Portugal Capital Ventures - Sociedade de Capital de Risco, S.A.

Portugal Capital Ventures - Sociedade de Capital de Risco, S.A. operates as an investment arm of IAPMEI, I.P. Portugal Capital Ventures - Sociedade de Capital de Risco, S.A. is a Venture capital firm and specializes in seed/startup, early, mid, and late venture stages, emerging growth, buyouts, and growth capital investments and private equity investments. The firm make investment in Venture Capital The firm specializes in financing of small to medium sized companies and start-up businesses with high growth potential. It seeks to invest in the majority of industries apart from financial and real estate areas. However, it has a particular interest in projects related to innovative areas, particularly in the following areas: information technology, telecommunications, electronic related, biotechnology, Internet, scientific, multimedia, life sciences, Tourism, Industrial, textiles and high technology areas. It seeks to invest in companies from the more traditional Portuguese economic sectors. It invests in expansion and development capital and in buyouts/buyins and it will only invest a maximum of 49.9% of the whole investment in any company. It prefers to take minority stake in companies. It seeks board seat in portfolio companies. It prefers to provide venture capital to SME’s. The average investment period is three to seven years. Portugal Capital Ventures - Sociedade de Capital de Risco, S.A. was founded in 2012 and is based in Porto, Portugal with an additional offices in Lisbon; Portugal, Berlin; Germany, San Francisco; California, Boston; Massachussetts, Austin; Texas and London.