Faber ventures

Faber helps founders build global impactful software companies. Faber partners with top entrepreneurs and teams that want to transform the way we live and work through deep-tech / software products and platforms, with a strong focus on B2B, data-centric SW ventures with scalable, global distribution. At the earliest stages of a new tech company, Faber acts as the missing piece by providing a platform that combines resident tools, expertise, network & capital to help founders accelerate company building, go-to-market and early growth. Faber was founded to pursue a long-term mission – to be the best early stage, value-added micro-VC firm from Iberia in helping founders build global, impactful tech companies.

Alexandre Barbosa

Managing Partner

Rui Melo de Carvalho

Partner and CFO

Sofia Santos

Partner

Carlos Silva

Partner

37 past transactions

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.

YData

Pre Seed Round in 2020
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.

NomNom

Seed Round in 2015
NomNom Insights Ltd., trading as EnjoyHQ, provides an online platform for customer feedback management. The company enables users to aggregate, organize, and categorize all customer feedback in one place; upload spreadsheets, PDF, and Word documents; connect their favorite customer feedback tools; filter their customer feedback by keywords, tags, sources, sentiment, time range, and more; and share relevant feedback with their team via links and alerts. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Mitiga Solutions, S.L.

Series A in 2023
Mitiga Solutions, S.L. develops and offers data science solutions to evaluate and manage volcanic hazards and improve risk management for clients in aviation, insurance, humanitarian, and other sectors. The company offers TAULA, a problem-agnostic computational platform that tackles with natural hazard risks ranging from volcanic eruptions and sandstorms to wildfires. Its solutions include advanced predictive analytics, an early warning system, weather and CAT risk modelling, and scientific visualization tools. The company’s solutions anticipate the impact of natural hazards before they materialize; monitor natural hazards as they unfold in real time; and evaluate the impact of natural hazards after they take place. Mitiga Solutions, S.L. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Barcelona, Spain.

SWORD Health

Series B in 2021
SWORD Health is a digital musculoskeletal (MSK) therapy provider. The company pairs licensed physical therapists with innovative technology to help people overcome their chronic and post-surgical pain faster and more cost-effectively. We’re on a mission to free two billion people from pain by making it simple for people to recover at home, without resorting to imaging, surgeries, or opioids. Since launching in 2015, SWORD Health has worked with insurers, health systems, and employers in Europe, Australia, and the U.S. to give thousands of people access to preventative, chronic, and post-surgical MSK care that gets results. SWORD Health has offices in New York City, Chicago, Salt Lake City, Sydney, and Porto.

Apres

Seed Round in 2021
Apres Technologies, Inc, doing business as Apres, develops an analytics platform which is built to scale and explain artificial intelligence decision making. The platform have the features, such as labeling the data, analyzing the results, explaining decisions and data services. The company was incorporated in 1996 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Luminate Medical

Seed Round in 2022
Luminate Medical develops a medical device designed to prevent hair loss during chemotherapy. Luminate Medical recognises that hair is an essential element of personality and self-esteem, and is dedicated to using the latest advances in medical technology to protect this.

Gleam SA

Seed Round in 2013
Acquired by Farfetch Bringing users the latest trends in world fashion, Gleam is the perfect platform for discovering, shopping for and organising all things style related in the mobile digital world. By combining this dedicated fashion focused distribution and interaction channel with an analytics offering for brands, Gleam is the perfect way for the industry to keep up with consumers and know in real time how preferences are changing across markets, segments and with fashionistas everywhere. www.gleamworld.com www.gleamfashionintelligence.com

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.

Advicefront Limited

Angel Round in 2015
Advicefront is an investment and client engagement platform for independent financial advisors. It combines algorithmic investing with the behavioral side of financial advice. The platform helps its clients protect their AUMs. Advicefront’s continually refines its compliance framework to ensure its users apply market and regulatory practices, making the advice its users deliver secure, personalized, and searchable at all times. It was launched in 2015 by Jose Supico and Francisco Cordoeiro. The platform is based in London, England.

EMOTAI

Pre Seed Round in 2020
EMOTAI manufactures a wearable headband that tracks brain waves and heart rate of gamers. The company offers a platform that creates performance reports that inform the gamer about the focus, stress, engagement, and heart rate levels. EMOTAI was founded in 2018 and is based in Lisbon, Portugal.

SWORD Health

Series A in 2020
SWORD Health is a digital musculoskeletal (MSK) therapy provider. The company pairs licensed physical therapists with innovative technology to help people overcome their chronic and post-surgical pain faster and more cost-effectively. We’re on a mission to free two billion people from pain by making it simple for people to recover at home, without resorting to imaging, surgeries, or opioids. Since launching in 2015, SWORD Health has worked with insurers, health systems, and employers in Europe, Australia, and the U.S. to give thousands of people access to preventative, chronic, and post-surgical MSK care that gets results. SWORD Health has offices in New York City, Chicago, Salt Lake City, Sydney, and Porto.

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.

Coacher

Seed Round in 2014
Coacher is a web and mobile app that enables football coaches to develop better players and win more matches. With our innovative data capturing capabilities, powerful statistics and in depth practice planning, coaches can now take their coaching one step further. I had the idea for Coacher when I stopped playing football and started coaching. An amateur football coach records a massive array of information each season, such as training data, match data, and regular admin data. This is generally done using pen, paper, and Excel, which is inefficient and difficult. We have developed a solution to this problem. One thing I have learned from my experience is that it does not matter what league you are coaching, from amateur kids to professional football, we all want our team to win and amateur coaches also want to use technology to improve team and player performance.

GetSocial

Seed Round in 2013
GetSocial S.A. develops GetSocial, a content performance analytics platform that helps marketers and publishers measure, promote, and amplify their content on social. Its solution tracks social interactions, including public (Facebook, Twitter, etc.), as well as private (WhatsApp, Email, etc.); and ranks content by its ability to spread organically. The company solution includes dark social tracking, content performance analytics, content virality alert, and automatic social media distribution features. It serves customers worldwide. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in Evora, Portugal.

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.

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."

NomNom

Seed Round in 2019
NomNom Insights Ltd., trading as EnjoyHQ, provides an online platform for customer feedback management. The company enables users to aggregate, organize, and categorize all customer feedback in one place; upload spreadsheets, PDF, and Word documents; connect their favorite customer feedback tools; filter their customer feedback by keywords, tags, sources, sentiment, time range, and more; and share relevant feedback with their team via links and alerts. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Maily

Seed Round in 2014
Maily develops an iPad application that allows kids to control their email account. Its application enables kids to create emails using various tools adapted to their needs, such as pencils, brushes, photos, backgrounds, stamps, and their own words; and share messages and drawings with their family and friends through an interface. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Brussels, Belgium.

Gitter

Seed Round in 2015
Gitter is a chat and networking platform that helps its users manage, grow, and connect with communities through messaging, content, and discovery. The platform also provides integrations with GitHub, Trello, Jenkins, Travis CI, Heroku, Sentry, BitBucket, HuBoard, Logentries, Pagerduty, and Sprintly. Its mission is to connect developers, helping them form deep relationships with one another and the technologies they use. Gitter is operated from London, United Kingdom.

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.

Unbabel

Series C in 2019
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.

Liquid

Seed Round in 2014
Liquid in on a mission to help publishers automate their growth efforts on mobile apps. Liquid gives marketers the ability to automate their communication with their users in a meaningfull and timely manner. By using actions (such as Push Notifications, in-app messages, emails, notify your backend or any other third party via WebHooks or Zapier) when a user does something that matters to the business, publishers can communicate with their users or notify their team about it. Liquid machine-learning pre-build formulas help anyone automate their growth and easy and straightforward manner.

bugle

Seed Round in 2014
Bugle is a simple, effective and beautiful online video training platform for businesses. It only takes bugle, a smartphone and your team’s creativity to publish and share video training, quizzes, challenges, articles, surveys and events, allowing Sales, Marketing, Operations, Customer Success, HR and other strategic teams to achieve better business results with their customers, partners, employees and other business stakeholders.

Chic by Choice

Seed Round in 2014
Chic by Choice is a one-of-a-kind hire destination that allows women to access the most breathtaking designer dresses, straight from the catwalks.

Passworks, S.A.

Seed Round in 2014
Passworks offers an integrated solution for brands to create, manage and distribute pass-marketing campaigns through the mobile wallets of all major platforms including Passbook, Google Wallet and Windows Phone Wallet.

Seedrs

Equity Crowdfunding in 2013
Seedrs is the leading online platform for investing in the equity of startups and other growth companies in Europe and has been named the most active investor in private companies in the UK. Seedr allows all types of investors invest in businesses they believe in and share in their success and allow all types of growth-focused businesses raise capital and business community in the process. The company do all of this through a simple, highly professional, online process that protects and empowers investors while helping businesses grow and generate returns

Chic by Choice

Venture Round in 2015
Chic by Choice is a one-of-a-kind hire destination that allows women to access the most breathtaking designer dresses, straight from the catwalks.

Codacy

Seed Round in 2013
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.

Zaask

Seed Round in 2015
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.

HOKO

Seed Round in 2015
HOKO offers publishers a new way to monetize their users by turning their app or site into an AI powered marketplace. It provides the backend technology to understand what users are doing and then offer contextually relevant deep-links to providers of complimentary services, all within the user journey of a mobile app or site.

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