Shilling

Shilling Capital Partners is a Portugal-based venture capital fund specialized in various business sectors, including retail, and banking. Their combined experience in sectors as diverse as Venture Capital, Retail, Investment Banking, Financial Services, Telecommunications, Real Estate, Distribution, allow them to add value to startups in multiple areas, responding to the different challenges faced by a growing company. Shilling invests in projects from the start and aims to maintain its support throughout the different rounds of funding of a company, with the goal of achieving a long-term objective defined with the founders at the beginning of the journey. The firms goal is to create world-class projects and invest in the entrepreneurs who will be the leaders of tomorrow. It believes in the power of great ideas and hard-work to achieve success. Shilling wants to be a driver for change in the business environment and help the economy grow though innovation.

Ricardo Jacinto

Partner and Managing Partner

41 past transactions

Mainframe

Pre Seed Round in 2014
Mainframe Group, Inc. is a marketplace and decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that allows users to borrow against their crypto. Its products include Onyx, a decentralized workplace messaging tool; Mainframe OS, a developer tool for launching dApps; and Mainframe Credit Protocol, a decentralized protocol that allows fixed-rate lending and borrowing. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Lehi, Utah.

Vawlt Technologies

Seed Round in 2020
Vawlt is a dynamic storage platform that simplifies the operation of multiple clouds while improving data security standards. The company is working in several technologies related to data security because we believe everyone is entitled to control and decide the destiny of their own data, and companies should be more responsible in handling such valuable, and personal, assets. Vawlt is a start-up from Lisbon, Portugal, founded by researchers from a very prolific R&D group - LASIGE - within the University of Lisbon.

Vitaance

Seed Round in 2021
Vitaance is a new insurtech start-up in the life insurance industry. We aim to improve people's quality of life through financial, emotional and physical wellbeing, by creating smart, fair and responsible insurance products enabled by technology. We want to democratize access to life insurance and to a healthier lifestyle.

Biocol Labs

Convertible Note in 2020
Biocol Labs is the post-chemical pharmacy that creates the health essentials for modern men and women. Their mission of making chemicals redundant through nature and science. It was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Lisbon, Portugal.

RealFevr - Fantasy Sports

Series A in 2021
RealFevr is a fast-growing and innovative global fantasy marketplace that delivers the world’s best fantasy sports experience with +500k active users in Europe, LATAM and Middle East.

Cargofive

Seed Round in 2021
Cargofive is an online platform that allows users to search, compare, and manage ocean freight rates across multiple carriers. It empowers freight forwarders to be part of the digital era. The platform enables freight forwarders to manage contracts, automate the quotation process, reduce operational costs and have access to actionable data to increase sales. Cargofive was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Lisboa, Portugal.

Barkyn, Lda

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Barkyn, Lda owns and operates an e-commerce platform for pet owners, offering personalized feed and online veterinarian services. The company provides a subscription box, which includes natural food, and access to the service providers, at customer’s door step. The company allows users to order a feed or a custom pack by creating an online profile of their dog through the company’s platform. Further, the company offers its clients with a vet chat support and an email service. Barkyn, Lda offers its products online, through a subscription plan. Barkyn, Lda was founded in 2016 and is based in Porto, Portugal.

Uniplaces

Seed Round in 2012
Uniplaces Limited provides an online marketplace for booking student accommodation. It offers booking services for users (who are seeking accommodation) and accommodation providers (who wish to offer their accommodation to users). It offers its services in Barcelona, Madrid, Munich, Milan, Rome, Lisbon, Porto, London, Berlin, Valencia, and internationally. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Musiversal

Seed Round in 2021
Musiversal develops an online platform that provides music recording and collaboration services and allow user to book musicians, producers, and engineers to complete music. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Santa Comba Dão, Portugal.

Circular

Series A in 2022
Circular operates an online community that matches qualified people with startups in the community. Its platform allows entities refer and find candidates who fit for the employment openings, as well as enables individuals to search and find employment opportunities in any capacity. Circular was formerly known as The Hiring Circle. The company is based in Madrid, Spain.

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.

Relive

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Relive is creating a trusted, global brand focused on simplifying the real estate journey, as a digital, transparent and efficient experience. We believe that the real estate industry has been left behind in terms of technology and proper systems to support people looking to buy, sell, or rent a house. We expect simple answers and resources at our fingertips and that is why we are building a digital platform that simplifies and aggregates the real estate journey in a transparent, efficient, but also sustainable & more human way.

Switch

Seed Round in 2017
Switch provides the technical infrastructure for transaction orchestration across the entire payments value chain. They believe in the power of networks as a way to unlock additional value, so they’re committed to support projects that require interaction between multiple participants.

Barkyn, Lda

Series A in 2020
Barkyn, Lda owns and operates an e-commerce platform for pet owners, offering personalized feed and online veterinarian services. The company provides a subscription box, which includes natural food, and access to the service providers, at customer’s door step. The company allows users to order a feed or a custom pack by creating an online profile of their dog through the company’s platform. Further, the company offers its clients with a vet chat support and an email service. Barkyn, Lda offers its products online, through a subscription plan. Barkyn, Lda was founded in 2016 and is based in Porto, Portugal.

BetProtocol

Pre Seed Round in 2019
BetProtocol enables anyone in the world to create gaming platforms in minutes. No coding required. Thanks to BetProtocol’s blockchain technology, these platforms are secure, scalable, and regulatory compliant. Its vision is to enable anyone in the world to dream of being a gaming platform owner one morning, and actually be one that same day.

Casafari

Seed Round in 2019
Casafari LLC, a real estate metasearch, provides property search solutions for real estate professionals and institutional investors in Germany, Spain and Portugal. It collects and analyses data on prices; works with real estate agencies from brands across Iberia; tracks the real estate market by aggregating and matching properties from various sources; and provides property market intelligence through a Software-as-a-Service. The company is based in Lisbon.

kencko foods, inc.

Series A in 2022
kencko foods, inc. produces and sells organic fruit and vegetable products in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. The company offers sachet-based drink, including ten pack, thirty pack, and sixty pack. kencko foods, inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York with a processing facility in Lisbon, Portugal.

detech.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2021
detech.ai provides a unified modern AIOps platform that turns your data into actionable insights to help you detect & resolve issues proactively. When your online services hiccup, customers go elsewhere. And if your experts are constantly reacting to incidents after they happen, your innovation and agility will plummet. In order to remain competitive and grow, you need seamless operations. However, organisations generate amounts of data that humans simply cannot monitor effectively, therefore AIOps is critical to reduce and manage IT incidents. Our platform autonomously learns the normal behaviour of your applications, accurately detecting anomalies and alerting the right people to address only the problems that need addressing. This will allow you to resolve issues before they impact the business, while freeing people to focus on innovating.

Katoo

Seed Round in 2021
Ordering from your suppliers made easy. Chat with your suppliers, send orders in one click and track your past orders.

detech.ai

Seed Round in 2022
detech.ai provides a unified modern AIOps platform that turns your data into actionable insights to help you detect & resolve issues proactively. When your online services hiccup, customers go elsewhere. And if your experts are constantly reacting to incidents after they happen, your innovation and agility will plummet. In order to remain competitive and grow, you need seamless operations. However, organisations generate amounts of data that humans simply cannot monitor effectively, therefore AIOps is critical to reduce and manage IT incidents. Our platform autonomously learns the normal behaviour of your applications, accurately detecting anomalies and alerting the right people to address only the problems that need addressing. This will allow you to resolve issues before they impact the business, while freeing people to focus on innovating.

Elecctro

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Elecctro manufactures M2M (Machine-to-Machine) electronic solutions that can be added to vending machines to offer a new means of payment and enable monitoring of all activity remotely. The company is based in Lisbon, Portugal.

dashdash

Series B in 2021
DashDash GmbH develops software solution that enables its users to create web applications. The company's software solution enables users to build application by typing functions into cells, connecting to online services for gathering data, and using functions to automate applications developed by users. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

EatTasty

Seed Round in 2019
Producing every-day tasty food through a decentralized model, aiming to deliver the best food through the biggest community of producers.

Probe.ly

Seed Round in 2018
Probely is a Web Vulnerability Scanning suite for Agile Teams. It provides continuous scanning of your Web Applications and lets you efficiently manage the lifecycle of the vulnerabilities found, in a sleek and intuitive web interface. Probely provides tailored instructions on how to fix the vulnerabilities (including snippets of code), and by using its API, it can be integrated into the development processes and the continuous integration tools in order to automatize security testing. Probely is a SaaS product targeted at companies that build online services.

Uniplaces

Seed Round in 2014
Uniplaces Limited provides an online marketplace for booking student accommodation. It offers booking services for users (who are seeking accommodation) and accommodation providers (who wish to offer their accommodation to users). It offers its services in Barcelona, Madrid, Munich, Milan, Rome, Lisbon, Porto, London, Berlin, Valencia, and internationally. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

360imprimir

Seed Round in 2015
• Bizay has empowered more than 1 Million SMB’s to grow their businesses during the last 5 years. • Bizay is a tech-based B2B Marketplace for made-to-order products. Running a fabless business model (no capex), it leverages on the idle capacity of production partners to meet the needs of the SMB’s. • Started on printing, packaging, textile and professional products and now applying the same model in furniture, food and 3D printing (amongst others). • 360imprimir / 360onlineprint - rebranded to Bizay - Your bussiness your way - to reflect the unlimited product categories. • Bizay is the customer facing brand (the SMB’s do not meet the production partners) and its tech platform manages the production by: o Using data and algorithms to aggregate different orders and to decide in which suppliers to produce them, driving huge efficiency and speed gains. o Enabling full tracking of the orders in the different production partners and automating pre-production processes. • Bizay differentiates themselves from other players by offering: o Online configuration of the products (options to customize and personalize). o Competitive pricing for small and medium orders (similar price per unit as for large orders), 48 hours of delivery time (instead of several weeks) and guaranteed quality (customer-facing brand ensuring high quality levels). o Integrated value chain in a single offer (on-demand design services provided by external providers). • Originally selling in Portugal, Spain, Brazil and México, the company raised B round of 18m€ one year ago (communicated in April) in order to launch new countries. • 17 new countries were launched in 2019 simultaneously (including DE, FR, UK and USA). • In 2019, 8 months of trading in the new countries confirm: o Competitiveness pricing of their offer in all the market. o Market deepness and sound acquisition metrics.

Betmarkets

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Betmarkets is a web platform that allows bettors to invest in sports betting. Their platform is entirely automated to ensure that they have access to all the best prices and the maximum liquidity, bringing this benefit to all users in a split-second. They operate under an oath of service towards all their users, putting them as their first priority. They also prevent problem gambling by putting professionals in charge of the final decision and by ensuring that all behaviour is pre-defined, preventing users from increasing the number of bets and from chasing losses.

Zaask

Seed Round in 2013
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.

Barkyn, Lda

Seed Round in 2019
Barkyn, Lda owns and operates an e-commerce platform for pet owners, offering personalized feed and online veterinarian services. The company provides a subscription box, which includes natural food, and access to the service providers, at customer’s door step. The company allows users to order a feed or a custom pack by creating an online profile of their dog through the company’s platform. Further, the company offers its clients with a vet chat support and an email service. Barkyn, Lda offers its products online, through a subscription plan. Barkyn, Lda was founded in 2016 and is based in Porto, Portugal.

Uniplaces

Series A in 2015
Uniplaces Limited provides an online marketplace for booking student accommodation. It offers booking services for users (who are seeking accommodation) and accommodation providers (who wish to offer their accommodation to users). It offers its services in Barcelona, Madrid, Munich, Milan, Rome, Lisbon, Porto, London, Berlin, Valencia, and internationally. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Unbabel

Seed Round in 2014
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.