Amena Ventures
Ground Floor, 71 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin, Co. Dublin, D02 P593, Ireland
Overview
The potential of new ventures in the robotics and IoT space is disrupting how we live our lives for the better, and we want to be part of that. We are passionate about finding the resources to make businesses grow and prosper. Knowing and engaging with a founder's team to find the best investors determines the future of each venture. Not all capital will fit with every project, and financiers must be aligned with the entrepreneur's vision and values. We don't take on too many projects so we can support entrepreneurs and be heavily involved with business development, capital raising, governance, and business infrastructure. As entrepreneurs ourselves, we have learned that our job is to find people that can effectively deliver value to the project and achieve the vision with focus, stamina and the art of building your own luck to make a new business work.
- Total investments
- 2
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 2
Investment portfolio
- Ethiack
Participated · Seed · Dec 2024
ETHIACK provides a SaaS cybersecurity platform that combines human ethical-hacking expertise with AI to perform Automated Continuous Pentesting, identify vulnerabilities, detect complex threats, assess attack surfaces, and produce compliance reports for regulations such as CRA, DORA and NIS2. The platform has tested over 150,000 digital assets and serves clients across nine countries. Founded in 2022 by André Baptista, Jorge Monteiro and Vitor Pinho, the company positions its product to both prevent cyberattacks and optimize clients' security costs and resources. ETHIACK plans to use new funding to enhance its Automated Continuous Pentesting technology and scale geographically. Target expansion markets include the UK, wider Europe, and potentially the US and the Middle East. The article does not disclose revenue or other financial metrics beyond the recent funding.
- Connected
Participated · Seed · Feb 2024
Connected is building a proprietary, autonomous and scalable payload system to be hosted on third‑party LEO satellites to deliver standardized, affordable NB‑IoT connectivity from space. Its network in development will integrate space nodes and ground terminals to serve personal emergency support and a wide range of IoT applications. Target use cases named in the article include fire prevention, wildlife protection, precision agriculture, aquaculture, territorial surveillance and defence, as well as broader digital transformation in off‑grid areas. The company emphasises energy‑efficient NB‑IoT protocols suitable for long‑term, low‑data IoT use and large‑signal repetition over narrow channels. Connected will use the funding to expand the team and accelerate development, with first tests in space expected at the end of 2024. The article notes the company was incorporated one year ago and is Portuguese‑based.