EDP Ventures

EDP Ventures is a venture capital investment arm of EDP - Energias de Portugal, S.A. specializing in seed, series A and early stage investments. It seeks to invest in, energy efficiency solution, energy storage, smart grids, electric mobility, and information technology sectors. The firm typically invests in all regions. It invests between €0.5 million ($0.58 million) to €5 million ($5.85 million). EDP Ventures is based in Lisbon, Portugal with an additional offices in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Rosario Cannata

Principal

Mariana Costa

Principal

Luís Fábrica

Analyst

Frederico Gonçalves

Partner

Luis Manuel

Partner and Managing Director

Alexandre Mateus

Investment Associate

Luis Santos Moro

Principal

Daniel Nascimento

Investment Director

Andrea Salinas

Principal

36 past transactions

APLANET

Series A in 2023
Aplanet is a developer of a cloud-based software platform focused on social responsibility and sustainability management. The company aims to integrate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) objectives into the core operations of organizations. Its comprehensive suite of tools allows businesses to manage, measure, and showcase their social impact effectively. Aplanet's platform offers various products centered on community engagement, sustainability practices, and materiality, which help organizations analyze their performance and make informed decisions. By providing subscription-based pricing modules, Aplanet enables organizations to optimize their strategies for maximizing positive societal impact while enhancing stakeholder value.

Spotlite

Seed Round in 2022
Spotlite is a company based in Coimbra, Portugal, specializing in infrastructure monitoring systems that utilize remote sensing and satellite imagery for structural health assessment. Its platform offers continuous large-scale monitoring, enabling the early detection of potentially harmful events. By providing structural assessments, Spotlite helps clients across various industries to identify risks and mitigate damages, ultimately minimizing the occurrence of critical situations. The company's innovative approach supports proactive maintenance and enhances the safety and reliability of infrastructure.

Green Li-ion

Series A in 2022
Green Li-ion is a deep clean technology that solves the existential risk to the precious metals industry and the environment. Its patented deep technology is Cleaner, Faster, and 4x more profitable than current Lithium-Ion Battery recycling and the only technology to fully Rejuvenate the battery cathode. It was founded in 2020 and is based in Singapore.

Clarke Energia

Seed Round in 2021
Clarke Energia operates as a renewable energy marketplace aimed at assisting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in reducing their electricity costs. The company provides an analytical solution that assesses the electricity fees charged to businesses and identifies opportunities for adjustments. Additionally, Clarke Energia's platform evaluates the feasibility of solar panel installations, further promoting cost savings. By pinpointing inefficiencies in energy consumption and offering comprehensive reports, the company enables businesses to access competitive market prices, ultimately helping them lower their electricity bills.

ChemiTek

Seed Round in 2021
They develop, produce and commmercialize, environmental friendly, detergents for several industries, providing customers an innovative, customized and value-added solution.CHEMITEK wants to stand out for its innovative products. The position is find partners who have specific problems where we can act and solve with their Know-How, providing the ideal products for each area / customer.

Yotta Energy

Series A in 2021
Yotta Energy Inc. is a manufacturer of innovative solar storage solutions based in Austin, Texas, established in 2016. The company specializes in the SolarLEAF, a modular energy storage device that integrates seamlessly with photovoltaic panels, designed to lower costs and enhance the development of energy storage and grid resiliency. The SolarLEAF features passive thermal regulation, providing efficiency and ease of installation compared to traditional centralized systems. Additionally, Yotta Energy offers SolarPLEXUS, a gateway that streamlines information flow within the storage system, allowing for automated management and optimization of individual SolarLEAF units. The company also provides a software platform that aggregates energy potential from various systems, aiding utilities in grid management and enabling system owners to optimize their energy usage and reduce costs. Yotta Energy serves a diverse clientele, including commercial businesses, remote sites, and emerging economies, focusing on enhancing energy solutions and sustainability.

YData

Seed Round in 2021
YData helps adopters of AI to improve and generate high quality data so they can become tomorrow's industry leaders. We offer a data-centric development platform for Data Scientists to work with high quality and synthetic data.

Relectrify

Series A in 2021
Relectrify develops and supplies advanced battery control solutions, which increase the lifetime and reduce the cost of battery storage systems. The company's cell-level battery management and inverter technology is used in battery storage globally including for homes, industry and the grid, and is suitable for both second-life and new batteries.

Energyworx

Venture Round in 2021
Energyworx B.V. is a software company that specializes in developing a Software-as-a-Service platform focused on energy data management and intelligence solutions. Established in 2012 and headquartered in Houten, the Netherlands, with an office in Houston, Texas, Energyworx aids utility companies in navigating and monetizing the energy transition. Its platform offers various services including grid optimization, consumer engagement, energy management, and device control, as well as energy efficiency and trading. Additionally, the company provides solutions for monitoring energy theft, billing data, and meter data management. By correlating and analyzing diverse data sources, Energyworx enables organizations to gain real-time insights, optimize their operations, and make informed business decisions in the evolving energy landscape.

LOQR

Series A in 2021
LOQR's platform is a digital enabler. LOQR provides a fully compliant end-to-end platform that allows banks and other highly regulated verticals to take the next step to a digital business. Through LOQR's products portfolio, we enable organizations to offer services as remote account opening, real-time consumer credit, document signing, recovery access journeys, contact certification, data maintenance, and others services, as an integrated digital channel. Unleash your boundaries by using our platform as the foundation of your digital business ecosystem and exceed your customer's needs and expectations!

Delfos Energy

Venture Round in 2021
Delfos Energy, founded in 2015 and based in Fortaleza, Brazil, specializes in developing artificial intelligence solutions for the energy sector, particularly focusing on wind turbines. The company offers an intelligent maintenance platform that integrates machine learning with technical expertise to analyze SCADA data, enabling real-time monitoring, performance optimization, and predictive maintenance of renewable energy assets. By transforming operational data into actionable insights, Delfos Energy aims to enhance asset performance and minimize the risk of failures, thereby assisting organizations in achieving operational excellence within the renewable energy industry.

Energyworx

Venture Round in 2020
Energyworx B.V. is a software company that specializes in developing a Software-as-a-Service platform focused on energy data management and intelligence solutions. Established in 2012 and headquartered in Houten, the Netherlands, with an office in Houston, Texas, Energyworx aids utility companies in navigating and monetizing the energy transition. Its platform offers various services including grid optimization, consumer engagement, energy management, and device control, as well as energy efficiency and trading. Additionally, the company provides solutions for monitoring energy theft, billing data, and meter data management. By correlating and analyzing diverse data sources, Energyworx enables organizations to gain real-time insights, optimize their operations, and make informed business decisions in the evolving energy landscape.

colab.re

Venture Round in 2020
Colab.re is a citizen-to-government engagement platform, where citizens socially interact to report city's daily issues, suggest urban improvements and rate public services. On the other end, they offer governments a freemium CRM and Workflow management tool. They currently (march 2016) have +150k users in Brazil, +100 clients including municipalities, state governments, federal departments and utility companies. They believe in creating better cities for the people, with the people.

SOLshare

Venture Round in 2020
SOLshare Ltd. is a company based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, that specializes in a peer-to-peer solar electricity trading platform. Founded in 2013, it aims to provide sustainable and affordable energy access to low-income rural communities by enabling households and businesses to trade excess solar energy for profit. The company's innovative approach features decentralized microgrids and utilizes distributed ledger technology to facilitate real-time transactions. Key products include the SOLbox, a bi-directional electricity meter that supports peer-to-peer trading, and SOLcontrol, a charge controller for solar home systems. SOLshare collaborates with various strategic partners, including Micro Energy International and the Asian Development Bank, to enhance its impact. By empowering communities to monetize their excess solar energy, SOLshare is pioneering a model for energy transition that could serve as a blueprint for utility operations worldwide.

Defined.ai

Series B in 2020
Defined.ai is a data science company that specializes in providing artificial intelligence training data for various machine learning applications. The company operates a self-service SaaS platform that allows users to source and enrich structured training data, enhancing the capabilities of models to interpret text, speech, and images. Additionally, Defined.ai offers an API that integrates directly with users' data processes, facilitating the retrieval of enriched training data. The company also features Neevo, an online platform that invites contributions from the public to improve AI systems. Serving industries such as automotive, banking, utilities, fintech, media, and healthcare, Defined.ai combines machine learning, data science, and crowd-sourcing to streamline global data collection and enrichment efforts, ultimately improving the quality, scalability, and time-to-market of AI and natural language processing applications. Founded in 2015, Defined.ai is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with additional offices in Porto and Lisbon, Portugal, and Tokyo, Japan.

Clarke Energia

Seed Round in 2020
Clarke Energia operates as a renewable energy marketplace aimed at assisting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in reducing their electricity costs. The company provides an analytical solution that assesses the electricity fees charged to businesses and identifies opportunities for adjustments. Additionally, Clarke Energia's platform evaluates the feasibility of solar panel installations, further promoting cost savings. By pinpointing inefficiencies in energy consumption and offering comprehensive reports, the company enables businesses to access competitive market prices, ultimately helping them lower their electricity bills.

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.

Energyworx

Corporate Round in 2019
Energyworx B.V. is a software company that specializes in developing a Software-as-a-Service platform focused on energy data management and intelligence solutions. Established in 2012 and headquartered in Houten, the Netherlands, with an office in Houston, Texas, Energyworx aids utility companies in navigating and monetizing the energy transition. Its platform offers various services including grid optimization, consumer engagement, energy management, and device control, as well as energy efficiency and trading. Additionally, the company provides solutions for monitoring energy theft, billing data, and meter data management. By correlating and analyzing diverse data sources, Energyworx enables organizations to gain real-time insights, optimize their operations, and make informed business decisions in the evolving energy landscape.

Drivit

Seed Round in 2019
Drivit is on a mission to help companies bring meaningful mobility services to the market. Our driving analytics solution can be integrated into any app to turn smartphones into high-quality telematics devices that both promotes safer and more sustainable behaviours and address business challenges.

Fractal Engenharia

Seed Round in 2019
Fractal Engenharia e Sistemas develops tools for assessing hydrological risk, power generation optimization, dam monitoring, and disaster prevention. The company’s products include SPEHC, a tool that predicts water flow and water levels; and Dam Management and Auscultation System (DAMS), an application software. It offers services, such as elaboration of thematic maps and geoprocessing, management of water resources, hydro-sedimentometric monitoring and modeling, urban drainage, natural disaster prevention, and structuring and implementation of monitoring networks. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Florianópolis, Brazil.

Dom Rock

Seed Round in 2019
Dom Rock is a provider of cloud-based analysis solutions designed and built to be a unified business data integrity environment in a simple, fast, and assertive way. It captures any kind of data from any source, whether in the form of texts, PDF files, transactions, or records of releases. Dom Rock unifies and publishes analyzes with full traceability eliminating the arduous task of incurring long processes in the search for data under deadlines pressure, often non-negotiable and having assertiveness in sensitive issues involving impact on cash generation of companies. Dom Rock was founded in 2013 and it has offices in Sao Paulo, Sao Jose dos Campos, and Campinas in Sao Paulo Estate of Brazil.

LOQR

Convertible Note in 2019
LOQR's platform is a digital enabler. LOQR provides a fully compliant end-to-end platform that allows banks and other highly regulated verticals to take the next step to a digital business. Through LOQR's products portfolio, we enable organizations to offer services as remote account opening, real-time consumer credit, document signing, recovery access journeys, contact certification, data maintenance, and others services, as an integrated digital channel. Unleash your boundaries by using our platform as the foundation of your digital business ecosystem and exceed your customer's needs and expectations!

Glartek

Seed Round in 2019
Glartek is a technology-enabled services company focused on Industrial Internet of Things and Augmented reality solutions. With their experience in development solution for industry and their knowledge in field management, they are able to provide the best expertise in cloud analytics and augmented reality tools for the industry.

Enging

Seed Round in 2019
Enging, founded in 2011 and based in Coimbra, Portugal, specializes in providing smart online monitoring solutions that focus on predictive maintenance for industrial electrical machines. The company has developed an industrial asset condition monitoring system designed to oversee electrical motors and power transformers. Enging's technology emphasizes fault diagnosis and predictive maintenance techniques in electromechanical systems, allowing businesses to manage their assets more economically and efficiently. By transforming maintenance practices, Enging facilitates a more straightforward approach to asset management within the industrial sector.

Sepio

Seed Round in 2019
Cyber Sepio Systems, LTD. develops and delivers Rogue Device Mitigation security suite that protects organizations from hardware-based attacks and threats by leveraging a combination of physical fingerprinting technology together with device behavior analytics. Its SaaS-based security suite can be deployed on any physical or virtual environment in any combination of on-premises, private, and public cloud. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Rockville, Maryland with operations in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina; and Tel Aviv, Israel.

PVComplete

Seed Round in 2018
PVComplete Inc. is a company based in Oakland, California, specializing in solar design software aimed at improving the efficiency of commercial rooftop project designs. Founded in 2015, the company provides a platform that automates and optimizes the design process for solar installers, project developers, engineering firms, and financiers. Its cloud-based software utilizes a comprehensive PV module database and advanced shadow modeling to facilitate module layouts by assessing roof zones and obstructions. This technology allows design professionals to streamline their workflow from concept to construction, enabling them to efficiently design, model, and quote their solar projects.

Delfos Energy

Seed Round in 2018
Delfos Energy, founded in 2015 and based in Fortaleza, Brazil, specializes in developing artificial intelligence solutions for the energy sector, particularly focusing on wind turbines. The company offers an intelligent maintenance platform that integrates machine learning with technical expertise to analyze SCADA data, enabling real-time monitoring, performance optimization, and predictive maintenance of renewable energy assets. By transforming operational data into actionable insights, Delfos Energy aims to enhance asset performance and minimize the risk of failures, thereby assisting organizations in achieving operational excellence within the renewable energy industry.

SOLshare

Series A in 2018
SOLshare Ltd. is a company based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, that specializes in a peer-to-peer solar electricity trading platform. Founded in 2013, it aims to provide sustainable and affordable energy access to low-income rural communities by enabling households and businesses to trade excess solar energy for profit. The company's innovative approach features decentralized microgrids and utilizes distributed ledger technology to facilitate real-time transactions. Key products include the SOLbox, a bi-directional electricity meter that supports peer-to-peer trading, and SOLcontrol, a charge controller for solar home systems. SOLshare collaborates with various strategic partners, including Micro Energy International and the Asian Development Bank, to enhance its impact. By empowering communities to monetize their excess solar energy, SOLshare is pioneering a model for energy transition that could serve as a blueprint for utility operations worldwide.

Zypho

Equity Crowdfunding in 2018
ZYPHO is an innovative drain water heat recovery. Installed just under the shower, reduces any heat lost saving you energy and money.

Defined.ai

Series A in 2018
Defined.ai is a data science company that specializes in providing artificial intelligence training data for various machine learning applications. The company operates a self-service SaaS platform that allows users to source and enrich structured training data, enhancing the capabilities of models to interpret text, speech, and images. Additionally, Defined.ai offers an API that integrates directly with users' data processes, facilitating the retrieval of enriched training data. The company also features Neevo, an online platform that invites contributions from the public to improve AI systems. Serving industries such as automotive, banking, utilities, fintech, media, and healthcare, Defined.ai combines machine learning, data science, and crowd-sourcing to streamline global data collection and enrichment efforts, ultimately improving the quality, scalability, and time-to-market of AI and natural language processing applications. Founded in 2015, Defined.ai is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with additional offices in Porto and Lisbon, Portugal, and Tokyo, Japan.

Vertequip

Seed Round in 2018
Vertequip develops equipment, accessories, and services to improve the safety and productivity for working at heights. Its products include S.T.E.P. No Limits, a solution for any structure that requires access using only a harness; S.T.E.P. 4Two; S.T.E.P. Freedom, which is designed for ascending or descending easily into tall structures or mine pits; S.T.E.P. UP for vertical movements; S.T.E.P. Deep to access pit mines; S.T.E.P. Wind to perform maintenance tasks and repairs on wind towers; S.T.E.P. Offshore to perform difficult tasks in extreme conditions in wind towers and offshore platforms; S.T.E.P. Climber; S.T.E.P. Industry to work in confined spaces and around silos; and more. Vertequip was founded in 2011 and is based in Chamusca, Portugal.

LOQR

Seed Round in 2018
LOQR's platform is a digital enabler. LOQR provides a fully compliant end-to-end platform that allows banks and other highly regulated verticals to take the next step to a digital business. Through LOQR's products portfolio, we enable organizations to offer services as remote account opening, real-time consumer credit, document signing, recovery access journeys, contact certification, data maintenance, and others services, as an integrated digital channel. Unleash your boundaries by using our platform as the foundation of your digital business ecosystem and exceed your customer's needs and expectations!

EGG Electronics

Seed Round in 2016
EGG Electronics is a Portuguese Tech Startup located in Lisbon. It was funded by EDP (Energias de Portugal) and Portugal Ventures. With its products the company aims at making the daily experience of charging electronic devices and gadgets a lot more easy and natural. EGG Electronics is recently on the spotlight because of its original EGG PowerStation - an innovative charging dock that allows to charge up to 15 devices simultaneously. With it's changeable and customizable covers it's refreshingly beautiful. Because of the flat surface, it can be placed anywhere, being available within reach of the hand. It is available both for individual consumers and for companies (as a business solution for meeting rooms or as a corporate gift)

Feedzai

Seed Round in 2011
Feedzai is AI. We’re coding the future of commerce with today’s most advanced risk management platform powered by big data and artificial intelligence. Founded and developed by data scientists and aerospace engineers, Feedzai has one mission: make banking and commerce safe. The world’s largest banks, payment providers and retailers use Feedzai’s machine learning technology to manage risks associated with banking and shopping, whether digitally or in person.