João Camarate

Building defract.dev - ship at agent speed without the slop

📍 Portugal🔄 Updated October 2026💼 5 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025
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Fractional CTO, Investor
Jan 2025
An IT company that upsells your traditional business on to an Internet digital marketplace... and this Summer we will launch the App that will change the way you experience your favourite beach. Stay tuned! 😎🏖️🌞 sandbit.app
Angel Investor
Dec 2024
Angels Way (aka AW) is a community-driven investor focused on Portuguese-based early-stage Startups that have a direct impact on making the world a better place through the use of technology. The goal of Angels Way is to support and develop the Portuguese entrepreneurial ecosystem as well as to create a like minded community to bring value to everyone involved.
Angel Investor
Aug 2022
COREangels Lisbon is a group of serial entrepreneurs and experienced angels, investing in seed and pre-seed stages in differentiated fast-growing startups that tend to solve relevant problems. Our business angels have a hands-on approach in mentoring our funded startups towards the outstanding.
Angel Investor
Mar 2022
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Angel Investor
Oct 2021
MyCareforce is the platform that connects nurses and carers with available shifts. We leverage technology to simplify and digitize this process whilst empowering nurses and allowing them to enjoy more flexibility.
Experience · 9 entries
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2026
Founder
Mar 2026
defract is the agentic IDE for AI-native teams. Building with AI today means context-switching all day: chat windows, terminals, PRs, dashboards, three half-finished branches, a head full of state by 6pm. defract collapses that into a single workflow — scope to release — where you approve the decisions that need a human, and agents do the rest in parallel. Every story runs in its own git worktree, so multiple agents and multiple humans work the same codebase without stepping on each other. Code is reviewed by agents and only merges after sign-off. You see the working feature, not a 400-line diff. Two modes, one IDE: autopilot for the work that doesnt need you, human-in-the-loop for the work that does. Switch per story, per stage, per moment. The closed beta is invite-only, running on Claude Code + macOS. v1 ships across Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, and opencode — on macOS, Windows, and Linux. Ship at agent speed. Without the slop.
2025
General Partner
Nov 2025
THV is an early-stage venture firm dedicated to identifying Portugal’s top talent building Agentic AI B2B startups and fast-tracking their expansion into the U.S. market. Transatlantic Highway Ventures distinguishes itself as a true operator fund, backed by a unique base of Limited Partners comprising founders and executives from both the U.S. and Portugal. This structure allows us to tap into the deep experience and success of this transatlantic corridor, offering portfolio companies rigorous due diligence, go-to-market expertise, and fundraising support. Our team brings 20+ years of experience in tech companies, has made 100+ angel investments, and gets exclusive Portuguese founder dealflow. THV actively guides startups from pre-seed validation through to successful U.S. commercialization and exit.
Fractional CTO, Investor
Jan 2025
An IT company that upsells your traditional business on to an Internet digital marketplace... and this Summer we will launch the App that will change the way you experience your favourite beach. Stay tuned! 😎🏖️🌞 sandbit.app
2024
Angel Investor
Dec 2024
Angels Way (aka AW) is a community-driven investor focused on Portuguese-based early-stage Startups that have a direct impact on making the world a better place through the use of technology. The goal of Angels Way is to support and develop the Portuguese entrepreneurial ecosystem as well as to create a like minded community to bring value to everyone involved.
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