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Startup Investment News Europe - Investments in seed capital and early stage funding for startups in Portugal increased by 37% in 2025 to reach 2,849 million euros. The total value of acquisitions of shareholdings in Portugal also increased to reach 71% of the total value of transactions, according to a report by Portugal´s Securities and Exchange Commission (CMVM) dated October 29th, 2026. Here is Portugal´s "Report on Venture Capital Activity 2025" published by CMVM:

Business News Europe - UAE VC BY Venture Partners, with investment funds of 53.5 million euros, chose Lisbon as its European hub and opened its new headquarters in Lisbon on October 29th, 2026. BY Venture Partners is headquartered in Abu Dhabi, is a Venture Capital and Private Equity firm with a team of former founders that backs phenomenal early-stage founders. Along with their network of industry experts, they provide the empathetic support and invaluable connections that s

Tech News Europe - Here is the ranking of the cheapest countries to buy the new iPad Mini that was just released in Europe, which can be booked online from October 28th 2026 and will be available on November 6th. The new iPad Mini is the lightest iPad yet and it is 14% thinner than the previous model. It has a stunning 8.5 inch OLED display that delivers incredible visuals on a larger-than-ever 8.5‑inch screen that is perfect for travel and is resistant to dust, splashes and

Tech News Europe - For a small Portuguese business, news about a thousand future AI firms in Dubai is interesting but distant. The relevant question is what an owner in Porto, Braga or Lisbon can actually purchase, sell or improve through a larger international technology market. On 26 October 2026, Dubai International Financial Centre announced that Dubai AI Campus had attracted more than 500 artificial intelligence companies since its May 2024 launch.

Tech Startup News Europe - Founders of Portuguese startup Trovador were named Canon Young Champion of the Year 2026 at the Global Good Awards. Portuguese founders of startup Trovador, Sebastião Mendonça and Marta Bernardino have invented the world’s first all-terrain tree-planting robot. They obtained the Global Good Awards that reward businesses, NGOs, charities and social enterprises worldwide, that are trailblazers for purpose-driven sustainability and ethical leadership.

Defence News Europe - The Epirus Leonidas shield against drone swarms is listed in TIME Best Inventions 2026, dated Ocotber 15th, 2026. This acknowledgment underscores the impact of Leonidas’ high-power HPM technology as the Defence manufacturer continues to advance adaptable solutions for defeating dark drones and swarms. US defense tech company Epirus developed the Leonidas platform, which uses powerful pulses of microwave energy that can be beamed up from a driverless batt

Imagine a small Portuguese importer preparing to release a shipment. The supplier is waiting for confirmation, the transporter has a collection slot, and the customer expects delivery before the weekend. The transfer is authorised, but the banking service becomes inaccessible. The problem is no longer abstract cloud infrastructure. It is an invoice, and a chain of decisions that cannot be postponed. The cloud disruption affecting banking customers in Britain on 20 October 202

Tech News World - The invention that pulls drinking water out of thin air in arid regions was discovered by 2025 Nobel Prize winner, chemist Omar Yaghi, and it led to the creation of Startup Atoco, that is headquartered in the United States. Atoco was named one of the World´s Best Inventions of 2026 by TIME magazine on October 15, 2026. Atoco is a Climate Tech startup manufacturing atmospheric water generators based on nano-engineered reticular materials that work even in the

Tech Startup News Europe - Portuguese Battery swapping Startup Pollen is listed in the TIME Best Inventions 2026, on October 15th 2026. Pollen, that is an Energy Tech startup headquartered in Lisbon and founded in 2024, is named among the world´s Top 10 Best Inventions of 2026 in the Transportation sector by TIME magazine. Here is what is Portuguese Tech startup Pollen that is named in the TIME magazine list of the Top 10 Best Inventions in the world in the Transportation sec

Tech News Europe - Portugal will fund up to 50 million euros for the European Tech Champions Initiative 2.0 (ETCI). Europe is expanding its flagship ETCI initiative, as the EIB Group, the governments of all EU-27 countries, and major institutional investors are teaming up to mobilise up to €80 billion for investment into highly innovative companies that are scaling up to become global leaders. ETCI is part of the EIB Group’s broader efforts to mobilize capital at scale.

Defence News Europe - Portuguese Drone startup Beyond Vision raises 28 million euros in a Series A funding round led by Índico Capital Partners and Lince Capital, with follow-on investment from ActiveCap, a shareholder since 2024. This investment will help Beyond Vision to scale industrial production, accelerate development in AI and swarm capabilities, and expand their international presence in the Defense and critical infrastructure sectors.

For a small company, the most dangerous cyberattack may arrive as an ordinary invoice. It has the right supplier’s name, the right purchase order and an apparently reasonable request to update bank details. The accounts clerk makes the transfer, production continues, and the fraud is discovered only when the real supplier asks why payment has not arrived. No factory needs to be hacked for this to happen. Trust between two businesses is enough. This is the part of financial cr

Tech News - On Tuesday, September 8, Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic and posted a warning on X that, according to NBC, reached more than 100 million people overnight. After three years of pretraining research at OpenAI and Anthropic, he wrote that both companies were racing toward self-improving superintelligence without acting responsibly, and that the people building AI earnestly believe it "could kill us all" by the end of the decade. Within a day he was sitting on NBC

Financial News Europe - Here is the Financial Times ranking of the UK´s Fastest Growing companies 2027, published on October 1st, 2026, in conjunction with Statista. Here are the Top 10 Fastest Growing Startups in the UK including their sector, their Absolute Growth Rate, their Compound Annual Growth Rate, and their Revenue in 2025. The Financial Times reports ranks companies that grew the fastest between 2022 and 2025, a period when the UK was still emerging from the Covid-1

Tech News Europe - The argument over artificial intelligence investment is usually conducted in the language of ambition. How much computing capacity can a country attract? How many companies can it persuade to locate there? How quickly can it turn digital infrastructure into a national advantage? These questions matter, but they are not enough. The more useful question for Portugal is whether each proposed investment can remain financially and operationally viable when the c

Tech News Europe - Here are the Top AI Startups in Europe in 2026 according to Sifted. European AI startups have raised 29.6 billion euros so far in 2026, more than double the whole of 2025, and Europe’s strengths increasingly lie further up the stack. Vertical applications make up 51 of this year’s Top 100 AI Startups in Europe, compared with 41 in 2025, while the number of European startups applying AI in the physical world has grown from 11 to 14.

SEO News - What to do when your Website Traffic from Google Search has dropped? Website traffic from Google Search dropped by 40.2% year-on-year when comparing July 2025 and 2026, according to the report ¨9 Strategies to Boost Acquisition, Engagement, and Loyalty¨ by Chartbeat. The report also states that Pageviews from Google Discover dropped by 34.3%. Here is why your Google Search website traffic has dropped in 2026 and how to recover lost website traffic:

Defence & Space News Europe - Portugal Defence now has a tactical mobile satellite network created by MEO that combines 4G, 5G and satellite communications to ensure that the army will be able to maintain connections in the field when conventional networks are unavailable. Portugal´s new tactical mobile satellite network, called a "tactical bubble," can be installed quickly and ensures a coverage of more than ten kilometers in open terrain. The tactical bubble network was des