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What does Explorer Investments invest in?
Explorer Investments invests most often at Pre-seed and Series A (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Hospitality.
Explorer Investments highlights
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1 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Pre-seed and Series A: 100% of its rounds
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Led 1 rounds
What they do
Explorer is Portugal’s leading independent alternatives fund manager ... across three key strategies: BUYOUTS GROWTH HOSPITALITYFrom their own website
- Type
- Private equity
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- GrowthBuyout
- Sectors
- Hospitality
- Based in
- Lisbon, Portugal
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first2 appearances
- 2026
1 round
- Jan
- 2025
1 round
- May
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration3 named
EMEdwin MachingambiDirectoriFiling they signed
HHHari HariharanDirectoriFiling they signed
MBM.F. B. GilloolyDirectoriFiling they signed
We also hold 29 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
27+funds on filenumbered funds in its name
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
1 of 8 we have independently watched raise
PortalCoeos Digital, LdaUnpriWagtailsapcrbcsdcmvminvest_europe
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.