Top 30 Manufacturing Startup Investors in Portugal (June 2026)

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• Azulfy — Real-time pollution monitoring for EU municipalities. Satellite-based environmental compliance tools for local governments and smart cities.
• PLUTOS — We are here to make sure that your Puppy gets the best treat! PLUTOS were created specifically for dogs to have fun. Find out our dog healthy chews.
• Hostels HUB — Hostels HUB is a hostel developer that is looking for opportunities both in city as leisure locations around Portugal.

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• Equall — Equall offers legal AI systems to help companies and lawyers evaluate and control risk.
• DOJO AI — Dojo AI is pioneering the Marketing Operating System (MOS) category, providing challenger brands with enterprise-grade marketing infrastructure. Its proprietary technology combines real-time market intelligence, specialized AI agents, and automated workflow orchestration in one unified platform.The Dojo MOS enables marketing teams to run theirentire operation - from market research and strategy to content creation and campaign execution - through a single, intelligent system. The platform features a proprietary graph engine for real-time market intelligence, marketing-specific language models, and autonomous AI agents trained for specialized marketing tasks.Built for challenger brands looking to compete more effectively, Dojo eliminates the need for multiple point solutions and reduces dependency on external agencies. The platform continuously learns and optimizes, providing companies with compounding advantages as they scale their marketing operations.
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• BioMimetx — BioMimetx is a biotech startup focused on the development of green antifouling solutions to prevent marine biofouling. The company discovers and owns environmental bacteria that secrete molecules, which are used as natural antimicrobials and algaecides. BioMimetx is based in Cantanhede, Portugal.
• Movvo — The Movvo platform delivers smart business intelligence solutions for owners and operators of retail and commercial real estate that turns data into improved retail performance and better value engineering decisions. The platform combines consumer behaviour wireless sensor technology and digests other public and private datasets, enhancing theunderstanding of the data by applying machine learning to provide fast and easy interpretation of this data delivering insights and rapid scenario-planning. Whether it is measuring ROI or reporting KPI's, the Movvo platform has these bases covered. Where it comes into its own is via the application of machine learning Want to easily prepare a leasing pack that maximises the rental value, what to create additional incremental value from asset investment decisions, want to know the impact of changing the tenant from apparel retailer to food & beverage? The Movvo platform can deliver prescriptive intelligence and more.
• Exogenus Therapeutics — Exogenus Therapeutics is engineering cell biology for innovative therapeutic solutions.Exo-T is a biotechnology company dedicated to the pre-clinical and clinical development of innovative cellular-based therapies applied to regenerative medicine, specifically for the skin lesions treatment. The company is presently developing its first product,Exo-Wound, for the treatment of chronic wounds.The project that led to the creation of the company (Nanoinspire) participated in COHiTEC 2014 program and is the result of the research developed in collaboration with Crioestaminal SA, Biocant, and Centre for Neurosciences and Cellular Biology of Coimbra University.

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• HypeLabs — HypeLabs is the company that created the Hype SDK, an interoperable mesh networking software that improves connectivity on all kinds of devices, from mobile to desktop to IoT, allowing them to connect even when there is no internet. The software works by intelligently connecting devices in local mesh networks using existing connectivitytechnologies, such as Bluetooth, WiFi, LoRa and others. This network enables content to securely hop between devices, until it reaches a destination or an Internet exit point, improving range and deliverability.Founded in 2016, the company is located in San Francisco (USA), Porto (Portugal), London (UK) and Krakow (Poland). AngelPad #10 (Spring '16) alumni & Deutsche Telekom WARP alumni.
• Musiversal — Record your music in real time with world-class session musicians, vocalists, producers and audio engineers
• Sensefinity — Sensefinity The Blockchain IoT Transformation Company Building the Internet of Cargo Where Assets autonomously connect to processes

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• Automaise — Radically improve your customer care operations by focusing where the volume is and helping your agents do a better job.
• Libattion — Sustainable, modular, grid-scale battery energy storage solutions with CO2-certificate. For industrial and commercial applications.
• Eneida — Operational Analytics LV Apps, software and smart sensor for LV Network Monitoring, Control, and Visibility

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• Kenjo — All-in-one human resources (HR) software created for SMEs that need to optimise their processes. Click to find out more!
• Antavo Enterprise Loyalty Cloud — Engage non-loyalty members with our promotion technology and build your customer loyalty program faster with our AI-powered loyalty management software.
• AI Clearing — AI-powered platform for construction progress tracking and quality control, supporting contractors and asset owners in energy, utilities, infrastructure, and civil construction projects.

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• Lympid — We believe that anyone should have access to the amazing opportunities found on the blockchain, from DeFi protocols (aave, compound, yearn…) to Crypto Indexes, there's so much to discover! At Lympid you will be able to do it all easily in the same app, and directly through EUR.
• DoJob.ai — DoJob.ai is an AI-powered online platform engineered to elevate the management and planning capabilities of business organizations. It primarily serves these organizations by providing tools and features that boost the productivity of knowledge workers. More than just a tool for document creation, DoJob.ai acts as a partner for the strategy andmanagement functions within businesses. It aids in the development of strategic plans, operational documents, and other business-related documents, thereby enhancing the influence of individuals within their roles and the organization as a whole.
• hAPI — hAPI offers financial solutions through APIs to collect financing information and documentation.

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• Kreios Space — Kreios Space is developing an electric propulsion system to revolutionize the satellite industry. With this technology we enable orbital keeping in VLEO (Very Low Earth Orbits) thanks to renewable energy. We make space applications easier.
• Hyperpilot^ — Hyperpilot^ builds AI-driven automation tools that enhance software engineering efficiency and development processes.
• InSpacePropulsion Technologies — Cost-effective, robust, and quickly available propulsion solutions, based on 10+ years of R&D and 40 years of combined experience in space propulsion.

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• FRVR — FRVR brings captivating games to billions of players instantly.
• Indie Campers — Indie Campers offers adventurers the opportunity to start their journey in one location and end it in any of our other depots, while delivering an outstanding customer service for a unique and unforgettable experience.
• Oceano Fresco — Oceano Fresco develops and produces bivalves varieties with superior performance for shellfish farmers at a competitive cost, respecting environmental sustainability and ensuring consumer safety.They use a multi-disciplinary approach including expertise in molecular biology, genetics, animal physiology, computational biology and intellectualproperty to select value adding traits to shellfish farmers and contribute to the sustainability and profitability of the aquaculture industry.They work with hatcheries, nurseries and research centers in order to test and validate their solutions and ensure that they suit the specific needs of each customer, in each technical and environmental context.

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• Stable — Unlock the Future of Commodity Price Risk Management at StableHub.com. Empowering businesses to conquer price risk, gain confidence and protect their bottom line across agriculture, renewables and packaging. Grounded by data, backed by global insurance bodies. Explore our free platform.
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• Element — They provide services for custom development, prioritised roadmap development, support contracts and commercial products for Matrix. The company enables governments, businesses and individuals to run their own secure communication infrastructure while interconnecting via the global Matrix network. New Vector, a European startup founded in 2017 bythe creators of an open, decentralized communications standard called Matrix to drive adoption and grow an ecosystem around an alternative messaging protocol for instant messaging and VoIP apps.The company was founded in 2017 and is based in London.

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• ChemiTek — Certified & sustainable solutions for industrial maintenance. We have the solutions you need!
• HSL Technologies — HySiLabs developped an innovative solution to facilitate hydrogen transportation, by charging and releasing hydrogen in a unique liquid carrier (HydroSil): Hydrogen Stored as Liquids (HSL Solutions).
• Yotta Energy — Discover scalable, efficient energy storage solutions with Yotta Energy's products, including the Yotta Block and microinverters, for simplified renewable energy management.

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• 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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• sheerME — SheerME is Revolutionising the way people find, book, and pay for their Wellness and Beauty services powered by a benefit-based walletOur approach is based on Discovery, Transaction & Reward to create more online visibility, reach, conversion into new business, loyalty, and frequency through our wallet and cashback ecosystem, to all ourpartners in the beauty and wellness sectors.This made us a fresh and different option in this sector where there are mainly SaaS players, and we bring marketplace with no monthly fee, only a commission for business sent through our owned and partner channels.
• Cargofive — Cargofive is the digital solution that will allow your freight forwarder to access to maritime rates from different providers in one place.
• Bling Energy — Bling Energy is a startup that focuses on providing more efficient and sustainable energy solutions, mostly through solar panels.

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• Glartek — Glartek is a technology-enabled services company focused on Industrial Internet of Things and Augmented reality solutions. With their experience in development solution for industry and their knowledge in field management, they are able to provide the best expertise in cloud analytics and augmented reality tools for the industry.
• Blykalla — Blykalla is developing and building small modular reactors to deliver the next generation of clean energy. We take leading research to industrialization through our Swedish Advanced Lead Reactor (SEALER).
• OurSupport — Book vetted local IT technicians for on-site or remote support in minutes. Transparent pricing, global coverage, and an AI self-help tool - all from one app.

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• Zen8 — Explore Connected Swim Training at zwim.com. Smart Swim Trainer + data + immersive game = real swim power. Train at home, get faster in the water. Join the waitlist now.
• Nutrium — Nutrium is the most up-to-date nutrition software for dietitians and nutritionists to manage their nutrition business with nutritional assessment, meal planning and progress tracking.
• PFx Biotech — PFx Biotech transforms food through bioinnovation by creating sustainable and nutritional alternative protein solutions.

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• Stelia — Stelia builds distributed AI platforms that scale globally. Research-driven intelligent systems for healthcare, education, and enterprise operations worldwide
• Bankaya — Bankaya is the first fintech startup in Mexico built through a Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform. Bankaya's purpose is to empower everyone with the financial and digital freedom to break through barriers and achieve more.
• Hastee — Hastee is an employee benefit that companies can offer to their workforce. It empowers employees to receive their earned pay immediately to increase their choice and financial wellbeing. Companies profit from the improved productivity, engagement, recruitment & retention of their workforce, with zero cost or impact on company cash-flow.Thecompany was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in London, England.

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• Checkfirst — Create AI-powered inspection workflows that collect and verify on-site data, effortlessly.

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• NobodyWho — NobodyWho is an inference engine that lets you run LLMs locally on any device
• FION Energy — FION Energy GmbH is a Berlin-based company at the forefront of the clean energy transition, specializing in advanced energy storage and management solutions for industrial businesses. Their technology helps companies optimize energy use, reduce costs, enhance grid stability, and accelerate decarbonization by providing economically viable storagesystems tailored to each customer's needs. FION supports grid operators by enabling efficient orchestration of energy consumption and generation, contributing to a more stable and sustainable energy future. They offer personalized consulting, rapid installation, and continuous optimization of energy storage performance to maximize cost savings and flexibility.
• Bubble Robotics — Bubble Robotics, a company focused on building advanced underwater robots. Their mission is to create autonomous ocean robotics for scalable subsea data collection to improve offshore efficiency and marine resource stewardship. By combining advanced resident robotics, seamless autonomy, and AI-powered analytics, they aim to revolutionize oceanexploration and operations, making the oceans safer, smarter, and more sustainable.

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• LOQR — Increase your business and reduce costs with the best AI-Powered Journey-as-a-Service provider for financial institutions.
• BladeInsight — BladeInsight offers innovative solutions for wind turbine blade operations and maintenance.

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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.

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• Aster — Aster provides all-in-one patient management software for private practices, focussed on women's health. Serving OB/GYNs, Midwives, NPs, Doulas, Lactation Consultants and more..
• Jarvis — Jarvis Workplace Pension is empowering millions of workers with more control over their financial future.
• Storia — Capture your thoughts and unleash your inner voice

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• TEKEVER — The Tekever Group is a provider of innovative technologies in Software, Aerospace, Defence and Security Markets.
• Connected — Connected is a startup that offers affordable connecting humans, unleashing a new wave of IoT-based business models and contributing to bridge the digital gap.
• CorPower Ocean — CorPower Ocean AB was founded in 2009 to develop high efficiency Wave Energy Converters (WECs).CorPower's Wave Energy Converters deliver five times higher annual energy output per ton of device compared to previously known wave power solutions. The step-change improvement in performance and efficiency allows a Cost-of-Energy that cancompete with offshore wind. The products are currently in pilot with Iberdrola. CorPower has assembled a team with extensive experience in energy generation, design and manufacturing of production equipment, system engineering as well as the market expertise to allow us to continue transforming the technology of tomorrow into renewable energy applications of today.

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• Pollen — Pollen is developing a universal battery-swapping network for mopeds and motorcycles, enabling riders to quickly exchange depleted batteries for fully charged ones, reducing downtime and supporting efficient, scalable electric mobility in urban environments.
• Wio Capital — Wio Capital is a wealthtech company that builds an AI-powered wealth management platform for financial advisors, offices, and bankers.
• Spacebackend — Spacebackend is redefining how aerospace teams handle mission-critical integration. Our platform, Lynapse, is an AI-powered system integration environment designed for engineers-in-the-loop. We empower software integration and AIT/AIV teams to bridge the gap from hardware interface to flight-ready software - starting in the design phase andcontinuing through end-to-end integration.By decoupling software readiness from physical hardware and leveraging AI to automate the implementation of complex interfaces, we reduce integration effort from years to days. Lynapse uses AI to convert complex ICD documentation into digital models, automatically producing, testing, and validating platform-agnostic source code.Our workflow ensures every line of code is deterministic, engineer-approved, and fully traceable from documentation to deployment. Whether you are generating platform-agnostic code from scratch or validating existing flight software against a digital ICD model, Lynapse exposes failures and readiness gaps early - when it matters most. Build integration readiness today.

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• Origin — Introducing Origin One, a manufacturing-grade printer that enables additive mass production of end-use parts.
• Base64 — Base64 Document Intelligence Platform automates document processing with Agentic AI and over 2,800 prebuilt models.
• Set Labs — Set Labs is creating the next generation of finance through crypto-financial primitives. The company is developing tools that enable developers to bundle crypto assets together called Sets, which allow users to create cryptocurrency baskets, baskets of non-fungibles, baskets of on-chain securities, and more.

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• Swipelux — Increase your revenue and improve compliance with one toolkit.
• Sama — Sama elevates engagement to make the world a better place. B2B SaaS professional coaching to tackle challenges including diversity, performance, leadership. The Sama team, its select coach partners and clients share the mission of elevating engagement.
• Peak Quantum — Peak Quantum focused on developing inherently error-protected superconducting quantum processors (QPUs).

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• Sensei — We are the leading European provider of autonomous stores, with an AI-powered solution to build efficient operations and deliver a seamless shopping experience.
• Coverflex — Coverflex is on a mission to improve the way companies compensate their people, making it more transparent, flexible and easier for everyone to make the most of what they get. Through a fully digital solution, Coverflex helps companies manage every part of compensation beyond salary — benefits, insurance, meal allowance and exclusive discounts —while empowering people to spend on what suits them best.
• Sound Particles — A CGI-like software for Sound Design, capable of using particle systems to generate thousands of sounds in a virtual 3D world

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• WEEZIE — Weezie offers all-in-one fiber network management software focused on the automation and digitalization of all internal processes.
• Glartek — Glartek is a technology-enabled services company focused on Industrial Internet of Things and Augmented reality solutions. With their experience in development solution for industry and their knowledge in field management, they are able to provide the best expertise in cloud analytics and augmented reality tools for the industry.
• HypeLabs — HypeLabs is the company that created the Hype SDK, an interoperable mesh networking software that improves connectivity on all kinds of devices, from mobile to desktop to IoT, allowing them to connect even when there is no internet. The software works by intelligently connecting devices in local mesh networks using existing connectivitytechnologies, such as Bluetooth, WiFi, LoRa and others. This network enables content to securely hop between devices, until it reaches a destination or an Internet exit point, improving range and deliverability.Founded in 2016, the company is located in San Francisco (USA), Porto (Portugal), London (UK) and Krakow (Poland). AngelPad #10 (Spring '16) alumni & Deutsche Telekom WARP alumni.

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• Spotlite — Spotlite combines satellite data with AI to predict infrastructure risks before they become problems.
• SkillUp Online — SkillUp Online is a cloud-based continuing education and certification platform offering blended learning strategies for IT students and professionals alike. Specifically targeting those individuals exploring career change or advancement, the platform offers over 140 Microsoft certified courses for in-demand skills like artificial intelligence,data science, big data, cloud computing, and more.The SkillUp curriculum combines custom high-quality instructional content blended with one-on-one support from certified experts in the technology space to drive dramatically increased success rates among enrollees.

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• 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.
• Virtuleap — Virtuleap combines neuroscience and virtual reality to help increase attention levels, and address cognitive illnesses, disorders, and learning challenges. We have created a library of VR games designed by neuroscientists in order to test and train a range of cognitive abilities and make that data accessible through our enterprise platform. Ourfirst paid client is the AARP, and we are now working with leading institutions, like the VA Health Care System and the Pacific Brain Health Center, to validate our solution as an effective diagnostic and treatment for attention deficit and cognitive decline.
• CryoTherapeutics — CryoTherapeutics is focusing on the development, demonstration of clinical benefit, and early-stage commercialization of a proprietary cryotherapy system for use in the treatment of coronary artery disease that causes heart attacks. The safety and efficacy of cryoenergy in the cardiovascular system has been demonstrated and CryoTherapeutics intendsto extend the benefits of cryoenergy to the problem of diseased coronary arteries.

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• BRAINR — BRAINR is an AI-powered cloud-native Manufacturing Execution System (MES/MOM) built exclusively for the food and beverage industry, the 3rd least digitized industry worldwide according to the World Economic Forum.The platform digitizes food factory operations end-to-end, covering production planning (APS), shop floor execution (MES),warehouse management (WMS), quality control (QMS), slaughter management, and full traceability. It replaces paper, Excel and disconnected systems with a unified real-time operational environment.Spun out of Grupo Lusiaves, one of Europe's largest vertically integrated poultry groups, after a 3-year internal development (2019 to 2023), BRAINR launched to market in late 2023. In September 2025 the company raised €11M in a Seed Round led by C2 Capital Partners, confirmed as the largest seed round in Portugal's history.BRAINR currently manages over 30% of all meat production in Portugal and over €1 billion in annual food production, with deployments across Europe and Africa. Customers report 92% reduction in manual data entry, 21% improvement in operational efficiency, and 100% digitized operations in under 3 months.Recognised by Sifted and Financial Times (Future 50 #17), EUROPA's 100, Food4Future Best Factory Digitization Solution, and Manufacturing Tech Insights as a top global cloud MES provider.