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Semapa Next
Venture capital · Lisbon, Portugal · Europe
Semapa Next is a pan-European venture capital firm that invests at Series A. It supports portfolio companies with access to its network and Semapa Group's global presence, leadership coaching and senior talent recruitment, and finance process setup and fundraising planning.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsindustrial techsupply chainlogisticsenergy transitionvertical softwareb2b software
Your fit with Semapa Next
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Or find every investor that fitsSemapa Next lists 18 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 6 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (31%), Enterprise Software (10%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (10%). 33% of its companies are based in Germany. It invests most often alongside Shilling, Indico Capital Partners and Start Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Semapa Next, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Semapa Next's whole history. Rounds on record name 6 companies; its own site lists 18. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 17% |
| Series A | 50% |
| Series B | 17% |
| Growth | 17% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 1 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 4 | 2 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 46th | 18 companies |
| Recent activity | 86th | 5 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 57th | 17% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 98th | 33% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 55th | 31% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 78th | 5 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 31% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 10% | 8% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 10% | 7% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 7% | 15% |
| Food & Agriculture | 7% | 3% |
| Education | 7% | 7% |
| Cybersecurity | 7% | 4% |
| Space & Defense | 3% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Shilling | 3 |
| Indico Capital Partners | 2 |
| Start Ventures | 2 |
| 2150 | 1 |
| 33N Ventures | 1 |
| AENU | 1 |
| Actions Capital | 1 |
| Acton Capital | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers18100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Semapa Next head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Semapa Next| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 23 Jun 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 3 Jun 2026 | Series A | |
| 11 Mar 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 10 Feb 2026 | Series A | |
| 25 Nov 2025 | Series B | |
| 7 Oct 2024 | Series C+ |
Round details for Semapa Next
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Semapa Next's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
18 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airly provides an end-to-end air quality monitoring solution to help local governments and regulated sectors meet air quality requirements. | Healthcare & BiotechSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Constellr builds and operates custom satellites to deliver thermal intelligence systems | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Feb 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Defined.ai provides an AI training data platform for enterprise AI | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Fero provides funding, operations, and trading services for the drinks industry | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Gigaton develops and implements self-learning control systems for energy-intensive industries to manage production and reduce emissions | Industrial & ManufacturingClimate & Energy | Jun 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| GROPYUS builds residential projects, from planning to delivery, using modular construction and digital building operation systems. | Real Estate & Construction | Oct 2024Series C+ | Page + round | |
| JUPUS provides a KI-secretariat for law firms, supporting them from client acquisition to research and document creation | Legal & ComplianceAI & Machine Learning | Jun 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Kencko Foods sells healthy fruit smoothies online and in retail stores. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
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| Meisterwerk provides modular software for craftsmen and small businesses to manage their operations, including offers, invoices, orders, and employee scheduling. | Enterprise SoftwareIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Oceano Fresco cultivates bivalves in the open sea | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Overstory provides grid risk management for utilities | EducationEducation | Nov 2025Series B | Page + round | |
| Probely scans web applications and APIs for vulnerabilities | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Sonant provides an AI receptionist for insurance companies to automate call handling and other tasks | AI & Machine LearningFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Soveren provides real-time data observability and controls in production by combining at-rest data detection with network traffic analysis | CybersecurityEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Spoke provides last mile delivery software tools for drivers, dispatchers, and retailers. | Healthcare & BiotechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Sybilion connects external world dynamics to the decisions that shape a company's margin, working alongside the systems the company already runs. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Mar 2026Seed | Page + round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- semapanext.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 7 Oct 2024
- Companies checked
- 18
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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