Tech News Portugal 

Startup Investment News – Here is the ranking of the Top 10 VCs that invest seed capital in Portuguese startups, according to the latest report by the University of Lisbon with Dealroom.

Startup Investment News – Mesh Security just raised USD 12 million in a Series A funding round led by Lobby Capital with participation from S Ventures (SentinelOne CVC) and Bright Pixel Capital.

Defence News Europe - Portugal launches an accelerator for the EU Defence sector through Startup Leiria:

Financial News Europe - The Government of Portugal launched the EU's first Digital Business Wallet, a solution that centralizes official company documents in a single digital channel, securely, up-to-date, with legal validity, and eliminates the need to use multiple portals or paper processes.

Tech News World – Here is the Ranking of the Top Government AI investments in 2025, according to CB Insights Tech Trends 2026:

Tech News World - Here is the ranking of the Tech sectors that generated the most VC investment, Unicorns and Enterprise Value (EV) growth in 2025 according to the Dealroom report dated January 9th, 2026:

Startup News Europe – Here is the WIRED ranking of the Top 10 startups in Lisbon in 2025, in alphabetical order:

Business News Portugal - With the beginning of a new year, we are back to the discussion about priorities, growth and the future. In the midst of this debate, there is a topic that Portugal is not yet facing properly: the real impact of Artificial Intelligence on our ability to grow as a country.

Government of Portugal News - Prime Minister Luís Montenegro announced that Portugal and Ukraine have signed an agreement for the joint production of underwater drones and the holding of an economic forum between the two countries. Luís Montenegro was speaking at a joint press conference with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, on December 20th in Kiev.

Aerospace News Europe - Airbus partners with tech company Critical Software to develop Portugal's Aerospace sector. The Joint Venture is established under the name Critical FlyTech, where Airbus owns 51% of the new company.

Social Media News - Social Media bans for minors are becoming legally effective in many countries, including Australia, and existing accounts will be deactivated or removed. To this effect, minors are considered under 18 in the UK and under 16 in Australia.

Startup News Europe – The University of Lisbon led to the creation of startups worth over 18 billion euros, while all startups based in Lisbon are worth 24 billion euros, according to a report just published by Dealroom in November 2025. Here are the Unicorns, Future Unicorns and Rising Stars incubated at the University of Lisbon:

Government of Portugal News – Portugal’s Council of Ministers just enacted a law to strengthen support for innovation, scientific and technological research, and the competitiveness of Portuguese companies, through amendments to the Investment Tax Code, namely the Research and Development (R&D) Tax Incentive SIFIDE II. 

Tech News International – Here are the ranking of the Top 10 AI Customer Service Agents and Co-Pilots by revenue and market share in 2025, according to a report by CB Insights published on November 12th, 2025:

Government of Portugal News - Here are the massive AI investments pouring into Portugal, according to announcements made by Portugal’s Minister of Infrastructure and Housing, Miguel Pinto Luz, on November 12th, 2025:

Government of Portugal News - Here is Portugal's AI strategy presented at the Lisbon Web Summit 2025:

Green Mobility News Europe – Portugal’s Green Railway Pass, that is available on the CP app since September 2024, allows for 100% digital and immediate requests and already accounts for over 25% of new pass requests. This victory capitalizes on the Portuguese adoption of the digital mobile key.  

Tech News Europe – Nscale, that is the Hyperscaler for AI, has signed a multi-billion-dollar agreement with Microsoft to deliver approximately 200,000 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs to data centres in Portugal, UK, Norway and the U.S. Here are the details and the amount of NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs to be provided by Nscale to each data centre in Europe and the US:

The Government of Portugal approved today the draft State Budget for 2026, announced the Minister of the Presidency António Leitão Amaro at the Council of Ministers briefing in Lisbon. The proposal will be delivered in Parliament until Friday 10 October following the presentation of the macroeconomic setting by the Minister of Finance Joaquim Miranda Sarmento to the parties represented in Parliament.

Defence News Europe - Portugal collaborates with NATO for tactical space-based intelligence providing target identification, through a collaboration between ICEYE, CTI Aeroespacial, the Portuguese Air Force, and Geosat. Here is what is the ICEYE ISR Cell for NATO space-based tactical Intelligence:

Tech News Europe - High-tech exports from the EU registered a surplus of 23 billion euros in 2024, with exports reaching 501 billion euros, that is an export growth of 8.1% compared to 2023. Here are the EU’s main export markets for high-tech products and the ranking by type of product, according to Eurostat:  

Investment News Europe – Here are the Top 10 European countries attracting the most foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2024 by number of projects, as well as fastest growing markets in Europe for foreign direct investment (FDI) projects, according to the EY 2025 report:

Cryptocurrency News – Tether.io and US crypto bank Anchorage Digital just launched stablecoin USA₮ in New York with plans for being listed on the Stock Exchange. What is stablecoin USAT?

Billionaires News – Here is the percentage growth of crypto billionaires and millionaires from 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025, as well as the total market value of cryptocurrencies in 2025, according to the latest report published by Henley&Partners:

Cryptocurrency News - Here are the most crypto-friendly countries in the world in 2025, according to the Henley&Partners report published on September 23rd, 2025:

Tech News Europe – Here is the list of the Top 100 Unicorn companies in Europe in 2025 as well as their valuation and list of investors, and the list of Portuguese Unicorns, according to CBInsights and Portugal Business News:

Startup funding News - Portuguese tech startup Nutrium just raised 10 million euros in a funding round led by Vesalius Biocapital, with participation from Indico Capital Partners, Lince Capital and Beta Capital. This new funding round brings the capital raised by Nutrium to 16.8 million euros.

Tech startup funding news - Portuguese foodtech Brainr just raised 11 million euros seed round, that is Portugal’s largest ever seed round and was led by C2 Capital Partners.

Tech Funding News Europe - French Tech startup Mistral AI just raised 1.7 billion Euros in a Series C funding round led by ASML, with the participation of existing investors DST Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Bpifrance, General Catalyst, Index Ventures, Lightspeed and NVDIA.  

Digital Nomad News – Here are the Top 10 Best Cities in the World for Digital Nomads in 2025, according to the latest Savills report:  

Financial News - What are the Wholesale Digital Gold and Pooled Gold Interests that are launched by the World Gold Council on September 3rd, 2025?

Tech funding news - Portuguese VC Bright Pixel Capital leads a $10 million funding round in US cybersecurity startup Tidal Cyber.

Tech funding News Europe - Polish Unicorn InPost enters the capital of Portuguese Bloq.it, a leader in the Parcel Locker networks sector, through a minority stake in the company.

Financial News – Here is the ranking of the Top 10 Investors globally that generate Unicorns from Seed in 2025, according to Dealroom.

Digital Nomad News – Here is the ranking of the Top 10 best cities in the world to work remotely as well as the best cities in Europe to work as a digital nomad in 2025:

Tech News Europe - Deutsche Telekom just launched an AI smartphone with Perplexity on August 14th, 2025. The new AI phone adds the following benefits to your regular smartphone:

Tech Startup Investment News - AI startup Keychain raises USD 30 million Series B funding.

Tech News Europe - Cybersecurity company ESET is joining Europol's Cyber Intelligence Extension Programme (CIEP). This is how ESET will contribute to Europol's Cyber Intelligence Extension Programme:

Cybersecurity News - The largest cybersecurity event GISEC GLOBAL 2026 will be held in Dubai on 5-7 May 2026. Get a free Visitor Pass here:

Space News Europe - Portugal just granted its first license to a operate a spaceport to the Portuguese Atlantic Spaceport Consortium (ASC). Portugal’s spaceport will operate from the island of Santa Maria in the Azores.

AI News – Here are the Top 15 websites where AI gets its information, according to an August 6th, 2025, report by Statista.

News Jobs Europe – This is the ranking of the highest-paying entry-level AI jobs in the UK, according to Forbes.

Tech News Europe – Here is the ranking of the Top 10 free Apple iPhone Apps in 2025 in Portugal:

Tech News Europe – Here is the ranking of the Top 10 free Apple iPhone Apps in 2025 in the UK:

Investment News Europe – Portuguese startup Bling Energy raises funding of 15 million euros from BlueCrow Capital.

Tech Startup News Europe – Portuguese Startup Reckon.ai just raised 5.1 million euros in a new funding round that leads to a total investment of 8.5 million euros since 2017. 

Startup News Europe – Here are Europe’s Top startup ecosystems by value in 2024, as well as the number of unicorns per city, the salary of a software engineer per city, and who are the investors, according to the latest report by Startup Genome dated July 22nd, 2025:

Tech News Europe – Here are the new European Unicorns in 2025 and the number per country, according to Dealroom.