Top 45 Transportation Startup Investors in Portugal in December 2024

Investor	Transportation Portugal investments
Portugal Ventures	6
Indico Capital Partners	4
Shilling	3
SVG Ventures	3
Miguel Santo Amaro	3
Olisipo Way	3
Maersk Growth	2
Lince Capital	2
Dmitry Shklyar	2
Crane Venture Partners	2
Alex Vassiliev	2
MSM	2
Leonid Dovladbegyan	2
Andrey Tsytsenko	2
COREangels	2
WISENEXT	2
Braincapital	1
Cleo Sham	1
EDP Ventures	1
Caixa Capital	1
Instituição Financeira de Desenvolvimento	1
Insta Ventures	1
Flyer One Ventures	1
Banco de Investimento Global	1
Startup Lab	1
Best Horizon	1
Forestay Capital	1
Ideias Glaciares	1
Market One Capital	1
Timo Meyer	1
Seedcamp	1
Shio Capital	1
Filipe de Botton	1
LC Ventures	1
Raison Wealth	1
TMT Investments	1
Cristina Fonseca	1
European regional development fund (ERDF)	1
SVG Ventures	1
Vershina Capital	1
Flyer One Ventures	1
CaixaBank	1
LocalGlobe	1
Castel Capital	1
Bright Pixel	1

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

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.

Indico Capital Partners is the leading independent Venture Capital firm in Portugal investing in global technology companies. Indico focuses on software as a service, artificial intelligence, internet of things, fintech, cybersecurity and digital companies, targeting investments at Seed to Series A level. Founded in 2017, the team at Indico werepreviously behind the majority of the Portuguese global tech success stories, as investors and entrepreneurs.Headed by the two most senior former Caixa Capital VC Team members, supported by a successful and experienced entrepreneur and a strong group of advisors, top entrepreneurs, they raised our first fund (authorized by the Portuguese Securities Market Commission - CMVM) from a cornerstone institutional investor (EIF) and international family/multi-family offices from Europe, US, and Australia. In addition to Silicon Valley, London, and Berlin, cities like Lisbon have emerging startup ecosystems. Portugal went through a difficult macro environment years ago which led to a growth in the entrepreneurship culture and investment. We have excellent tech graduates and a global mindset.Highly innovative companies like luxury eCommerce platform Farfetch, YC graduate machine learning translation platform Unbabel or the leading student accommodation marketplace Uniplaces have a strong Portuguese DNA and went to raise international rounds in the UK and the US - we want to back the next success stories of the ecosystem.

Investment focus

Information Technology, E-Commerce, B2B
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Portugal, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

FRVR — FRVR brings captivating games to billions of players instantly.
Indie Campers — Indie Campers offers adventurers the opportunity to start their journey in one location and end it in any of our other depots, while delivering an outstanding customer service for a unique and unforgettable experience.
Oceano Fresco — Oceano Fresco develops and produces bivalves varieties with superior performance for shellfish farmers at a competitive cost, respecting environmental sustainability and ensuring consumer safety.They use a multi-disciplinary approach including expertise in molecular biology, genetics, animal physiology, computational biology and intellectualproperty to select value adding traits to shellfish farmers and contribute to the sustainability and profitability of the aquaculture industry.They work with hatcheries, nurseries and research centers in order to test and validate their solutions and ensure that they suit the specific needs of each customer, in each technical and environmental context.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Portugal, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

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 are a Venture & Innovation Platform Advancing the Food & Agriculture Industries We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the food and agriculture industries.

Investment focus

AgTech, Agriculture, Farming
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

scoutlabs — We're building the world's densest digital trap network to accurately gauge insect pest pressure. This helps millions of farmers in precisely combating crop-eating insects, accelerating a transition to more sustainable methods. Good for the farmer, the environment and for our food security
Cynomys — Soluzioni IOT di monitoraggio ambientale per allevamenti e aziende
Verdi Expeditions — Verdi is building the world's first truly scalable platform for farm automation. We work with the world's largest food brands to grow better and more sustainable crops.

Miguel is a tech entrepreneur (Coverflex, StudentFinance, and Uniplaces) and an early-stage tech investor via Shilling (new early-stage €30M Shilling Founders Fund).Miguel is the co-founder & CEO of Coverflex.com. The way we work is changing, but compensation — salary, bonus, equity, and benefits — has not evolved for decades. The currentrigid, one-size-fits-all approach is outdated and fails to satisfy the needs of the modern workforce. Coverflex is changing that. This all-in-one tech-enabled platform enables all companies — regardless of their size — to design, consolidate and personalise their compensation offers beyond salary. Companies can supercharge their employee benefits while saving both time and money. Coverflex calls this “Compensation as a Service”. Miguel is also the founder of Studentfinance.com (edtech startup promoting Income-Share -Agreements (“ISA”) to help increase educational opportunity and empower people to access high-impact careers) & Uniplaces.com (consumer marketplace to mid-to-long term rentals).Miguel is also a Partner, since 2017, in the most active pre-seed and seed VC in Portugal - Shilling.vc - as well as a lead mentor role in Techstars. Since then, Miguel led angel investments in more than 30 early-stage companies in Europe.Miguel is passionate about startups and entrepreneurship and serves as an advisor to a number of early-stage companies around Europe. Since 2017 he is an EO Portugal Founding Member, a peer-to-peer organisation that supports high-impact entrepreneurs across the world. He is married to Flávia and together they have baby Camila.

Investment focus

Communities, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Spain, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

EatTasty — Fresh food delivery service in Lisbon. Easy to choose and order. Free delivery. Discover our delicious lunches and dinners!
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

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.

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.

Integrated logistics company and global leader in container shipping.

Investment focus

Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Altris — Altris is a leading developer of sodium-ion batteries, offering superior performance and sustainability. Our innovative energy storage solutions are made from abundant and renewable materials, revolutionizing the way we power the world. Discover our cutting-edge technology today.
MODIFI — Explore digital trade finance and B2B payment solutions that empower your business to grow globally.
Pactum — Pactum autonomous negotiations help companies unlock hidden value. Our AI negotiates non-strategic supplier contracts on a massive scale.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round
Portugal, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

pleez — Pleez offers Restaurant's an optimisation of their menu within Delivery Platforms, so that they can have a revenue increase up to 25%.
Sensei — We are the leading European provider of autonomous stores, with an AI-powered solution to build efficient operations and deliver a seamless shopping experience.
Bling Energy — Bling Energy is a startup that focuses on providing more efficient and sustainable energy solutions, mostly through solar panels.

Dmitry Shklyar is the founder of JobTop. Dmitry Shklyar attended Saint Petersburg State University of Finance and Economics in 2002.

Investment focus

Finance, Grocery, Crowdfunding
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Portugal, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Bairro Direct — Produtos em minutos
JetLend — JetLend is a crowdfunding platform through which private investors lend to small businesses.
Geeek club — Learn without realizing. Unique DIY bots and models. Made of PCB.

VC firm investing into seed and early stage intelligent enterprise and deep tech companies in Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Tinybird — Tinybird helps data teams build real-time Data Products at scale through SQL-based API endpoints. It ingests millions of rows per second and serves low latency, high concurrency analytical queries over any amount of data.
Encord — Discover how the world's leading AI teams use Encord to accelerate the development of the next generation of AI applications.
Cyberhaven — DLP works for 1% of companies; fortunately there is Cyberhaven for the other 99%. Cyberhaven makes data protection simple, accurate, and comprehensive. With it's Data Detection and Response (DDR) platform, Cyberhaven automatically discovers and classifies data, provides continuous risk detection, delivers accurate blocking and incidentresponse, and improves user behavior.

Alex Vassiliev is a Founder and CEO at Elixir Fine Foods.

Investment focus

Apps, Baby, EdTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bairro Direct — Produtos em minutos
Buddy.ai — Buddy lets children practice spoken English by talking with a virtual AI-powered cartoon character in a mobile app. With its engaging virtual character, speech technology, and adaptive learning, Buddy is making speaking practice affordable for 500 million children around the globe by automating the mundane part of tutoring work at a fraction ofthe cost. This enables teachers and parents to give kids unlimited speaking practice, essential for mastering English.
Elixir Fine Foods — Elixir Fine Foods is an innovative startup company bringing the highest quality European products to China, using the power of social commerce.Flagship brand in Elixir's portfolio is Healthy Eva - baby food brand with products in different categories including fruit, vegetable, meat and fish purees, baby biscuits, baby porridges etcdistributed through e-commerce and social commerce in China, including e-commerce platforms like Tmall Global or live-streaming serices such as Taobao Live, Kuaishou etc.

MSM is an early-stage generalist impact fund that invests all across Europe.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Biorce — Biorce is an innovating HealthAI startup committed to transforming drug development through the use of artificial intelligence.
UpLink — UpLink is a Telecommunications company that empowers the spread of The Collective Network farther, faster, and cheaper.UpLink believes that connectivity is a human right, an enabler of growth, and an equalizer of opportunities. They envision a world where the Internet is more accessible, inclusive, and affordable. Founded by Carlos Lei Santosand Andre Francisco in 2016 and is located in New York, NY.
WNWN Food Labs — We're WNWN Food Labs and we love food. We're creating delicious, sustainable and ethical alternatives to unsustainable and ethically dubious foods. We're starting with cacao-free chocolate. Changing chocolate? It's Win-Win #alt-chocolate #altchocolate #alt-universe #altuniverse #alt-protein

Leonid Dovladbegyan is a general director of online hypermarket Vprok.ru.

Investment focus

Grocery, Food Delivery, Delivery Service
Seed, Pre-Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Bairro Direct — Produtos em minutos

Andrew Tsytsenko is a CEO/Co-founder – Motify App. He attended Université Paris Dauphine - PSL.

Investment focus

Grocery, Software, Food Delivery
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Portugal, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Bairro Direct — Produtos em minutos
Geeek club — Learn without realizing. Unique DIY bots and models. Made of PCB.
Skipp — Hire Top Software Developers, UX/UI Designers, Product managers, DevOps, No-code Developers And Other Tech Talents

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

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Spain, Portugal, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Imageryst — Imageryst automatically extracts satellite imagery insights to enhance global strategic and operational decisions.
Plain Tiger — Elevate your hotel and spa with Plain Tiger's B2B marketplace. Source sustainably from our curated portfolio of consumables suppliers, featuring leading products for spas, hotel rooms, and operations. Connect with verified sustainable suppliers, fueling an eco-conscious shift in hospitality.
Triple — The best payment data enrichment solution. Our API includes fraud detection, transaction enrichment, categorization, subscriptions, and carbon footprint.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed
Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.

Braincapital is an angel Investor offering financial opportunities for companies. It is looking for projects out of Portugal.

Investment focus

Energy, Chemical, Railroad
Seed, Pre-Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

ChemiTek — Certified & sustainable solutions for industrial maintenance. We have the solutions you need!
MUB cargo — The easiest way of getting the best prices for your deliveries

Cleo is Spotahome’s Chief Operating Officer. She oversees Spotahome’s global performance, delivery and expansion, and leads operations and customer experience, which covers Spotahome’s unique selling proposition -the Homecheckers, property listings, landlord management, regional development and the tenant experience. Prior to Spotahome, Cleo wasHead of Uber’s Regional Operations EMEA, where she was responsible for ridesharing operations in 45 countries after moving from Director of Operations, China. There she helped to turn Guangzhou, home to 12 million people in southern China, into Uber’s busiest city globally in little more than two years. Prior to Uber, she had worked at Mckinsey, Merrill Lynch and had launched a number of her own startups. Cleo is the first woman to join the Spotahome C-Suite. Cleo is a strong ambassador for women in business and LGBTQ+ inclusivity, recognised by her participation in leading events Women in Technology, EUROUT and Feminin Pluriel. She holds an MBA from Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League institution, where she was a Joseph Wharton Fellow, and graduated from Rice University with a triple-major in Economics, Managerial Studies and Sports Management. In her spare time, Cleo has a passion for sports, especially surfing and tennis. She speaks English, Cantonese, Mandarin, German and Spanish.

Investment focus

mHealth, Wellness, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Kitch — Centralize all your delivery apps or create your own delivery channel for your restaurant with Kitch. Join for free!
Yayem — Yayem is an experiential members club and digital platform changing the nature of work and play. We are building the world’s first lifestyle brand for the new age of hybrid worker.
Pourwell — Introducing the world's first subscription club for premium alcohol free spirits

EDP Ventures is the venture capital arm of EDP. We invest in early-stage startups working in the energy space

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Energy
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Portugal, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Captura — Captura mission is globally scalable carbon capture to support a sustainable future for the climate.
Splight — Enhance Grid Performance
Delfos Energy — Why did it Fail? Avoid unexpected failures across your assetsReduce the risk of unexpected failuresmoreOptimize Maintenance Windowsmoreretain and scale up operational knowledgemoreplatform real time monitoring, analysis and predictions for renewable energy and oil&gas assetsVIEW OUR APPLICATIONS customer and partnerssee what our customers say about our solutions TestimonialsYour failure prediction alarm, helped us avoid an

Caixa Capital is the Private Equity and Venture Capital arm of banking Group Caixa Geral de Depósitos and has a track record spanning over two decades of activity, since the industry was created in Portugal. It is a leading investor in terms of funds under management, portfolio size and diversity.Caixa Capital´s mission is to invest in fundsand companies, led by highly qualified management teams, with high growth and valuation potential, that enable our funds to achieve an attractive risk adjusted return and for society at large to benefit sustainably from our activity.Currently with more than 700 million Euros under management and a portfolio of over 80 investments, Caixa Capital is a reference in this area with special links to the respective European sector associations.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Portugal, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

HiJiffy — Increase direct bookings and upselling with HiJiffy's AI-powered communication solutions for hospitality.
Probely — Probely is a web application and API vulnerability scanner for agile teams. Automate Security Testing by adding Probely into your SDLC and CI/CD pipelines.
Infraspeak — Infraspeak is an Intelligent CMMS Software that brings outstanding flexibility, connectivity and intelligence to your operations.

Instituição Financeira de Desenvolvimento (IFD), with headquarters in Porto, has as its main goal to direct public financial resources, preferentially leveraged by private co-financing, and in particular Financial Instruments (FI) of Equity / Quasi-Equity and Mid- to Long-Term Debt, so that “viable” SME may increase their equity capital andfinance their investments, while developing their activity in industries concerning tradable goods or services, in the start-up, growth or transfer of ownership stages. Created on the 21st of October of 2014 by the Decree-Law No. 155/2014, IFD is a State-owned financial company, registered with the Banco de Portugal under number 316, whose object is to perform operations to mitigate market failures in financing to small and medium enterprises (SME), through the management of investment funds, other autonomous sets of assets or instruments of a similar nature, co-financed by public funds to support the economy, and the performance of credit operations, including issuance of guarantees and other commitments.IFD’s Mission is to design, structure and operationalise financing solutions that address market failures in Portuguese SME access to finance, thus contributing to economic development and to the creation of wealth and employment, with growing volumes of added value.

Investment focus

AgTech, Internet, Software
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Agri Marketplace — A b2b digital marketplace where fair food trade is made easy, fast and transparent!

Insta Ventures is a venture capital firm that has been investing in different IT technology sectors since 2019. Currently, we are looking for tech startups that are in the early stages of development of their products. Our investment team consists of experienced professionals with solid backgrounds in the IT sphere. Our goal is to help ambitiousteams create innovative products, spread them globally, and maintain fast-growing companies.Typically, we invest $100K-500K during a growing stage of a company's lifecycle (seed / late seed / pre-round A), and then help to develop its marketing and sales, as well as prepare the company for the next investment phase.We appreciate co-investments. Let's invest together!

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Grocery
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Estonia, France

Portfolio highlights

Bairro Direct — Produtos em minutos
Pop Market — Pop Market delivers thousands of grocery and convenience products in less than 15 minutes.The company operates a vertically-integrated model, sourcing products directly from suppliers and distributing them from its own network of delivery-only "dark stores”. By having more control of its supply chain, it has the ability to limit food wasteand offer ultra-fast delivery times. Pop Market is backed by leading global investors and its team brings together deep industry experience.
HuLoop Automation, Inc. — HuLoop Automation offers an AI-powered, no-code, unified automation platform that helps clients drive transformation, and achieve revenue growth, cost savings, and productivity gains by automating mundane, repetitive activities.

Flyer One Ventures is an international early-stage venture capital firm focused on early-stage startups from CEE region. The fund invests in future-proof startups, founded by exceptional teams, and operating on global markets worth more than $10 billion. Flyer One Ventures funds startups in Mobile, Health Tech, EdTech, Fitness & Wellness, B2BSaaS, Gaming, FoodTech, and AI/ML industries and helps them scale on international markets. Founded by the co-founder of BetterMe and supported by Genesis Tech, Flyer One Ventures has deep expertise in Digital Marketing, Product, PR, Branding, and Recruiting. Along with the financial investment, Flyer One Ventures actively supports its portfolio companies, helping them optimize Digital Marketing campaigns, hire R&D staff, build user-friendly products, and fundraise Series A and Series B rounds. Flyer One Ventures' ultimate goal is to support early-stage startups in the geographies with low access to early financing and help them become global leaders by mentorship and daily support.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Cyprus

Portfolio highlights

Higgsfield — We're building a personalized AI video platform that unlocks the next generation of entertainment
RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
Field Materials, Inc. — Increase Margins and Cut Costs with Digital Procurement

Banco de Investimento Global, SA is a specialized financial institution which is licensed in all business areas open to the banking sector

Investment focus

Information Technology, Mobile, GovTech
Seed
Portugal, Germany

Portfolio highlights

LOQR — Increase your business and reduce costs with the best AI-Powered Journey-as-a-Service provider for financial institutions.
Drivit — Drivit turns any smartphone into a high-quality telematics device. Power your mobility app with features that will show you the best way to a safer, cheaper and more sustainable driving.
Elucidate — The Elucidate FinCrime Index (EFI) is a financial crime risk quantification platform to build trust and confidence between financial institutions, corporates, and regulators.

Startup Lab Russia is a pre-seed/early seed venture capital fund. Startup Lab Russia invests in projects in the early stages and helps them grow, build a network of contacts, scale sales channels, optimize the business model and internal processes with leading experts, and then enter international markets.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Russian Federation, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Bairro Direct — Produtos em minutos
Agently.com — Automate your real estate marketing to win more listings and close more deals.
Boomerangme — Digital loyalty cards for your business - give bonuses to regular customers, send personal offers by free push-notifications. App for iOS / Android.

Best Horizon is a venture capital platform that provides financing, mentoring, and access to their contact and partner network. They have invested in ICT startups for more than a decade. They also have a portfolio of half a hundred companies in Portugal, Spain, USA, Brazil, and the Netherlands.

Investment focus

Music, Gaming, Shipping
Seed, Pre-Seed
Portugal, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

redcatpig — Award-winning Game Development Studio from Azores, Portugal. Currently working on KEO, a post-apocalyptic/sci-fi vehicle combat game.
Musiversal — Record your music in real time with world-class session musicians, vocalists, producers and audio engineers
KIT-AR — Reduce time and costs spent fixing errors on your manufacturing shopfloor with quality assurance and augmented reality- Click in to find how!

Forestay Capital is dedicated to investing in the tech sector and reflects Waypoint’s focus on innovative, forward-looking industries in which it can leverage its entrepreneurial heritage and long-track record in helping businesses to realize their ambitions for growth. It is passionate about technologies that transform conventional models withsoftware and data to make an impact on business, practices, and people. It invests in revenue-generating technology companies in Europe, Israel, and in the US, and favors software and data-driven businesses that challenge established models.Forestay Capital was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Geneve, Switzerland.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Logistics
Series B, Series C, Series A
Switzerland, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Manta — Get a holistic view of your data pipelines to boost your data governance, achieve DataOps, and migrate to the cloud without a hassle.
Neural Concept — Neural Concept is the first AI software for enhanced engineering. Leverage your historical CAD and CAE data to drastically shorten and improve your design cycles.
Wasabi Technologies — Wasabi provides simple, predictable and affordable hot cloud storage for businesses all over the world. It enables organizations to store and instantly access an unlimited amount of data at 1/5th the price of the competition with no complex tiers or unpredictable egress fees. Trusted by tens of thousands of customers worldwide, Wasabi has beenrecognized as one of technology’s fastest-growing and most visionary companies. Created by Carbonite co-founders and cloud storage pioneers David Friend and Jeff Flowers, Wasabi has secured nearly $275 million in funding to date and is a privately held company based in Boston.

Ideias Glaciares

Investment focus

Wellness, SaaS, Mobile Apps
Pre-Seed, Seed
Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.

Market One Capital | Seed fund empowering marketplaces and network effects platforms across Europe

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Poland, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Trever — Start operating with digital assets and manage trading, treasury management, and bookkeeping within a single connection. Quick integration, 24/7 availability and fully compliant.
eany — B2B marketplace for Household, DIY and Home Electronics products
Connecty AI — Connecty AI is a contextual intelligence platform for vast data. It leverages Gen AI for an integrated solution for enterprise-specific context building, data prep and trusted insights, saving 100s of hours for data teams.

Timo Meyer is the Founder & Managing Director at Shio Capital.He attended DSTY.

Investment focus

Restaurants, Food and Beverage
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

INSRD — Elevate your startup's growth with tailored coverage, digital comfort and unparalleled service. From newborn to unicorn, insuring your success.
Volup — Volup is a premium food delivery app that partners exclusively with top-tier chefs and restaurants.
Milano Vice — Milano Vice is building a new virtual food brand by working with professional kitchens to prepare and deliver delicious pizzas to home.

Seedcamp is Europe's seed fund, identifying and investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. The Seedcamp Nation includes over 400 startups building breakout businesses that change the way people live, interact and buy and includes publicly listed UiPath, Wise, and unicornsRevolut, Hopin, Sorare, Pleo, and wefox along with fast-growing businesses such as Grover, viz.ai and Ezra. Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support, and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Sylvera — Sylvera Carbon offset ratings make offset quality and risks transparent. We make offsets auditable for offset sellers, intermediaries, buyers and investors.
Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.

Shio Capital Venture Investments in Businesses that Change the World

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Grocery
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Raus — Raus is a hospitality-tech startup that offers new opportunities to take a break from big city life. Raus serves as a welcome escape from the seemingly endless demands and constant stimuli of modern life with perfectly simple cabins, close enough for a spontaneous getaway, far enough away to completely unwind.
Blockbrain — Blockbrain analyzes millions of transactions on the blockchain to proactively detect threats and opportunities for digital assets you store in crypto wallets and exchanges.The company manages all types of wallets in one secure technology. Track KPIs, be aware of threats, and manage your assets.Blockbrain was established on May 6, 2022 byJohannes Strachwitz in Hamburg, Germany.
Milano Vice — Milano Vice is building a new virtual food brand by working with professional kitchens to prepare and deliver delicious pizzas to home.

Filipe de Botton

Investment focus

Food Delivery
Pre-Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Volup — Volup is a premium food delivery app that partners exclusively with top-tier chefs and restaurants.

We’re an early stage European venture capital firm partnering with globally minded founders.We’re supportive, founder focused, and aim to work together with you as a close and collaborative team of independent thinkers. Along with the support of our entire network, each member of our team brings their own personal experience to the table. Thefirst ticket is up to 200K€ and the total investment in a given startup can be up to 1M€.We decide investments quickly, allowing the founders to get back focusing on growing the business. Our team and network of international mentors help young startups to scale quickly and to prepare for the next rounds.Our partners have been investing in tech-based startups since 2000 and have a portfolio of more than 100 companies in the USA, Brazil, The Netherlands, Spain and Portugal.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series D
Portugal, China, Poland

Portfolio highlights

360hyper — The groceries marketplace where you can find everthing you need. Buy online groceries as fast as in 4 hours with personalized picking.
Musiversal — Record your music in real time with world-class session musicians, vocalists, producers and audio engineers
Brands&Ninjas — SaaS to control the performance of physical marketing campaigns on retail.

Ultimate investment app for everyone. Invest in top-tier venture deals, digital assets, and public stocks. Buy structured notes. Access trust asset management.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS
Secondary Market, Funding Round, Seed
United States, Switzerland, Israel

Portfolio highlights

ConsenSys — Build next-generation apps, launch blockchain-based financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web with ConsenSys' Ethereum product suite.
Mercury — Powerful banking. Simplified finances. Apply in 10 minutes for business banking that transforms how you operate.
Animoca Brands — Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

TMT Investments PLC invests in high-growth technology companies across a number of core specialist sectors and has a significant number of Silicon Valley investments in its portfolio. Founded in 2010, TMT has invested in over 65 companies to date. The Company’s objective is to generate an attractive rate of return for shareholders,predominantly through capital appreciation. The Company is traded on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. www.tmtinvestments.com.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Social Media
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Enty — One subscription for Invoicing, Contracts, and Finances
Whizz — My Device is a subscription-based rental service provider for devices like electric scooters, bicycles, home sports equipment, etc.
Mobilo Card — Share your contact details with a tap. The best digital business card for teams. This is a real business card, no app. The best and cheapest digital business card.

Cristina is a female software engineer and entrepreneur. She holds a Master’s degree in Telecommunications and Software Engineering from the Technical University of Lisbon and before founding Talkdesk she worked as a researcher and built two other online businesses.Talkdesk is a platform that allows you to you create your call center in minutesand integrate it with a variety of top business tools, including Salesforce, Desk.com and Zendesk. Talkdesk raised more than $24M in the last 2 years from Salesforce Ventures, DFJ, Storm Ventures and 500Startups.Cristina leads the Talkdesk Lisbon office and her areas of focus include engineering, product and knowledge management. Cristina is proud of the role woman play in technology and society today. She is a Global Shaper and part of the Global Agenda Council on Europe, a World Economic Forum initiative.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, CRM
Seed, Angel, Series A
Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

EatTasty — Fresh food delivery service in Lisbon. Easy to choose and order. Free delivery. Discover our delicious lunches and dinners!
Infraspeak — Infraspeak is an Intelligent CMMS Software that brings outstanding flexibility, connectivity and intelligence to your operations.
Amplemarket — Next Generation Sales Intelligence

The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) aims to improve the European Union's economic, social, and territorial cohesion by resolving imbalances across its various regions. ERDF funds initiatives for which the European Commission and national and regional governments in member countries share responsibility. Each member state'sgovernment decides which initiatives to support and is responsible for their continued supervision.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Grant, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

Losanje — Losanje has a brand and an upcycling workshop that gives second-hand and unsold completed apparel and textiles a second life. Its goal is to create an innovative manufacturing chain that will allow for the first time the industrialization of upcycling, as well as to implement the most credible solution, both ecologically and economically.
PulmoBiomed — Pulmobiomed has developed a best-in-class exhaled breath condensate device, capable of capturing Covid-19 particles in as little as 5 seconds. Pulmobiomed a biotechnology company is working with industry leaders in integrating their diagnostic capabilities into our PBM-Hale device. Pulmobiomed techn
Knock Technology — The world's simplest video chat app: Improves mental health and boosts innovation. It's a secure, cost effective and peer-to-peer telecoms solution for everyone.

We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the agtech and foodtech industries.

Investment focus

AgTech, Agriculture, Farming
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

FarmWise — FarmWise provides technology-based services that allow farmers to streamline farm operations and increase food production efficiency.
Napigen — We are the genome editing company specialized for mitochondrial engineering. We address unmet needs of future food supplies by creating hybrid crop plants to boost their yields to an unprecedented level. The company’s technology creates robust male sterile lines that are ideal over conventional lines because of their stability and elitebackgrounds. This allows the production of non-GM hybrid seeds in crop plants that are currently mostly non-hybrid such as wheat. Our technology solution is expected to fulfill the highest level of public acceptance and aspiration.
Iamus Technologies — Iamus Technologies Limited is an Artificial Intelligence & Robotics company based in Ireland that has developed poultry specific robotic technology that empowers poultry farmers to make better and safer production decisions. Over the last 2 years we have been working globally with poultry processors in identifying KPIs that our robots cancontinuously gather on the ground in poultry sheds and feedback instantly to both producer and the relevant personnel back at the processing plant. Results to date are impressive with automatic and accurate data recovery from the birds on every part of the floor and analysis with real-time intervention now possible. These factors are key in addressing the growing demands of modern, intensive broiler production with the Iamus robot & platform meeting these requirements.

Vershina Capital is a venture capital fund with the focus on innovative business models and growing markets. We provide our financing and expertise to early stage startups in online education, foodtech, e-commerce and saas business models.

Investment focus

Software, EdTech, Education
Secondary Market, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Russian Federation, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Bairro Direct — Produtos em minutos
MetroSpeedy — MetroSpeedy is a leading technology based local delivery company providing on-demand, same day or scheduled delivery services.
Xway (FRIPPERWAY) — Сервис для продажи товаров на крупных маркетплейсах

Flyer One Ventures is an international early-stage venture capital firm focused on early-stage startups from CEE region. The fund invests in future-proof startups, founded by exceptional teams, and operating on global markets worth more than $10 billion. Flyer One Ventures funds startups in Mobile, Health Tech, EdTech, Fitness & Wellness, B2BSaaS, Gaming, FoodTech, and AI/ML industries and helps them scale on international markets. Founded by the co-founder of BetterMe and supported by Genesis Tech, Flyer One Ventures has deep expertise in Digital Marketing, Product, PR, Branding, and Recruiting. Along with the financial investment, Flyer One Ventures actively supports its portfolio companies, helping them optimize Digital Marketing campaigns, hire R&D staff, build user-friendly products, and fundraise Series A and Series B rounds. Flyer One Ventures' ultimate goal is to support early-stage startups in the geographies with low access to early financing and help them become global leaders by mentorship and daily support.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Cyprus, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

99math — 99math is e-sports in school math! Global online tournaments for kids. They get excited and start achieving in math.
Peech — text to speech
Cooper Pet Care — Cooper Pet Care - Compare and buy the best pet insurance at lowest price. Give your pet the protection they need.

Portal web corporativo de CaixaBank. Información corporativa para Accionistas e Inversores, información comercial y sobre responsabilidad corporativa.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Apps, Food Delivery
Debt Financing, Seed, Pre-Seed
Spain, Italy, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Fincantieri — Fincantieri is one of the shipbuilding groups and number one by diversification and innovation. It is leader in cruise ship design and construction and a reference player in all high-tech shipbuilding industry’s sectors, from naval to offshore vessels, from high-complexity special vessels and ferries to mega-yachts, ship repairs and conversions,systems and components production and after-sales services.
Italcer Group — Italcer Group is a manufacturer of indoor and outdoor ceramic products.
El Corte Ingles — El Corte Inglés is a business group with more than 80 years of history, upholding the same values as always. Our steadfast principles of ethical and responsible conduct allow us to evolve towards an omnichannel model more aligned with digitalisation, diversification and sustainability. This has meant a progress in the transformation of El CorteInglés from a retailer to a unique ecosystem. Without ever taking our eyes off the product and service quality, expertise, curated selections, guarantees and innovation we offer with the ultimate goal of making people's lives easier.

Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Clock Bio — Clock Bio operates as a biotech company, that develops novel regenerative medicines.
Keel — Keel is a London-based startup offering modern businesses a much-needed third choice between off-the-shelf and no-code tools. Keel has developed a powerful programmable operations platform which offers all the benefits of bespoke tooling without the need to build from scratch.Keel was founded in 2022 by Benoit Machefer, Tom Frew and Jon Bretman,who directly experienced the frustration of being underserved by off-the-shelf software when scaling the fastest growing online pharmacy in Europe to over $130m revenue. The company represents a compelling vision of a future without legacy ERP, where ops teams and engineers work more closely together building bespoke tools on the robust and secure Keel platform.
Yonder — A modern lifestyle credit card packed with rewards, no foreign exchange fees, and loads more. Apply without needing a UK credit score.

Castel Capital is an investment group offering private equity and investment solutions for entrepreneurs, high net worth individuals, family offices, and discerning individuals. Castel Capital was founded by a small group of senior finance professionals with a long track record in the investment and financial sector. Besides their track record ininvestment banking and private equity, they have managed start-ups as well as established blue chip companies and continue to serve on a wide variety of company Boards.

Investment focus

Transportation, Travel, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
Spain, Cyprus, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Boxmotions — Home delivery of bulky items (furniture, home appliances, large sports equipment, etc.) is a large, growing, segregated and underserved market. Retail and e-commerce are in need of a solution that delivers quality and end customer experience standards comparable to the most innovative regular parcel delivery solutions.Boxmotions' owntechnology stack and operational processes have been meticulously curated with an end-customer-centric approach, generating capabilities unseen in the bulky items logistics industry before: scheduled time slot deliveries controlled by the end customer, delivery times x5 faster than industry average, tailored technology-guided interactions, assembly/dissassembly services, and more. We connect demand's orders with a curated pool of existing, segregated supply while guiding the whole value chain through our technology and generating incremental operational efficiency. Such model entices supply and, at the same time, provides retail and e-commerce with a capability to boost end customer experience with only competitive logistics costs.The basis of our technology stack and supply curation comes originally from an initial business line: an on-demand-storage solution for personal logistics. In our journey towards a larger market, we have always maintained our vision of making urban life easier, and more sustainable.
GetTransfer.com — Rides between airports, railway stations, cities, hotels and other places.
Mediktor — Mediktor is an interactive tool that can analyse users' symptoms and evaluate their state of health. It also allows them to chat with a doctor in real time.

A prominent European venture capital in Retail Technologies, Digital Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and Emerging Technologies

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Portugal, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Chord — Chord is a commerce data platform purpose-built for modern brands. Chord enables brands to unify, synthesize, and orchestrate their data to drive radical decisions and revenue.
Didimo — Didimo creates realistic high-fidelity digital humans. Simple, fast, accurate user-generated avatars to integrate into your app, game or site.
Probely — Probely is a web application and API vulnerability scanner for agile teams. Automate Security Testing by adding Probely into your SDLC and CI/CD pipelines.