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A startups incubator based at Portugal’s largest science, technology and business park, Taguspark, has issued a call or more new fledgling businesses in the areas of technology, the life sciences [...]

The Portuguese Venture Capital Association (APCRI) says that it is open to a collaborative partnership with the Ministry of the Economy to capitalise companies as part of Portugal’s Recovery and [...]

Transactions of Non-Performing Loans (NPLs) in Portugal tripled in 2021 with an estimated selloff of around €3.5Bn. However, according to Prime Yield total transactions are still below 2019 [...]

The Portuguese health care startup Knokcare has just closed a €4.4 million investment round, co-led by the fund Nos 5G and Triple Point. The financing will allow the startup to press ahead with [...]

NOS Startup World Building the Future, the main Portuguese event for digital transformation, will run between 26-28 January, 2022 in partnership with NOS which will also open applications for NOS [...]

Ex-banker João Rendeiro says he will not return to Portugal of his free will unless he gets a pardon from the Portuguese president, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. On the run from justice to serve [...]

Portugal’s Prime Minister António Costa said that the country will never see convergence with the wealthier countries in Europe until it abandons its reliance on a low wage economy. Speaking at [...]

Portugal’s most famous international banker, António Horta Osório, has warned that rising interest rates could threaten the economy. Horta Osório, who took over as non-executive president of [...]

SWORD Health, a health-tech with Portuguese DNA has become Portugal’s latest and sixth unicorn after bagging an investment round worth US$163 million (€142 million). SWORD Health, which provides [...]

When I heard the entrepreneur Marianela Mirpuri recently outline an impressive and at times intangible project for a new city in the sands of Morocco, which promised to be a Mecca for gender [...]