LC Ventures

LC Ventures is a venture capital investment firm based in Lisbon, Portugal, founded in 2014. The firm focuses on investing in technology companies at the pre-seed and seed stages, primarily in Europe, North America, and Latin America. With a collaborative approach, LC Ventures often co-invests alongside a network of over one hundred partner investors. Initial investments typically range up to 50,000 euros, with total funding for a startup reaching as much as 500,000 euros. The firm is known for its quick decision-making process, enabling founders to concentrate on growing their businesses. Additionally, LC Ventures provides support through its team and a network of international mentors, helping startups scale rapidly and prepare for future financing rounds. The founders have a long-standing history of investing in tech-based startups, having built a diverse portfolio of over 80 companies across various countries, including the USA, Brazil, The Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal.

Pedro Falcão

Managing Partner

Ricardo Marvão

Managing Partner

Manuel Tanger

Managing Partner

Pedro Vieira

Managing Partner

27 past transactions

Ractigen Therapeutics

Series A in 2022
Ractigen is an early-stage pharmaceutical company committed to bringing to market first-in-class therapies designed to selectively restore the expression of therapeutic genes silenced in diseased cells. Its core technology is based on a paradigm-shifting discovery made at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) known as RNA activation (RNAa). Founded in 2016 by the pioneers in the field, Ractigen is developing a rich pipeline of candidate medicines for patients with unmet need.

Musiversal

Seed Round in 2021
Musiversal is an online platform founded in 2018 and based in Santa Comba Dão, Portugal, that offers music recording and collaboration services. It enables users to book musicians, producers, and engineers to complete their music projects. The company aims to connect music creators with top artists, facilitating collaborations that can advance their careers and expose hidden talents. Musiversal acknowledges the importance of collaboration in music, emphasizing that it has been a fundamental aspect of the art form for centuries. By leveraging technology and offering affordable resources, the platform seeks to empower composers and musicians, helping them produce high-quality music without the financial burdens that often accompany such endeavors.

360hyper

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Operator of an e-commerce platform intended to deliver groceries to customers home. The company partners with local, offline, brick-and-mortar grocery stores to offer personal shopping service with online orders, enabling customers to easily replenish grocery supplies.

Sensefinity

Seed Round in 2020
Sensefinity is working as social machines,which provides Internet of Things for the Masses. Sensefinity offers a simple way for Small and Medium enterprises to benefit from the information acquired by their assets. Compatible sensors are already pre-integrated into the platform. This means that by turning the sensors on the data will start to flow to the platform. Data becomes immediately insights.

Landing.jobs

Series A in 2020
Landing.jobs is a candidate-driven marketplace that connects skilled tech professionals with leading companies in the technology sector. By focusing on the needs and preferences of job seekers, the platform facilitates meaningful matches between candidates and employers. Through its streamlined process, Landing.jobs aims to enhance the job search experience for tech talent while providing companies with access to a pool of qualified candidates. This approach not only supports career development for individuals but also helps organizations find the right talent to meet their operational needs.

Didimo

Venture Round in 2019
Didimo focuses on humanizing technology and reducing digital isolation. They automate 3D character creation - a once expensive and time-consuming task - in 30 sec or less. Their product - a Didimo - a lifelike 3D characters that look, act and speak like a person will connect every one of us more closely to the digital world, driving a new paradigm for communication, through the image they know the most - their own face.

Musiversal

Seed Round in 2019
Musiversal is an online platform founded in 2018 and based in Santa Comba Dão, Portugal, that offers music recording and collaboration services. It enables users to book musicians, producers, and engineers to complete their music projects. The company aims to connect music creators with top artists, facilitating collaborations that can advance their careers and expose hidden talents. Musiversal acknowledges the importance of collaboration in music, emphasizing that it has been a fundamental aspect of the art form for centuries. By leveraging technology and offering affordable resources, the platform seeks to empower composers and musicians, helping them produce high-quality music without the financial burdens that often accompany such endeavors.

Sensefinity

Seed Round in 2019
Sensefinity is working as social machines,which provides Internet of Things for the Masses. Sensefinity offers a simple way for Small and Medium enterprises to benefit from the information acquired by their assets. Compatible sensors are already pre-integrated into the platform. This means that by turning the sensors on the data will start to flow to the platform. Data becomes immediately insights.

Musiversal

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Musiversal is an online platform founded in 2018 and based in Santa Comba Dão, Portugal, that offers music recording and collaboration services. It enables users to book musicians, producers, and engineers to complete their music projects. The company aims to connect music creators with top artists, facilitating collaborations that can advance their careers and expose hidden talents. Musiversal acknowledges the importance of collaboration in music, emphasizing that it has been a fundamental aspect of the art form for centuries. By leveraging technology and offering affordable resources, the platform seeks to empower composers and musicians, helping them produce high-quality music without the financial burdens that often accompany such endeavors.

Your FLOCK

Pre Seed Round in 2019
89% of UK employees who fail at work do so due to their attitude and a lack of motivation rather than hard skills, leading to £23.6bn lost every year in the UK SME market alone. Your FLOCK is a SaaS platform that uses data and science behind motivations at work to enable teams to be more productive and engaged at work. Your FLOCK is working on ML-driven software that helps managers to coach their teams by providing users with activities tailored to their motivations and designed to help them be more ‘in sync’ with their team and work more effectively.

Citycheck

Pre Seed Round in 2019
City Check develops an educational game for families to play contextual games, quizzes, puzzles, words and image games, while exploring new cities. It offers City Check, an application that allows families to play educational and fun games with content on the points of interest they are visiting in a city. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Évora, Portugal.

Bitcliq

Seed Round in 2019
The first blockchain e-marketplace for wild fish trading and BIG EYE - Smart Fishing are two great examples of what they are doing and how their vision and expertise applying Big Data, AI, IoT, Blockchain, Web/Mobile and Cloud Computing are impacting fishing and seafood industries, making them more efficient and sustainable today and in the years to come.

Citycheck

Pre Seed Round in 2018
City Check develops an educational game for families to play contextual games, quizzes, puzzles, words and image games, while exploring new cities. It offers City Check, an application that allows families to play educational and fun games with content on the points of interest they are visiting in a city. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Évora, Portugal.

Solved

Venture Round in 2018
Solved - The Cleantech Company Ltd is a Finnish company that focuses on the green economy through its online platform, which provides an on-demand cleantech advisory service and collaboration tools. Established in 2013, Solved facilitates project ideation and development to address environmental, energy, and industrial challenges. The platform connects various stakeholders, including industrial companies, real estate developers, municipalities, and investors, allowing them to share information and collaborate on sustainable solutions and projects. With a digital community at its core, Solved aims to help organizations discover innovative solutions for complex environmental issues, fostering a collaborative ecosystem for the advancement of the cleantech sector. The company operates from its headquarters in Helsinki, with additional offices in Oulu and Bratislava.

Tiger Time

Seed Round in 2018
[Work Achieved] = [Time] x [Intensity of Focus]. Tiger Time empowers people who tend to get distracted by social media to work better by protecting their intensity of focus. The service does this by creating a distraction-free digital environment that rewards focus and discourages attention-swapping to unproductive activities. Using Tiger Time, people can achieve more work in the same amount of time.

Agentifai

Seed Round in 2018
Agentifai, LDA specializes in creating intelligent digital assistants aimed at enhancing customer support services within the healthcare and insurance sectors. Founded in 2016 and based in Braga, Portugal, the company offers a product named Alice, which functions as a personalized digital assistant. Alice utilizes artificial intelligence, deep learning, and natural language processing to facilitate seamless communication between customers and brands. This technology allows users to engage with their service providers through familiar messaging applications, eliminating the need for time-consuming phone calls or lengthy email exchanges. By providing quick and efficient responses, Agentifai helps businesses meet and exceed customer expectations in support services.

Placeme

Seed Round in 2018
Placeme develops an application which offers location services. The company is headquartered in Warsaw, Poland.

Parkio

Seed Round in 2017
Parkio Systems Limited provides on demand parking through its application and website. It provides advance parking facility in car parks, hotels, churches, school, and private driveways. It helps the users to search and compare parking options and prices in European cities. The company is based in Reading, United Kingdom.

SPARKL

Seed Round in 2017
SPARKL is a beauty service provider located in Aveiro, Portugal, offering a range of services for both women and men in the comfort of their homes or workplaces. The company specializes in nail care, including traditional and gel manicures and pedicures, as well as make-up application, hairstyling, and hair removal services. By bringing professional beauty treatments directly to clients, SPARKL aims to enhance convenience and accessibility in personal care.

Vairt Inc

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Vairt Inc operates as a crowdfunding platform that leverages blockchain technology to facilitate the investment, tokenization, and liquidation of real estate assets. Founded in 2019 and based in Cincinnati, Ohio, the company enables a diverse ecosystem where investors, property managers, and developers can engage in transactions that benefit all parties involved. Unlike traditional real estate investment methods, which often require substantial capital and lack liquidity for fractional ownership, Vairt allows users to buy and sell fractional ownership in properties through its platform. Investors use digital wallets to manage their transactions, starting to accrue rental income immediately after their investment. Vairt generates revenue through commissions on property sales, management contracts, and token redemptions.

Bionano Genomics

Series D in 2016
BioNanomatrix, Inc. develops nanoscale imaging and analytic platforms that are designed to analyze DNA and other genome-related peptides and proteins. The company's technology provides analysis of genomic, epigenomic, and proteomic information with sensitivity at the single molecule level. Its products are used in genetic diagnostics, personalized medicine, and biomedical research applications.

Landing.jobs

Seed Round in 2015
Landing.jobs is a candidate-driven marketplace that connects skilled tech professionals with leading companies in the technology sector. By focusing on the needs and preferences of job seekers, the platform facilitates meaningful matches between candidates and employers. Through its streamlined process, Landing.jobs aims to enhance the job search experience for tech talent while providing companies with access to a pool of qualified candidates. This approach not only supports career development for individuals but also helps organizations find the right talent to meet their operational needs.

Followprice

Seed Round in 2015
Followprice is an advanced digital marketing tool for e-commerce stores, which upon integration, allows customers to follow their favorite products and later be notified of their price changes. In fact, Followprice is a high quality lead generator for e-commerce stores, taking consumers back to the store, and increase the sales of the online store. We are solving a problem both for consumers and online retailers. On one hand, consumers are reluctant on registering/leaving their email as they are often tired of receiving newsletters and mass mail. Furthermore, they don’t have a structured and automatic way to be aware of the price changes of their favorite products. At the same time, online retailers don’t have the ability to communicate with their website visitors when they don’t buy or register. In fact, online retailers are spending millions of euros to take consumers to their website, but 90% of these leave no trace, thus being untraceable. Followprice appears as a solution for these problems. For consumers we will not only provide the service of warning about price changes, as we will be SPAM free, as they will only receive notifications about the specific products they are following. For online retailers we will provide a valuable service, by taking interested consumers (high quality leads) back to their website. Followprice is an online platform that provides a “follow price button”, to be integrated on webstores. The Followprice button will be on the page of each product, allowing consumers that click on it to add the product to their Followprice List. Whenever a product in their Followprice List changes its price, all consumers following the product are automatically notified on Facebook or Email. The Followprice List can be accessible through our website (followprice.co), were consumers can see and manage all the products they are following from several stores. In the future, consumers will be able to organize the list as they wish, and even share folders of products with their friends. When consumers click either on the notification or on product on the Followprice List, they are redirected to the product page of the e-commerce store. Our customers (online retailers) benefit from Followprice as we bring back to their website highly interested consumers, that otherwise would not probably go back there. We are a high quality lead generator for online retailers, not bring new consumers, but bringing consumers that had been on the store at least for one time. We will provide online retailers not only with the service of automatically notifying interested consumers on price changes of the products of their store, but also provide them advanced statistics, social media brand awareness and also the feature of creating specialized notifications (not automatic).

PakketMail

Seed Round in 2014
PakketMail changes the way webshops and SME's arrange logistics. Their plugins, app and API allows you to ship faster, cheaper, flexible with multiple carriers and receive top level customer support at the same time.