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Web Summit News - The Winner of the Web Summit Lisbon Pitch Competition 2026 is Carevision, a female-founded startup that uses AI to turn cameras into health screening tools. Carevision was founded by CEO Dr. Amani Abulaban, who won the Pitch Competition out of 150 competing startups from around the world. Here is more about Carevision and the most notable Winners of the Web Summit Lisbon Pitch Competition:

News AI Glasses Europe - Here are the Top 5 Best AI glasses from Meta that are available in different brands as well as the prices in Europe, namely: the Meta Adventurer LISA glasses that can be bought with collectible charms to be attached to the charging case, the Ray-Ban Meta Audio Clubmaster, the Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 3) Wayfarer, the Oakley Meta HSTN, and the Ray-Ban Meta Blayzer Optics (Gen 2) built specifically for prescription wearers no matter how strong your prescripti

Tech News Portugal - Portugal is a country of SMEs: they make up 99.9% of all companies. And SMEs are where artificial intelligence has made the least progress. According to Statistics Portugal (INE), in 2025, among companies with 10 or more employees, AI was used by 49.1% of large companies, 18.2% of medium-sized companies and only 9.4% of small ones. Overall, 11.5% of Portuguese companies used AI, compared with around 20% across the European Union:

Tech News Portugal - Portugal has a choice to make as the artificial intelligence economy expands: it can simply accommodate the buildings and cables that other nations need, or it can use the investment to strengthen its own economic capabilities. That distinction matters more than the number of data centres announced at a press conference. A facility may be enormous, expensive and technologically impressive while leaving relatively little lasting benefit for the communities

Startup Investment News - Biotech Startup Neobe Therapeutics just raised USD 6.8 million in a Seed Round led by Arc Ventures with the participation of Faber, Macmillan Ventures, Proven Connect - the investment arm of Prostate Cancer Research, Empirical Ventures, and strategic angel investors as well as follow-on investment from pre-seed investors 2048 Ventures, bringing the total funding raised by Neobe Therapeutics to more than USD 10.5 million:

Cybersecurity News Europe - Here are the Main Sources & Types of Cybersecurity Threats in the EU, according to the Report on the State of Cybersecurity in the Union, published on November 10, 2026. According to the data on Cybersecurity threats in the EU, ideologically motivated cyberattacks account for more than half of all attacks with 57.3%, followed by attacks for financial reasons with 29.3%. Hacktivist activity dominates in terms of cyberattack volume, driven mainly by

Web Summit Lisbon News - The Web Summit´s impact on Portugal´s economy was extremely significant since it has contributed nearly 2.5 billion euros to the Portuguese economy over the past decade, according to data published by an EY study. Below is a diagram showing the impact of the Web Summit on Portugal´s Startup Ecosystem in 2025, as well as data showing the Gross Output of the Web Summit in Portugal, the Gross Value Added, and the Tax Revenue obtained in the last decade:

Space News Europe - In February 2026, Telespazio Ibérica, a Leonardo Group company, was awarded the €20 million contract to develop the Canary Islands Satellite Constellation, the first Earth observation system created by a Spanish autonomous community. The Canary Islands Constellation aims at strengthening its Earth observation capabilities. Here is what is the Canary Islands Satellite Constellation and how it is linked to the European Federation of Satellite Constellation

Business News Portugal - A data centre can attract investment, construction contracts and technology jobs. It can also raise questions that do not appear in the headline announcing the project: who will reinforce the electricity network, how much water will be needed, what happens to local prices, and what does the surrounding community receive in return? Those questions deserve attention as Portugal considers how to participate in Europe's growing market for AI infrastructur

Cybersecurity News Europe - A shop owner can lose a week's takings without a single customer account being stolen. On 2 November, refrigeration systems at supermarkets across several European countries were disrupted in apparent cyberattacks. In Sweden, staff at one ICA store reported temperatures reaching 50 degrees Celsius. Across the affected businesses, chilled and frozen products had to be removed or discarded. It is a striking reminder that equipment can become a financ

Tech News Europe - Portuguese Fintech Startup Granter has raised 1.6 million euros in a funding round led by Portuguese investor 3xP Global, with the participation of Celtis Venture Partners, Gateway Ventures, and US Unicorn Deel, among other investors. This brings the total capital raised by startup Granter, that was founded in 2023, to 2 million euros. With this new funding round, Granter will be able to make grants accessible to organizations in Europe, making sure good id

Cybersecurity News Portugal - The false alerts reported in Ukraine and Russia offer businesses and public authorities a warning about the cost of losing confidence in official information. Imagine receiving an emergency message instructing you to remain indoors because of a chemical threat. It arrives through an official application, carries familiar design elements and urges immediate action. Minutes later, another official message says the warning was false and the applicat

Startup News Europe - Startup Genome´s Sales Manager, Fernando Jardim, was awarded for its contribution to Portugal’s Startup ecosystem as the winner of the International Personality Award by Unicorn Factory Lisboa, at the Lisbon City Council Entrepreneurship Awards. The award recognizes the foreign personality who has made the most significant contribution to Portugal’s innovation ecosystem. Portugal´s Startup community highlights that building a strong startup ecosystem tak

Business News Portugal - The latest technology selloff is a reminder that buying into a trend is not the same as investing in a useful business capability. A small business owner in Portugal does not have the luxury of treating every technological experiment as a strategic investment. Money spent on a software subscription is money that cannot be used elsewhere. Time devoted to implementing a complicated system is time taken away from customers, employees and daily operations

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

Defence & Space News Europe - Portugal Defence is now operating two new ICEYE satellites within the Atlantic Constellation to strengthen the country´s sovereign capacity. The two Finnish satellites, that were acquired by Public Private Partnership CTI, were launched by SpaceX on October 20th from Cape Canaveral in the United States. Portugal´s Aerospace Technology and Innovation Center (CTI Aeroespacial ) was founded to elevate Portugal's position in the aerospace industry an

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

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

Investment News Europe - Here is the ranking of the Top 10 European countries attracting the most foreign investment by number of projects, what are the Top 10 countries of origin of FDI projects in Portugal in 2025, and how can Portugal turn resilience into long-term competitiveness, according to the EY Portugal Attractiveness Survey 2026 October 2026. Portugal attracted 186 foreign direct investment (FDI) projects in 2025, ranking 9th country to attract the most FDI project

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

News Economy Europe - The IMF’s latest comments from Bangkok highlight a paradox that business leaders can no longer ignore. Artificial intelligence investment is supporting global growth, yet it is also expected to disrupt employment patterns significantly. For Portugal, the issue is not only macroeconomic. It is operational and deeply relevant to small and medium-sized enterprises. Portugal’s business landscape is rich in SMEs that work with tight margins, limited hiring fl

Tech News - Voices calling for global collaborative regulatory control over AI: “I have major issues with the people and the companies behind AI,” says Ioannis Ioannou, associate professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at London Business School. “It's a huge concentration of power.” Ekaterina Abramova, of the London Business School, is particularly concerned about AI making consequential decisions in the military. Do we really want to trust agentic systems with lethal auto

Defence & Cybersecurity News - For a business waiting for imported components, maritime security can sound remote until delivery dates move and stock runs short. Portugal’s Atlantic location offers geographic opportunities, but distance does not insulate an economy from disruption elsewhere on shipping routes. On 8 October, the UAE Federal National Council joined the discussion of a proposed maritime-security resolution at the Inter-Parliamentary Union.

Startup News Europe - Here are the facts and figures of Portugal´s Startup Ecosystem in 2026, including Portugal´s Top 10 Startups in 2026 and Top Startup Sectors, according to the StartupBlink Startup Ecosystem Report 2026. Portugal obtained the Most Attractive Startup Ecosystem in Southern Europe award at the Startup Ecosystem Awards 2026. Portugal has 998 startups, representing 2% of all startups in Western Europe. This equals to approximately 10 startups per 100,000 peopl

Defence & Aerospace News Europe - Flying Wedge Defence & Aerospace expects to invest 50 million euros in a new drone manufacturing plant in Portugal. This will be the company´s first international manufacturing Hub for their flagship autonomous combat drone, the Kaal Bhairava, in Portugal that is made possible through a strategic partnership with SKETCHPIXEL LDA and its spin-off KEYDEF. What is the AI-powered combat drone that will be made in Portugal?

Tech News - A wind turbine on a distant ridge still looks like old-fashioned physical infrastructure. So does a field of solar panels beside a highway. But increasingly, each is also part of a digital system that can be reached, monitored and sometimes controlled from somewhere else. That quiet change matters because the green transition is not only adding generation capacity. It is adding doors. This is how Cyber Resilience is becoming part of Infrastructure quality:

Tech News Europe - Here is the list of the Top Robotics companies speaking at Web Summit Lisbon 2026:

Financial News Europe - Blockchain.PT invests 4 million euros to accelerate Portugal´s energy transition. Blockchain.PT is investing in set of technological solutions developed to accelerate Portugal´s energy transition, to reduce carbon emissions and to promote smarter and more sustainable territories through blockchain technology. Here is how Blockchain is used to accelerate Portugal´s energy transition:

Financial News Europe - Switzerland´s USD 461.8 billion Blockchain Network includes Ethereum, Tezos, Cardano, DFINITY, Polkadot, Cosmos, NEAR and Solana as examples of influential blockchain ecosystems structured around Swiss foundations. Here is what is Switzerland´s USD 461.8 billion Blockchain Network, how to compute the valuation of a Blockchain network, how the valuation of Switzerland´s´ Blockchain Network is supported by its brand value, and how Trust may be the strong

Tech News Europe - Software by Portuguese Audio Tech startup Sound Particles is used in Hollywood blockbusters including Dune, Mission: Impossible, Oppenheimer, Star Wars 9, Indiana Jones, Game of Thrones, Stranger Things, House of the Dragon, Star Trek: Discovery, and Frozen 2. Here is what is Portuguese Audio Tech startup Sound Particles:

Startup News Europe - Here are the fastest-growing startups in Europe in 2026, according to Sifted:

Startup News Europe - The Lisbon MBA launched an Entrepreneurship Hub with MIT Sloan and Unicorn Factory Lisboa. Here is what is The Lisbon MBA Entrepreneurship Hub:

Startup news - Cristiano Ronaldo´s AI Wellness startup Erakulis raises 2 million euros in a funding round led by Lince Capital. Here is what is Cristiano Ronaldo´s AI Wellness startup Erakulis:

Jobs News Europe - Here is the list of the new AI Jobs in 2026, according to a study by Shakers:

Startup News - AI Startup Chamelio raises USD 26 million in a Series A funding round led by Entrée Capital and joining existing backers Work-Bench, Emerge Ventures and Bright Pixel Capital from Portuguese Group Sonae. Here is what is Tech Startup Chamelio: