Bynd

Bynd Venture Capital, former Busy Angels, is a Portuguese venture capital investor with more than 30 active investments in the portfolio in different funds. At Bynd Venture Capital we invest in companies: - At the seed / early stage - In IT/Digital and Sustainability (including Lifesciences, Clean Tech, among others) sectors - From Portugal, Spain and any startup that has a direct connection with these markets (founders, tech team, investors, ...).

Luis Mira Amaral

Chairman

Lurdes Gramaxo

Partner

Tomás Penaguião

Investment Manager

Francisco Ferreira Pinto

Partner

Ana Paula Reis

Partner

Santiago Salazar

Partner

Past deals in Portugal

Impress

Series A in 2021
Impress is the only truly orthodontic DTC player… globally We have a defensible model with the personal touch of an in-house orthodontist, true clinical expertise, and engaging directly with consumers

Xhockware

Seed Round in 2014
Xhockware is a start-up offering innovative retail solutions. YouBeep, Xhockware’s first product, is a mobile shopping & checkout solution based on two components, a patented pluggable device, compatible with any retailer POS (legacy systems included) and a mobile app. For retailers, YouBeep is the solution to add value and grow business. Access to meaningful insights, optimized operations, sales increase, compatible with loyalty programs and digital coupons. Mobile payments are enabled via YouBeep. Worth to mention, there’s no integration effort and no CAPEX required. For shoppers, YouBeep provides a unique shopping experience. Shoppers can whizz through the checkout 70% faster than before, have control over their entire shopping journey from home until final payment. Personalized promotions in real time based on previous and present behaviour maximize customer satisfaction.. YouBeep is publicly available at 5 leading retailers – Lidl, Pingo Doce (JM), Jumbo (Auchan), Continente (Sonae) and Leroy Merlin with spectacular results.

DefinedCrowd Corporation

Series A in 2018
DefinedCrowd develops a Crowd-as-a-Service intelligent data platform intended to accelerate enterprise data training and modeling. The company's platform combines machine learning and data science with crowd-sourcing to help companies to easily manage their global data collection and data enrichment efforts, enabling enterprises to improve quality, scalability and time-to-market for their artificial intelligence and natural language processing applications.

Jack the Maker

Seed Round in 2016
Jack The Make thinks machines for advertising and communication, product development and manufacturing, robotics, prototyping, filmmaking, design, coding and IoT.

LegalVision, SAS

Seed Round in 2016
LegalVision is a web-based software (SaaS) that allows lawyers and business owners to manage their legal documents and process. It allows users to file legal documents online, to follow the status of the file, to have the documents electronically signed, and to get the documents up to date.

Transactional Track Record

Seed Round in 2014
Transactional Track Record (TTR) is a premium financial technology platform that delivers unrivalled transactional data and actionable market intelligence in real time, empowering professionals to seize opportunities and make more informed strategic decisions. TTR aggregates transactional data from thousands of sources, providing an indispensable resource of announced, completed and cancelled transactions covering every industry.

Impress

Seed Round in 2020
Impress is the only truly orthodontic DTC player… globally We have a defensible model with the personal touch of an in-house orthodontist, true clinical expertise, and engaging directly with consumers

Medical Port

Seed Round in 2014
Medical Port is the first truly Global Medical Tourism Facilitator dedicated to gather Portugal’s expertise in Medical Services as well as renowned hospitality for your benefit. Their goal as Premium Medical Tourism Facilitator is to provide you with proper alternatives for surgeries and medical treatments in Portugal. Proper meaning cost-effective, quality driven, according to your timings and customized to your needs. They make sure the entire process is quick, smooth and trouble-free.

Zaask

Seed Round in 2013
Zaask helps people hire the right professionals to accomplish their projects, be it to remodel the kitchen, photograph those special moments or even be it to learn a new language. Zaask is an online platform to compare and hire rated service professionals. Zaask is the Europe's largest player in this space.

Tandem

Seed Round in 2016
Tandem is the app that connects language learners around the globe. Ten million members are currently using the platform, which enables individuals to connect and learn new languages via text, audio, and video chat. More than 300 languages are currently available, including fictional and sign languages. Tandem was founded by Arnd Aschentrup, Tobias Dickmeis, and Dr. Matthias Kleimann. The company is backed by prominent European investors such as Brighteye Ventures, GPS Ventures, Hannover Beteiligungsfonds, Rubylight Limited, Trind Ventures and Atlantic Labs.  Tandem is available for free on iOS, Android, and the Web. Find out more at www.tandem.net. Tandem was founded in 2015 by Arnd Aschentrup, Tobias Dickmeis, and Matthias Kleimann and was listed by Apple in their "App Store Best of 2015" and by Google in their "Play Store Best of 2017."

Ritmo

Seed Round in 2021
Ritmo helps digital entrepreneurs grow faster, through non-dilutive funding and growth tools. Targeted specifically at E-commerce and SaaS companies, as well as any digital entrepreneur with recurring or predictable revenue.

Woffu

Debt Financing in 2019
Woffu Job Organizer, S.L. provides cloud-based staff leave planner software. The company’s software allows users to record holidays requests, the minus days, the absences, the overtime, etc.; separate or aggregate view of the calendar by national holidays, personal time off, overtime, etc.; and notifies by mail about various holiday requests, approvals, and replies. Its software also enables users to manage various users and departments, and assign responsibilities; warns up about overlaps in the same department; records overtime and absence hours; and offers phone and mail support. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.

Luope

Seed Round in 2017
Luope is an intelligent vending machines management system that allows the vending operators to increase their companies performance in an unprecedented way with a global and integrated control of the entire value chain.

Enging - Make Solutions

Seed Round in 2019
Enging provides smart online monitoring solutions based on predictive maintenance for industrial electrical machines. The continuous working of Enging provides a paradigm shift in the maintenance industry, enabling the management of these assets to be done in a much more economical, efficient and simple manner. Enging was founded in 2011 and is based in Coimbra, Portugal.

StemCell2MAX

Seed Round in 2015
StemCell2MAX is a Portuguese biotechnology company with the goal to address the global shortage of high-quality blood/haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) for both medical and research use. The company has a strong IP position (EU, USA and Japan) on a highly innovative technology that selectively promotes survival and multiplication of highly scarce HSCs (Fonseca-Pereira, et al., Nature 514, 2014). In 2015, StemCell2MAX launched a research use only (RUO) expansion product and achieved a growing sales track record internationally and is currently developing the clinical use of its technology.

Probe.ly

Seed Round in 2018
Probely is a Web Vulnerability Scanning suite for Agile Teams. It provides continuous scanning of your Web Applications and lets you efficiently manage the lifecycle of the vulnerabilities found, in a sleek and intuitive web interface. Probely provides tailored instructions on how to fix the vulnerabilities (including snippets of code), and by using its API, it can be integrated into the development processes and the continuous integration tools in order to automatize security testing. Probely is a SaaS product targeted at companies that build online services.

Magnomics Lda.

Seed Round in 2014
Magnomics Lda. develops portable point-of-care molecular diagnostic tests for use in human health, veterinary, and food industry markets. The company is based in Cantanhede, Portugal.

youbeQ - Maps With Life

Seed Round in 2013
About youbeQ - Maps With Life youbeQ is a project born inside iNovmapping LDA, and now is property of Maps With Life, S.A. a iNovmapping LDA spin-off. Currently we are incubated in the "Instituto Pedro Nunes" (IPN) - Association for Innovation and Development in Science and Technology at the University of Coimbra, voted the best technology-based incubator of the world in 2010. What is youbeQ? youbeQ is a social hybrid reality platform integrated in Google Maps/Earth where you can travel around the world, discover new places, meet new people and share your own experiences among with friends. See what's going around you.

Kubbo

Seed Round in 2021
Kubbo is a B2B e-commerce fulfillment startup that enables brands and their customers to access same-day deliveries.

Dharma5academy

Seed Round in 2015
Dharma5 Academy is a online platform for practical learning and personal development content.

Lymphact

Seed Round in 2014
Lymphact is a biopharmaceutical start-up focused on developing innovative personalised medical treatments. Their products and technologies are designed to harness the power of the immune system, the target-specific cellular mechanism which evolved in vertebrates during the last 450 million years, towards a permanent elimination of pathogens. After 5 years of pioneering research and development in this field, they created a new technology platform which can generate autologous and allogeneic cellular immune therapies for clinical applications: DOT-Cells®.

DefinedCrowd Corporation

Series B in 2020
DefinedCrowd develops a Crowd-as-a-Service intelligent data platform intended to accelerate enterprise data training and modeling. The company's platform combines machine learning and data science with crowd-sourcing to help companies to easily manage their global data collection and data enrichment efforts, enabling enterprises to improve quality, scalability and time-to-market for their artificial intelligence and natural language processing applications.

Colvin

Venture Round in 2018
At The Colvin Co we aim to change the way people buy flowers online by offering intermediary-free bouquets selected by our floral gurus through an optimised platform that delivers best-in-class user experience.

Doppio Games

Seed Round in 2019
Doppio SA develops and publishes cross platform and voice controlled games. It offers The Vortex, a voice controlled game playable with voice input on both Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. Doppio SA was founded in 2018 and is based in Porto, Portugal.

FASTinov S.A.

Seed Round in 2015
FASTinov S.A. develops and markets a technology that reduces the time to obtain Antimicrobial Susceptibility Tests. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Matosinhos, Portugal.

DefinedCrowd Corporation

Seed Round in 2016
DefinedCrowd develops a Crowd-as-a-Service intelligent data platform intended to accelerate enterprise data training and modeling. The company's platform combines machine learning and data science with crowd-sourcing to help companies to easily manage their global data collection and data enrichment efforts, enabling enterprises to improve quality, scalability and time-to-market for their artificial intelligence and natural language processing applications.

iClio S.A.

Seed Round in 2014
iClio S.A. engages in the creation and publication of content related to history, heritage, and culture for Android, smartphones, and iOS. It offers a guide to respond to specific needs and concepts, such as guides for museums, institutions, thematic routes, events, and more. The company also provides content production for various formats and editorial needs. iClio S.A. is based in Coimbra, Portugal.

MyDidimo

Venture Round in 2019
Didimo focuses on humanizing technology and reducing digital isolation. They automate 3D character creation - a once expensive and time-consuming task - in 30 sec or less. Their product - a Didimo - a lifelike 3D characters that look, act and speak like a person will connect every one of us more closely to the digital world, driving a new paradigm for communication, through the image they know the most - their own face.

eSolidar

Seed Round in 2013
Since 2014, eSolidar has been connecting consumers with social causes and enabling charities to diversify their fundraising base & reach new audiences through online charity shops, donations and special charity auctions with celebrities & brands. After reaching 50K registered users and almost 800 charities, we're now getting businesses involved. eSolidar for businesses is a solution that allows companies to better engage, empower and connect employees, while amplifying their social impact and CSR strategies, to create a culture of collaboration and giving back within any organisation.

WEEZIE

Seed Round in 2018
WEEZIE develops FiberCloud™ Web System and FiberCloud™ Mobile. FiberCloud ™ is an innovative FTTx network mapping platform designed to meet the needs of telcom companies and their SPs. You can access and manage all of your critical data in one place. Secure, scalable, affordable, and easy to use. FiberCloud delivers the network data and insights you need with just a few clicks.

SAK Project

Seed Round in 2012
SAKPROJECT unique technology provides a non-intrusive (no contact with skin) and fast (less than 30 seconds) scanning process generating a 3D model with an incredibly high accuracy. SAKPROJECT developed the concept of Football custom protection – a combination of high-tech processes and materials that result in the most effective protection a player can wear while playing Football.

Endado

Venture Round in 2016
Endado is an online shop of spare parts and oils for your car. Buy the auto part your car fits and find a good mechanic.