João Sampayo Ramos

Investment Manager at European Investment Fund (EIF)

📍 Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2019
VC🌍 Portugal
9
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4
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1
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2
Late stage
11y
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Portfolio

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Non Executive Board Member
Jul 2019
ChemiTek is a Portuguese company dedicated to the development, production and trading of efficient, easy to apply, innovative and environmentally friendly chemical products for industrial maintenance. With an already diversified portfolio, the company presents solutions for sectors such as solar, glass and automotive. Highly specialised unique solutions for cleaning and optimising solar panels, as well as protecting and cleaning glass, and helping to improve efficiency in industries such as automotive and marine. One of the biggest concerns of our company is to develop 100% environmental friendly solutions which are in line with the sustainability policy of the company. All our products are biodegradable! It aims to be a reference in the international market, as a customer-centric, innovative and sustainable chemical company.
Non Executive Board Member
Jul 2019
🥒 We create communities around Vegetable Gardens in public or private spaces, promoting eco-transition. The concept is quite unique and applies either to companies, schools, condominiums, hotels, etc. 🌍 We are present in Portugal, France, Spain, and Italy. 🍅 Our specificities: our unique growbed and our international network of local growers. We start by installing the vegetable garden, using an exclusive set of high productivity growbeds we’ve developed, with low water consumption (80% reduction Vs classic garden) setting it all up together with the soil and plants in just one day. But that’s not where it stops! Beyond the garden we provide maintenance and animation, supported by our network of professional Growers. Most importantly our Growers will promote the involvement of your teams (students, residents or guests) around a common green project, creating new bounds amongst the staff and improving greatly wellbeing and transversal collaboration. It gives tangible results in promoting transition and helps fulfilling your Corporate Social Responsibility agenda! Our claim is “ground yourself” and we’re not only talking about self awareness, we mean reconnecting to others and, most importantly, to the planet. 🌶️ Among our customers: Natixis, Microsoft, UNESCO, Mob Hotel, Galeries Lafayette and Farfetch. 🥕 What moves us: - the importance of developing smarter and greener cities - strong social link and ecology as crucial topics for modern businesses - the pleasure and assurance that comes with growing your own food, eating better and being more eco-responsive Noocity is a company with an international vision and a local approach. Let’s grow community and ecology together 🌱
Non Executive Board Member
Jan 2019
Logical Safety helps companies in the most high risk industries achieve safety excellence while boosting productivity and the bottom line with our advanced safety systems. Data is changing the way companies think about safety. With more of it than ever before, it offers a new potential to rethink how we protect our staff and businesses in the modern world. By connecting cutting edge-technology through the IoT we enable businesses to create adaptive safety systems able predict and prevent emergencies before they can occur. We strive everyday to build industry leading solutions to tackle your business’ safety challenges; helping you to keep staff healthy while proving the value of safety from the front line to the board room.
Board Member
Feb 2017
Addvolt is leading the World's Transport Electrification with our World’s First Plug-in electric system targeted for transportation markets and working closely with our partners and clients on more than 10 markets around 3 continents. In cooperation with logistics companies, we design and implement technologies with the aim of reducing the transportation costs of goods by using Electrical and Sustainable Energy. We are dedicated to developing Intelligent, Simple and Non-Invasive technologies in close cooperation with our customers. Our goal is to make every vehicle more profitable and environmentally friendly by reducing diesel consumption, CO2 emissions, noise, and maintenance costs. Building a Smart & Sustainable Transport Worldwide. Explore how we are delivering Clean Energy to Transportation on https://www.addvolt.com
Board Member
Oct 2016
With state-of-the-art IoT connectivity and data analytics, proGrow is a web platform dedicated to industrial frontline operations. With customisable real-time dashboards and automatic alerts information spreads quickly and decisions are data-driven. Operational teams are empowered by dedicated workflows to take immediate actions and are guided by continuous improvement tools to improve their results. proGrow, producing more with less.
Board Member
Oct 2015
Engineering and Industrialization of small series production: • From 50 to 10000 parts/project • One source supplier from initial concept to finish parts delivery • Using Reaction Injection Molding (RIM) technology & polyurethane materials
Board Observer
Sep 2015
O grupo Moneris é uma organização empenhada em ajudar as empresas a atingirem as suas metas e a superarem os seus desafios na gestão dos seus negócios. Reconhecidos pela excelência dos serviços que prestamos, a nossa abordagem e metodologias permite apoiar os nossos clientes através de uma oferta integrada de serviços e soluções que promovem a excelência da informação financeira e a melhoria dos processos de tomada de decisão, permitindo que as empresas se foquem no seu core business e nas atividades críticas ao sucesso do seu negócio. Somos um grupo líder na prestação de serviços de contabilidade, consultoria e apoio à gestão que conta com cerca de 4.000 clientes, 20 escritórios e 300 colaboradores. Integramos uma das maiores redes mundiais de empresas de auditoria, contabilidade e serviços jurídicos – o MSI Global Alliance – com presença em mais de 100 países em todo o mundo e mais de 10.000 profissionais.
Experience · 11 entries
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Investments (9)
Board (9)
2021
Investment Manager
Feb 2021
Part of the EIB Group, the mission of the European Investment Fund (EIF) is to improve access to finance for SMEs and small mid-caps in Europe. We do this by supporting emerging and established fund managers with equity investments and by designing debt financing instruments that share the risk taken by financial institutions when they lend to or invest in small businesses. We bring this support closer to entrepreneurs through our extensive network of partners and financial intermediaries in all EU Member States and associated countries.
2019
Non Executive Board Member
Jul 2019
ChemiTek is a Portuguese company dedicated to the development, production and trading of efficient, easy to apply, innovative and environmentally friendly chemical products for industrial maintenance. With an already diversified portfolio, the company presents solutions for sectors such as solar, glass and automotive. Highly specialised unique solutions for cleaning and optimising solar panels, as well as protecting and cleaning glass, and helping to improve efficiency in industries such as automotive and marine. One of the biggest concerns of our company is to develop 100% environmental friendly solutions which are in line with the sustainability policy of the company. All our products are biodegradable! It aims to be a reference in the international market, as a customer-centric, innovative and sustainable chemical company.
Non Executive Board Member
Jul 2019
🥒 We create communities around Vegetable Gardens in public or private spaces, promoting eco-transition. The concept is quite unique and applies either to companies, schools, condominiums, hotels, etc. 🌍 We are present in Portugal, France, Spain, and Italy. 🍅 Our specificities: our unique growbed and our international network of local growers. We start by installing the vegetable garden, using an exclusive set of high productivity growbeds we’ve developed, with low water consumption (80% reduction Vs classic garden) setting it all up together with the soil and plants in just one day. But that’s not where it stops! Beyond the garden we provide maintenance and animation, supported by our network of professional Growers. Most importantly our Growers will promote the involvement of your teams (students, residents or guests) around a common green project, creating new bounds amongst the staff and improving greatly wellbeing and transversal collaboration. It gives tangible results in promoting transition and helps fulfilling your Corporate Social Responsibility agenda! Our claim is “ground yourself” and we’re not only talking about self awareness, we mean reconnecting to others and, most importantly, to the planet. 🌶️ Among our customers: Natixis, Microsoft, UNESCO, Mob Hotel, Galeries Lafayette and Farfetch. 🥕 What moves us: - the importance of developing smarter and greener cities - strong social link and ecology as crucial topics for modern businesses - the pleasure and assurance that comes with growing your own food, eating better and being more eco-responsive Noocity is a company with an international vision and a local approach. Let’s grow community and ecology together 🌱
Non Executive Board Member
Jan 2019
Logical Safety helps companies in the most high risk industries achieve safety excellence while boosting productivity and the bottom line with our advanced safety systems. Data is changing the way companies think about safety. With more of it than ever before, it offers a new potential to rethink how we protect our staff and businesses in the modern world. By connecting cutting edge-technology through the IoT we enable businesses to create adaptive safety systems able predict and prevent emergencies before they can occur. We strive everyday to build industry leading solutions to tackle your business’ safety challenges; helping you to keep staff healthy while proving the value of safety from the front line to the board room.
2017
Board Member
Feb 2017
Addvolt is leading the World's Transport Electrification with our World’s First Plug-in electric system targeted for transportation markets and working closely with our partners and clients on more than 10 markets around 3 continents. In cooperation with logistics companies, we design and implement technologies with the aim of reducing the transportation costs of goods by using Electrical and Sustainable Energy. We are dedicated to developing Intelligent, Simple and Non-Invasive technologies in close cooperation with our customers. Our goal is to make every vehicle more profitable and environmentally friendly by reducing diesel consumption, CO2 emissions, noise, and maintenance costs. Building a Smart & Sustainable Transport Worldwide. Explore how we are delivering Clean Energy to Transportation on https://www.addvolt.com
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2015–2019 · 9 investments
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