Stephan Morais

President, Founder & Managing General Partner, APCRI, Indico Capital Partners

Stephan de Moraes (aka Stephan Morais) is the founder and Managing General Partner of Indico Capital Partners (www.indicocapital.com), a leading venture capital tech and sustainability focused firm based in Portugal. He has invested in 5 unicorns over the last decade and is current President of APCRI – the Portuguese Private Equity and Venture Capital Association.

With a diversified background as an investment banker, consultant, entrepreneur and CEO, he has lived in 8 countries and 4 continents over the last 27 years. Stephan was formerly an Executive Board Member at Caixa Capital, a Private Equity and Venture Capital fund management company. He is also a former Advisor to the European Commissioner of Science and Innovation, Past Chairman of the European Venture Finance Network and Past Council Member of Invest Europe and Board Member of the International Venture Club. He has been and is a Non-Executive Director and Board Observer in numerous companies.

He is an Entrepreneurship and VC Expert with the oNetwork at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, President of the Portuguese Private Equity Association (APCRI) and Advisory Board Member at AMROP, Executive Search. He is Past co-Chair of YPO Portugal (Young Presidents Organization), Advisory Council Member of Portuguese American Leadership Council (PALCUS) and Past President of the Harvard Club of Portugal.

Appointed as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2010, he holds a degree in Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon), and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Stephan is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, English and French.