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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed investors for Financial Services startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Armilar Venture Partners | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, Europe | ||
Faber | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal, Europe | ||
MSM | Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed | Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal, Europe | ||
Indico Capital Partners | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal, Europe | ||
WISENEXT | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Lisboa, 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 Financial Services Seed investors in Lisboa. 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 Financial Services Investors & Funds (Lisboa)
Armilar Venture Partners
Armilar Venture Partners is a venture capital firm, with near 300 million euros of assets under management, represented by worldwide companies with innovative products and services that are improving our world, the way we live, and the way we do business.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, Europe
Industries: Business Development, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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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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MSM
Mustard Seed MAZE is a 40M€ early-stage impact VC fund. We invest in brave founders solving the world’s biggest social and environmental challenges.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, Impact Investing, Sustainability, Venture Capital
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Indico Capital Partners
Indico Capital Partners is the leading independent Venture Capital firm in Portugal investing in global technology companies. Indico focuses on software as a service, artificial intelligence, internet of things, fintech, cybersecurity and digital companies, targeting investments at Seed to Series A level. Founded in 2017, the team at Indico were previously behind the majority of the Portuguese global tech success stories, as investors and entrepreneurs. Headed by the two most senior former Caixa Capital VC Team members, supported by a successful and experienced entrepreneur and a strong group of advisors, top entrepreneurs, they raised our first fund (authorized by the Portuguese Securities Market Commission – CMVM) from a cornerstone institutional investor (EIF) and international family/multi-family offices from Europe, US, and Australia. In addition to Silicon Valley, London, and Berlin, cities like Lisbon have emerging startup ecosystems. Portugal went through a difficult macro environment years ago which led to a growth in the entrepreneurship culture and investment. We have excellent tech graduates and a global mindset. Highly innovative companies like luxury eCommerce platform Farfetch, YC graduate machine learning translation platform Unbabel or the leading student accommodation marketplace Uniplaces have a strong Portuguese DNA and went to raise international rounds in the UK and the US – we want to back the next success stories of the ecosystem.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, Marketplace, Venture Capital
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WISENEXT
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.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, Europe
Industries: Advertising, Biotechnology, E-Commerce, Fashion, Financial Services, Health Care, Marketing, Real Estate, Retail, Software
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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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Best Horizon
Best Horizon is a venture capital platform that provides financing, mentoring, and access to their contact and partner network. They have invested in ICT startups for more than a decade. They also have a portfolio of half a hundred companies in Portugal, Spain, USA, Brazil, and the Netherlands.
Stages: Seed
Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal, Europe
Industries: Augmented Reality, Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology, Internet, Mobile Apps, Venture Capital
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Ganexa Capital
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 gaps They understand the difficulties and hardships 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
Stages: Seed
Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Betwixt Ventures
Betwixt Ventures focuses on bringing together startups with Venture Capital Investors. By raising a pledge fund exclusively targeting investments on early stage startups with high potential, Betwixt Ventures proposes to add value through the following main activities: • Origination, screening, negotiation of deal terms, and monitoring of vetted startups • Startup follow up, mentoring, consulting and value creation • Attraction of venture capital funds and placement of further investment rounds • Attraction of exit opportunities and facilitation of exit process Starting its capital raise in October 2015, the pledge fund will exclusively target investments on early stage startups typically based out of Portugal. At a second stage, it intends to invest also in Spanish and Italian startups. While no particular industry will be ruled out from the investment scope, the pledge fund will tend to focus on the broad technology and energy sectors. As a pre-requisite, it will either invest in startups previously vetted by other Business Angels, or co-invest in them with other seed or venture capital funds as partners. The focus of the pledge fund will be to invest in the gap between seed and series A rounds. Upon the investment at this stage, Betwixt Ventures will seek to attract further institutional investment rounds, internationally. On top of the pledge fund management, Betwixt Ventures will also offer both financial and general advisory services to startups. The former include either the attraction of venture capital funds for placement of further investment rounds, or the attraction of strategic buyers for potential M&A transactions, mainly in the US market. The later encompass 360 degrees consulting to startups, from marketing & sales, to business development and management.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Porto, Lisboa, Portugal, Europe
Industries: Data Mining, Energy, Enterprise Software, Financial Services, Information Technology, SaaS
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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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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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MAZE
We work alongside impact ventures and investors to scale effective solutions for social and environmental challenges. We address this through 3 main areas of activity: a 35M€ VC Fund, which invests in early stage impact ventures; an impact accelerator, Maze X; and the Government Performance team which works the public sector to improve social services.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, Impact Investing, Social Impact, Sustainability, Venture Capital
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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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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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