Investor

Bright Pixel Capital

brpx.com ↗ ·Maia ·Multi stage ·Actively investing

Bright Pixel Capital is the technology-focused venture capital arm of Sonae Group, a Portuguese multinational. It invests from seed/early stage through growth and buy-outs in Cybersecurity, Retail Technologies, Infrastructure Software, Business Applications and Emerging Technology, having deployed over €250M across more than 50 direct investments in its first five years via an evergreen fund structure.

Portfolio
6
Team
16
AUM
n/a
Rounds
4
SectorsCybersecurity, Retail Technologies, Infrastructure Software, Business Applications, Emerging Technology VC MapCorporate VC

Profile updated 17 Jul 2026

Team

Partners 2 Investment Team 3 Others 11
João Günther Amaral
Managing Partner & CEO
Mike Privette
Venture Partner, Cybersecurity
Daniela Coutinho
Principal, Cyber
Francisco Nunes
Principal, Retail
João Bandeira
Principal, Infrastructure Software
Benjamin Junior
Director, Infrastructure Software (Bright Ventures)
Carmo Silva
Manager, Retail
Cristina Novais
CFO
Fernando Martins
Director, Cyber
Filipa Costa
Director, Finance
João Moutinho
Director, People
Manuel Queiroz
Director, Retail
Marcos Osório
Director, Cyber
Miguel Bagulho
Director, Retail
Pedro Cunha
Director, Legal
Pedro Gomes
Director, Intelligence & Transformation

Portfolio companies 6

IriusRisk
www.iriusrisk.com
Company Series B Huesca
MedUX
medux.com
Company Series B Madrid
Nextail
www.nextail.co
Company Series A Madrid
S21sec
s21sec.com
Company Other Madrid
Sales Layer
saleslayer.com
Company Series B Valencia
THEKER Robotics
theker.ai
Company Series A Barcelona

Funding rounds 4

Theker · Series A · €73M
AI industrial-robotics company Theker closed a $85M (€73M) Series A led by CRV — the largest robotics Series A in Europe, and the first Sams…
2026-06-11
IriusRisk · Series B · $28.7M
IriusRisk makes a threat-modelling platform that helps teams design secure software. It raised a Series B of about $29M (reported as $28.7M,…
2022-10-04
Sales Layer · Series B · $25M
Valencia-based Sales Layer, a Product Information Management (PIM) SaaS platform used in more than 25 countries, raised $25M (reported local…
2022-06-20
MedUX · Series B
Parent company CASE on IT closed a Series B led by Portuguese corporate VC Sonae IM (today Bright Pixel Capital) to accelerate international…
2018-06-12

News & media 8

PublishedArticle
2025-09-23 Brand Advocacy Platform, Duel, Raises $16M in Series A ↗
BusinessWire
2025-09-17 Bria Announces Series B Extension Backed by Bright Pixel Capital ↗
PR Newswire
2025-09-03 Tidal Cyber Raises $10M in Series A Funding to Advance Threat-Led Defense ↗
PR Newswire
2025-06-27 Brij Raises $8M to Bridge Offline-to-Online Customer Relationships with AI ↗
AlleyWatch
2025-03-05 AI security startup Knostic raises $11M to stop corporate leaks in the age of LLMs ↗
Calcalistech (Ctech)
2024-11-21 Trustero Secures $10M+ Series A Funding Led by Bright Pixel Capital to Revolutionize AI-Driven Security and Compliance ↗
BusinessWire
2024-09-25 Tamnoon Raises $12M Series A Fueling First Hybrid Human-AI Managed Cloud Security Remediation Service ↗
VentureBeat
2024-01-17 Vicarius lands $30M for its AI-powered vulnerability detection tools ↗
TechCrunch
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