Bynd Venture Capital
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Bynd is an Iberian venture capital firm founded in 2010 that invests in early-stage tech startups in Portugal and Spain. It focuses on pre-seed and seed investments across various sectors, with a particular emphasis on AI, software, consumer goods, and sustainability.
Bynd Venture Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Lisbon, Portugal, founded in 2010. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in AI & software, consumer goods and sustainability tech. Its stated cheque size is First Ticket 250-600k€ Total Investment 1.2M€. 70 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest in pre-seed and seed stage startups, providing the capital and support you need to launch and scale your vision from the ground up.”
— Bynd Venture Capital, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Invests in
- Iberia, Portugal, Spain
- Sectors
- AI & software, consumer goods, sustainability tech
- Cheque size
- First Ticket 250-600k€ Total Investment 1.2M€
- Founded
- 2010
- Portfolio
- 70 companies
Team, as Bynd Venture Capital publishes it
- Santiago Salazar Chairman & Partner
- Lurdes Gramaxo Partner
- Francisco Ferreira Pinto Partner
- Tomás Penaguião Partner
- Filipa Fonseca Finance Manager
- Pedro Gil Associate
- Jaime Deleito Associate
Names and roles exactly as listed on bynd.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 24 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Armilar Venture Partners 3 shared companies: casafari.com, equall.ai, fastinov.com
- Kima Ventures 2 shared companies: circuitleap.ai, stayukio.com
- Shilling VC 2 shared companies: casafari.com, relive.pt
- Heartfelt 2 shared companies: cori-clinical.com, manie.pt
- Array Ventures Management LLC 1 shared company: circuitleap.ai
- Prudence 1 shared company: casafari.com
- A2D Ventures 1 shared company: pollen.energy
- Backed VC 1 shared company: pollen.energy
- Adara Ventures 1 shared company: adcities.com
- Swanlaab Venture Factory 1 shared company: hiresax.ai
and 14 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Bynd Venture Capital publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.bynd.vc/enname, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, description, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://www.bynd.vc/en/about-usthesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, founded
- https://www.bynd.vc/en/teampeople
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