February 2017
SONAE
This year it was held at the Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur, on January 17-18, 2017.
Over 75 attendees and 17 telecom operators, from 10 countries were represented in User Group Malaysia (WUGMALAYSIA17).
See here the highlights
Also, save the date: May 10-12, 2017
WorldWide User Group’17 event held in Lisbon
Compliance as a service leveraging AI to make GRC simpler, faster, cheaper and more reliable.
Investment theme
Cybersecurity
Investment year
2024
HQ
US
Fully automated threat intelligence solutions that help organizations fight cyber crime, detect phishing, data leaks, fraud and vulnerabilities as well as amplify incident response. It offers the most extensive intel collection available from the deep and dark web including closed access forums, instant messaging apps, paste sites, and more.
Investment theme
Cybersecurity
Investment year
2019
HQ
Israel
Acquired by
Bitsight
Exit Year
2024
Web application & API protection solution, integrating seamlessly into development processes (SDLC) and continuous integration pipelines (CI/CD) to automate security testing.
Investment theme
Cybersecurity
Investment year
2017
HQ
Portugal
Acquired by
Snyk
Exit Year
2024
The first and only hybrid human-AI managed service developed from the ground up specifically for cloud security remediation.
Investment theme
Cybersecurity
Investment year
2024
HQ
US
A SaaS platform that consolidates vulnerability discovery, prioritization, and remediation in a single solution.
Investment theme
Cybersecurity
Investment year
2023
HQ
Israel/US
Cloud-based web application & API protection (WAAP) platform, running natively on any cloud platform, hybrid architecture, or service mesh. The solution includes an interesting WAF, Bot Mitigation and DDoS protection approach, also available through its open-source container-based deployment.
Investment theme
Cybersecurity
Investment year
2018
HQ
Israel
Acquired by
Link11
Exit Year
2024
Open innovation platform connecting entrepreneurs and startups with corporates powered by blockchain.
Investment theme
Emerging Tech
Investment year
2018
HQ
Portugal
A company invested by fund Vector I
Scale-up specializing in advanced server-side web tracking and data protection technologies.
Investment theme
Infrastructure Software
Investment year
2023
HQ
Austria
An AI-powered product data enrichment, categorization, and insights platform for CPGs and retailers.
Investment theme
Retail Tech
Investment year
2023
HQ
US
Out of the box approach to real time customer experience analytics and competitive benchmarking of telco networks.
Investment theme
Infrastructure Software
Investment year
2018
HQ
Spain
Exit Year
2021
Leading solution in Product Information Management, helping brands and retailers to transform their catalogs into a digital, enriched and multichannel control centre.
Investment theme
Retail Tech
Investment year
2020
HQ
Spain
Global leader in mobile network automation and orchestration for telecom carriers and connected car OEMs.
Investment theme
Infrastructure Software
Investment year
2019
HQ
Singapore
Acquired by
Qualcomm
Exit Year
2022
Worldwide leader in Fraud Management and Revenue Assurance, providing software and expert consultancy, to intelligently analyze large quantities of data.
Investment theme
Business Applications
Investment year
2001
HQ
Portugal
Acquired by
Mobileum
Exit Year
2019
Provider of IT Solutions and Digital Services consulting. Bizdirect professionals are specialists in business processes digitization and solutions to manage and optimize the technological infrastructure.
Investment theme
Business Applications
Investment year
2000
HQ
Portugal
Acquired by
Claranet
Exit Year
2021
SaaS provider of electronic data interchange, electronic invoicing and data synchronization solutions.
Investment theme
Business Applications
Investment year
2018
HQ
Portugal
Acquired by
Oxy Capital
Exit Year
2019
Founders of ‘GitOps’, provide a kubernetes cluster management and application delivery platform, providing automated continuous delivery & monitoring for leading enterprises in the cloud native ecosystem.
Investment theme
Infrastructure Software
Investment year
2020
HQ
UK
A data-centric machine learning operations (MLOps) platform for the deployment, management, monitoring and explainability of machine learning models.
Investment theme
Infrastructure Software
Investment year
2023
HQ
UK
Leading open-source container and kubernetes management platform both on data center and edge environments. Lightweight and universal tool that unleashes the power of containerized applications.
Investment theme
Infrastructure Software
Investment year
2021
HQ
New Zealand
Number one low-code platform for rapid application development. OutSystems is the only solution that combines the power of low-code development with advanced mobile capabilities, enabling visual development of entire application portfolios that easily integrate with existing systems.
Investment Theme
Infrastructure Software
Investment year
2016
HQ
US
Indirect ownership via Fundo de Capital de Risco Armilar Venture Partners II
Investment theme
Infrastructure Software
Investment year
2022
HQ
Portugal
Unsupervised AI-driven video analysis that helps brands and creative strategists to understand why videos are successful.
Investment theme
Business Applications
Investment year
2020
HQ
Portugal
A company invested by fund Vector I
Developing tools based on the application of quantitative modelling and data analytics in digital advertising.
Investment theme
Business Applications
Investment year
2018
HQ
US
A company invested by fund Vector I
Investment theme
Business Applications
Investment year
2023
HQ
Portugal
Investment theme
Business Applications
Investment year
2018
HQ
US
A company invested by fund Vector I
Reduce customer service costs while increasing staff productivity by automating customer service tasks using Artificial Intelligence.
Investment theme
Business Applications
Investment year
2019
HQ
Portugal
A company invested by fund Vector I
An Influencer Marketing Platform where agencies and brands can discover, manage and measure their relationships with content creators. Sway enables effortless communication and collaboration between all stakeholders involved in any influencer marketing project.
Investment theme
Business Applications
Investment year
2019
HQ
PT
A company invested by fund Vector I
Single pane of glass for operational cybersecurity with attacker knowledge and automated detection and response.
Investment theme
Cybersecurity
Investment year
2023
HQ
France
Uses digital channels to deliver data science insights to sales staff, that deliver actionable recommendations with direct impact on key metrics.
Investment theme
Retail Tech
Investment year
2016
HQ
Portugal
Investment theme
Cybersecurity
Investment year
2023
HQ
US
Jscrambler allows JavaScript applications to become self-defensive and resilient to tampering and reverse-engineering, while also providing complete visibility over client-side attacks, including DOM tampering, web supply chain attacks like Magecart, and customer hijacking.
Investment theme
Cybersecurity
Investment year
2018
HQ
US
Investment theme
Retail Tech
Investment year
2022
HQ
US
A Platform as a Service for modern commerce, which combines headless commerce and data infrastructure.
Investment theme
Retail Tech
Investment year
2022
HQ
US
Managed Security Services pure-player, leader in Iberia and with a significant position in Latam. S21sec offers the most advanced cybersecurity services and solutions, including advanced threat detection, threat intelligence as well as strong incident response capabilities.
Investment theme
Cybersecurity
Investment year
2014
HQ
Spain
Acquired by
Thales
Exit Year
2022
Risk-based vulnerability management solution that aggregates, normalizes and orchestrates all security assessment practices, whether automated or handmade, and enrich them with AI-driven predictive models. Provides CISOs and SOC managers risk-driven remediation plans.
Investment theme
Cybersecurity
Investment year
2022
HQ
France
Retail tech marketplace to facilitate integrations within retailers’ systems in place & promoting synergies across tools.
Investment theme
Retail Tech Investment
Investment year
2018
HQ
France
Exit Year
2022
AI-powered fresh operating system built specifically to help grocers increase sales, empower store teams, stock fresher food, and reduce waste.
Investment theme
Retail Tech
Investment year
2022
HQ
US
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.
Investment theme
Retail Tech
Investment year
2021
HQ
Finland
Competitive intel, product matching and ecommerce tagging solution for apparel, fashion and home retailers.
Investment theme
Retail Tech
Investment year
2016
HQ
US
Acquired by
Dassault Systèmes
Exit Year
2022
Cybersecurity services company with experience and expertise that help customers take the right decisions in developing, implementing, and managing their security. Services include security operations center 24×7, incident response and security infrastructure operations, training and formations.
Investment theme
Cybersecurity
Investment year
2018
HQ
Luxembourg
Acquired by
Thales
Exit Year
2022
End-to-end risk management platform, powered by big data and ML, protecting against fraud and financial crime. Solutions were designed to create a seamless and safe customer experience, covering account opening, account takeover, transaction fraud, AML transaction monitoring and KYC/customer due diligence.
Investment Theme
Cybersecurity
Investment year
2016
HQ
US
Indirect ownership via Fundo de Capital de Risco Armilar Venture Partners III and Fundo de Capital de Risco Espírito Santo Ventures Inovação e Internacionalização
Security operations as a service through fully-proprietary technology solutions, such as managed detection and response, managed risk, cloud detection and response, cloud security posture management and managed security awareness.
Investment theme
Cybersecurity
Investment year
2017
HQ
US
Experify, the first platform to enable a truly authentic product review experience by connecting prospective buyers with purchasers.
Investment Theme
Retail
Investment year
2022
HQ
Switzerland
Worldwide provider of a native cloud based security-as-a-service software, protecting all areas of modern web communication.
Investment theme
Cybersecurity
Investment year
2017
HQ
Germany
Acquired by
Aryaka
Exit Year
2021
Fyde helps companies with an increasingly distributed workforce mitigate breach risk by enabling secure access to critical enterprise resources for their employees, partners, contractors and outsourcers.
Investment theme
Cybersecurity
Investment year
2019
HQ
US
Acquired by
Barracuda
Exit Year
2020
Investment theme
Retail Tech
Investment year
2018
HQ
Israel
Acquired by
NielsenIQ
Exit Year
2022
CB4 provides a patented software solution for brick and mortar retailers that increases net new sales by up to 2% using simple sales data.
Investment theme
Retail Tech
Investment year
2019
HQ
Israel
Acquired by
GAP
Exit Year
2021
Powers visual commerce at scale for retailers and publishers, delivering intelligent image recognition solutions that shorten the path to action as consumers search and discover on the visual web.
Investment theme
Retail Tech
Investment year
2018
HQ
Singapore
A solution that redefines retail by removing all friction from stores and turning them autonomous and checkout-free. Through an integrated system of cameras and Artificial Intelligence algorithms, Sensei enables a new era of autonomous stores able to capture in-store product data and shoppers’ activities.
Investment theme
Retail Tech
Investment year
2018
HQ
Portugal
A company invested by fund Vector I
Pioneer in the Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) market, SafeBreach built a continuous security validation platform across network, endpoint, cloud, container and email environments. The solution simulates hacker breach methods across the entire kill chain and attack surfaces to look for security gaps that are vulnerable to attacks.
Investment theme
Cybersecurity
Investment year
2021
HQ
US
Intelligent check-out solutions for micro-stores, enbaling a seamless and cashless purchase experience.
Investment theme
Retail Tech
Investment year
2018
HQ
Portugal
A company invested by fund Vector I and fund Bright Tech Innovation I
Ometria combines the data capabilities of a CDP with a cross-channel marketing orchestration platform, letting retail marketers create relevant experiences throughout the customer journey.
Investment theme
Retail Tech
Investment year
2017
HQ
UK
Investment theme
Retail Tech
Investment year
2018
HQ
Spain
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. Customers define the architecture using drag and drop components and generate threat models with built-in security libraries, instantly seeing real-time threat scores through a two way sync between IriusRisk and issue trackers to insert countermeasures directly into developers’ workflow.
Investment theme
Cybersecurity
Investment year
2017
HQ
Spain
Food network orchestrator focused on empowering home cooks. EatTasty brings the taste and recollection of authentic home cooked food to the clients’ place, regardless of their ability to cook.
Investment theme
Retail Tech
Investment year
2017
HQ
Portugal
Technology stack to automate the creation of high-fidelity and fully animatable digital humans in just seconds and from low resolution devices available to consumer market.
Investment theme
Emerging Tech
Investment year
2020
HQ
Portugal
Cloud-native workload protection platform designed for protecting applications on containers, VMs and serverless environments. The solution combines ML and rules to monitor runtime signals, sources of vulnerabilities and compliance policies, to detect and stop sophisticated attacks, without proxies, kernel modules, or intrusive agents.
Investment theme
Cybersecurity
Investment year
2020
HQ
US
Online tool that predicts location sales potential and analyzes omnichannel customer journeys, helping you to create a winning sales strategy.
Investment theme
Retail Tech
Investment year
2018
HQ
Poland
A company invested by fund Vector I
AI-powered platform for retail merchandising teams focused on optimizing promotional product and price mixes.
Investment theme
Retail Tech
Investment year
2019
HQ
Canada
Citcon enables merchants to accept over 100 different payment methods, including mobile wallets, local payment schemes, and traditional credit cards — all through one single integration.
Investment theme
Retail Tech
Investment year
2021
HQ
US
