Best Fashion Tech Companies in Portugal
The 35 best Fashion Tech companies in Portugal in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Smartex.
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Our analysis of 219 Fashion Tech companies
$16.5b in tracked funding; 94% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2022.
Ranked: Best Fashion Tech companies in Portugal
| # | Company | Employees | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sociedade de Investimentos Comerciais e Industriais Manufacturer of knitted textile and fashion wear in Braga, Portugal. | 150 | — | — | Acquired | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+10 | — |
| 2 | Smartex Developer of automated inspection systems for circular knitting textile machines | 134 | $30M | 46 mo ago | Series A | Paulo Ribeiro Co-Founder & VP of Software Engineering | WixSentryBootstrap+15 | — |
| 3 | dott Dott is the biggest online shopping mall in Portugal that offers Retail, Marketplace, E-commerce, Internet… | 104 | — | — | Private | — | — | — |
| 4 | PlatformE Online B2B platform offering customization of fashion products | 48 | $12M | 82 mo ago | Series B | Ben Demiri Co-Chair And Co-Founder | WebflowTikTok PixelLinkedin Insight Tag+20 | — |
| 5 | RARUS Online shop offering bikinis and other fashion items | 23 | — | — | Unfunded | — | Cart FunctionalityMagentoMySQL+27 | — |
| 6 | Freeport Lisboa Fashion Outlet At Freeport Lisboa Fashion Outlet (FLFO) you will find major international fashion brands across all… | 10 | — | — | — | — | Node.jsNextAuth.jsRadix UI+25 | — |
| 7 | UOY Provider of tailoring services intended to offer luxury suites and shirts in Portugal. | 10 | — | — | Private | — | — | — |
| 8 | Josefinas Private label brand for women's shoes | 9 | — | 129 mo ago | Seed | Maria Cunha Founder & CEO | DrupalPHPBootstrap+23 | — |
Top 6 Fashion Tech companies in Portugal
#1
Unfunded · Porto, Porto District · founded 2020 · 3 employees$546.8Kraised▾
Manufacturer of alternative leather materials. It provides users with the development of exotic leather materials and products. Its features include fashion solutions and bio-production.
#2
Series A · Porto, Porto District · founded 2018 · 134 employees$30.2Mraised▾
Developer of automated inspection systems for circular knitting textile machines. The company provides tools for modern textile factories, offering solutions for manual fabric inspection, lack of digitalization, and insufficient traceability. It focuses on enhancing factory operations by elevating quality, increasing productivity, and boosting sustainability. The company builds systems to transform textiles and empower factories.
- Nov 2022Series A$24.7M
- Jan 2022Grant (prize money)$55.7K
- Aug 2020Grant (prize money)$2.2M
- Aug 2020Seed$2.6M
#3
Series B · Porto, Porto District · founded 2015 · 48 employees$12Mraised▾
Online B2B platform offering customization of fashion products. The company manufactures based on the ongoing demand in the fashion industry. The company claims to offer 3D product visualization, 3D product configuration, and supply chain technology to manufacture on-demand fashion products. The company helps brands to customize the needs of customers virtually with a variety of designs, graphics, fabrics, colors, and more, before making the physical product. It also offers a supply chain solution that connects the orders directly to factories, enabling dropship products factory to consumer.
#4
Seed · Lisbon, Lisbon · founded 2015$1.5Mraised▾
Designer and manufacturer of custom-made shoe intended to preserve traditional shoe-making with the aid of modern technology. The company designs and produces handcrafted footwear and associated accessories including leather goods, socks and pocket squares, enabling customers to choose and buy customized shoes as per their taste and preference at affordable prices.
#5
Seed · Braga, Braga District · founded 2013 · 9 employees—raised▾
Manufacturer and designer of footwear created to offer handmade and handcrafted footwear varieties. The company offers multiple types of women's footwear for various purposes which include ballet dancing, through its online platform, enabling consumers and ballet dancers to purchase specially handcrafted footwear designed for purposes that would suit their needs.
#6
Deadpooled · Viseu, Viseu District · founded 2006—raised▾
Operator of an optical-wear store created to provide products and optical services through an online channel. The company operates an online store which sells contact lenses, sunglasses, frames, ophthalmic lenses, sunglasses, sports glasses, among others, providing consumers with all the basic eye care needs.
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Fashion Tech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Textiles & Wearable Materials is moving in Portugal
A read on the academic research around Textiles & Wearable Materials — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 52 Portugal-affiliated papers.
- University of Minho23
- University of Aveiro8
- CeNTI4
- University of Lisbon4
- Universidade do Porto4
- Wearable computer3
- Optoelectronics2
- Electrical conductor2
- Wearable technology2
- Composite material2
- Composite material7
- Piezoresistive effect4
- Electrical conductor4
- Wearable computer3
- Pressure sensor3
- Wearable technology2
- Wearable computer2
- Electronics2
- Composite material2
- Human–computer interaction2
Where textiles tech 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.