Portugal startup ecosystem
Portugal — especially Lisbon — has quickly become one of Europe's most popular startup destinations. Affordable living, a welcoming visa regime for tech workers, and marquee events like Web Summit have attracted international founders. Strengths include SaaS, travel tech, and sustainability, with growing VC activity and government-backed startup incentives. The directory currently lists 91 organisations across 9 cities.
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DOJO AI
Dojo AI is a Lisbon-based agentic marketing platform, founded in 2024 by Duarte Garrido (a marketing leader from Coca-Cola and Sky) and António Alegria (an AI architect from Portuguese unicorns Feedzai and OutSystems). Marketed as an Intelligent Marketing System, it uses multi-agent AI to autonomously monitor, analyse and act across marketing channels, built on a proprietary DOJO Graph that maintains a living digital twin of each customer's marketing operation. Its AI agents track paid and organic campaigns, audit SEO visibility, generate on-brand content and execute workflows in real time, positioning the product as a marketing operating system that consolidates many traditional tools. Serving challenger and enterprise brands primarily in the US and UK, Dojo AI has raised around $7M — a $1M pre-seed (2025) led by Berlin's Heartfelt VC and a $6M / €5.1M seed (2026) led by Lisbon's Armilar Venture Partners at a reported $30M valuation — with capital focused on US expansion.
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EDP Ventures
EDP Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of EDP — Energias de Portugal, one of Europe's largest energy utilities. Established in 2008 and headquartered in Lisbon, with investment teams in Madrid and São Paulo, it manages €150M and makes five to eight investments a year, writing €1–10M cheques from Seed through Series B with follow-on capacity. Its mandate is tightly aligned with EDP's decarbonisation strategy, targeting renewable energy, grid infrastructure, distributed energy resources, green hydrogen, storage and flexibility, electric mobility and energy-use decarbonisation, plus AI and digital. The fund has backed 40+ active companies across Europe and the Americas, including Portuguese AI unicorn Feedzai, battery-recycling firm Green Li-ion and grid-data platform Energyworx (acquired by Gridspertise in 2025); four portfolio companies featured in the 2024 Global Cleantech 100. By end-2023 EDP Ventures had deployed a cumulative €70M and generated over €115M in contract value for EDP group companies.
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Ekiden
Lisbon-based blockchain derivatives trading platform providing on-chain perpetual futures and options markets with institutional-grade execution infrastructure for algorithmic traders. Raised €1.7M seed at a €17M valuation in May 2026.
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Estoril Conferences 2026
10th edition at Nova SBE Carcavelos, theme 'Reignite Democracy'. Free convening of Nobel laureates, heads of state, activists and young leaders across five pillars including AI & Tech, Health & Preparedness and Global Peace. Limited seats.
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ETHGlobal
ETHGlobal is the leading organiser of Ethereum and Web3 hackathons and summits worldwide, running flagship in-person events and online hackathons that bring together developers, founders and protocol teams to ship onchain applications. Its Lisbon editions anchor Portugal's recurring Onchain Lisbon ecosystem week.
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ETHGlobal Lisbon 2026
ETHGlobal's flagship Ethereum hackathon returns to Lisbon. 36 hours of building with hundreds of Web3 developers, sponsor bounties, workshops & mentorship from leading protocols, closing with judged demos and prizes for the best on-chain projects.
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Ethiack
Autonomous ethical-hacking platform combining AI agents and human hackers to run continuous penetration testing across external assets, internal networks, mobile apps and cloud environments.
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Faber Ventures
Faber is a Lisbon-based venture capital firm investing in early-stage deep-tech startups across Southern Europe and selectively across the wider continent. It concentrates on two theses, applied science and digital transformation, and climate and ocean tech, backing technical teams and supporting them through a dedicated network of expert advisors.
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Faber Ventures
Faber is a Lisbon-based venture capital firm founded in 2012, investing in early-stage deep tech and climate technology companies at the intersection of science and technology in Southern Europe. The firm has backed notable startups including Unbabel, SWORD Health, Codacy, and Smartex, typically writing cheques of €100,000 to €2.5 million. Its latest fund, Faber Tech III, has a target size of €60 million and is anchored by the European Investment Fund and the NATO Innovation Fund.
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Feedzai
AI-native fraud and financial-crime prevention platform for banks and payment networks, securing trillions in payments annually. Founded 2011; unicorn since 2021; selected by the ECB for Digital Euro fraud prevention.
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Fintech Meetup Europe 2026
European debut of the meetings-first fintech event: 2,500+ senior attendees, 650+ hosted buyers from banks & PSPs, and 25,000+ pre-scheduled double opt-in meetings across payments, banking, lending and embedded finance. 70% C-suite.
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FIZ
FIZ is a Lisbon-based fintech building a mobile-first "neo accountant" for Portugal's self-employed professionals and small businesses. The platform pairs AT-certified invoicing with automated VAT and Social Security filings and an AI fiscal assistant, and backs declarations with an "Escudo Fiscal" guarantee that covers up to EUR 1,500 of penalties per declaration. It runs on a freemium model, offering a free invoicing tier alongside paid plans at EUR 9.99 and EUR 14.99 per month, and reports more than 15,000 users invoicing over EUR 8M through the platform each month. For the directory, FIZ illustrates how vertically integrated tax-automation tools are reaching independent workers in markets where compliance has traditionally required a human accountant.
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Founder Island Fest 2026
A week-long founder retreat in Madeira combining business education, partnership-building, and wellness, aimed at established founders running profitable businesses rather than first-timers. Its value is high-trust networking and strategic-partnership formation in a small-group island setting, plus a tie-in to Madeira's digital-nomad ecosystem.
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Frederico Gonçalves
Managing Director at EDP Ventures, where he leads energy-transition and cleantech investments for the corporate VC arm of EDP across Europe and the Americas, working closely with portfolio companies to deploy their technology within EDP's operations.
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French Tech Night (Web Summit week)
Networking night hosted during Web Summit week by the French Embassy and the French Tech community in Lisbon. Brings together French founders, international investors, and ecosystem partners for informal drinks and introductions. Valuable for French startups attending Web Summit and seeking warm connections with the Franco-Portuguese tech network.
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Greenfest
Greenfest is the organiser of Portugal's largest sustainability festival, running for over eighteen years around pillars such as circular economy, green entrepreneurship, energy and biodiversity. It convenes companies, public bodies, NGOs and the public through talks, exhibitions and activities promoting sustainable development.
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Greenfest 2026 (Braga)
Greenfest is Portugal's largest sustainability festival, with the 2026 edition moving to Braga. Structured around eight pillars including circular economy and green entrepreneurship, it mixes talks, exhibitions and activities for sustainability professionals, green founders and the wider public.
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Grow by Jose de Mello
Launched 2017. Corporate venture program connecting startups with the Jose de Mello Group in healthcare, energy, and infrastructure. Support: pilot agreements, corporate guidance, and potential customer contracts. Scope: National.
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Indico Capital Partners
Indico Capital Partners is Portugal's first and leading independent early-stage venture firm, founded in Lisbon in 2017 by Stephan Morais and Ricardo Torgal (both ex-Caixa Capital) and Cristina Fonseca (co-founder of Talkdesk). Since its first fund close in 2019 it has built a >€244M multi-fund platform spanning six vehicles, including VC Fund I (€54M), an Acceleration Fund, an Opportunity Fund, the €50M Indico Blue ocean-economy fund, VC Fund II, and the newly launched VC Fund III (€125M target with a €30M EIF anchor, 2025). The firm invests from pre-seed to Series B with €100K–€10M cheques, focused on Portugal, Spain and Italy and the Southern European diaspora, across enterprise SaaS, AI, deep tech, fintech, cybersecurity, spacetech and the blue economy. Backed by the European Investment Fund, Banco Português de Fomento and Draper Esprit (now Molten), Indico bridges Southern Europe's talent to global capital. Its portfolio includes unicorns Anchorage Digital, Sword Health, TIER Mobility and Remote, with exits including Unbabel (TransPerfect, 2025) and Cargofive (cargo.one, 2026).
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Infraspeak
Intelligent, collaborative facilities and maintenance management (CMMS) SaaS platform managing 50,000+ buildings across 17+ countries; clients include Primark, Siemens and Marriott. Founded 2015.
