Stephan Morais
General Partner at Indico Capital Partners
Stephan Morais
General Partner at Indico Capital Partners
Lisbon, Lisbon
Overview
Work Experience
Managing General Partner
2017 - Current
Stephan Morais is the founder and Managing General Partner of Indico Capital Partners, a leading institutional and independent venture capital firm based Lisbon focusing on Pre-Seed to Series B SaaS, artificial intelligence, web3, climate tech, fintech, cybersecurity, and digital startups.
Board Member
2021
On the Board of the national industry body representing the Private Equity and Venture Capital industry.
Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship Expert for the oNetwork
2018
The oNetwork is a community of highly experienced entrepreneurs and business leaders who share their expertise with Oxford Saïd students and alumni.
Advisory Board Member
2018
Amrop advises the world’s most dynamic organizations on identifying and positioning Leaders For What’s Next - adept at working across borders, in markets around the world. With 75 offices in 48 countries, Amrop is one of the world’s largest retained executive search partnerships. www.amrop.com
Advisor to the European Commissioner
2016 - 2019
Member of the Research, Innovation and Science Experts High Level Expert Group (RISE). Focusing on innovation funding advisory.
Council Member
2013 - 2018
Organization that gathers over 50 top European Venture Capital firms and Corporate Investors to share best practices, develop joint initiatives, share deal flow and organize events in the interest of its members. As Council Member, defines strategy and yearly plan, co-organizes events and builds relations across sectors, interests and members.
Executive Board Member
2013 - 2017
Executive Board Member heading up Venture Capital, Growth Equity and Fund of Fund investments. Caixa Capital (Eur 700M AuM in 5 funds) portfolio includes numerous investment situations: seed to series B VC investments, Business Angels co-investment vehicles, VC funds, PE Funds, SME growth equity tickets and larger conglomerate and industrial significant shareholdings. Active investment stance, with close monitoring of portfolio companies supported by specialized team and wide international network of investment and industry partners. Investor, and Board Member at several companies: Farfetch (luxury e-tail), Uniplaces (Airbnb for student accommodation), Movvo (indoor people tracking and big data analysis), Unbabel (crowdsourced translation platform), Orankl (product reviews SaaS), Noniussoft (hotel digital products, exited), Codacy (automated code review), Fever (events discovery platform), Biosurfit (Point of Care diagnostics), Prodsmart (Cloud based ERP), Attentive (Saas API), Biomimetx (cleantech), amongst others. Investor, Investment and Advisory Committee Member at several Funds (VC and PE): DN Capital (UK VC), e.ventures (Germany/global), 360º Capital Partners (EU VC), Seedcamp (EU Accelerator VC), Forbion Capital Partners (EU Biotech VC), Endeavour Vision (EU Medtech VC), Pathena (VC), Menlo SC1 (PE). Heading up international partnerships with other investors and institutional investment partners: Council Member of the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (VC Council), Council Member of the International Venture Club and Past Chairman of the European Venture Funds Investors Network. Headed Startup Next Lisbon program for Techstars. Speaker and jury at numerous international Venture and PE events. As President of the Iberian Tech Tour, the Digital Tech Summit and the Smart Equity events, brought to Iberia over 40 Bn Euros worth of investors (GPs aned LPs) to screen top tech growth companies and discuss industry status.
Council Member (Venture Capital)
2015 - 2017
Working with other VCs to improve the Venture Ecosystem in Europe. EVCA membership covers the full range of private equity activity, from early-stage venture capital to the largest private equity firms, investors such as pension funds, insurance companies, fund-of-funds and family offices and associate members from related professions. EVCA represents 700 member firms and 500 affiliate members.
Chairman
2014 - 2016
EVFIN is a platform for dialogue launched in 2011 by major investors in venture capital (VC). It gathers 12 national and regional venture capital operators, mostly public funds of funds, whose mission is to foster equity financing for SMEs. EVFIN objective is to enable sharing of best practices between its members, to contribute to the EU public debate on improving access to finance for SMEs. Altogether, its members have more than € 24 billion of assets under management. Those are: AWS (Austria); Caixa Capital (Portugal); Capital Dynamics (UK); British Business Bank (UK); Bpifrance (France); Enterprise Ireland (Ireland); Finnish Industry Investment (Finland); Krajowy Fundusz Kapitałowy (KFK - Poland); MFB Invest (Hungary); New Economy Development Fund - TANEO (Greece); PMV (Belgium) ; Société régionale d’investissement de Wallonie (SRIW - Belgium).
Board Member and Deputy CEO
2010 - 2013
Head of Corporate and Project Finance, Private Equity, Finance and Marketing for the first Investment Bank based in Mozambique, Africa. Focus on Energy, Infrastructure, Mining, Oil and Gas and Agriculture.
Education
2002 Master
2000 - 2002
Transformational Leadership Program
2015 - 2015
Executive Education
2010 - 2010
Erasmus
1996 - 1996
Licenciatura
1991 - 1996