Top 15 Platforms Startup Investors in Portugal (October 2023)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Freigeist Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, Bulgaria, Portugal | Seed, Series A | Software, Food and Beverage, Transportation | $536k–$10M |
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Sebastien Borget
Angel
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1 | United States, France, The Netherlands | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming | $1.5M–$60M |
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Golden Gate Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $350k–$15M |
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Caixa Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Portugal, United States, Spain | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $107k–$24M |
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Christian Reber
Angel
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1 | Germany, United States, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, Apps | $1.9M–$5.4M |
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Faber
VC Fund
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1 | Portugal, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Machine Learning, SaaS | $433k–$9M |
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White Star Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $1M–$60M |
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Shilling
VC Fund
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1 | Portugal, Spain, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Internet, Information Technology, Software | $200k–$24M |
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Kibo Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Spain, United States, Germany | Series A, Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Mobile | $755k–$25M |
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Ed Wray
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, Portugal | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $1M–$2M |
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Niall Curran
Angel
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1 | Portugal | Seed | iOS, Gaming, Android | |
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Voodoo
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey, India, Israel | Seed, Corporate Round | Gaming, iOS, Android | $597k–$1.5M |
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Chris Lee
Angel
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1 | Portugal | Seed | iOS, Gaming, Android | |
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Aream & Co
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed | Gaming, iOS, Mobile | $1M–$9M |
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Rui Pereira
Angel
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1 | Portugal | Seed | iOS, Gaming, Android | |
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Freigeist Capital is the investment company of Frank Thelen, Marc Sieberger and Alex Koch. We invest in deep tech startups and excellent founders.
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- Industry: Software, Food and Beverage, Transportation
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Bulgaria, Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $536k–$3.5M; Series A $4.8M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PROSION — PROSION Therapeutics is a drug development company that utilises cutting-edge technology to unlock so far undruggable targets and address highly unmet medical needs.
- EnduroSat — EnduroSat designs, builds and operates class-leading NanoSats for a range of commercial, exploration and science missions. We focus on inter-satellite connectivity and space data applications
- Leko Labs — LEKO LABS is accelerating the global transition to carbon negative construction with building materials powered by AI optimisation and robotic manufacturing.
Sebastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of Pixowl. Passionate for blockchain technology, gaming and education, he is a very active speaker and evangelist who spent the past 8 years focused exclusively on mobile gaming, creating successful games that were downloaded millions of times.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5.4M; Series A $5M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GET Protocol — Supercharge your tickets with NFTs and the Blockchain. Easily implement the latest technology and unlock the benefits of truly digital tickets with GET Protocol.
- Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.
- Bring It On — Bring It On is a mission to redefine the skill games category, merging strong technological infra.
Golden Gate Ventures is a venture capital firm investing across Southeast Asia. Since 2011, the firm has launched four funds, managed US$250M AUM, and invested in 60+ companies in over 7 countries in Asia. The firm focuses on investing in technology companies driven by the rising consumer class in Southeast Asia.
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- Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 115
- Round size: Seed $350k–$3.5M; Series A $1.3M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- 13o3 — 13o3 is a boutique investment firm specializing in providing tailored solutions to complex and sophisticated business challenges for discerning clientele, mainly high-profile individuals. Launched in 2013 and founded by Asfand Yar Saeed, the company operates under the
- Locofy — Locofy provides a service that converts designs into code. Locofy.ai aims to take away the menial work of engineers without adding complexity i.e. automating 50% or more of the current workflow starting with frontend code, allowing teams to convert their designs to code and an interactive and responsive live prototype (that runs on code), withoutwriting a single line of code.
- Yisheng — Yisheng is a digital service platform for door-to-door car washing.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Portugal, United States, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Round size: Seed $107k–$2.5M; Series A $696k–$24M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
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.
Christian Reber is the founder and CEO of Pitch. The German entrepreneur previously founded the award-winning to-do app Wunderlist. After it was acquired by Microsoft in 2015, he spent two years as Microsoft's Entrepreneur in Residence. He is an active investor and advisor in a number of technology businesses, such as Lilium, Notion,Onefootball, Neufund, Freigeist and more. Prior to his career in business, Christian studied Mathematics and Computer Science as well as International Management in Berlin. Christian received the Forbes 30 under 30 award in 2014 and 2016.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$5.4M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Crew — Crew is a curated platform that connects designers and developers with vetted clients that need a website, mobile app, or other design work. The company's highly trusted network of independent creatives has worked on products used by tens of millions of people for some of the industry's biggest companies, including Apple, Google, Uber,IDEO, and Dropbox.It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Montréal, Quebec.
- NUMOS — NUMOS is an insurance tech platform.
- Crew.work — All-in-one recruiting platform that helps you hire the A players your moonshot mission needs.
Faber is a Lisbon-based venture capital firm investing in outstanding entrepreneurs who innovate at the intersection of science and technology to drive digital transformation and climate action. The firm combines a specialist focus on deep tech early-stage startups with dedicated funds, investment teams and expert advisors to actively help foundersbuild global companies powered by AI/data or climate/ocean technologies. Faber’s unique approach in Southern Europe is led by an entrepreneurial management partnership and backed by notable thesis-driven institutions and private investors. Investing since 2013, the firm has been an early investor in hard tech companies such as Unbabel, SWORD Health, Codacy, iLoF or YData
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- Industry: Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Portugal, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $433k–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $536k–$1.5M; Series A $5M–$9M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $22M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Kern AI — Kern AI offers services in the field of natural language processing that enable a range of interaction modes between humans and machines. They manage natural language products, ETL pipelines, and workflows. The company's contact modes are mail and physical address.
- subdron — subdron focuses on data processing in underwater inspections and autonomous underwater navigation.
- 1s1 Energy — 1s1 Energy is developing material technology for PEM water electrolysis systems for green hydrogen production. The company's mission is to develop viable and scalable solutions to reduce carbon emissions within the decade. 1s1 Energy Inc. was founded in 2019 by Daniel Sobek, Sukanta Bhattacharyya, and T. Don Tilley.
Our presence, perspective and people enable us to partner closely with founders to help them define this future.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 143
- Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Series A $5M–$36M; Series B $18M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- BoomFi — All-in-one solution to send, accept and convert crypto payments. Fast multi-chain crypto and fiat settlement. Get started today.
- Eyeball Games — Eyeball Games operates as a gaming studio set up by the original creators of 8 Ball Pool, serial entrepreneurs and degens.
- Trident Digital — Trident Digital is restoring market liquidity by providing the next-generation digital asset platform that addresses issues with access, security, and capital efficiency. It allows lenders and borrowers to connect transparently and not rely on a central counterparty.
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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- Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Portugal, Spain, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Round size: Seed $214k–$5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$3.2M; Series A $2.4M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Algori — Improving FMCG growth with the fastest and most granular insights from 45,000 shoppers in Spain
- Cargofive — Cargofive is the digital solution that will allow your freight forwarder to access to maritime rates from different providers in one place.
- MyCareforce — The platform that connects nurses to available shifts.
Kibo Ventures, based in Madrid (Spain) is a VC Fund focused on early-stage investments in digital companies. Kibo Ventures manages $130 million from a mix of institutional and private investors, including IEF, Telefonica, the Spanish Government (through CDTI), Mutua Madrileña (Spain's largest insurance company) and Axis (ICO's 25year-old private equity arm).Specifically, Kibo likes to invest in companies which combine exceptional and committed teams, aiming to digitalize a product or service in a big-enough market with international potential. Kibo is managed by an experienced team of professionals with a solid track record, who are actively involved in the companies in which they invest. Kibo follows a stage-investment approach and financially supports portfolio companies as they grow, whilst promoting co-investment from valuable investors.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Spain, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 106
- Round size: Seed $755k–$10M; Series A $2M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Signalit — Signalit brings clarity and order to the noise in data management, empowering organizations to work at the edge of their data.
- Innovamat — InnovaMat is a company that aims to revolutionize the learning of mathematics by transforming the classroom and the relationships that occur in it to excite, stimulate and motivate students. The materials put the student at the center of his own teaching-learning process and allows him to develop autonomy and critical thinking: an emotional andexciting process designed to engage the student through positive stimuli. To achieve this, InnovaMat proposes contextualized mathematics, a flexible curriculum, varied activities based on manipulative material and applets, techniques and strategies that facilitate the evaluation and management of the 21st century classroom, the personalization of learning, cooperative learning or gamification .
- Trucksters — We are a transportation company that focuses on providing long distance FTL trucking service through an innovative relay system based on artificial intelligence. We achieve transit times similar to air transport while reducing the costs of traditional road transportation.
Mr. Edward Wray, Ed is a Co-Founder of Betfair Australia Pty Ltd. Mr. Wray co-founded The Sporting Exchange Limited (Alternate Name: Betfair Limited) in May 1999 and served as its Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Betfair, he spent eight years at J.P. Morgan & Co. as a Vice President in the debt capital markets and derivatives area. He servesas the Chairman at Betfair. He has been Non-executive Chairman of The Sporting Exchange Limited since 2006. He served as the Chairman of Betfair Limited since 2006. He served as Non-Executive Chairman of Betfair Group PLC from March 17, 2008 to March 6, 2012. He has been a Director at Sporting Exchange since August 1998. Mr. Wray has been a Director of Betfair Group PLC since August 20, 1999. He serves as a Non Executive Director of Funding Circle Ltd. He served as a Director at Betfair since 1999.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $1M–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hole19 — Download Hole19's free Golf App with GPS, Scorecard and Rangefinder for iOS and Android. Plus connect with your golf buddies. Now ready for watch
- Netwealth — Netwealth uses cutting-edge technology and an expert team to provide a cost-effective wealth management service. See how we can help manage your investments.
- SmartUp.io — SmartUp offers a platform where people can learn, interact and share on any device. Having integrated features that people love from the best social and workplace platforms, your learners will enjoy a consumer-grade learning experience.
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- Industry: iOS, Gaming, Android
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Volt Games — Volt Games primarily focuses on crafting mobile games for android and ios.
We entertain millions of users around the world every month with our games and apps.
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- Industry: Gaming, iOS, Android
- Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
- Geography: Turkey, India, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $597k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Teskin — Teskin is a developer and a publisher of popular games and is one of the leaders in the casual mobile games category with millions of satisfied players.We are passionate about creating the best games in the market focusing on quality, innovation, gaming experience and great added value for our players.We are based in the center of Israel andour team is made up of people who just love what they do - and do it the best.
- Volt Games — Volt Games primarily focuses on crafting mobile games for android and ios.
- Polygon — Polygon is the most proven way to build and scale your decentralized application and projects on Ethereum, the world's largest blockchain ecosystem.
Chris Lee is an investor in Gaming.
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- Industry: iOS, Gaming, Android
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Volt Games — Volt Games primarily focuses on crafting mobile games for android and ios.
Aream & Co. is an independent investment bank providing M&A and financing advice to founders and boards of pioneering technology companies worldwide.
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- Industry: Gaming, iOS, Mobile
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $1M–$9M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Alter — Alter is an open source, cross-platform SDK consisting of a real-time 3D avatar system and motion capture built from scratch for web3 interoperability and the open metaverse.
- Volt Games — Volt Games primarily focuses on crafting mobile games for android and ios.
- Pocket Burger Games — IAP funded, system driven mobile games in blue ocean markets.
Rui Pereira is a co-founder and Vice President at OutSystems. Currently runs Professional Services, Technical Support and the IT groups. Before starting OutSystems, Pereira was a partner at WeDo Consulting, worked in various positions at Oracle in the US and Europe and Unilever. Has studied Computer Science, Business Management and Marketing.
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- Industry: iOS, Gaming, Android
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Volt Games — Volt Games primarily focuses on crafting mobile games for android and ios.
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