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Best High Tech Companies in Porto, Portugal

The 41 best High Tech companies in Porto, Portugal in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Smartex.

41companies tracked
$56.2Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
11have raised
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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.

1,127companies analysed
89%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
124unicorns
2018median founding year
60kcombined LinkedIn audience
57%of audience held by top 3
2companies hiring publicly (12 mo)

Ranked: Best High Tech companies in Porto

#CompanyLast roundDisclosed fundingStageFounderEmployeesTech stackRecent signals
1advanced cyclone systems
Advanced Cyclone Systems is engaged in the development and commercialization of worldwide cyclone systems.
——PrivatePedro Araujo
CEO
22BootstrapYouTubeSvelte+15—
2Appybaby
Baby Monitoring System
——UnfundedVictor Coelho
Co-Founder
———
3Archimmersive
Converts CAD files to VR
——DeadpooledLuis Oliveira
Founder
———
4bioworld
We co-create sustainable and circular solutions made from industry waste.
——Private—3——
5BIX Citizen
Home healthcare monitoring solution
——DeadpooledMiguel Sales Dias
Co-Founder & CEO
4——
6Connect Robotics
Drone delivery system
——Funding RaisedEduardo Mendes
Founder and Head of Research and Development
5RubyYouTubeRuby on Rails+10—
7Faceclocking
Facial biometrics recognition solutions
——DeadpooledPedro Torres Assuncao
Founder
———
8Ground Control Games
Virtual reality game development studio
——UnfundedRui Guedes
Founder
———

Top 12 High Tech companies in Porto

#1
Unfunded · Porto, Porto District · founded 2020 · 3 employees
$546.8Kraised
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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.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers — 3.2% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 partnerships · 1 awards (incl. Sustainabelle Advisory Services) announced in 12 mo
Founders & team
Maria Goncalves MaiaCo-Founder & CEOMargot MullerCo-Founder & COO
Investors
Biotope, Portugal Ventures
#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.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers — 7.1% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 partnerships · 1 awards (incl. Rafael Lobo Galasso) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Aug 2024Seed$1.6M
Founders & team
Marcia PereiraCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
BlueCrow, Portugal Ventures, ClimateLaunchpad, Lanzadera
Tech stack
WixReactGoogle CloudPolyfillLodashPriority Hints
#3
Series A · Porto, Porto District · founded 2018 · 134 employees
$30.2Mraised
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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.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 23k LinkedIn followers — 37.9% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public) · hiring: Embedded Systems Engineer
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2022Series A$24.7M
  • Jan 2022Grant (prize money)$55.7K
  • Aug 2020Grant (prize money)$2.2M
  • Aug 2020Seed$2.6M
Founders & team
Paulo RibeiroCo-Founder & VP of Software EngineeringGilberto LoureiroCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
HAX, Europa, EIC Fund, DCVC, Spider Capital, Build Collective
Tech stack
BootstrapCloudflareGoogle AnalyticsGoogle CloudGoogle Cloud CdnGoogle Workspace
#4
Seed · Porto, Porto District · founded 2015 · 8 employees
$2.5Mraised
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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.

Funding rounds
  • Nov 2023Seed$2.5M
Investors
CapitalT, Curiosity, Pitchdrive, Notion
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpGutenbergElementorYoast Seo
#5
Seed · Porto, Porto District · founded 2013 · 25 employees
$3.4Mraised
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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.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 6k LinkedIn followers — 9.7% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • May 2022Grant (prize money)$150K
  • Nov 2019Grant (prize money)$178K
  • Jan 2019Seed$2.3M
  • Jul 2015Grant (prize money)$54.8K
Founders & team
Pedro RuaoFounder & CEO
Investors
EIC Fund, HCapital, Portugal Ventures, CalSEED, Europa, Digital Catapult
Tech stack
BootstrapGoogle CloudGoogle Cloud CdnGoogle WorkspaceGsapHsts
#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.

Funding rounds
  • Jul 2023Seed$1.3M
Founders & team
Carlos CaldasCo-Founder & CEO
#7
Series A · Porto, Porto District · founded 2015 · 28 employees
$7.4Mraised
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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.

Investors
Mercia, ACF Investors, Wren Capital, WealthClub, Bionova Capital, Hovione Capital
#8
Series B · Porto, Porto District · founded 2007 · 11 employees
$7.1Mraised
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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.

Founders & team
Paulo Ferreira dos SantosFounder & CEO
Investors
Portugal Ventures, PME Investimentos
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpContact Form 7Yoast SeoNginx
#9
Funding Raised · Porto, Viana do Castelo District · founded 2019 · 6 employees
$81.9Kraised
▾

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LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 917 LinkedIn followers
Activity: 2 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2023Grant (prize money)$81.9K
Founders & team
Nuno MarujoCEO
Investors
Europa, Portugal Ventures
#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.

Funding rounds
  • Apr 2016Seed$1.7M
Investors
Explorer Investments
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpNginx
#11
Seed · Porto, Porto District · founded 2017 · 20 employees
$166.7Kraised
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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.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 6k LinkedIn followers — 9.4% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Feb 2020Grant (prize money)$55K
  • Jan 2020Seed$166.7K
  • Sep 2019Grant (prize money)$55K
  • May 2017Seed—
Founders & team
Bruno EisingerCo-Founder
Investors
Startup Porto Accelerator, EIC Fund, Europa, EIT InnoEnergy, Startup Lisboa, Venturecup
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesApache Http ServerAutoptimizeAws Certificate ManagerBootstrapChoices
#12
Funding Raised · Porto, Porto District · founded 2005 · 17 employees
—raised
▾

Fluidinova, a spin-off of the University of Porto is a manufacturer and supplier of synthetic nano-hydroxyapatite and tricalcium phosphate materials marketed as nanoXIM, used to manufacture medical devices, oral care, and food products. Their product Nano-hydroxyapatite (nano-HAp) is an interesting biomaterial for use in prosthetic applications due to its similarity in size, crystallography and chemical composition with human hard tissue. Bone and teeth enamel are largely composed of a form of this mineral. They are increasing its range to cosmetics as well.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers — 5.2% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. Politecnico di Torino) announced in 12 mo
Founders & team
Joao SantosCEO
Investors
Europa
Tech stack
CloudflareCore-JsGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font ApiGoogle Hosted LibrariesHsts

Funding & investor landscape

$56.2Mtotal disclosed funding
11companies funded
20disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Portugal Ventures8 rounds
Europa5 rounds
PME Investimentos4 rounds
EIC Fund3 rounds
2bpartner2 rounds
BGI2 rounds
Build Collective2 rounds
Explorer Investments2 rounds
HAX2 rounds
Lanzadera2 rounds

Notable founders

Maria Goncalves Maia
Co-Founder & CEO · Corium Biotech by Maia & Muller - Biotech
Margot Muller
Co-Founder & COO · Corium Biotech by Maia & Muller - Biotech
Marcia Pereira
Co-Founder & CEO · Bandora
Paulo Ribeiro
Co-Founder & VP of Software Engineering · Smartex
Gilberto Loureiro
Co-Founder & CEO · Smartex
Pedro Ruao
Founder & CEO · Omniflow
Carlos Caldas
Co-Founder & CEO · DROPPS
Paulo Ferreira dos Santos
Founder & CEO · Kinematix
Nuno Marujo
CEO · Ablute
Bruno Eisinger
Co-Founder · Infinite Foundry
Joao Santos
CEO · FLUIDINOVA
Mafalda Ricca
Founder and CEO · X-Plora
Prism market signals · Portugal · country-scoped Prism corpus, 759,229 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of High Tech coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH FROM Porto · institutions

What Porto researches in semiconductors

13 papersstance +0.389% breakthrough18% concern
breakthrough · advancement · concern
local research themes
Experimental Learning in EngineeringAdvancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit DesignLow-power high-performance VLSI designAdvanced Data Compression TechniquesVLSI and Analog Circuit TestingEmbedded Systems Design Techniques
top institutions
  • Universidade do Porto8
  • Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre2
  • Polytechnic Institute of Porto2
  • Portola Pharmaceuticals1

Common questions

How many High Tech companies are there in Porto, Portugal?
Radar tracks 41 indexable High Tech companies headquartered in Porto, Portugal that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by High Tech companies in Porto, Portugal?
The High Tech companies in Porto, Portugal on this list have raised a combined $56.2M in disclosed equity funding across 11 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded High Tech company in Porto, Portugal?
Smartex is the highest-funded High Tech company in Porto, Portugal, with $30.2M in disclosed equity funding.
How many High Tech companies in Porto, Portugal are funded?
11 of the 41 High Tech companies in Porto, Portugal on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many High Tech unicorns are there in Porto, Portugal?
None of the High Tech companies in Porto, Portugal on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Porto, Portugal High Tech companies?
The most active investors in Porto, Portugal High Tech companies on this list include Portugal Ventures, Europa, PME Investimentos, EIC Fund, 2bpartner.
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