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Indico CapitalCheck size: Indico's current technology range is €500K–€10M, mostly Pre-Seed through Series A and selectively Series B/C. This is firm-level guidance, not Rui's personal commitment range; founders should confirm the applicable fund, initial size and reserves.
Rui combines venture investing with transaction and corporate-finance discipline. Within Indico's mandate, that supports globally ambitious Southern European technology companies from early validation through selective growth: the product and founders must be exceptional, but market scale, financing logic, governance and the economics of building an enduring international company must also hold together.
High-caliber founders, a differentiated technology or product, credible commercial evidence, a very large global market, financing discipline, clear value creation between rounds and teams able to execute across borders and institutionalize as they scale.
No public personal exclusion list was found. His role and documented firm strategy imply weak fit for local-only ambition, unclear transaction economics, weak governance, undifferentiated products, financing plans detached from milestones and later-stage rounds without proof of repeatable growth.
Present the product, customer pain and why now; quantify traction quality, retention, economics and market; explain technical defensibility, team ownership and international go-to-market; then give cap table, prior financing, round structure, use of funds, milestones and fit with Indico's published range.
Pair product and founder upside with financing structure, governance, dilution, downside cases and measurable value creation.
Specify which product, revenue, market and organizational risks the round removes before the next financing event.
Validate repeatability across countries through buyer consistency, localization needs, regulation, channel economics and operating ownership.
Assess reporting, governance, financial controls, leadership depth and decision cadence without imposing premature bureaucracy.
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Rui Rodrigues is a Partner at Indico Capital with more than 15 years of institutional investment and corporate-finance experience. Before Indico, he spent over six years at Caixa Capital as an Associate and Investment Analyst and nearly five years at PwC Spain in Madrid, rising to Senior Manager in M&A and advising on corporate and real-estate transactions. He holds an MSc in Finance and a BSc in Management from ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa.