€140m of new SME investment and a 3% technician unemployment rate. Braga has the orders and cannot find the people to build them.
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Portugal Company Stories — Page 2
Expert guides, analysis and tool comparisons on Portugal Company Stories from the kurums.com Startup desk — written for business decision-makers and updated as the market moves.
- 55 guides
- 11 subtopics
- Updated Aug 31, 2026
Portugal Banking & Finance 5
Portugal Founders & Dynasties 5
Portugal Automotive, Moulds & Industry 5
Portugal Tech, Software & Startups 5
Portugal Paper, Cork & Forestry 5
Portugal Construction & Infrastructure 5
Portugal Tourism, Hotels & Airlines 5
Portugal Textiles, Footwear & Fashion 5
Portugal Retail & Consumer 5
Portugal Energy & Utilities 5
Portugal Global Expansion & Lusophone Trade 5
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Portugal’s Mould Industry: The Cluster Behind Everything Plastic
Steel tools machined to microns, running millions of cycles. The least visible and most strategic part of Portuguese manufacturing.
Autoeuropa: The Factory Worth 1.25% of Portugal’s GDP
One factory, 1,000 cars a day, and enough output to appear in national accounts. How Palmela keeps winning Volkswagen’s internal competition.
Portugal’s Startup Ecosystem: What Works, What Doesn’t
Cheap engineers, a conference and a tax regime built a real ecosystem. Why it produces global companies but not clusters — and what that costs.
Feedzai: Deep Technology Built in Portugal, Sold to Global Banks
Billions of transactions scored in milliseconds against an adversary that adapts daily. How a company from Coimbra competes with American software giants.
Sword Health: The Portuguese Unicorn Building Its AI Core at Home
Most Portuguese unicorns capture their value abroad. Sword Health is putting €250m and 700 engineers into building its AI core in Portugal instead.
OutSystems: Building a Global Software Company From Lisbon
Engineering in Portugal, sales everywhere else. The structure that let a Lisbon company sell enterprise software to the world — and the AI question it now faces.
Farfetch: How Portugal’s Biggest Tech Success Became Its Biggest Failure
A marketplace that solved a real problem, then abandoned the model that made it work. How Farfetch went from IPO to fire sale in five years.
Semapa: The Holding Company Behind Portugal’s Paper and Cement
Pulp, cement and rendering under one listed holding. The structure that preserved Portuguese industrial ownership — and the discount it permanently carries.
Eucalyptus, Fire and Fragmented Land: Portugal’s Real Forest Problem
Species choice is the argument everyone has. Ownership fragmentation and abandonment are the problem nobody has solved.
The Montado: How a Nine-Year Harvest Cycle Built an Industry
Bark stripped every nine years from trees that live two centuries. Why cork is the one industry where conservation and profit point the same way.
Corticeira Amorim: Global Dominance in a Shrinking End Market
156 years, world leadership and €861m of sales — built on a product whose main customer industry is contracting.