Top 5 Retail VC Funds & Investors in Portugal (May 2026)

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• HypeLabs — HypeLabs is the company that created the Hype SDK, an interoperable mesh networking software that improves connectivity on all kinds of devices, from mobile to desktop to IoT, allowing them to connect even when there is no internet. The software works by intelligently connecting devices in local mesh networks using existing connectivitytechnologies, such as Bluetooth, WiFi, LoRa and others. This network enables content to securely hop between devices, until it reaches a destination or an Internet exit point, improving range and deliverability.Founded in 2016, the company is located in San Francisco (USA), Porto (Portugal), London (UK) and Krakow (Poland). AngelPad #10 (Spring '16) alumni & Deutsche Telekom WARP alumni.
• Musiversal — Record your music in real time with world-class session musicians, vocalists, producers and audio engineers
• Sensefinity — Sensefinity The Blockchain IoT Transformation Company Building the Internet of Cargo Where Assets autonomously connect to processes

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• 77 Sol — 77 Sol is a solar energy technology company. 77 Sol offers technology, equipment, financing, and solar energy professionals. They deliver to our integrators, installers, engineers, and partner resellers a digital distributor in the form of software as a service for photovoltaic equipment.
• APLANET — Aplanet provides the most complete software tools for CSR and sustainability professionals to manage their day-to-day. Their mission is to bring social responsibility to the forefront of business objectives by empowering organizations with the tools to manage, measure, and showcase their impact.
• Mixergy — The Mixergy Tank - heat what you need, live better, save money, and reduce your impact on the environment. Market leaders in hot water tank innovation and in the decarbonisation of heating hot water in the home.

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• Motatos — Motatos is an online retail store that offers a wide variety of food, beverages, and household products to customers.
• Matsmart — Matsmart sells surplus food online. A major part of the food would otherwise be thrown away due to packaging changes, short or expired expiry dates or other reasons. During 2017, Matsmart saved 2022 tonnes of food from going to waste. The company has seen explosive growth, reaching recurring revenues of SEK 200 million. Matsmart was founded by KarlAndersson, Erik Södergren and Ulf Skagerström, and launched in Sweden in 2014. Since then, the company has also expanded to Norway and Finland. Long live the food!
• 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.

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• Harmonya — The all-in-one AI-powered product data enrichment, categorization, and insights platform for CPGs and retailers
• Infraspeak — Infraspeak is an Intelligent CMMS Software that brings outstanding flexibility, connectivity and intelligence to your operations.
• Afresh — A solution built specifically to manage fresh department inventory, forecasting, ordering, merchandising, and store operations. Afresh eliminates food waste, improves perimeter operations, and transforms demand planning chainwide.

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• 011h — 011h Sustainable Construction SL. Building a green future.
• Seabery — Seabery is a technological SME that helps professionals and trainees involved in industrial careers enhance their skills through the use of augmented training and simulations.The Ed-Tech resources management platform, Seabery Augmented Training, is a combination of 4D augmented reality, simulations, cloud-learning, teacher managementsoftware, analysis modules, and apps that supports several industries such as healthcare and military. The teacher software manages the training process and allows instructors to develop content, monitor in real time the activity of each student and evaluate it, and generate reports. The e-learning platform contains theoretical and multimedia content and can be accessed from anywhere and from any mobile device or PC. Video games and simulated environments allow users to train themselves. Augmented reality allows users to ""transform"" a physical object's behavior depending on their actions.The Augmented Training Technology received the Auggie Award for the best Augmented Reality Technology solution for enterprises at the Augmented World Expo AWE2014 in May 2014. It also won “the most innovative product for education” award by Worlddidac in June 2014. Seabery received “the most visited booth” and “the most promising technology” award at Weldindia and “the most innovative technology” award at HungExpo in Hungary.Seabery was founded by Alejandro Villaran and Basilio Marquínez in January 2008 and is based in Pesquero, Spain.
• Samara — Samara is a cleantech company.