Top 10 Automotive Startup Investors in Portugal (November 2026)

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• Fetalix — Fetal-inspired solutions for tissue regeneration
• Unlockit — Unlockit will offer to public and governmental bodies the guarantee that everything within a real estate transaction is recorded, meaning better industry regulation, more taxes and public fees collected, and less overall fraud and money laundering activities.
• Outgoing — A ticketing tool that allows organizers to sell tickets directly on WhatsApp and Instagram. Users can purchase tickets through a personalized checkout process entirely within the chat, without registration or redirects. It also offers customer support that answers questions in real time.

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• Expanse — We predict exactly what every job needs before it runs, so your cluster does more real work with the GPUs you already have.
• IMMIX — Immix engages in scaling web3 trading through next-generation technologies.
• Outerlimit — Outerlimit is an AI security company focused on securing and governing agentic AI systems. Its platform provides visibility into AI agent activity, identity and access controls, risk assessment, and runtime security. The company helps organizations establish security and governance controls for AI agents operating across enterprise environments and manage their access to applications, data, and systems.

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• Rofim — Rofim provides a multidisciplinary platform that combines practitioners' knowledge, technology for analyses, and medical imaging to provide a diagnosis. In order to share knowledge and provide the most accurate and timely diagnosis possible, Rofim concentrates on all the functionalities created for fluid medical use. The company is dedicatedto making the daily lives of physicians, patients, and medical institutions easier, more moral, and more seamless.
• Hoopers — Global basketball community platform connecting players, fans and enthusiasts through products, contents, experiences and NFTs.
• Hope Care Health — Hope Care is a digital health company that combines services, products, and cutting-edge technology platforms to enable the delivery of Social and Health Care without barriers.

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• HealthyRoad — In HealthyRoad we are developing facial biometric tech for automotive sector, in order to get facial features of the driver.The software aims to analyze drowsiness, fatigue levels, distraction, stress levels and is also able to identify different drivers as well as to identify his sex and age in order to create a driver’s profile. The softwaremain goal is to alert the driver for dangerous driving behaviors, to give a better user experience and finally to support the other sensors in the vehicle to take action if necessary.For these purpose we are developing active safety biometrical software that is able to: - Facial recognition - for driver’s identification and machine learning technics - Fatigue level detection - using blinking and heart rate detection - Drowsiness detection - using eye tracking techniques - Distraction detection - using face movement detection - Emotion detection - using face expressions analysis - Stress detection - using heart rate measurement software - Eye gaze and face orientation - using face analysisAdditionally to the main goal of the technology, it is also able to collect all this driver’s data as well as the GPS information, and sends in real time to the cloud, in order to improve the adoption of better driving behaviors.
• GRAPHENEST — Graphenest is a nanotechnology company focused on high-value graphene-based solutions for advanced composites and functional coatings & inks markets.

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• Reco — SaaS Security Leverage Reco's context analysis to streamline SaaS security, minimize data and identity risk, and automate remediation
• Pivot — Pivot operates as a fintech company.
• Fonoa — Manage your sales tax, VAT, and GST obligations seamlessly through our API, globally. For internet businesses around the world, we make taxes simple, automated, borderless, and accessible via our API.

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• Noah — API-first stablecoin payments, enterprise-grade compliance and real-time settlements, powered by stablecoin technology.
• Concretene — Concretene is a concrete alternative that is designed to provide a viable CO2 reduction technology in the construction industry for cementitious products. It is developed by Nationwide Engineering Research and Development (NERD) with the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC).
• Talent Nation — Talent Nation trains and places AI engineers with businesses through its Learn2Earn academy.

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• Wizi — Wizi develops location-sharing and geo-social discovery solutions for mobile devices. Its technology aggregates geo-location technology and location information obtained from social networks for smartphones. Wizi also develops a text-based service that works on all mobile devices. It integrates with mobile operators' location-based servicesthat allow mobile subscribers to get into the process of geo-location and geo-social discovery.
• AddVolt — AddVolt is a technology based company that tackles markets where there is a high potential for diesel costs reduction through the generation of solar and kinetic energy, while other secondary savings are generated (e.g. maintenance).
• Salinnova GmbH — SALINNOVA GmbH deals with innovations in seawater desalination. The main product is SALINO, which replaces the four components high-pressure pump, energy recovery, booster pump and electric motor with a compact unit, significantly increasing energy efficiency and reliability as well as reducing life cycle costs and simplifying assembly andoperation. SALINO is perfect for use in small and medium-sized desalination plants for industry, shipping or hotels.

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• Guardion — Guardion helps save lives by detecting and tracking dirty bombs in their cities. Guardion has the world's first radiation detector that exploits quantum properties of nanomaterials allowing us to build low cost, sensitive, and low power detectors uniquely capable of being deployed at a large-scale. Guardion was a winner of the $50kMassChallenge 2017 Gold Prize and Technology in Space Prize from CASIS (Center for Advancement in Science in Space) and Boeing. In early 2018, Guardion joined the inaugural cohort of the Techstars Autonomous Tech Accelerator sponsored by the Air Force.
• OmniPreSense — OmniPreSense is developing Smart City traffic monitoring sensors to help make our cities safer. The sensors detect excessive speeding and are networked to provide real time alerts or traffic reports. This data is easily provided to authorities for speed calming or other corrective actions. We are currently in Beta site testing of our product. Wehave validation of the market as we have had customers who are engineers buying our base radar sensor and building their own traffic monitor. Now we're building a simple to use solution for everyone. Our product is like Ring, but instead of protecting your door we protect your neighborhood.OmniPreSense was founded on 2016 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
• GRAPHENEST — Graphenest is a nanotechnology company focused on high-value graphene-based solutions for advanced composites and functional coatings & inks markets.

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• AddVolt — AddVolt is a technology based company that tackles markets where there is a high potential for diesel costs reduction through the generation of solar and kinetic energy, while other secondary savings are generated (e.g. maintenance).

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• Highlight Therapeutics — Highlight Therapeutics is a private, clinical-stage company dedicated to unlocking the full potential of immuno-oncology.
• Atir Hospitality — Atir Hospitality is a premier investor and operator in Spain's hospitality sector. Our offerings encompass all-included solutions.
• New Capital Aparcamiento Torrecárdenas — New Capital Aparcamiento Torrecárdenas operates as a special purpose concessionaire focused on public-private infrastructure development and facility management. The company's core business model centers on executing long-term administrative concessions for the construction, structural maintenance, and commercial optimization of large-scaleparking assets. Its value proposition is built around providing modern, high-capacity, and sustainable vehicle parking solutions adjacent to high-traffic public complexes.