Top 40 Transportation Startup Investors in Portugal in October 2023

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• HiJiffy — Increase direct bookings and upselling with HiJiffy's AI-powered communication solutions for hospitality.
• MyCareforce — The platform that connects nurses to available shifts.
• Floating Particle — Floating Particle is a technology and innovation company that drives an innovative solution for waste management and clean energy. Floating Particle specializes in IoT, Big Data and Machine Learning to provide cutting-edge technology to the customers.

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• EatTasty — EatTasty | So simple and so good.
• 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

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• 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.
• Muddy Machines — Muddy Machines is working on field robots to help farms manage labor-intensive crops by completing the fieldwork.

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• Zharta — Zharta is a peer to pool protocol that enables its users to apply for real-time loans by using NFTs as collateral.
• 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.
• advertio — The customer acquisition platform that empowers your business to grow risk-free, where you only pay per results, not promises.

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• Membrion — Remove Problematic Ions to Expand Capacity, Ensure Compliance, and Eliminate Costs with Electro-Ceramic Desalination
• Ittinsect - Feed for the Ocean — Zero ocean impact aquafeed. Ittinsect aims to reduce overfishing in the oceans thanks to insect based aquaculture feeds.
• Spotlite — Spotlite - Satellite-based innovative infrastructure monitoring solutions.

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• 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.

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• Bairro — 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.

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• Boxbot — Dynamic storage and retrieval platform that adapts to varying cubic dimensions and eliminates manual pick stations.
• WasteFuel — WasteFuel produces renewable fuels using proven technologies to address the climate emergency and revolutionize mobility.
• Arrive Recommerce — Arrive offers a premium service powering circular commerce for major brands and retailers. The technology and reverse logistics capabilities of The Arrive Platform enables brands and retailers in any industry to integrate circular commerce - including rental and resale - directly into an existing ecommerce experience. With this unique offering,Arrive makes it possible for any company to seamlessly launch a circular channel - ultimately reaching more consumers, driving more revenue, and promoting a sustainable solution. Arrive, first launched as Arrive Outdoors, is an award-winning company and has been named the 4th Most Innovative Travel Company by Fast Company in 2020 and awarded the 2019 Outdoor Retailer of the Year by the Outdoor Retailer Association.

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• Bairro — Produtos em minutos

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• HiJiffy — Increase direct bookings and upselling with HiJiffy's AI-powered communication solutions for hospitality.
• 360hyper — The groceries marketplace where you can find everthing you need. Buy online groceries as fast as in 4 hours with personalized picking.
• Cargofive — Cargofive is the digital solution that will allow your freight forwarder to access to maritime rates from different providers in one place.

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• Bairro — 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

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• Quaisr — Quaisr develops simulations for the full digital-twin lifecycle.
• Veratrak — Veratrak connects the life sciences supply chain, pairing innovation with breakthrough technologies to deliver remarkable results.
• Gable — Bridge the communication gap between data producers and data consumers

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• WAISENSE — WAISENSE es una marca internacional que desarrolla sistemas inteligentes para ahorrar agua en viviendas o negocios. Empieza a ahorrar agua con WAISENSE.
• Jrny — Looking for a new way to own your home? Lock-in a house today and begin your journey home.
• Kiddle Pass — Kiddle Pass integrates children into cultural, physical, educational, and leisure activities to provide a universe of possibilities, where they can improve skills, discover talents and identify new passions.

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• Bairro — 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.

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• GoParity — GoParity is an online savings and investment platform that uses a P2P business model to simplify investment and allow citizens and companies to get a decent return on their sustainable loans. Citizens and companies invest their funds in projects they believe in to generate economic, social and environmental impact.We are driving the transitiontowards a more sustainable and inclusive economic system, making investment in sustainable solutions accessible to all, from citizens to small enterprises. Join us @ www.goparity.com
• Flecto — Flecto is the rental platform that makes businesses thrive in the circular economy. A flexible rental software for all types of businesses.
• 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

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• Bairro — 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.

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• Feel — We make the cleanest, potent supplements in the world. Delivered straight to your door. Designed by nutritionists for energy, sleep, stress and hair, skin & nails.
• 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.

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• Bairro — 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

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• Bairro — Produtos em minutos
• Conduit.app — No-code data analytics for Digital Marketeers in DTC/ E-commerce/ SaaS businesses
• 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.

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• Asap.work — Asap specializes in the construction industry with the ambition of reducing the precariousness of temporary employment contracts by using digital tools. It offers a desire to transform the temporary employment sector by offering construction professionals a more efficient and economical alternative to traditional agencies.
• MetaGravity — MetaGravity is a deep-tech startup that is pushing the boundaries of blockchain and the Metaverse. MetaGravity is a deep-tech startup located in London that is pushing the boundaries of blockchain and the Metaverse. They're on a quest to build the next generation of live, breathing digital worlds that will entice gamers and keep them fulfilledand engaged for decades. They are leveraging their significant knowledge in massive-scale processing and engine technologies to create the technical foundation for the Metaverse, a decentralized digital world. MetaGravity is headquartered in London, United Kingdom and was founded in 2021.
• Connect Earth — Connect Earth is an environmental data company that builds the infrastructure for climate-conscious products by aggregating and standardising environmental data and making it available through developer-first toolkits. The core product is an API solution that calculates the carbon impact of spend-based financial transactions of consumers and companies.

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• 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.

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• FarmWise — FarmWise provides technology-based services that allow farmers to streamline farm operations and increase food production efficiency.
• Food4All — With the F4A App, you can explore discounted close-to-expiry products at your favourite supermarkets. Act now - save money and say no to food waste.
• 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.

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• 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 — Best prices for transfers 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.

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• Convelio — Convelio is a global logistics startup specialized in bulky, fragile and high-value items.
• Manta — Get a holistic view of your data pipelines to boost your data governance, achieve DataOps, and migrate to the cloud without a hassle.
• 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.

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• 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

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• 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

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• Avenidas — Avenidas dominates all things mobility, excelling in travel & tourism, last mile distribution and concierge services.

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• Chord — Chord is the leading composable commerce platform for omnichannel or direct-to-consumer companies. Commerce data intelligence, recommendations, and modularity.
• 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.

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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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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Rappi — Rappi is a consumer tech company that specializes in providing online delivery services. It connects consumers who want to purchase prepared foods, groceries, clothes, and virtually anything with independent contractors who can fulfill those needs. The company was founded in 2015 with its main offices in Bogota, Colombia.
• Bairro — Produtos em minutos
• Drip Capital — Drip Capital offers trade financing product targeted towards SMEs in developing markets. Its automated risk assessment model allows rapidly growing SMEs quick and easy access to finance. With a focus on technology, Drip aims to eliminate the hassle of paperwork and bureaucracy and create a seamless borrowing experience for its clients.The companyconsists of a team of financial consultants, engineers and analysts from Wharton, Stanford, and IITs with years of experience at Standard Chartered, Black Rock and Yahoo. They are backed by leading Silicon Valley investors - Y Combinator and StartX. They are always eager to connect with sharp minds to grow within their quest to becoming the future of global trade finance.Drip Capital was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

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• Deskree — Generate a complete and scalable back-end infrastructure with tons of features via a web interface. Infinitely scalable & truly independent.
• Filmustage — Filmustage is the first AI-based solution for automatically breakdown movie scripts in seconds. Designed to save you time on routine tasks.
• NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

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• Hilo EV — Hilo EV uses AI to scan its surroundings for hazards such as pedestrians and vehicles, and actively applies a number of functions to warn of the danger.
• Crespect — Achieve harmony in legal practice
• ProTec Group — ProTec Group operates as a specialist prototype to production part supplier. ProTec Group provide a completely integrated design-to-production service from 1off CNC machined, fabricated or 3D printed to Low volume prototype & production manufacturing techniques.

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• Pleez — Pleez offers Restaurant's an optimisation of their menu within Delivery Platforms, so that they can have a revenue increase up to 25%.
• Reckon.ai — Reckon.ai have been working with several retail customers for the last years and they found that the task of competitive analysis in this vertical is still in the early days of what modern technology can do for them. You wouldn’t believe the number of problems and inefficiencies screaming for solutions in the digital age.So they decided to buildReckon, a cloud platform for smart retail product analysis and price comparison that uses powerful machine learning algorithms, data fusion and computer vision to reshape the way retailers get their competitive intelligence data.
• 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.

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

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• redcatpig — We are a team of passionate game developers that embarked on a journey to make games.
• 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!

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• Reby — Reby is a European multinational company involved in the design, construction, financing, operation (DBFO) and maintenance of public sharing transport infrastructure. Today, Reby is the Southern Europe leader in the micromobility field, with over 15 agreements with public administrations. The company was founded by four entrepreneurs (Pep Gómez,Kiran Thomas, Cristina Castillo, and Guillem Pagès) in 2018 as a micromobility operator, winning the first public tender in Europe for kickscooters, in the city of Zaragoza (Spain). During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company increased its R&D efforts, expanding into the MaaS (mobility-as-a-service) economy and the investment banking/franchising business for public administrations (through PPPs), public utility companies, as well as SMEs.
• Jáchegou — Somos simples, únicos e de confiança, vendemos tudo o que precisa e o que não precisa, mas que ninguém vai conseguir resistir. Porque vamos dar ideias de tudo o que já conhece e do que nunca ouviu falar. O nosso centro comercial online permite comprar sem sair do sofá, sem ter de procurar lugar para o carro, andar quilómetros, percorrer váriaslojas a procura de um produto. Realizamos uma entrega imediata com garantia de qualidade.
• 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.

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• 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.