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Adao Oliveira

Investment Manager at Portugal Ventures

Portugal

Overview 

Adao Oliveira is a Venture Capital professional based in Portugal, with a background in executive management, leadership, and mergers & acquisitions. He currently serves as an Investment Director at Conexo Ventures and has held key roles at Portugal Ventures, Miio Electric, and Abyssal S.A., showcasing a strong track record in deal structuring and fundraising. Oliveira's career highlights include serving as a Board Member for Miio Electric and being an Expert for the European Commission's EIC, demonstrating his expertise in investments and strategic decision-making within the venture capital landscape.

Work Experience 

BP

Banco Português de Fomento

  • Equity Manager

    2025 - Current

EC

European Commission

  • Expert for EIC

    2020

    The EIC Accelerator (previously known as SME Instrument) is part of the European Innovation Council (EIC) pilot that supports top-class innovators, entrepreneurs, small companies and scientists with funding opportunities and acceleration services. The EIC Accelerator supports high-risk, high-potential small and medium-sized enterprises and innovators to help them develop and bring onto the market new innovative products, services and business models that could drive economic growth.

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Deloitte

  • Manager - Financial Advisory

    2024 - 2025

    Lead client projects and engagement teams Drive business development Management and coordination of team members Type of projects: Buy/Sell-side mandates, Business Planning, Valuation, M&A

Deloitte Tax is an advisory firm that provides tax preparation and advisory services.

www2.deloitte.com
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Barkyn

  • Board Observer

    2020 - 2024

PV

Portugal Ventures

  • Investment Manager

    2020 - 2024

    Portugal Ventures is a venture capital firm with € 290M in assets under management, across a number of different industries and with a focus on seed/early stage investments.

ME

Miio Electric

  • Board Member

    2022 - 2024

    miio was acquired by Repsol in 2024

C

Codavel

  • Supervisory Board Member

    2020 - 2023

CV

Conexo Ventures

  • Investment Director

    2019 - 2020

    Conexo Ventures is a venture capital that invests in startups from south europe with scalable and defensible business models towards latin and north america markets. It is particularly keen to invest in the landscape of cybersecurity, marketplaces, payments, fintech and travel-tech. Conexo Ventures was founded in 2019 and is based in Madrid, Spain.

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Abyssal S.A.

  • Member of the Board of Directors

    2017 - 2019

    Abyssal was acquired by Ocean Infinity in 2021

PV

Portugal Ventures

  • Investment Manager

    2012 - 2019

    Portugal Ventures is a venture capital firm with € 450M in assets under management, across a number of different industries and with a focus on seed/early stage investments.

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