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Bright Pixel Capital

Corporate VC

Lisbon · Seed–Late Stage · 16 people tracked

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Investment thesis

Bright Pixel Capital invests in transformational technology opportunities across cybersecurity, retail technologies, and infrastructure software. The firm leverages the operational expertise and global presence of its parent company Sonae Group to support portfolio companies from early stage through exit, providing specialized vertical knowledge and strategic guidance alongside capital.

Source: firm website, verified Jul 21, 2026.

Stage
Seed–Late Stage
HQ
Lisbon, PT
Instruments
Equity
Founded
2015
Tracked investments
355

Team · 16 people

from the firm's website
João Günther Amaral· Managing Partner & CEOin
Benjamin Junior· Director, Infrastructure Software (Bright Ventures)in
Fernando Martins· Director, Cyberin
Manuel Queiroz· Director, Retailin
Marcos Osório· Director, Cyberin
Miguel Bagulho· Director, Retailin
Daniela Coutinho· Principal, Cyberin
Francisco Nunes· Principal, Retailin
João Bandeira· Principal, Infrastructure Softwarein
Mike Privette· Venture Partner, Cybersecurityin
Carmo Silva· Manager, Retailin
Filipa Costa· Director, Financein
João Moutinho· Director, Peoplein
Pedro Cunha· Director, Legalin
Pedro Gomes· Director, Intelligence & Transformationin

What they invest in

from 18 of 355 portfolio companies

AI & Machine Learning ×10Enterprise Software ×8Cybersecurity ×6SaaS ×5Developer Tools ×4Cloud Computing ×3Data & Infrastructure ×3E-commerce ×3

HQs:United States×3United Kingdom×2Portugal×2

Investments · showing 60 of 355

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1X
Abound
Admiral
Advana
Aether AI
Affirmed Networks
Afresh
AI customer service automation platform

Reduce customer service costs while increasing staff productivity by automating customer service tasks using Artificial Intelligence

AI product data enrichment platform

An AI-powered product data enrichment, categorization, and insights platform for CPGs and retailers

AI sales coaching platform

Helps sales teams practice real conversations with an AI coach that gives instant feedback to improve their selling skills

AI visual content creation platform

A platform that offers ethical, copyright-safe AI solutions for creating and editing premium visual content

AI-driven video analysis platform

Unsupervised AI-driven video analysis that helps brands and creative strategists to understand why videos are successful

AI-native data infrastructure platform

AI-native data infrastructure platform which helps AI teams manage, curate, annotate, and align multimodal data for physical AI systems

AI-powered marketing optimization platform

AI-powered marketing optimization platform that helps CMOs and other C-level decision-makers to make advised decisions that are based on their own marketing, sales, and promotion data

AI-powered retail merchandising platform

AI-powered platform for retail merchandising teams focused on optimizing promotional product and price mixes

Airmada
Airtap Networks
Akamai
Amdocs
Anchorvanishid.comin𝕏

VanishID provides digital privacy and executive protection services that remove personal data from public exposure and defend against identity abuse, doxxing, and physical threats for high-risk individuals and enterprises.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software

Matt Polak(CEO)Daniel(Founder & CEO)

AppScan
Aqua Security
Arctic Wolfarcticwolf.comin𝕏

Arctic Wolf provides managed detection and response (MDR) services with 24x7 security teams that detect, investigate, and respond to threats using an open XDR platform processing trillions of events weekly. The company serves organizations seeking to reduce cyber risk through expert security operations and incident response.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Brian NeSmith(Founder & CEO)

Arreto
Ascend
Automaiseautomaise.comin
Automated threat modeling platform

Automated threat modeling platform that performs a risk analysis of a software application at the phase of design and maintains it live once in production

Axis Security
Bastech
Beamybeamy.io
Bizdirectbizdirect.pt

Provider of IT Solutions and Digital Services consulting specializing in business process digitization

Boardsmith
BOC IT Solutions
Booster
Brijbrij.itin𝕏
ByondTrust
CB4cb4.comin

Patented software solution for brick and mortar retailers increasing net new sales using sales data analytics

Cellwizecellwize.com
Chordchord.coin𝕏

Chord provides a unified data layer and AI agents for commerce brands, combining reliable data infrastructure with autonomous tools that operate across the full business stack. Built for e-commerce and direct-to-consumer brands without large data teams, the platform eliminates fragmented tools and enables teams to make faster, data-driven decisions at scale.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureE-commerceMarketing Tech

Bryan Mahoney(CEO & Co-Founder)Henry Davis(President & Chairman)

Citcon

Enables merchants to accept over 100 different payment methods through single integration

Civaluecivalue.com
Clarifai
ClinkHQ
Cloud security remediation service

The first and only hybrid human-AI managed service developed from the ground up specifically for cloud security remediation

Cloud-based security-as-a-service platform
Cloud-based security-as-a-service software

Worldwide provider of a native cloud based security-as-a-service software, protecting all areas of modern web communication

Cloud-native workload protection platform

Cloud-native workload protection platform designed for protecting applications on containers, VMs and serverless environments

Codacycodacy.comin𝕏
Codeball
Codeflow
Codegen
Cogito
Compliance as a service platform

Compliance as a service leveraging AI to make GRC simpler, faster, cheaper and more reliable

Comtech Telecom
Concured
Container and kubernetes management platform

Leading open-source container and kubernetes management platform both on data center and edge environments

Coralogix
Coupa

Frequently asked questions

What stage does Bright Pixel Capital invest at?
Bright Pixel Capital invests at the Seed, Series A, Growth, Late Stage stages.
What sectors does Bright Pixel Capital focus on?
Bright Pixel Capital focuses on Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, Enterprise Software, Retail Tech.
Where is Bright Pixel Capital located?
Bright Pixel Capital is headquartered in Lisbon, PT.

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