Alexandre Santos

Founder and General Partner at Chamaeleon and more @ antsworld.net

📍 Porto, Porto, Portugal🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 15 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2019𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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10
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1
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Board Observer
Feb 2019
Our end-to-end insurance solutions help insurers increase direct distribution reach by matching their offers with high converting brands online.
Board Member
Sep 2018
TAIKAI is a web3 hackathon platform that brings companies and talented developers together to build innovative solutions. Our platform is designed for web3 projects, DAOs, and developers to participate and showcase their skills. Companies can host hackathons that tackle real-world problems, and developers can join our community of builders to create impactful solutions. Explore our platform and learn how TAIKAI can help you drive innovation and growth.
Board Member
Jun 2018
With over 500,000 active users running its browser extension and desktop agent, Beamy provides an AI-driven business transformation platform consolidating billions of behavioural data points into a unified view of technologies, processes, and people, enabling organizations to accelerate governance and transformation at scale. Beamy’s mission is to help C-suite, IT, and business teams make faster, evidence-based decisions through a shared intelligence layer—enabling vendor negotiations, blueprint adoption and shadow IT mitigation, application portfolio rationalization, AI agent use-case prioritization, and M&A and carve-out support—all grounded in real usage, not assumptions. Beamy serves large Fortune 500 companies across Europe, including Veolia, Schneider Electric, Stellantis, Bouygues, and Decathlon.
Board Member
May 2018
Revolutionising the retail industry with our patent-pending technology, Reckon.ai is crafting frictionless, AI-driven Smart and Autonomous Micro Stores. Leveraging cutting-edge AI and computer vision, we offer seamless, 24/7 shopping experiences and real-time insights, delighting customers and empowering retailers to enhance loyalty and step into the future of retail.
Board Member
Mar 2018
Jscrambler is the leader in Client-Side Protection and Compliance. We were the first to merge advanced polymorphic JavaScript obfuscation with fine-grained third-party tag protection in a unified Client-Side Protection and Compliance Platform. Our integrated solution ensures a robust defense against current and emerging client-side cyber threats, data leaks, misconfigurations, and IP theft. The Jscrambler Code Integrity product safeguards first-party JavaScript through state-of-the art obfuscation and exclusive runtime protection. The Jscrambler Webpage Integrity product mitigates threats and risks posed by third-party tags all while ensuring compliance with the new PCI DSS v4.0 standard. With Jscrambler, businesses adopt a unified, future-proof client-side security policy all while achieving compliance with emerging security standards. Jscrambler serves a diverse range of customers, including top Fortune 500 companies, online retailers, airlines, media outlets, and financial services firms whose success depends on safely engaging with their customers online. Join us in shaping the future of web security and enabling fearless digital innovation.
Board Member
Mar 2018
Leadzai is a customer acquisition platform that empowers businesses to grow online. We believe that the digital advertising market is falling short in helping companies secure a satisfactory return on their advertising investment, so it’s our mission to empower the next 200 million businesses to thrive effortlessly.
Board Member
Feb 2018
Probely (a Snyk Business) is the premier cloud-based application security testing solution designed to empower Security and DevOps teams to work efficiently together on a DevSecOps approach built to reduce risk across web applications and RESTful APIs. Probely empowers Security and DevOps or Development teams to work together to secure their web applications and APIs. Our goal is to narrow the gap between development, security, and operations by making security an intrinsic characteristic of web applications development life-cycle. With over 30,000 vulnerability detection capabilities, including SQLi, XSS, Log4j, OS Command Injection, and SSL/TLS issues, Probely reports vulnerabilities that matter is false-positive free, and includes detailed instructions on fixing them.
Board Member
Jan 2018
Dataplace.ai is a product-based company, which offers an innovative platform that provides information about location, markets and customer behaviour in the offline world. Imagine Google Analytics, but for real-world customers! Using data from dozens of sources, Dataplace.ai applies the latest technology and big data analytics to generate accurate location-based analysis on how people interact with stores and services. Use dataplace.ai products to stimulate growth in your business. placeme - focuses its activities on a broad location analysis, supporting expansion departments or headquarters. monitoring - is addressed to headquarters and management departments. With its help it is possible, among other things, to monitor the entire sales network and the activities of the competition and the rapidly changing market, target - this tool supports trade marketers and sales departments in such activities as directing sales representatives to shops or product/POSM activation. persona - is designed for marketing departments. Find out where you can find matching target groups and how to reach them effectively. Improve communication with target groups and monitor consumer trends in real time source - is a unique product aimed at IT/analytical departments. Customers can equip their systems and applications with unique spatial data, gaining better market insights.
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2021
General Partner & Founder
May 2021
TL;DR ====== - Typically, coming in at series Seed or Series A - Prefer to lead or co-lead, but we play nice with others :) - First checks between 1-5 million USD - Primarily, focused on US and Europe, but will invest globally - Broad vertical focus, but key principles are: -- Product-led companies, not “just” core-technology or IP -- Clear end-user flows that we as users could test, even in B2B -- Preference for technology differentiated Partners focus: Alex: enterprise software, verticalized SaaS, PaaS, Blockchain Nuno: consumer software, consumer hardware, horizontal SaaS, consumerized enterprise/bottom-up SaaS
2019
Board Observer
Feb 2019
Our end-to-end insurance solutions help insurers increase direct distribution reach by matching their offers with high converting brands online.
2018
Board Member
Sep 2018
TAIKAI is a web3 hackathon platform that brings companies and talented developers together to build innovative solutions. Our platform is designed for web3 projects, DAOs, and developers to participate and showcase their skills. Companies can host hackathons that tackle real-world problems, and developers can join our community of builders to create impactful solutions. Explore our platform and learn how TAIKAI can help you drive innovation and growth.
Obvious Capital
First time and Forever Believer & Co-Founder
Jul 2018
Board Member
Jun 2018
With over 500,000 active users running its browser extension and desktop agent, Beamy provides an AI-driven business transformation platform consolidating billions of behavioural data points into a unified view of technologies, processes, and people, enabling organizations to accelerate governance and transformation at scale. Beamy’s mission is to help C-suite, IT, and business teams make faster, evidence-based decisions through a shared intelligence layer—enabling vendor negotiations, blueprint adoption and shadow IT mitigation, application portfolio rationalization, AI agent use-case prioritization, and M&A and carve-out support—all grounded in real usage, not assumptions. Beamy serves large Fortune 500 companies across Europe, including Veolia, Schneider Electric, Stellantis, Bouygues, and Decathlon.
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