Venture Capital

Last year was the third best year ever for investment for Portugal Ventures. Between investments in new startups and capital injections into the companies in its pre-existing portfolios, the [...]

Portugal’s venture capital company Indico Capital Partners has invested €4 million in five startups – Famedrop, Data4Deals, Ittinsect, Inclita Seaweed Solutions and Biomimetx. Two are [...]

Court orders suspension of bank programme A programme involving the management of €500 million in funds destined for SMEs – ‘Programa Consolidar’ (Consolidate Programme) – [...]

The amount of funding from venture capital companies and business angels in Lisbon startups is likely to be just over €333 million. The amount is way above the €96.8 million raised in 2021 [...]

The Portuguese startup Pleez which provides technology solutions for delivery platforms such as Glovo and Uber Eats, has attracted a €2 million investment led by Lince Capital. The capital that [...]

Portugal Ventures, a State-owned venture capital investment company that helps promising startups in areas such as tourism, turned at €12 million profit for 2021 after making losses. The company, [...]

Portugal’s development bank Banco de Fomento has selected 14 venture capital companies to manage €500 million to invest in SMEs and MidCaps as part of the Government ’s Consolidate Programme. The [...]

Sonae is to pump €300 million into its technology investment venture capital subsidiary in an investment that will double the amount it has already invested since 2016. Bright Pixel Capital, [...]

The Portuguese venture capital company Shilling has over €22 million to invest in startups. The total amount that the Shilling Founders Fund holds, has gone from €30 million to €52 millions and [...]

The venture capital fund Indico Blue Fund which is aimed at exporting SMEs has €36 million to invest in the Portuguese emerging Blue Economy. Indico Blue Fund, which was set up by Indico Capital [...]