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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed investors for Finance startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Faber | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal, Europe | ||
Techstars Lisbon in partnership with Semapa Next | Seed | Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal, Europe | ||
PME Investimentos | Debt, Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed | Porto, Lisboa, Portugal, Europe | ||
Arabreneur | Seed | Ramalhal, Santarem, Portugal, Europe | ||
InterCapital | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal, Europe |
At SeedRound we track over 200,000 investors and over 1,000,000 people who hold key positions in these firms. We use this directory of investors to highlight top employees, LP’s and funding organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top Finance Seed investors in Portugal. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Finance Investors & Funds (Portugal)
Faber
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 founders build 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
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Techstars Lisbon in partnership with Semapa Next
Techstars Lisbon in partnership with Semapa Next will invest in startups that are bringing Digital Transformation to the following key areas: Industrial & Environmental Tech, Smart Transportation, Travel & Leisure Tech.
Stages: Seed
Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal, Europe
Industries: Finance
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PME Investimentos
PME Investimentos is a state owned investment company who supports entrepreneurship, innovation, competitiveness and the internationalization of the Portuguese economy. Subject to the supervision of the Portuguese Central Bank, PME Investimentos has been supporting Portuguese companies for the last 30 years through special investment vehicles and funds, investing trough equity instruments and managing debt instruments, in partnership with Banks and the Mutual Guarantee System.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Porto, Lisboa, Portugal, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Arabreneur
ARABANEUR is a not for profit Arab Entrepreneurship initiative aimed at contributing to the development and growth of a socially conscious economy and civil society in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and seeks to emerge as the first full-scale regional enabler. In general, successful enterprises need a regional or international market to become successful. It is therefore that ARABRENEUR seeks to build a regional MENA Eco-System that provides all aspects for entrepreneurs to grow from an idea to successful exit. This is required not only for the entrepreneur, but also important to create a sustainable investment environment.
Stages: Seed
Location: Ramalhal, Santarem, Portugal, Europe
Industries: Finance, Venture Capital
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InterCapital
InterCapital is an investment firm focused on early-stage ventures. InterCapital cooperates with outstanding Entrepreneurs, promoting innovative ideas and business models, leading to positive social and environmental impact.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Invicta Angels
Invicta Angels – Business Angels Association of Porto (www.invictaangels.pt), is a club which congregates 50 business angels from the Porto region. Invicta Angels is co-founder of FNABA (www.fnaba.org). In the last years they have made several investments in startups, either alone or as a joint venture with other clubs and venture capital funds. Some of the companies in which they have made investments, have already a global focus in their target markets, and are exceeding their initial expectations in revenue generation from overseas. Having this in mind, they intend to periodically inform on their business portfolio their international business partners, business angels and venture capital funds, with whom they have established relations through EBAN (www.eban.org) in Europe, or ACA (www.angelcapitalassociation.org) in the USA. Invicta Angels represents 50 investors, entrepreneurs and senior executives of companies, with extensive experience in business and strong relationships with entrepreneurship through the creation, management and investment companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Porto, Lisboa, Portugal, Europe
Industries: Finance, Venture Capital
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Building Global Innovators
This initiative results from the partnership between MIT, Sloan Business School, Deshpande Center for Innovation, ISCTE-IUL and MIT-Portugal, a collaboration of the leading 12 engineering and science universities in Portugal. Besides the reputation of the various partners and respectful results attained in just over 2 editions, these entities have in common the ambition of continually working towards and with the community, to creating value, through high-tech companies and jobs.
Stages: Crowdfunding, Debt, Early Stage Venture, Grant, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Exchanges, Financial Services, Health Care, Information Technology, Venture Capital
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Lisbon Challenge
Lisbon Challenge is an ambitious 3-month acceleration program aimed at eager international tech startups in prototype or product phase, looking for a truly innovative and empowering experience. It aims to offer consistent methods and resources for startups acceleration, only possible due to Beta-i’s acquired know-how and benchmark with top global startup acceleration programs. This Fall 30 teams will meet with 200 international mentors & investors as well as participate in workshops, pitch sessions and networking events. After an Investors Day in Lisbon where teams will have the opportunity of presenting their product, the best selected teams will go on an international investors roadshow to Boston, São Paulo and London. The above characteristics compose Phase 1 of Lisbon Challenge. After the 3 months, the top 5 startups will be selected for Phase 2: a 6 month incubation period, during which each startup will receive an investment of €40K, have access to additional €150K in perks, office space up to 30 years, and legal & tax support. This phase of the program is equity-based, only for the 5 selected startups. In return for the 40K invested, 6-10% equity will be taken. All of this will be happening in the beautiful and exciting city of Lisbon, the right place to jump-start your business. The city offers all necessary infrastructures, talented resources and an excellent testing market; it is also an affordable destination and at GMT+0 an excellent location to work with both West and East. Lisbon has also been considered the 5th upcoming tech hub worldwide by Entrepreneur magazine and Europe’s coolest capital for 2014 by CNN.
Stages: Seed
Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal, Europe
Industries: Finance
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Blue Bio Value
Blue Bio Value is the first accelerator that scales up marine biobased solutions to global market applications in different industries, resorting to science-based and biotech innovations, while helping to tackle important societal challenges. They believe that new, innovative marine bio resources industries are emerging, changing the old maritime economies of the past into a new paradigm of a natural resources friendly blue economy. This economy will be critical to the sustainability of the oceans and seas, preserving them for the next generations and this Program is a contribution to accelerate its development. They are seeking innovative projects that represent a business opportunity along the value chain of marine bioresources, including, but not limited to, biotechnology based projects
Stages: Seed
Location: Paço De Arcos, Lisboa, Portugal, Europe
Industries: Business Development, Finance, Financial Services
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InvestBraga
The InvestBraga the new Agency for Economic Promotion of Braga, acts as the economic arm of the city and its mission is to promote the economic development of the region. By attracting investment and entrepreneurs, and innovation as one of its conductors, the agency focus on credibility of the municipality as a business partner to national and international investors. Let’s put Braga in the investment map, entrepreneurship and innovation!
Stages: Seed
Location: Braga, Braga, Portugal, Europe
Industries: Finance
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Startup LAB
Startup LAB is an acceleration program includes training in legal, intellectual property, branding and marketing, strategic consulting, innovation consulting, accounting, pitch preparation, among others.
Stages: Seed
Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services
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