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Explorer Investments SCR SA (Explorer Investments) is an independent private equity firm founded in 2003 by Rodrigo Guimarães, Elizabeth Rothfield and Marco Dinis Marques Lebre. The firm is headquartered in Lisbon, Portugal.

C2 Capital Partners – SCR SA (C2 Capital Partners) is an independent private equity subsidiary of Gaw Capital Partners founded in 2009 by Nuno Ricardo Gaioso Jorge Ribeiro and Pedro Morais Esteves de Carvalho. The firm is headquartered in Lisbon, Portugal.

BiG Start Ventures is a wholly-owned private equity subsidiary of Banco de Investimento Global S A in Portugal. The firm was founded in 2004, previously known as OneTier Partners SCR SA, and changed to its current name in 2016. It is headquartered in Lisbon, Portugal.

Sixty Degrees SGOIC SA provides investment advice. The private company is based in Lisbon, Portugal. and has subsidiaries in Portugal. The Portuguese company was founded in 2019. Virgilio Manuel Vargas Garcia has been the CEO of the company since 2019.

PricewaterhouseCoopers & Associados SROC Ltda. provides professional services in auditing and taxation. It offers services in areas such as audit & assurance, crisis management, human resources, performance improvement, tax, and transactions. Its services include financial accounting, tax valuations, mergers and acquisitions advisory, compliance, and business recovery. The company is headquartered in Lisbon, Portugal.

Women Presidents' Organization is a global organization that was founded in 1997 by Dr. Marsha Firestone. The non-profit company is based in New York, NY, and the CEO of the company is Camille Burns. The organization brings together women business leaders worldwide to share insights, support, and encourage each other in their professional development and business strategies. Each WPO chapter serves as a professionally-facilitated peer advisory group for members where they can harness the momentum of their successes and cultivate new strategies that will take them even further. WPO members have guided their business to generate at least $2 million USD in gross annual sales (or $1 million USD for a service-based business).

Portugal Fintech is an open association that aims to gather the fintech ecosystem in Portugal, from startups to corporates, experts, and investors. The company supports fintech startups and connect the Portuguese ecosystem to the world, including the verticals of insurtech, regtech, fintech, and cybersecurity. The company has initiatives such as the Fintech House, which fosters innovation and makes ideas grow, and the Finlab, which is a communication channel between entrepreneurs and the Portuguese financial authorities. The private company also has a yearly report that includes main drivers and market trends, investment statistics, interviews with industry experts, and the top 30 fintechs. Fintech Solutions is their advisory arm, focused on closing the gap between startups and incumbents. The purpose of the Finlab is to support the development of genuinely innovative projects and companies. The company was founded in 2016 by João Guerreiro Freire de Andrade.

Ori Capital Ltda. is a private company based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. and has subsidiaries in Brazil. The Brazilian company was founded in 2010 by Bernardo Werther de Araujo, Marcelo Moraes, Eduardo Trigo. Carlos Henrique Vieira Brandão dos Santos has been the CEO of the company since 2014.

Part of Nomura Holdings, Inc., Nomura (CIS) Ltd. is a Russian company that provides brokerage services. The company is based in Moscow, Russian Federation and was founded in 2006.

Iberis Semper SCR SA (Iberis Capital) is an independent venture capital/private equity firm founded in 2017 by Luís Quaresma and João Henriques. The firm is headquartered in Lisbon, Portugal.

NextEnergy Capital Ltd (NextEnergy Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2006 by Michael Bonte-Friedheim. The firm is headquartered in London.

Banco Comercial Português SA (Broker) (BCP-Broker) is the brokerage division of Banco Comercial Português SA. The firm is headquartered in Oieras, Portugal. BCP-Broker provides brokerage services to their clients.

Mccann-erickson Southwest provides advertising services. The private company is based in Austin, TX.

CGD Pensões SGFP SA (CGD Pensoes) is the pension fund management subsidiary of Caixa Gestao de Activos SGPS SA, itself a subsidiary of Caixa Geral de Depósitos SA in Portugal. The firm was founded in 1992 as Sociedade Gestora do Fundo de Pensões da Caixa Geral de Depósitos to manage the Caixa Geral de Depósitos pension fund. In 1994 they changed their name to Sociedade Gestora de Fundos de Pensões da Caixa Geral de Depósitos, SA. In 1996, they began to manage pension funds outside the CGD Group. In 2001, following the asset management restructuring at CGD, they changed their name to CGD Pensoes Sociedade Gestora de Fundos de Pensões SA. Based in Lisbon, CGD Pension offers individual and institutional clients the opportunity to finance retirement through open-ended or closed-ended pension funds.

Crimson Investment Management - Sociedade Unipessoal Lda. (Crimson Investment Management) is a private equity firm located in Portugal. It was founded in 2008, previously named Crimson Investment Management SA and changed to its current name in 2011. The firm is headquartered in Lisbon, Portugal.

Queiroplas was founded in 1995 and has developed its activity in the large format printing industry. Focusing its core business in the advertising market, its main products consist in printed plastic packaging, outdoor advertising, and production of POP materials and displays. Having acquired its first screen printing machine in 1996 Queiroplas later embraced the digital technology and finally the offset printing to respond to market demands. With a self-owned covered production area of 9300 square meter, Queiroplas has presently offices both in Madrid and in Lisbon.

VIROC Portugal - Indústrias de Madeira e Cimento SA manufactures and distributes cement bonded particle boards. Its products are used in acoustic, thermal, and cut-fire solutions as well as façades, walls, ceilings, flooring, and interiors decoration. The firm also develops modular structures. The company was founded in May 1992 and is headquartered in Setubal, Portugal.

Widerproperty SA is a real estate asset management company based in Portugal. The Portuguese company offers a range of services including market studies, property management, legal representation of investors, portfolio management, licensing, and all back-office processes. With a diverse portfolio of assets under management in various real estate segments, they ensure geographic coverage throughout the national territory. The private company has a team with over 15 years of experience in the market and operate with reporting requirements and international management standards. Widerproperty is a reference operator in real estate service and has a portfolio of institutional reference clients, including international investors and scholarship companies. The company has 17 offices scattered around the country and a team of 90 employees.

Biovegetal-Combustíveis Biológicos e Vegetais SA produces biodiesel. It offers biological and vegetable fuels. Biovegetal also exports resin products and sells Kosher Glycerin and fatty acids. The company was founded on January 2, 1999 and is headquartered in Alhandra, Portugal.

Monte D'alva - Alimentação SA processes and distributes meat based products. The firm produces and commercialization of meat and meat-based products, operating in Portugal. The company was founded 1972 and is headquartered in Montijo, Portugal.