About us

Built by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs.

62W was created to solve a simple problem: Portugal has thousands of good, profitable companies whose owners are ready for a new chapter, and few buyers who want to keep them alive and growing.

01 — Our story

Many of Portugal’s best companies were built over decades by their founders. Clients trust them. Teams have grown up inside them. But when the owner starts thinking about retirement or a new venture, the options are often poor: a competitor that makes the brand disappear, a fund that cuts costs, or simply no buyer at all.

We created 62W to offer a different path. We acquire established companies, keep their identity and their people, and invest in what they need for the next generation.

Our thesis

We invest behind two convictions.

Service businesses: an operational opportunity.

Professional and business services are essential, recurring and trusted by their clients. But much of the daily work is still manual. By redesigning processes and using technology and artificial intelligence, we free teams from repetitive work so they can give clients more advice and better service. We bring several companies together around a shared back office, so each one can offer more than it could alone.

Sectors: accounting and tax advisory · insurance brokerage · compliance and safety services · property and condominium management

Industrial businesses: a resilience opportunity.

Companies that make physical products are hard to replace. Their know-how lives in their people, their machines and their customer relationships. And demand is broadening: automation is opening new ways to produce, and new types of customers and new markets are emerging. We back these companies with long-term capital, investment in equipment and automation, and help in winning new customers.

Sectors: metal manufacturing · industrial machinery and equipment · food processing and manufacturing

How we build

We start with a strong company in each sector and build around it. Smaller companies can then join the group and benefit from shared resources, technology and a wider client base, while keeping their local identity.

Team

João Figueira

Partner

Revenue, operations and technology.

Portuguese, with a career built between Europe and Latin America. Former director at B2W Digital, the e-commerce consolidator that became one of the largest in Brazil, and former COO and CRO at Enova, Xerpay and Betterfly. Has led organisations of more than 300 people at two unicorns and grown businesses from zero to more than €100M in Iberia and Latin America. Founder of several SMEs.

Pedro Barreira

Partner

Technology and artificial intelligence.

Founder of Finlayer and Stickables, previously at Cloudflare and Microsoft. Venture partner in artificial intelligence at MIT. Has designed and scaled global technology products from concept to production.

Confidential

Partner

Investment, M&A and finance.

Former Managing Director at Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank. Managed EMEA investment platforms of more than $5bn and scaled private market products to $1bn. The name will be disclosed once current commitments allow it.

05 — Technology as a lever

Technology is part of our background and one of the main ways we create value.

Our team has designed and scaled technology products in companies of every size, from startups to large international groups. We have hands-on experience in artificial intelligence and see it as a real opportunity to modernise companies that still work the way they did twenty years ago: fewer repetitive tasks, simpler processes and more time for clients.

In each company, we start by understanding where technology really makes a difference. Only then do we invest.

Our technology

An example: Conta Labs.

In accounting, we created Conta Labs, which builds software agents that collect documents, read them, reconcile transactions and keep clients informed. The first agents are already live.

Discover our Conta Labs case →

What we believe

People first.

A company is its team. We invest in people and give them reasons to stay.

Long term.

We make decisions with the next decade in mind, not the next quarter.

Transparency.

Clear terms, honest conversations, no surprises.

Built by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs.

Our thesis

Service businesses: an operational opportunity.

Industrial businesses: a resilience opportunity.

How we build

Team

João Figueira

Pedro Barreira

Confidential

Technology is part of our background and one of the main ways we create value.

An example: Conta Labs.

What we believe

People first.

Long term.

Transparency.

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