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Busy Angels

Founders Francisco Ferreira Pinto Joao Costa Luis Mira Amaral Santiago Salazar

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Total investments 47
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 40
Rounds per year 3.62
Lead investments 6
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.15
Exits 1
Key employees 6
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • E-Commerce
  • Information Technology
  • Machine Learning
Summary

Busy Angels is the famous VC, which was founded in 2010. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Portugal. The main department of described VC is located in the Lisbon.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Busy Angels, startups are often financed by Bright Pixel, Samaipata, Toubkal Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Armilar Venture Partners, Alexa Fund, Shilling Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Portugal Ventures, Horizon 2020, EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs.

The current fund was established by Francisco Ferreira Pinto, Joao Costa. The overall number of key employees were 6.

The important activity for fund was in 2014. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. When the investment is from Busy Angels the average startup value is 1-5 millions dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight FASTinov, Xhockware, DefinedCrowd. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Spain. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Mobile, Medical Device. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Last

Restaurants
Software
$5M15 Nov 2023 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Trebellar

Construction
Environmental Consulting
Real Estate
$3M12 Jul 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Guud Woman

Fertility
Personal Health
Wellness
Women's
$1M06 Jul 2023 -

Ukio

Hospitality
Real Estate
Rental
$20M22 Nov 2022 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Reveni

E-Commerce
$3M20 Sep 2022 Madrid, Madrid, Spain

ZenRows

SaaS
Software
$1M30 Jun 2022 -

Relive

Mobile Apps
Real Estate
$1M15 Jan 2022 Austin, Texas, United States

Last

Restaurants
Software
$2M13 Jan 2022 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Ritmo

Financial Services
$16M29 Jul 2021 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

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Total investments 47
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 3.62
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.15
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.85

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Last

Restaurants
Software
$5M15 Nov 2023 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Trebellar

Construction
Environmental Consulting
Real Estate
$3M12 Jul 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Guud Woman

Fertility
Personal Health
Wellness
Women's
$1M06 Jul 2023 -

Ukio

Hospitality
Real Estate
Rental
$20M22 Nov 2022 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Reveni

E-Commerce
$3M20 Sep 2022 Madrid, Madrid, Spain

ZenRows

SaaS
Software
$1M30 Jun 2022 -

Relive

Mobile Apps
Real Estate
$1M15 Jan 2022 Austin, Texas, United States

Last

Restaurants
Software
$2M13 Jan 2022 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Ritmo

Financial Services
$16M29 Jul 2021 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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