Best Semiconductors Companies in Portugal
The 32 best Semiconductors companies in Portugal in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Chipidea.
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Our analysis of 219 Semiconductors companies
$47.9b in tracked funding; 70% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Semiconductors companies in Portugal
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chipidea Semiconductor IP design | $28M | 238 mo ago | Acquired | — | 1997 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Fibersail Developer of monitoring systems for wind turbine blades | $6M | 55 mo ago | Series A | Pedro Pinto Founder | 2013 | — | — | — |
| 3 | PICadvanced Provider of services specialized in solving problems through optics | $5M | 40 mo ago | Series A | Francisco Manuel Ruivo Rodrigues CEO | 2014 | Node.jsUbuntuNext.js+10 | 34 patents Burst-mode optical transceivers and double-density GPON SFP modules on photonic ICs | — |
| 4 | FiberSensing Fiber Bragg Grating sensors for monitoring and measurement. | $3M | 237 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | Alberto Maia Co-Founder | 2004 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Sphere Ultrafast Photonics Manufacturer of measurement instrumentation for ultrafast lasers | $483K | 103 mo ago | Seed | Rosa Romero Co-Founder & CEO | 2013 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+25 | 31 patents Ultrafast laser pulse characterization, broadband nonlinear spectroscopy, and carrier‑envelope phase metrology | — |
| 6 | Sensefinity Provider of IoT enabled tracking solutions for end-to-end supply chain visibility | $128K | 71 mo ago | Seed | Tiago Andrade Co-Founder & CMO | 2015 | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+22 | — | — |
| 7 | Mater Dynamics Sensors to track products in supply chain | $108K | 114 mo ago | Funding Raised | Tiago Cunha Reis Founder | 2015 | — | — | — |
| 8 | SiliconGate Supplier of power management IP-cores for ASIC/SoC with experienced engineers ensuring system functionality | — | 37 mo ago | Funding Raised | Floriberto Lima President & CEO | 2008 | — | — | — |
Top 11 Semiconductors companies in Portugal
#1
Series A · Ilhavo, Aveiro District · founded 2014 · 41 employees$4.7Mraised▾
Provider of consulting services and processes intended to address complex problems through optics, optical chip design, development, and packaging. The company's offerings include developing and offering consultancy services on optoelectronic components and their instrumentation using integrated photonics, since conception, packaging, and integration of electrotechnology, telecommunications as well and biomedicine products, enabling clients to get access to innovative services for their photonic integrated circuits needs.
#2
Series A · Porto, Porto District · founded 2013 · 15 employees$5.7Mraised▾
Developer of monitoring systems for wind turbine blades. It provides shape sensing systems for monitoring and analyzing the shape, condition, and behaviour of wind turbine blades under the same brand name. The system is based on fibre-optic research and offers real-time data to optimize performance and prevent failures.
#3
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.
#4
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
#5
Acqui-Hired · Maia, Porto District · founded 2004 · 29 employees$3.1Mraised▾
Developer of monitoring systems based on optical fiber bragg grating (FBG) sensor technology. The company provides measurement units and software packages for data management and user interface. It also offers OEM sensors and automated monitoring systems.
#6
Seed · Porto, Porto District · founded 2013 · 7 employees$482.8Kraised▾
Developer of pulsed laser technologies intended to improve the performance of femtosecond applications. The company develops laser products that cover different wavelength ranges, pulse durations, and repetition rates, are capable of measuring and controlling ultra-short laser pulses, and also offers custom laser building services, enabling industries to have access to laser systems to meet general and proprietary use cases.
#7
Funding Raised · Lisbon, Lisbon · founded 2015 · 3 employees$107.6Kraised▾
Mater Dynamics has developed a small flexible sensor which can be stuck to any product or process stage. Product and process stages are tracked on basis of their ID and surrounding variables. Company's mesh network connects all the sensors together wirelessly. It gives user a dashboard where they can monitor and track their products.
- May 2017Grant (prize money)$54.5K
- Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$53K
#8
Funding Raised · Lisbon, Lisbon · founded 2008 · 28 employees—raised▾
SiliconGate is a specialized supplier of Power Management IP-Cores for ASIC/SoC, offering integration and verification services for development. They have been dedicated to customer success since 2008 and have experienced engineers to ensure system functionality.
#9
Funding Raised · Aveiro, Aveiro District · founded 2007—raised▾
Provider of diverse embedded systems
#10
Funding Raised · Coimbra, Coimbra District · founded 2017—raised▾
Manufacturer of electronics, digital & analog RF hardware design, and other services
#11
Funding Raised · Lisboa, Lisboa · founded 2011—raised▾
Developer of pulsed power modulators designed to assist several industrial sectors. The company develops, produces, and sells pulsed power modulators based on state-of-the-art assembled in very flexible and modular topologies, enabling clients to add value to several industrial processes.
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Semiconductors coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Semiconductors is moving in Portugal
A read on the academic research around Semiconductors — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 160 Portugal-affiliated papers.
- Instituto de Telecomunicações51
- University of Lisbon33
- Instituto Superior Técnico22
- Ministry of Education18
- Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa17
- Transistor1→4
- Photonics2→5
- CMOS3→4
- Fabrication1→4
- Electronics4
- Wafer3
- Electronic design automation2
- Integrated circuit layout2
- Bridging (networking)2
Where semiconductors 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.