Portfolio
Seed Capital invests mostly in the TMT industry: Technology, Media and Telecom
Present your project for investment evaluation
TARPIPE – ( http://tarpipe.com )
Tarpipe developed a service that helps people and businesses manage their presence in multiple social networks more eficiently. It also allows the monitoring of those networks to search and alert for mentions to their name, company or brand.
The big diferentiation from other similar services (like ping.fm, ifttt or yahoo pipes) is the fact that Tarpipe allows for the creation and management of activity streams workflows. So much so that Tarpipe is actually being used inside SAP as a workflow tool but with custom conectors (to databases, RSS feeds, CRM systems, etc)
The company has a product that is being used by thousands of users and hundreds of paying customers.
SYSACTUM/ACTUMVET ( http://sysactum.pt/ and http://en.actumvet.net )
Sysactum has developed an application, delivered as SaaS, that allows veterinaries to manage their clinics in a simpler and easier way. The fact that it is a web-based applicaation, allowing access to the application from anywhere and with any platform (Windows, Mac Osx, Linux, Android, iOS, etc) is the big differentiation from our competitors which are usually Windows only solutions, physically located at the clinic.
The company has product running with a dozen paying customers.
FASHNPOLIS ( http://fashnpolis.com/ )
FashnPolis is a social network for fashion fans with an innovative business model. Besides the standard interactions of a social network (follow, like, comment, etc), the site allows users to post their pictures wearing their fashionstyle for that day.
Aditionally, and most importantly, when users upload their pictures, they are able to tag each piece of clothing and describe it. The tagging is used to connect each clothing item with an online store. This allows for other users to easily click on clothing items and buy them online. Fashpolis gest a comission on sales but it also provides a comission to the user who uploaded and tagged their picture.
The company has a running product with hundreds of users but, since it was launched last September, it doesnt have revenues yet. We need to achieve critical mass to be able to negotiate with online stores instead of just using GoogleShopping and AmazonAffiliate.
QUIRKAFLEEG ( http://quirkafleeg,pt/ and http://deusexmachina2.com/ )
Quirkafleeg has licensed the intellectual property of the game Deus Ex Machina (the first multimedia computer game and a reference on the European ZX Spectrum game industry of the early 80s) and is creating a remake, a new version.
The game is already at beta stage, now going into production. Script, soundtrack and assets are all done, gameplay still to be finished. The soundtrack includes Sir Christopher Lee as the narrator and portuguese celebrity actor Joaquim de Almeida as the bad guy.
Both Mac and PC versions should be out in February 2013, followed closely by smartphone and tablet plataforms. Depending on the success of the game, we will consider launching console versions.
BUNDLR ( http://www.bundlr.com/ )
Bundlr has created a tool with the same name that sits squarely in the currently hot content curation area.
The tool allows for the management of digital content in an easy way. The user creates bundles of information to which he can add items as he visits other websites. This is done either through a bookmarklet or a browser extension. The type of site is detected and the tool is able to extract the relevant pieces of information (if the user is on YouTube that would be the video; on Flickr the image; on Twitter the twit itself; on less relevant sites that would the whole page or the selected pieces of text and images)
The product was launched recently, users are ramping up, there’s no revenue. Actually there’s no clear business model right now, we’re looking for one. But the fact that competitors like Storify are getting big attention and the fact that most articles about content curation always mentions Bundlr with our competitors (Scoop.it, Storify, Pearltree) makes it clear for us that one will be found.
NOMEN LUDI ( http://nomen-ludi.pt/ )
Tablet and smartphone game development.
CLEVERPRINT ( http://www.clever-print.pt/ )
A Clever Print oferece ao mercado factores diferenciadores como a inovação, adaptabilidade e gestão de Sistemas de Informação, actuando no mercado da Indústria Gráfica. Concebemos, desenvolvemos e implementamos Sistemas de Informação, com elevados padrões de qualidade, que colmatem as necessidades dos clientes e superem expectativas.
Team
Consulting Board
The team at SeedCapital is composed by the members of the Consulting Board. The Consulting Board includes some of the investors and some non investors acting as consultants for SeedCapital and the invested companies, depending on the issue at hand. The full composition of the team will be updated regularly.
Mario Valente (Entrepreneur in Residence) – Mario is a serial entrepreneur with an extensive experience in technology, business and entrepreneurship. He is a CompSci graduate and holds an MBA and MSc. At SeedCapital he heads the investment operations, representing the fund management company Maverick (also an investor in SeedCapital).
Karim Issá (Investor, Consultant) – Karim worked as a broker at Banco Santander Negócios before founding Inaluga and Cyberdirect. He was also one of the founders and is managing director of Group Kislog, a holding company for a group of companies. One of them was Personalis (now GLS Portugal) which he acquired and sold to GLS. Karim is a Management graduate from ISG and holds an MBA in International Banking & Finance from the Birmingham Business School. Currently he is also a Vice President at the Aga Khan Foundation.
Tiago Palma Carlos (Investor, Board Member) – Tiago is a seasoned CFO with stints at Bombardier, GLS/Personalis and other large companies. He is a Management graduate and holds a post-grad in Finance. He was also a consultant and auditor at KPMG. At SeedCapital he manages the financial side of things and keeps Mario in check so that he doesnt blow money away.
Paulo Cardoso do Amaral (Consultant) – Paulo is an Electronic Engineering graduate and holds an MBA in International Management and a PhD in Systems (Université de Paris). He also teaches at Universidade Católica Portuguesa and his responsible for the MBA’s Information Management specialization as well as the coordination of the Advanced Management Program in Telecom and IT. Paulo helps SeedCapital in the analysis of startups’s strategic positioning.
Rui Simões (Consultant) – Rui is a lawyer with particular expertise in IT matters as well as corporate issues. He has a post-graduation in Information Society Law from the Lisbon University and has been working for several years in IT law issues. He helps SeedCapital in dealing with the legal issues.
Patrick van der Valk (consultant) – Patrick is Dutch, although he started his first company in Canada in 1993 (BioMimic). He has written several business plans and helped raise more than $100M funds for 4 companies. Patrick was Founder and Vice President of ChemConnect Inc. in San Francisco. He is M.Sc. at York University Toronto and B.Sc. at Van Leeuwenhoek Instituut Delft – Holland. He is currently employed as Executive Consultant to the CEO at Archimedes a Healthcare Modelling start-up in San Francisco and he helps Seed Capital in defining strategy, marketing and operations for fast growth startups.
Ricardo Silva (investor, consultant) – Ricardo is also a CompSci graduate. He started his career in multimedia development, and later turned to web development.
His latest projects revolve around digital publishing, translations, digital literacy and user empowerment.
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About
Who we are
We are a Smart Capital company. We are modern and professional. We are European. Our motto is:
“Old enough to know the value of money, young enough to know the value of technology, experienced enough to make a difference”.
We differentiate ourselves from other investors in Portugal by focusing on our positioning: we provide capital and start-up experience. (i.e. Smart Money)
We differentiate ourselves from the international (Smart Money) competitors through our focus on the Portuguese climate and life-style: the West Coast of Europe.
Values
- Innovation: we believe that the world progresses through creative destruction, through innovation in products, processes and people
- Hard work, Smart work: we believe that ideas and innovations have to be worked at, with effort and intelligence having to be applied
- Having fun: we believe that you can’t change the world if you are bored or in situations where you are pissed off.
- Profit making and profit sharing: we believe that the ultimate measure of success is in creating, not making, money; and we believe that the value created should be shared by all stakeholders.
Mission
To build great companies by investing in nice people and innovative ideas, and thus create value and profits for entrepreneurs, employees, investors and managers.
Vision
- To be recognized at European level as one of the top 5 seed/start-up investors before 2015.
- To provide investors with an above average ROI every year of operation
- To have at least one >10 million Euro sale/acquisition before 2015.
