Best Cybersecurity Companies in Portugal
The 37 best Cybersecurity companies in Portugal in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Jscrambler.
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Our analysis of 174 Cybersecurity companies
$16.2b in tracked funding; 96% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Cybersecurity companies in Portugal
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jscrambler Cloud based JavaScript protection and web page monitoring solution provider | $18M | 19 mo ago | Series A | Pedro Fortuna Co-Founder and CTO | 2014 | SentryWistiaMicrosoft Advertising+20 | — |
| 2 | Probely Automated web application vulnerability scanning solution | $9M | 46 mo ago | Acquired | Bruno Barao Co-Founder & Engineer | 2016 | SanityNode.jsPanda CSS+23 | — |
| 3 | Ethiack Provider of continuous security via AI-powered pentesting and expert insight | $4M | 21 mo ago | Seed | André Baptista Co-Founder & CTO | 2022 | HubSpot CMS HubAmazon Web ServicesPlausible+25 | 2 launchs |
| 4 | Vawlt Cloud based data security and encryption solution provider | $4M | 30 mo ago | Seed | Bruno Amaro Co-Founder | 2018 | — | — |
| 5 | WalliD Blockchain based identity verification solution | $683K | 94 mo ago | Late Stage | Filipe Veiga Founder & CEO | 2018 | — | — |
| 6 | Biometrid Provider of AI and cloud-based multimodal authentication, and matching platform | $463K | 44 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2016 | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | — |
| 7 | Follow Inspiration Smart shopping carts for retailers | $123K | 100 mo ago | Funding Raised | Luis de Matos Chairman & CEO | 2012 | WordPressPleskMySQL+22 | 1 expansion |
| 8 | Youverse Decentralized biometric authentication for web3 | $110K | 56 mo ago | Funding Raised | Pedro Torres Co-Founder & CEO | 2019 | SentryApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+20 | — |
Top 12 Cybersecurity companies in Portugal
#1
Series A · Porto, Porto District · founded 2014 · 97 employees$18.1Mraised▾
Jscrambler provides JavaScript protection and web page monitoring solutions. The solution delivers JavaScript application integrity and the client-side technology, which includes polymorphic obfuscation, code locks, and self-defensive capabilities, transforms the source code into a form that is extremely hard to reverse-engineer and prevents any debugging and tampering attempts. It also provides a web page integrity module that provides real-time visibility of client-side attacks, including Magecart web skimmers, web supply chain attacks, and data exfiltration.
- Feb 2025Series A$5.2M
- Sep 2021Series A$15M
- Mar 2018Series A$2.3M
- Jan 2014Seed$800K
#2
Seed · Coimbra, Coimbra District · founded 2022 · 4 employees$4.2Mraised▾
Provider of continuous security via AI-powered pentesting and expert insight. It offers continuous attack surface management, vulnerability testing, and risk validation. The offering includes external, internal, and third-party asset coverage. It delivers validated, exploitable findings and compliance-ready reporting. The platform provides mitigation steps and guidance on vulnerability fixes.
- Dec 2024Seed$4.2M
- Oct 2022Seed—
#3
Seed · Lisbon, Lisbon · founded 2018 · 9 employees$3.6Mraised▾
Cloud based data security and encryption solution provider. Protection of the data is provided using encryption technology. The solution is available for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. It offer solutions on pricing model based on monthly usage.
- Mar 2024Seed$2.4M
- Jan 2021Seed$667.8K
- May 2019Seed$559.7K
#4
Acquired · Lisbon, Lisbon · founded 2016 · 30 employees$9.5Mraised▾
Automated web application vulnerability scanning solution. Features include machine learning, heuristic based false-positive elimination, fingerprinting based web application recognition and API based integration with continuous integration tools. Delivers web-based console to request and schedule web application scanning and to manage the lifecycle of the vulnerabilities.
- Nov 2022Series A$8.9M
- Dec 2018Seed$622.4K
- Sep 2018Grant (prize money)$58K
- Apr 2018Grant (prize money)$61.6K
#5
Funding Raised · Setubal Municipality, Setubal District · founded 2016 · 27 employees$463Kraised▾
Provider of AI and cloud-based multimodal authentication, and matching platform. Its features include integration with the workflow of existing applications, voice, fingerprint, and facial features support for the verification of user identities, API integration, extensible to new modalities, and multiple biometric engines for specific use cases.
- Jan 2023Grant (prize money)$463K
#6
Deadpooled · Lisboa, Lisboa · founded 2022 · 4 employees$50.4Kraised▾
Provider of an online plug-and-play platform for risk management and compliance. It helps users deploy AI to reduce the number of false positives and let the algorithm investigate. Users can monitor their client's activity by leveraging a comprehensive set of triggers and actions.
- Apr 2023Seed$50.4K
#7
Late Stage · Lisbon, Lisbon · founded 2018 · 7 employees$683.2Kraised▾
WalliD provides a blockchain-based identity verification solution. The company offers blockchain protocol which enables the users to store their ID documents with digital certificates on the blockchain and share them with trusted services for online identity verification processes like know-your-customer.
- Oct 2018PE$683.2K
#8
Funding Raised · Oeiras, Lisbon · founded 2019 · 15 employees$110.5Kraised▾
Decentralized biometric authentication for web3. Its product portfolio includes YouAuth which adds zero-knowledge user authentication to the infrastructure with a distributed, privacy-first system to enable private user authentication, YouID which helps to build identity verification flow into the apps or websites, and YoufFace to integrate face processing, verification, or identification into the applications.
- Jan 2022Grant (prize money)$55.3K
- Jan 2020Grant (prize money)$55.1K
#9
Funding Raised · Matosinhos, Porto District · founded 2012 · 14 employees$123.2Kraised▾
Follow Inspiration provides smart shopping carts and display solutions for retailers. Its "wiiGO" is a self-driven smart shopping cart that can also provide location-based advertisements to the shopper, monitor out-of-stock inventory in the shop, provide in-store navigation to shoppers and perform billing and check-out functions using its object recognition system. Follow Inspiration also provides self-driven digital signages that can follow the customers and provide customised promotion and offers. It also provides smart carts for logistical operations that can be operated remotely to transport goods to a predetermined destination.
- Apr 2018Grant (prize money)$60.6K
- Feb 2018Grant (prize money)$62.5K
#10
Seed · Porto, Porto District · founded 2010$21.3Kraised▾
Developer of a distributed deception platform designed to reduce exposure to cyber threats. The company's distributed deception platform identifies internal attackers and inhibits their methods using artificial intelligence technology.
#11
Seed · Lisbon, Lisbon · founded 2017 · 6 employees—raised▾
Provider of a mobile application for the secure storage of digital documents
#12
Funding Raised · Porto Salvo, Lisbon · founded 2002—raised▾
Digital certificate, IAM and e-voting solution suite
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Cybersecurity coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Cybersecurity is moving in Portugal
A read on the academic research around Cybersecurity — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 122 Portugal-affiliated papers.
- Instituto de Telecomunicações31
- University of Lisbon15
- University of Aveiro13
- University of Coimbra11
- Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa9
- Intrusion detection system2→15
- Network security2→4
- Denial-of-service attack2→6
- Network security2→5
Where cybersecurity is researched across Portugal
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
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