Startup Portugal has selected 78 startups based in Portugal for Road 2 Web Summit (R2WS) 2026, a program developed in collaboration with Web Summit to support their presence at the technology event.
The companies have completed preparatory bootcamps and will compete in pitch sessions during Web Summit for the Most Promising Startup award, which carries a €15,000 prize.
The cohort represents a range of sectors, including artificial intelligence, healthtech, fintech, sustainability, education, and cybersecurity, with companies based across Portugal, including Lisbon, Porto, Braga, Aveiro, Madeira, and the Azores.
Below is the full list of startups, organized by sector.
Advertising, content, and marketing
Consistent Message | Lisbon
Develops ShiftRanks, an AI-powered SEO and marketing automation platform that small businesses and agencies can operate through WhatsApp or Telegram.
Agritech and foodtech
RipeNew | Leiria
Develops a compact, modular device that removes ethylene from fruit storage and transportation environments to help reduce post-harvest losses.
AI and machine learning
ASOagent AI | Braga
Provides an AI agent designed to improve brand visibility across ChatGPT, other large language models, and the iOS and Google Play app stores.
Direto AI | Azores
Offers AI assistants for small businesses that handle customer interactions through phone, chat, and websites, capture leads, and support marketing activities.
Fermatix AI | Lisbon
Develops proprietary datasets and evaluation infrastructure used to train and benchmark AI coding models.
Hay.chat | Lisbon
Provides a source-available AI customer service platform that handles inquiries, refunds, and order lookups across WhatsApp, Instagram, email, and web chat.
Humanos | Madeira
Develops a risk-scoring network designed to give AI agents access to insurance, credit, and yield opportunities through real-time risk assessments.
KBAI Research | Madeira
Develops auditable AI solutions that help organizations work with fragmented knowledge, building on several years of university research.
Magicalia | Lisbon
Analyzes customer conversations to identify issues, generate actionable insights, and help companies improve customer retention.
Nextop | Lisbon
Develops low-cost physical AI edge devices combining millimeter-wave radar, ultrasound, and AI to interpret environments where cameras cannot be used.
QuantumData Strategy | Lisbon
Offers an AI-powered API for real-time route optimization and management, targeting logistics companies and field service operations.
Rexium | Aveiro
Integrates shop management, customer support, and invoicing for small businesses, using live operational data to generate AI-assisted actions for owners to approve.
Savearth | Braga
Provides AI-powered hardware as a service to help hotels reduce water consumption in showers, with “savings of up to 60%.”
Tender Radar | Lisbon
Develops a search platform that simplifies finding information across public procurement portals and documents, reducing time spent on manual research.
Skillful | Évora
Develops VektraDB, a vector database designed for AI assistants, semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation applications, and intelligent agents using enterprise data.
VisionHammer | Lisbon
Builds an autonomous engineering platform that handles production incidents, from analyzing error logs to preparing reviewed pull requests within clients’ infrastructure.
Data and analytics
DIG-IN | Lisbon
Uses AI to analyze brand and product presence across food and beverage outlets, helping consumer goods companies assess distribution and competition.
Soulution.ai | Lisbon
Develops AI products that help businesses better understand their customers and use those insights to inform decisions.
E-commerce and retail
ThinkerMesh | Porto
Develops Aura, an AI-native product discovery platform for retail businesses that has been validated with major Portuguese retailers.
XOP | Porto
Connects sellers of used goods with international buyers across 296 platforms in 138 countries, combining marketplaces, auctions, representation services, and AI-supported digitization.
Education
Growappy | Lisbon
Uses agentic AI to support school management, parent communication, and personalized education, with a focus on early childhood.
Mythoria | Porto
Uses AI to transform personal memories, photographs, drawings, and voice recordings into personalized stories available as digital books, audiobooks, and printed editions.
Reebooot | Torres Vedras
Operates a marketplace for weeklong immersive bootcamps with shared accommodation, connecting trainers and participants while managing venues and bookings.
Scooli | Porto
Provides an AI platform that generates curriculum-aligned lesson plans, worksheets, tests, and presentations for K–12 teachers.
Energy and utilities
ENG8 | Aveiro
Develops EnergiCell, a patented low-energy nuclear reaction (LENR) generator that the company says can produce near-zero-carbon heat, electricity, and hydrogen from water.
UPWIND Energy | Porto
Develops autonomous airborne wind energy systems that generate electricity from high-altitude winds for remote, off-grid, and humanitarian locations.
Wada Solutions | Coimbra
Combines proprietary software and hardware to monitor, analyze, and optimize water supply and wastewater management systems.
Event management
klatchpoint. | Braga
Provides a SaaS platform that simplifies the organization of in-person events and facilitates networking among participants.
Livecomp | Braga
Develops Phyrena, a grappling competition that combines live sporting events with multiplayer gaming elements, including athlete profiles, rankings, and team-based gym competitions.
Sailer | Lisbon
Connects users with local events, activities, and businesses through a digital platform already operating in Ericeira and Porto.
Fintech and financial services
PayDevOps | Lisbon
Develops Bancorix, its flagship cloud-native core banking platform that provides a shared ledger for electronic money institutions, lenders, investment firms, and crypto-asset service providers.
BASTYN | Lisbon
Offers a trust certification system for AI that monitors interactions and decisions to detect unauthorized behavior before it causes harm.
GovHorizon | Leiria
Provides regulatory and government intelligence through a platform combining more than 150,000 curated sources with predictive analytics for regulated industries and the public sector.
Kilobanan | Lisbon
Develops a digital wallet for personal finance management aimed at small and medium-sized businesses in Portugal.
Gaming, virtual reality, and augmented reality
Immersiv Studios | Lisbon
Develops Immersiv Play, a no-code platform for creating gamified augmented and virtual reality brand experiences, building on more than 35 projects for clients including Samsung, Volkswagen, and Europcar.
Testwaves | Lisbon
Develops AI technology for testing video games.
Hardware, robotics, and IoT
JSIO | Lisbon
Provides a development framework for Internet of Things applications across industrial systems, agriculture, smart cities, healthcare, and robotics.
RFisense | Aveiro
Develops RF-Sentinel, a drone detection and classification system that combines radar, passive radio-frequency sensing, and AI for defense and critical infrastructure applications.
Healthtech and wellness
BloodFlow | Lisbon
Develops an AI-powered clinical intelligence system that analyzes patient data within electronic health records to support evidence-based medical decisions.
Braining | Porto
Combines AI and virtual reality in a personalized stroke rehabilitation platform that adapts therapy, monitors patient progress, and supports healthcare professionals.
eDynamics | Braga
Develops an AI-powered wearable platform that analyzes movement data to support physical conditioning and injury prevention.
Lampsy Health | Lisbon
Develops an AI-powered epilepsy monitoring device integrated into a lamp, designed to detect seizures and alert emergency contacts.
MindMatch | Lisbon
Provides a digital platform for psychologists that combines personalized patient care, administrative automation, professional development, and community features.
Papayya | Porto
Offers live online personal training for women ages 35 to 55 in the U.S., with trainers coaching groups of up to six participants simultaneously.
Reconquering Medicine | Lisbon
A team of three doctors developing solutions to improve patient care pathways and optimize healthcare delivery.
Revitacharge | Lisbon
Develops daily nutrition products that combine more than 25 active ingredients into simplified nutritional routines.
RTBeamTech | Braga
Develops FLASHGuard, a real-time beam-monitoring device intended to support the clinical use of FLASH radiotherapy in cancer treatment.
The Family Door | Lisbon
Offers a digital platform providing evidence-based guidance and expert support to parents navigating the challenges of early parenthood.
Twin Factory | Lisbon
Combines connected hardware, IoT sensors, AI, and digital twins to support physical rehabilitation and improve athletic performance.
UpSpeech | Lisbon
Provides a speech therapy platform where therapists plan treatment, patients practice at home, and AI analyzes speech and generates draft reports.
ZeloCare | Lisbon
Develops a care coordination platform that helps families, caregivers, and municipalities manage medication, appointments, and everyday support.
HR and recruitment
iTRecruiter | Lisbon
Develops AI-supported recruitment software under iTRTech Group, designed to make hiring processes faster and more efficient.
Next Border | Castelo Branco
Uses data and AI to connect employers with talent through a human mobility and workforce intelligence platform covering recruitment and integration.
Legal and professional services
Lawper | Porto
Provides a platform for creating, managing, and monitoring legal documents, including contract workflows for businesses and public institutions and online document sales for law firms.
moviinn | Lisbon
Develops a relocation platform supporting people moving to Portugal and Spain, from initial research and relocation planning to settling into their new location.
Lifestyle and fashion
Brave Particle | Lisbon
Provides infrastructure for European fashion brands to offer made-to-measure clothing manufactured on demand, including individual garment orders.
GØDN | Lisbon
Develops performance-oriented luxury apparel incorporating NFC technology that connects garments to digital experiences, alongside a zero-stock presale model.
Mobility, transportation, and logistics
Motorista | Lisbon
Connects vetted ride-hailing drivers who need vehicles with private car owners seeking additional income, managing onboarding, agreements, and payments.
Urbix | Lisbon
Operates a peer-to-peer platform for exchanging parking spaces.
Politics, government, and international trade
Mundo Claro | Aveiro
Uses agentic AI to make civic engagement more accessible to people with hearing impairments and non-native speakers.
Proptech and real estate
Doors App | Braga
Operates a renovation marketplace connecting homeowners with verified professionals, covering quotations and milestone-based payments through one platform.
Opsivision | Azores
Uses AI and computer vision to turn existing CCTV systems in shopping centers into tools for visitor analytics and security monitoring.
Planta Smart Homes | Porto
Develops AI technology designed to make homes and other physical spaces more intelligent and responsive.
Vivin | Lisbon
Develops software for professional residential operators designed to carry out operational tasks rather than simply manage them.
SaaS
UINQO | Setúbal
Offers an AI-powered networking application that scans business cards and event badges, drafts follow-up emails from voice notes, and schedules meetings using voice commands.
VECTORASSUMIDO | Lisbon
Develops Bookwey, an AI-powered booking platform that helps service businesses automate reservations, payments, and customer management.
Security
B10SEC | Sintra
Provides cybersecurity and data protection services for SaaS platforms in e-commerce, healthtech, and fintech, helping companies identify data leaks, vulnerabilities, fraud, and security threats.
CyberX | Porto
Combines ethical hacking, AI-powered security solutions, and cybersecurity expertise to help organizations identify vulnerabilities and protect digital assets.
Interpretica | Porto
Develops static analysis and software testing tools with a focus on cybersecurity.
Social media and networking
All Portugal ONE | Lisbon
Brings together more than 50 digital applications and services covering home, family, education, employment, and business for residents and newcomers in Portugal.
Sports and fitness
HYDRAttach | Braga
Develops a modular gym bottle with attachable accessories, including a phone charger, towel holder, and supplement container.
Sustainability and cleantech
GreenDash | Lisbon
Uses AI to automate ESG data collection and reporting, helping small and medium-sized businesses prepare CSRD and VSME sustainability reports.
greenmetrics.ai | Lisbon
Develops early flood warning systems to support climate adaptation.
MyCarbonAI | Lisbon
Converts fragmented operational documents into structured environmental data and insights that businesses can use for auditing and reporting.
Quizzability | Viseu
Provides an online platform for sustainability education through interactive quizzes and games.
Trash4Goods | Lisbon
Operates a data-driven recycling platform that verifies recycling activity, rewards participants, and connects citizens, brands, and municipalities.
Travel and hospitality
MyPetsAre.Life | Lisbon
Operates a marketplace connecting pet owners with hosts offering boarding, dog walking, and drop-in pet care services, initially focused on Portugal.
Teemy | Braga
Develops a location-based gamification platform that transforms physical places into digital experiences for tourist destinations, municipalities, and brands.
Featured image: Adapted from a 2025 visual by Startup Portugal
