Best High Tech Companies in Portugal
The 246 best High Tech companies in Portugal in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Unbabel.
Portugal's High Tech startup map is sharper than most people realize, and this directory ranks the 246 companies we track by disclosed equity funding and recent momentum. Total disclosed funding across the cohort sits at $347M, with Bloq.it leading at $32M, Tekever and Sensei each at $23M, and a long tail of earlier-stage bets clustered around the $2M mark. One unicorn in the mix. That's a scene worth watching.
The themes heating up right now are ev powertrain advancements, next-generation ev platform development, and ev battery technology, and coverage across the sector keeps rising quarter on quarter. I'd point you toward the investor side too: Portugal Ventures, the EIC Fund, and Startup Lisboa are the names showing up most consistently across deal flow, which tells you something about where institutional conviction is forming. Maximising online sales for high tech gadgets is a live concern for the consumer-facing slice of this market, and distribution strategy is increasingly separating companies that scale from those that stall. So what separates the funded from the overlooked here? Mostly funding momentum and the ability to attract repeat institutional backers, which is exactly what our ranking surfaces.
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 Portugal
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unbabel Provider of an AI based translation platform | $106M | 30 mo ago | Acquired | 20 | Vasco Pedro Co-founder and CEO | WordPress Block EditorWordPressApple iCloud Mail+19 | — | — |
| 2 | Bloq.it Provider of smart lockers | $32M | 12 mo ago | Series B | 33 | Miha Jagodic Co-Founder & CEO | WebflowMarkerJava+22 | — | 2 awards |
| 3 | Smartex Developer of automated inspection systems for circular knitting textile machines | $30M | 43 mo ago | Series A | 134 | Paulo Ribeiro Co-Founder & VP of Software Engineering | WixSentryBootstrap+15 | — | 1 job opening · 1 internship |
| 4 | Sensei Provider of AI-based autonomous store solutions for offline retail stores | $23M | 19 mo ago | Series A | 60 | Nuno Moutinho Co-Founder & CTO | WebflowGSAPTypekit+15 | — | — |
| 5 | Tekever 🦄 Manufacturer UAVs and software products for military and enterprise applications | $23M | 13 mo ago | Series B | 276 | Vitor Cristina Co-Founder | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+21 | — | — |
| 6 | MOV.AI ROS-based software platform for building and deploying autonomous mobile robots in warehouses and factories | $15M | 43 mo ago | Series A | 39 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+31 | — | — |
| 7 | Didimo Provider of AI based software to create digital doubles of humans | $14M | 44 mo ago | Series A | 33 | Veronica Orvalho Founder & CEO | Webflow EcommerceCart FunctionalityWebflow+14 | 26 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 8 | Phantasma Blockchain designed for gaming, smart NFTs, and dApp integration | $10M | 96 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | Sergio Flores Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+21 | — | — |
| 9 | Mintbase Platform offering a launchpad for launching NFT projects | $8M | 50 mo ago | Series A | 19 | Nate Geier CEO | Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+14 | — | — |
| 10 | Adapttech Provider of smart prosthetic technology for orthopedic rehabilitation | $7M | 50 mo ago | Series A | 28 | — | — | — | — |
| 11 | Kinematix Wearable technology for running | $7M | 115 mo ago | Series B | 11 | Paulo Ferreira dos Santos Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 12 | HiJiffy AI enabled chatbot and communication platform for hotels | $7M | 35 mo ago | Seed | 30 | — | RubyAnimate.cssTailwind CSS+27 | — | 2 launchs |
| 13 | Habit AI-based data analytics platform for insurers and underwriters | $6M | 43 mo ago | Series A | 49 | Domingos Bruges Co-Founder & CEO | WixSentryBootstrap+12 | — | 1 partnership |
| 14 | Texture Finance Solana-based DeFi platform | $5M | 43 mo ago | Series A | — | Oleg Ravnushkin Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 15 | Bitgreen Sustainable blockchain infrastructure solutions | $5M | 44 mo ago | Series A | 12 | — | — | — | — |
| 16 | C-mo Provider of a cough monitoring and diagnostic device for healthcare providers | $5M | 45 mo ago | Seed | 8 | Diogo Tecelao Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 17 | Visor Platform offering chatbot-based customer support solutions | $5M | 39 mo ago | Series A | 57 | Gianluca Pereyra Co-Founder & CEO | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+20 | — | 1 job opening · 1 launch |
| 18 | Omniflow Provider of cloud-based connected poles for public spaces | $3M | 49 mo ago | Seed | 25 | Pedro Ruao Founder & CEO | Wix eCommerceWixSentry+12 | 8 patents Omnidirectional flow turbines for renewable power and integrated street lighting with EV charging | — |
| 19 | Sound Particles Provider of a sound design software app for audio post production | $3M | 48 mo ago | Seed | 30 | — | Cart FunctionalityHubSpot CMS HubFacebook Login+19 | 6 patents Advanced spatial audio rendering via HRTF interpolation and precise 3D sound placement. | 1 award |
| 20 | Graphenest Manufacturer of graphene products | $3M | 37 mo ago | Series A | 11 | Rui Pedro Silva Co-Founder & CTO | — | 18 patents Patents concentrated in chemistry & materials | 1 partnership |
| 21 | Virtuleap VR-based platform for cognitive assessment and training | $3M | 30 mo ago | Seed | 19 | Hossein Jalali Cofounder & CTO | Node.jsTailwind CSSVue.js+8 | — | 1 award |
| 22 | Luna Develops personalized AI enabled chatbot for e-commerce | $2M | 31 mo ago | Seed | 8 | — | WebflowVimeoAmazon Web Services+19 | — | — |
| 23 | Kolibrio Platform bringing MEV back to originators | $2M | 40 mo ago | Seed | 7 | — | — | — | — |
| 24 | Cleverly AI-based customer service platform on cloud | $2M | 67 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | 16 | Pedro Coelho Co-Founder & CTO | — | — | — |
| 25 | Reckon AI-based cloud platform for self-checkout solution for retail | $2M | 10 mo ago | Series A | 28 | Ana Pinto Co-Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+31 | — | 1 job opening |
| 26 | Automaise AI-based business process and customer service digitzation management platform | $2M | 14 mo ago | Series A | 26 | Ernesto Pedrosa Co-Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+32 | — | — |
| 27 | Smarkio Provider of conversational bot for visitor management | $2M | 122 mo ago | Acquired | 12 | — | — | — | — |
| 28 | GLARTEK IoT platform for visualizing data in real time using AR-enabled apps and devices | $2M | 11 mo ago | Seed | 35 | Luis Murcho Co-Founder & CEO | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+30 | — | — |
| 29 | Bandora Provider of AI and cloud-based energy management systems for buildings | $2M | 22 mo ago | Seed | 10 | Marcia Pereira Co-Founder & CEO | WixSentryBootstrap+16 | — | 1 partnership · 1 award |
| 30 | DeepNeuronic Provider of an AI-based solution to detect threatening and abnormal activities | $2M | 42 mo ago | Seed | — | Vasco Lopes CEO | Cart FunctionalityNode.jsRadix UI+16 | — | — |
| 31 | BladeInsight Provider of an AI-powered solution to analyze wind turbine data | $1M | 81 mo ago | Deadpooled | 24 | Andre Moura Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 32 | DROPPS Decentralized infrastructure for the web3 industry | $1M | 34 mo ago | Seed | — | Carlos Caldas Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 33 | Enging - Make Solutions Predictive maintenance and energy solutions | $1M | 87 mo ago | Acquired | 20 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+31 | — | — |
| 34 | Data4Deals Online platform offering AI-enabled CRM solutions to banks for customer engagement | $1M | 37 mo ago | Seed | 9 | Pedro Clara Co-Founder | BootstrapFont AwesomeMicrosoft 365+5 | — | — |
| 35 | Azitek Provider of industrial IoT solutions for asset tracking and management | $806K | 24 mo ago | Seed | 4 | Rui Gomes Co-Founder | ContentfulOpenStreetMapReact+11 | — | 2 partnerships |
| 36 | Agroop Farm management software with integrated farm data collection | $712K | 67 mo ago | Seed | 18 | Bruno Rodrigues Co-Founder | WixSentryZendesk+13 | — | — |
| 37 | Homeit Connected locks for home automation applications | $596K | 84 mo ago | Seed | 11 | Andre Roque Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+40 | — | — |
| 38 | Corium Biotech by Maia & Muller - Biotech Manufacturer of alternative leather materials | $547K | 20 mo ago | Unfunded | 3 | Maria Goncalves Maia Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 39 | Biometrid Provider of AI and cloud-based multimodal authentication, and matching platform | $463K | 41 mo ago | Funding Raised | 27 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | — | 1 job opening |
| 40 | Bepro Network Back-end as a service provider for blockchain-based apps | $349K | 87 mo ago | Seed | 17 | — | Node.jsNextAuth.jsReact+11 | — | — |
| 41 | KFactory IoT enabled analytics solution for manufacturing companies | $242K | 41 mo ago | Seed | 11 | Adrian Dima Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | — | — |
| 42 | Tesselo Provider of AI-based satellite mapping solution | $170K | 74 mo ago | Funding Raised | 9 | Remi Charpentier CEO | — | — | — |
| 43 | Infinite Foundry Provider of a 3D digital twin platform | $167K | 75 mo ago | Seed | 20 | Bruno Eisinger Co-Founder | PythonUbuntuDjango+16 | — | 1 launch |
| 44 | Sensefinity Provider of IoT enabled tracking solutions for end-to-end supply chain visibility | $128K | 67 mo ago | Seed | 15 | Tiago Andrade Co-Founder & CMO | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+22 | — | — |
| 45 | Follow Inspiration Smart shopping carts for retailers | $123K | 97 mo ago | Funding Raised | 14 | Luis de Matos Chairman & CEO | WordPressPleskMySQL+22 | 20 patents Autonomous robot navigation, responsive control, and self‑tracking location systems | 1 expansion |
| 46 | Agentifai Provides AI-enabled customer service agent | $120K | 108 mo ago | Seed | 24 | Ernesto Pedrosa Co-Founder & CTO | — | — | — |
| 47 | Youverse Decentralized biometric authentication for web3 | $110K | 53 mo ago | Funding Raised | 15 | Pedro Torres Co-Founder & CEO | SentryApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+20 | — | — |
| 48 | Mater Dynamics Sensors to track products in supply chain | $108K | 109 mo ago | Funding Raised | 3 | Tiago Cunha Reis Founder | — | — | — |
Top 12 High Tech companies in Portugal
#1
Series B · Lisbon, Lisbon · founded 2015 · 33 employees$31.8Mraised▾
Bloq.it is a provider of smart lockers which can be used to protect and secure belongings in public spots. It offers Bricks which can be used to secure small items like keys, phone, wallet, and Boxes which can be used to protect big items like bag, helmet, and clothes. The application is available for Android and iOS application.
- May 2025Series B$31.8M
- 2021Seed—
#2
Tekever 🦄Series B · Lisbon, Lisbon · founded 2001 · 276 employees$22.7Mraised▾
Manufacturer UAVs and software products for military and enterprise applications. Its drones include fixed-wing and one quadcopter models. These UAS are specifically designed for anti-terrorist surveillance, battleground ISTAR, and environmental surveillance. It also offers an AI-enabled aerial data analytic platform. It caters to military, marine, and GIS industries.
#3
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—
#4
Series A · Lisbon, Lisbon · founded 2017 · 60 employees$23.3Mraised▾
Provider of AI-based autonomous store solutions for offline retail stores. The platform offers real-time video recognition software to digitize physical stores with autonomous and check-out-free solutions. Its software offers AI-powered algorithms and computer visions for cameras gathering and analyzing data on people and product performance in stores, enabling brick-and-mortar retailers to analyze the customers. It offers autonomous pods, cabs and stores solution.
#5
Seed · Lisbon, Lisbon · founded 2016 · 35 employees$1.7Mraised▾
Glartek has developed an IoT platform that allows the user to visualize the collected data in real time using AR-enabled mobile apps and devices. The company has developed a gateway called GLARCONNECT that can be used for colleting data from various sources and a cloud-based platform called GLARBOARD that can be used for storing the sensor data. The company was incubated by Startup Lisboa Incubator and has worked with clients like Unilever and H-farm.
- Jul 2025Seed$2.4M
- Mar 2019Seed$1.7M
- Jun 2018Grant (prize money)$58.3K
#6
Series A · Portugal · founded 2017 · 26 employees$1.8Mraised▾
AI-based business process and customer service digitzation management platform. The product modules include workflow automation, customer support operation, agent augmentation, conversational bot assistant, and more. It allows users to automate the business process using artificial intelligence and natural language processing technologies. It enables users to improve efficiency, manage automation rate and supports marketing, sales, operations and HR teams.
- Mar 2025Series A$5.4M
- Feb 2021Seed$1.2M
- Aug 2019Seed$556.5K
#7
Acquired · Lisbon, Lisbon · founded 2013 · 20 employees$106.1Mraised▾
Unbabel is the provider of an AI based translation platform. Its features include AI and human powered translations, multilingual support, management of customer service language operations on a single platform, as well as integration with CRM and chat platforms. Its clients include Microsoft and Logitech. It works on a subscription plan.
- Dec 2023Series C$21.2M
- Aug 2023Grant (prize money)$229.6K
- Oct 2022Grant (prize money)$735.2K
- Mar 2020Grant (prize money)$206.4K
#8
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
#9
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.
#10
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
#11
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
#12
Series A · Portugal · founded 2016 · 33 employees$13.9Mraised▾
Provider of AI-based software to create digital doubles of humans. It develops web-based software and a mobile application. It maps facial features and uses computer vision, computer graphics, and machine learning technologies to generate 3D animated humans in real-time. It caters to businesses, developers, and content creators.
- Oct 2022Series A$7.2M
- Sep 2021Grant (prize money)$58.2K
- Sep 2020Seed$1.2M
- Dec 2019Seed$4.9M
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Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
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Regulatory-risk over time rising
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How research on Semiconductors is moving in Portugal
A read on the academic research around Semiconductors — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 160 Portugal-affiliated papers.
- Instituto de Telecomunicações51
- University of Lisbon33
- Instituto Superior Técnico22
- Ministry of Education18
- Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa17
- Transistor1→4
- Photonics2→5
- CMOS3→4
- Fabrication1→4
- Electronics4
- Wafer3
- Electronic design automation2
- Integrated circuit layout2
- Bridging (networking)2
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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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