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Europe · Pop. 10.7M · #35 startup ecosystem by EV

A public taster of the full Portugal ecosystem on Dealroom — request a demo for live deal flow, founder pedigrees, AI-talent maps, and the full cap table for every company below.

1 Enterprise value

How much Portugal’s VC-backed companies are worth

Combined enterprise value of VC-backed companies headquartered in Portugal, founded since 1990 and still operating, at the end of each year. Companies stay in the total after they list or are acquired.

2 VC investment

How much venture capital flows into Portugal

VC investment into Portugal-headquartered, VC-backed companies, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage.

3 Startup funnel

Portugal's startup funnel

Companies headquartered in Portugal at each stage today, by total VC raised. Hover a bar for the split.

570
Startups
$100K–15M raised

287 pre-seed · 175 seed · 108 Series A

51
Breakouts
$15–100M raised

41 Series B · 10 Series C

10
Scaleups
$100M+ raised

3 Mega · 7 Mega+

4
Unicorns and/or $100M+ revenue

2 valued at $1B+ · 2 with $100M+ revenue

Source: Dealroom.co

4 Latest quarter

Portugal's latest quarter in venture capital

VC raised by Portugal-headquartered companies in the quarter shown, against the quarter before and the same quarter a year earlier.

Latest complete quarter

 

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5 Largest rounds

Largest funding rounds in Portugal

A live treemap of $15M+ rounds from the Dealroom API. Each cell is one round into a company headquartered in Portugal, grouped by Dealroom sector.

Largest rounds in Portugal - 2024–2026

Every $15M+ VC round into Portugal-headquartered companies in 2024–2026, grouped by Dealroom sector.
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6 Startup hubs

Inside Portugal: 2 startup hubs, 133 universities

Hubs are sized by combined enterprise value; universities by the startup founders they produced. Hover any point for its numbers; the lists rank hubs by EV and universities by founders.

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By enterprise value · 5-yr growth
1 Lisbon $24.5B 22× 5-yr
2 Porto $6.8B 2.5× 5-yr

7 Founder origins

Where Portugal's unicorn founders build

23 founders born in Portugal are behind 11 unicorns; 64% of those were built in the US. Origins are resolved from biography and education history, not current address. Compare with the other origin countries in Europe, ranked by founders or per 1M inhabitants.

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8 Location comparison

Unicorns, decacorns and centicorns — Portugal in a global comparison

Companies count where they were founded or are headquartered. Values are per 1M people or totals, as a share of the US (US = 100%) or absolute; bars scale to the largest value in each column. Hover any value for the per-1M rate and absolute count.

9 Patent intelligence

Portugal startup IP portfolio: 303 patent families

Granted patent families assigned to startups headquartered in Portugal. Aggregated across the country's hub-level filings — Bay Area, Boston, etc. roll up under the United States row, the same way Tokyo and Osaka roll up under Japan.

Granted patent families
303
Filed by tracked startups headquartered in the country.
28.3 patents per million residents · #40 globally
Top patenting hubs
1 Lisbon Metropolitan Area 186
2 Porto Metropolitan Area 117

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