Unicorns

The Portuguese unicorn Sword Health is acquiring the US company Vigilant, which provides a range of investment management and cybersecurity solutions, for “hundreds of millions”. This is [...]

In Lisbon, the month of June brings hotter temperatures, the jubilant festivities of Santos Populares and a community-wide buzz that is impossible to ignore. But this year, there’s another [...]

The President of Investors Portugal believes there will be more opportunities for Portuguese technology startups in areas like defence as European NATO countries beef up defence spending. After [...]

Feedzai, the Portuguese company that has developed an AI-native fraud and financial crime prevention platform, is to acquire the Australian company DemystData which has developed an external data [...]

The Startup World Cup is coming to Portugal’s Unicorn Factory in September offering the chance for Portuguese startups to bag a million dollars of investment if they win their pitch in Silicon [...]

The 7th edition of Unicorn Factory Lisboa’s Scaling Up programme has kicked off with 10 new scale-ups – the largest addition to date. Unicorn Factory has already helped 58 scale-ups [...]

Seven Portuguese startup hubs including Unicorn Factory Lisboa (17th), Startup Braga (31st), Pedro Nunes Institute (42nd) enjoyed among the best rankings for Europe’s Leading Start-up Hubs. [...]

Text & Photo: Chris Graeme Portugal’s technology startup market is too small to be anything more than a pilot according to Pedro Ribeiro Santos of Armilar Venture Partners who spoke at the [...]

Iterable, a multi-channel marketing company using AI technology has opened an office at Unicorn Factory Lisboa with plans to hire over 100 people over the next few years. Based in San Francisco, [...]

From healthcare and content streaming to sustainable proteins made from bio-organisms, the steady flow of technology startups and scale-ups moving to Lisbon from Europe and the US seems [...]