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Adao Oliveira

Investment Manager at Portugal Ventures

Portugal

Overview

Work Experience

  • Investment Manager

    2020

    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.

  • Board Observer

    2020

  • 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.

  • Board Member

    2022 - 2024

    miio was acquired by Repsol in 2024

  • Supervisory Board Member

    2020 - 2023

  • 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.

  • Member of the Board of Directors

    2017 - 2019

    Abyssal was acquired by Ocean Infinity in 2021

  • 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.

  • Member of the Board of Directors

    2014 - 2018

    ShiftForward was acquired by Velocidi in 2018

  • Member of the Board of Directors

    2014 - 2017

    TTR - Transactional Track Record (www.TTRecord.com) is a market-leading collection of exclusive alerts, executive summary reports and the most comprehensive online service in the industry. Internationally awarded (CODIE 2013 NYC), TTR helps transactions professionals grow their business in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking regions globally by delivering exclusive rumors of business opportunities as well as announced / completed transactions. The TTR service has two main components: TTR Radar: forward-looking deals / opportunities Transactions: announced, completed or cancelled deal

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