Unicorns

Luxclusif, the online luxury second-hand fashion accessories platform will now be able to draw on a larger staff complement thanks to its purchase by Portuguese unicorn Farfetch. Founded by [...]

Unicorns which were either started by Portuguese entrepreneurs or have founders who are Portuguese are to take on up to 2,000 staff in 2022. According to an exclusive story in Eco online news, [...]

Virtually all of Portugal’s unicorns are now based overseas, mostly in the United States. Only one, Feedzai (high-tech fraud detection), is based in Portugal. Six unicorns (meaning companies that [...]

Portugal has its 7th unicorn. The crypto assets company Anchorage has raised €300 million. The San Francisco company, which was founded by Diogo Mónica and Nathan McCauley, and has achieved the [...]

The Portuguese fashion platform unicorn Farfetch has purchased the luxury fashion online platform Luxclusif. Found in 2013, Luxclusif, which has Portuguese founders and an office in Porto, works [...]

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 [...]

Lisbon’s new mayor, Carlos Moedas, promised on Monday that the Portuguese capital would have a ‘unicorns factory’ next year and called on tech firms at Web Summit to move to Lisbon. Carlos Moedas [...]

The Portuguese company OutSystems has made it to the Forbes Cloud 100 2021 list of the best cloud companies worldwide, recognised for its leadership, company culture, evaluation and growth. The [...]

The four Portuguese unicorns Farfetch, OutSystems, Talkdesk and Feedzai have over 800 job vacancies to fill. Although some have recruitment and selection processes that are more ambitious than [...]

The Anglo-Portuguese company Farfetch forecasts a growth in sales of 35% to 40% for this year compared to 2020 to a turnover of between €3.0Bn and €3.1Bn. For the second quarter, the digital [...]