Start-Up

Text: Chris Graeme, Photos: Marie Bacelar What does it take to be a company founder? A mixture of a good ideas, drive, passion, brilliance, resilience and ambition. And these qualities were on [...]

Portuguese venture capital company Lince Capital is leading a €1.4 million Seed round in British sports tech startup Zen8. Zen8 aims to democratise access to swimming training without having to [...]

Web Summit Qatar, which runs in Doha from February 1-4, is hosting the first Portuguese delegation of startups. The Portuguese delegation comprises 23 companies that operate in multiple sectors. [...]

Essential Business talks to the CEO of Unicorn Factory Lisboa, Gil Azevedo at Web Summit who explains his vision for Lisbon to become a global technology hub. Text: Chris Graeme; Photos: Chris [...]

The Sage Group, a major business software company providing accounting, finance, and operational management solutions for businesses, has chosen to partner with Portuguese startup Augusta Labs to [...]

Fintech House, the largest fintech hub in Portugal, located at Lisbon’s ​SITIO ​– Portugal Fintech Hub, has announced the 11 startups selected for the latest edition of SPRINT – an [...]

Start Ventures, Banco BIG‘s venture capital company, ​participated in the Series A round of US$12.8 million of WeatherPromise, an ​insurtech ​that “guarantees good weather for vacations, [...]

The Portuguese technology innovation consultancy Beta-i is increasingly focusing on artificial intelligence (AI), sustainability, and the blue economy. Essential Business met up with co-founder [...]

The Portuguese startup Pixelmatters has launched a company relocation or set up service to help tech companies set up in Portugal. Called Tech Hubs in Portugal, the service has already helped [...]

Portugal continues to be slow on the uptake of artificial intelligence when it comes to the country’s companies compared to the EU Member-State average, even though it has grown since 2021. [...]