maze impact

maze is an impact investment firm that offers financial and non-financial tools to everyone committed to delivering positive social and environmental outcomes.

António Miguel

Managing Partner

Stadler, Orson

Principal

20 past transactions

Beans

Seed Round in 2025
Beans is on a mission to help the planet by reducing food waste, saving products, and offering them through an online grocery platform at discounted prices.

KiDSiE

Convertible Note in 2023
KiDSiE operates a circular marketplace focused on providing a sustainable solution for families seeking children's gear and toys. The platform facilitates the buying and selling of open-box and gently used items, including clothing, shoes, toys, books, furniture, and baby essentials. By enabling users to acquire these products at significantly reduced prices, KiDSiE not only helps families save money but also promotes environmentally friendly practices. The service transforms the shopping experience for parents by offering an accessible and eco-conscious alternative to traditional retail.

Panion

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Panion is a community-building platform that enables organizations, schools, and companies to enhance social interactions among their members. The platform features a keyword-searchable and filterable system, allowing users to connect based on shared interests, values, experiences, and specific demographics such as location, gender, and age. Members can propose spontaneous events and create social groups tailored to particular interests. Additionally, community administrators have access to an analytics dashboard that helps track engagement trends and facilitates targeted communication through segmented messaging. By fostering deeper connections and promoting inclusivity, Panion aims to strengthen community bonds and enhance engagement among its users.

Eco Wave Power

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Eco Wave Power is the sole global inventor, owner and developer of the unique EWP wave energy devices. Their wave energy company designs, manufactures and operates the EWP wave energy convertors. They believe that their patented technology is clearly on target to become a world leader in the wave energy field. Eco Wave Power is the only wave energy company to ever win the Frost & Sullivan Product Innovation Award. According to Frost & Sullivan, "Eco Wave Power efficiently handles the prominent challenges prevailing in the field and offers an all-round solution for effective energy harvesting. Based on the aforementioned performance drivers as measured through Frost & Sullivan independent analysis, Eco Wave Power is the recipient of the 2012 Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation Award"

Tuki

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Tuki, share your team with your trusted community.

Omoguru

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Omoguru is a company focused on enhancing reading and learning experiences through customizable text tools that cater to both struggling and proficient readers. Their offerings include the Omoguru Reader app, which improves text readability and aids in decoding words, and Lexie, a progressive web app that serves as an eBook reader and content management platform. Additionally, they provide W3Lexie, a browser plugin designed to enhance online reading by minimizing distractions, and w3Access, a web accessibility widget for site owners. OmoType is another key product, featuring a dynamic font system that enhances legibility in both digital and print formats. Omoguru’s solutions are informed by years of speech therapy experience and scientific research, aiming to create a universal platform that supports individuals with dyslexia while promoting inclusivity. The company's mission includes destigmatizing dyslexia and fostering the creative potential of dyslexic individuals. Omoguru has received multiple awards for its innovative approach and social impact, further solidifying its commitment to improving literacy and learning outcomes.

imagi

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Imagi is focused on creating engaging and accessible coding education for students aged 8 to 13, with a particular emphasis on inclusivity for girls, who are often underrepresented in the technology sector. The company has developed a mobile-first platform that introduces Python programming through a visual and hands-on approach. This innovative application allows users to create colorful programmable accessories that display custom text, designs, and animations. By enabling students and teachers to share their coding projects within an online community, imagi fosters a collaborative learning environment that empowers young learners to explore their creativity in coding.

Rnters

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Rnters is an online rental marketplace of everyday items that allow users to save money and profit from underutilized assets. Rnters is an online rental market that allows anyone to sell and invest in their unused items. Through Rnters anyone will have access to more than 3,000 unique items anytime at a fraction of the buying cost. The company is headquartered in Lisboa, Portugal and was founded by Guilherme Guerra in 2016.

ElectricFeel

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
ElectricFeel AG, founded in 2012 and based in Zurich, Switzerland, specializes in developing software that facilitates the integration of E-Bikes and charging infrastructures, promoting a pollution-free transportation system. The company focuses on creating sustainable and profitable fleets of electric vehicles by leveraging advanced technology and industry expertise. Its software solutions manage various aspects of shared electric mobility, including fleet usage, maintenance, user accounts, payments, billing, and data analytics. By providing these comprehensive services, ElectricFeel enables entrepreneurs, utilities, and mobility providers to effectively establish and scale their micromobility businesses, ensuring a seamless user experience for customers.

Mystery Minds

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Mystery Minds creates physical communication experiences for the digital professional world. Mystery Minds was founded in 2013 by Christoph Drebes and Stefan Melbinger. The initial focus of the expanding start-up was the Mystery Lunch solution, for which they received a great deal of positive feedback from their first customers. In 2017, following the conclusion of the start-up phase, they set about significantly expanding their portfolio. Today, they combine the five powerful products Mystery Lunch, Mystery Coffee, Mystery Brain, Mystery Job and Mystery Mentor underneath the brand Mystery Minds. As an established company with five employees, they pursue agile decision-making processes and are able to respond to changes in a rapid and flexible manner.

Sepiia

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Sepiia is an intelligent clothing company established in 2016, focusing on the production of sustainable garments manufactured in Spain. Leveraging innovative materials, Sepiia offers durable clothing that requires no ironing and resists body odor, ensuring comfort and breathability for its customers. The company is committed to sustainability and aims to revolutionize the fashion industry with its technological fashion products, which are set to launch in September.

Vytal

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Vytal provides software-enabled reusable packaging solutions aimed at reducing single-use packaging waste in the food and beverage industry. The company offers a reusable container system and accompanying container management software designed to support sustainable takeaway and delivery services. Its services cater to a diverse clientele, including restaurants, supermarkets, caterers, canteens, and event organizers. Vytal's platform allows businesses and individual consumers to access high-quality reusable packaging at a pay-per-use price that is more economical than disposable options. Users can conveniently borrow containers for free and return them at various locations or through delivery services, thereby facilitating a circular approach to packaging and contributing to the reduction of plastic waste.

NU-RISE LDA

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
NU-RISE LDA helping doctors provide better cancer treatment. They have developed a probe that goes inside the body. This probe will monitor, in real-time, the level of radiation the patient is receiving. The Doctor can target the cancer but avoid the healthy organs. Better, safer and more accurate radiation - it's an evolution for cancer treatment.

bgood

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
The bgood platform enables brands to protect the environment together with their customers through a unique customer experiences that rewards customers whenever they act sustainable or buy sustainable products with with points called Seeds. With goodbag we have developed the world’s first smart shopping bag that lets users track how often they re-used it and plant trees or collect plastic out of the ocean every time they bring their bag to a shop. After reaching product market fit with goodbag we are now expanding the platform with new use-cases that let customers earn Seeds whenever they recycle, re-use an item or buy sustainable products. In the app users can track their impact in real-time and collect Seeds together with their friends and colleagues. All Seeds that users collect have a monetary value and users can donated them to social or environmental projects to for example collect plastic out of the ocean or plant trees against climate change.

Mello

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Mello is a mobile application aimed at assisting parents in building supportive communities. The platform enables families to connect with one another, facilitating the formation of friendships and the organization of playdates. Mello also provides a means for parents to arrange childcare support, such as swapping babysitting services with trusted acquaintances. By fostering connections among families, Mello seeks to alleviate the challenges of parenting and enhance the overall experience for caregivers.

Chatterbox

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Chatterbox is a corporate language learning platform that connects professionals with native language coaches who share similar professional backgrounds and interests. The platform focuses on providing active language practice, allowing engineers to learn Arabic from fellow engineers and aid workers to study French with medical doctors. Chatterbox's coaches are often displaced professionals who are underutilized in the labor market. The platform utilizes artificial intelligence to enhance online tutoring in various languages, including Mandarin, Arabic, Spanish, and French, with the aim of improving communication and cultural intelligence among corporate clients. Chatterbox was co-founded by a former refugee and is supported by notable investors, including BGV, All Turtles, and WeWork.

Trigger.Systems

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Trigger systems is the operative system for agriculture. This system allows you to connect all kinds of devices, optimize them, relate them and control them remotely. The application of this solution, already in tests in several farms, already produced significant savings in water, energies and production factors, with excellent cultural and financial results. This innovative solution respond to irrigation automation, pivots control, energy control, greenhouses automation, control of soil humidity control, between others. This is the most important event for Information Technologies. Here are discussed and defined trends, ways, and often revealed enterprises and projects which in future will be part of our life. Only 10% of startups are invited for this important event and Trigger systems was one of them.

Springkode

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Springkode is an e-commerce company founded in 2018 and headquartered in Matosinhos, Porto. It operates a web-based fashion marketplace that connects end customers with a network of independent European textile factories. The platform specializes in offering ethical fashion products, including dresses, tops, nightwear, and shirts, from various manufacturers. By facilitating this direct connection, Springkode enables customers to purchase quality fashion at affordable prices while supporting local production.
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