Best Manufacturing Tech Companies in Portugal
The 35 best Manufacturing Tech companies in Portugal in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Smartex.
- Future Market Insights
- IDC
Our analysis of 50 Manufacturing Tech companies
$5.6b in tracked funding; 95% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Manufacturing Tech companies in Portugal
| # | 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 | 46 mo ago | Series A | Paulo Ribeiro Co-Founder & VP of Software Engineering | 2018 | WixSentryBootstrap+15 | — |
| 2 | Chipidea Semiconductor IP design | $28M | 236 mo ago | Acquired | — | 1997 | — | — |
| 3 | proGrow Web platform for data monitoring and analytics of industrial operations | $4M | 15 mo ago | Seed | Marco Carvalho Founder & CEO | 2014 | Webflow EcommerceCart FunctionalityWebflow+25 | — |
| 4 | GLARTEK IoT platform for visualizing data in real time using AR-enabled apps and devices | $2M | 14 mo ago | Seed | Luis Murcho Co-Founder & CEO | 2016 | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+30 | — |
| 5 | Prodsmart Real-time analytics for production lines | $2M | 92 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | — | 2012 | — | — |
| 6 | Enging - Make Solutions Predictive maintenance and energy solutions | $1M | 90 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2012 | WordPressMySQLPHP+31 | — |
| 7 | KFactory IoT enabled analytics solution for manufacturing companies | $242K | 44 mo ago | Seed | Adrian Dima Co-Founder | 2019 | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | — |
| 8 | Infinite Foundry Provider of a 3D digital twin platform | $167K | 78 mo ago | Seed | Bruno Eisinger Co-Founder | 2017 | PythonUbuntuDjango+16 | 1 launch |
| 9 | Sensefinity Provider of IoT enabled tracking solutions for end-to-end supply chain visibility | $128K | 70 mo ago | Seed | Tiago Andrade Co-Founder & CMO | 2015 | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+22 | — |
Top 12 Manufacturing Tech companies in Portugal
#1
Seed · Matosinhos, Porto District · founded 2014 · 31 employees$4.1Mraised▾
Web platform for industrial frontline operations. The platform leverages IoT connectivity and data analytics to transform raw data into actionable information. Its platform allows organizations to unify production information from multiple sources and gain insights.
- Jun 2025Seed$2.3M
- Sep 2022Seed$2.9M
- Oct 2016Seed—
#2
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
#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
Acquired · Oeiras, Lisbon · founded 1997$27.6Mraised▾
Developer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor circuit designs designed for communications, multimedia and power management applications. The company's portfolio of intellectual property ranges from single-function blocks to full analog sub-systems supplying wireless communications, digital media and consumer electronics industries.
#5
Acqui-Hired · Lisbon, Lisbon · founded 2012 · 35 employees$1.6Mraised▾
Prodsmart is a real-time analytics provider for production lines. It is a native cloud Manufacturing Execution System (MES) that uses mobile phones and sensors to collect data directly from shop floor to give real time analytics of manufacturing. On top of the gathered data, users can define custom metrics and receive management notifications such as workers rotation, manufacturing malfunction, working pattern deviations etc. It thus helps in waste reduction and efficiency increment. It is seed-funded by 'TechFounders' in 2015. It is the winner of the inaugural edition of 'Startup Lisboa Boost', which made it eligible for a €100k funding from Caixa Capital.
- Dec 2018Grant (prize money)$57.2K
- Jul 2018Grant (prize money)$58.4K
- 2017Seed$1.5M
- Jun 2016Grant (prize money)$28.4K
#6
Seed · Vendas Novas, Evora District · founded 2019 · 11 employees$242.4Kraised▾
KFactory offers an Internet of Things enabled solution for industrial applications, chiefly for the manufacturing sector. The cloud-based platform gathers data from different sources thereby enabling users to monitor business and system events for taking right actions by sending messages using multiple channels to businesses responsible. It also gives insights on operators and orders performance, also on side-processes performance, like maintenance, manage improvement plans, show data inside the factory and communicate in real-time evolution of production. The platform can be integrated with ERPs and other external sources. The target market includes automotive, printing, textile, wood, electrical components, food, plastic, and others.
- Jan 2023Grant (prize money)$38.2K
- Jun 2020Seed$242.4K
#7
Acquired · Oliveira do Hospital, Coimbra District · founded 2012 · 20 employees$1.2Mraised▾
Enging - Make Solutions (EMS) offers a wide range of products and services in Predictive maintenance, Energy Solutions, Security Solutions, Automation & Instrumentation, Networks and infrastructure. EMS TCM - Power Transformers Condition Monitoring is a tool for online monitoring and know in real time the condition of various assets to reduce preventive maintenance costs and increase the transformers life, and lifetime of assets.
- Mar 2019Series A$1.2M
- Aug 2017Grant (prize money)$59.1K
- Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$52.6K
- Seed—
#8
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—
#9
Seed · Lisbon, Lisbon · founded 2015 · 15 employees$128.3Kraised▾
Sensefinity offers Internet of Things enabled tracking solution for businesses thereby enabling end to end supply chain visibility. Its product line includes SensorIce, Laterala, and Internet of Cargo. SensorIce is a plug-and-play solution to monitor cold-chain of restaurants, food manufacturing, among others. Laterala is an indoor and outdoor tracking solution that offers a detection zone which goes up to 80m indoor and 120m outside and has a use case in logistics, manufacturing or transportation sectors. The Internet of Cargo is a solution to track assets and can be used for warehouses, trucks, trains, ships, and airplanes. Clientele includes Nestle, Vodafone Power Labs, Metro, Daimler, Secure Systems, and more.
- Nov 2020Grant (prize money)$19K
- Mar 2019Seed—
- 2017Seed—
- Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$53.5K
#10
Series A · Porto, Porto District · founded 2009 · 600 employees—raised▾
Critical Manufacturing provides MES software products and professional services to high-tech manufacturing companies, including semiconductor, solar and electronics. Founded in 2009, the company is headquartered in Portugal and has received a number of notable certification and awards such as ISO 9001-UKAS Management System certification and COTEC SME Innovation Network award.
#11
Seed · Oeiras, Lisbon · founded 2015—raised▾
Processware provides an agile software solution for manufacturing. The product offered by the company is O2p. It is a cloud-based platform which provides a solution for the management of the operation. It provides a solution such as material control, demand management, and inbound control.
- Jun 2015Seed—
#12
Acquired · Samora Correia, Santarem District · founded 2008 · 340 employees—raised▾
Provider of equipment and cranes rental services. The company specializes in equipment rental, with a wide and diversified offer of cranes, platforms, forklifts, modules and containers, generators, compressors, toilets and earthmoving equipment.
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Manufacturing Tech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Additive Manufacturing / 3D Printing is moving in Portugal
A read on the academic research around Additive Manufacturing / 3D Printing — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 422 Portugal-affiliated papers.
- Universidade do Porto81
- University of Minho60
- Instituto Politécnico de Leiria55
- University of Coimbra55
- University of Aveiro53
- Tissue engineering2→4
- Composite material1→44
- Extrusion3→31
- 3d printed1→26
- Fused deposition modeling2→25
- Fabrication2→22
- 3d printed7
- Composite material7
- Selective laser melting6
- Manufacturing engineering5
- Fused deposition modeling5
Where additive manufacturing 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.