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Best Retail Companies in Porto, Portugal

The 32 best Retail companies in Porto, Portugal in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Smartex.

32companies tracked
$65.3Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
2have raised

Ranked: Best Retail companies in Porto

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackRecent signals
1Smartex
Developer of automated inspection systems for circular knitting textile machines
$30M48 mo agoSeries APaulo Ribeiro
Co-Founder & VP of Software Engineering
2018WixSentryBootstrap+15—
2PlatformE
Online B2B platform offering customization of fashion products
$12M84 mo agoSeries BBen Demiri
Co-Chair And Co-Founder
2015WebflowTikTok PixelLinkedin Insight Tag+20—
3Barkyn
Internet first brand offering dog foods
$11M66 mo agoSeries AAndre Jordao
Co-Founder & CEO
2017Shogun Page BuilderCart FunctionalityShopify+36—
4Movvo
Real-time customer behavior analysis to drive sales
$11M125 mo agoDeadpooledRoberto Ugo
Founder
2009——
5Corium Biotech by Maia & Muller - Biotech
Manufacturer of alternative leather materials
$547K24 mo agoUnfundedMaria Goncalves Maia
Co-Founder & CEO
2020——
6Xhockware
App-based self-checkout and customer engagement solutions
$476K96 mo agoSeedJoao Paulo Rodrigues
Co-Founder & CEO
2014——
7Jumpseller
Storefront for SMEs
$40K191 mo agoSeedTiago Matos
Co-Founder
2009Cart FunctionalityJumpsellerBootstrap+34—
8Xarevision
Provider of suite solution for retail
—105 mo agoFunding RaisedSilvio Macedo
Co-Founder & CEO
2006——

Top 11 Retail 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 — 2.6% 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
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 — 30.2% 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
#3
Series A · Porto, Porto District · founded 2017 · 74 employees
$11.2Mraised
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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.

Funding rounds
  • Apr 2021Series A$3.6M
  • Jun 2020Series A$5.6M
  • Apr 2019Seed$1.9M
  • Mar 2017Seed$107.5K
Founders & team
Andre JordaoCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Shilling, Five Seasons Ventures, Indico Capital Partners, Portugal Ventures, 200M, Acurio Ventures
Tech stack
American ExpressApple PayCart FunctionalityCdnjsClerkCloudflare
#4
Series B · Porto, Porto District · founded 2015 · 48 employees
$12Mraised
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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.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 10k LinkedIn followers — 13.8% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 3 hiring posts in 12 mo (public) · hiring: Founder Associate – Commercial Shadow, People & Ops Specialist
Founders & team
Ben DemiriCo-Chair And Co-Founder
Investors
TLF Ventures, Nordstrom, Corticeira Amorim, The Luxury Fund Management, 200M
Tech stack
CdnjsCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsFacebook PixelGoogle Ads
#5
Deadpooled · Porto, Porto District · founded 2009 · 55 employees
$10.8Mraised
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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.

Founders & team
Roberto UgoFounderSuzy VasconcelosCo-Founder & COOCyrus Gilbert-RolfeCEO
Investors
Caixa Capital, Bright Pixel Capital, BGI
#6
Seed · Porto, Porto District · founded 2014 · 9 employees
$476Kraised
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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.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 1k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 5 product launches announced in 12 mo
Founders & team
Joao Paulo RodriguesCo-Founder & CEOJoao NeivaCo-Founder
Investors
EIC Fund, European Union, Portugal Ventures, PNV Capital, Bynd Venture Capital
#7
Seed · Porto, Porto District · founded 2009 · 41 employees
$40Kraised
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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.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers — 5.0% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 2 product launches announced in 12 mo
Founders & team
Tiago MatosCo-Founder
Investors
Start-Up Chile
Tech stack
AhoyAmazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesAnimate.Css
#8
Funding Raised · Porto, Porto District · founded 2006 · 12 employees
—raised
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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.

Founders & team
Silvio MacedoCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
EIC Fund, Pathena
#9
Series A · Porto, Porto District · founded 2010 · 42 employees
—raised
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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

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 7k LinkedIn followers — 9.4% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 product launches · 3 partnerships (incl. 7th Heaven Foods Ltd UK) announced in 12 mo
Investors
Bright Pixel Capital
Tech stack
WixReactGoogle CloudSectigoHstsGoogle Cloud Cdn
#10
Seed · Porto, Porto District · founded 2015
—raised
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Private label brand of wearable GPS trackers for pets

Founders & team
Márcio ColunasCo FounderDavid Dieteren RibeiroCo-Founder
Investors
HAX, K-Startup Grand Challenge, SOUL FI, Braintrust, Brain Trust
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesAws Certificate ManagerBootstrapCloudflare
#11
Seed · Porto, Porto District · founded 2014
—raised
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App-based self-checkout solution for offline retailers

Founders & team
Joao Paulo RodriguesCo-Founder & CEOJoao NeivaCo-Founder & COO
Investors
Portugal Ventures

Funding & investor landscape

$65.3Mtotal disclosed funding
7companies funded
10disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Portugal Ventures4 rounds
EIC Fund3 rounds
200M2 rounds
Bright Pixel Capital2 rounds
Build Collective2 rounds
HAX2 rounds
Shilling2 rounds
Startup Porto Accelerator2 rounds
7Graus1 rounds
Acurio Ventures1 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
Paulo Ribeiro
Co-Founder & VP of Software Engineering · Smartex
Gilberto Loureiro
Co-Founder & CEO · Smartex
Andre Jordao
Co-Founder & CEO · Barkyn
Ben Demiri
Co-Chair And Co-Founder · PlatformE
Roberto Ugo
Founder · Movvo
Suzy Vasconcelos
Co-Founder & COO · Movvo
Joao Paulo Rodrigues
Co-Founder & CEO · Xhockware
Joao Neiva
Co-Founder · Xhockware
Tiago Matos
Co-Founder · Jumpseller
Silvio Macedo
Co-Founder & CEO · Xarevision
Prism market signals · Portugal · country-scoped Prism corpus, 720,732 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Retail coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

Common questions

How many Retail companies are there in Porto, Portugal?
Radar tracks 32 indexable Retail companies headquartered in Porto, Portugal that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Retail companies in Porto, Portugal?
The Retail companies in Porto, Portugal on this list have raised a combined $65.3M in disclosed equity funding across 7 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Retail company in Porto, Portugal?
Smartex is the highest-funded Retail company in Porto, Portugal, with $30.2M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Retail companies in Porto, Portugal are funded?
7 of the 32 Retail companies in Porto, Portugal on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Retail unicorns are there in Porto, Portugal?
None of the Retail companies in Porto, Portugal on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Porto, Portugal Retail companies?
The most active investors in Porto, Portugal Retail companies on this list include Portugal Ventures, EIC Fund, 200M, Bright Pixel Capital, Build Collective.
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