• Paynest

  Participated · Seed · Dec 2023

  Paynest is a one-stop financial wellbeing platform that enables employers to offer a comprehensive suite of benefits to improve employees' financial health. The platform combines financial products with personalized financial-literacy articles and a team of qualified coaches for confidential, individualized employee support. Founded in November 2022 by Nuno Pereira (later joined by Alexis Suberville) and based in Lisbon, Paynest has gained traction across Portugal, Greece, and France, serving dozens of companies and thousands of employees across various industries. The company plans to use new funding to advance product development, strengthen the team, and accelerate its planned expansion across Europe. Investors praised the product potential and founding team, and one backer noted possible future expansion into the Brazilian market when the time comes. Paynest recently closed a €2 million seed round to support these initiatives.

• sheerME

  Participated · Seed · Jul 2023

  sheerME offers a mobile app and integrations (Google, Meta — Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp — and Glovo) for easy online booking and payment of wellness, beauty and fitness services. The platform serves over 100,000 users and partners with more than 2,500 commercial establishments. Customers earn benefits in a digital wallet that can be redeemed on future bookings to encourage repeat usage. The company has a team of 25 professionals, seven of whom are based in Brazil, and is expanding operations into Brazil and Spain while continuing to grow in Portugal. CEO Miguel Alves Ribeiro said the startup aims to become the largest community and platform of wellness services globally within five years. Management projected plans to quadruple revenue in 2023.

• Visor.ai

  Led · Equity · Mar 2023

  Visor.ai offers an intelligent conversation platform for chat, email, and voice that enables contact-center teams to build customizable ChatBots, VoiceBots, and MailBots without coding. The company provides a web platform that lets customers and partners develop and tailor conversational agents for customer service and internal communication. Visor.ai says it has delivered more than 100 intelligent conversation agents to over 50 companies, achieving an automatic incident resolution rate above 80%. The team has grown to more than 40 employees and the product is used notably in banking and insurance by clients such as Generali Group, Millennium BCP, and BNP Paribas. Future plans stated in the articles include international expansion, hiring additional R&D talent, and building the world’s largest Responsible AI consortium to ensure ethical, impartial, transparent, and responsible AI usage in contact centers. The company also plans further product developments and new functionalities to increase customer service operational efficiency.

No current team members are available.