Faber

Faber is a venture capital firm based in Lisbon, Portugal, founded in 2012. It focuses on supporting early-stage technology companies, particularly in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analytics, climate tech, ocean tech, and web3 technology. Faber partners with entrepreneurs and teams aiming to create impactful software solutions that transform daily life and work. The firm emphasizes B2B and data-centric ventures with the potential for scalable, global distribution. By offering a comprehensive platform that includes tools, expertise, a robust network, and capital, Faber assists founders in accelerating their company-building efforts, refining go-to-market strategies, and fostering early growth. Its long-term mission is to establish itself as a leading value-added micro-VC firm in Iberia, dedicated to nurturing the development of influential technology companies.

Alexandre Barbosa

Founder and Managing Partner

Rui Melo de Carvalho

CFO and Partner

Thomas Childs

Analyst

Inês Pinho

Associate

João Pinho

Associate

Raquel Gaião Silva

Associate

Past deals in Lisbon

YData

Seed Round in 2021
YData is a company focused on enhancing the quality of data for AI adopters, enabling them to become leaders in their respective industries. The company provides a data-centric development platform tailored for data scientists, facilitating the use of high-quality and synthetic data. YData's platform includes automated software that offers tools for data privacy and generates datasets that maintain original statistics while ensuring compliance with GDPR and other regulatory frameworks. This allows clients to accelerate the extraction of business insights and fosters insight sharing between organizations.

EMOTAI

Pre Seed Round in 2020
EMOTAI is a privately held company based in Lisbon, Portugal, founded in 2018. It specializes in enhancing human performance through innovative technology. The company manufactures a wearable headband that monitors brain waves and heart rate, specifically designed for gamers. EMOTAI provides a platform that generates performance reports, offering insights into focus, stress, engagement, and heart rate levels. By tracking these biosignals, EMOTAI aims to improve gamers' focus and working memory, ultimately helping them to perform better in their gaming activities.

YData

Pre Seed Round in 2020
YData is a company focused on enhancing the quality of data for AI adopters, enabling them to become leaders in their respective industries. The company provides a data-centric development platform tailored for data scientists, facilitating the use of high-quality and synthetic data. YData's platform includes automated software that offers tools for data privacy and generates datasets that maintain original statistics while ensuring compliance with GDPR and other regulatory frameworks. This allows clients to accelerate the extraction of business insights and fosters insight sharing between organizations.

Codacy

Venture Round in 2019
Codacy is an automated code review tool designed to assist developers in optimizing their code review processes and managing technical debt more effectively. By analyzing code and grading code patterns, Codacy enables developers to monitor project health and track new issues by severity level for each commit and pull request. This functionality allows for a more efficient code quality assessment, helping to identify problematic patterns and bugs while reducing the time spent on code style reviews. Ultimately, Codacy aims to streamline the development workflow, allowing teams to focus on delivering high-quality software more rapidly.

Unbabel

Series C in 2019
Unbabel Inc. offers online translation services that bridge language gaps for businesses, allowing them to communicate effectively with customers worldwide. Established in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company employs a combination of advanced AI technology and a global network of human translators to deliver high-quality translations. Unbabel's platform focuses on user-generated content, including emails, customer service interactions, and digital communications, ensuring that enterprises can provide support in their customers' native languages. With offices in New York, Pittsburgh, and Lisbon, Unbabel serves prominent brands like Facebook, Microsoft, Booking.com, and EasyJet, enhancing customer satisfaction and streamlining support operations. The company has raised over $31 million in funding and employs more than 200 individuals across its locations.

Codacy

Series A in 2017
Codacy is an automated code review tool designed to assist developers in optimizing their code review processes and managing technical debt more effectively. By analyzing code and grading code patterns, Codacy enables developers to monitor project health and track new issues by severity level for each commit and pull request. This functionality allows for a more efficient code quality assessment, helping to identify problematic patterns and bugs while reducing the time spent on code style reviews. Ultimately, Codacy aims to streamline the development workflow, allowing teams to focus on delivering high-quality software more rapidly.

Unbabel

Series A in 2016
Unbabel Inc. offers online translation services that bridge language gaps for businesses, allowing them to communicate effectively with customers worldwide. Established in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company employs a combination of advanced AI technology and a global network of human translators to deliver high-quality translations. Unbabel's platform focuses on user-generated content, including emails, customer service interactions, and digital communications, ensuring that enterprises can provide support in their customers' native languages. With offices in New York, Pittsburgh, and Lisbon, Unbabel serves prominent brands like Facebook, Microsoft, Booking.com, and EasyJet, enhancing customer satisfaction and streamlining support operations. The company has raised over $31 million in funding and employs more than 200 individuals across its locations.

Codacy

Seed Round in 2015
Codacy is an automated code review tool designed to assist developers in optimizing their code review processes and managing technical debt more effectively. By analyzing code and grading code patterns, Codacy enables developers to monitor project health and track new issues by severity level for each commit and pull request. This functionality allows for a more efficient code quality assessment, helping to identify problematic patterns and bugs while reducing the time spent on code style reviews. Ultimately, Codacy aims to streamline the development workflow, allowing teams to focus on delivering high-quality software more rapidly.

Unbabel

Seed Round in 2015
Unbabel Inc. offers online translation services that bridge language gaps for businesses, allowing them to communicate effectively with customers worldwide. Established in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company employs a combination of advanced AI technology and a global network of human translators to deliver high-quality translations. Unbabel's platform focuses on user-generated content, including emails, customer service interactions, and digital communications, ensuring that enterprises can provide support in their customers' native languages. With offices in New York, Pittsburgh, and Lisbon, Unbabel serves prominent brands like Facebook, Microsoft, Booking.com, and EasyJet, enhancing customer satisfaction and streamlining support operations. The company has raised over $31 million in funding and employs more than 200 individuals across its locations.

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.

Bugle

Seed Round in 2014
Bugle, SA is a video training platform based in Lisbon, Portugal, founded in 2014. The company offers a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution designed to facilitate the onboarding and training of customers, partners, and internal teams. Bugle's platform enables businesses to create and share video training content, quizzes, challenges, articles, surveys, and events. This versatility allows various strategic teams, including Sales, Marketing, Operations, Customer Success, and Human Resources, to enhance their performance and achieve better outcomes with stakeholders. The user-friendly nature of Bugle’s platform encourages creativity, making it an effective tool for organizations seeking to improve their training processes and overall business results.

Passworks

Seed Round in 2014
Passworks, S.A. provides a comprehensive solution for brands to design, manage, and distribute pass-marketing campaigns across major mobile wallet platforms, including Passbook, Google Wallet, and Windows Phone Wallet. The company's services enable users to create visually appealing passes and marketing campaigns, trigger location-based notifications, and send offers and updates directly to customers' mobile devices. Additionally, Passworks integrates with social media advertising APIs for enhanced distribution and utilizes beacons for micro-location marketing to prompt in-store offers. The platform also offers real-time data analytics to track campaign performance and provides REST APIs and SDKs for seamless integration with third-party systems. Passworks is headquartered in Óbidos, Portugal.

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.

Codacy

Seed Round in 2013
Codacy is an automated code review tool designed to assist developers in optimizing their code review processes and managing technical debt more effectively. By analyzing code and grading code patterns, Codacy enables developers to monitor project health and track new issues by severity level for each commit and pull request. This functionality allows for a more efficient code quality assessment, helping to identify problematic patterns and bugs while reducing the time spent on code style reviews. Ultimately, Codacy aims to streamline the development workflow, allowing teams to focus on delivering high-quality software more rapidly.

GetSocial

Seed Round in 2013
GetSocial S.A. is a company based in Evora, Portugal, that offers a content performance analytics platform designed for marketers and publishers. Established in 2013, GetSocial enables users to measure, promote, and enhance their content's visibility across various social media channels. Its platform tracks both public and private social interactions, ranking content based on its potential for organic reach. Key features include dark social tracking, content performance analytics, virality alerts, and automated distribution to social media platforms. By providing insights into social sharing activities, GetSocial assists content creators and audience developers in making informed decisions about which stories to promote and invest in, thereby addressing the challenges of traffic acquisition and monetization in the digital landscape.

Gleam

Seed Round in 2013
Gleam SA is a mobile application platform based in Portugal, founded in 2013, that focuses on fashion discovery and organization. The app enables users to explore the latest trends, create and share personal looks, and receive style suggestions from friends via various messaging platforms. Users can also plan their outfits and curate a digital closet featuring their favorite products and styles. Additionally, Gleam provides links to purchase items from global online retailers. By offering a dedicated space for fashion enthusiasts, the platform helps brands understand evolving consumer preferences through analytics, ensuring they stay connected with the market in real time. The company was later acquired by Farfetch, enhancing its capabilities within the fashion industry.
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