Francisco Aivado Nunes

VC at Bright Pixel Capital | Investing in Commerce Tech

📍 Portugal🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2025
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Board Member
May 2025
Brij’s AI-powered software platform helps brands acquire, analyze, and activate first-party data across every sales channel. Reclaim customer data lost to retail & marketplaces and drive revenue through Brijs mobile-optimized experiences.
Board Member
Jul 2023
Harmonya is the AI-powered product data enrichment, insights, and attribution platform for retailers and brands. Legacy product data lacks descriptive and diagnostic power and limits what organizations can do. Harmonya enriches product data with deeper attributes and characteristics to power more impactful analytics and decision-making. Our proprietary technology ingests information from millions of online product listings and creates unique tags from titles, descriptions, ingredients, consumer reviews and more. This harmonized data asset empowers your teams and technologies that use product data to unlock growth for your business through a better understanding of what matters most to consumers. We build robust tools to help you uncover insights about the consumer drivers of market performance, improve assortment and merchandising, categorize products, guide product innovation, and engage target audiences more effectively. Founded in 2021, Harmonya is a Team8 company with offices in New York and Tel Aviv.
Board Observer
Jan 2023
Chord AI is the data platform and commerce copilot that makes data instantaneous, accurate, and actionable. Commerce teams today are under pressure to grow faster, spend smarter, and make AI work for them. The problem? Most stacks aren’t built for it. Data is siloed, pipelines are brittle, reporting is slow, and layering AI on top only leads to guesses, not growth. Chord AI changes that. We combine the foundation of a modern data platform with the intelligence of a copilot, all purpose-built for commerce—so every answer, recommendation, and action is grounded in truth, not hallucinations. With Chord AI, brands can: → Unify and govern their data across channels, customers, orders, and campaigns. → Eliminate tool sprawl by replacing CDPs, BI, analytics, and orchestration with one platform. → Trust their insights thanks to explainable outputs and full transparency into the data and logic behind every recommendation. → Move faster with plain-language queries, predictive segments, real-time activation, and campaigns launched 2x quicker. → Lower costs through consolidation—saving up to 30% on martech and reducing manual reporting by 50%. Trusted by leading commerce brands like Sonos, Ruggable, and Sakara, Chord AI is built by operators who have scaled DTC and omnichannel businesses from the inside. We meet teams where they are—whether they’re stuck in manual reporting cycles, buried under vendor contracts, or evaluating CDPs and analytics tools—and help them evolve into unified, AI-powered operators with clarity, speed, and confidence. One platform. No duct tape. No hallucinations. Just AI that actually works. Visit https://www.chordcommerce.com/ to learn more today.
Board Observer
Jul 2022
Sales Layer is the global-leading PIM solution for B2B companies. Our platform streamlines and simplifies the management of product information, consolidating and centralizing your data across all your distribution channels. With Sales Layer, you can easily syndicate your product information, update and analyze your catalogs in real-time, and make data-driven decisions to improve product development and increase sales. Sales Layer intuitively improves your product management processes and enables you to: ⭐Centralize your data in the cloud ⭐Synchronize your information everywhere ⭐Analyze your data to improve product development processes See for yourself why Sales Layer is the go-to PIM solution and get started today with a free demo from our PIM professionals. Named one of G2’s Best Commerce Products 2024, Sales Layer is the smart choice for B2B companies looking to optimize their product management processes. This is the PIM revolution.
Board Observer
Jun 2022
Profit-focused eCommerce platform combining AI-powered software and expert account managers, for the growth-minded seller.
Investor
Aug 2021
Founded in 2015, Citcon’s fintech platform enables seamless global commerce at scale by connecting the world’s businesses with more than 100+ mobile wallets, local and alternative payment methods. Citcon is one of the fastest-growing payment platforms and services some of the world’s biggest brands, safely and securely processing billions of dollars of transactions for merchants worldwide. Citcon is backed by leading global investors, Norwest Venture Partners, Cota Capital, Sierra Ventures, EastWest Bank, and Sonae IM. The company has five regional offices in the US, Canada, Europe and Asia to service its global clientele. Learn more at https://www.citcon.com.
Board Observer
Mar 2021
Sellforte is a next-generation Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM) platform that helps ecommerce, retail, and D2C brands measure the true incremental impact of marketing and optimize future budgets with data-driven planning. Powered by advanced causal and Bayesian modelling, Sellforte gives marketing teams clear ROI insights and actionable optimisation recommendations. Join our team: https://careers.sellforte.com
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2025
Board Member
May 2025
Brij’s AI-powered software platform helps brands acquire, analyze, and activate first-party data across every sales channel. Reclaim customer data lost to retail & marketplaces and drive revenue through Brijs mobile-optimized experiences.
2023
Board Member
Jul 2023
Harmonya is the AI-powered product data enrichment, insights, and attribution platform for retailers and brands. Legacy product data lacks descriptive and diagnostic power and limits what organizations can do. Harmonya enriches product data with deeper attributes and characteristics to power more impactful analytics and decision-making. Our proprietary technology ingests information from millions of online product listings and creates unique tags from titles, descriptions, ingredients, consumer reviews and more. This harmonized data asset empowers your teams and technologies that use product data to unlock growth for your business through a better understanding of what matters most to consumers. We build robust tools to help you uncover insights about the consumer drivers of market performance, improve assortment and merchandising, categorize products, guide product innovation, and engage target audiences more effectively. Founded in 2021, Harmonya is a Team8 company with offices in New York and Tel Aviv.
Principal
Mar 2023
Former Sonae IM, Bright Pixel Capital is a venture capital company with a global aim, financially driven and oriented to make businesses prosper. We have the power of transformational change across our DNA sectors: Cybersecurity, Retail Technologies, Digital Infrastructure and Emerging Technologies. Envisioned as the tech investment arm of Sonae Group, a Portuguese multinational with a diversified portfolio of innovative brands, Bright Pixel Capital has invested over 250M€ in the first 5 years in more than 50 direct investments, and will continue this path using our expertise to spot unique opportunities with the potential to change an industry. Working with Bright Pixel Capital means accessing a group of dedicated and experienced professionals, with incomparable knowledge of each investment vertical.
Board Observer
Jan 2023
Chord AI is the data platform and commerce copilot that makes data instantaneous, accurate, and actionable. Commerce teams today are under pressure to grow faster, spend smarter, and make AI work for them. The problem? Most stacks aren’t built for it. Data is siloed, pipelines are brittle, reporting is slow, and layering AI on top only leads to guesses, not growth. Chord AI changes that. We combine the foundation of a modern data platform with the intelligence of a copilot, all purpose-built for commerce—so every answer, recommendation, and action is grounded in truth, not hallucinations. With Chord AI, brands can: → Unify and govern their data across channels, customers, orders, and campaigns. → Eliminate tool sprawl by replacing CDPs, BI, analytics, and orchestration with one platform. → Trust their insights thanks to explainable outputs and full transparency into the data and logic behind every recommendation. → Move faster with plain-language queries, predictive segments, real-time activation, and campaigns launched 2x quicker. → Lower costs through consolidation—saving up to 30% on martech and reducing manual reporting by 50%. Trusted by leading commerce brands like Sonos, Ruggable, and Sakara, Chord AI is built by operators who have scaled DTC and omnichannel businesses from the inside. We meet teams where they are—whether they’re stuck in manual reporting cycles, buried under vendor contracts, or evaluating CDPs and analytics tools—and help them evolve into unified, AI-powered operators with clarity, speed, and confidence. One platform. No duct tape. No hallucinations. Just AI that actually works. Visit https://www.chordcommerce.com/ to learn more today.
2022
Board Observer
Jul 2022
Sales Layer is the global-leading PIM solution for B2B companies. Our platform streamlines and simplifies the management of product information, consolidating and centralizing your data across all your distribution channels. With Sales Layer, you can easily syndicate your product information, update and analyze your catalogs in real-time, and make data-driven decisions to improve product development and increase sales. Sales Layer intuitively improves your product management processes and enables you to: ⭐Centralize your data in the cloud ⭐Synchronize your information everywhere ⭐Analyze your data to improve product development processes See for yourself why Sales Layer is the go-to PIM solution and get started today with a free demo from our PIM professionals. Named one of G2’s Best Commerce Products 2024, Sales Layer is the smart choice for B2B companies looking to optimize their product management processes. This is the PIM revolution.
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