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Unicorn Factory Lisboa, which had 60% of Portuguese startups that raised money last year, occupied pole position in terms of the total investment raised by Portuguese startups last year. The [...]

The European platform Dealflow is raising €60 million to launch a fund to help European startups from Lisbon. “The focus will be on seed stage startups to Series A. We recently hired a senior [...]

The rock and pop festival Rock in Rio (RiR) will have generated an impact of the equivalent of €120 million for Portugal’s economy and represents €11.8 million in tax revenues (VAT and IRS). This [...]

Portugal’s commercial retail real estate sector attracted €1.2Bn of investment in 2024. It represented half of all the investment ploughed into commercial real estate last year. This was more [...]

Porto has once again done well in Financial Times rankings, this time as the Best European City for Foreign Direct Investment Attraction. It is the fourth year in which the city has been placed [...]

Text: Chris Graeme; Image: Fernando Bento (ICPT) Portugal’s Minister for Parliamentary Affairs warned that extremists are beginning to gain ground in the country’s political life on Tuesday. [...]

Portugal’s Secretary of State for Housing, Patrícia Gonçalves Costa announced several new measures designed to tackle the country’s chronic housing shortage for the middle classes. Giving an [...]

The President of Porto Football Club, Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, one of the most significant figures in Portuguese football died on Saturday at the age of 87 after a long battle against cancer. [...]

The Euro Zone’s economy grew 0.9% in 4Q of 2024 like-for-like according to the EU’s statistical office Eurostat on Friday. Portugal recorded the fourth highest year-on-year rate, in a ranking led [...]

Portugal is expanding the number of data centres according to a report from consultants Cushman & Wakefield in a new study on the sector. At the end of 2024, there was a total of 21GW of data [...]