Start-Up

The President of Microsoft, Brad Smith, said on Wednesday, “Portugal is a great place to begin a startup” and added that it was remarkable how much the country had changed. Speaking at Web [...]

The Portuguese Government and the European Investment Bank have launched the second phase of the Portugal Tech programme with an injection amount of €100 million to help technology startups. The [...]

US technology company PagerDuty is to invest in Lisbon because of its local talent. It has chosen to open its first European office because the Portuguese capital offers specialised talent [...]

Portuguese venture capital firm Faber announced today the launch of the firm’s new fund, Faber Blue Pioneers I, that will invest in early stage startups developing innovative deep tech solutions [...]

The Portuguese venture capital company Indico Capital Partners lead by entrepreneurs Stephan Morais and Cristina Fonseca announced on Wednesday the latest acquisitions to their startup portfolio. [...]

Portugal has achieved a level of investments in startups worth US$1Bn and sooner than expected according to its secretary of State for Digital Transition, André Azevedo. The secretary of State [...]

The European Investment Bank’s Social Innovation Tournament was in Lisbon to hand out awards to startup entrepreneurs who aim to create impact in people’s lives in the environment or civil [...]

The Portuguese startups Albedo and Amnis Pura have won the first and third prizes at Cleantech Camp 2021. The Cleantech Camp acceleration programme is aimed at startups, business projects or [...]

The home delivery service company Glovo has bought up the Portuguese startup Mercadão. The decision to buy the Q. Commerce company (quick electronic commerce) which is characterised by its fast [...]

The Lisbon startup Exclusible has netted €2.2 million to launch its NFT platform for the luxury markets. The platform is a nod to what the Portuguese unicorn Farfetch has done but with a [...]