# Top 50 Sports Startup Investors in Portugal in June 2026

## Kima Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Kima Ventures promotes the growth of startups, supporting them in the fastest and most effective ways.

## Shilling VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Internet

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.

## Olisipo Way
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Marketplace

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.

## Portugal Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Porto, Lisboa, Portugal
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

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

## another.vc
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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.

## Bynd Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Bynd is a leading Iberian Venture Capital firm

## Omar Fonseca
- Type: Angel
- Location: Issy-les-moulineaux, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Sports, Soccer, Fitness

Omar da Fonseca is the Ex-player.

## 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.

## 35V
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Sports, Fashion, Lifestyle

Official site of Thirty Five Ventures. Founded by Kevin Durant & Rich Kleiman. Investments, philanthropy, media, and more.

## Armilar Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## TrulyMad
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Fitness, Wellness

TrulyMad Business Accelerator

## 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.

## 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.

## APEX Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cascais, Lisboa, Portugal
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Sports, Health Care, Information Technology

Investing with elite athletes in Sports, Media and Entertainment.

## Demium Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Health Care

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

## Seven Seven Six
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, FinTech

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.

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

António Félix da Costa

## 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.

## Boost VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Mateo, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain

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.

## 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)

## Roca X
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

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!

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## Explorer Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Manufacturing, Retail, Information Technology

Founded in 2003, Explorer is Portugals leading independent management company of alternative assets, with a reputation for outstanding quality, in-depth experience and an excellent track record.

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

Ideias Glaciares

## StartUp Health
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Wellness, Medical

Organizing and investing in a global army of entrepreneurs committed to achieving health moonshots

## WISENEXT
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

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.

## COREangels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ílhavo, Aveiro, Portugal
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Where startups can get much more than money, and Investors can professionally invest as angels.

## M4 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Beauty, FinTech, Fitness

M4 Ventures helps startups to grow and expand globally through experience and hands-on collaboration.

## Morningstar Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

We are a proprietary investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain technology, primarily focused on the Elrond Ecosystem.

## 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.

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

Alexandre Yazdi is the CEO at Voodoo.

## Semapa Next
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Information Technology

Semapa Next is a venture capital firm that invests in European-based companies aspiring to become global category leaders.

## Lince Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Information Technology

Lince Capital is an independent venture capital company. Lince Capital was born from the experience of a family group with over 30 years of experience in managing investment funds in various business areas, including real estate, infrastructure, agriculture, and telecommunications.Lince Capital is distinguished by its personalized and excellentsupport, close and direct relationship with each of its investors and business partners, and the dedication of an experienced and dynamic team.

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

Alejandro Bedoya

## Trybe Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Sports, Retail, Soccer

With a history in angel investing and now operating under Trybe Ventures, we invest in early-stage companies with a focus in healthcare, media, sports tech, SaaS, and biotech. The "Y" in Trybe highlights to the founder that this starts with them and our aim is to help catapult their company closer to achieving its goals.

## 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.

## Clever Advertising
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Mobile Apps, PaaS, SaaS

We are an online advertising company. Experts on leading monetization models. With cutting-edge online media campaigns, online content and traffic management.

## Atlas Finance Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Gift

Atlas Finance is a diversified global group operating and invest in many sectors "Media, Financial technology...ext"

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

Jeremy Hendon

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

Michael Chang

## The Twenty Minute VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech

Welcome to 20VC. 20VC operates at the intersection of venture and media. 

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

Sérgio Oliveira

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

Scott MacMillan

## ADvantage
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Sports, eSports, PaaS

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).

## Ganexa Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care

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

## Moonrock Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency

Moonrock Capital is a Blockchain Advisory and Investment Partnership based in London and Hamburg.

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

Édouard Mendy

## FIBA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Little Switzerland, North Carolina, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Soccer, Sports

The Official website of FIBA basketball events. Browse news, schedules, stats, rankings, results and events calendar.

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