Unicorns

Farfetch, the former unicorn with Portuguese DNA, has seen 50% knocked off the value of its shares over the past two days because of investor fears over a shrinking margin and accumulated debts [...]

Lisbon’s Unicorn Factory, based in the Beato neighbourhood in the capital, is working on expanding into new innovation districts in Lisbon based on vertical thematics. Reports ECO online news, [...]

For the past eight years Lisbon has become a magnet for talented startup entrepreneurs, technology professionals, digital nomads and relocaters from all over the world. Thanks partly to generous [...]

Venture Capital has become increasingly more important in Portugal to secure finance and investment for startups and small companies in technology areas for growth. Stephan Morais of Indico [...]

The healthcare unicorn Sword Health is to hire 300 professionals throughout this year. The company started by Vírgilio Bento (pictured), which is considered a Harvard Business School case study, [...]

Preparations for first edition of ‘Scaling Up’, the programme from Unicorn Factory Lisboa targeting scaleup startups, are being finalised for its launch at the end of January says the CEO of the [...]

More than 30 ‘high-growth’ companies have applied to Lisbon Unicorn Factory’s ‘Scaling Up’ programme, with up to eight candidates expected to be selected to join its first edition, it was [...]

Younited, the instant loan fintech which has operations in Portugal has just raised €60 million to achieve unicorn status. “This investment round will enable the company to continue to develop [...]

Tourism, together with associated real estate, is undoubtedly one of the main drivers of Portugal’s economy, currently representing 15% of its GDP. But the success that Portugal has enjoyed over [...]

In October the American cloud-based big data technology hub Reltio was the latest international company to choose Lisbon as its springboard for European expansion. Chris Graeme speaks to Anshuman [...]