Venture Capital

The digital insurer Eleos has raised €3.75 million in a round of seed financing six months after competing a pre-seed round. This latest round led by the UK’s Fuel Ventures and Indico Capital [...]

The Portuguese venture capital company Lince Capital has slapped a lawsuit on Portugal’s State-owned development bank Banco de Fomento demanding over €1 million in damages. Online news source ECO [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

The first shopping centre under the Dolce Vita brand to open in Portugal, Dolce Vita Miraflores, has been rebranded and re-conceptualised and sold to an overseas buyer. In 2015, nine years after [...]

The Portuguese venture capital company Lince Capital has led a seed investment round in the national startup Zeoos that has developed an e-commerce platform to help brands, producers, and [...]

Text: Chris Graeme The way that Portugal communicated the end of its famous Golden Visa and Non-Habitual Resident programmes in 2023 has widely been condemned as a disaster – a disaster for [...]

Lince Capital, a Portuguese financial company that manages investment funds and venture capital, has set up a private equity department within the VC that will be managed by Lourenço Mayer. Mayer [...]