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Portugal Ventures

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Total investments 328
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 251
Rounds per year 27.33
Lead investments 38
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.23
Exits 20
Key employees 8
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Information Technology
  • Biotechnology
  • SaaS
Summary

Portugal Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2012. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Portugal. The main department of described VC is located in the Porto.

Opposing the other organizations, this Portugal Ventures works on 23 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The important activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The average startup value when the investment from Portugal Ventures is 5-10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Portugal. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, SaaS. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight OutSystems, Perceive3D, GuestU.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Portugal Ventures, startups are often financed by Busy Angels, Rockstart Accelerator, EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Faber Ventures, Startup Braga, Ask Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs, Techstars, Singtel Innov8.

The current fund was established by Nuno Afonso, Rau0413u0454l Saraiva. The overall number of key employees were 8.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Yon Living

01 Apr 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Tonic App

Database
Health Care
Hospital
Medical
Mobile Apps
$12M26 Mar 2024 Portugal, Portugal

Glooma

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical Device
Wellness
$528K29 Dec 2023 -

LUGGit

Internet
Software
$2M21 Nov 2023 Ílhavo, Centro, Portugal

TWEVO Technologies

Information Technology
Telecommunications
Wireless
$118K18 Sep 2023 Leiria, Centro, Portugal

Yon Wine

Delivery Service
Food and Beverage
Winery
$100K31 Aug 2023 -

TimeUp

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical Device
$118K28 Aug 2023 -

Sparkyway

Consulting
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$200K01 Aug 2023 -

Bam & Boo

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
$500K27 Jul 2023 Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
News
Jscrambler Raises $15M in Series A Funding

– Jscrambler from Porto specializes in cybersecurity products for web and mobile applications.
– Company raised $15m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Ace Capital Partners with participation from existing investors including Portugal Ventures.
– The new investment will be used to augment marketing and sales resources in the U.S. and European markets, as well as strengthen and accelerate the product roadmap to meet current customers’ expanding requirements including an integrated solution that ensures website owners can protect the client-side to secure user data, mitigate fraud and user hijacking, and improve compliance with regulations (GDPR, CCPA, PSD2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, among others).

Barkyn, a wellness startup for pets in Southern Europe, hits a $9.6M Series A round

– Barkyn, a European subscription service for pets, has raised $3m in funding.
– The round was led by Five Seasons Ventures and joined by Indico Capital Partners, All Iron Ventures, Portugal Ventures and Shilling Capital.
– The company plans to use the funds to expand into new markets.

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Total investments 328
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 27.33
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 38
Follow on index 0.23
Exits 20
Group Appearance index 0.26

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Yon Living

01 Apr 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Tonic App

Database
Health Care
Hospital
Medical
Mobile Apps
$12M26 Mar 2024 Portugal, Portugal

Glooma

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical Device
Wellness
$528K29 Dec 2023 -

LUGGit

Internet
Software
$2M21 Nov 2023 Ílhavo, Centro, Portugal

TWEVO Technologies

Information Technology
Telecommunications
Wireless
$118K18 Sep 2023 Leiria, Centro, Portugal

Yon Wine

Delivery Service
Food and Beverage
Winery
$100K31 Aug 2023 -

TimeUp

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical Device
$118K28 Aug 2023 -

Sparkyway

Consulting
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$200K01 Aug 2023 -

Bam & Boo

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
$500K27 Jul 2023 Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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