Paulo Andrez

Paulo Andrez is an angel investor, entrepreneur and an international expert in entrepreneurship and innovation, business development, scaling up and risk mitigation. His new book "Zero Risk Startup" is scheduled to be launched in USA in the first quarter of 2024. He owns a portfolio of 10 investments in startup and scale up companies. As an angel investor, he received the award for “Best European Angel Investment” in 2012 as one of his investments reached 25 million euros in revenues within the first year of operations. One of his investments, Sword Health, became unicorn in 2022.

Paulo is also a founder of Entrepreneurship Agency DNA Cascais, which supported more than 400 startups. Paulo was appointed President Emeritus EBAN, European Business Angel Network, after serving as President until 2014. Since 2012, Paulo has been working with a number of European governments in the field of early stage investment policies and business angels co-investment funds design. He chaired the European Commission Expert Group for support of Slovak and Romanian governments in designing and implementing entrepreneurship and innovation policies, where risk mitigation was an essential part of that work.

He has a background as serial entrepreneur and is frequently invited as a speaker worldwide and as a guest lecturer and expert in innovation, entrepreneurship and early stage investment. Since 2012, Paulo has held a series of workshops on the topic of new venture risk mitigation.