Top 20 Retail Startup Investors in Portugal (September 2026)

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• Aptoide — Find, discover and download the best apps and games for Android in the official Aptoide app store
• 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.
• Tonic App — Tonic App is a B2C2B digital health company building a professional ecosystem for medical doctors. Tonic App helps medical doctors to diagnose and treat their patients by curating, for them, in a single mobile platform, the best professional resources from peers, publishers, regulatory bodies, recruiters, providers & the industry.

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• Reckon.ai — Whether you're building an unattended store or supplying the equipment behind it, Reckon's patented AI technology transforms existing infrastructure into smart, autonomous assets.
• Jscrambler — Jscrambler is the leading client-side security solution for JavaScript in-app protection and real-time webpage monitoring. Start your free trial today!
• 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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• Wall-i — Wall-i is a programmatic outdoor advertising network, that displays ads on screens for segmented audiences, by age, gender, location, and market. Wall-i aims to be the Google Ads of the outdoor advertising. By combining plug-and-play screen incorporation and audience recognition technology (age, gender and mood), with a CPV /CPM businessmodel, it enables real-estate owners to monetize LCD screens and tablets with ads.
• Musiversal — Record your music in real time with world-class session musicians, vocalists, producers and audio engineers
• UpLink — Tellent Recruitee helps you hire faster, work better together, and win top talent without the bottleneck; powered by AI-driven features.

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• Bria — Bria is a Computer Software company.
• Encord — Encord is the multimodal data layer for physical AI. Manage, curate, annotate, and align petabytes of data - from sensor streams to video to text. Trusted by 300+ AI teams including Woven by Toyota, AXA, UiPath, Zipline, and more.
• Mesh Security — Mesh Security is the industry’s first complete Zero Trust Posture Management (ZTPM) SaaS platform, a single source of truth that enables companies to implement a unified Zero Trust Architecture on top of their existing stack. Without using agents, Mesh effortlessly and seamlessly maps a company’s entire cloud XaaS estate in minutes, providing fullcontextual visibility, control, and protection of the Everywhere Enterprise.

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• Bighub — The All-in-One Platform for european marketplace growth. Integration, Catalog SEO, Pricing, Financing, Logistics, Helpdesk, and Resale.
• Flowbotic — development and manufacturing of AGVs and AMRs
• 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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• Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.
• Forti Foods — The mission of Forti Foods is to enhance communities and change lives beyond the plate by fostering resilience and dignity via sustainable food innovation.
• RubiLabs — RubiLabs Inc provides a platform for unifying, monitoring, and analyzing organizational data. RubiLabs software enables analysts and operators across risk, compliance, and security teams to collaborate and interpret large volumes of information in real time. The company’s platform is designed to help institutions make sense of complex, fragmenteddata by transforming it into a coherent operational picture for risk detection, continuous monitoring, and investigative workflows.

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• Adsmurai — Adsmurai presents the solution to plan, launch, measure, and scale your Paid Media campaigns across all platforms.
• NeuralTrust — NeuralTrust is the leading security platform for generative AI, offering a unified command center for real-time defense and offense. Its open source AI gateway delivers the fastest performance in the market for managing LLM traffic, while its automated red teaming engine proactively uncovers vulnerabilities, ensuring robust protection for your AIsystems.
• Restaurantes.com (formerly Restalo) — Restalo.es ahora es @RestaurantesCom

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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 a compensation management platform for teams to manage and enjoy multiple benefits. 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 everypart 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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• Replai — Founded in 2019, Replai is the world’s first video-based creative insights platform that empowers brands to maximize the performance and engagement of their videos. Blending computer vision and AI technology, Replai has solved a long-standing problem that helps brands recalibrate their videos so they can maximize growth and build communities.Replai partners with some of the biggest global brands and mobile apps companies. Based in San Francisco, Replai is a privately-held, venture-backed company, with offices in London and Porto.
• 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.
• MIGHTY — MIGHTY is a maker of healthy food fridges for the workplace. Their healthy food fridges use a software platform that organizes and coordinates logistics with local storage and distribution partners.

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• Motatos — Motatos is an online retail store that offers a wide variety of food, beverages, and household products to customers.
• Matsmart — Matsmart sells surplus food online. A major part of the food would otherwise be thrown away due to packaging changes, short or expired expiry dates or other reasons. During 2017, Matsmart saved 2022 tonnes of food from going to waste. The company has seen explosive growth, reaching recurring revenues of SEK 200 million. Matsmart was founded by KarlAndersson, Erik Södergren and Ulf Skagerström, and launched in Sweden in 2014. Since then, the company has also expanded to Norway and Finland. Long live the food!
• 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.

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• Luca — Luca's learning platform provides learning programs for primary and secondary school students. The learning platform offers pre-recorded K12 videos, gamified content and AI powered personalized study paths, covering the entire official academic curriculum and national exams prep. Luca is a VC backed startup with HQ in Madrid & MexicoCity
• Neuraspace — Focus on fewer alerts with more time to manoeuver, with a scalable AI/ML solution from Neuraspace
• Spotlite — Spotlite combines satellite data with AI to predict infrastructure risks before they become problems.

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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.
• orderbird — Orderbird is focused on building an intuitive and customer-centric solution helping hospitality merchants by introducing Germany’s first iPad-based POS. It is a provider of Integrated Software solutions for independent restaurateurs and SMBs. It is offering its customers professional, easy-to-use POS systems and add-on products optimizing theirbusiness operations and providing a flexible alternative to costly, time-consuming, and paperwork-intensive legacy systems.
• Gastrozentrale — Gastrozentrale.de is a B2B online shop for kitchen technology and restaurant/catering equipment. From small food stands to canteen kitchens, customers can easily order napkins, industrial refrigerators or patio heaters online.

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• Ampaire — Ampaire is making flying more accessible to more people from more airports by developing electric aircraft that are safe, clean, quiet, and less costly.
• Switchgrid — Switchgrid is developing an API that allows you to collect consent from your users (individuals and businesses) digitally and access consumption data from their smart energy meters.
• Funnel — Our revolutionary CRM property management software saves both time and money for agents and owners while making leasing more efficient.

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• pleez — Pleez offers Restaurant's an optimisation of their menu within Delivery Platforms, so that they can have a revenue increase up to 25%.
• Volup — Volup is a premium food delivery app that partners exclusively with top-tier chefs and restaurants.
• Mediaprobe — Not all impressions are created equal. Understand the emotional impact of your content. Learn about Mediaprobe - Next-gen media measurement.

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• Pollen — Electric mobility for lightweight vehicles is about to get simpler, more affordable and more reliable.
• Wio Capital — Wio Capital is a wealthtech company that builds an AI-powered wealth management platform for financial advisors, offices, and bankers.
• Spacebackend — Lynapse by Spacebackend unifies interface modeling, version control, testing, and validation. Convert ICDs into traceable, deterministic implementations with human-in-the-loop review.

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• BIZAY — Bizay enables the world’s largest catalogue of customizable products. Its technology platform operates across Europe, South and North America, and digitalizes the booming and huge industry of product customization by empowering brands, people and societies to self-express. It enables local manufacturers, brands, and wholesalers to offercustomization on any product in the world and reduces the cost of production by half through batching and supply-chain optimization technologies. Our platform/technology is aimed at three customer targets:(i) B2B2C provides a platform for businesses to design and sell customized products from Bizay’s existing product catalogue, with the four main customer segments: Resellers, Content Creators (Independent artists, influencers or event or managers that want to sell customized merchandise with their branding, designs or artwork), e-Commerce entrepreneurs (Small entrepreneurs that aim to expand their catalogue and upgrade their business by adding customized products to their online stores), as well as big household brands & enterprises (well-established business in need of a partner that is capable of handling large volume of customized products orders or to expand their existing offer)(ii) B2B, which is focused on SMBs, provides an extensive product catalogue for customized products to be used in several industries (ex: uniforms for restaurants and bags for retail shops) (iii) Customization-as-a-Service (CaaS), where clients (typically major brands) capitalize on Bizay’s technology, expertise, customization options, techniques and offline suppliers to customize their own products
• 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.
• Neuraspace — Focus on fewer alerts with more time to manoeuver, with a scalable AI/ML solution from Neuraspace

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• Pawer — Pawer is a digital platform that provides health and wellness services for pets, specifically designed for dogs and cats. The platform offers a range of services through its mobile application, including remote veterinary consultations, reimbursement for veterinary expenses, and discounts on pet products. It focuses on delivering accessible andcomprehensive pet care solutions, offering coverage for emergencies, regular check-ups, vaccinations, and preventive services.
• hypt — hypt is a Swiss based SaaS marketing solution that empowers companies to digitalize word-of-mouth. By using our word-of-mouth manager companies are able to activate 40% of their customers to send out a personal recommendation to their peers increasing sales through word-of-mouth by 4 times. Our solution empowers our ICP customers in the finance andinsurance segments to strategically use and optimize the most authentic and cost effective advertising channel – word-of-mouth – and makes it an accessible asset of every marketing mix.
• Ex Nunc Intelligence — Ex Nunc Intelligence provides professionals with thorough summaries of legal information, credible responses to legal issues, and automated legal document preparation features.

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• DoJob.ai — Hybrid Intelligence Innovation Project
• OSCAR — OSCAR offers a variety of fixed-price home services, including maintenance, cleaning, laundry, and beauty services, all accessible through a user-friendly app. Customers can easily schedule appointments for these services, with options available for immediate bookings. Additionally, OSCAR provides repair services for household appliances likewashing machines and boilers, ensuring convenience for users. The platform streamlines the process of finding and scheduling necessary home services, catering to the needs of busy individuals and families. Through its comprehensive service offerings, OSCAR simplifies home management for its users.
• Fluxe Insurance Software — FLUXE develops AI software based to build digital tools for claim automation aligned with the challenges of the insurance industry!

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• Mixergy — Our hot water solutions help homes, buildings, and utilities transition to a cleaner, more resilient future.
• Spotlite — Spotlite combines satellite data with AI to predict infrastructure risks before they become problems.
• Delfos Energy — Why did it Fail? Avoid unexpected failures across your assetsReduce the risk of unexpected failuresmoreOptimize Maintenance Windowsmoreretain and scale up operational knowledgemoreplatform real time monitoring, analysis and predictions for renewable energy and oil&gas assetsVIEW OUR APPLICATIONS customer and partnerssee what our customers say about our solutions TestimonialsYour failure prediction alarm, helped us avoid an

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• Solfium — Solfium is a one-of-a-kind solar energy company dedicated to providing the best solutions for your house, business, or industry. Everything we do is driven by the desire to provide you with the greatest possible experience.
• 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.
• Sensify — Sensify is a cloud platform that monitors the cold chain of products in real-time.