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Established in 2007, Exago is an innovation management software and service provider for companies in 19 countries across four continents. Its clients include Shell, Carrefour and Barclays. Exago has offices in Lisbon, London, and São Paulo, Brazil.

Founded in 1999, Armilar Venture Partners, previously Espirito Santo Ventures (E.S. Ventures), has made over 40 investments and currently manages five funds valued over €200 million. It covers Europe and the United States.

Formerly known as Google Ventures and established in 2009, GV is the VC arm of Alphabet, Inc. and stresses that it invests in the “best companies, not strategic investment for Google”. GV is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with offices in San Francisco, Boston, New York, and London and it currently has over US$3.5 billion under management. It has invested in more than 600 companies across different sectors and stages, with more than 160 as lead investor and has seen 120 exits.  Its recent investments include in Lemonade and KeepTruckin's Series D rounds and in Harness' Series B.

Billed as the world’s first online venture capital platform, launched in 2012 in San Francisco, FundersClub is a marketplace that allows accredited investors to become equity holders in managed venture funds, which then fund pre-screened private companies. It has invested in more than 340 companies to date, valued at more than US$7.6 billion and has seen 35 exits. The platform has invested more than US$115 million to date across sectors and technologies in companies from 21 different countries. Recent investments include in SendBird's Series B, that raised US$52 million, and Zentail's Series A that raised US$5 million.

Caffeinated Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded by Raymond Tonsing, founded in 2009. Since 2016, it has launched three funds, investing a total US$242 million in 60 companies, including five as the lead investor. It has seen a number of prominent exits including Parse, WePay and Appurify and was the lead investor in Series B rounds for Sapho and Airtable, besides MemSQL's Series C funding. Its recent investments include in Opendoor's Series E round and in Triplebyte's Series B and SentiLink's Series A rounds. Healthcare, fintech and cryptosecurity are key investment areas. 

Led by co-founder and Managing Partner Alexandre Barbosa, Faber Ventures is a pan-European venture capital firm with offices in Lisbon and London. It was founded in 2012 with VCs Caixa Capital and Shilling Capital Partners investors in Faber Ventures.The firm works alongside founders from idea to market, either as co-founders or angel investors, and typically continues to support the startup as seed co-investors. Faber Ventures also supports startups at the seed stage with financial investment and hands-on mentorship. The company has invested in 19 startups to date in varied sectors and managed two exits, Glitter and Gleam.

Established in 2011, Shilling Capital Partners is a Portuguese angel investment fund and one of the three subsidiaries of Mogope, a Portuguese investment manager, whose partners are also co-founders of Shilling. To date, the company has invested in 18 startups, both tech and bricks-and-mortar, and has managed three exits, including BestTables that was acquired by TripAdvisor. It typically invests between €250,000 and €1m in seed and Series A rounds and ensures liquidity until the next funding round, or when the startup becomes capable of funding its own growth. Recent investments include petcare marketplace Barkyn, healthy meal service delivery app EatTasty and blockchain-based online betting application BetProtocol. 

Labeled "world’s most powerful startup incubator" by Fast Company, Y Combinator was established in 2005 as a seed accelerator. Since then, Y Combinator has funded over 1,850 startups with a combined valuation of over US$100 billion. Twice a year, Y Combinator invests US$150,000 per company across a large number of startups in exchange for a 7% stake. The startups then move to Silicon Valley for three months. Each cycle ends with a Demo Day, where the startups pitch to an invite-only audience of high-profile investors. Its most valuable startups to date are Airbnb, Stripe, Cruise, Dropbox and Coinbase. 

UK-based venture capital firm Notion Capital was established in 2009 by SaaS firm MessageLabs founders Stephen Chandler and Jos White. MessageLabs was sold to Symantec for US$700 million the year before. Notion focuses on European enterprise software startups and has about US$350 million under management. The company has invested in 50 startups with a special emphasis on SaaS and Cloud-based applications. It has managed 10 exits to date including Adbrain and NewVoiceMedia. Its recent investments include GoCardless' Series E round, debt financing for DueDil and in Vortexa's Series A round. 

Portuguese state investment company PME Investimentos is the country's most prolific tech investor. Founded in 1989 as a joint stock company, SULPEDIP was under the supervision of the Bank of Portugal and changed its name to PME in 1998. The main aim is to help local SMEs to access funding and financial management services to develop and expand internationally. PME has invested in hundreds of startups, both tech and non-tech focused, across market verticals. It also manages several funds, including 200M that was launched in 2016 to focus on investments in Portugal-based startups. The co-investment fund of €200m prioritizes startups based in the Northern, Central, Alentejo, Lisbon and Algarve regions. The fund matches up to 100% of the private investors’ commitment, subject to a minimum investment of €500,000 and a maximum of €5m. Recent investments include petfood e-commerce Barkyn's €1.1m seed round, €4.2m Series A of made-to-order designer Platforme and a €650,000 contribution in the second phase of healthy food service EatTasty's €1.75m seed round. 

Launched in 2007, 2bpartner is a venture capital firm created by the Minho regional business association (AIMinho) and several private investors and companies. The VC invests through the Minho Inovação e Internacionalização fund that was launched in 2011 and co-financed by COMPETE and private investors. DST Group became its major shareholder in 2012.

Established in 1863, Bayer is a global chemical and pharmaceutical company with its head office in Leverkusen, Germany. In 2015, the company launched its digital healthcare accelerator program Grants4Apps in Berlin. Bayer has worldwide operations in cities like San Francisco, Tokyo, Shanghai, Singapore and Moscow.

American health insurance provider Blue Cross Blue Shield is based in Chantilly, Virginia. It is a subsidiary of Anthem Health Plans of Virginia Inc. The company publishes a BCBS health index, based on data collected from 40m members, that can be used by clinicians and other healthcare bodies for research and improvement of services. BCBS members have access to medical assistance, doctors and hospitals in many countries around the world.

Veteran Portuguese investor Diamantino Costa, aka Dino, is the founder and managing partner of DCVentures and Ganexa Capital. He is also the chairman and CEO of Intelligent Sensing Anywhere (ISA), an IoT firm in energy, oil and gas. He is a former chairman of the Portuguese Aerospace Industry Association (PEMAS).Costa has a master’s in Computer Science from the University of Coimbra. He co-founded and exited Critical Software, one of Portugal’s first startups. The business application development company has its roots at the University of Coimbra and secured NASA as its first client.

Former investment banker Tian Jiangchuan is co-founder of Initial Venture Capital, which focuses on early-stage investment in the mobile internet, O2O, e-commerce and education sectors. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Statistics and Economics from the University of London, and was an associate director at UBS. Tian was born in 1987.

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