SME

Portugal’s development bank, Banco Português de Fomento, is to launch four new financial instruments to support companies. And to boost investment, BPF has sent 125,000 pre-approved guarantees [...]

The Portuguese Industrial Association (AIP) has launched a financial literacy awareness campaign to make SMEs more aware of the importance of diversifying sources of financing. The initiative [...]

Court orders suspension of bank programme A programme involving the management of €500 million in funds destined for SMEs – ‘Programa Consolidar’ (Consolidate Programme) – [...]

The Portuguese Porto-based facilities management startup Infraspeak, which has developed a technical operations management platform for buildings, has closed an investment round of €10 million to [...]

Portugal Ventures currently has €184 million under management, has added over 180 startup companies to its portfolios since 2012 and has invested €171 million since. Despite the Covid-19 pandemic [...]

SWORD Health, a health-tech with Portuguese DNA has become Portugal’s latest and sixth unicorn after bagging an investment round worth US$163 million (€142 million). SWORD Health, which provides [...]

The Portuguese company which sells and develops artificial intelligence (AI)|, DefinedCrowd has decided to change its name seven years after it was founded by entrepreneur Daniela Braga. Now, the [...]

The President of Microsoft, Brad Smith, said on Wednesday, “Portugal is a great place to begin a startup” and added that it was remarkable how much the country had changed. Speaking at Web [...]

The European Investment Bank’s Social Innovation Tournament was in Lisbon to hand out awards to startup entrepreneurs who aim to create impact in people’s lives in the environment or civil [...]

Portugal must channel EU structural funds to modernise its companies in specialised, high-tech production if it wants to attract highly qualified jobs and professionals to do them. This was the [...]