Best Energy Tech Companies in Portugal
The 86 best Energy Tech companies in Portugal in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Powerdot.
Portugal's Energy Tech sector gets a proper ranking here: 86 companies tracked, sorted by disclosed equity funding and recent momentum, with $402M in total capital on the board. Powerdot leads by a wide margin at $266M raised, followed by Cleanwatts at $26M and Fusion Fuel at $25M. No unicorns yet, but the funding concentration is real. And with a projected sector CAGR of ~7.1% driven by rising global energy demand and the push to digitize production workflows, the pipeline isn't slowing down. Median app install growth of +28% YoY across energy platforms tells you mobile adoption is running ahead of the headline coverage numbers.
Hot themes right now are solar PV, green data centers, and oil price volatility, which tracks with what clean energy technical assistance reports are flagging as the pressure points for new market entrants. I'd watch the mid-tier closely: Eneida at $11M and GoParity at $4M are both in territory where the next funding round tips them into a different conversation entirely. Portugal Ventures and EIT InnoEnergy are the names backing most of the early-stage bets here. So if you're mapping the ecosystem, the investor list is your shortcut to what moves next.
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Our analysis of 287 Energy Tech companies
$109.4b in tracked funding; 82% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Energy Tech companies in Portugal
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founded | Founder | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Powerdot Operator of electric vehicle charging stations for various business locations | $266M | 27 mo ago | 140 | 2018 | Luis Pinto Co-Founder & CEO | Top 5M | — | — |
| 2 | CSide SaaS-driven energy management software solutions | $35M | 197 mo ago | 10 | 2008 | Francisco Goncalves CEO | — | — | — |
| 3 | Cleanwatts Provider of energy management software solutions for commercial and industrial applications | $26M | 30 mo ago | 119 | 2020 | Luisa Matos Co-Founder & Co-CEO | Top 10M | — | — |
| 4 | Fusion Fuel Provider of solar energy-based hydrogen generation | $25M | 11 mo ago | 107 | 2016 | Pedro Cunha Co-Founder | Top 50M | 25 patents Hydrogen generation using floating flow‑guide plates and solar‑concentrated electrolysis. | 1 expansion |
| 5 | Eneida Offering smart network management platform for substations | $11M | 23 mo ago | 58 | 2012 | Carlos Pina Teixeira Co-founder | Top 50M | — | 1 partnership |
| 6 | Fibersail Developer of monitoring systems for wind turbine blades | $6M | 50 mo ago | 15 | 2013 | Pedro Pinto Founder | — | — | 1 partnership |
| 7 | Enline Provider of energy monitoring system | $5M | 29 mo ago | 30 | 2018 | Manuel Lemos Co-Founder | Top 5M | — | — |
| 8 | Jungle Provider of electrical assets maintenance services for wind turbines and heavy machinery | $5M | 45 mo ago | 35 | 2016 | Tim Kock Co-Founder | Top 5M | — | 2 job openings |
| 9 | GoParity Provider of an online crowdlending platform for solar project financing | $4M | 13 mo ago | 33 | 2016 | Manuel Nina Co-Founder & CPO | Top 5M | — | 1 launch |
| 10 | Omniflow Provider of cloud-based connected poles for public spaces | $3M | 49 mo ago | 25 | 2013 | Pedro Ruao Founder & CEO | Top 10M | 8 patents Omnidirectional flow turbines for renewable power and integrated street lighting with EV charging | — |
| 11 | FiberSensing Fiber Bragg Grating sensors for monitoring and measurement. | $3M | 233 mo ago | 29 | 2004 | Alberto Maia Co-Founder | — | — | 1 launch |
| 12 | C2C Newcap Manufacturers of supercapacitors | $3M | 56 mo ago | 11 | 2014 | Rui Pedro Silva Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 13 | EVIO Provider of comprehensive electric vehicle charging operators and management solutions | $3M | 26 mo ago | 18 | 2019 | Carlos Almeida Co-Founder & CEO | Top 50M | — | 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 14 | Reckon AI-based cloud platform for self-checkout solution for retail | $2M | 10 mo ago | 28 | 2017 | Ana Pinto Co-Founder & CEO | Top 50M | — | 1 job opening |
| 15 | Bandora Provider of AI and cloud-based energy management systems for buildings | $2M | 22 mo ago | 10 | 2017 | Marcia Pereira Co-Founder & CEO | Top 50M | — | 1 partnership · 1 award |
| 16 | BladeInsight Provider of an AI-powered solution to analyze wind turbine data | $1M | 81 mo ago | 24 | 2015 | Andre Moura Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 17 | Enging - Make Solutions Predictive maintenance and energy solutions | $1M | 87 mo ago | 20 | 2012 | — | Top 50M | — | — |
| 18 | Geratriz Building energy management system | $162K | 134 mo ago | — | 2009 | Gustavo Pita Soares Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 19 | Manie Energy market aggregator that automatically switch customers to energy provider | $111K | 21 mo ago | — | 2024 | Andre Pedro Co-Founder & CEO | Top 1M | — | — |
| 20 | Watt Intelligent Solutions Energy efficiency solutions for households and SME's by analyzing smart meter data | $107K | 110 mo ago | 9 | 2012 | Miguel Carvalho Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
Top 12 Energy Tech companies in Portugal
#1
Public · Sabugo, Lisboa · founded 2016 · 107 employees$25.1Mraised▾
Provider of solar energy-based hydrogen generation. It provides an electrolyzer that produces hydrogen using renewable energy.
#2
Series A · Lisbon, Lisbon · founded 2017 · 28 employees$1.8Mraised▾
AI-based cloud platform for self-checkout solutions for retail. It provides customers with checkout-free grab-and-go shopping experiences where the customer can unlock the cabinet, buy the products, and make the payment from the application. Its proprietary technology combines cloud AI algorithms that are achieving recognition and fraud prevention.
- Jul 2025Series A$5.9M
- Sep 2021Seed$1.8M
- 2018Seed—
- Jun 2018Seed—
#3
Series D · Lisboa, Lisboa · founded 2018 · 140 employees$265.8Mraised▾
Operator of electric vehicle charging stations for various business locations. The company installs charging stations in parking areas without installation costs to property owners. They handle operation, maintenance, and monitoring through proprietary software. The charging network is accessible through various electric mobility applications.
#4
Series A · Lisbon, Lisbon · founded 2016 · 33 employees$4Mraised▾
Provider of an online crowdlending platform for solar project financing. It provides users with a platform that allows users to lend money to organizations, reinvest the money, and more. It also provides consultation and assistance services for project development.
#5
Series B · Coimbra, Coimbra District · founded 2012 · 58 employees$11.3Mraised▾
Eneida develops low power and wireless smart sensor networks, integrated with specific machine learning algorithms and a collaborative software platform. Their solutions in monitoring and managing the assets of Low voltage distribution substations. They install wireless sensors at these substations and provide theft avoidance solution, flooding and monitoring solutions on their platform. It also offers rural PV monitoring and control solutions.
#6
Acquired · Coimbra, Coimbra District · founded 2020 · 119 employees$26.4Mraised▾
Provider of energy management software solutions for commercial and industrial applications. The product offerings include Kiplo - a virtual power plant that helps utilities address market imbalances, Cloggy - which provides household real-time actionable data about rates of consumption, generation, and storage, and Kisense - which provides energy optimization solutions.
#7
Seed · Porto, Porto District · founded 2017 · 10 employees$1.6Mraised▾
Provider of AI and cloud-based energy management systems for buildings. It takes inputs from users, regular sensors, building management systems, and financials from finance managers to analyze energy demand, leading to actionable insights to save energy.
- Aug 2024Seed$1.6M
#8
Series A · Mirandela, Braganca District · founded 2018 · 30 employees$5.2Mraised▾
Provider of energy monitoring system. It provides sensorless AI-powered Digital Twin technology and Dynamic Line Rating solutions for energy monitoring.
#9
Seed · Matosinhos, Porto District · founded 2019 · 18 employees$2.7Mraised▾
Provider of comprehensive electric vehicle charging operators and management solutions. The company offers hardware and software-enabled solutions to clients. The company develops hardware plug-in electric chargers with features like Wi-Fi access, user authentication, etc. Also, it offers API and SDK to manage charge station operations. It also offers a platform to share, monetized, and manage third-party charging stations.
#10
Seed · Braga, Braga District · founded 2024$110.9Kraised▾
Energy market aggregator that automatically switch customers to energy provider
#11
Series A · Lisbon, Lisbon · founded 2016 · 35 employees$5Mraised▾
Provider of electrical assets maintenance services for wind turbines and heavy machinery. Its service offerings include detecting failure development, downtime reduction, efficiency maintenance, production optimization, and others. The company claims to use AI-based predictive research and data streams of the assets to develop insights and offers its services.
#12
Seed · Porto, Porto District · founded 2013 · 25 employees$3.4Mraised▾
Provider of cloud-based connected poles for public spaces. It offers self-powered light poles with in-built electric vehicle charging points, environment monitoring sensors, and surveillance cameras. Its features include a companion cloud platform for traffic monitoring, electric cycle docking capability, and usage of recyclable materials. It also offers IoT-enabled smart benches as public infrastructure.
- May 2022Grant (prize money)$150K
- Nov 2019Grant (prize money)$178K
- Jan 2019Seed$2.3M
- Jul 2015Grant (prize money)$54.8K
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Energy Tech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Grid Energy Storage is moving in Portugal
A read on the academic research around Grid Energy Storage — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 473 Portugal-affiliated papers.
- Ministry of Education193
- Universidade do Porto48
- INESC TEC37
- University of Lisbon32
- Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento26
- Battery (electricity)1→28
- Electrochemistry1→24
- Electrode1→19
- Graphene1→8
- Battery (electricity)1→37
- Photovoltaic system1→22
- Supercapacitor1→20
- Environmental economics1→16
- Energy management1→15
- Renewable energy15
- Battery (electricity)8
- Electrolyte7
- Cathode7
- Anode6
Where energy storage 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
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.