Looking for opportunities to grow your business?
Well, this is where Startup accelerators and incubators come in! Start accelerators help your business to boost and grow in terms of employees, sales, marketing, and building a reputation among customers.
Incubators help you with the workspace requirements such as the technology, working area, chairs, tables, meeting rooms, etc.
Portugal is a growing business market and this is the reason why you will see a lot of new startups being created by passionate young entrepreneurs.
But, the road to making a successful business out of a startup is not easy! It is full of hurdles. But, there are some accelerators and incubators that can help your business to skyrocket and reach its desired goals.
Here we have listed all of them that can help your startup to become successful!
Best Startup Accelerators And Incubators In Portugal
Anje: National Association of Young Entrepreneurs
Anje is a startup accelerator and incubator located in the city of Evora Portugal. The program is dedicated to helping all small businesses grow. Here, you will find different leadership courses, developing business plans, and intensive leadership training. All of these courses are available online, and the timetable is tailored as per your availability. The facility also provides coworking spaces to startups for them to have a place to work and grow their business. Started in 1979, Anje has adequate experience to help startups expand their business & become successful.
Startup Lisboa
Startup Lisboa was founded in the year 2012, and since then they have been working to support the creation of companies & settle their initial years of activity. The non-profit association provides startups with working space along with mentorship, strategic partnerships, perks, investment, and networking. There are different programs created for startups such as Launch in Lisbon, Lisbon Immersion, clean future, acelerador 5G, WPP Booster, e-waste Open Innovation, etc. All these programs are designed to help the business in specific niche to help business in these specific categories to grow.
Startup Braga
Startup Braga is a startup accelerator and incubator helping startups in the following business verticals: biotechnology, digital economy, health technology, nanotechnology, and sustainability. There are 3 different programs provided by startup Braga including pre-acceleration training (stimulating technology-based business in an academic context), acceleration (developing innovative ideas in business verticals mentioned above), and incubation (providing working space to all startups). For a startup founder who wants to grow, Startup Braga provides extensive training for him & his business to grow and become a success.
Maze X
Maze Impact is based in Lisbon, Portugal. The startup accelerator invests in solutions that deliver impactful outcomes. The Maze X program is a 4-month accelerator program to help all European entrepreneurs. In the accelerator program, startup founders learn from industry experts who provide knowledge from their proven experience in the business. Here, you will become a part of a big community of individuals with different backgrounds, here you will find tech geeks, storytellers, business Jedi, and everyone will help you to make your business successful.
Build Up Labs
Build Up Labs is based in Lisbon. It is a place where all the startup founders can build their future. The startup studio allows all the entrepreneurs to learn from a cross-disciplinary team and access shared resources to grow and kill fast. The ecosystem will help all entrepreneurs to develop their business idea to the fullest. The whole accelerator program increases the startup success rate by applying tested frameworks and processes all thanks to the amazing network of mentors, investors and partners.
Joyn Ventures
Joyn Ventures is located in the city of Lisbon, Portugal. The service works along with entrepreneurs, and business owners to accelerate the growth and profitability of their business. The business acceleration program is based on mentoring to help startups to find a business model, shape up, refine their business pitch, and get to the next round of funding. There is an entire pool of services including marketing, legal, finance, and business plan that will align your startup with the right structure. There is an entire network of entrepreneurs, mentors, and advisors that deliver tailored training, advice and support. Overall the program adds up a lot of value to your business with its direction, expert advice and growth.
Building Global Innovators
Build Global Innovators is a accelerator that comes with an 11-year tech international accelerator. The accelerator provides 2 boot camps with expert coaching, 2 demo days of pitching to investors and the general public, business development support, and 8 weeks of mentorship. The program is specifically designed for tech-based startups working on solving global challenges, and revenue should be less than 2.5 million Euros. Till now, there are 2128 entrepreneurs, 155 startups accelerated, and 264 million Euros raised with applicants from more than 76 countries.
Fábrica de Startups
Fabrica de Startups helps people to become successful entrepreneurs. They use their methodology to help you identify business ideas, create teams, design the business model, find customers & launch the company. There are three stages of acceleration programs i.e. ideation (focused on idea development), Fast Start (here you can validate the business idea, define the business model or validation of main hypothesis), Fast Growth (It means promoting the product marketing activities, increase sales and optimise processes).
Amorim Cork Ventures
Amorim Cork Ventures was established in the year 2014 with the sole purpose to support all entrepreneurs & startups to launch their projects and businesses to explore products & applications for Cork. The program invests in startups that focus on research & innovation in the cork industry. Cork-based businesses can get in touch with Amorim Cork along with a brief proposal. The program includes Financing for startups, technical knowledge, management skills and support in business areas. Also, there is access to a set of technologies and production techniques around the world.
Blue Bio Value
Blue Bio Value is a startup accelerator for startups that work in marine bioresources, the biotechnology sector offering sustainable services or products contributing to the ethical use of ocean bioresources. The main focus here is on the new products and services that deliver sustainable alternatives related to the market and challenges the world faces. All the startup founders get support from building capacity, and network entrepreneurs with innovative ideas for marine-based solutions. All startups will get mentorship from international leaders with practical expertise in the blue biotech industry. Startups will also get investment opportunities by developing high-quality projects that are investment worthy and building a new global company.
Grow
Grow is a startup accelerator that connects startups with the Jose de Mello Group which is a win-win partnership for all startups. With this program, the startups can develop their solution faster and boost their product launch along with gaining access to real-life feedback. Grow invests in early-stage startups and supports the development of the startups that become part of the program. Grow also has several partnerships with venture capital funds committed to helping startups to grow with potential investors. The program adds a critical step for startup founders who want to grow their businesses with different partnerships provided by industry leaders.
SURFnCODE
SURFnCODE is a world-class startup studio that backs all startup founders with innovative ideas that shape the world. The startup accelerator provides access to a proven team that takes care of your business and ensures that you achieve your goals in a fast and effective manner. SURFnCODE provides investment to both pre-seed and seed startups. So, if you have an idea that you think is good, then you can contact SURFnCODE and they will help you to build a successful startup that generates high valuation in the future.
Startup Leiria
Startup Leiria is a startup accelerator that aims to help startups to launch their business and grow in the long term. There are different startup programs offered such as Packaging of the Future (packaging industry), and INOV.AM project (specifically designed for businesses to have innovation), C-Hub project (adding numerous benefits to the startups and entrepreneurs). One more accelerating program that can help all business owners is the talent up program, which targets business owners without an idea or a team to gain knowledge of entrepreneurship, learn to develop new business plans, and model or launch a company. Overall, the accelerator programs add a lot of value to business owners.
Startup Lab
Startup Lab is based in Lisbon, and it is the first startup accelerator program developed and powered by a Portuguese law firm. There are multiple successful startup partners associated with the startup lab. The accelerator program is dedicated towards the development of products and solutions for service companies. The training program actively invests in technology-based startups & provides training in legal, intellectual property, branding, marketing, strategic consulting, innovation consulting, accounting, and pitch preparation, among others. The program also provides access to mentors with experience in strategic business areas.
UPTEC
UPTEC is based in Porto, Portugal and this is the school for startups. UPTEC features a business ideas acceleration program specifically designed to help startup founders to tackle the challenges to create and develop a new business project. There are other programs available such as climate launchpad for cleantech, ESA space solution for space commercial/non-commercial services, and OPENINNOTRAIN (Funding programmer for EU). There are special courses designed for interaction design, web and games. The program can help all startup founders to gain knowledge to develop profitable businesses.
From Start-to-Table
Looking to develop a business in Food Tech? Well, From Start-to-Table provides a startup accelerator program that is dedicated to restaurants and F & B businesses. They provide you with the tools to manage human resources, wastes, stocks, deliveries, orders, menus, payments, marketing, and customer reviews. Here you can implement apps, software, and robotics that make up a smart kitchen. Also, restaurant owners learn to develop an efficient sustainable environment, which is friendly to the customer and our environment. Apart from the restaurant business, businesses in the F&B industry can benefit from this startup acceleration program. Startup owners can take help in the following: prototyping, mentoring, community, performance, hands-on experience, networking along with exclusive benefits.
Want to discover more accelerators and incubators from other countries? Check out the list below.
Top Accelerators and Incubators from:
- Round-up Of The Best Accelerators In The CEE Region
- Albania
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- France
- Finland
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Romania
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Switzerland
- Türkiye
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- Western Balkans.
Related Posts:
Best Startup Accelerators And Incubators In Spain (by Paweł Pliszka, Editor, Vestbee)
Best Startup Accelerators And Incubators In Switzerland (by Katarzyna Groszkowska, Editor, Vestbee)
Best Startup Accelerators And Incubators In Denmark (by Katarzyna Groszkowska, Editor, Vestbee)
