Caixa Capital

Caixa Capital is the Private Equity and Venture Capital arm of banking Group Caixa Geral de Depósitos and has a track record spanning over two decades of activity, since the industry was created in Portugal. It is a leading investor in terms of funds under management, portfolio size and diversity. Caixa Capital´s mission is to invest in funds and companies, led by highly qualified management teams, with high growth and valuation potential, that enable our funds to achieve an attractive risk adjusted return and for society at large to benefit sustainably from our activity. Currently with more than 700 million Euros under management and a portfolio of over 80 investments, Caixa Capital is a reference in this area with special links to the respective European sector associations.

Past deals in Portugal

Nonius Hospitality Technology

Venture Round in 2011
Nonius is a technology company enabling guest experience excellence for organizations in the Hospitality industry. Nonius offers state of the art technology that enables hospitality operators to provide their guests cutting edge digital services including: communication, infotainment, multimedia solutions and services for Hotels, Hospitals and Cruise Ships. The Company specializes in High Speed Internet Access (HSIA), Interactive TV using IPTV technology, digital signage, IP telephony, mobile applications, and entertainment content. Nonius services more than 110,000 rooms across Europe, the Americas, Africa and Middle-East, which include international hotel chains such as: Accor, Corinthia, Meliá, Wyndham-Tryp, Starwood, IHG, Uniworld, Viking Cruises, Eurostars, Pestana, Transamérica, Estanplaza, Tivoli, Altis, Blue Tree and Sana.

Probe.ly

Seed Round in 2020
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.

Codacy

Seed Round in 2015
Codacy is an automated code review tool that helps developers to save time in code reviews and to tackle technical debt efficiently. Developers spend 10%-20% of their time reviewing code. Gartner estimates the global technical debt to grow to $1 Trillion by 2015. Codacy tracks new issues by severity level for every commit and pull request and allows a hassle free customization of static analysis It provides advanced code metrics on the health of a project and on the performance of teams.

Psious

Venture Round in 2019
Psious develops a virtual reality platform designed to bring value to mental health treatment. The company's platform uses hyper-realistic virtual environments to treat anxiety disorders by means of virtual exposure therapy, enabling professionals to improve mental health therapies.

Codacy

Venture Round in 2019
Codacy is an automated code review tool that helps developers to save time in code reviews and to tackle technical debt efficiently. Developers spend 10%-20% of their time reviewing code. Gartner estimates the global technical debt to grow to $1 Trillion by 2015. Codacy tracks new issues by severity level for every commit and pull request and allows a hassle free customization of static analysis It provides advanced code metrics on the health of a project and on the performance of teams.

Psious

Series A in 2019
Psious develops a virtual reality platform designed to bring value to mental health treatment. The company's platform uses hyper-realistic virtual environments to treat anxiety disorders by means of virtual exposure therapy, enabling professionals to improve mental health therapies.

doDOC Corp.

Seed Round in 2015
doDOC allows several people to work on the same document at the same time. Your team will plan, draft, edit, review and approve documents more than 70% faster. With well-governed workflows and granular permissions down to the paragraph-level, you will obtain a full audit-trail of any document. Founded by MIT alumni in 2015 and headquartered in Boston, doDOC is set to change the content collaboration paradigm by streamlining the writing and management experience, and automating all the technical aspects that undermine productivity. doDOC is a powerful and flexible cloud-based software, scaled to meet the needs of any business, from startups to global companies. Learn more at: https://www.doDOC.com

Infraspeak

Series A in 2021
At Infraspeak they believe in simplicity as a way of a better work and life quality. A Facility Management Software should work for managers and technicians, and never the opposite. That is why their philosophy is to automate, to speed up, and to simplify all the process of registering, transmission and consulting the information. They aim to fully eliminate the use of paper and time expenses with administrative tasks, which doesn’t contribute at all for the success and the quality of the service they offer to their clients.

EatTasty

Convertible Note in 2016
Producing every-day tasty food through a decentralized model, aiming to deliver the best food through the biggest community of producers.

Prodsmart

Seed Round in 2016
Prodsmart is real time process tracking for production lines and job shops.They turn any production line into a digital smart factory.

Agentifai

Seed Round in 2018
Agentifai enables companies to live up to and exceed rising consumer expectations regarding customer support. Their digital intelligent agent, Alice, allows customers to interact with a brand using the communication apps they already use to communicate with their friends. To interact with their provider, customers don’t need to make time for a phone call or wait hours for an email response. They just can text Alice directly and have a response in seconds.

Codacy

Series A in 2017
Codacy is an automated code review tool that helps developers to save time in code reviews and to tackle technical debt efficiently. Developers spend 10%-20% of their time reviewing code. Gartner estimates the global technical debt to grow to $1 Trillion by 2015. Codacy tracks new issues by severity level for every commit and pull request and allows a hassle free customization of static analysis It provides advanced code metrics on the health of a project and on the performance of teams.

Fibersail

Seed Round in 2022
Fibersail provides a continuous and automated real-time shape monitoring service for wind turbine blades. Its service monitors and analyzes windmill blades in terms of shape, condition, and behavior by using a shape sensing system based on FBG (Fiber Bragg Grating) fiber optic research. The company’s real-time information helps wind turbine operators to maximize performance and availability while preventing failures and maintenance costs from their windmills. Fibersail was founded in 2014 and is based in Oeiras, Portugal with an additional office in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Delox

Seed Round in 2022
Delox is a spin-off of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL), whose goals consist in the design, development, and production of a vast portfolio of automatic biodecontamination robots. Target applications include the sterilization of medical devices in hospitals, health centers and field hospitals (for humanitarian missions, catastrophe situations, and war zones); room biodecontamination in hospitals, pharma, food industry and space; and laboratory equipment biodecontamination.

InAtlas

Venture Round in 2011
InAtlas is an information technology and consultancy company that offers online strategic business solutions to find the best business locations. The company offers inAtlas, a self-service online location analytics and competitive intelligence application that optimizes business decision-making based on data locations of clients, competitors, and suppliers. The application helps its users make their business plans, design marketing campaigns, find new customers, implement geo-marketing strategies, find places which are ideal for franchises, and more. InAtlas was founded in January 2010 and is based in Barcelona, Spain.

Unbabel

Series B in 2018
Unbabel enables modern enterprises to serve customers in their native languages, with always-on, scalable translation across digital channels. Powered by AI and refined by a global community of translators, Unbabel combines the speed and scale of machine translation with the authenticity that can come only from a native speaker. Unbabel has raised over $31M in funding and has over 200 employees across its Lisbon headquarters and offices in San Francisco, New York, and Pittsburgh. Leading brands like Facebook, Microsoft, Booking.com, and EasyJet use Unbabel to make their customers happier and their support operations vastly more efficient.

BioMimetx

Seed Round in 2014
BioMimetx is a biotech startup focused on the development of green antifouling solutions to prevent marine biofouling. The company discovers and owns environmental bacteria that secrete molecules, which are used as natural antimicrobials and algaecides. BioMimetx is based in Cantanhede, Portugal.

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.

Veniam

Series B in 2016
Veniam is building the Internet of Moving Things. We turn vehicles into Wi-Fi hotspots and build city-scale vehicular networks that expand wireless coverage and collect terabytes of urban data. Veniam’s game-changing solutions are composed by hardware, software and cloud components that deliver managed services to intelligent transportation systems in New York and Singapore, as well as in the world's largest network of connected vehicles, which includes taxis, waste collection trucks and the entire public bus fleet in Porto, Portugal, offering free Wi-Fi to more than 500,000 active customers. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Mountain View, California.

HypeLabs

Seed Round in 2017
HypeLabs is the company that created the Hype SDK, an interoperable mesh networking software that improves connectivity on all kinds of devices, from mobile to desktop to IoT, allowing them to connect even when there is no internet. The software works by intelligently connecting devices in local mesh networks using existing connectivity technologies, such as Bluetooth, WiFi, LoRa and others. This network enables content to securely hop between devices, until it reaches a destination or an Internet exit point, improving range and deliverability. Founded in 2016, the company is located in San Francisco (USA), Porto (Portugal), London (UK) and Krakow (Poland). AngelPad #10 (Spring '16) alumni & Deutsche Telekom WARP alumni.

Exogenus Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2015
Exogenus Therapeutics is engineering cell biology for innovative therapeutic solutions. Exo-T is a biotechnology company dedicated to the pre-clinical and clinical development of innovative cellular-based therapies applied to regenerative medicine, specifically for the skin lesions treatment. The company is presently developing its first product, Exo-Wound, for the treatment of chronic wounds. The project that led to the creation of the company (Nanoinspire) participated in COHiTEC 2014 program and is the result of the research developed in collaboration with Crioestaminal SA, Biocant, and Centre for Neurosciences and Cellular Biology of Coimbra University.

PLUX

Seed Round in 2013
PLUX creates innovative products for Physiotherapists and Researchers, by developing an advanced biosignal monitoring platform that integrates wearable body sensors such as electromyography (EMG), electrocardiography, respiration, and accelerometers combined with wireless connectivity and software applications to deliver real value recognized by their target markets.

NU-RISE LDA

Seed Round in 2015
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.

KIDE

Convertible Note in 2016
All the items and designers within our community are carefully handpicked by our team, in order to offer our customers great creations and exclusive fashion for their most loved ones. We are compromised on delivering our customers orders in the most quick and efficient way, directly from the fashion designer to their closet.

Orankl

Seed Round in 2014
Orankl sees reviews as a powerful and insightful tool with a direct impact on a store's revenue stream. Reviews are one of the most important trust indicators in a store and a channel to engage and understand your customers. Orankl's purpose is to help its users extract the most value of it, as easily as possible.

MeshApp

Seed Round in 2013
MeshApp is an application available on web and mobile that aggregates and organizes your web content, keeping you up to date in less time and with less effort.

GlassesGroupGlobal

Series A in 2015
GlassesGroupGlobal is the leading online eyewear platform in Asia-Pacific, offering a comprehensive range of branded prescription glasses, sunglasses and contact lenses. The company partners with leading brands and local opticians to provide an increased value proposition to consumers. Founded in 2013, the group has a presence in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand, and recently launched its first markets in Europe.

FAPOR

Acquisition in 2014
FAPOR is a ceramic ware producing company for ends such as table, kitchen, and decorative. Established in Portugal, in 1986, Fapor specializes in the manufacture and sale of utility tableware, both in earthenware and stoneware. In 1991 the range of products increased and they began to manufacture their own tableware line that allowed them access to new markets. In 1996, they decisively strengthened their export customer base and currently export 99% of their output to diverse markets such as the USA, Australia, and Europe.

Charge2C-NewCap

Seed Round in 2016
C2C-NewCap seeks to provide next-generation devices for storing electrical energy and aims to deliver high efficiency energy solutions. Charge2CNewCap was founded in 2014 by Rui Silva and Andre Mao de Ferro and is based in Lisbon.

Attentive.us

Grant in 2015
Attentive.us develops sales assistant software that allows users to create deals, check their status, and create tasks. It offers Attentive, a sales assistant that scans the users activity and deals to find information and help them close more deals; lets users to know what deal can impact their performance; and know the best moment to get back on a stale deal. Attentive.us was founded in 2014 and is based in Braga, Portugal.

BioMimetx

Seed Round in 2016
BioMimetx is a biotech startup focused on the development of green antifouling solutions to prevent marine biofouling. The company discovers and owns environmental bacteria that secrete molecules, which are used as natural antimicrobials and algaecides. BioMimetx is based in Cantanhede, Portugal.

Infraspeak

Seed Round in 2018
At Infraspeak they believe in simplicity as a way of a better work and life quality. A Facility Management Software should work for managers and technicians, and never the opposite. That is why their philosophy is to automate, to speed up, and to simplify all the process of registering, transmission and consulting the information. They aim to fully eliminate the use of paper and time expenses with administrative tasks, which doesn’t contribute at all for the success and the quality of the service they offer to their clients.

Fibersail

Seed Round in 2016
Fibersail provides a continuous and automated real-time shape monitoring service for wind turbine blades. Its service monitors and analyzes windmill blades in terms of shape, condition, and behavior by using a shape sensing system based on FBG (Fiber Bragg Grating) fiber optic research. The company’s real-time information helps wind turbine operators to maximize performance and availability while preventing failures and maintenance costs from their windmills. Fibersail was founded in 2014 and is based in Oeiras, Portugal with an additional office in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

doDOC Corp.

Convertible Note in 2015
doDOC allows several people to work on the same document at the same time. Your team will plan, draft, edit, review and approve documents more than 70% faster. With well-governed workflows and granular permissions down to the paragraph-level, you will obtain a full audit-trail of any document. Founded by MIT alumni in 2015 and headquartered in Boston, doDOC is set to change the content collaboration paradigm by streamlining the writing and management experience, and automating all the technical aspects that undermine productivity. doDOC is a powerful and flexible cloud-based software, scaled to meet the needs of any business, from startups to global companies. Learn more at: https://www.doDOC.com

Unbabel

Series A in 2016
Unbabel enables modern enterprises to serve customers in their native languages, with always-on, scalable translation across digital channels. Powered by AI and refined by a global community of translators, Unbabel combines the speed and scale of machine translation with the authenticity that can come only from a native speaker. Unbabel has raised over $31M in funding and has over 200 employees across its Lisbon headquarters and offices in San Francisco, New York, and Pittsburgh. Leading brands like Facebook, Microsoft, Booking.com, and EasyJet use Unbabel to make their customers happier and their support operations vastly more efficient.

Watgrid

Seed Round in 2016
WineGrid is a real time wine production monitoring using a multi-parameter sensor to put inside tanks and barrels to help winemakers better follow their winemaking process, decrease their OPEX and increase the quality of their wine. The parameters analyzed so far are : density and Brix, temperature, turbidity, color intensity, color hue and level of liquid. The winemaker can easily access to the real time analysis of those parameter through the dashboard or their app.

Probe.ly

Seed Round in 2017
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.

Watgrid

Series A in 2018
WineGrid is a real time wine production monitoring using a multi-parameter sensor to put inside tanks and barrels to help winemakers better follow their winemaking process, decrease their OPEX and increase the quality of their wine. The parameters analyzed so far are : density and Brix, temperature, turbidity, color intensity, color hue and level of liquid. The winemaker can easily access to the real time analysis of those parameter through the dashboard or their app.

Fever

Series A in 2014
Fever Labs, Inc. develops a mobile application that collects and delivers a list of events being organized in New York to individuals on their mobile phones and tablets. The company’s application provides information and ticket booking for concerts, exhibitions, parties, comedy shows, restaurants, tours, attractions, nightlife, places to visit, and others. The company was formerly known as Kzemos, Inc. Fever Labs, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Camden, Delaware. It has additional operations in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Malaga, Seville, Spain; New York; and London, United Kingdom.

Prodsmart

Seed Round in 2019
Prodsmart is real time process tracking for production lines and job shops.They turn any production line into a digital smart factory.

Uniplaces

Series A in 2015
Uniplaces Limited provides an online marketplace for booking student accommodation. It offers booking services for users (who are seeking accommodation) and accommodation providers (who wish to offer their accommodation to users). It offers its services in Barcelona, Madrid, Munich, Milan, Rome, Lisbon, Porto, London, Berlin, Valencia, and internationally. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Movvo, Inc.

Series A in 2016
Movvo, Inc. develops indoor-tracking and real-time analytic platform that helps businesses to understand shopper behavior in physical spaces. The company offers its products to shopping malls, stores, department stores, thematic parks, airports, hospitals, conventions centers, smart cities, and other entertainment venues. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Oporto, Portugal. It has offices in London, United Kingdom; and Hong Kong and Shanghai, China.

Unbabel

Seed Round in 2015
Unbabel enables modern enterprises to serve customers in their native languages, with always-on, scalable translation across digital channels. Powered by AI and refined by a global community of translators, Unbabel combines the speed and scale of machine translation with the authenticity that can come only from a native speaker. Unbabel has raised over $31M in funding and has over 200 employees across its Lisbon headquarters and offices in San Francisco, New York, and Pittsburgh. Leading brands like Facebook, Microsoft, Booking.com, and EasyJet use Unbabel to make their customers happier and their support operations vastly more efficient.

Attentive.us

Seed Round in 2016
Attentive.us develops sales assistant software that allows users to create deals, check their status, and create tasks. It offers Attentive, a sales assistant that scans the users activity and deals to find information and help them close more deals; lets users to know what deal can impact their performance; and know the best moment to get back on a stale deal. Attentive.us was founded in 2014 and is based in Braga, Portugal.

Faarm

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Faarm help unlock the full potential of your agri-food brand with a specialized marketing strategy to become a market leader.

Movvo, Inc.

Seed Round in 2012
Movvo, Inc. develops indoor-tracking and real-time analytic platform that helps businesses to understand shopper behavior in physical spaces. The company offers its products to shopping malls, stores, department stores, thematic parks, airports, hospitals, conventions centers, smart cities, and other entertainment venues. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Oporto, Portugal. It has offices in London, United Kingdom; and Hong Kong and Shanghai, China.

Farfetch

Series E in 2015
Farfetch operates an e-commerce website that unites various independent fashion boutiques. It offers bags, coats, dresses, jackets, jewellery, swimwear, trouser, shoes, knitwear, suits, shorts, and accessories. They operate a modular end-to-end technology platform purpose built to connect the luxury fashion ecosystem worldwide. Their vision was to create a single operating system that could address the complex demands of consumers and luxury sellers alike. Their platform is built on an API-enabled proprietary technology stack, which provides the foundation for the three main components: applications, services and data. Farfetch serves women, men, and kids. Jose Neves founded the company in 2008, with its headquarters in London, United Kingdom.

Orankl

Seed Round in 2014
Orankl sees reviews as a powerful and insightful tool with a direct impact on a store's revenue stream. Reviews are one of the most important trust indicators in a store and a channel to engage and understand your customers. Orankl's purpose is to help its users extract the most value of it, as easily as possible.

Biosurfit

Seed Round in 2010
At biosurfit they are working to shape the future of in-vitro diagnostic testing. They want health providers to have all the necessary information to make the best possible diagnostic and treatment decision when they are with their patients

Delox

Seed Round in 2018
Delox is a spin-off of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL), whose goals consist in the design, development, and production of a vast portfolio of automatic biodecontamination robots. Target applications include the sterilization of medical devices in hospitals, health centers and field hospitals (for humanitarian missions, catastrophe situations, and war zones); room biodecontamination in hospitals, pharma, food industry and space; and laboratory equipment biodecontamination.

MagniFinance

Seed Round in 2015
MagniFinance offers businesses with a financial management solution for billing and document management. MagniFinance offers a financial management platform that enables its users to create certified invoices and organize information for accounting and filing of taxes. The invoices that MagniFinance offers are certified by the tax authority. It also offers a feature that captures and records banking transactions and organizes invoices accordingly. MagniFinance is able to derive information from images of invoices. MagniFinance was founded in March 2015 by Andre Silva, Diogo Nesbitt, and Jorge Rodrigues dos Santos. It is headquartered in Lisbon, Portugal.

HypeLabs

Seed Round in 2019
HypeLabs is the company that created the Hype SDK, an interoperable mesh networking software that improves connectivity on all kinds of devices, from mobile to desktop to IoT, allowing them to connect even when there is no internet. The software works by intelligently connecting devices in local mesh networks using existing connectivity technologies, such as Bluetooth, WiFi, LoRa and others. This network enables content to securely hop between devices, until it reaches a destination or an Internet exit point, improving range and deliverability. Founded in 2016, the company is located in San Francisco (USA), Porto (Portugal), London (UK) and Krakow (Poland). AngelPad #10 (Spring '16) alumni & Deutsche Telekom WARP alumni.

Infraspeak

Seed Round in 2016
At Infraspeak they believe in simplicity as a way of a better work and life quality. A Facility Management Software should work for managers and technicians, and never the opposite. That is why their philosophy is to automate, to speed up, and to simplify all the process of registering, transmission and consulting the information. They aim to fully eliminate the use of paper and time expenses with administrative tasks, which doesn’t contribute at all for the success and the quality of the service they offer to their clients.

Prodsmart

Seed Round in 2018
Prodsmart is real time process tracking for production lines and job shops.They turn any production line into a digital smart factory.

SeatWish

Convertible Note in 2015
SeatWish operates as an online social marketplace for users to buy, sell, and swap tickets for live events in the United States, Portugal, Brazil, Spain, and internationally. Its marketplace also enables users to interact with other fans and access content; and buy or sell tickets for various types of events, such concerts, festivals, and sport events. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Braga, Portugal with an additional office in Santa Clara, California.

Hole19

Seed Round in 2017
Hole19 owns the golfers journey from start to finish. Before the round we help golfers discover golf courses & book tee times; during the round they can plan & track rounds with GPS and scoring; after the round we help golfers review performance and connect with like-minded golfers. Want to promote your product or brand to a community of over 1.2M golfers around the world that are passionate about golf? Reach out to our partnership team via partners@hole19golf.com

Exogenus Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2015
Exogenus Therapeutics is engineering cell biology for innovative therapeutic solutions. Exo-T is a biotechnology company dedicated to the pre-clinical and clinical development of innovative cellular-based therapies applied to regenerative medicine, specifically for the skin lesions treatment. The company is presently developing its first product, Exo-Wound, for the treatment of chronic wounds. The project that led to the creation of the company (Nanoinspire) participated in COHiTEC 2014 program and is the result of the research developed in collaboration with Crioestaminal SA, Biocant, and Centre for Neurosciences and Cellular Biology of Coimbra University.

PLUX

Seed Round in 2011
PLUX creates innovative products for Physiotherapists and Researchers, by developing an advanced biosignal monitoring platform that integrates wearable body sensors such as electromyography (EMG), electrocardiography, respiration, and accelerometers combined with wireless connectivity and software applications to deliver real value recognized by their target markets.