Best High Tech Companies in Porto District, Portugal
The 48 best High Tech companies in Porto District, Portugal in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Smartex.
Our analysis of 1,127 High Tech companies
$222.2b in tracked funding; 89% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best High Tech companies in Porto District
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Smartex Developer of automated inspection systems for circular knitting textile machines | $30M | 45 mo ago | Series A | Paulo Ribeiro Co-Founder & VP of Software Engineering | 2018 | WixSentryBootstrap+15 | 1 job opening · 1 internship |
| 2 | Adapttech Provider of smart prosthetic technology for orthopedic rehabilitation | $7M | 52 mo ago | Series A | — | 2015 | — | — |
| 3 | Kinematix Wearable technology for running | $7M | 117 mo ago | Series B | Paulo Ferreira dos Santos Founder & CEO | 2007 | — | — |
| 4 | Omniflow Provider of cloud-based connected poles for public spaces | $3M | 51 mo ago | Seed | Pedro Ruao Founder & CEO | 2013 | Wix eCommerceWixSentry+12 | — |
| 5 | Luna Develops personalized AI enabled chatbot for e-commerce | $2M | 33 mo ago | Seed | — | 2015 | WebflowVimeoAmazon Web Services+19 | — |
| 6 | Smarkio Provider of conversational bot for visitor management | $2M | 124 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2014 | — | — |
| 7 | Bandora Provider of AI and cloud-based energy management systems for buildings | $2M | 24 mo ago | Seed | Marcia Pereira Co-Founder & CEO | 2017 | WixSentryBootstrap+16 | 1 partnership · 1 award |
| 8 | DROPPS Decentralized infrastructure for the web3 industry | $1M | 36 mo ago | Seed | Carlos Caldas Co-Founder & CEO | 2021 | — | — |
| 9 | Azitek Provider of industrial IoT solutions for asset tracking and management | $806K | 25 mo ago | Seed | Rui Gomes Co-Founder | 2017 | ContentfulOpenStreetMapReact+11 | — |
| 10 | Corium Biotech by Maia & Muller - Biotech Manufacturer of alternative leather materials | $547K | 21 mo ago | Unfunded | Maria Goncalves Maia Co-Founder & CEO | 2020 | — | — |
| 11 | Infinite Foundry Provider of a 3D digital twin platform | $167K | 77 mo ago | Seed | Bruno Eisinger Co-Founder | 2017 | PythonUbuntuDjango+16 | 1 launch |
| 12 | Follow Inspiration Smart shopping carts for retailers | $123K | 99 mo ago | Funding Raised | Luis de Matos Chairman & CEO | 2012 | WordPressPleskMySQL+22 | 1 expansion |
Top 12 High Tech companies in Porto District
#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
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
#3
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
#4
Seed · Leca da Palmeira, Porto District · founded 2017 · 4 employees$805.6Kraised▾
Provider of industrial IoT solutions for asset tracking and management. The company delivers real-time visibility and insights for streamlined operations within industrial and logistics environments. It offers precise asset localization, seamless system integration, and error reduction through process optimization. The company provides inventory management, material handling equipment monitoring, and predictive route planning.
- Jun 2024Seed$804.8K
#5
Seed · Porto, Porto District · founded 2015 · 8 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Luna develops a personalized AI enabled chatbot for e-commerce. It can be used for different use cases like customer engagement, support, shopping assistant, etc. It can be integrated with Facebook Messenger, Line, KiK, etc. and on voice assistants like Google Home and Amazon Alexa.
- Nov 2023Seed$2.5M
#6
Seed · Porto, Porto District · founded 2021$1.3Mraised▾
Decentralized infrastructure for the web3 industry. It builds dApps and protocols that leverage market opportunities making use of the tools and standards created by the Lukso blockchain.
- Jul 2023Seed$1.3M
#7
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
#8
Series A · Porto, Porto District · founded 2015 · 28 employees$7.4Mraised▾
Provider of smart prosthetic technology for orthopedic rehabilitation. In most prosthetics, there is a lack of adaptation between the stump of the amputee and his/her prosthesis socket which causes discomfort. Adapttech uses novel, smart and wearable technologies to deliver full adaptation and greater comfort in a very short period of time.
#9
Series B · Porto, Porto District · founded 2007 · 11 employees$7.1Mraised▾
Developer of wearable device designed to deliver personalized exercise plans. The company's devices measure basic GPS stats such as pace or speed as well as each foot's behavior on the ground via sensors in-shoe like stance dynamics, stance time, strides and symmetry, enabling runners to improve their form and fitness.
#10
Acquired · Porto, Porto District · founded 2014 · 12 employees$1.7Mraised▾
Provider of conversational bot for visitor management. It is an AI-based conversational bot that tracks the website behavior of visitors and sends them automated emails, texts, and push notifications if they have left the website. It offers features that include web tracking, leads validation, remarketing onsite or offsite, email or SMS marketing, lead nurturing, lead scoring, lead distribution, end-to-end tracking, reporting, and access management.
- Apr 2016Seed$1.7M
#11
Seed · Porto, Porto District · founded 2017 · 20 employees$166.7Kraised▾
Infinitefoundry provides a 3D digital twin platform. The platform allows manufacturers to upload the 3D design of their product through the browser to the platform, selects which tests to run, and with a few clicks uses the power of cloud computing to run those tests and see the results in 3D on a screen or in a 3D immersive environment. The features of the product include 3D designing, 3D production animation, monitoring, process optimization, motion analysis, etc. The clientele includes Shell, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, Electrolux, and the European Space Agency.
- Feb 2020Grant (prize money)$55K
- Jan 2020Seed$166.7K
- Sep 2019Grant (prize money)$55K
- May 2017Seed—
#12
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
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