Start-Up

In the pandemic year the Government’s venture capital investment company Portugal Ventures, which is now part of the new Portuguese investment bank Banco Português de Fomento, invested €17.7 [...]

The central theme for this year’s Web Summit, to be held totally online, reflects the growing enthusiasm for sustainability and Impact Investment. Impact investments are investments made with the [...]

Bizay, a customised products marketplace for SMBs, announced today it has successfully raised a €32 million Series C financing round, which will serve to accelerate growth and consolidate its [...]

The technology sector is perhaps one of the few areas of Portugal’s economy which has survived the economic consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic intact. The challenge now for Portugal’s growing [...]

GoWithFlow, the Portuguese startup that created the first Sustainable Mobility Management solution has won the awards for the best ‘Clean Technologies Startup and Industry 4.0’ in 2020 from [...]

Choosing the right place to locate a startup satellite office in Europe is key to happy workforce says Cloudflare CTO John Graham-Cumming. By Chris Graeme Good weather, a stable political [...]

Portuguese venture capital firm Faber has announced the first closing of Faber Tech II at €20.5 million, the firm’s new fund that will focus on early stage data-driven startups starting from [...]

The Portugal Fintech Report 2020 indicates that despite the pandemic Fintechs in Portugal are continuing to attract a growing number of investors and are consolidating sales. Fintechs, technology [...]

Portugal’s new State-owned investment bank aimed at helping startups and SMEs which essentially are profitable but lack capital investment to grow, must run at a profit. The European Commission [...]

Portugal’s new investment bank Banco de Fomento will only be able to lend to companies that can prove that they cannot access funds in any other way. It forms one of a number of regulations or [...]