Start-Up

More than 30 ‘high-growth’ companies have applied to Lisbon Unicorn Factory’s ‘Scaling Up’ programme, with up to eight candidates expected to be selected to join its first edition, it was [...]

Portugal’s venture capital company Indico Capital Partners has invested €4 million in five startups – Famedrop, Data4Deals, Ittinsect, Inclita Seaweed Solutions and Biomimetx. Two are [...]

Court orders suspension of bank programme A programme involving the management of €500 million in funds destined for SMEs – ‘Programa Consolidar’ (Consolidate Programme) – [...]

Orthopaedic footwear company ‘Neskid 4Allfeet’ and its founder Joost Pijnenburg was chosen as the entrepreneur to be highlighted at this year’s Day of the Entrepreneur. Held on November 18, [...]

The amount of funding from venture capital companies and business angels in Lisbon startups is likely to be just over €333 million. The amount is way above the €96.8 million raised in 2021 [...]

IPLEXMED, a Braga startup which is a spinoff from the University of Minho, has won the Born from Knowledge Awards (BfK) which are attributed each year by the Portuguese National Innovation Agency [...]

With inflation pushing up the average supermarket shop to 15% since the pandemic, one innovative and sustainable startup – Raiz – has a sustainable answer: vertical farming. Text: Chris Graeme [...]

A Portuguese startup, CRIAM, has developed a solution that allows blood tests to be done in just three minutes. The device which won the Born from Knowledge Award, attributed by the National [...]

The Portuguese startup Pleez which provides technology solutions for delivery platforms such as Glovo and Uber Eats, has attracted a €2 million investment led by Lince Capital. The capital that [...]

The Portuguese company The Newsroom, which was set up to combat the spread of false news and hate speech online, has been voted the best startup founded by a woman in Portugal. The company won in [...]