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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Early Stage Venture investors for Impact Investing startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
MSM | Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed | Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal, Europe | ||
COREangels | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Ílhavo, Aveiro, Portugal, Europe | ||
Maze X | Early Stage Venture | Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal, Europe | ||
PME Investimentos | Debt, Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed | Porto, Lisboa, Portugal, Europe | ||
MAZE | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, Europe |
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We’ve ranked the top Impact Investing Early Stage Venture 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 Impact Investing Investors & Funds (Portugal)
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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COREangels
COREangels is a global brand of hands-on angels, investing in early stage startups through local portfolio funds. Our funds invest in a portfolio selected by the angels from a pool of startups curated by the leaders. Our angels are doing an incredible job of contributing to their local communities by, not only investing their money in the next generation of entrepreneurs, but also mentoring them, with their experience and network. COREangel funds are co-investing cross borders, sharing good practices, tools and opportunities using one proven model that merges financial outcomes with angel involvement.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Ílhavo, Aveiro, Portugal, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Maze X
Maze X is a startup accelerator programme designed to put ambitious impact start-ups on the road to becoming impact unicorns. It is focused on hard-working founders who have the grit to test new ideas and aim for innovative outcomes. The programme is based in Lisbon – Portugal – it is 3-months long followed by 6-months of ongoing support and includes an equity-free cash stipend to help you through your stay.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal, Europe
Industries: Consulting, Impact Investing, Incubators, Sustainability
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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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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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