Best Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech Companies in Portugal
The 32 best Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech companies in Portugal in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Tekever.
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Our analysis of 50 Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech companies
$31.9b in tracked funding; 90% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2021.
Ranked: Best Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech companies in Portugal
| # | Company | Last round | Disclosed funding | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BetterSea Provider of a FuelEU Maritime compliance and pooling marketplace | — | — | — | Gordana Ilic Co-Founder & Co-CEO | Wix eCommerceWixSentry+19 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 2 | Beyond Vision Multi-utility drone manufacturer | — | — | — | Dario Pedro CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | Connect Robotics Drone delivery system | — | — | 5 | Eduardo Mendes Founder and Head of Research and Development | RubyYouTubeRuby on Rails+10 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 4 | EID Provider of communication systems for the military, navy and airforce | — | — | 81 | — | DebianGSAPApache HTTP Server+10 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 5 | Flyjetway Online charter booking and reservation platform | — | — | 6 | Igor Grigoriev Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | Frezite High Performance Designer and manufacturer of spacecraft and mechanical hardware intended for space exploration. | — | — | 25 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | goclever Goclever is a system for digitizing the physical world for financial advantage. | — | — | 6 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | Mariquant Provider of data analytics tools for maritime industry | — | — | — | Alexei Novikov Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech companies in Portugal
#1
Tekever 🦄Series B · Lisbon, Lisbon · founded 2001 · 276 employees$22.7Mraised▾
Manufacturer UAVs and software products for military and enterprise applications. Its drones include fixed-wing and one quadcopter models. These UAS are specifically designed for anti-terrorist surveillance, battleground ISTAR, and environmental surveillance. It also offers an AI-enabled aerial data analytic platform. It caters to military, marine, and GIS industries.
#2
Seed · Coimbra, Coimbra District · founded 2021 · 17 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Developer of an infrastructure monitoring system based on satellite imagery designed for structural health assessment. The company's platform performs a continuous large-scale monitoring activity that allows for early detection of potentially harmful events, enabling clients to minimize the occurrence of critical situations and associated damages in multiple industries.
- Dec 2025Seed$4.1M
- Jul 2022Seed$1.5M
#3
Series A · Funchal, Madeira · founded 2020$5.5Mraised▾
Provides data-driven tools and solutions to assist shipping in tracking ESG performance and navigating regulatory complexity. It is a company that provides data-driven tools and solutions to track ESG performance and assist shipping companies to manage shipping administrations, trade, vessel sustainability, and more.
- Sep 2024Series A$5.5M
- Aug 2023Seed—
#4
Acquired · Coimbra, Coimbra District · founded 2023$2.2Mraised▾
Develper of components for aerospace and aviation solutions. It provides users with a platform that operates wireless links and direct fiber connections, bringing together the physical and digital worlds. It also provides users with observational data and AI-powered models to gain insights.
- Feb 2024Seed$2.2M
#5
Seed · Lisbon, Lisbon · founded 2013 · 7 employees$1.9Mraised▾
Developer of green antifouling solutions for marine parts. It provides users with a platform focused on the development of antifouling solutions derived from nature. They provides environmentally friendly and biodegradable solution for reduction of fuel consumption, replacing classical antifouling agents, and enables low biocide loading.
- Jan 2023Seed—
- Jun 2019Grant (prize money)$1.6M
- Jul 2017Grant (prize money)$1.6M
- Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$1.5M
#6
Seed · Coimbra, Coimbra District · founded 2020 · 28 employees$2.8Mraised▾
Provider of AI/ML solutions for space traffic management and safety. The company offers tools for risk assessment and maneuver suggestions to avoid collisions. It supports satellite operators in handling alerts and minimizing unnecessary maneuvers. The company also provides services for precise satellite tracking and safe deployment. Furthermore, it assists organizations in managing space traffic and detecting threats.
- Mar 2022Seed$2.8M
#7
Deadpooled · Porto Salvo, Lisbon · founded 2015 · 24 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Provider of an AI-powered solution to analyze wind turbine data. It allows users to collect data from wind turbine blades and enables users to extract insights, identify trends, as well as it offers optimized asset management, and risk assessment & maintenance planning solutions. It uses autonomous drones to collect data and it is integrated with a cloud-based analytics platform that allows users to visualize & manage the data.
- Sep 2019Grant (prize money)$1.5M
#8
Funding Raised · Lisbon, Lisbon · founded 2017 · 9 employees$170.4Kraised▾
Tesselo provides an AI-based satellite mapping solution. Offers real-time mapping solutions & spatial insights and the platform has the capability to absorb, clean, process & augment satellite imagery for creating analysis-ready imagery.
- Mar 2020Grant (prize money)$55.3K
- Nov 2019Grant (prize money)$56K
- Grant (prize money)$59.2K
#9
Acquired · Carnaxide, Lisbon · founded 2001 · 500 employees—raised▾
Provider of automated border control and digital identity solution. It provides intelligent security management & automated border control systems. Its border control system (BCS) is focused at airports, airlines, and immigration authorities for business scenarios including security check-points, self-boarding, and automated border control smart biometric eGates. The system captures & processes images via its biometric identity and digital video management solutions for their critical applications.
#10
Funding Raised · Matosinhos, Porto District · founded 2008 · 10 employees—raised▾
Developer of underwater systems designed for accessing the ocean. The company's platform has an innovative approach to developing tools, vehicles, systems, and technologies for cost-effective access to the ocean, enabling researchers to have environmental monitoring and underwater inspection applications.
#11
Funding Raised · Palmela, Setubal District · founded 2002—raised▾
Unmanned robotics platforms and robotics service provider
#12
Seed · Porto, Porto District · founded 2017 · 3 employees—raised▾
Operator of a peer-to-peer boat rental marketplace intended to offer boats on rent or charter for free. The company's marketplace features a variety of sailing yachts, motorboats, and catamarans on a daily rental basis, enabling users to avail of boats on lease.
Funding & investor landscape
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Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
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How research on Launch Vehicles is moving in Portugal
A read on the academic research around Launch Vehicles — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 6 Portugal-affiliated papers.
- University of Aveiro1
- Instituto Português Da Qualidade1
- Hospital de Faro EPE1
- Deimos Engenharia1
- Ministry of Education1
- Aerospace engineering2
- Propellant1
- Liquid-propellant rocket1
- Heat transfer1
- Rocket engine1
- Slosh dynamics1
- Control theory (sociology)1
- Controller (irrigation)1
- Robust control1
- Vehicle dynamics1
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