Pinto Ventures

Pinto Ventures AG is a Swiss seed-stage venture capital and company-building firm founded in 2019 and headquartered in Walchwil in the canton of Zug. The firm is structured as a single-LP fund and is led by Founder Joao Monteiro, formerly VP of New Business at global logistics giant Kuehne + Nagel. Pinto focuses on angel and pre-seed to seed investments in founders building across fintech, logistics technology, healthtech, and retail, with a deliberate geographic concentration on Europe. Check sizes range from approximately $250,000 to $5 million. Pinto Ventures has made roughly 15 investments over its history, and two portfolio companies have been acquired: Monese, a UK challenger bank, and VONZU, a SaaS delivery-management platform. Other notable portfolio investments include eTEU (maritime and logistics software), Roundabout (marketplace), and XYB (financial software). Co-investors across Pinto's deals include Kinnevik, PayPal, Speedinvest, Global Founders Capital, HSBC, Investec, Cavalry Ventures, and Axa Venture Partners — demonstrating strong alignment with top-tier European and global VCs. Pinto positions itself as a capital-plus-craft investor: bringing time, capital, and access together in equal measure. The firm offers hands-on collaborative support to founders via impactful introductions across key business areas and operates with what it calls 'skin in the game' — its own principals are actively engaged in the commercial development of each portfolio company rather than serving purely in a board-oversight capacity. The team of two partners keeps the portfolio concentrated and ensures close attention to each founder relationship.