Best Gaming Companies in Portugal
The 43 best Gaming companies in Portugal in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: KEK ENTERTAINMENT.
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Our analysis of 180 Gaming companies
$26.0b in tracked funding; 90% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2024.
Ranked: Best Gaming companies in Portugal
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | KEK ENTERTAINMENT Developer of mobile-based casual action games | $11M | 33 mo ago | Seed | — | 2021 | — | — |
| 2 | Lunar Labs Developer of mobile and PC-based casual games | $10M | 53 mo ago | Series A | Sergio Flores Founder | 2016 | — | — |
| 3 | Fight Out Platform building a fitness app and high-end gym chain | $6M | 41 mo ago | Series A | Carl Jones CEO | 2012 | WebflowAmazon Web Servicescore-js+9 | — |
| 4 | GAM3S.GG Online gaming platform offering web3 games | $2M | 28 mo ago | Seed | Omar Ghanem Co-Founder & CEO | 2021 | TypeScriptGraphQLNode.js+23 | — |
| 5 | Doppio Voice based gaming solution | $1M | 85 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2018 | Squarespace CommerceSquarespaceAmazon Web Services+10 | — |
| 6 | Exeedme Blockchain-based esports tournament platform | — | 67 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2018 | Node.jsChakra UIReact+25 | — |
| 7 | EMOTAI Headband to track brain waves for gamers | — | 100 mo ago | Seed | Carolina Amorim Co-Founder & CEO | 2017 | Apache HTTP ServerAMPCloudflare+3 | — |
| 8 | Bica Studios Mobile Games developer focusing on Casual Games | — | 137 mo ago | Public | Nuno Folhadela CEO & Co-Founder | 2013 | WordPressMySQLRedis+20 | — |
Top 8 Gaming companies in Portugal
#1
Seed · Braga, Braga District · founded 2021 · 18 employees$11Mraised▾
Developer of mobile-based casual action games
#2
Seed · Lisbon, Lisbon · founded 2021 · 10 employees$2Mraised▾
Online gaming platform offering web3 games. The platform allows players to scroll through a library of web3 games including blockchain games and NFT games to compete and receive rewards. It also offers gaming content, live streaming, community events, and much more.
#3
Series A · Lisbon, Lisbon · founded 2012$5.8Mraised▾
Platform building a fitness app and high-end gym chain. It is a move-to-earn platform that rewards users for completing workouts whether in the gym or at home in their living room. User workouts are personalized to their goals and ability, and their progress and achievements are analyzed and reflected directly in their digital avatar’s attributes.
- Mar 2023Series A$5.8M
#4
Series A · Lisbon, Lisbon · founded 2016$10Mraised▾
Developer of mobile and PC-based casual games. It specializes in developing games based on genres such as role-playing, puzzle, and strategy. One of the games developed by the company is Minimon 3D. It uses the Unity engine to develop games. Games are available on Android, Unity's Asset Store, and Github. It generates revenue through advertisements and in-app purchases.
- Mar 2022Series A$10M
#5
Acquired · Porto, Porto District · founded 2018 · 2 employees$1.1Mraised▾
Doppio is a developer of conversational games. The games can be activated and played on the human voice command. Available for Amazon Alexa & Google Assistant platform.
- Jul 2019Seed$1.1M
#6
Funding Raised · Braga, Braga District · founded 2018 · 21 employees—raised▾
Blockchain-based esports tournament platform. The company is hosting a blockchain-based CS: GO game. It allows players to monetize their gaming skills through rewards based on NFTs and DeFi technology.
#7
Seed · Lisbon, Lisbon · founded 2017 · 7 employees—raised▾
Emotai provides headband to track brain waves. Users are supposed to wear the headband while gaming, the band then analyses the user's brain wave activity and help him identify mental state during the activity and improve performance. Through an application, the performance between multiple gameplays can be observed and the user can compare data to plan his performance levels.
- Apr 2018Seed—
#8
Public · Lisbon, Lisbon · founded 2013 · 8 employees—raised▾
Bica Studios is a Portugese Mobile Games developer focusing on Casual Games. They received seed funding in March 2015 to finalize and release their first game (as of November 2015) - Smash Time - a casual mobile game that involves smashing monsters.
- Mar 2015Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
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Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
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How research on Gaming Technology is moving in Portugal
A read on the academic research around Gaming Technology — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 32 Portugal-affiliated papers.
- University of Lisbon5
- Universidade Nova de Lisboa4
- Universidade do Porto4
- Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento4
- Instituto Politécnico de Tomar3
- Rendering (computer graphics)4
- Augmented reality3
- Set (abstract data type)3
- Multimedia2
- Game engine2
- Game engine10
- Virtual reality5
- Human–computer interaction5
- Rendering (computer graphics)4
- Plug-in2
- Virtual reality1
- Frame (networking)1
- Set (abstract data type)1
- Human–computer interaction1
- Game engine1
Where gaming 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
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