Best Retail Companies in Porto District, Portugal
The 37 best Retail companies in Porto District, Portugal in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Smartex.
Ranked: Best Retail 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 | 46 mo ago | Series A | Paulo Ribeiro Co-Founder & VP of Software Engineering | 2018 | WixSentryBootstrap+15 | — |
| 2 | PlatformE Online B2B platform offering customization of fashion products | $12M | 82 mo ago | Series B | Ben Demiri Co-Chair And Co-Founder | 2015 | WebflowTikTok PixelLinkedin Insight Tag+20 | — |
| 3 | Barkyn Internet first brand offering dog foods | $11M | 64 mo ago | Series A | Andre Jordao Co-Founder & CEO | 2017 | Shogun Page BuilderCart FunctionalityShopify+36 | — |
| 4 | Movvo Real-time customer behavior analysis to drive sales | $11M | 123 mo ago | Deadpooled | Roberto Ugo Founder | 2009 | — | — |
| 5 | Corium Biotech by Maia & Muller - Biotech Manufacturer of alternative leather materials | $547K | 23 mo ago | Unfunded | Maria Goncalves Maia Co-Founder & CEO | 2020 | — | — |
| 6 | Xhockware App-based self-checkout and customer engagement solutions | $476K | 94 mo ago | Seed | Joao Paulo Rodrigues Co-Founder & CEO | 2014 | — | 5 launchs |
| 7 | Follow Inspiration Smart shopping carts for retailers | $123K | 100 mo ago | Funding Raised | Luis de Matos Chairman & CEO | 2012 | WordPressPleskMySQL+22 | 1 expansion |
| 8 | Jumpseller Storefront for SMEs | $40K | 189 mo ago | Seed | Tiago Matos Co-Founder | 2009 | Cart FunctionalityJumpsellerBootstrap+34 | — |
Top 12 Retail 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
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
#3
Series A · Porto, Porto District · founded 2017 · 74 employees$11.2Mraised▾
Internet first brand offering dog foods. The company offers personalized and flavorful food for the dog. It uses a natural source of vitamins and minerals like fresh salmon fillet or tender chicken breast, mixed with broccoli, blueberries, and other chemical-free super ingredients. The platform also allows connecting with veterinarians for nutritional and health support. The company offers mobile applications for Android and iOS platforms.
- Apr 2021Series A$3.6M
- Jun 2020Series A$5.6M
- Apr 2019Seed$1.9M
- Mar 2017Seed$107.5K
#4
Series B · Porto, Porto District · founded 2015 · 48 employees$12Mraised▾
Online B2B platform offering customization of fashion products. The company manufactures based on the ongoing demand in the fashion industry. The company claims to offer 3D product visualization, 3D product configuration, and supply chain technology to manufacture on-demand fashion products. The company helps brands to customize the needs of customers virtually with a variety of designs, graphics, fabrics, colors, and more, before making the physical product. It also offers a supply chain solution that connects the orders directly to factories, enabling dropship products factory to consumer.
#5
Deadpooled · Porto, Porto District · founded 2009 · 55 employees$10.8Mraised▾
Provider of location analytics and monetization platform designed to deliver insights on in-store browsing and shopping patterns. The company's location analytics and monetization platform utilizes artificial intelligence and big data to deliver a business intelligence insight, captures and interprets the radio frequency footprint of shoppers, enabling shopping malls, city centers, and entertainment venues to monetize their physical space and provide an omnichannel experience to their visitors.
#6
Seed · Porto, Porto District · founded 2014 · 9 employees$476Kraised▾
Developer of a cloud-based checkout technology platform designed to improve the customer experience at retail outlets. The company's platform offers a mobile application that permits scanning products for checkout and also includes loyalty cards, shopping lists, shopping history and a store locator, enabling retailers to grow their business with ease as well as increase service experience and customer loyalty.
#7
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
#8
Seed · Porto, Porto District · founded 2009 · 41 employees$40Kraised▾
Developer of an online e-commerce platform intended for small and medium-scale businesses. The company's platform helps to create an online store that offers setting up infrastructure, managing backups, performing regular updates, developing software, and ensuring security, enabling clients to easily focus on the growth of their business.
#9
Public · Maia, Porto District · founded 1959 · 48222 employees—raised▾
Sonae is a retail group operating across a variety of categories like food, books and stationery, clothing, footwear, consumer electronics, telecom etc. Operates through the following subsidiaries: Sonae MC(food retail), Sonae SR(non-food retail), Sonae RP(property retail), Sonae FS(financial services), Sonae IM(investment management), Sonae Sierra(shopping centres), NOS(telecommunication services). Retail operations are carried out under the following brands Continente(hypermarkets), Bagga(cafeterias and restaurants), Note!(bookstore and stationery), Well's(health, wellness and optical), ZU(pet products), Worten(home appliances and consumer electronics), MO(clothing, footwear and accessories), Sport Zone(sports equipment and apparel), Zippy(baby and children apparel) etc.
#10
Funding Raised · Porto, Porto District · founded 2006 · 12 employees—raised▾
Operator of a digital in-store advertising network. The company develops and operates wireless networks and artificial intelligence to create and manage broad networks of static and interactive displays.
#11
Series A · Porto, Porto District · founded 2010 · 42 employees—raised▾
Inovretail is a retail technology company that designs solutions to improve the in-store customer experience. Their solutions enable retailers to create store environments that are customer oriented, leading to increased sales. They product SeePlus helps retailers to define and actively monitor atmospherics strategy execution, measure the impact of store atmospherics on customer behavior and purchasing pattern, monitor effectiveness of marketing campaigns, compare store formats and improve business performance with the advanced Business Performance Manager and Real-time Business alarmists. The SeeMobile product is an extension of SeePlus and provides all the features of SeePlus in mobile devices. The Lab tool enables retailers to gain insight on the in-store customers like demographics, dwell times, purchase behavior, etc. The SeeExplorer is an analytics platform for retailers built within the Office Excel productivity ecosystem. Their last product, SeeWall, is a consumer-focused app that enables shoppers to identify which fitting rooms are available, request help or ask for different products sizes or colours without the hassle of leaving the fitting room. At the same time, it de
#12
Seed · Porto, Porto District · founded 2015—raised▾
Private label brand of wearable GPS trackers for pets
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