# Top 50 Sports Startup Investors in Portugal in May 2026

## 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.

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

Portugal Ventures is a venture capital firm that is part of the Banco Português de Fomento group, currently manages 170 million euros and has more than 130 portfolio companies. It invests in startups in the pre-seed, seed and series A stages that offer innovative solutions for the international market in the digital, engineering&industry, lifesciences, and tourism sectors. Since 2012, Portugal ventures has invested 164 million euros in 147 new businesses.

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

Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.

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

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.

## 35V
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Sports, Soccer, Information Technology

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: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing

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.

## Olisipo Way
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Communities

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.

## Nicolas Julia
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Gaming, Financial Services

Nicolas Julia is a Blockchain entrepreneur. He is the CEO at Sorare, the leading platform to collect and play with officially licensed football Crypto-goodsNicolas dedicated his career to Blockchain in 2015, and was previously running operations at Stratumn, a $8M VC-backed blockchain company.Nicolas hosts the meetup Crypto-goods Club, theplace of expression for all Crypto-goods
enthusiasts.He believes Crypto-goods will pave the way for a new era of digital ownership and change the internet.

## Omar Fonseca
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Soccer, Sports

Omar da Fonseca is the Ex-player.

## Mario Götze
- Type: Angel
- Location: German, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency

Mario Götze is a professional footballer.

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

Bynd Venture Capital, former Busy Angels, is a Portuguese venture capital investor with more than 30 active investments in the portfolio in different funds. At Bynd Venture Capital we invest in companies:
- At the seed / early stage
- In IT/Digital and Sustainability (including Lifesciences, Clean Tech, among others) sectors
- FromPortugal, Spain and any startup that has a direct connection with these markets (founders, tech team, investors, ...).

## David Apple
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Soccer, Sports, Internet

David Apple is the Chief Revenue Officer at Zingtree. David Apple attended Imperial College London for MBA.

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

TrulyMad Business Accelerator

## Philippe Laffont
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series D, Series A, Series F
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Philippe Laffont is the founder and portfolio manager of Coatue Management. Mr. Laffont graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991 with a B.S. and M.Sc. in Computer Science. He worked as an analyst in management consulting for McKinsey & Co. from 1992 to 1994 in Madrid, Spain. After working as an independent consultant forseveral years, Mr. Laffont joined Tiger Management LLC as a research analyst in 1996. He focused on telecommunications stocks while at Tiger until he left to found Coatue in 1999.

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

António Félix da Costa

## Alexandre Yazdi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Residential, E-Commerce

Alexandre Yazdi - Co-Founder and CEO @ Voodoo

## Stephen Curry
- Type: Angel
- Location: Oakland, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series C, Series B
- Focus: Mobile, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps

Stephen Curry currently works as the Founder and Partner at Unanimous Media. He previously worked at Slyce.io as co-founder. Stephen Curry attended Davidson College in 2006.

## Kirk Posmantur
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Mobile, Sports, Distillery

Kirk Posmantur is the Chairman & Founder of Axcess Worldwide, a partnership development company that creates inspired ideas and connects extraordinary brands and people. With over 20 years of experience generating hundreds of millions of dollars in contracted revenue for many of the world’s top brands in the luxury and lifestyle, consumermass, and hospitality and travel sectors, Kirk is widely recognized as the pioneer and innovator of partnership development. Axcess currently represents over 50 of the world’s leading brands.Kirk is greatly involved in multiple charities and has served as the Chairman of the Board for the Atlanta chapter of After School All-Stars since 2000, raising over $20 million for his charity’s chapter.Kirk earned his undergraduate degree at the William F. Harrah College of Hotel Management at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

## APEX Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Changning, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: PaaS, Soccer, Sports

APEX Capital is an equity investment fund.

## 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.

## 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.

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

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

## 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!

## Alexis Ohanian
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, Mobile

Alexis Ohanian, born April 24, 1983, is an entrepreneur and investor in Brooklyn, NY, best known as the co-founder and executive chair of reddit, a platform for online communities to share links and have discussions. While he learned his earliest lessons in leadership and web design from his high school Quake 2 clan and Everquest guild, Alexiscontinued his official studies at the University of Virginia, where he met his future co-founder Steve Huffman during freshman year move-in day. This would lead to the founding of reddit, which he recounted along with many lessons for entrepreneurs, in his national bestseller, Without Their Permission.At UVA, Alexis majored in business and history with a minor in German. Though he had originally planned to become an immigration lawyer, he experienced an epiphany in his junior year (while sitting in a Waffle House) that led him to the realization that he didn't want to practice law. Instead he convinced his best friend Steve to start a company with him.The pair traveled to Cambridge, MA during their senior year spring break to hear Paul Graham give a talk titled "How to Start a Startup." After the lecture, Alexis invited Graham out for a drink so he and Steve could pitch Graham on their business idea. Graham agreed, loved the idea, and suggested they apply to a new seed stage venture firm he'd launched called Y Combinator.
Alexis and Steve's original plan was to build an infrastructure that would allow people to order food from their cell phones. Though the idea was rejected, Alexis and Steve were invited to join the first class of Y Combinator, on the condition that they'd come up with a new concept. The next idea they pitched to Graham would become reddit.com.

## Larry Fitzgerald
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Sports, FinTech

Larry Fitzgerald is an American football wide receiver for the Arizona Cardinals of the NFL. Larry played college football at Pittsburgh, where he earned unanimous All-America honors. He was drafted by the Cardinals third overall in the 2004 NFL Draft.He is second in NFL career receiving yards, second in career receptions, and sixth in receivingtouchdowns.

## Rohit Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Sports, eSports, Internet

Partner at SterlingVC - early stage VC fund backed by Sterling Equities, focused on sports, media and real estate tech investments. Founder of Bollyshake, building the nex-gen entertainment platform for Indian millennials, currently focused on user generated dancing videos. PreviouslyDirector at High Line Venture Partners - early stagefund based in NYC with notable investments in Pinterest, Vine, Makerbot, Refinery29 and numerous others. Previously at RBS having built out the Cross Asset Structuringstructuring group which delivered innovative cross asset solutions covering exotic derivatives across interest rates, inflation, foreign exchange, equities and hybrids to institutional clients.

## Demium Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

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

## Kelvin Beachum Jr.
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Machine Learning, SaaS

Kelvin Beachum Jr. is the NFL Athlete at Arizona Cardinals Football Club.

## 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

## Semapa Next
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, PaaS, Mobile Apps

Semapa Next is a venture capital firm that invests in teams of exceptional founders from Series A to late-stage funding.

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

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).

## WISENEXT
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, 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, E-Commerce, Information Technology

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

## Serena Williams
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Health Care

Serena Williams is an American professional tennis player who is currently ranked No. 1 in women's singles tennis. The Women's Tennis Association has ranked her World No. 1 in singles on six separate occasions. Widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time, she became the World No. 1 for the first time on July 8, 2002,and regained this ranking for the sixth time on February 18, 2013, becoming the oldest world no. 1 player in WTA's history. Williams is also the reigning French Open, US Open, WTA Tour Championships and Olympic ladies singles champion.In 2008 Williams helped to fund the construction of the Serena Williams Secondary School in Matooni, Kenya. She received a Celebrity Role Model Award from Avon Foundation in 2003 for work in breast cancer. Williams has also been involved in a number of clinics at schools and community centers, particularly those which have programs focusing on at-risk youth; she has also won the "Young Heroes Award" from Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater L.A. and Inland (2003) and the "Family Circle and Prudential Financial Player Who Makes a Difference Award" (2004). In response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Williams, along with other ATP and WTA stars decided to forgo their final day of preparation for the 2010 Australian Open to form a charity event in which all proceeds will go to the Haiti earthquake victims.

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

Michael Chang

## Renaud Visage
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, 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)

## Seven Seven Six
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, Internet

Seven Seven Six is a venture capital firm. The firm features The Seven Seven Six Operator in Residence Program as a full-time, paid, one-year appointment.

## Counterpart Advisors
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Manhattan Beach, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series D
- Focus: Health Care, Mobile Apps, Software

Counterpart Advisors is a Venture Capital, Private Equity & Consulting firm that engages in highly competitive and visible markets.

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

Scott MacMillan

## 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.

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

Sérgio Oliveira

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

Alejandro Bedoya

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

Jeremy Hendon

## Raphaël Varane
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Sports, Big Data, Biometrics

Raphaël Varane is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Manchester United and the France national team.

## 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.

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

Ideias Glaciares

## Dawn Hudson
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Sports, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment

Dawn Hudson has served as Chief Marketing Officer for the National Football League since October 2014.Previously, she served from 2009 to 2014 as vice chairman of The Parthenon Group, an advisory firm focused on strategy consulting. She was president and chief executive officer of Pepsi-Cola North America, the beverage division of PepsiCo, Inc.for the U.S. and Canada, from 2005 to 2007 and president from 2002, and simultaneously served as chief executive officer of the foodservice division of PepsiCo, Inc. from 2005 to 2007.Previously, she spent 13 years in marketing, advertising and branding strategy, holding leadership positions at major agencies, such as D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles and Omnicom. She currently serves on the boards of directors of The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc., an advertising holding company, and Amplify Snack Brands, Inc., a snack food company.She was a director of P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, Inc., a restaurant chain, until 2012, of Allergan, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, until 2014, and of Lowes Companies, Inc., a home-improvement retailer, until May 2015.She holds a BA degree from Dartmouth College. She joined the NVIDIA board in July 2013.

## David Blitzer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Sports, Fantasy Sports, Sporting Goods

David Blitzer joined HBSE Ventures as Founder.

## Andre Iguodala
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Andre Iguodala is an NBA Champion and Finals MVP currently signed with the Golden State Warriors. He advises Twice, a startup acquired by eBay in 2015.Andre Tyler Iguodala is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The swingman was an NBA All-Starin 2012 and has been named to the NBA All-Defensive Team twice. Iguodala won an NBA championship with the Warriors in 2015, when he was named the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP). He was also a member of the United States national team at the 2010 FIBA World Championship and 2012 Summer Olympics, winning the gold medal both times.Iguodala went to Lanphier High School in Springfield, Illinois before attending the University of Arizona. After completing two years, he declared for the 2004 NBA draft where he was drafted with the ninth overall pick by the Philadelphia 76ers. Iguodala played in Philadelphia until the summer of 2012, when he was traded to the Denver Nuggets in a four team trade. He was acquired by Golden State in 2013. In 2014–15, he became a reserve for the first time in his career, but captured the Finals MVP after he returned to the starting lineup in the middle of series.

## Stephen Nash
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Sports, Apps, Basketball

Stephen John "Steve" Nash, OC, OBC is a Canadian-British retired professional basketball player who formerly played for the Dallas Mavericks, Phoenix Suns, and Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association.

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