Start-Up

In Portugal just 14% of more than 4,000 startups were founded or are led by women. And in 2024 of the €48Bn of venture capital raised within the European startup ecosystem, only 12% was [...]

More than two-thirds of Portugal’s startup investors are optimistic about seed stage investments in the first half of 2025. According to Investors Portugal Barometer, this optimism is not a [...]

Seven Portuguese startup hubs including Unicorn Factory Lisboa (17th), Startup Braga (31st), Pedro Nunes Institute (42nd) enjoyed among the best rankings for Europe’s Leading Start-up Hubs. [...]

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 [...]

Bright Pixel, the venture capital investment arm of the Sonae Group led by Cláudia Azevedo, spearheaded the latest round of financing for Keychain, the platform that connects retailers with [...]

BIGhub, a Portuguese startup dedicated to integrating stores in European marketplaces, has raised €10 million to create a same-day payments service for shop retailers and advertisers on the [...]

Two young Portuguese entrepreneurs, João Amaro and Tiago Ferreira, have developed Podsqueeze, an innovative artificial intelligence platform that helps content creators, agencies and media groups [...]

Portugal’s Association of Engineers – South Region – and Unicorn Factory Lisbon presented engineershub on Wednesday, a pioneering initiative in Portugal dedicated to boosting the [...]

The Minister of the Economy, Pedro Reis, has announced a programme to finance deep-tech projects with an initial  investment value of €60.6 million and with the capacity to leverage it up to [...]