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NFC Summit 2026
A Web3 and creative-economy summit bundling eight sub-events — including the Non Fungible Conference, Stablecoin Day, an agents-vs-agents hackathon, and Longevity Day — at Lisbon's Unicorn Factory. Useful for web3, AI, and creative-tech founders wanting exposure to major brand sponsors and the crypto-creative crossover.
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NFC Summit 2027
NFC Summit's next edition moves to a new venue, Unicorn Factory Lisbon, running 27-29 May 2027. The Web3 and creative-economy summit bundles multiple sub-events, useful for web3, AI, and creative-tech founders wanting exposure to major brand sponsors and the crypto-creative crossover.
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OutSystems
OutSystems is a Portuguese-founded low-code and agentic-development platform company that lets enterprises build and orchestrate applications and AI agents. Its platform spans agentic systems engineering, enterprise orchestration, industry-specific solutions, workflow automation and a data fabric layer, and it has grown into a global enterprise software vendor with a dual base in Portugal and the US.
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Portugal Tech Week 2026
Portugal's largest decentralised innovation festival — 250+ mostly-free events across 15+ cities, themed on AI, Web3, sustainability, and the future of work, anchored around Web Summit week. The single best week for a founder to tap the whole Portuguese ecosystem at once, with pitch sessions, tech days, and investor meetups nationwide.
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Portugal Ventures
Portugal Ventures is Portugal's principal state-backed early-stage venture firm, established in 2012 through the merger of Inovcapital, AICEP Capital Global Ventures and Turismo Capital. Headquartered in Porto with a Lisbon office, it operates within the Banco Português de Fomento group and manages roughly €288M across 16+ funds. Its mandate is to stimulate Portuguese entrepreneurship with risk capital at pre-seed, seed and Series A, writing tickets of €50K–€1.5M across digital and technology, industry, healthcare and tourism. Since inception it has deployed over €230M into 256+ companies. Its portfolio has produced unicorns including BitSight (cybersecurity), Fever (live entertainment, exited 2026 at 15x) and Glovo, alongside exits in OutSystems and Farfetch (NYSE IPO, 2018). Other notable holdings include Feedzai, Aptoide, Codacy, JScrambler and Sword Health. New leadership for the 2025–2027 term is led by CEO Marco Neves.
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Pragma Lisbon 2026
Pragma Lisbon is a curated single-track Web3 summit organised by ETHGlobal, featuring high-signal talks from industry leaders for founders and builders. Held the day before the ETHGlobal Lisbon hackathon as part of the Onchain Lisbon week, it focuses on protocol design, scaling and the future of onchain applications.
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Productized Conference 2026
A two-day product conference — a workshops day plus a talks day — at the Museum of the Orient on Lisbon's riverfront, for product managers, designers, founders, and leaders. Practical, craft-focused content on building better products, teams, and strategy, strong for early-stage founders refining product discovery and delivery.
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Remote
Global employment platform offering Employer of Record (EOR), global payroll, contractor management and compliance across 100+ countries on owned infrastructure. Founded 2019 in Lisbon; a Portuguese unicorn.
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Ricardo Torgal
General Partner and CFO of Indico Capital Partners, which he co-founded after a career at Caixa Capital. He leads fund operations and investments across enterprise software, fintech and deep tech in Portugal, Spain and Italy.
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SBC (Sports Betting Community)
SBC (Sports Betting Community) is a global media and events company organising large-scale gaming, betting and igaming-technology conferences. Its SBC Summit in Lisbon is one of Europe's biggest industry gatherings, bringing together operators, suppliers, payments and technology companies for exhibitions, conference tracks and networking.
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SBC Summit Lisbon 2026
SBC Summit is Europe's largest gaming, igaming and sports-betting industry conference, hosted across the Feira Internacional de Lisboa and MEO Arena in Lisbon's Parque das Nações. It convenes thousands of operators, technology suppliers, payments providers and investors for exhibitions, conference tracks, a startup and investment angle, and large-scale networking.
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Second Home Lisbon
Second Home Lisbon is a design-forward coworking and community space located in the Time Out Market building at the Mercado da Ribeira in Lisbon's waterfront Cais do Sodre neighborhood. Part of the London-founded Second Home network, the Lisbon location opened in 2016 and provides workspace and community programming for startups, creatives, and remote tech workers in a distinctive plant-filled, architecturally acclaimed environment. Beyond desks, Second Home Lisbon hosts cultural events, startup workshops, speaker series, and cross-disciplinary programs bringing together founders from technology, design, and the arts. The space has become a gathering point for Lisbon's international startup community, particularly attracting founders from the UK, US, and Northern Europe who have relocated to Lisbon for its quality of life, timezone advantages, and growing tech ecosystem.
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Semapa Next
Semapa Next is the corporate venture capital arm of Semapa Group, one of Portugal's largest industrial conglomerates (pulp, paper, cement). Launched to invest in industrial tech, environmental solutions, mobility, and fintech, Semapa Next deploys EUR 1-5M at Series A in startups aligned with the group's strategic interests. The fund provides portfolio companies with access to Semapa's industrial operations for piloting and commercial partnerships, focusing on sustainability, circular economy, and digital transformation of traditional industries.
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Shilling
Shilling (Shilling VC) is a Lisbon-based early-stage venture capital firm, running a fund of around 52 million euros that backs entrepreneurs from pre-seed and seed stages. Known for a founder-friendly model that shares fund profits with its portfolio founders, it invests primarily in Portuguese and Southern European technology startups and supports them as they scale internationally.
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Startup Lisboa
Startup Lisboa is a key incubator in Portugal’s capital, established in 2012 as a public-private initiative to boost entrepreneurship in the city. Situated in downtown Lisbon’s Baixa district in renovated historic buildings, Startup Lisboa provides mentorship, workspace, and networking for early-stage startups across sectors. It was launched with backing from the Lisbon City Council, bank Montepio, and IAPMEI (the Portuguese SME agency), reflecting strong civic support. Over an incubation period of up to 3 years, startups receive guidance on refining their business model, access to strategic partners, and help connecting with investors. Office space is a big draw: Startup Lisboa offers subsidized offices and co-working spots to dozens of startups, easing a major burden in early stages. The incubator runs several vertical programs, including dedicated tracks for tourism, social innovation, and fintech in partnership with corporates. Lisbon’s booming tourism industry spurred Startup Lisboa to create initiatives for travel-tech and “Smart Tourism” – alumni in this space include Unbabel (AI translation for customer service, now a scaleup with $90M+ raised). Other success stories from Startup Lisboa’s portfolio are EatTasty (food delivery, expanded to Madrid) and Hole19 (a golf app with millions of users). Besides incubation, Startup Lisboa manages events like the Lisbon Challenge (an international acceleration program) and interfaces with Portugal’s Startup Visa program to attract foreign founders. They also collaborate with Web Summit (the major tech conference hosted in Lisbon) to showcase local talent. A distinctive project is the “Made of Lisboa” community brand, which Startup Lisboa spearheads to unite the city’s tech scene. The incubator has supported over 300 startups, which have created an estimated 3,000+ jobs. Startup Lisboa also played a role in rejuvenating Lisbon’s downtown, turning it into a lively startup hub. With Lisbon now on the map as a startup-friendly city (helped by initiatives like €200M VC fund of funds from the government), Startup Lisboa continues to be at the heart of it – fostering new companies in an open, founder-centric environment, and solidifying Lisbon’s reputation as a launchpad for international startups in Southern Europe.
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Startup Lisboa
Startup Lisboa is Lisbon's pioneering startup incubation and innovation hub, founded in 2012 as a public-private partnership between the Lisbon City Council, Banco Montepio, and several corporate sponsors. Operating from multiple buildings in the historic Baixa district and a dedicated food-tech hub, Startup Lisboa provides workspace, mentorship, and structured incubation programs to early-stage startups across technology, social innovation, food, and creative industries. The hub has supported over 600 startups since launch, with alumni including Uniplaces, Codacy, and Landing.jobs. Startup Lisboa offers programs ranging from 3 to 18 months, with access to a mentor network of 200+ experienced founders and executives, investor introductions, and internationalization support. It is a cornerstone institution in Lisbon's rise as one of Europe's most attractive startup destinations, alongside Web Summit's relocation to the city.
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Startup Summit Lisbon 2026
A two-day founder–investor conference at the Beato Innovation District with 150+ speakers and around 2,000 attendees from 40+ countries. Built around fundraising, AI, product, growth, and scaling, with speed networking, 1:1s, and investor office hours — high value for founders raising or hunting deal flow.
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Stephan Morais
Managing General Partner and co-founder of Indico Capital Partners, Portugal's leading independent venture firm. Formerly an executive at Caixa Capital, he has built Indico into a >€244M multi-fund platform and is one of Southern Europe's most prominent early-stage investors, backing companies such as Sword Health and Anchorage Digital.
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Unbabel
AI-powered Language Operations (LangOps) platform combining machine translation with human editors for multilingual customer support and content. Founded 2013 in Lisbon; acquired by TransPerfect in August 2025.
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VNTR Summit Lisbon 2026
An invitation-style investor summit gathering roughly 300 vetted VCs, angels, family offices, and capital allocators during Web Summit week, a short walk from the main venue. For founders raising larger or later rounds, it concentrates curated deal flow and co-investment conversations away from the Web Summit crowd.
