Investors in Portugal

Olisipo Way is an Early Stage Venture Firm focused on IT investments. Our investments are varied in terms of business areas but we have a natural tendency for B2B projects. We speak the same language as entrepreneurs, the language of business. More than investors, we are also entrepreneurs. Our priority is the choice of the right people and the creation of a community that works as a plus in the lives of our startups.

We invest in teams transforming the world with technology. 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, Smartex or YData.

Startup Lighthouse is committed to developing cross border connections within and beyond Europe. The project lights the way for startups within Europe by organising 8 Deep Dive Weeks in 4 ecosystems, meeting over 1,600 different ecosystem players in specific themes and culminating with a Lighthouse Award each year. Startup Lighthouse is a Startup Europe initiative.

Poolside Accelerator supports and accelerates the development of decentralized technology ventures. Our mission is to become the leading platform to support innovators and progressive ideas, funded by the community. To create a world where value provided by the many, outweighs the influence of the few.

Gotbit provides a platform-based solution, bringing back control of the markets to the founders of the project. Gotbit was founded in 2017, when BTC was just a $1000. We lived through the ICO boom, blockchain regulation and Binance launch. In the time since we went from two traders to a big company, spanning multiple branches of the crypto market.

ASTROPRENEURS Space Startup Accelerator turns space-related ideas into viable businesses, promoting opportunities for entrepreneurs. Astropreneurs Accelerator is a three-month acceleration program that includes business and technical mentorship, support to fund your business idea and access to our “SPACE Economy “Astropreneurs” network”. Space Startup Accelerator.

The Beta-start is an acceleration program for entrepreneurs that want to create and develop their startups. We are a collaborative innovation consultancy with a global reach. For more than 12 years we have been the partner of choice for world-class companies to accelerate their innovation journey. We’re experts on managing corporate and open innovation, and on designing impactful strategies, products and services alongside in-company teams.

Blue Bio Value is an accelerator that scales up marine biobased solutions to global market applications in different industries. Ideas as powerful as the ocean - The world needs your sustainable solutions, now more than ever. Blue Bio Value is an international business acceleration and ideation programme based in Portugal dedicated to the blue bioeconomy, and we want you to be a part of it.

Amorim Cork Ventures has been established with the purpose of supporting entrepreneurs launch their projects. Amorim Cork Ventures has been established in 2014 with the purpose of supporting entrepreneurs and startups launch their projects and businesses while exploring innovative products and applications for cork. This Corticeira Amorim company's main purpose is to promote the development and expansion of new cork products and cork-related businesses, mainly targeted to foreign markets.

Building Global Innovators is a tech-based accelerator for ventures with a deep technological component (Health Tech, Enterprise IT, etc). BGI is a startup accelerator, born in 2010 from a partnership between MIT Portugal (MIT Portugal Entrepreneurship and Innovation Initiative) and ISCTE. Over the past decade, our flagship accelerator program, BGI Accelerator, has helped over 160 startups from 76 countries raise over €300 million.

A Startup Studio and Incubator helping startups launch and grow in a more efficient way. Build Up Labs is a startup studio that ideates, builds, and grows several startups in parallel, based on a lean process. By creating new ventures, from ideation to business models, from UX to development, from growth hacking to social media management, we generate and validate digital product ideas.

Grow by Jose de Mello - The perfect ecosystem to develop your startup. Grow connects startups with our companies in win-win partnerships. Through access to our infrastructure and people, startups have the opportunity to test their solutions in the real market and accelerate their businesses. At the same time, José de Mello gets first-hand access to new ideas and challenges to its business models.