Top 5 Construction Startup Investors in Portugal in May 2026

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• Cintoo — Cintoo is essential for BIM to bridge the gap between your physical and virtual worlds.
• Automaise — Radically improve your customer care operations by focusing where the volume is and helping your agents do a better job.
• Sword Health — Sword delivers AI Care with clinical oversight to prevent pain, support recovery, and promote whole-body health. Trusted by employers and health plans.

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• Litehaus — Itehaus is a pioneering property development company specializing in construction solutions, including 3D-printed modular homes and sustainable building technologies. Its mission is to revolutionize real estate development by combining technology, sustainability, and design innovation to create elegant, minimalist, and eco-friendly homes harmonizedwith Portugal’s natural beauty.
• Gladys — Discover Gladys, the easiest and cheapest way to find trusted local Carers and Helpers in your community. Get 5* care and support to your door.
• Jarvis — Jarvis Workplace Pension is empowering millions of workers with more control over their financial future.

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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).
• Hephaesnus — Hephaesnus is an industrial technology startup dedicated to the development of products and technologies for forest firefighting.
• Floating Particle — Floating Particle is a technology and innovation company that drives an innovative solution for waste management and clean energy. Floating Particle specializes in IoT, Big Data and Machine Learning to provide cutting-edge technology to the customers.

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• Drivit — Drivit turns any smartphone into a high-quality telematics device. Power your mobility app with features that will show you the best way to a safer, cheaper and more sustainable driving.
• Splight Tech — By creating a new layer of safety for the grid, Splight rapidly unlocks additional transmission capacity on existing infrastructure for IPPs and data centers.
• Mixergy — Our hot water solutions help homes, buildings, and utilities transition to a cleaner, more resilient future.

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• BetterPic — Forget expensive, complicated photoshoots. Get your professional headshots on the go, with 8 selfies/casual photos in less than an hour. High-quality customer service, top data privacy, and a clear money-back guarantee policy.
• Nilo — Nilo is a collaborative 3D platform that works across desktop, mobile, Discord, and Telegram. It combines generative AI with world-building tools, allowing users to generate assets, characters, animations, and code from natural language or drawings. The result: a radically simplified creation experience that lowers the barrier to entry andaccelerates how quickly new ideas can be built, tested, and shared.It’s creation at the speed of culture: whether spinning up a game inspired by today’s viral sound, turning a group chat joke into a playable world or crafting a custom hangout, Nilo transforms imagination into interaction — instantly and collaboratively.Nilo’s key features include:Text-to-3D generation: Create characters, environments, and code from prompts or images. Browser-Based: Nilo runs entirely in your browser - no installs, no downloads, no friction. Voice-enabled coding: A built-in AI-powered code editor that supports spoken commands and natural language for playful, social programming. Real-time multiplayer: Co-create and play with friends instantly.Nilo was founded in April 2024, bringing together veterans from Fortnite, Twitch, YouTube, Snapchat, Microsoft, Adobe, Blizzard, VRChat, Rec Room, and major VFX projects such as Avatar and Star Wars.
• specter automation — Construction is the second least digitized sector in the world with 96% of all data being unused. Although detailed planning data is created upfront, a lack of suitable digital tools prevents its transfer to the construction site. SPECTER’s web-based construction management software uniquely incorporates the core components of constructionplanning, reducing the organizational burden on construction management and helping to meet project timelines and budgets.