Our rebranding behind the scenes — This week, we are announcing Armilar’s new visual identity. Something that’s been developing under the covers for the last few months is ready to be unleashed onto the world. And we couldn’t be prouder! Rebranding is an opportunity for deep introspection, for assessing our strengths and weaknesses, for gauging how…

Data on the Portuguese venture investment ecosystem — We are excited to share the 2022 edition of our Portuguese Startup Scene Report! Want to receive more insights like this? Subscribe to our newsletter or follow us on Medium, LinkedIn or Twitter to never miss an update! 2022: the “new normal”? Having been in the industry for the past 23 years, we, at…

… and a few insights on… spreadsheets? — Spreadsheet hegemony Office productivity tools are the most widely used pieces of software in personal computing. Usually, you will find them bundled in a suite that includes, at least, a word processor, a presentation builder and a spreadsheet, and they are often topped by other productivity tools such as e-mail clients, calendar…

Tips for an Effective Board in Early-Stage Companies — Over the last 23 years, Armilar has participated in dozens of Boards and sat on thousands of hours of Board meetings, with companies in different geographies, industries and stages, from young startups just formed with the founders, to “unicorns” employing well over a thousand people. …

… and a few insights on outbound sales tech — Earlier this year, we announced Armilar’s investment in Amplemarket’s $12M Series A. In this post, we share our views on the outbound sales tech landscape and why we decided to co-lead this funding round, alongside Comcast Ventures. B2B outbound sales are broken Over the past decade, inbound marketing and digital advertising have gained momentum and…

… and a few insights on Space Traffic Management — TL;DR We are now going through a new Space era driven by entrepreneurs The Space economy is poised to grow into a 1 trillion dollar economy But the exponential growth of satellites and debris makes it very dangerous to operate in Earth orbit: critical services could be disrupted and constellations plans…

Oct 11, 2022: Portuguese startup MindProber, a real-time media analytics solution that measures the emotional impact of content, is raising the bar in media measurement and expanding operations in the U.S., thanks to the completion of its Series A capital raise. Elevating the media measurement market to a whole new…

Bringing world’s fastest, realistic human digital twins to games, retail and metaverses Deep Tech company turns 2D portraits into realistic 3D human avatars in 60 seconds. Porto, Portugal, October 11, 2022 — Didimo, the leader in high-quality digital human avatars, announces a $7.15M …

brighter AI raises a Series A round led by Armilar Venture Partners to scale up its unique PrivacyTech solution for video and image data. Existing investors eCAPITAL and G+D Ventures also invested in this financing round. — The state-of-the-art anonymization solution provided by brighter AI enables GDPR-compliant visual data analysis, which is essential to machine learning and AI innovation. Recent wins with customers like Segula show the great traction that brighter AI’s solution was able to generate in the market.