Venture Capital

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 Portuguese Association of Venture Capital (APCRI) has slammed the ‘blind termination” of the country’s Golden Visa programme. It says that Portugal is a country that needs to attract a lot of [...]

Bright Pixel Capital, the venture capital investment arm of Portuguese group Sonae, has led a €20 million investment round in Picnic – the first automised platform for the prevention of [...]

Last year was the third best year ever for investment for Portugal Ventures. Between investments in new startups and capital injections into the companies in its pre-existing portfolios, the [...]

Portugal’s venture capital company Indico Capital Partners has invested €4 million in five startups – Famedrop, Data4Deals, Ittinsect, Inclita Seaweed Solutions and Biomimetx. Two are [...]

Court orders suspension of bank programme A programme involving the management of €500 million in funds destined for SMEs – ‘Programa Consolidar’ (Consolidate Programme) – [...]

The amount of funding from venture capital companies and business angels in Lisbon startups is likely to be just over €333 million. The amount is way above the €96.8 million raised in 2021 [...]

The Portuguese startup Pleez which provides technology solutions for delivery platforms such as Glovo and Uber Eats, has attracted a €2 million investment led by Lince Capital. The capital that [...]

Portugal Ventures, a State-owned venture capital investment company that helps promising startups in areas such as tourism, turned at €12 million profit for 2021 after making losses. The company, [...]

Portugal’s development bank Banco de Fomento has selected 14 venture capital companies to manage €500 million to invest in SMEs and MidCaps as part of the Government ’s Consolidate Programme. The [...]