• Lyzer

  Participated · Equity · Jul 2025

  Lyzer is a Logistics as a Service (LaaS) platform launched in September 2024 that gives retailers centralized visibility and control over their logistics operations. Its product combines order management, smart picking, and last-mile delivery to enable scalable, cost-efficient growth. To date the company has processed over €160 million in GMV and fulfilled more than 500,000 orders. Lyzer has traction with leading Iberian retailers and expanded into the Spanish market earlier this year with support from ICEX's Rising Up program. The company plans to introduce new AI-powered features for intelligent automation and predictive analytics and intends to hire eight additional team members by the end of 2025. The recent investment will accelerate its European expansion and further technology development to help retail brands scale in a more integrated, automated, and efficient way.

• Ractigen Therapeutics

  Participated · Series A · Jan 2022

  Ractigen Therapeutics, founded in 2017 by RNAa pioneers Dr. Long-Cheng Li, Dr. Robert Place and Dr. Moorim Kang, develops therapies that use small activating RNAs (saRNA) to up‑regulate targeted endogenous genes. The company has built an SCAD delivery system designed to improve biodistribution in extrahepatic tissues and claims a pipeline of first‑in‑class candidate medicines for unmet genetic disorders. Ractigen is a late‑stage preclinical company focused on advancing multiple programs toward clinical development. It is scaling oligonucleotide manufacturing capabilities to support progression of programs. The company closed an additional Series A+ financing to fund these development and manufacturing plans. All information here is sourced from the provided article.

• Musiversal

  Participated · Seed · Aug 2021

  Musiversal operates a subscription platform that lets members browse a roster of more than 100 musicians, book online recording sessions, and immediately download stems. Members pay $249 per month for access to the service and the company reports more than 1,000 members and about 100,000 sessions a year. The startup positions an all-you-can-record subscription model as a key differentiator versus rivals that charge collaborators a la carte. Musiversal plans to use its new funding to continue building its platform, including adding production, co-writing, and marketing options for members. The company emphasizes that the subscription removes financial pressure, allowing users to experiment and iterate freely. Musiversal is headquartered in Portugal. Musiversal is a music-production platform that lets musicians and studio producers streamline the production process, covering mixing, mastering, engineers, beatmakers and singers. Through a monthly subscription it enables musicians, producers and sound engineers to participate in recording sessions directly from home. The platform reached the milestone of 3,000 recording sessions per month in 2021. Musiversal intends to use the new funds to accelerate growth of its music production-as-a-service offering and to quadruple its user base. The recent seed round plus public support have brought total funding to €2.51M to date. The company was created in September 2020 by CEO André Miranda and is based in Lisbon, Portugal.

• Landing.jobs

  Led · Equity · Mar 2020

  Landing.Jobs is a recruitment marketplace focused on the tech job market in Europe. The platform has matched around 3,000 jobseekers with new positions to date. The company positions itself as an agent in the future of work, addressing trends such as remote work and automation. It has moved into a larger headquarters and will host the Future.Works Lisbon Tech Conference 2020 on May 29–30. The company recently raised €2 million from LC Ventures and Jacobo UG. Founded in 2013, Landing.Jobs previously raised €750,000 in 2015 from LC Ventures and Portugal Ventures.

• Didimo

  Participated · Seed · Dec 2019

  Didimo builds technology that creates lifelike digital human models from simple inputs such as a photo, enabling businesses and individuals to use those avatars for online interaction. The company plans an upcoming iOS and Android app launch and will use the new funding to expand its technology team, continue product development, and push commercialization and marketing. Didimo says its digital humans aim to bring emotion, empathy and nuance back to virtual interactions and has commercial traction in retail, gaming, and virtual collaboration. The startup reported having 27 employees and aims to grow the team to 35 by the end of the year. Didimo was founded in 2016 and has operations in Oporto, Delaware, and Vancouver. Its name means “twin” in Greek and the team emphasizes roots in academic R&D. Didimo builds high-fidelity, ready-to-animate 3D digital avatars generated from a smartphone photo or scan in about 20 seconds. The platform is designed for use across devices and media, with pilot programs underway with Sony, Amazon, CeekVR, Farfetch and others. The technology traces to Professor Verónica Orvalho’s computer-graphics research on capturing facial expressions and motion; many of the company’s 22 employees have backgrounds in high-end visual effects and game production. Didimo aims to bring authenticity and emotional nuance to digital interactions for brands and individuals, including applications that help socially isolated people. Financially, the company secured $6.9 million in seed financing (including grants) and a separate $2 million grant from the European Commission’s Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. The new funding will be used to grow the technology team and establish strategic partnerships to further commercialisation.

No current team members are available.