Start-Up

Portugal is now the 6th most important startup hub in Europe according to the FT, but there were signs last year that it is becoming increasingly more difficult to get venture capital funding [...]

While Portugal’s fintech ecosystem might seem small compared to other European countries, it does boast distinctive advantages including a robust tech talent pool across a wide range of technical [...]

Startup Portugal has announced the launch of its latest programme ‘Start Now, Cry Later’, a programme that aims to involve Portuguese universities in the startup community and help students with [...]

In the first quarter of 2024, publicly owned venture capital company Portugal Ventures invested €5.3 million in tourism start-ups as part of its campaign Call Turismo+Growth, an initiative from [...]

The Portuguese digital health startup Tonic App has raised €10.85 million in a new Series A investment round. The amount raised will permit the company to reinforce its investment in AI and allow [...]

The Portuguese healthtech startup UpHill has successfully raised €7 million that it will use for its overseas expansion plans to open offices in Spain and the UK. The Series A investment round [...]

Portuguese venture capital company Lince Capital, led by Vasco Pereira Coutinho, which has investments in scaleups such as Sensei, Kencko, Bizay, Leadzai and Bhout, has led an investment round in [...]

A Coimbra-based startup that has developed a platform that used AI to help creators in the editing and post-production of video casts and podcasts is setting its sights firmly on both the US [...]

Portugal is the 6th best country for Europe’s Leading Start-Up Hubs 2024 according to a ranking from the Financial Times which looks at the main startup hubs in Europe. In partnership with [...]

Eight new technology companies have been integrated the ‘Scaling Up’ programme at Lisbon Unicorn Factory. They are Aptiv.io, Dig-In, Get More Brain, Lovys, MeetGeek, Musiversal, MyCareforce and [...]