We start at any stage
up to full cycle
Bessa Machado follows a project or a company through its full life cycle, from early stage to expansion. Not as investors alone, but as investors who develop. Bessa Machado can enter at any stage.
Feasibility
A macro analysis covering rights and permissions, market, financials and risk, with KYC and due diligence, ending with a proposal and an agreement setting out next steps and each party’s role and contribution.
Business plan
The full financial modelling, fiscal, legal, structural and market work, with valuations and specialist analysis, developed in partnership with all parties, closing with the terms and conditions on equity and debt, shareholding, roles and remuneration.
Funding
The negotiation with investors, run through partners authorised to raise it, venture capital, risk capital and institutional investors. Closing of the funding agreements and preparations for the implementation.
Development
Everything agreed is implemented, run and managed by Bessa Machado with the parties rather than appointed out.
Management
From the start of activity to day to day operation, across the full life cycle.
Growth
Support and project the next phase, the next market, the next position, and plan the next move to grow and expand, creating more value for the business and shareholders.
Our Areas
of Expertise
Areas in which Bessa Machado, its shareholders and team have operated, as principals, under mandate, or as partners, and where they work with strategic partners.
Urban and real estate development
Technology and innovation
Investment and finance
Motorsports and eSports
Sports and entertainment infrastructure and operation
About us
BESSA MACHADO LDA. was founded in 1982 by José Carlos de Bessa Machado and his mother, Margarida Freire de Bessa, in the town of Lousada. The company started in project development and real estate, focusing on residential and commercial buildings. It evolved into a project management and consulting company in innovation, sustainability and business development, providing clarity and definition under the social, environmental and corporate governance principles of responsible investment, across urban and real estate development, technology and innovation, investment and finance, motorsports and eSports, and sports and entertainment infrastructure and operation.