Best Native AI Companies in Portugal
The 33 best Native AI companies in Portugal in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Unbabel.
Our analysis of 150 Native AI companies
$80.7b in tracked funding; 94% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Native AI companies in Portugal
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unbabel Provider of an AI based translation platform | $106M | 34 mo ago | Acquired | Vasco Pedro Co-founder and CEO | 2013 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressApple iCloud Mail+19 | — |
| 2 | Smartex Developer of automated inspection systems for circular knitting textile machines | $30M | 48 mo ago | Series A | Paulo Ribeiro Co-Founder & VP of Software Engineering | 2018 | WixSentryBootstrap+15 | — |
| 3 | Sensei Provider of AI-based autonomous store solutions for offline retail stores | $23M | 24 mo ago | Series A | Nuno Moutinho Co-Founder & CTO | 2017 | WebflowGSAPTypekit+15 | — |
| 4 | MOV.AI ROS-based software platform for building and deploying autonomous mobile robots in warehouses and factories | $15M | 47 mo ago | Series A | — | 2016 | WordPressMySQLPHP+31 | — |
| 5 | Jungle Provider of electrical assets maintenance services for wind turbines and heavy machinery | $5M | 49 mo ago | Series A | Tim Kock Co-Founder | 2016 | WebflowVimeoSvelte+22 | — |
| 6 | Neuraspace Provider of AI/ML solutions for space traffic management and safety | $3M | 55 mo ago | Seed | Chiara Manfletti CEO | 2020 | PrismicApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+24 | — |
| 7 | Reckon AI-based cloud platform for self-checkout solution for retail | $2M | 15 mo ago | Series A | Ana Pinto Co-Founder & CEO | 2017 | WordPressMySQLPHP+31 | — |
| 8 | Automaise AI-based business process and customer service digitzation management platform | $2M | 19 mo ago | Series A | Ernesto Pedrosa Co-Founder & CEO | 2017 | WordPressMySQLPHP+32 | — |
Top 9 Native AI companies in Portugal
#1
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—
#2
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
#3
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
#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
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
#6
Series A · Sintra, Lisbon · founded 2016 · 39 employees$15.2Mraised▾
ROS-based software platform for building and deploying autonomous mobile robots in warehouses and factories. It offers an industrial-grade Robotics Engine Platform with visual IDE, navigation algorithms, and fleet management tools. It enables AMR makers and integrators to create flexible, enterprise-ready robots quickly—hardware-agnostics.
#7
Series A · Lisbon, Lisbon · founded 2016 · 35 employees$5Mraised▾
Provider of electrical assets maintenance services for wind turbines and heavy machinery. Its service offerings include detecting failure development, downtime reduction, efficiency maintenance, production optimization, and others. The company claims to use AI-based predictive research and data streams of the assets to develop insights and offers its services.
#8
Seed · Coimbra, Coimbra District · founded 2020 · 28 employees$2.8Mraised▾
Provider of AI/ML solutions for space traffic management and safety. The company offers tools for risk assessment and maneuver suggestions to avoid collisions. It supports satellite operators in handling alerts and minimizing unnecessary maneuvers. The company also provides services for precise satellite tracking and safe deployment. Furthermore, it assists organizations in managing space traffic and detecting threats.
- Mar 2022Seed$2.8M
#9
Deadpooled · Lisbon, Lisbon · founded 2015 · 8 employees—raised▾
Provider of a mobile app with video and image recognition. The company claims that its patented technology can search and find a video within a database of thousands of hours of video in seconds even when recorded from a low-quality smartphone camera. Its mobile application is available for iOS and android platforms only. It also provides a development tool that can also be integrated into user mobile app or web platforms.
- Jun 2015Seed—
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