Bondstone, a Lisbon-based non-public fairness agency with a confirmed monitor report in actual property improvement, funding, and asset administration, has launched its enterprise capital platform, Bondstone Ventures, alongside its inaugural fund, Maxwell Applied sciences I, which focuses on DeepTech.
Bondstone Ventures operates as a fund administration firm authorised and supervised by the Portuguese Securities Market Fee (CMVM), offering a totally regulated platform for enterprise capital funding. It concentrates on investing in DeepTech and different transformative applied sciences all through Southern Europe, with selective protection throughout the broader European area.
The agency’s first VC fund will spend money on Seed and early-stage financing rounds, concentrating on €50 million in commitments from a diversified institutional investor base.
“Bondstone Ventures represents a pure extension of our funding philosophy and values. Europe stands at a pivotal second, the place financial realignment, technological acceleration, and shifting geopolitical dynamics are converging to create extraordinary alternatives. With this new division, we’re positioned to again transformative, tech-driven European corporations able to redefining industries and shaping the longer term,” stated Paulo Loureiro, founder and CEO of Bondstone.
Based in 2016, Bondstone is a non-public fairness agency with experience in actual property funding and enterprise capital, managing and growing property throughout a number of sectors in Europe. Since its inception, it has constructed a diversified portfolio with a gross improvement worth exceeding €1 billion.
Its actual property enterprise invests and oversees capital inside the Portuguese property market. It manages the entire funding lifecycle, together with deal sourcing and funding structuring to improvement and asset administration: throughout residential, logistics, hospitality, and mixed-use tasks.
Its enterprise capital enterprise helps Europe’s most promising DeepTech corporations on the Seed and early-stage. It invests in breakthrough applied sciences throughout synthetic intelligence, computational biology, ClimateTech, and enabling applied sciences, offering founders with each capital and area experience to scale globally. Each administration companies function as regulated funding administration companies underneath CMVM oversight.
“The launch of Bondstone Ventures marks a defining milestone for Bondstone as we broaden our funding platform into new frontiers and place ourselves on the centre of Europe’s innovation ecosystem. By combining deep experience in each finance and science, we provide a particular worth proposition to entrepreneurs pioneering applied sciences that can form the following period of innovation,” stated João Pedro Silva, Associate at Bondstone Ventures.
Alongside its funding efforts, Bondstone Ventures can be forging robust hyperlinks with the scientific and tutorial communities, the agency revealed. The agency is forming incentive-aligned partnerships with prime science and engineering universities, establishing collaborative frameworks that facilitate shut cooperation amongst researchers, entrepreneurs, and traders. These partnerships purpose to hurry up the commercialisation of scientific improvements whereas making certain that tutorial establishments, researchers, and enterprise traders keep aligned within the long-term success of the applied sciences developed.
Bondstone has a multidisciplinary group of 20 professionals combines expertise throughout asset courses, sectors, and funding methods. Each Paulo Loureiro and João Pedro Silva have an instructional background in physics earlier than transferring into finance.
Loureiro beforehand served as Govt Director at Morgan Stanley in New York and as an engineer with Schlumberger in Latin America. He holds an MBA from the College of Chicago Sales space College of Enterprise. Silva is a CFA charterholder and brings a decade of expertise in banking, non-public fairness, actual property, and enterprise capital throughout main European funding companies.
To strengthen its funding and scientific capabilities, Bondstone Ventures is supported by enterprise companions with operational and scaling experience, together with executives who’ve held management roles at international know-how corporations. One such companion is Luis Teixeira, a world enterprise chief and advisor with greater than 20 years of expertise throughout know-how, ecommerce, and style.
