Start Ventures
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Start Ventures is a venture capital firm managed by Onetier Partners SCR, S.A., investing in early-stage B2B companies in financial services, particularly fintech and insurtech. It backs founders with capital and hands-on operational support.
Start Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Lisbon, Portugal, founded in 2016. It invests directly in companies, at seed, in fintech, insurtech, financial services and B2B. 20 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“As a global investor, we focus exclusively on early-stage B2B companies in the financial services industry, with a particular emphasis on fintech and insurtech.”
— Start Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Stage
- Seed
- Invests in
- global
- Sectors
- fintech, insurtech, financial services, B2B
- Founded
- 2016
- Portfolio
- 20 companies
Team, as Start Ventures publishes it
- João Freire de Andrade EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- João Menano VENTURE PARTNER
- Matilde Limbert PRINCIPAL
- Nuno Campos SENIOR CONSULTANT
- Nuno Afonso ANALYST
- Rafik Shamsudin ANALYST
Names and roles exactly as listed on startventures.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Start Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://startventures.vc/name, is_investor, layer, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://startventures.vc/about-us/type, thesis_quote, description, founded, people
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