Paulo Andrez | Zero Risk Startup Bestselling Author, Angel Investor & Member of Expert Group
European Innovation Council

Paulo Andrez is an angel investor, serial entrepreneur and #1 bestselling author of Zero Risk Startup, published by Forbes Books.

As an angel investor, he received the award “Best European Angel Investment” in 2012 as one of his investments (United Resins) reached 24.5 million euros in revenues within the first year of operations. One of his investments (Sword Health) became unicorn in 2022. In 2000, he played a pivotal role as one of the key shareholders in Novabase's IPO on Euronext.

Some of Paulo's notable investments include: United Resins (PT), Thinkable (USA), Climber (PT), Sword Health (USA), Novabase (PT), Maven (USA), Bugbox (EE), Toys R US (PT & ES), New Atlantis (ES), Spintop Ventures (SE), Nascente Capital (PT), Growth Partners Capital (PT), E-Vittles (UK) and RideTandem(UK).

Paulo was appointed President Emeritus EBAN, European Business Angel Network, after serving as President until 2014. Paulo is a founder of Entrepreneurship Agency DNA Cascais, which supported more than 500 startups.

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.

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