We commit tirelessly to our founders, by taking the time to understand their needs to provide the most suitable financial structure, helping them take the investment round through the finish line and acquire new clients along the way.
We work for the best breed of breakthrough tech companies, from Europe, USA, Israel, Brazil, UK, helping them structure the R&D plan and set up development centers in Portugal.
Our team is composed of experienced tech entrepreneurs who commit with skin-in-the-game, by co-investing with international VCs.
€243 M
total capital raised
+90%
success rate in closing funding rounds
229%
capital raised above expectations (overfunded rounds)
€191 M
new business brought to our clients
Relevant Transactions
$7M – Equity round
Q4 2025
Portfolio Company
Industry: SaaS
Europe’s leading startup & VC intelligence platform, Dealroom provides global intelligence on innovation ecosystems, mapping companies, investors, and emerging technologies.
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Outstanding Results: delivered a successful closing despite legacy terms from the prior round that were structurally unfavorable to new investors
SAFE at € 200 million valuation
Q3 2025
Portfolio Company
Industry: Drones/Supply Chain
The world’s first licensed cargo drone Airline. The ‘Black Swan’ model provides a middle-mile delivery capacity of 350kg and a maximum range of 2.500 km, far surpassing competitors.
Outstanding Results: successfully obtained a bridge investment, validated the current valuation, and enabled the entry into a new market.
€22.4M in Business Development
2025
Industry: EdTech
SkillUp develops online learning courses for the likes of Microsoft and IBM, with an impressive 67% completion rate (20x above sector averages).
We’ve helped them secure two tenders with the Portuguese Government, totalling €22.4 million.
Outstanding Results: successfully secured a significant tender, outperforming major players such as Deloitte and Accenture
€6M – Equity round
Q1 2025
Industry: EdTech
Skillup develops online learning courses for the likes of Microsoft and IBM, with an impressive 67% completion rate (20x above sector averages).
We’ve helped them by closing a €6 million equity round at a valuation of €83 million.
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Outstanding Results: achieved a significantly higher valuation, conditional on meeting original Business Plan targets.
Business Development
Q2 2024
Industry: FinTech
Transfero is the creator of the most important stable coin in Latam, which they use to help global companies, transferring money to and from emerging markets.
We’ve helped them grow by establishing an international remittance network, covering several new geographies, enabling them to tap into the B2C market and capture about €57 million in revenues by 2027.
Outstanding Results: established the foundational conditions for sustained European and African market expansion.
Bridge Convertible Loan
Q1 2024
Industry: EdTech
SkillUp develops online learning courses for the likes of Microsoft and IBM, with an impressive 67% completion rate (20x above sector averages).
We’ve helped them by bringing in a bridge loan, which was 125% above their initial expectations, through European funds.
Outstanding Results: obtained a loan 125% larger than anticipated, featuring a very favorable interest rate.
€22.4M – Blended Finance
Q1 2023
Industry: CleanTech
Bound4Blue approached us after obtaining €10 million in EIB investment commitment. They needed private sector co-investors to join the blended €22.4 million round, composed by EIB + VCs + EIC grants.
We secured them more capital (153% over funding) then what they could place in the round, through European VCs.
Outstanding Results: secured an overfunded round through skillful negotiation, ensuring participation from all relevant investors.
Business Development
2023/2024
Industry: Finance
3J is a multi-family office focused in wealth management and asset allocation.
We’ve helped them by securing a highly relevant cross-selling partnership, which represented over €40 million worth of transactions in 2023 and that is growing day by day.
Outstanding Results: €40 million in new recurring business achieved as a quick win.
€3.5M – Equity round
Q3 2023
Industry: Real Estate
Nash21 transforms rental contracts into liquid financial assets, tradable at their marketplace.
We’ve worked with the founders to build the Data Room and coordinate the closing of an €3.5 million equity round, through international investors.
Outstanding Results: successfully navigated a complex international corporate structure across challenging geographies to close the Series A round.
Equity round
Q3 2023
Industry: Blockchain
Imagine AirBnB for cloud computing infrastructure: Cudo is a marketplace enabling access to distributed storing and computing infrastructure resources from all over the world.
We’ve helped them close 100% of the round with European investors.
Outstanding Results: swift closing allowed the company to chase a difficult-to-secure client pipeline.
Equity round
Q2 2023
Industry: Real Estate
YON is a mid-term rentals property startup, focused on digital nomads looking for 1 to 3 months accommodation.
We’ve helped them close 100% of the round with European investors.
Outstanding Results: the deal closed despite the founders’ targeted strategy of engaging with just one potential investor.
Business Development
Q1 2023
Industry: Media
Snack empowers brands to have their own voice, through social media video platforms. They’ve created the largest TikTok branded channel in the world. We’ve worked extensively with the founders, to bring them cross-border deals between Brazil and Portugal, converting the new operation into the most profitable international subsidiary from year one.
Outstanding Results: We enabled the sole successful market entry among three attempts, with the others proceeding without our team’s involvement.
Executive Team
Jose Abecasis Soares
Head of Fundraising
Raised over €130M for companies entering the Portuguese market and expanding globally
+ 15 years advising firms in international expansion in Europe, LATAM, and Africa
Co-director of the Founders Institute in Portugal
Daniel Schor
Head of BizDev
+ 10 years advising companies on new business development, innovation and digital transformation
Former New Business Director at Dentsu Group, including working around the Rio 2016 Olympics
Sabrina Kiss
Investment Manager & Chief of Staff
Has a background in consulting and banking and has helped innovative deep tech companies secure over €500M in funding across 10+ EU-funded projects
Combines finance, strategy and innovation expertise – from investment strategy to business and operating-model design – with an Executive Master in Finance (Nova SBE) and degrees from Bocconi, LSE and Tsinghua
Guilherme P. Santos
BizDev Manager
+10 years of leadership in Brazil, inc. CEO of LeYa, VP at Portugal Telecom, and CMO/CCO ao Vivo
Proven track record scaling leading digital services platform in Brazil
4 years at McKinsey
