlay is an AI-powered media asset manager dedicated to sports. The MAM centralizes assets in a single media workspace, with AI-tagging. Distribute to athletes and sponsors automatically through app. Amplify your brand.
Mario Götze is a professional footballer.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Mietz — The first fully automized all-in-one renting platform for tenants and landlords.
- Plato — Plato operates as a sales intelligence platform for wholesale.
- AllFocal Optics — AllFocal Optics revolutionizes display technology through groundbreaking nanophotonic solutions.
Official site of Thirty Five Ventures. Founded by Kevin Durant & Rich Kleiman. Investments, philanthropy, media, and more.
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Investment focus
- Sports, Soccer, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, France, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Arcee.ai — Learn how Arcee helps you build your own LLMs in your own cloud.
- ScorePlay — ScorePlay is an AI-powered media asset manager dedicated to sports. The MAM centralizes assets in a single media workspace, with AI-tagging. Distribute to athletes and sponsors automatically through app. Amplify your brand.
- Catch+Release — Unlock the power of UGC with our comprehensive licensing platform. Use tools for video marketing, content curation, and collaboration to elevate your creative campaigns.
Bynd is a leading Iberian Venture Capital firm
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Portugal, Spain, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Last.app — Last is a comprehensive restaurant software solution. Thanks to the use of new technologies, our platform offers unique solutions in the market, always with the aim of simplifying and optimizing the tasks of the team of any type of restaurant.
- QUIXOTIC — QUIXOTIC 360 is a one-of-its-kind, SaaS solution for energy retailers and renewable energy communities. It includes automations, regulatory frameworks, triggers and alerts, industry-specific integrations, etc. We automate business processes and integrate platforms to streamline our customers operations.
- Incapto Coffee — Incapto Coffee offers the sale of the automatic coffee machine and a subscription system for coffee beans.
TrulyMad Business Accelerator
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Investment focus
- Beauty, Fitness, Wellness
- Pre-Seed
- Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
David Apple is the CBO of ScorePlay, on the Board of the CMTA, and an active Angel Investor and Start-up Advisor.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- France, Portugal, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Rayon — Built for Speed. Designed for Teams.
- Mentra — Mentra tackles systemic inequality by economically empowering underserved communities. We’re erasing the stigma around Disability Hiring with our recruiting platform that matches neurodiverse talent with inclusive employers.Our mission is to bring neurodiversity to the workplace - providing employers with thought diversity & job seekers witheconomic opportunity
- Cycle App — Cycle is a horizontal platform made of flexible building blocks that you can use in customizable workflows. Your way of working shouldn't depend on your tools, they built Cycle so that product teams could ship the way that works for them.
Boost VC: The Pre-Seed Fund Making Sci-FI a Reality. Investing in crypto, virtual reality, augmented reality, AI, Ocean Tech, Space Tech, human augmentation, exoskeletons and more.
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Investment focus
- Software, Virtual Reality, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MoldCo — Expert-led, evidence-based solutions for mold illness prevention and recovery. Launching early 2025.
- Rosy Soil — Crafted for the specific needs of indoor plants, this blend contains all-natural, renewable ingredients that optimize drainage, deliver plant-boosting nutrients, and support a diverse community of beneficial fungi and microbes.
- PoSciDonDAO — PoSciDonDAO is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) that provides funding for research on life-altering diseases through tailored medicine.
Atlas Finance is a diversified global group operating and invest in many sectors "Media, Financial technology...ext"
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Gift
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Replit — Replit is a simple yet powerful online IDE, Editor, Compiler, Interpreter, and REPL. Code, compile, run, and host in 50+ programming languages.
- Deeptune — Reach billions of new fans and maximize your earnings. Join Deeptune and dub your content into 100+ supported languages on autopilot. Learn more.
- EarlyBird — EarlyBird simplifies investing for parents and elevates gifting by empowering friends and family to make meaningful investments to the children they love.
Counterpart Advisors is a Venture Capital, Private Equity & Consulting firm that engages in highly competitive and visible markets.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Mobile Apps, Software
- Series B, Series C, Series D
- United States, China, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- RenoRun — RenoRun is building the world's largest single source platform for general contractors to purchase materials. Their mobile-friendly platform is a one-stop-shop when it comes to construction material supply. This app is revolutionizing the construction industry by maximizing productivity, saving contractors wasted run-around hours, and allowingtheir clients to leave their competition in the dust. Their trained runners will collect and deliver the desired materials to the job site.RenoRun was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada, with offices in Toronto and Austin, Texas.
- Wayflyer — Wayflyer offers growth financing to eCommerce companies like yours. Sign up, connect your store and analytics, and receive funding offer today.
- ScorePlay — ScorePlay is an AI-powered media asset manager dedicated to sports. The MAM centralizes assets in a single media workspace, with AI-tagging. Distribute to athletes and sponsors automatically through app. Amplify your brand.
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)
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- ScorePlay — ScorePlay is an AI-powered media asset manager dedicated to sports. The MAM centralizes assets in a single media workspace, with AI-tagging. Distribute to athletes and sponsors automatically through app. Amplify your brand.
- finres — Finres empowers decision-making for climate resilience, leveraging machine learning to enhance agricultural sustainability and adaptation strategies.
- Sirona Technologies — Pioneering direct air capture (DAC) technology with a focus on speed, scalability and a low capex design.
Christopher Emmanuel Paul is an American professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association.
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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.
Sérgio Oliveira
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Investment focus
- PaaS, Soccer, Sports
- Series A
- Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- RealFevr — Collect moments with the most iconic video moments of your favourite football players.
Ventures | Draper Startup House
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- United States, Singapore, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Manolin — Manolin is the leading aquaculture management platform to accelerate data insights and aquaculture intelligence for global fish farms and suppliers.
- Giftpack — Giftpack is an AI-powered gifting infrastructure that helps HR, Marketers, and Sales streamline gifting operations globally and build up gifting automation from design, manufacturing, global onboarding, employee recognition, client retention, and sales enablement, driving the efficiency and engagement for business success.
- PharmInt — A fully integrated B2B Pharmaceutical Products MarketplaceAt Pharmint, we bring together everything that’s required to procure pharma products globally under one roof. We help suppliers get discovered, negotiate prices, and seal the trade terms whereas we help our buyers by vetting all documentation and holding their payments in escrow till theirshipments are delivered and verified.A technology first approach to solving counter-party risk Experience true peace of mind as a buyer as we do the heavy lifting for you. Get access to thousands of verified sellers from across the world while our trade and escrow services ensure that your purchases are protected.Get the best prices & selection of products Our vast network of over 500 verified and onboarded suppliers with a catalogue of over 10,000 products ensures we serve all buyer needs across various MOQ and pricing banHow it works:From product discovery to product deliveryWe assist you in discovering new products, matching with potential qualified manufacturers, and making the deals happen.1. Discover new productsSearch for the high-potential products in the largest human-curated CTD database. Narrow your search applying the industry-specific filter that helps sort products by GMP approvals, country of origin, dossier type, dossier status, stability, and other valuable features.2. Get offers from manufacturers3. Connect with qualified manufacturers directlyThe largest database Simplify product discovery, reduce business development effort and costs with access to an expert curated up-to-date CTD dossier database.Direct supplier relations We enjoy direct working relations with platform manufacturers. We’ll provide the best conditions to negotiate your deal details and use our authority to make the deal happen.Vetted products We match customers only with qualified manufacturers. Our marketplace features only vetted products with up-to-date regulatory data.Industry expertise Pharmint is backed by in-depth understanding of the pharmaceutical market by its founders and associates and a strong track-record in the pharmaceutical industry.Commercial guidance We assist our customers in preparing the deal structure, evaluate annual forecasts and pricing, regulatory requirements and cover other aspects in bringing new products to market.Self-service 24/7 Buyers can search for products, make multiple RFQs, receive commercial offers, negotiate deals and build their pipeline. Sellers can manage an unlimited number of products and indicate market availability at any time.
ADvantage Sports Tech Fund invests in early-stage technology companies aimed at shaping the future of sports. ADvantage is backed by leAD Sports, an initiative spearheaded by the grandchildren of Adi Dassler to further sports innovation, and global hybrid venture capital platform, OurCrowd. ADvantage is leveraging a strong global network to sourceleading opportunities in the spaces of fan engagement and experience, connected athletes and communities, and derivative sports (eSports, fantasy, and new sports).
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Investment focus
- Sports, eSports, PaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, India, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Rooter — Rooter is an Indian game streaming platform that organizes multiple esports tournaments and owns many gaming IPs. It focuses on the massive mobile gaming market of more than 350 mn gamers. Conceptualized in 2016, Rooter was initially set up by Piyush and Dipesh Agarwal to build a strong community of sports fans around the world. But soon afterthe outbreak of COVID-19, Rooter forayed into game streaming to build one of the country’s biggest communities of gamers as well. Rooter has reached out to more than 23 mn users with an average user watching Live game streams daily for 26 mins. Rooter also runs the biggest community program to build the next million game streamers in India. Today Rooter is the biggest streaming platform in India available across Android, iOS, and Desktop.
- Ladder — Get stronger & workout more. Free 7 day trial, no credit card needed!
- Greenfly — Greenfly's short-form media orchestration software platform captures, collects, organizes & distributes videos & photos to drive fan engagement and boost revenue for sports and entertainment organizations.
Investing with elite athletes in Sports, Media and Entertainment
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Investment focus
- Sports, Media and Entertainment, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Portugal, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Hexis — Hexis optimises your daily energy needs to the unique demands of your workouts, lifestyle and goals. The only system to personalise, periodic and plan, your daily carbohydrate and calorie needs.
- VRTL — The Virtual Venue of Fandom. A fully white-labeled platform designed for live entertainment brands to live on their owned-sites, that executes all in-person best practices in a virtual setting. (fka Virtual Tables)
- Traits Insights — Traits is a player profiling platform which enables decision-makers in sport to harness the value of analytics by translating complex performance data into powerful and meaningful insights.
António Félix da Costa
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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.
APEX Capital is an equity investment fund.
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Investment focus
- PaaS, Soccer, Sports
- Series A
- China, Portugal
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.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, E-Commerce, Supply Chain Management
- Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
- India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Ultrahuman — Ultrahuman is a London, Abu Dhabi and Bengaluru based longevity and health-monitoring platform that designs, manufactures and sells the Ultrahuman Ring Air health tracker, Ultrahuman M1 Continuous glucose monitor, pre-release Ultrahuman Home health monitor and related blood testing services like Blood vision.
- Sparkl Edventure — For IB & Cambridge Board (Math & Science)
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.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Developer Tools
- Series D, Series F, Series A
- United States, France, China
Portfolio highlights
- Suade — Technology to prevent the next financial crisis
- TMRW Sports — TMRW is a sports company that focuses on progressive approaches to sports, media, and technology. Using advances in technology, the company launches golf leagues and holds a series of stadium events to provide people with growing approaches to sports 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.
RocaX > Is building a solid and much needed bridge for startups between the support offered by business angels and the upper stage VCs. Learn more!
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Romania, Italy, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Milluu — Helping places become homes! Milluu is the app that gets personal, relevant and smart about rent.We believe that things are done properly when you're personally invested. And we invest our technology & smart tools to help you find your next home or your next ideal tenant!We have created a service app that connects directly listers andtenants based on their preferences.Based on AI and ML, our Milluu Bot is the friendly face of the app, assisting you permanently in your rental journey, making suggestions for great matches and helping you close the deal.
- Munevo — Munevo empowers people with disabilities by using smart and innovative technology.
- Bunnyshell — Bunnyshell is an Environment as a Service platform that enables developers to instantly spin up dev environments for any task on Kubernetes and develop remotely.
We are a proprietary investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain technology, primarily focused on the Elrond Ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Nexio — Nexio is a bitcoin scaling solution platform that helps to improve cryptocurrency's scalability by using parallelizing Bitcoin rollouts.
- KIP Protocol — KIP Protocol is a decentralised AI framework unlocking digital property rights of Knowledge Assets in the AI-powered future.
- COTI AI Agents — COTI AI Agents is an AI Agent platform on the COTI network that focuses on privacy and ease of use. Users can launch, train, and trade AI agents with just one click. Co-own agents to earn revenue share while enjoying personalized tools, fun interactions, and rewards.COTI AI Agents is the first grantee of MomentumX Accelerator - The #1 acceleratorfor startups exploring Web3 privacy, backed by COTI network & Poolz.
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.
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Investment focus
- Sports, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- United States, Canada, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Rye — Rye builds developer tools and APIs to build the next generation of eCommerce experiences.
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- TMRW Sports — TMRW is a sports company that focuses on progressive approaches to sports, media, and technology. Using advances in technology, the company launches golf leagues and holds a series of stadium events to provide people with growing approaches to sports and entertainment.
Misfits Gaming Group is an interactive entertainment and lifestyle company powered by creative formats, connecting to younger audiences through multiple touch points.
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Investment focus
- Sports, Computer, Logistics
- Seed, Funding Round
- India, Portugal, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Omnivio — Omnivio provides full Supply Chain visibility and own logistics like control, through Control Towers and asset-lite logistics marketplace.
- TMRW Sports — TMRW is a sports company that focuses on progressive approaches to sports, media, and technology. Using advances in technology, the company launches golf leagues and holds a series of stadium events to provide people with growing approaches to sports and entertainment.
- Pixion Games — Pixion Games is a studio focused on building competitive esports games for mobile device.
Ability to open doors on opportunities (potential clients/strategic partners/suppliers/etc). Add market credibility, something missing in many start-ups.Know-how that can save you time, money and unnecessary stress and worry. Ability to complement the existing management team, filling gapsThey understand the difficulties andhardships of starting and building a business. They are motivated to work with you on the building process, and not just wait for the end result
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Fitness, Wellness
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Portugal, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Abtrace — Abtrace is an automated, self-learning care system where we can provide personalised care, delivered at population scale - where predictive, preventative and proactive approaches keep people healthy and out of hospital.
- 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.
- ChemiTek — Certified & sustainable solutions for industrial maintenance. We have the solutions you need!
Pankaj Chaddah is the Co-Founder of Shyft. Pankaj graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering from IIT Delhi in 2007.
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- E-Commerce, Fitness, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, France, Portugal
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- 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.
- Yoho — Yoho manufactures orthopaedic lightweight footwear.
- Clean Electric — Clean Electric builds Lithium-Ion Batteries with Liquid Immersion Cooling. Fast Charge. Long Life. Unparalleled Safety.
Alexandre Yazdi - Co-Founder and CEO @ Voodoo
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- Software, Real Estate, Residential
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- France, Turkey, Portugal
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- ScorePlay — ScorePlay is an AI-powered media asset manager dedicated to sports. The MAM centralizes assets in a single media workspace, with AI-tagging. Distribute to athletes and sponsors automatically through app. Amplify your brand.
- Zamp — We take care of sales tax, so you don't have to.
- Sekai Studio — Creating mind blowing official entertainment anime fans have been dreaming about
Jayson Christopher Tatum
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- Sports, Information Technology, Fitness
- Funding Round, Seed
- Canada, Portugal, United States
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- CLIO Snacks — Hi. We're the type of people who like to eat yogurt with our hands. It's nice to meet you.
- TMRW Sports — TMRW is a sports company that focuses on progressive approaches to sports, media, and technology. Using advances in technology, the company launches golf leagues and holds a series of stadium events to provide people with growing approaches to sports and entertainment.
- TheProgram.ai — TheProgram.ai is a new vehicle for delivering sports and fitness content to youth in a fun and engaging way, with the goal of keeping them engaged in a healthy lifestyle and developing a lifelong relationship with sport and fitness.
Ideias Glaciares
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- Wellness, SaaS, Mobile Apps
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Portugal, United States
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- 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.
Michael Chang
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- Apps, Fitness, Big Data
- Pre-Seed
- Portugal
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- Virtuleap — Virtuleap combines neuroscience and virtual reality to help increase attention levels, and address cognitive illnesses, disorders, and learning challenges. We have created a library of VR games designed by neuroscientists in order to test and train a range of cognitive abilities and make that data accessible through our enterprise platform. Ourfirst paid client is the AARP, and we are now working with leading institutions, like the VA Health Care System and the Pacific Brain Health Center, to validate our solution as an effective diagnostic and treatment for attention deficit and cognitive decline.
Tue Lumbye is the Head of Danish Market at Better Collective. He attended Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern Denmark.
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- Sports, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Finland, Portugal
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- Betmarkets — Betmarkets is a web platform that allows bettors to invest in sports betting. Their platform is entirely automated to ensure that they have access to all the best prices and the maximum liquidity, bringing this benefit to all users in a split-second. They operate under an oath of service towards all their users, putting them as their firstpriority. They also prevent problem gambling by putting professionals in charge of the final decision and by ensuring that all behaviour is pre-defined, preventing users from increasing the number of bets and from chasing losses.
- Measurelet — Measurelets project a technological toilet for the healthcare sector.
- Attractive.ai — Attractive.ai analyse user experience by machine, and with a model that can scale to cover the whole of the web.
Alejandro Bedoya
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- Soccer, Sports
- Seed
- Portugal
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- ScorePlay — ScorePlay is an AI-powered media asset manager dedicated to sports. The MAM centralizes assets in a single media workspace, with AI-tagging. Distribute to athletes and sponsors automatically through app. Amplify your brand.
Jeremy Hendon
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- Apps, Fitness, Big Data
- Pre-Seed
- Portugal
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- Virtuleap — Virtuleap combines neuroscience and virtual reality to help increase attention levels, and address cognitive illnesses, disorders, and learning challenges. We have created a library of VR games designed by neuroscientists in order to test and train a range of cognitive abilities and make that data accessible through our enterprise platform. Ourfirst paid client is the AARP, and we are now working with leading institutions, like the VA Health Care System and the Pacific Brain Health Center, to validate our solution as an effective diagnostic and treatment for attention deficit and cognitive decline.
David Blitzer joined HBSE Ventures as Founder.
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- Sports, Fantasy Sports, Sporting Goods
- Funding Round, Series A
- Portugal, United States
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- SlamBall — SlamBall is a global sports league association. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
- TMRW Sports — TMRW is a sports company that focuses on progressive approaches to sports, media, and technology. Using advances in technology, the company launches golf leagues and holds a series of stadium events to provide people with growing approaches to sports and entertainment.
Moonrock Capital is a Blockchain Advisory and Investment Partnership based in London and Hamburg.
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- Blockchain, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
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- Rebar Labs — Rebar Labs is a company that offers research services and infrastructure for bitcoin. The company wants to help users in the Bitcoin ecosystem create more effective and better experiences by addressing issues related to maximum extractable value and offering services that guarantee equitable value distribution.
- Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.
- Tren Finance — Tren Finance: a secure DeFi liquidity protocol offering seamless asset swaps, yield opportunities, and cross-chain compatibility through automated smart contracts, redefining liquidity for users and institutions.
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.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Sports
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- United States, Portugal
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- 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 is a sports company that focuses on progressive approaches to sports, media, and technology. Using advances in technology, the company launches golf leagues and holds a series of stadium events to provide people with growing approaches to sports 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.
Demium is a talent investment company founded in Spain in 2013 with the aim of supporting the best professionals and helping them to carry out successful projects, always with an eminently digital and technological component. In November 2020, it's asset management company, Demium Capital, started operating with a first €50M fund to invest inmore than 75 early-stage startups per year (pre-seed/seed), becoming the most active venture capital fund in Spain. Startups such as Hannun, Voicemod, Swipcar, Citibox, Singularu or Landbot, among others have been created in the incubator. The company is present in five countries: Spain, Portugal, Poland, Ukraine and Czech Republic
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Spain, Portugal, Poland
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- KomboAI — Close more deals and level up your sales game with KomboAI Learn new winning methodologies, adapt your pitch to your prospects and personalize your outreach. 14-Day Free Trial See Kombo in Action Free forever No credit card Over 200+ sales reps are already using KomboAI during their job Join the sales revolution today Get Insights
- Holaglow — Holaglow is an aesthetic medicine and cosmetic dermatology provider of personalized services.
- Rauda AI — Rauda is an artificial intelligence platform specialized in automating customer service with the best customer experience. Take a quantum leap in productivity, reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction with the power of generative artificial intelligence.
Organizing and investing in a global army of entrepreneurs committed to achieving health moonshots
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- Health Care, Wellness, Medical
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- AvoMD — AvoMD is reimagining clinical decision support with interactive point-of-care software, available standalone and via EHR integrations, and seamless content building tools.
- Pear Suite — Pear Suite empowers community health workers with technology, education, and community, helping them do their best work and serve their communities.
- Hidoc Consult — Hidoc Consult: Boost your well-being with free consultations, 24/7 access to quality healthcare, complete privacy, user-friendly, and a trusted network of HCPs
NewBound VC is an early stage venture capital firm partnering with entrepreneurs who challenge what's "possible".
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- Sports, E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Portugal
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- Buzzer — Buzzer is a notification-driven mobile platform for live sports personalized for fans. The company's mission is to simplify the discovery of live moments and make them seamless to watch. Buzzer takes fans from league to league and game to game, instantaneously.
- Siprocal — Unparalleled reach across the Americas. Impact your target audiences with immersive experiences on their first screen of choice.
- Explorer Cold Brew — With Explorer, you choose how you want your coffee, pick your caffeine level, what Flavor Elixir to add. Craft the perfect cup, conveniently in 30 seconds or less. No more trips to the coffee shop - it's the best way to make an (award-winning!) cold brew at home.
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.
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- Mobile, Sports, Distillery
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Portugal
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- 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 is a sports company that focuses on progressive approaches to sports, media, and technology. Using advances in technology, the company launches golf leagues and holds a series of stadium events to provide people with growing approaches to sports and entertainment.
WiseNext is a venture and smart capital investment company. We focus on helping young entrepreneurs with innovative ideas that have an impact on our society, providing capital, knowledge and networking.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Portugal, United States
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- pleez — Pleez offers Restaurant's an optimisation of their menu within Delivery Platforms, so that they can have a revenue increase up to 25%.
- Volup — Volup is a premium food delivery app that partners exclusively with top-tier chefs and restaurants.
- Relive — Relive is empowering the next generation of real estate entrepreneurs, with a mobile app that allows them to work for themselves, from anywhere, while saving time and earning commissions faster.
Kelvin Beachum Jr. is the NFL Athlete at Arizona Cardinals Football Club.
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- Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- United States, Brazil, Portugal
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- KittyCAD — Zoo creates infrastructure for hardware design. We're laying the foundation for a modern hardware design toolkit, so that you can create new design tools never before possible.
- Vybe — vybe is the place to create fun photos with friends.
- Fastbreak.ai — Fastbreak.ai is a SaaS Sports Scheduling Platform.
Seven Seven Six is an early stage venture capital firm that is built at the intersection of product and people with nearly $1B AUM and a self-built operating system called Cerebro to scale their team, portfolio monitoring & support, and LP relations.
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- Software, Blockchain, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Israel, India
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- Hgen — Hgen provides affordable green hydrogen for deep decarbonization.
- Troveo AI — AI companies are scouring the internet for high-quality video. Troveo helps you capture the value and turn your video into passive revenue.
- Riverside.fm — Riverside.fm makes it easy for podcasters and media companies to record remote interviews in studio quality. End result? 4k video and WAV audio content.
Semapa Next is a venture capital firm that invests in European-based companies aspiring to become global category leaders.
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- SaaS, Information Technology, B2B
- Series A, Seed
- Portugal, United Kingdom
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- Soveren — Soveren helps engineering and security teams protect personal data by detecting privacy risks and analyzing real-time data flows within your infrastructure.
- Ferovinum — We are a technology enabled supply chain financing partner for the wine and spirit industries. Our platform funds wine producers, whisky distillers, bottlers and merchants.
- RealFevr — Collect moments with the most iconic video moments of your favourite football players.
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