Best Retail Companies in Portugal
The 198 best Retail companies in Portugal in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: bizay.
Portugal's Retail sector doesn't get enough credit. This directory ranks 198 companies operating across retail in Portugal, ordered by disclosed equity funding and recent momentum, and the $200M in total tracked capital tells a more interesting story than the headline suggests.
Bizay leads the pack at $92M raised, with Smartex at $30M and Sensei at $23M rounding out the top tier. That's three companies accounting for the bulk of a funding pool spread thin across nearly 200 tracked names, and no unicorns yet. So where's the pressure coming from? Global retail is forecast to grow from roughly $795.6B in 2024 to $1,283.6B by 2034 at a 4.0% CAGR, driven by GenAI adoption and shifting consumer demand, which means Portuguese founders building in this space are doing it inside a market that's genuinely expanding. Median app install growth of roughly +20% YoY across 806 retail-adjacent apps confirms digital channels are still pulling users in. I'd watch Sensei especially, given its computer-vision angle on physical stores. Investors like Portugal Ventures and EIC Fund are active here, and you can filter the full list below to find where the smart money is actually landing.
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Ranked: Best Retail companies in Portugal
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bizay Bizay is an Operating System for Product Customization, that enables the world’s largest catalogue of… | $92M | 29 mo ago | Series C | 190 | — | AlgoliaSalesforceMicrosoft ASP.NET+30 | — |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 | — |
| 4 | PlatformE Online B2B platform offering customization of fashion products | $12M | 79 mo ago | Series B | 48 | Ben Demiri Co-Chair And Co-Founder | WebflowTikTok PixelLinkedin Insight Tag+20 | — |
| 5 | Barkyn Internet first brand offering dog foods | $11M | 61 mo ago | Series A | 74 | Andre Jordao Co-Founder & CEO | Shogun Page BuilderCart FunctionalityShopify+36 | — |
| 6 | Movvo Real-time customer behavior analysis to drive sales | $11M | 120 mo ago | Deadpooled | 55 | Roberto Ugo Founder | — | — |
| 7 | sheerME Provider of an online marketplace to book beauty, fitness, and wellness services | $8M | 25 mo ago | Seed | 30 | Miguel Alves Ribeiro Co-Founder & CEO | RubyNode.jsLeaflet+32 | — |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | AssetFloow AI-based predictive analytics and business workflow management solutions | $2M | 39 mo ago | Series A | 9 | Katya Ivanova Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 10 | Undandy Online platform for custom-made footwear for men | $2M | 90 mo ago | Seed | — | Goncalo Simoes Henriques Founder & Managing Director | — | — |
| 11 | eSolidar Auction website for helping charities in raising funds | $1M | 101 mo ago | Seed | 8 | Marco Barbosa CEO | — | — |
| 12 | Flecto Provider of software suite solution for rental e-commerce businesses | $1M | 47 mo ago | Seed | 13 | Francisco Bento Co-founder | Node.jsReactNext.js+9 | 1 job opening |
| 13 | Zeoos Cloud-based operation management solutions for e-commerce businesses | $1M | 27 mo ago | Seed | — | Filipe Themudo CEO | — | — |
| 14 | Passworks Customer acquisition and marketing through Passbook, Google Wallet and WP Wallet | $1M | 145 mo ago | Acquired | 3 | — | — | — |
| 15 | Mygon Real time local deals | $700K | 171 mo ago | Seed | 9 | Goncalo Bernardo Co-founder | Cart FunctionalitySentryFacebook Login+24 | 1 award |
| 16 | Shiptimize Multi-carrier shipping solutions for e-tailers | $640K | 95 mo ago | Series A | 11 | Mark Bastiaanssen Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+14 | — |
| 17 | Corium Biotech by Maia & Muller - Biotech Manufacturer of alternative leather materials | $547K | 20 mo ago | Unfunded | 3 | Maria Goncalves Maia Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 18 | Xhockware App-based self-checkout and customer engagement solutions | $476K | 91 mo ago | Seed | 9 | Joao Paulo Rodrigues Co-Founder & CEO | — | 5 launchs |
| 19 | MeshApp Web content management application for e-tailers and brands | $375K | 151 mo ago | Deadpooled | 8 | Rodrigo Moreira Rato Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 20 | Magikbee Interactive device learning through tablets for kids | $250K | 93 mo ago | Seed | — | Hugo Filipe Ribeiro Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 21 | Gorodata Provider of AI-based software suite solution | $146K | 60 mo ago | Seed | 3 | Miguel Ventura Co-Founder | — | — |
| 22 | Follow Inspiration Smart shopping carts for retailers | $123K | 97 mo ago | Funding Raised | 14 | Luis de Matos Chairman & CEO | WordPressPleskMySQL+22 | 1 expansion |
Top 12 Retail 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 · 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.
#3
Series C · Torres Vedras, Lisboa · founded 2013 · 190 employees$91.8Mraised▾
Developer of a customized marketplace platform designed to digitalize product customization by empowering brands, people, and societies to self-express. The company's platform and technology are aimed at different customer target sectors to design and sell customized products via product catalog and offer customization on any product in the world and reduce the cost of production by half through batching and supply-chain optimization technologies, enabling small and medium-sized enterprises as well as big household brands to ways of communicating, changing the way in which they develop and implement their marketing strategy.
#4
Seed · Paco De Arcos, Lisbon · founded 2020 · 30 employees$7.9Mraised▾
Operator of a wellness marketplace designed to cater to consumers' needs by providing access to online booking and payment options for all wellness services. The company's platform helps wellness businesses to increase their online visibility, bookings, and payments through the marketplace and various integrations partners that connect consumers and self-care services, enabling customers to connect with utilities as per their requirements and earn benefits to use through a Wallet and cashback ecosystem.
#5
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.
#6
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
#7
Seed · Lisboa, Lisboa · founded 2009$1.1Mraised▾
Cloud-based operation management solutions for e-commerce businesses
#8
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
#9
Series A · Lisbon, Lisbon · founded 2021 · 9 employees$1.6Mraised▾
AI-based predictive analytics and business workflow management solutions. It provides analytics, prediction, workflow management, decision-making solutions, insights, and more.
- Mar 2023Series A$1.6M
- Nov 2021Seed—
#10
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.
#11
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.
#12
Seed · Lisbon, Lisbon · founded 2016 · 13 employees$1.3Mraised▾
Provider of software suite solutions for rental e-commerce businesses. The platform allows businesses to customize rental operations by scanning IDs, adding services, and charging customers using link. The software feature includes inventory management, booking management, multi-channel sales management, subscription management, and more.
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
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